Politico Reporter Assures CSPAN Caller That Congressmen Aren’t Corrupt

Call it "Protecting the Status Politi-Quo"

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November 14, 2011 at 9:15 am - C-Span
Dateline: Washington, D. C.
workinglate   November 14th, 2011 - 9:45 am

Oh, and if Politico says it, it MUST be true. /sarc

Trust is the last thing I would give any puke like this.

AZCobraman   November 14th, 2011 - 9:46 am

These aren't the crooked politicians you're looking for….

BillyDKidd   November 14th, 2011 - 9:49 am

Propagandist and nothing more. I really wonder what goal these libs seek?

HookedOnObonics   November 14th, 2011 - 9:50 am

"Nothing to see here…move along"

Bill_Lumbergh   November 14th, 2011 - 9:50 am

This guy reminds me of one of the "see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil" 'Wise' Monkey's!

Libs_R_Wrong   November 14th, 2011 - 9:50 am

Politico. Now there's some unbiased news reporting for y'all :)

Hey Politico, how's the Slut Stampede been going? Haven't heard that much out of you.

leroitroisieme   November 14th, 2011 - 9:51 am

Laughable….

mustafamonde   November 14th, 2011 - 9:51 am

What would expect a "in the tank" "journo-list" to say. More tea is needed to wash the political class from D.C. They are the problem.

LibertyWriter   November 14th, 2011 - 9:51 am

And ice aint cold, fire aint hot, snow aint white and the sun comes up in the west.

midwestmash   November 14th, 2011 - 9:53 am

YOU F'N IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

dgleon   November 14th, 2011 - 9:53 am

Oh well, that does it for me. I feel so reassured now. I guess I can leave Breitbart, Rush and the Drudge report now since I know that everything is just peachy keen fine in our capitol.

clarityinla   November 14th, 2011 - 9:54 am

Big-government statists will always defend institutionalized corruption.

We need term limits to break that corruption, while reducing the size and scope of government.

That's scares the statists–they have way too much faith in people with the power to take and spend other people's money.

mary   November 14th, 2011 - 9:54 am

There is evidence of insider trading and this Politico guy won't believe it, but if it's an anonymous allegation of unknown offense he will run with the story 90 plus times and smear someone. The media has become part of the corruption.

flytiegoode   November 14th, 2011 - 9:56 am

Well, Politico should know all about corruption and this administration. After all, they've been taking their order from the White House for the last three years.

batcountry   November 14th, 2011 - 9:56 am

My question is the Politico reporter willing to go to the mat for Congress and stake all he owns on that statement. If he is than he is more than a fool or a moron. Some the citizens have awoke to the fact politicians are enriching themselves on the backs of the people.

Thinker822   November 14th, 2011 - 9:57 am

Well that just really reassures me considering the bogus Cain alligations made by Politico. Maybe someone call tell him that you have to have a degree of credability BEFORE you start assuring people of someone elses.

John Galt   November 14th, 2011 - 9:57 am

What planet is Jonathan Allen from? It can't be earth because he is so out of touch with reality is is mind boggling. I'll bet he still believes in the tooth fairy and unicorns. And this, ladies and gentleman, is what is being passed off as reporters for the main stream media.

bozz8888able   November 14th, 2011 - 9:58 am

Scum covering for scum. Politico is nothing but a lib tape worm. A parasite feeding off the feces of its host — itself a mutant form of feces feeding off Americans.

Dirtt   November 14th, 2011 - 9:59 am

World Class POS.

If we could only witness the day people like Allen meet their maker.

DanielShays   November 14th, 2011 - 10:00 am

Very funny and the next testimonial will be from the Medellin Drug Cartel

NotKennedy   November 14th, 2011 - 10:01 am

He must have been an understudy or waterboy for Abscam Murtha. Or, maybe he's formerly of Rangel's real estate investment group.

Tomtom29   November 14th, 2011 - 10:02 am

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahhahah… ooh, I'm gonna puke, I laughed so hard. What a kidder!

canadianlady2   November 14th, 2011 - 10:03 am

If you give the press enough rope, eventually it will hang itself.

