Emmy-award investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News is ‘Outraged’ about her work and personal computers being hacked, but most Mainstream Media have ignored or are STILL ignoring the story, with South Florida media preferring to post their customary flotsam & jetsam that the public is increasingly rejecting

CBS News investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson is ‘Outraged’ about her work and personal computers being hacked, but most Mainstream Media have or still are ignoring the story, with South Florida media preferring instead to post their customary flotsam & jetsam that the public is increasingly rejecting

POLITICO

Attkisson: 'Outraged' by computer hacking

By Mackenzie Weinger

June 17, 2013  12:47 PM EDT

CBS investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson on Monday said she is “outraged” her computer was hacked and called it “a very serious and disturbing matter.”

Attkisson told “CBS This Morning” she reported her concern that her work and personal computers were being compromised to CBS News management in January, and they hired a cyber security firm to conduct an investigation. CBS News on Friday said Attkisson’s computer had been compromised and accessed “by an unauthorized, external, unknown party on multiple occasions” in late 2012.

Read the rest of the column at: http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/06/attkisson-outraged-by-computer-hacking-166414.html

The very troubling situating with Emmy-award winning investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson's computer has been completely ignored at Forbes.com and their Forbes Network Activity blogs which I subscribe to, a group that writes about everything under the sun, as well as by ProPublica and the supposedly media-savvy New York magazine, as the screen grab below from around 4:35 pm today shows.
Not even one.

Compare that to all the blog posts they have run the past year on alleged phone hacking by NewsCorp execs that actually happened in -yes- another country.
Yes, as far as they are concerned, it's very much a case of picking-and-choosing whose ox is to be gored.
But why would they ignore the story completely?
That's who they are.

Locally, the multi-month story which was first given attention by POLITICO's media columnist  Dylan Byers on May 21st 
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/05/sharyl-attkissons-computers-compromised-164456.html
was completely ignored until last Friday by the Miami Herald and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, with genius editors at the Sun-Sentinel choosing to weigh-in with a weighty four-sentence report from Reuters.

Typical for the Sun-Sentinel the past few years under editor Dana Banker, they were both completely oblivious of the story and then after everyone else who has been ignoring the story finally went with it, they actually ran the worst-possible thing.
Four sentences.
That's why it's the Sun-Sentinel!

Nobody seriously expects real feats of journalism from them anymore.

More noteworthy is that the local CBS affiliate here in Miami, WFOR-TV, which has seen its news rating falter, is also completely ignoring the story thus far:
http://miami.cbslocal.com/search/?q=%22Sharyl+Attkisson%22

More bad news about Team Rubio: Contempt for Floridians 24/7! Not that you'll hear about this from Miami's sleepwalking press corps but... Rich Lowry tweets what Ryan Lizza's new New Yorker piece re immigration reform reveals about Marco Rubio's staff, and Politico adds fuel to the fire: "Marco Rubio's office shows their contempt for American workers" (More interested in legalizing illegal aliens than plight of average Floridians.) And then some!;

Coming in this week's New Yorker: GETTING TO MAYBE: Inside the Gang of Eight's immigration deal. pic.twitter.com/fmFP6uGA0W
— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) June 16, 2013

All 8 Senate offices cooperated extensively w/my Gang of Eight piece in New Yorker. And 7 of 8 senators granted lengthy interviews.
— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) June 16, 2013

good to know, per playbook, that marco rubio's office has contempt for american workers
— Rich Lowry (@RichLowry) June 16, 2013

per playbook, frm new ryan lizza piece:"‘There are American workers who, for lack of a better term, can’t cut it,’a Rubio aide told me"
— Rich Lowry (@RichLowry) June 16, 2013

More marco rubio staff: "There shouldn’t be a presumption that every American worker is a star performer." 1/2
— Rich Lowry (@RichLowry) June 16, 2013

"There are people who just can’t get it, can’t do it, don’t want to do it. And so you can’t obviously discuss that publicly." 2/2
— Rich Lowry (@RichLowry) June 16, 2013

is rubio aware that his website still touts bill as the “toughest immigration enforcement measures in the history of the United States”?
— Rich Lowry (@RichLowry) June 16, 2013

More of the inherent weaknesses of Team Marco are being revealed every day.
That is, IF you are paying attention. (Like me.)

