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In reply to the discussion: great story! Occupy 'graduate' and RT journalist Abby Martin exposes NPR hypocrisy [View all]Divernan
(15,480 posts)15. Ed Asner's the actor; Lou Grant was the editor on Mary Tyler Moore
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The classic exchange:
Lou calls new on air reporter, Mary Richards into his office. He says to her, "You've got spunk!" She replies along the lines of a modest downward look, and "Oh, thanks, Mr. Grant." His riposte: "I HATE spunk!"
Ed Asner is a fine actor as well as a political activist. Here's a link to a letter he wrote about the unanswered questions re 9-11.
http://www.911truth.org/ed-asner-actor-and-activist/
Here's an excerpt, written by Asner in April, 2004. It's now 10 years later, and the questions he raises remain unexamined, uninvestigated and unanswered.
To date, no one has been held accountable for the massive defense failures on 9-11, nor for the bizarre suppression of critical warnings prior to 9-11.
Furthermore, we still have no explanation for why the head of Pakistani intelligence, who was meeting with top Bush Administration officials in Washington on
9-11-2001, had wired lead hijacker Mohammed Atta $100,000.00 weeks before 9-11. We still do not know who made the insider stock trades in weeks and days
leading up to 9-11, by betting against United and American Airlines stocks (the aircraft used as missiles on 9-11).
What we DO KNOW is that $5 million of those insider stock trade winnings apparently by someone who had foreknowledge of the coming attacks, were made the
day before 9-11 at AB Brown Trust. AB Brown Trust was headed until his induction into the CIA by Buzzy Krongard, who is now the Executive Director of the
CIA. We also know that the current head of AB Brown Trust quietly resigned his position on 9-11, with no media scrutiny nor apparently government scrutiny.
Lastly, and perhaps most bizarre is the fact that $2.5 million of those stock winnings against these airlines made at AB Brown Trust . . . remain unclaimed.
We deserve to know why no one has been held accountable, and who made those insider stock trades. We also deserve to know why the Bush Administration
allowed members of the Bin Laden family to quietly leave the U.S. after 9-11, with virtually no questioning by the FBI, and at a time when other Americans were
not allowed to fly.
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great story! Occupy 'graduate' and RT journalist Abby Martin exposes NPR hypocrisy [View all]
ellenrr
Mar 2014
OP
She's very left, and would not be allowed on the Corporate Media. RT has hired some great young
sabrina 1
Mar 2014
#22
I would like to hear about her experience in Occupy and how (if) it influenced her...For me,
ellenrr
Mar 2014
#14
RT had the absolute best coverage of Occupy, but Abby Martin wasn't there then, airc.
sabrina 1
Mar 2014
#23
Yes, she is, but more importantly she is intelligent and is very informed on the issues.
sabrina 1
Mar 2014
#24
I watch Al-Jazzera, definitely heads above US Media, but not really independent...
ellenrr
Mar 2014
#12