good reminder to all journalists to never make business deals with sources to ferry weapons for the CIA https://t.co/Xsb9I2ZWWH
— Emily Cohn (@emily_cohn) June 21, 2017
whomst among us has not been offered a stake in a business venture by a CIA gun-runner? (most of us. Almost all, in fact)
— Kelsey D. Atherton (@AthertonKD) June 21, 2017
To be honest, it sounds like this guy was writing fanfic after being contacted by an email scammer. But with really big weapons! Per the AP article:
The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday fired its highly regarded chief foreign affairs correspondent after evidence emerged of his involvement in prospective commercial deals — including one involving arms sales to foreign governments — with an international businessman who was one of his key sources.
The reporter, Jay Solomon, was offered a 10 percent stake in a fledgling company, Denx LLC, by Farhad Azima, an Iranian-born aviation magnate who has ferried weapons for the CIA. It was not clear whether Solomon ever received money or formally accepted a stake in the company.
“We are dismayed by the actions and poor judgment of Jay Solomon,” Wall Street Journal spokesman Steve Severinghaus wrote in a statement to The Associated Press. “While our own investigation continues, we have concluded that Mr. Solomon violated his ethical obligations as a reporter, as well as our standards.”…
“I clearly made mistakes in my reporting and entered into a world I didn’t understand.” Solomon told the AP on Wednesday. “I never entered into any business with Farhad Azima, nor did I ever intend to. But I understand why the emails and the conversations I had with Mr. Azima may look like I was involved in some seriously troubling activities. I apologize to my bosses and colleagues at the Journal, who were nothing but great to me.”
Two other Denx partners — ex-CIA employees Gary Bernsten and Scott Modell — told the AP that Solomon was involved in discussing proposed deals with Azima at the same time he continued to cultivate the businessman as a source for his stories for the Journal. Bernsten and Modell said Solomon withdrew from the venture shortly after business efforts began and that the venture never added up to much. They provided no evidence as to when Solomon withdrew.
The emails and texts reviewed by the AP — tens of thousands of pages covering more than eight years — included more than 18 months of communications involving the apparent business effort. Some messages described a need for Solomon’s Social Security number to file the company’s taxes, but there was no evidence Solomon provided it.
Denx was shuttered last year, according to Florida business registration records…
way this normally works is you retire from journalism citing exhaustion, then take a job at a defense company, likely but not necessarily PR
— Kelsey D. Atherton (@AthertonKD) June 21, 2017
JanieM
I’m sorry, I know the grammar police aren’t popular, but at least I’m not commenting on the writing of anyone here.
Seriously, “whomst” as the subject of a sentence? Even as a joke it’s … not funny.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
Last year, I believe someone on this site joked that the reason for so many celebrity deaths was because Scalia (along with Schafly, and later including Islam Karimov and Jack Chick) was so goddamned evil that Thanatos had to take out that many people for cosmic balance. Off the top of my head, here’s the celebrity death toll for 2017 so far:
DEARLY MISSED:
Jazz musician David Axelrod (Super Bowl, 75 years old)
Bill Paxton & Chez Pazienza (February 25, 61 and 47, respectively)
Adam West (June 9, 88)
Prodigy of Mobb Deep (yesterday, 42)
DOUCHEBAGS:
Roger Ailes (May 18, 77)
Assuming this holds, I fully expect the cast of every Star Trek to be swallowed up by a volcano.
Mnemosyne
I’ve always heard that the CIA tries to suborn US journalists into working for them, but I never saw it offered as an investment opportunity before.
D58826
Who does he think he is – a member of the Trump family?????
Brachiator
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): Also Dearly Missed
Stephen Furst (born Stephen Nelson Feuerstein; May 8, 1954 – June 16, 2017)
Actor, known for:
Kent “Flounder” Dorfman in Animal House
Dr. Elliot Axelrod in St. Elsewhere
Vir Cotto in Babylon 5
(((CassandraLeo)))
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): Off the top of my head, you also left off Chris Cornell and Mary Tyler Moore from the dearly missed list. There are probably a few others I’ve already forgotten too.
bystander
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): George Takei is appearing in Pacific Overtures right now, I believe. I hope his understudy isn’t TV’s Bill Shatner.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
Will all due respect: Eat shit, get rabies, and die in a fire.
germy
Is the purpose of the article to discredit the agency investigating the potus? Wonder about the timing.
mai naem mobile
Does it say how they got the texts and emails? Wikileaks? CIA? Anonymous source. Is this some kind of neocon plot to cause problems with the UAE and Kuwait and start a war with Iran? I just skimmed through the piece.
