‘Oh snap!’ Zing Trifecta: Brad Thor slams McCain, Obama, Anthony Weiner

http://twitter.com/#!/BradThor/status/376826583396265984

Bada-zing! It’s funny, because it’s oh-so-true.

Like other Twitter users, author Brad Thor also noticed that Sen. McCain isn’t too good at figuring out who the bad guys are. 

http://twitter.com/#!/BradThor/status/376826159033356288

Reality is so hard.

The zinger tweet struck a chord:

http://twitter.com/#!/mark_oldschool/status/376827604331790336 http://twitter.com/#!/tmac628/status/376844347414945792

Thor also slammed President Obama in snarky style.

http://twitter.com/#!/BradThor/status/376813324962254848

Heh.

And threw in a bonus snicker at Anthony Weiner:

http://twitter.com/#!/BradThor/status/376848874574323712

Beautiful.

The giggles ended, however, as Thor offered up this painful reminder:

http://twitter.com/#!/BradThor/status/376847101356810240

Related:

Flashback: Just how good is Sen. McCain at identifying ‘the bad guys’?

‘LOL!’ Have you seen the ‘Blurred Red Lines’ Photoshop Brad Thor calls ‘so wrong and NSFW’?

‘AMEN AMEN!’ Author Brad Thor ‘has a dream’; Blasts race grievance industry

Boom-tastic! Author Brad Thor slams ‘idiot’ Obama, #kneepadmedia over gay Olympic athletes flap

‘Nailed it!’ Author Brad Thor points out a little something about closing embassies to Obama

Double the funnies! Jim Geraghty, Brad Thor zing WaPo; Spark Kennedy snark [pic]

Reaction to author Brad Thor’s offer to Zimmerman goes from boycott to book burning [photo]

Author Brad Thor offers to buy George Zimmerman gun of his choice

Novelist Brad Thor wants tax-raising Republicans run out of town on a rail

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2013/09/09/oh-snap-not-just-syria-brad-thor-notes-something-else-sen-mccain-knows-zero-about/

Pathologist charges reporter used ‘inaccurate and misleading quotes’

http://twitter.com/#!/drjudymelinek/status/525771302293225472

That’s Dr. Judy Melinek, forensic pathologist and author of “Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner,” expressing her thanks to the Daily Kos. Why? Melinek was interviewed by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on the autopsy of Michael Brown and now disputes how she was quoted, an assertion defended at length by the Daily Kos.

On her blog, Melinek explains:

A reporter from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch called me earlier this week, saying she had Michael Brown’s official autopsy report as prepared by the St. Louis County Medical Examiner, and asking me if I would examine and analyze it from the perspective of a forensic pathologist with no official involvement in the Ferguson, Missouri shooting death. I read the report, and spent half an hour on the phone with the reporter explaining Michael Brown’s autopsy report line-by-line, and I told her not to quote me – but that I would send her quotes she could use in an e mail. The next morning, I found snippets of phrases from our conversation taken out of context in her article in the Post-Dispatch. These inaccurate and misleading quotes were picked up and disseminated by other journals, blogs, and websites.

In the Dispatch’s published story, reporters Christine Byers and Blythe Bernhard quote Melinek as saying that “If he [Michael Brown] has his hand near the gun when it goes off, he’s going for the officer’s gun.” Melinek disputes making any such conclusion, writing on her blog:

There’s a big difference between “The hand wound has gunpowder particles on microscopic examination, which suggests that it is a close-range wound. That means that Mr. Brown’s hand would have been close to the barrel of the gun” and “he’s going for the gun.”

I was very fortunate to have the opportunity to correct this, in my own words last night, when Lawrence O’Donnell invited me to appear as a guest on MSNBC.

There are other disputes between the two as well, but St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Blythe Bernhard is standing by what she wrote.

Bernhard seems to be losing this round with the public.

Melinek says she’s learned a couple of lessons from the experience.

 

 

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/10/25/forensic-pathologist-charges-reporter-used-inaccurate-and-misleading-quotes-on-michael-brown-autopsy/

Van Jones: Free Cory Booker!

http://twitter.com/#!/VanJones68/status/204804900465541123

Rut roh. Looks like the former green jobs czar didn’t get the Obama administration’s latest “toeing the line” memo.

Just hours after Newark Mayor Cory Booker took to Twitter and “The Rachel Maddow Show” to walk back his blasphemous private equity remarks, Jones defended Booker’s right to speak his mind.

Silly Van. That’s not allowed. Now get back in the kitchen and make Obama a sammich. Extra arugula, please.

Could it be that Jones is the newest member of Team #FreeCoryBooker? Or is this an opportunistic play to score invites to a couple of prime time cable news shows this week?

Either way, Jones’ tweet left a few conservatives feeling a little out of sorts:

Yes, I gladly RTd Van Jones support for Cory Booker. Welcome to WAY on the other side of the Looking Glass.

— This Will Kill You (@stephenkruiser) May 22, 2012

wait…did i just RT in agreement with @vanjones68? what is Obama doing to this country?!

— Scott Kuhn (@scotters) May 22, 2012

Things you don’t say every day: we agree with Van Jones.

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2012/05/22/van-jones-free-cory-booker/