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Yuge news, YUGE: Trump could get involved in Somerville terror-kid story
By adamg on Thu, 12/17/2015 - 7:37am
When last we left the Somerville News TERROR THREAT story, things were still relatively calm, well, as calm as can be when the school department is denying a News story that a Muslim sleeper cell at a local middle school was saving up money to buy guns to kill white kids.
The Dig brings us up to date: A school-committee member and the paper's publisher are now exchanging pleasantries about which one is the bigger douchebag and now the Trump campaign is asking the publisher for permission to use his alleged scoop. Or as the publisher put it last night
Just recently got a call from the Trump Camp asking me for my permission to use my Somerville School article! Fucking ahy!
Fucking ahy? Could somebody fluent in Somerville English translate? In any case, the guy then addresses any passing school-committee members:
Take that and shove it up your ass!
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Honest question.
Is every Trump supporter a red-faced, knuckle-dragging, borderline illiterate?
Has anyone even confirmed
Has anyone even confirmed this story is true and not a publicity stunt?
Trump is not into shallow publicity stunts.
He is a serious man with great vision, the best vision ever, better vision than any candidate for president since Ray Charles.
shoot, I didn't know Ray Charles ran for prez....
...can we still vote for him?
Ray Charles sees...
... far more clearly than Trump and his clownish opponents will ever see.
Up to him.
"Has anyone even confirmed this story is true and not a publicity stunt?"
He says he has seen the note or something. If he can prove the story, just a bit, bring it on, he has the last laugh. If not, well, then he's just a bullshit artist chump.
A real journalist like Dan Rather would never run with a story based on non-existent or fake documents.
On the othert hand...
... the typist confirmed that she had indeed typed up something that said just what Rather's copy said, but that Rather's copy wasn't the same document she had actually prepared. Somehow, her first point always gets ignored.
Because if they weren't
Because if they weren't willing to testify to that publicly it isn't printable.
It would be very strange for a typist which would have banged out thousands of similar bits of paperwork to remember one very specific document 40 something years later.
Surprising or not...
... her initial statement was that she remembered doing such a report, and that the contents were essentially the same as what was in the contested document -- but that she did not type the contested document itself. Perhaps the report in question WAS so out of the ordinary it was memorable. A total mess, regardless.
No problem.
No, they were 'faxed' to CBS. No retyping there. Sorry. 'Fake but accurate' is still fake.
Fake. A fax of a fake is still a fake. End of story. Let's hope the Somerville guy has better journalistic ethics.
Wiki, cause I'm lazy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents_controversy
"The Killian documents controversy (also referred to as Memogate or Rathergate) involved six purported documents critical of U.S. President George W. Bush's service in the Air National Guard in 1972–73. Four of these documents[1] were presented as authentic in a 60 Minutes II broadcast aired by CBS on September 8, 2004, less than two months before the 2004 Presidential Election, but it was later found that CBS had failed to authenticate the documents.[2][3][4] Subsequently, several typewriter and typography experts concluded the documents were blatant forgeries,[5][6] as have most media sources. No forensic document examiners or typography experts have authenticated the documents, and this may not be technically possible without the original documents.[7] The purveyor of the documents, Lt. Col. Bill Burkett, claims to have burned the originals after faxing copies to CBS.[8]"
Supposedly "retyped" before they were given to 60 Minutes
Faxed or not faxed has nothing to do with the issue.
The typist remembered doing a report about GWB (with essentially the content of the report in contention) but said the report CBS had in its possession was not the one she had typed herself. True or false, I have no way of guessing.
seems that way.
Don't forget racist, pro-fascist, ignorant, and just plain dumb. And any time he's "attacked" - i.e., asked to explain himself, accused of inciting hatred, called to account, exposed as a liar - his supporters double down.
I think it depends
It probably depends on whether you are taken in by his pandering to our baser instincts or hope to be part of the new authoritarian power structure.
In the case of William Tauro, (and also New England Police Benevolent Association) I think it’s the latter.
Actually I think it's a little of both.
I wouldn't know
I hang out with a pretty conservative, mostly college educated crowd. Not a Donald fan I've found among them - in fact pretty much everyone describes him the same way - scary. Even scarier when you hear that a few of them have no problem with Cruz which should let you know what kind of solo left field the Donald is playing.
I hear them on the radio - but is Donald paying people to say this stuff. Granted - this guy in Somerville doesn't exactly sound like the most reliable source for any of this info.
shouldn't that be solo right field?
Kidding, kidding.
But I've noticed the same: of the self-identified conservatives I know, those who've, like, read a book once or twice all condemn Trump and everything he says. Of those who, shall we say, have not read (whether by choice or by illiteracy) a book since grade school - they're all aboard the Trump train.
I dunno
"I hear them on the radio - but is Donald paying people to say this stuff."
From some reports (internet, so YMMV) he's not paying for shit. I want to get on TV, I pay for an ad. He just has to open his mouth and the MSM is all over it. No matter how you play it, he's no dummy.
