Is being a weasel better or worse than being a mole? I’d go with “worse,” but it’s a very close call. They’re both vermin that lack any level of redeeming cuteness. The Gawker Mole turned out not to be Shep Smith or Geraldo Rivera (lots of pool losses on those two, I’m sure) but some producer no one’s ever heard of named Joe Muto.
Two hours ago I was called into a meeting with Dianne Brandi, the Fox News Executive Vice President of Legal and Business Affairs and suspended indefinitely… with pay, oddly enough.
In the end, it was the digital trail that gave me away. They knew that someone, using my computer login, had accessed the sources for two videos that ended up on Gawker over the past few weeks. They couldn’t prove it entirely, but I was pretty much the only suspect.
I denied it, which is why they didn’t fire me outright. But two nice gentlemen from security escorted me to my desk to pack up my stuff, and it was pretty obvious at that point that I would not be setting foot back into 1211 Avenue of the Americas again.
Smart move dude. You told us nothing meaningful about Fox, and will lose your job publicly and with prejudice. You thought you were blacklisted before? You ain’t seen nothing yet, especially in Obama’s economy. Maybe Media Matters will hire him, but I wouldn’t hang too much on that hope.
By the way, I’m linking to Mediaite because I don’t want to send traffic to Gawker. This story has been amusing and all, but that site is still the blog equivalent of a sewer.
http://joemuto.tumblr.com/
I stopped at tweet #3 to get my Vomit Break.
Thanks for digging this one out from the garbage bin of the internet. It does require courage (and a strong stomach) to parse through all. Obviously I lack both. (:insert puke smiley:)
ANOTHER BROCK
David Shuster had an OK 3-4 year run on MSNBC as the ex-Fox News guy who was willing to speak ‘truth to power’ about Roger Ailes and his evil empire. Of course, David also came up with that ueber-scoop about Karl Rove’s imminent indictment that never happened, and ended up preceding Keith Olbermann out the door at the network for his War on Clinton Women during the 2008 primaries, so whatever career boost he got didn’t last long.
Muto probably has even less of a chance of ending up anywhere but a low-budget production house or Current TV (but I repeat myself), since as much as MSNBC might want to hire him for his daring to stand up to Fox, the union folks at the network aren’t going to be all that hot about jumping a new guy in just because he knows Mitt Romney horse stories.
If it’s true no one was giving him a job at lefty news outlets, this could’ve been a very clever way to disown his past, get attention, and announce his “true” political views. If so, well done Joe Muto – job offers will be piling in.
We can only hope it’s a counter-intel thing.
I doubt the lefty news folks will be calling him with lucrative job offers. Its a business, and you don’t hire people with track records of being a non-promotable weasel. Remamber that Muto was an associate producer, which in the grand scheme is a job that can be done by any number of people, and the fact that he couldn’t get promoted beyond that speaks volumes about his abilities.
Were the political Left rational in the manner you describe, they wouldn’t be the political Left in the first place. Remember, this is a political culture that thinks Republicans hate woman and gays both (think about that one), and has a constituency that actively hunts and kills black people and secretly calls for political assassinations using cross-hairs on websites. The Left is so weirdly deluded that in their bizarre obsessions with race, President’s or Latino’s become black, white or Hispanic at will, according to political need, but using the same priciples. In short, liberals are insane morons.
Joe Muto…lol #dumbass
Right thinking weasels everywhere are outraged at the comparison to this subversive, lefty, scum sucking bottom dweller.
“Maybe Media Matters will hire him, but I wouldn’t hang too much on that hope.”
Speaking of which, Media Matters has canned the hateful antisemitic anti Israel MJ Rosenberg. From the looks of things Dershowitz gets credit for putting political pressure on them. He threatened to make it a campaign issue. Few weeks later MJ Rosenberg announces that he has “resigned”.
Sometimes the good guys win.
Muto should have been a mole at NBC; they are much less competent when it comes to evil doers on their payroll. And, when they do find one, they won’t identify him and only claim that he’s been fired.
– wondered when you would use the word weasel.
Gawker’s conduct was criminal. Suborning an employee and theft. Will we see charges laid? Well, let’s check if the local DA is Democrat or Republican.
Is it me or does anyone have a problem with this guy when he says that the only reason he wasn’t fired outright was because he lied about posting the video??
So not only is he a liar, but he’s a proud liar. Is that what it is to be a liberal?