Disturbingly10ayshus   November 14th, 2011 - 10:03 am

Because of the internet, new journalism & citizen journalists, the curtain is being pulled back. More and more, the government will not be able to function in secret. The growing truth is that WE ARE BIG BROTHER NOW.

LizardLips   November 14th, 2011 - 10:07 am

…and the Herman Cain accusers aren't the gold-digging, no evidence political hack job Politico went on the record with the past few weeks. This clown clearly HAS been bought and paid for.

LizardLips   November 14th, 2011 - 10:09 am

Seems fairly obvious Politico issues rose-colored glasses to all its repeaters, er, reporters…

GoldwatersChild   November 14th, 2011 - 10:11 am

Looks like Michael Moore's baby brother..

EricBrodin   November 14th, 2011 - 10:12 am

Leave it to the Politico to defend them.

Honest_Tea   November 14th, 2011 - 10:16 am

I actually watched the episode this morning… If you are well versed into how the media is (for the most part) an arm of the US government, you would have noticed how the call screener chose callers to make this Politico guy into a right wing, tea partying, Rush Limbaugh watching, George Bush praising mouthpiece … POLITICO???? ARE YOU KIDDING?

Doobin   November 14th, 2011 - 10:21 am

And the lens does not make me look fat…

rckmom   November 14th, 2011 - 10:33 am

I have two things to say to this idiot..PROVE IT!!!

CrooklynBoy   November 14th, 2011 - 10:36 am

As a long time Crooklyn resident, I can assure you, the 'Mob' does not exist. It's a fantasy designed to smear Italian American's like my self. My friend Vinny told me so…

veek46   November 14th, 2011 - 10:37 am

Or move on

CrooklynBoy   November 14th, 2011 - 10:37 am

MISGUIDED? AHHHHH HA HA HA HA

Mrs.Tank   November 14th, 2011 - 10:38 am

OMG! I can't stop laughing, that's just nutz.

sailfished   November 14th, 2011 - 10:38 am

Ex Obama lover Larry Sinclair mowed down by hit and run driver, Killed, no sign of driver or his car

sailfished   November 14th, 2011 - 10:46 am

How about this, Ex Obama lover Larry Sinclair mowed down by hit and run driver, killed, no sign of other driver or his car

sgt_stedanko   November 14th, 2011 - 10:46 am

these guys all run this country into the ground.
but when it comes to personal finances they are absolute geniuses.
and we are being told there is nothing strange about that?

teapartyvik   November 14th, 2011 - 10:54 am

And let me guess this dope doesnt believe there is media bias either, right??

Obamacare was passed by a handful of votes. Even a little corruption is bad and should not be accepted.

Keltic1   November 14th, 2011 - 10:58 am

The more things change the more they stay the same.
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office" Aesop

sailfished   November 14th, 2011 - 10:59 am

Not all stories on internet are true, check stuff out on your own, people can say anything, .Check your info

sailfished   November 14th, 2011 - 11:01 am

Example, people here believed this because you WANTED it to be true,. VERIFY people

Roger   November 14th, 2011 - 11:14 am

No, we didn't believe it and would have heard about it if it had happened.

Like Obama sitting to an EID dinner next to a co-conspirator from the Texas case regarding Hamas illegally raising funds for terror.

Scarface   November 14th, 2011 - 11:22 am

That's like Goering saying Hitler was a good man who was just misunderstood!
Press charges….Impeach…..whatever…..just get these pukes out
We want citizen solons, not greedy carpetbaggers who go into the job with marginal incomes and come out multi-millionaires!

Samshile   November 14th, 2011 - 11:32 am

Politico is corrupt, Aledgedly

Taxpayer1234   November 14th, 2011 - 11:40 am

*snerk* LOL!

Czynik   November 14th, 2011 - 11:49 am

LOL – I can hear them now. . . "who put that money in my freezer?!!"