Citizen Alan
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD):
You forgot Phyllis Schlafly. I took enormous satisfaction out of her death last year.
Brachiator
Interesting article from the Economist on Finland’s experiment with a universal basic income. A taste:
efgoldman
What
The
Fuck?
(((CassandraLeo)))
@Citizen Alan: Nah, he just misspelled her name slightly; he mentioned her in the parentheses.
Citizen Alan
@(((CassandraLeo))):
Whoops, my eyes just slid right over that. Must be the cold medicine.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@(((CassandraLeo))): That was because I only remembered Scalia being the subject of the joke,
Yutsano
@(((CassandraLeo))): Florence Henderson. Can’t miss our TV mom.
Cheryl Rofer
I don’t understand why the WSJ finds this a problem. Free enterprise, y’all!
NeenerNeener
OT: well, that’s a first. I just got a robocall, supposedly from Microsoft, telling me that my Windows license has expired and all my computer functions will shut down unless I call the phone number they gave. The robo-voice actually sounded American for a change. There’s no way in hell I’m calling that number, which was only given once anyway, but I wish I’d had a pen handy so I could have written it down to turn into whichever govt agency handles telephone fraud these days.
Elizabelle
In other good news, Uber jettisoned Travis Kalanick as CEO, although he still retains a seat on the Board.
He’s a dudebro poster child for bad business practices. Not quite as personally out of control as Dov Charney of American Apparel, but very likely more toxic. The Uber drivers are wising up to their exploitation; the venture capital investors are heavily subsidizing the fares.
The great Michael Hiltzik, LA Times: With Travis Kalanick out, we’ll see the real value of Uber — and it won’t be pretty
p.a.
The business fell apart when they couldn’t horn in on Trump’s magnificent job creating promissory note third party postdated pinky swear triple dog-dare arms deal with Saudi Arabia.
SiubhanDuinne
@NeenerNeener:
Why in the world would you think that anyone in any agency of the Trump Maladministration would give a tinker’s dam about telephone fraud? Hell, they’ve probably opened up a new division to encourage it.
LurkerNoLonger
Since this is an Open Thread I’m trying to find the title of a movie I vaguely remember seeing when i was (too) young to see it. The opening scene is of a young man and woman in late 70’s/early 80’s clothes walking a long a back road, possibly hitchhiking. For some reason the girl runs into the woods, shedding her clothes as she goes. The guy follows, also shedding his clothes. The pair are having a grand old time running naked through the woods. Unfortunately all the fun comes to an end when they are arrested. Is this an actual movie or something I made up? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
SiubhanDuinne
O/T, but I am still fuming, hours later, about the news snippet that (I think it was) Hovercraft posted a couple of threads back, about press photographers being forced to destroy any photos they took of Jared Kushner in Israel. Just plain not allowed to take his pictures. I don’t get why they would do that — actually, I don’t even know who the “they” is, US or Israeli government. But it sounds as though someone with power to enforce chose to use that power.
I’m as critical of the FTFNYT, CNN, and the rest of the mainstream media, as anyone here. And god knows I have no burning desire to see another photo of Mr. Ivanka. But I’m also a First Amendment absolutist and a great believer in freedom of the press, and I am purely and simply outraged by this display of petty tyranny.
Quinerly
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD):
Also dearly missed Carrie Fisher and Gregg Allman. Didn’t Leon Russell also die this year?
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@Quinerly: Fisher & Russell were both late-2016 deaths.
Quinerly
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD):
I kinda realized that after the post. Sorry. I guess ’cause the autopsy has been in the news, had her on my mind. Here’s a handy wiki pageI discovered when checking on my beloved Leon: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2017
Jeffro
Hey since this is an Open Thread: does anyone here who’s in the DC area want a pair of tickets to see Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit? I was psyched about it and now my brother can’t go, so…who wants ’em? They’re up at Merriweather on Friday June 30th. Good seats in the middle of the pavilion. Ask one of the mods for help relaying an email if interested!