Oh, fucken-aye can also be used as conjunction or something involving the correct use of the word 'pissa', especially about a great hockey player.
"He is pissa".
"Fucken-aye".
But really, from a journalist? This guy is pissa...
My inlaws are the same way.
They're conservative lifelong Herald readers and certainly not Obama or Hilary fans.
Trump scares the shit out of them.
No words...
I can't.... I can't even put words together to respond to this. It's probably better to just turn over and nap with the kittehs....
$20
I'm gonna guess that most leaders of real sleeper cells don't charge an initial $20 fee for people to join said sleeper cell, as the initial article claimed.....
That fee ...
Is for the Air BnB sleeper cell option.
Meanwhile, this loser should keep spewing himself into a libel lawsuit, which seems to be what he is being teed up (poked, goaded) for.
If it was me:
OK, send $20 to the five folks on the sleeper cell list. Add your name to it. Before long, you will be rolling in dough. Do not break the chain.
Dregs
Tauro is the dregs at the bottom of your coffee cup. His last publishing endeavor was about as well-written and well-thought-out as this one is, and was pretty much just him settling old beefs and stirring up innuendo and hate against anyone he personally dislikes. Looks like this is more of the same, but it's just him behind a keyboard calling it "journalism." Actually, he probably calls it "jernalizm."
He's part of the old charming Somerville, but not the part that we want to keep around any more. The last gasp of hate-filled obsoletes.
Let's see
Writing about things of questionable journalistic value to stir up a commotion and attract as much attention as possible in order to generate inome - sounds familiar, doesn't it?
Please don't bring up Fox News
At least not at lunchtime.
-- The Mgmt.
Naw he was talking about CNN.
Naw he was talking about CNN.
Actually
I was talking about gaffin, but fauxnews and cnn also fit the bill.
Aw
You're just so cute and clever.
Made you click!
I get why people hate it when I keep writing about things they find distasteful and icky, like people of different faiths and skin colors 'n' stuff. And how that's enough to make you hate me, my site, my ancestors going back several generations, etc., etc.
What I don't get is why, if you're so annoyed, you keep coming back. I used to whine a lot about certain Globe columnists. Eventually, I figured out my life would be a lot calmer if I just didn't read them any more. It works (plus, in the case of Shaughnessy, there's this Web site that reads him so I don't have to). In the meantime, thanks for the clicks.
The average Gaffin hater reads for 2.5 hours a day...
You're the Howard Stern of hyper-local Boston variety/news and information!
yeah
It's the mark of great satire when you have to go back and explain what your target was, because your initial attempt was so vague and poorly constructed that literally no one knew what you were talking about.
Local Urinalists
What would be really interesting is if somebody dug up Tauro's actual service records (or lack thereof) or any other evidence that he has done anything other than sit behind a keyboard firing belligerent missives. It would also be interesting if the Somerville Police confiscated any and all weapons in his possession given his threatening of public officials.
Medford has its own version of this - a piece of work known as "Joe Vig", who can't let go of the notion that Penta lost the mayoral vote by a 4% margin. He "knows" that "the election was STOLEN" simply because Penta's supporters were louder, ruder, and had more free time to show up and be loud and rude at public events. Every small city and (usually) town has one of these "independent urinalists" types of crazies.
Hilarious headline!
Why didn't you use orange letters though?
possible translation
"Fucking ahy" = "fucking A"?
Yep.
That's what I was thinking, too. I admit I'm impressed: it takes a special kind of stupid to make two typos to a one-letter word.
Fucking ahy? Could somebody
Fucking ahy? Could somebody fluent in Somerville English translate? Come on A-man , its a colloquialism. I know the new world order wants to purge the new up and coming cool spots,(without paying new world order current demand driven real estate prices too ), but dont get too coy here. There are plenty of modern day aberrations of vocabulary that Funk and Wagnall would cringe upon hearing,so knock off the jive , capice?
Tarnation, you're harshing my mellow something fierce!
I dig where you're coming from, man, but I still don't know what it's a colloquialism for, and that's just not groovy.
Sushi Reference?
As in "this fucking ahi is magnificent" or "this fucking ahi is not very fucking fresh".
Sushi? Nay , nay ! Sorry
Sushi? Nay , nay ! Sorry Swirls ,
I always thought...
...it was 'harshing my marshmellow".
But then again, there are folks here that think reading comprension is not my strong suit.
A-Man , put on your thinking
A-Man , put on your thinking cap , sorry about harshing your mellow yellow , but I can dig it, Fucking Affirmative, do you roger that?
( Harshing ? Tarnation ? Sisters of No Mercy Order !)
Where's...
... Mighty Manfred?
(No subject)
not to be confused with
He just really hates Yellowfin Tuna
It's a misspelling of Fucking Ahi. Clearly.
Jinx
Jinx
SMH
So Somerville is guilty of FAILING to BE VERY AFRAID?
Is that the festering stupidity here?