MarxTards   November 14th, 2011 - 12:09 pm

Ah yes, Politico, the National Enquirer online. Politico's slogan: 'We make up the news. It's up to you to get the facts and report them".

truth_monger   November 14th, 2011 - 12:38 pm

"Senior Congressional Reporter" – been drinking the water down there for too long, Mr. Allen. Lap Dog.

gman213   November 14th, 2011 - 12:54 pm

Blah, Blah, Blah…"I'm Michael Moore's boyfriend"

maladroit   November 14th, 2011 - 12:56 pm

Don't forget that this azzhole left Politico to go work as a PR man for DC's Most Notorious Liar: Debbie Wasserman-Schultz – who's not only Pelosi's "lap poodle" but a graduate of Pelosi's "School of Corruption."

He begged himself back into the ranks of Politico when "things didn't work out" — meaning: he couldn't lie enough to please the fugly poodle.

wisesam   November 14th, 2011 - 1:26 pm

is this guy stupid ? Duh

Newshound2003   November 14th, 2011 - 1:45 pm

Sure, and there's a Santa Claus to. How stupid do they think we are?

jleinf   November 14th, 2011 - 2:30 pm

That's funny!

rchaser4   November 14th, 2011 - 3:23 pm

Quit the spin! If they are so pious then pass the law. Show us you are not afraid of full disclosure and transparency . . . like your messiah campaigned on.

Lips moving? Must be lying.

handleit   November 14th, 2011 - 3:52 pm

A redicules moronic , unqualified half assed individual hired by a half assed and doomed company !

Trickle_Up_Poverty   November 14th, 2011 - 5:19 pm

Only the Republicans are corrupt according to the media. Their bias is so bad they can't see it.

Bullonay   November 14th, 2011 - 5:26 pm

AH,HA HA HA HA!!! Politico, are you serious?? Any creditably they may have left after their "expose" of Herman Cain would be gone now if only the state run media outlets would air THIS clip…

Does CSPAN have ANY interviewers who do not have a serious leftist agenda, or are they hired in the same talent pool as NPR??

Al_Gore_Sr   November 14th, 2011 - 5:38 pm

This guy Kisses the Butt Communistic Power

DonaldDuck   November 14th, 2011 - 6:00 pm

Politico,aka., the DNC Newsletter, can go pound sand. Those pigs have absolutely no credibility, only liberal bias. May they go the way that the NYT, CNN, Boston Globe, etc. are going…………………..DOWN.

Htos1   November 14th, 2011 - 6:13 pm

Poltico has been busy deleting my posts there,if that tells you anything.

JoeTulsa   November 14th, 2011 - 6:14 pm

This guy from Politico must be IN ON THE INSIDER-TRADING!
Let's look at his finances.

burns1   November 14th, 2011 - 6:31 pm

It's obvious this idiot graduated form the school of "Brainwashed Liberalism"!

jpmzo   November 14th, 2011 - 7:02 pm

In other news: Iran Really Is Pursuing Nuclear Technology For Energy Needs
and Wolves Just Want To Hug Their Prey, Not Eat Them.

freedom rocks   November 14th, 2011 - 7:15 pm

I'll concede the point, it may not be illegal, but if the congressman was acting on behalf of his constituents, wouldn't he have given them the information first, before acting on it for personal gain? Moral relativism has destroyed our character, this is clearly unethical behavior, and if you fail to see it, you are part of the problem.

freedom rocks   November 14th, 2011 - 7:16 pm

via social promotion

MCGIRV   November 14th, 2011 - 9:52 pm

This congress needs an enema! So does the Senate and the White House!

mikegino   November 18th, 2011 - 2:30 pm

Fat boy needs to occupy a diet…or boot camp.

OldmanRick   November 18th, 2011 - 2:59 pm

It does seem this Jonathan Allen of Politico fame can't find his posterior with both hands and a mirror. Just saying.

JapesMacfarland   November 19th, 2011 - 3:42 am

Politico is "Out", as being full on leftist. What a bummer.

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