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Comment on Former Hawaii Quarterback Arrested After Altercation by spelunker702

spelunker702 — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:05:02 +0000

It’s so sad to see that probably the last pass U.H. legend Timmy Chang will ever throw was the video camera he tossed 20 yards up onto a roof.

Comment on Back Channels: The Jong-il, Jacko Proposal by spelunker702

spelunker702 — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:58:16 +0000

Can you really imagine Kim Jong-il getting a telephone call from Michael Jackson?

Jongil: (reading caller ID) “Michael Jackson say yo?”

Jacko: “Yo, Kim Jong-il! This is Michael Jackson!”

Jong-il: “King of Pop say yo? NO! You sing now.”

Jacko: Yo? “Uh,…YES! (singing) “Billie Jean is not my lover…”

Jong-il: “…she’s just girl who…who…”

Jacko: “Oh! You know my song? Any more?”

Jong-il: “Uh…it’s closed at midnight…axis evil rurking in dark…”

Jacko: “THRILLER!”

Jong-il: “Me like Thriller red jacket say yo!”

Jacko: “YO! I like your outfits too! Wanna trade? Oh, Kim Jong-il, speaking of trade; would you swap Laura and Euna for a year’s supply of Demerol?”

Comment on Tiananmen Square Student Leader Wang Chaohua to Receive UCLA Ph.D by spelunker702

spelunker702 — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:12:32 +0000

“Mongolian” troops? Your aged memory is definitely playing games with your mind.
The troops that fired on China’s people were People’s Liberation Army soldiers of China, not Mongolia. (Not even Inner Mongolia, which is a province of China.)
Maybe you were thinking of Genghis Khan, who slaughtered citizens of China in the area of Tiananmen around 774 years earlier.

Spelunker

Comment on Truth Embargoed in Coverage of Euna Lee / Laura Ling Story? by spelunker702

spelunker702 — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:44:41 +0000

During her initial media tour, Lisa Ling revealed On Larry King’s show that she received a call from Mitch Koss when asked how she first heard about her sister’s detainment in North Korea. However Lisa did not mention Koss by name, instead hastily describing him as the Current TV colleague who escaped capture.

She later contradicts herself by saying that nobody but Laura and Euna knows what really happened on March 17. Didn’t Mitch tell her?

Comment on Who Is Mitchell Koss and Why Isn’t He Talking? by bartscrivner

bartscrivner — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:09:51 +0000

I doubt that Koss alone could have persuaded both women to go. I think he and Ling make the choice, and possibly even before they left the US. She’s ambitious, and why not? But as they entered China with falsified visa applications, which isn’t SOP for most journalists, I wonder how much their bosses at Current knew and signed off on.
I don’t think Koss is Svengali to Ling’s Trilby by any means. Current and Vanguard do more “toe-touch” journalism, meaning there’s usually a stand-up of the reporter confiding breathlessly to camera “Look at me–I’m in INSERT PLACE-NAME HERE”. And despite all Current’s PR machinations, Ling’s no Amanpour.

Comment on Who Is Mitchell Koss and Why Isn’t He Talking? by spelunker702

spelunker702 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:29:40 +0000

Do you want to know the only possible reason Mitch Koss is keeping his mouth shut? Here’s the most plausible theory, in my opinion: The idea to go to the Tumen River and cross the border was exclusively his alone. Maybe the local communist guide capitalized on Mitch’s idea and scored a big bounty, but if it was Mitch’s idea to take his crew there in the first place then wouldn’t he be too overcome by embarrassment to reveal the truth after returning to California? If it was indeed Mitch’s idea to go to the Tumen River border area, then I believe that would explain his extreme reluctance to face the nation that still waits for those 2 female colleagues he left behind on the battlefield.

Spelunker

Comment on Who Is Mitchell Koss and Why Isn’t He Talking? by djevoke

djevoke — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:16:38 +0000

So, where is he? I understand that he’s trying to keep his own a$$ clean and that he barely escaped probably due to a deal of some sort (I’m speculating). How did they get captured and the two men escaped? How did the two women get sentenced to 12 years?

Comment on The World’s Best Athlete is Virtually Unknown in His Own Country by bobbygee

bobbygee — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:05:11 +0000

Thanks for the 411. God gave him the gift. God gets the glory

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Comment on Who Is Mitchell Koss and Why Isn’t He Talking? by turnedmeintoanewt

turnedmeintoanewt — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:43:50 +0000

It’s not brain surgery, he’s probably shutting up so whatever he might say doesn’t get them into any deeper hot water. He’s also probably working on that advice from the State Department.

What you call a ’surreal’ level of access to organizations like the State Dept, ATF, etc isn’t that big a deal. The Pentagon itself probably has 200 or more reporters that its media liaison staff know by their first names. There’s information on hundreds of missions, foreign affairs issues, drug busts etc. that are open to media inquiries.

There’s enough drama in the tale of these two reporters without creating more empty-headed scenarios.

Comment on Who Is Mitchell Koss and Why Isn’t He Talking? by bartscrivner

bartscrivner — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:54:46 +0000

Here’s Alpert today: http://www.dctvny.org/ABOUT/staff.html

Comment on Who Is Mitchell Koss and Why Isn’t He Talking? by douglaseisenstark

douglaseisenstark — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:28:51 +0000

He reminds me of Jon Alpert who may be a decade older and was doing this sort of thing with portable video cameras. Jon worked out of NYC with his wife and young interns and often went to hotspots where he (in)famously inserted his questions into the reports.