Grizzly Groundswell (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
In an article at NewsMax cites an FBI estimate saying that 10% of American Mosques teach jihad, Ron Kessler made the following statement. On the other hand, those who condemn Muslims in general because of the actions of Hasan and others like him are engaging in prejudice that has no place in America. Indeed, such stereotyping [...]
democrats.com (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
The Urban Journal airs tonight at 8pm EST - 5pm PST on XM Ch 169, but it can be heard right now at http://www.theurbanjournal.org Segments 1&2 David Swanson, author (Daybreak) and activist Segment 3 Ron Kessler, author & journalist Segment 4 Frank Del Vecchio, Amber Ready
Eye On Miami (Free subscription) | 08/18/2009
After 8 years of a president who would not talk to Americans like adults or only talk with a script and carefully vetted public audiences, we have surge of death threats against a president who speaks calmly and intelligently without notes in public. According to Ron Kessler, author of recently published book "In the President's Secret Service", death threats against President Obama have
Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | 08/18/2009
IN THE MAIL: Ron Kessler’s In the President’s Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect.
webbunny tumblelog (Free subscription) | 08/14/2009
“Obama gets 30 death threats every day, according to Ron Kessler, who recently wrote a book about the Secret Service. That’s a four-fold increase over the number that George W. Bush—the most reviled president in modern history—received.” - But why does Obama get more death threats, when Bush was so reviled? Why does Obama get the death threats when he won by a landslide...
Lady D: The Common Sensus (Free subscription) | 08/13/2009
Ronald Kessler's, In The President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire with the Presidents they Protect, is a look behind the scenes of the Secret Service's training, their relations with the President, Vice President, other staff members, and the drastic budget costs that they have been facing.It's a great book read.Check out Ron Kessler on Jon Stewart's, The
Curmudgeonly & Skeptical² (Free subscription) | 08/13/2009
Dumping on Teh Jummy I takes my validations where I finds 'em, and discovering that Jummy's Secret Service detachment hated him is sweet. A new book dumps on Teh Jummah while he's still alive to enjoy it. Here's some excerpts, courtesy NewsMax , from " In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes With Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect ," by Ron Kessler. Carter...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 08/13/2009
In Ron Kessler's new book , "Bush's Law," he reports that the Bush twins and Mary Cheney created problems for their Secret Service detail. Specifically, he writes that Jenna Bush's then-fiance got so drunk that the Secret Service had to rush him to a hospital in Georgetown and that agents had to break up a barroom brawl he started. In addition, Kessler reports that Mary Cheney got the Secret...
Sparks from the Anvil (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
The FBI released the transcripts of Saddam's interrogation under the Freedom of Information Act. But there's nothing new that the mainstream media's been reporting on that hadn't already been printed in Ron Kessler's The Terrorist Watch, and the 60 Minutes interview with George Piro over a year ago, which read verbatim what was already covered in Kessler's book. What strikes me as appalling, is how...
Fore Left! (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
This WaPo story on the Piro-Saddam interviews by Glenn Kessler is designed as a vintage Bush-bash but actually opens a rather revealing portal towards vindication. Background--George Piro was the Arabic-speaking FBI interrogator who debriefed Saddam in 2004, detailed last year in Ron Kessler's book (discussed here). Not sure if the Kessler guys are related. A lefty group who has
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 06/04/2009
A dozen Republican members of Congress have formed the “Media Fairness Caucus,” the group’s chairman, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) announced this morning on FNC’s America’s Newsroom. Smith told FNC co-anchor Bill Hemmer that the problem of liberal journalists skewing the information reaching Americans is a worse threat than “a recession or another terrorist attack,”...
Winds Of Jihad (Free subscription) | 03/24/2009
More than half the voter registrations turned in by ACORN canvassers during the last election were not valid, according to testimony to be presented before a House Judiciary subcommittee. Former ACORN Employee: More Than Half Voter Registrations Invalid Ron Kessler, Newsmax Obama’s Army of Brownshirts: FLASHBACK JULY 2, 2008 “We are going to grow our foreign service, open consulates [...]...
Shot In The Dark (Free subscription) | 12/23/2008
The WaPo has been drifting toward…balance? Former Washington Post reporter Ron Kessler believes his old paper “has steadily become more fair” since Katharine Weymouth became publisher. “It has become more probing and interesting as well,” he contends. On the one hand, I’d agree. On the other - I need to go out and start scanning leftyblogs for complaints [...]
The Corner (Free subscription) | 12/22/2008
Newsmax's Ron Kessler, an alum, makes the case that it has, here. And there's a bonus: Ron's section on Secret Service codenames for protectees. He reports the Obamas are known as "Renegade" and "Renaissance" -- I'll let you read the piece to see which is which.
The Corner (Free subscription) | 12/19/2008
Ron Kessler, with background, from '05.
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