Sounds to me like the anonymous Rubio staffer quoted here,
http://www.politico.com/playbook/0613/playbook10932.html?hp=l6
is talking about Overtown, Liberty City, Opa-Locka and Carol City and Miami Gardens and large swaths of Fort Lauderdale to me.
Do Reps. Frederica Wilson and Alcee Hastings agree with this assessment of their constituents?

Too bad for this country and this state that so many Florida-based reporters and columnists are in-the-bag for Rubio, even those who disagree with him philosophically or politically. 
They continually pull their punches and don't challenge him enough -just like they pull their punches for almost everyone else, too.
That used to be called gutless, but now called "new normal" in American journalism.

As many of you regular readers of the blog may recall, while I lived and worked in Washington for 15 years, I always thought that Tim Russert was very over-rated and very fortunate to be a top dog in an era where there were so many no-talent journalists in the Washington Beltway who were more publicist than journalist, people who carried water for policies, not honestly examine them.

Still, despite my feelings about him, I'm 100% certain that the late host of NBC News 'Meet the Press" would've absolutely humbled Marco Rubio and brought him down a few pegs the past few weeks as the immigration debate has once again become one of the main issues in D.C. now that the Beltway media have decided amongst themselves that the the Benghazi and IRS scandals don't really matter since they would require lots of legwork during the hot D.C. summer.  

I think Russert would've positively undressed Rubio like a storefront mannequin by running one of those incisive video sequences he was so noted for that would show Rubio's recent penchant for flip-flopping in ways that would be hard to get out of your head.
He'd then come back from the videos with a LIVE interview and ask, "When will you be changing your mind again? And will you be just as certain then as you were this week and last month that you were right, right before you changed your mind?"

It's the bell that isn't ringing, that punch that nobody in DC seems interested or willing to deliver to Rubio's glass jaw, which is absolutely frustrating the hell out of me, especially given Rubio's very pious comments about his role and his comments about how necessary it is that all of the 11 million illegals get to stay.
Where's the proof that they should ALL stay, especially the ones that aren't interested in becoming citizens? 
Shouldn't we able to make some distinctions? 

Like the ones that Mickey Kaus talked about?
Serial drunk drivers!

S.N.S.M.A.D.D. http://t.co/9xpCPRwBLS
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 14, 2013

http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/13/the-secret-dui-factor/

So why is Rubio so mum about other supporters of S.744 saying they think requiring people to be able to speak and understand basic English before becoming a U.S. citizen, as he would require, is a bridge too far?
Nobody even asks him!
What kind of people think THAT common sense requirement is unreasonable?

Since you asked, the very people and groups who are constantly emailing the Miami Herald, Tampa Bay Times and the Orlando Sentinel and being quoted there, which are then picked-up and run on TV station websites.

Still, say what you will about how contemptuous Rubio's staff may be, they can't be worse than the many unprofessional female staffers Connie Mack III had for years while he was Florida's junior senator, who would order beauty and health supplies for themselves over the main telephone in the front reception room while you waited to see someone.
Retin A anyone?

ABC has gone out of its way to present balanced discussion of Gang8 bill. There's a Senate supporter, House supporter & fmr Gov. supporter.
— Byron York (@ByronYork) June 16, 2013

Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich: total cost for illegal immigrants to LA County taxpayers exceeds $1.6 billion dollars a year; LA County Dept. of Public Social Services study: children of undocumented immigrants cost L.A. County $54 Million a MONTH, represents 20% of all CalWORKs and food stamp issuances in the county; Sen. Boxer Boxer to push funding for health costs of uninsured illegal immigrants

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Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich: total cost for illegal immigrants to LA County taxpayers exceeds $1.6 billion dollars a year; LA  County Dept. of Public Social Services study: children of undocumented immigrants cost L.A. County $54 Million a MONTH, represents 20% of all CalWORKs and food stamp issuances in the county; Sen. Boxer Boxer to push funding for health costs of uninsured illegal immigrants

LA Times: Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services study: Children of Undocumented Immigrants Cost L.A. County $54 Million a month and represent 20% of all CalWORKs and food stamp issuances in the county

http://ktla.com/2013/06/15/study-claims-children-of-undocumented-immigrants-cost-la-county-54-million-a-month

http://antonovich.com/children-of-illegal-aliens-in-los-angeles-county-cost-more-than-54-million-per-month/

 “These costs do not even include the hundreds of millions of dollars spent annually for education.”

