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10. Seymour's job is to sell books

Reply to LWolf (Reply #7)

Sat Sep 28, 2013, 01:22 PM

Sep 2013

Diplomacy with Iran is money that doesn't go into his pocket.

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Seymour Hersh is just mad that he won't be able to sell as many books. [View all] Cali_Democrat Sep 2013 OP

Message auto-removed Name removed Sep 2013 #1

He's all about the book sales. n/t Cali_Democrat Sep 2013 #2

I have more respect for him than that. He has disclosed important information over the years. Shrike47 Sep 2013 #42

He could make $$ on it treestar Sep 2013 #23

Your character assassination is only effective on the faithful whatchamacallit Sep 2013 #3

Lunch with the Chairman Octafish Sep 2013 #61

Is it official? G_j Sep 2013 #4

Anti-Christ of the day is perfect! I wonder how they decide? Colbert style ThreatDown board, TheKentuckian Sep 2013 #17

It's a so called investigative reporter treestar Sep 2013 #25

he is not a team player noiretextatique Sep 2013 #54

He is a big old meanie! QC Sep 2013 #74

No, the Truther of the day. nt geek tragedy Sep 2013 #20

Whoa...Are we allowed to use the T**** word in mixed company? Junkdrawer Sep 2013 #21

Some people take it as a compliment. nt geek tragedy Sep 2013 #30

Hard to imagine someone becoming so corrupt that T**** seeking.... Junkdrawer Sep 2013 #33

Apparently. The usual people have been working hard to throw him under the bus today. nt Mojorabbit Sep 2013 #69

I think he's gone the way of Pierre Salinger. It happens when people age and those MADem Sep 2013 #5

Ah, ye old ageism smear whatchamacallit Sep 2013 #8

I beg your pardon---I can talk about aging, I'm in the thick of it. MADem Sep 2013 #14

Post removed Post removed Sep 2013 #16

Well said... SidDithers Sep 2013 #39

Thank you, Sid! nt MADem Sep 2013 #40

"talking ragtime" grasswire Sep 2013 #41

I'm not the author, I can take no credit! MADem Sep 2013 #43

I hope you didn't alert on whatchamacallit (nt) muriel_volestrangler Sep 2013 #60

Did you? nt MADem Sep 2013 #64

No, but someone did, when they were just saying to you what you said about Hersh muriel_volestrangler Sep 2013 #66

I didn't call Hersh's comments "senile blather." MADem Sep 2013 #68

Thanks for explaining that so thoroughly for those who don't know the Cha Sep 2013 #75

All those words, and you've avoided saying whether you alerted or not muriel_volestrangler Sep 2013 #81

And you keep wrongly equating criticism of a public figure to personal insults on DU. MADem Sep 2013 #94

Glad someone did. zappaman Sep 2013 #65

It figures! Thanks for the elucidation, MADem.. just as Cha Sep 2013 #73

well done. Whisp Sep 2013 #85

It's not necessarily a smear treestar Sep 2013 #27

President Obama is a ProSense Sep 2013 #6

Or, conversely, LWolf Sep 2013 #7

Seymour's job is to sell books Cali_Democrat Sep 2013 #10

Which is beside my point. nt LWolf Sep 2013 #11

yawn G_j Sep 2013 #9

He didn't criticize Obama treestar Sep 2013 #28

No one gives a shit about someone's supposed left wing credentials. randome Sep 2013 #31

"No one gives a shit about someone's supposed left wing credentials." morningfog Sep 2013 #71

He'll keep on trying to smear Obama, no matter how long it takes. riqster Sep 2013 #12

exactly! Hersh is a right-wing Republcian neocon - everyone knows that Douglas Carpenter Sep 2013 #84

Not sure I buy that. riqster Sep 2013 #86

Please be a little more serious. Wilms Sep 2013 #13

You are saying that the neo-cons didn't want war with Iran? They did and they were The Second Stone Sep 2013 #15

Well, of course the My Lai story turned out to be true. Wilms Sep 2013 #18

LBJ was, and he's often been used as a treestar Sep 2013 #29

That may or may not be true. Wilms Sep 2013 #37

........ marmar Sep 2013 #19

That didn't take long. n/t winter is coming Sep 2013 #22

You're just mad that someone, anywhere is not of The Body. It always what you are mad about. TheKentuckian Sep 2013 #24

DU rec...nt SidDithers Sep 2013 #26

Jealous? hobbit709 Sep 2013 #32

Ugly attacks like this should be beneath DU. Comrade Grumpy Sep 2013 #34

Are you fucking serious? Drunken Irishman Sep 2013 #51

Sooo... tavernier Sep 2013 #53

So who do you think approves the drone strikes? muriel_volestrangler Sep 2013 #62

And that has what to do with Iran? Drunken Irishman Sep 2013 #67

Um, *your own post* above changed the topic MannyGoldstein Sep 2013 #78

'heartless warmonger' is the charge typically thrown at Obama for the drone strikes muriel_volestrangler Sep 2013 #80

It has been a charge thrown at him for Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran. Drunken Irishman Sep 2013 #87

And this summer, the period *you* specified, it was about drone strikes muriel_volestrangler Sep 2013 #88

No it was not. Drunken Irishman Sep 2013 #89

Google 'September' and 'season' (nt) muriel_volestrangler Sep 2013 #90

I get a lot of premiere dates for TV shows. Drunken Irishman Sep 2013 #91

And do they say "This September - new for this summer!"? (nt) muriel_volestrangler Sep 2013 #92

I don't know. I closed out. Drunken Irishman Sep 2013 #93

Somehow I don't think you're gonna see too many Americans who want to go after the OregonBlue Sep 2013 #35

Seymour Hersch never really loved him!!! QC Sep 2013 #36

FACTS over speculation. Hershe is in wingnut territory. JaneyVee Sep 2013 #38

her she? grasswire Sep 2013 #44

Probably not, trypewiting ettor or a reference to rubbish chocolate n/r intaglio Sep 2013 #57

No. Hershey, PA. Wilms Sep 2013 #58

I hear Seymour has boxes under that bus DJ13 Sep 2013 #45

Where's the bus up there? Hydra Sep 2013 #46

I heard that he was once in the same room as a pole dancer. n/t QC Sep 2013 #47

Nooooooooooo DJ13 Sep 2013 #49

Saying not one word of the Osama Bin Laden raid's true is NUTTY. DevonRex Sep 2013 #48

At numerous times in the last few years, an attack on Iran has MsPithy Sep 2013 #50

Wow, you guys work fast! nt delrem Sep 2013 #52

Except that he's broken many stories that were TRUE. Th1onein Sep 2013 #55

As I've said, there's money to be made keeping people hating Iran Scootaloo Sep 2013 #56

You fell for it, too? Cerridwen Sep 2013 #59

Another thread from the DU "Authors are Evil" crowd muriel_volestrangler Sep 2013 #63

Dont you just hate it when people have opinions different from the approved status-quo. nm rhett o rick Sep 2013 #70

Fuck Ron Paul. n/t Cali_Democrat Sep 2013 #72

I second that. nm rhett o rick Sep 2013 #79

This probably really pissed him off then.. Cha Sep 2013 #76

Do you have any evidence - any at all - MannyGoldstein Sep 2013 #77

exactly!! Douglas Carpenter Sep 2013 #82

Are you accusing me of making unsubstantiated claims? Cali_Democrat Sep 2013 #95

I bet his "revelations" about the "My Lai Massacre" were just a scam to make money too Douglas Carpenter Sep 2013 #83