NOW THEN
Is anyone already mocking this WSJ clown as Ollie North Jr. on Twitter? I mean, who among us hasn’t tried a little illicit arms dealing, amirite?
zhena gogolia
@LurkerNoLonger:
That sounds like 90% of the movies made in the 1970s.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
…I forgot: Charlie Murphy.
Also: tfw when you have a point but completely undermine it by being ignorant af
Timurid
Dump Thirty has been quiet yet again today…
zhena gogolia
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD):
What’s his problem? Looking for a tax cut, I guess.
SatanicPanic
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): Ouch, that tweet was so wrong I really had to think about it to fully grasp how wrong it was.
Jeffro
Meanwhile, Montana Dems get a good shot in: they sent Gianforte an orange jumpsuit on his first day in Congress.
O
U
C
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That’s a pretty good return on investment there, Ds. Nice work!
debbie
@efgoldman:
I’m surprised that anyone would be surprised that anyone associated with the WSJ might do something like this. ;)
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@SatanicPanic: The funny thing is: All three rappers had beefed with Prodigy at point, and P even gave props for “Hit Em Up” & Summer Jam ’01.* (Apparently the Nas-Prodigy beef was due to both Nas’ crew having a problem with P and a misunderstanding over P’s verse on “Thun & Kicko.”)
*Especially since this is widely held as responsible for the steep decline in Albert’s writing batting average during the ’00s – to wit, his work with the Alchemist in that decade was mostly good-to-great, his work apart from Al or Hav erratic, and his work as a member of Mobb Deep mostly OK-to-poor.
efgoldman
@debbie:
Not their MO usually. They’re more likely to allow a staffer to write speeches or do debate prep for a preferred candidate. Or take a fee from someone (a corp or an industry group) that they cover.
Et’ics? We donn need no stinkin’ et’ics!
ETA: Besides, gun running is actually a crime, as opposed to a mere ethics violation.
pluky
@SiubhanDuinne: probably less that jared didn’t want any pics of himself than he didn’t want any pics of who he was with. i’ll take israelis with russian ties for 200.
Major Major Major Major
@pluky: I don’t put it past the Trumps at all to try and use the power of elected office to prevent people from mocking their blazer like last time…
Barbara
@LurkerNoLonger: Actual movie, a spoof, and the name might come to me some day.
Marcopolo
Details of Senate healthcare bill leaking. Apparently it will be just as bad as the House bill except the gutting of Medicaid will be slowed to taking approx 5 years instead of 2 but the end gutting will be deeper. Looking forward to the David Anderson thread later tonight.
On a separate note, I wasn’t expecting Ds to pick up either House seat yesterday. Nothing in yesterday’s results has decreased my belief the R’s will still lose the House in 2018–just not by losing +20 R seats. I’ve heard so much crap reporting and ill-informed hand wringing today I’ve found myself repeatedly turning off the radio & TV.
Hope folks are staying cool. Nearly hit triple digits in StL today (97 or 98).
MomSense
@Jeffro:
OMG go see Jason Isbell. He is fantastic. Grab someone off the street if you must and go see him!!!
ETA Isn’t Steeplejack near D.C.? Maybe he would want to go. Check out the interview 60 minutes did with Isbell – The Fall and Rise of Jason Isbell.
TriassicSands
@LurkerNoLonger:
That sounds very much like one of the skits from The Groove Tube (1974), if I remember correctly. But The Groove Tube skit might have been a spoof on the movie you’re trying to remember..
Jeffro
@Marcopolo:
Wait…so the Mighty Mitch wasn’t able to make 2-5 = 2?
All that hiding and stonewalling and hypocrisy, and when it comes out, it’s still going to be scored as a huge hit on working families, all to help the rich get a nice fat tax cut. Plus subsidies for nannies, let’s not forget that.
Teddys Person
@SiubhanDuinne: I wonder if all the public mocking of his khakis, blazer, and flak jacket has taken its toll. He seems to be a-okay with pictures of him with his hand on his wife’s ass.
ETA: Looks like Major Major Major Major got there first.
scav
@SiubhanDuinne: Hmmm. So official policy seems to be that Jared Kushner doesn’t resolve on film and Sean Spicer doesn’t resolve on tape. How extremely handy we just worked up various plans for what to do with vampires for neighbors!
