Posted on 12/21/2010 10:23:01 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Hypocrisy: Julian Assange Blasts Media for Publishing Leaks About Him By Lachlan Markay Created 12/21/2010 - 12:52pm
By Lachlan Markay | December 21, 2010 | 12:52
You just can't make this stuff up. According to the Times of London (subscription required), Julian Assange is angry at the UK Guardian for publishing details of sexual assault allegations against him based on…wait for it…a leaked police report. Stones, glass houses, etc.
Assange is especially peeved, the Times reported, that the Guardian "selectively published" details of that report. Gee, you mean that publishing only sensational excerpts of leaked private information might present an incomplete and misleading narrative to the paper's readers that could damage the reputations of those involved? You don't say.
Michael Calderone of Yahoo News reported Tuesday:
In the [Times] article, Assange claims that The Guardian tarnished his reputation by publishing new details Friday about the rape and sexual assault allegations made against him in Sweden, based on a leaked police report.
The Times reports that Assange is "particularly angry with Nick Davies"—the article's author—for "selectively publishing" damaging allegations from the 68-page report. Davies isn't just any reporter covering WikiLeaks; he's said to be a friend of Assange's and also helped broker the original agreement to provide leaked cables to The Guardian, New York Times and Der Spiegel. (Davies could not be reached for comment.)
Assange said the leak of the Swedish police report "was clearly designed to undermine my bail application." He added: "Someone in authority clearly intended to keep Julian in prison."
Leigh defended Davies on Twitter Monday night, suggesting that The Guardian reporter actually kept out specific details from the police report while publishing what was deemed necessary for the story. That runs counter to Assange's view that the Guardian treated him unfairly in how the paper covered the allegations.
"Nick left out a lot of graphic and damaging material in the allegations because he thought it would be too cruel to publish them," Leigh said by phone.
So information was leaked, newspapers picked up on the information, published select bits in a move certain to reflect poorly on the individuals involved, but withheld other bits out of at least a minimal concern for the well-being of those individuals. And now Assnage is complaining about it…or facilitating it, depending on whose livelihood is at stake.
Oh, but according to Assnage, his organization - you know, the one with the word "leak" in its name - doesn't actually promote leaks. "We are an organization that does not promote leaking," he told the BBC, presumably with a straight face. "We're an organization that promotes justice…through the mechanism of transparency and journalism."
For someone who's such a big fan of transparency and journalism, Assange is sure hostile to both when he is the topic of discussion. I've written before that his stated principles are in fact antithetical to journalism (he sees no inherent value in truth - it's a means to an end)
Dollars to doughnuts this @$$h0!e is a ‘mo.
Payback’s a biyatch, Julian...
*points at Assange* Hahahahahahahahahaha
Suck it up buttercup! Live by the sword, die by the sword!
What an Assange Hole.
Lefties can dish it out, but they can’t take it. Weenies, one and all.
Just for clarification is this Irony, or Poetic Justice?
Pot, can you please tell the kettle to shut the !@$% up?
Who does he think he’s going to cry to that’s going to be sympathetic?
I’m thinking of an old saw about the goose and the gander...
Kharma strikes again!
Live by the leak...
Next he’ll press charges for women having sex with him while he slept, and failing to use a condom. Haha.
SnakeDoc
If it later turns out that he may have the goods on Barry Soetoro is NOT eligible to be "pResident", would he still be that what you say he is???
Ha Ha Ha mfer
It’s transparency Julian. You said that is a good thing, didn’t you?
I saw a short clip of him talking to a reporter about this. When the reporter asked if he really “forced her legs apart” Julian practically barfed with righteous indignation and retreated to the comfort of his cooing entourage.
The guy’s bio in Wikipedia reads like Dickens meets Jerry Springer, no wonder he’s effed up.
Which in no way excuses what he’s done or the monstrous hypocrisy and conceit he seems to be OK with.
Gotta love it.
If this less than manley jerk has a pimple on his rectum I’d make sure everyone knows about it much less than a rape accusation or two.
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