The Daily Caller Call-Out

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The Daily Caller Call-Out

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In dubbing Trump’s prolonged clash with the Khan family his political breaking point, the mainstream media was characteristically bullish. Yet, the right-wing media echo chamber still brace for the worst. Within 48 hours of his speech at the Democratic National Convention, conservative media outlets got busy turning Khizr Khan, a grieving Gold Star parent, into an enemy of the republic. A broadside on the blog Shoebat accused Khan, a practicing U.S. immigration lawyer, of being an agent of the Muslim Brotherhood. Meanwhile, a Washington Examiner piece hinted at Mr. Khan’s financial incentive for publicly denouncing Trump. And dusting off a 1983 law journal article explaining basic facets of Sharia law, the Daily Caller ran an article featuring the headline, “Khizr Khan Has Written Extensively On Sharia Law.” In short, a multi-front attack on the character of the man who would presume to criticize Donald Trump. Bob presses Daily Caller editor Scott Greer on the news value of such coverage.

http://www.wnyc.org/story/daily-caller-call-out/
 
BOB GARFIELD (HOST): On the subject of subtext, what are we to make of this story in The Daily Caller, “Father of Muslim U.S. soldier is attorney specializing in selling U.S. citizenship”?

SCOTT GREER: Yes, as a lawyer in his practice he has specialized in giving out visas that could be threatened by Trump’s immigration policies and thus that creates a possible incentive for why Mr. Khan would give a speech and be very opposed to Trump. It's a story that is of interest to the American public, we put it out there, it’s something that they can interpret, and it is a possibility that if Trump’s –

GARFIELD: Khan’s an immigration lawyer, serving client who wish to get legal status here, using the applicable law to help them. Neither in your story nor anywhere else is there any evidence or any accusation whatsoever of him being implicated in any scandal or abuse of visa statues, and by the way, if it becomes harder for a visa candidate to get a visa, then a lawyer’s services become more, not less, in demand. Selling U.S. citizenship? That’s essentially accusing him of committing a crime. I ask you the relevance.

GREER: We did not accuse him of engaging in any corruption or scandalous behavior, we merely point out what he did in his line of work and we let the readers decide. We did not put out a declaration, “This is definitely why he’s opposed to Trump." We’re just saying that yes, it is a possibility that somebody specializes in immigration law and is dependent on easier access to these visas --

GARFIELD: Oh, and also his son was blown to pieces while serving his army unit in Iraq.

GREER: Well how does that deal with Trump? Is Trump responsible for his death?

GARFIELD: These open-ended notions that invite readers to draw the most sinister conclusions, it sounds like the work of an opposition research team. [WNYC, On The Media, 8/5/16]


http://www.mediamatters.org/researc...an-he-started-receive-hateful-messages/212231
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Garfield explained how quickly the right-wing spinmeisters turned him from a grieving father into an enemy of the state.
 
Legion Grind said:
Facts don't matter to the Faithful.
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Scott Greer made that obvious in his answers.

For example, righties keep saying Khan wrote extensively about Shari'ah law yet the only writing anybody could turn up was that paper that's been in the news... that he wrote as a college assignment.
 
christiefan915 said:
BOB GARFIELD (HOST): On the subject of subtext, what are we to make of this story in The Daily Caller, “Father of Muslim U.S. soldier is attorney specializing in selling U.S. citizenship”?

SCOTT GREER: Yes, as a lawyer in his practice he has specialized in giving out visas that could be threatened by Trump’s immigration policies and thus that creates a possible incentive for why Mr. Khan would give a speech and be very opposed to Trump. It's a story that is of interest to the American public, we put it out there, it’s something that they can interpret, and it is a possibility that if Trump’s –

GARFIELD: Khan’s an immigration lawyer, serving client who wish to get legal status here, using the applicable law to help them. Neither in your story nor anywhere else is there any evidence or any accusation whatsoever of him being implicated in any scandal or abuse of visa statues, and by the way, if it becomes harder for a visa candidate to get a visa, then a lawyer’s services become more, not less, in demand. Selling U.S. citizenship? That’s essentially accusing him of committing a crime. I ask you the relevance.

GREER: We did not accuse him of engaging in any corruption or scandalous behavior, we merely point out what he did in his line of work and we let the readers decide. We did not put out a declaration, “This is definitely why he’s opposed to Trump." We’re just saying that yes, it is a possibility that somebody specializes in immigration law and is dependent on easier access to these visas --

GARFIELD: Oh, and also his son was blown to pieces while serving his army unit in Iraq.

GREER: Well how does that deal with Trump? Is Trump responsible for his death?

GARFIELD: These open-ended notions that invite readers to draw the most sinister conclusions, it sounds like the work of an opposition research team. [WNYC, On The Media, 8/5/16]


http://www.mediamatters.org/researc...an-he-started-receive-hateful-messages/212231
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Lame attempt at a whitewash.

Where in the interview did it come out that EB5's [Khans specialty] involve large sums of money? Like $500,000 to a million dollars that gets invested by prospective immigrants? I didn't see it anywhere. The money is the issue. If Khan just helped poor Mexicans pro bono there would be nothing to be said about it. But he works in a lucrative area of immigration.

Are we to believe Khan's law firm doesn't get a piece of that action? If he doesn't, he's a special breed of lawyer lol.
 
Darth Hussein Omar said:
Lame attempt at a whitewash.

Where in the interview did it come out that EB5's [Khans specialty] involve large sums of money? Like $500,000 to a million dollars that gets invested by prospective immigrants? I didn't see it anywhere. The money is the issue. If Khan just helped poor Mexicans pro bono there would be nothing to be said about it. But he works in a lucrative area of immigration.

Are we to believe Khan's law firm doesn't get a piece of that action? If he doesn't, he's a special breed of lawyer lol.
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um fuckhead,


your whole party platform is about cashing in for the wealthy asshole
 
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