SiubhanDuinne
@pluky:
Yeah, that was pretty much where I had gone too. But FUCK THAT. I don’t give a big rat’s ass who he’s with, who he’s photographed with, what he’s doing. Fuck him. The free press should be allowed to take and broadcast pictures of any public figure in a public newsworthy setting anywhere in the world. Just FUCK the people who are attempting to keep that from happening.
TriassicSands
@Marcopolo:
It’s 58 and sunny outside right now — here in Western Washington. The high was a toasty 64 — I’m melting, I’m melting…
They don’t call it June-uary for no reason.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Is trump’s sixty minute hate in Iowa underway? Looks like MSNBC is not carrying it, even muted. I think that’s a first.
ETA: he’s gonna make dirt
also
germy
CBS Evening News had an interview with a gaggle of drumpf supporters who camped out waiting to see him. They looked and sounded deranged.
SiubhanDuinne
@Teddys Person:
I want to see the one with his hand on Putin’s ass. You know it’s out there.
SiubhanDuinne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Unfuckinpossible.
Roger Moore
@SiubhanDuinne:
I think you got whose hand is on whose ass backward.
Teddys Person
@SiubhanDuinne: He probably has the exact same look on his face as in the picture with Ivanka. That’s a smirk aching for a good smacking.
Marcopolo
@TriassicSands: Is that on the ocean side of the coastal range or nearer the Willamette (sp?) valley. Sounds a bit like June weather in Anchorage–though when I lived in AK I was in Fairbanks where we actually had real summer weather.
Teddys Person
@Roger Moore: I think you misspelled “up”
Major Major Major Major
@scav: I live to serve.
Marcopolo
@SiubhanDuinne: You have it backwards: Putin’s hand is up his ass.
edit: so hard to get replies in to comments here fast enough :)
raven
@Jeffro: Put em on stub hub.
Jeffro
Trumpov just told folks in Iowa that we aren’t going to let foreign countries manipulate our government or tell us what to do. Like, for reals.
This is what’s know as a #RussiaExemption
Jeffro
@MomSense: I’m pretty sure I saw that one…he’s done a few recently. I do love the new album!
@raven: Thanks! I’ve had pretty good success just putting tickets up on Craigslist when I gotta bail out of something.
raven
@Jeffro: The nice thing about stub hub is that the $ is guaranteed and you don’t have to meet anyone anywhere.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
ETA: even twitter can’t keep up with the firehose of horseshit
El Caganer
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: So much winning!
debbie
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
What’s that first tweet about?
Iowa Old Lady
@NeenerNeener: I don’t know how this works everywhere, but a few years back I sent a letter to Iowa’s Sec of State complaining about fraud by a group supposedly calling to collect on behalf of fire fighters and police officers. The group had sent me a bill claiming I pledged the money on a certain date, one on which I happened to be out of town. Not that I would have pledged anyway.
It was effective. The group sent me an apology and took me off their list. I don’t know if anything happened beyond that.
MJS
I think Jay Solomon got the wrong lesson from “The Night Manager.”
Frankensteinbeck
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD):
The American People DID speak. They voted against Trump by 2.8 million. We should definitely heed their wishes.
@Jeffro:
Translation: “Obama was a Muslim who hates white people.”
SiubhanDuinne
@Roger Moore:
@Teddys Person:
@Marcopolo:
You are all correct!
Jeffro
@Frankensteinbeck: My daughter and I are watching him and laughing our you-know-whats off
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: The free press… what a quaint concept. It’s really hard to grasp just how many norms have gone right out the window. These people have no respect for anything at all. Except money, I guess.
efgoldman
@germy:
I thought more delusional and unmoored from any reality.
I hope things are OK up on Planet Zippy.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@debbie: “they’re lucky..” ? I took it as braggadocio-by-proxy-cum-incitement
Jeffro
In its own way, all this bad Trumpov logic is just. so. soothing. It would be nice to turn all my brain functions (except the autonomic ones) off and just bask in Teh Stoopid.
Since he’s bragging about getting Gorsuch onto SCOTUS, it’s quite clear to me that the whole election’s going to have to be invalidated, with every action after the inauguration ruled the act of a fraud. Nothing less.
