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Damn Right I Taped Kerry’s ‘Apartheid’ Talk
The Daily Beast ^ | May 2 ,2014 | Josh Rogin

Posted on 05/03/2014 8:50:11 AM PDT by Hojczyk

And if I had to do it all over again, I’d do it in the exact same way.

If a reporter agrees that a conversation or event is off-the-record, then of course he cannot print what was said during that interchange. But the unwritten rule—the one that directly applies here—is that if a reporter enters an off-the-record event uninvited and has not agreed to the off-the-record terms, he is free to report what happens inside that event. It’s the responsibility of the event organizers to keep reporters from entering events without invitations. As long as the reporter does not misrepresent himself and does not attempt to conceal a recording device, the event is fair game. That’s the rule.

Did I enter the Trilateral Commission event with Kerry, tape it, and then reveal to the world what our Secretary of State is saying to influential world leaders behind closed doors?

Damn right I did.

Nobody ever asked me who I was. I didn’t have a name tag but many of the invited attendees weren’t wearing theirs so nobody thought anything of it. As the approximately 200 attendees got settled in for the Kerry speech, I found a seat in the corner, opened up my laptop, placed my recorder on my lap in plain sight, turned it on, and waited for the fun to begin.

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1 posted on 05/03/2014 8:50:11 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

Wasn’t it Jimmy Cawtah’s nephew who “taped”Romney’s infamous(But True)reference to The 47%?Romney was close;It’s more like 50-51%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


2 posted on 05/03/2014 8:51:58 AM PDT by bandleader
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To: bandleader

bump


3 posted on 05/03/2014 8:52:48 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (In America, we don't do pin pricks. But sometimes we elect them.)
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To: Hojczyk
I wonder how much money Josh Rogin will end up owing the IRS. Because I see an audit in his future.
4 posted on 05/03/2014 8:55:19 AM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: bandleader

I’m not sure, but if I remember correctly, a random bartender taped that fiasco.


5 posted on 05/03/2014 8:55:47 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Hojczyk

Leftists getting fed up with the lies, too??????? Doubtful. This guy had better get with the program before his life is destroyed.


6 posted on 05/03/2014 8:57:43 AM PDT by originalbuckeye (Moderation in temper is always a virtue; moderation in principle is always a vice. Paine)
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To: bandleader

I heard/read it was Carter’s grandson.


7 posted on 05/03/2014 8:58:13 AM PDT by originalbuckeye (Moderation in temper is always a virtue; moderation in principle is always a vice. Paine)
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To: Hojczyk
if a reporter enters an off-the-record event uninvited and has not agreed to the off-the-record terms, he is free to report what happens inside that event

Absolutely, as Romney found out.

8 posted on 05/03/2014 9:00:36 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Hojczyk
Nobody ever asked me who I was. I didn’t have a name tag but many of the invited attendees weren’t wearing theirs so nobody thought anything of it.

Nice to know, if I ever want to shoot up a Trilateral Commission meeting.

9 posted on 05/03/2014 9:01:59 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Sherman Logan

“I’m not sure, but if I remember correctly, a random bartender taped that fiasco.”

In physics we always used the “drunkard’s random walk” in problems. Now I know what happened. He was served by a random bartender! Thank you.


10 posted on 05/03/2014 9:02:05 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Hojczyk
But on the charge of being a bad Jew? Like Hebrew National, I answer to a higher authority.
LOL ...
11 posted on 05/03/2014 9:05:55 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Hojczyk

If a reporter agrees that a conversation or event is off-the-record, then of course he cannot print what was said during that interchange...I seem to remember Connie Chung telling Newt Gingriche’s Ma’s answer would be off the record and asking Ma what her son thinks of Hillary. Ma’s answer was “She’s a bitch.” That was played on every nightly newscast for a week WITH THE “THIS IS OFF RECORD.” stipulation part of the newscast.


12 posted on 05/03/2014 9:13:28 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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Ma’s answer was “She’s a bitch.” That was played on every nightly newscast for a week WITH THE “THIS IS OFF RECORD.” stipulation part of the newscast.
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I am not ‘sure’ she even said that.
I thought it was more like ‘It rhymes with “Witch”’? And Chung put the finishing touches on it.

Chung definitely ‘assured’ her that it was ‘just between you and me’, ‘off the record’ BUT wasn’t it on a show similar (in concept) to 60 minutes or even like todays daytime gabfests but in ‘prime time’?

Mrs G was definitely ‘sand bagged’ and of course C Chung never had to ‘pay the price’ that say a Limbaugh or such if they had used the term ‘off the record’ then played it the next day....


13 posted on 05/03/2014 9:20:20 AM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98) --"On occasion, nothing said says a lot more than saying something".)
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To: Hojczyk

If the Washington regime can surveil all of us, I guess all of us can surveil the Washington regime.


14 posted on 05/03/2014 9:22:29 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (FIGHT! FIGHT! SEVERE CONSERVATIVE AND THE WILD RIGHT!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks Hojczyk.

Perhaps this is part of the other shoe dropping...

from a retired Mohammedan:

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/kareemabduljabbar/index

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Why aren’t we also outraged that Donald Sterling was secretly recorded?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3149966/posts

NBA legend...says whoever taped Donald Sterling’s comments should be ‘sent to prison’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3151141/posts


15 posted on 05/03/2014 9:23:34 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Hojczyk
From the Daily Beast? We have had Hillary, Holder, Rice, Townsend and God only knows how many other incompetents and miscreants appointed by this administration plus Joe Biden, but I am starting to think that maybe John F. Kerry just might be the bridge too far.
By the way, did you know John F. Kerry is a Vietnam Vet?
16 posted on 05/03/2014 9:46:47 AM PDT by Tupelo (I feel more like Philip Nolan every day)
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To: Hojczyk

Nothing pisses off liberals more than when you accurately report what they say.


17 posted on 05/03/2014 9:56:16 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: Hojczyk

Thanks! But, you can be sure they’ll get even more “exclusive” about speeches they don’t want us to know
about in the future.


18 posted on 05/03/2014 10:41:43 AM PDT by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: Gen.Blather

They wouldn’t let Sterling get away with what he said in private.

So when is Kerry going to lose his job?

Or at least retract it and apologize.

IMHO, he is a horse faced A-h*le


19 posted on 05/03/2014 10:52:52 AM PDT by Zenjitsuman (New Boss Nancy Pelosi)
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20 posted on 05/04/2014 5:21:19 AM PDT by SJackson (the Democrats take back control, we donÂ’t make (this) kind of naked power grab, J Biden)
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