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Wednesday, November 21. 2012

Anthony De Rosa's Balls

Anthony is the Reuters Social Media Editor, integrating the “ambient wire” that exists on social networks, where news now breaks before anywhere else, into Reuters platforms. He's also host of Reuters TV's "Tech Tonic" and a Reuters columnist.


This is the kind of media bias that must be exposed. In this case, with impact. Thanks to Honest Reporting. (free online subscription)


5:48 pm: At the beginning of the day, I noted an ugly tweet by Reuters’ Anthony De Rosa. One response to De Rosa was sufficiently embarrassing and, uh, viral enough to make the wire service’s social media editor remove his tweet.

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THAT is friggin' great!
#1 feeblemind on 2012-11-21 23:01 (Reply)
I guess it's zinger Wednesday!
#2 Ruby Lennox on 2012-11-21 23:40 (Reply)
Gotta love research, that is an experiment that just demands a trial.
#3 chuck on 2012-11-22 01:36 (Reply)
Zinger ringer! Just imagine if your neighbors 20 miles away thought it cool to lob rockets into your neighborhood, what would your response be? I know my answer, and it isn't pretty for militant and civilian alike. I think Israel shows incredible restraint. Militants must be made to cry uncle, permanently, by any and all means possible. They put their friends and families at risk by their behavior. Screw'em.
#4 Stephen Lawrence on 2012-11-22 09:55 (Reply)
Restraint isn't the word I'd use. Where did they pick up the American Disease, i.e. breaking windows with gold coins.
They are forced to let more than half the rockets continue on to their explosive finish because the anti-missiles are so expensive.
How about pounding the point of origin of the shells trajectory with nice cheap HE artillery, every single time. (Any Reuters journalists killed a bonus). Just ask yourself, WWPD (What Would Patton Do?)

At college I met a guy taking the same starting karate class, earlier in the year I remember him telling me that he was a brown belt in Judo. His opinion at that time was that Judo was better because he could defend himself without causing any serious injury to the other combatant. Why was he now taking karate?
He got mugged by more than one guy, he kept throwing them down, they kept getting up. When he got tired they kicked the shit out of him. Next time, they weren't getting back up anytime soon.

I know, sounds hypothetical, could be. It was the sixties.
#4.1 John the River (Link) on 2012-11-22 11:03 (Reply)
Unlikely, John. Even Aikido teaches how to put people down with little chance of them getting up.
#4.1.1 Tom on 2012-11-23 22:49 (Reply)
Judo was originally "developed" and taught as a sport. If he was trained only for class and tournaments he may well have thrown the guys such that they did get back up.

Takes a bit of ruthlessness to throw someone on the ground then kick them in the head of stomp on their throat. But then I were a Marine when at the age of the gents being talked about, so I probably see things a bit different.
#4.1.1.1 Billy Oblivion on 2012-11-24 06:13 (Reply)
Apparently the guy in the anecdote was throwing them wrong. Slamming into the ground with the force of your own body weight from any decent distance is more than a little unpleasant. Plenty of people receive major injuries from such falls, especially if a limb is in a bad position when they come down.
#4.1.1.1.1 epobirs on 2012-11-24 08:29 (Reply)
The problem is... he took the tweet down but didn't change his attitude. He'll say the same thing again when the furor dies down.
#5 Mike H. on 2012-11-23 22:47 (Reply)
Here's the story I heard of what Patton did. After the war ended and we were occupying Germany, a little group of die-hard Nazis decided to engage in a little guerilla operation and killed an Army officer. The U. S. Army fired artillery at the town all night. No more problems with German guerillas.
#6 John A. fleming on 2012-11-23 23:03 (Reply)
Patton's schreklishkeit response worked because he guerrillas liked the townspeople (or WERE some of the townspeople); in a more fractured environment, it might backfire. A Shiite terrorist might consider civilian casualties in a Sunni town to be a bonus! Or for that matter, a really fanatical revolutionary-type might consider anything that rouses hatred (and thus new recruits to "the cause") to be "acceptable".
#6.1 sfreader on 2012-11-24 04:29 (Reply)
Actually, it worked because after that, the germans would turn in anyone who thought about guerrilla attacks. In fact, town leaders would pro-actively take measures against it. The people where tired of the war and wanted it to end.
#6.1.1 John on 2012-11-24 20:10 (Reply)
B*tch gets pwned. Well played.
#7 jb books on 2012-11-23 23:04 (Reply)
Tweet of the year for sure.
#8 Mark on 2012-11-23 23:15 (Reply)
This is a man who needs to be beaten repeatedly.
#9 Trump on 2012-11-23 23:26 (Reply)
Anthony is such an enlightened thinker and like most lefties, believes that his viewpoints are clever, insightful, and pure. That is until he gets humiliated by someone many times smarter than he.

The best part of all this is that "faux intellectual" Tony will be defined by many readers from this tweet exchange. Hah!
#10 JD on 2012-11-24 05:32 (Reply)
The best way to deal with the use of "human shields" is to kill them indiscriminately.

The use of human shields works as a tactic because the scumbags, and their human shield accomplices, are counting on their enemies to have more honor than they do.

When this tactic no longer works, those who the scumbags are counting on to act as human shields will be less inclined to do so.

You can't win a war by pulling your punches.
#11 Lee Reynolds (Link) on 2012-11-24 05:44 (Reply)
'Ant' would need to have some balls for this to work.
#12 Past Master of the Obvious on 2012-11-24 07:54 (Reply)
There was a better time when people had bosses who would fire them for saying something this despicable and embarrassing because it would bring dishonor on the whole organization if they didn't.

Now days it is normal for media organization to support barbarism. This not just De Rosa's shame. It is very much Reuters'.
#13 Voluble on 2012-11-24 09:44 (Reply)
The tweet was not deleted

https://twitter.com/AntDeRosa/status/271111064282882048
#14 AB on 2012-11-24 11:27 (Reply)
I suggest the #IronCup hashtag be used to hang that stupid remark on him for a good long time.

Robbie Guy's riposte is brilliant in its scope, because the idiocy it nails is invariant between the pro-Palestinian Leftists and their suddenly moral relativist thinkalikes among the Zero Hedge sort of "libertarians"... "Left" wing nuts, "right" wing nuts, it's all the same sack.
#15 Seerak on 2012-11-25 01:00 (Reply)
awesome blog1
#16 sasharose on 2012-11-25 11:34 (Reply)

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