Major Major Major Major
@Jeffro: I am always amused when he points to something he couldn’t have had less to do with if he’d tried (Gorsuch) as some major achievement.
WaterGirl
@Jeffro: It just occurred to me that it’s like enough that the republicans know about Russia’s influence on the election so long ago that it made sense for them to do what they did with the Supreme Court – I guess there’s really no risk if you already have a pretty good idea about the outcome of the election.
Jeffro
@raven: Yeah, I’m sure StubHub is great, but I’ve never had a problem using Craigslist either – folks come by, bring cash, and are quite nice.
debbie
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I just couldn’t tell if he was talking about something or someone specifically, or if “they” refers to his haters.
Jeffro
@Major Major Major Major: He just claimed Handel as a major win for him…then asked for unity…and now is banging on Hillary…and now is playing the part of a victim. Poor guy.
sharl
Oh goody
Texas Observer piece linked in the tweet:
How the Texas Legislature Reached a Dangerous Stalemate on Vaccines
Even as outbreaks of preventable diseases worry public health officials, anti-vaccination activists blocked legislation to address the problem.
Note that in Texas, it appears to be the rightwing and libertarian Freedom-Caucus/LIBERTY! types who are pushing this. In other parts of the country it is – or at least has been – prosperous Green-type lefties who have been the major supporters of antivax causes; Marin County CA comes to mind.
And here – once again – come my dark and most un-gallant fantasies about how Dr. Andrew Wakefield should be punished for his major role in the antivax movement.
WaterGirl
@Major Major Major Major: Trump is reminding me of my friend’s son who raced out of the bathroom in a restaurant and shouted so proudly: “I just went #2, now I’m a big boy!”
Kind of sweet with a toddler, not so much when it’s a toddler masquerading as a grown man.
debbie
@Teddys Person:
I bet Colbert will be all over that no-photo thing.
TriassicSands
@Marcopolo:
It’s west of Puget Sound on the Olympic Peninsula. June has average daily highs in the sixties (I love it.) Then, it gets serious with highs in the seventies in July and August (Heat Alert!), and the occasional day in the low eighties. The record high was 94F in 2007.
Ruckus
@germy:
They ARE deranged, after all they are drumpf supporters.
LurkerNoLonger
@TriassicSands: That’s it! Thank you so much.
Lapassionara
@Frankensteinbeck: actually, if you count all the people who voted for someone other than Trump, I think the number is more like 10 million.
Why does he act like he has a mandate?
Jeffro
“God blesses you, and I just want to let you know you are special in every way” – Trumpov, in closing just now. So, sort of a Billy Graham Jr./Stuart Smalley thing going on there…
As “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” starts up(?!?) for outro music…
Am I high? I don’t think I’m high but I’d probably better check.
Jeffro
@Lapassionara:
Because if he believes it badly enough, it quiets the voice of Fred Trump that’s always playing in the back of his head.
efgoldman
@sharl:
Am I a bad person to want every fucking one of their fucking devil spawn to get fucking preventable diseases?
Yes, yes I am. And fucking-A proud of it.
Fuckem
Marcopolo
@TriassicSands: hah! You typed Washington and my brain processed OR. I’d normally be totally embarrassed but I was obviously out in the heat too long today. Still the weather would be similar to Anchorage w/ the Japanese current running all along the coast. A long time ago, ’89, I spent four days hiking along the beach in that part of Olympic National Park. I will always remember the banana slugs that were all over our tents in the mornings.
Jeffro
@efgoldman: I only want them to get the ones that they specifically did not get vaccinated for (not just EVERY preventable disease). But I guess if they skip every vaccine, that’s the same thing. The wingnut mind is rather dense, so it might help them draw a connection there.
Personally, I’d like to see some stories about ‘Muricans who know enough about this here vaccine nonsense that they pick and choose which vaccinations lil’ Johnny’s going to get, by god. Ones who really max out the stupid and think they know that a measles vaccine is soshulist death germs but that rubella vaccine, that’s a-ok by them.
Major Major Major Major
@Jeffro: but are they going to stop fluoridating water? That’s what they did in Tampa after the tea party took over.
