Gawker Says They Have a Mole at Fox News - First Column...

[Hissyspit]

http://m.gawker.com/5900710

Announcing Our Newest Hire: A Current Fox News Channel Employee

By The Fox Mole, Apr 10, 2012 3:11 PM

What follows is the inaugural column of a person we are calling The Fox Mole—a long-standing, current employee of Fox News Channel who will be providing Gawker with regular dispatches from inside the organization.

I always intended to keep my mouth shut. The plan was simple: get hired, keep my head down and my views to myself, work for a few months, build my resume, then eventually hop to a new job that didn't make me cringe every morning when I looked in the mirror.

That was years ago. My cringe muscles have turned into crow's feet. The ten resumes a month I was sending out dwindled into five, then two, then one, then zero. No one wants me. I'm blacklisted.

I work at Fox News Channel.

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The post neatly summed up everything that had been troubling me about my employer: Non sequitur, ad hominem attacks on the president; gleeful race baiting; a willful disregard for facts; and so on. It came close on the heels of the Common controversy, which exhibited a lot of the same ugly traits. (See also: terrorist fist jabs; Fox & Friends madrassa accusations; etc.)

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So here I am. And I come bearing gifts. The video above is of Mitt Romney and Sean Hannity bantering before the taping of an interview for the "Hannity Vegas Forum" in February. Of note: Romney professes his and his wife Ann's well-known love of horseriding, praising the qualities of the "Austrian Warmbloods" that his wife rides—the are "dressage" horses, he notes—while maintaining his own preference for the "smoother gait" of his own "Missouri foxtrotter."

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[Gibby]

1. Fox (R) needs to change its diapers

The thinking public long ago began gagging on the stench they catapult into the realm of public discourse.

[pinboy3niner]

2. Depends

[Spazito]

6. LOL! n/t

[Ship of Fools]

8. I know I'm not really in the club here, but

that was one hell of a DUZY!

[salin]

3. guessing there is going to be a figurative witch-hunt

at fox news to try to detect the 'traitor' who wrote this.

[emulatorloo]

4. Great vid clip of Mittens. Can't wait for the next installment.

[Generic Other]

5. It could be O'Keefe

being a super secret mole. Such intrigue!!

[DesertRat]

7. I loved his description of his and Ann's horseback riding

I wonder how the average low-information voter will take to his discussion of Ann's Austrian Warmbloods vs. the "smoother gait" of his Missouri foxtrotter. Good stuff!

[a kennedy]

9. Faux is saying they've found their mole.....

Fox News claims to have found its ‘mole’

America knows Fox News as the country’s highest-rated cable news network. As Roger Ailes told the Associated Press last year:

“I think we do better television than the other guys, and no matter how we do it, they don’t seem to catch up. We seem to out-invent them and think ahead of them, and have better story ideas, better graphics, better on-air talent. We just are better television producers.”
TV talents notwithstanding, what Fox News really excels at is clampdowns. Defined as a “severe or concerted attempt to suppress something,” “clampdown” describes just how Fox News treats the sharing of information about its operations with the outside world.

Doesn’t happen, can’t happen, shall not happen.

That’s why the debut of a new Gawker column yesterday, titled The Fox Mole, was so astonishing. The gossip Web site had wrangled a Fox News employee to spill state secrets from within the tent, including, in the Mole’s first installment, some insiderish footage taken during a break in an interview featuring Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. A second posting hit the site this morning, about bathroom conditions at Fox News.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/post/fox-news-outs-mole-enhances-its-counterintelligence-bona-fides/2012/04/11/gIQA16mnAT_blog.html

[Liberal In Texas]

16. He's busted.

Hi. My name is Joe Muto. I was the Fox Mole.

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.

They nailed me.

http://gawker.com/5901228/hi-roger-its-me-joe-the-fox-mole

[Auntie Bush]

10. They have more than a mole...they have gophers and slimy slugs too.

[Scurrilous]

11. K & R

[progressoid]

12. I wanna see something really juicy!

Some internal memo or another one of these

[DesertRat]

13. haha! me too

And btw Fox, if your "news" organization has mole, you're probably not a "news" organization.

[Crabby Appleton]

14. k&r

[alfredo]

15. On the same page is the solving a great mystery

The identity of Goatse

http://gawker.com/5899787/finding-goatse-the-mystery-man-behind-the-most-disturbing-internet-meme-in-history