Kathleen
@TriassicSands: I think you’re right. I remember that scene which was accompanied I believe by Curtis Mayfield’s “Move on Up” which is still one of my all time favorite songs.
Jeffro
@Major Major Major Major: why not, right? No more vaccines, no more fluoride in the water…no more light bulbs (candle light only), you have to do your wash on the rocks down at the local creek, and why the hell do people even need indoor plumbing, anyway?
Eric Trump says liberals “aren’t even people”. I’m starting to think he meant it as a compliment – homo techno modernsis?
They all need to read an executive summary of “Thinking, Fast And Slow” or “The Righteous Mind” or both, and soon.
opiejeanne
Can you imagine being on the WSJ editors board and having that AP request for information/comment about this guy’s connection with Azima handed to you?
efgoldman
@Jeffro:
For most of them, People or Us is the most difficult and complex reading they do, even if they read in school.
Jeffro
@efgoldman: That’s true – these are folks who could relate to (and perhaps were impressed by) Trumpov’s 4th grade vocabulary.
Side note: good on CNN for not cutting away to show the Iowa crowd size, whatever it was, even when Trumpov taunted them about it and claimed that with ‘this level of noise, you can’t make that up’. Keep the camera tight on his jowly orange face no matter what – I like it. Well, I don’t, but you know what I mean.
Steeplejack
@LurkerNoLonger, @Kathleen:
The Groove Tube, about 7:00 in this video.
Hmm, can’t get the “start at a certain time mark” thing to work.
JDM
@mai naem mobile: “I didn’t attend the funeral but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
Brachiator
@sharl:
Thanks for this article. Stupid white people (and most of these people are white) are fucking amazing. I remember years ago when some black people asserted that AIDS was a conspiracy to kill them, serious tongues clucked about how sad and dangerous it was that a few frightened voices might impede progress in dealing with a deadly plague. But you have some ignorant ass Texans spreading easily preventable diseases and the state government bends over backwards to try to placate these fools. In the name of liberty.
These fools also fight for school textbooks which propagate religious based superstition and ignorance to make sure that no one might be exposed to the rational world.
NoraLenderbee
Diphtheria. Tetanus. Measles encephalitis. Congenital rubella. Hey, maybe syphilis will make a comeback!
sharl
@Brachiator: Aww man, that business with the Texas Board of Education and textbooks…my cerebral memory space horked up a hairball (brainball?) just thinking about it. And – at least as of early February of this year – the privileged idiots battle on.
Omnes Omnibus
@NoraLenderbee:
Don’t call it a comeback! It’s been here for years!
Vheidi
@Quinerly: send me yr addy at my nym at yahoo and I’ll send you photos of my husband’s painting of Leon
Hungry Joe
Okay, I admit that when I was the book review editor for our local paper I was a key player in a couple of $725 million book deals. But it never affected my reporting, I swear.
Amir Khalid
@sharl:
You can’t call him Dr. Wakefield anymore. He was struck off the medical roll (i.e. had his medical licence revoked) for scientific fraud over his antivax shit.
Tokyokie
Any list of beloved personalities lost in 2017 should be topped by the great Japanese filmmaker Suzuki Seijun, the last of a generation of brilliant directors who emerged in Japan in the immediate postwar era (Kurosawa Akira, Kobayashi Masaki, Ichikawa Kon, Honda Ishirō, Oshima Nagisa, Imamura Shōhei, Gosha Hideo, Okamoto Kichachi, Fukasaku Kinji, Masumura Yasuzō, Kinoshita Keisuke) and certainly the most iconoclastic. I’m hard-pressed to come up with a similarly distinguished group of directors to emerge at roughly the same time in the same place, and Suzuki, against all odds, was the last of them.
(((CassandraLeo)))
@sharl:
That fuckstick does not have a medical license and you shouldn’t call him a doctor unless you’re using scare quotes. I agree with your overall derision for anti-vaxxers though.
sharl
@Amir Khalid, @(((CassandraLeo))):
A fair point folks. I actually knew the Brits had pulled his license, but I – in hindsight, incorrectly – glossed over that to make an implicit point about how the peer review process of even reputable medical journals (Lancet) can be a catastrophic failure, resulting in the kind of long-term damage that Wakefield’s lies have wrought.