Post-Midnight addition to the post:

I caught a LA Times has story about Senator Barbara Boxer doing what she does best -asking for taxpayer dollars.

Boxer to push funding for health costs of uninsured immigrants
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-boxer-healthcare-costs-uninsured-immigrants-20130613,0,6087718.story

340 reader comments as of 3:11 a.m. Eastern
http://discussions.latimes.com/20/lanews/la-pn-boxer-healthcare-costs-uninsured-immigrants-20130613/10

"Fertile" territory for media bias! Or, that's why it's the Miami Herald -and is shedding longtime readers! Former Florida governor Jeb Bush makes some nonsensical comments on Friday morning in hopes of passing the amnesty-first immigration bill, but while MSM and blogosphere duly write about what he said and give it due attention, the Miami Herald wouldn't post the story and leave it visible on their website for hours -like they'd do if other pols had said same thing -like Rick Scott for instance

Above, what the Miami Herald's webpage looked like shortly before 11 p.m. Friday.

On a day when an embarrassing and nonsensical comment by former Florida governor Jeb Bush was one of the top political stories of the day as judged by the country's political class and blogosphere, guess which Florida newspaper has nothing about it on the front page of their website, even while continuing to carry a story at the top of their website about Brit boy band One Direction?

Yes, the Miami Herald.

Surprise!

More than 12 hours after The National Journal has posted their story using some informed tweets, 

Jeb Bush Says Immigrants Are 'More Fertile,' Twitter Gets Mad

By Ben Terris and Matt Berman

Updated: June 14, 2013 | 10:34 a.m. 

June 14, 2013 | 10:24 a.m

http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/jeb-bush-says-immigrants-are-more-fertile-twitter-gets-mad-20130614 

you literally couldn't find the story by examining what appears on the Herald's landing page.

Another example of the Florida news media running interference for the darling of the GOP East Coast Establishment and Florida's influential low-wage agribusiness industry, and a scenario that keen-eyed observers have seen time and again at the Herald the past ten years as its era of genuine relevancy in the community recedes farther and farther back in time and memory.

But then the Herald has long treated Jeb Bush differently than it does other pols in Florida -that is, once he finally got elected governor.

Typical media suck-ups.

By the way, who, exactly, is going to be persuaded to support this bill, S.744, because some self-serving and over-rated politician says that female immigrants are fertile?

That's a very, very weird thing to say aloud and makes you wonder what would have happened if some quick-witted reporter had asked him how he knew that.

I'd like to meet those people, or rather, I'd like the Florida news media to try to seriously try to find even one person in this state who is convinced by Bush's comment to change positions.

Just one person.

You couldn't find one, which makes Bush's comments even more asinine and queer.

This guy could NOT win an argument to save his life -or our country's..

If current Florida governor Rick Scott had said something along these lines, that story would've been the lead story on Friday night's six o'clock TV newscasts in Miami and be parked at the top of the Herald webpage for days on end, full of feigned outrage by liberals and La Raza about "the hurtful comments."

But yet again with Jeb Bush, someone I'd never vote for, and someone too weird, off-putting and self-serving for my tastes -to say nothing of his being very, very over-rated as a policy person- the Miami Herald gives him another hall pass.

Here's where the Herald buried the story

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/06/14/3451208/jeb-bush-america-will-decline.html

And if you're paying attention, you'll see that it was an AP reporter doing the story on the former Florida governor, not even one of the Times/Herald reporters or a McClatchy reporter in D.C.
Now that's embarrassing!

re immigration reform: Is Marco Rubio becoming a dissembling, thin-skinned, over-exposed loser? Byron York observes the metamorphosis of Marco Rubio on immigration from border security stalwart to a flip-flopper who now wants amnesty first border security later, and who objects to being called a flip-flopper or #sellout. York puts it perfectly: Rubio: "We need to legalize immigrants so they can pay for border security"

Is Marco Rubio becoming a dissembling, thin-skinned, over-exposed loser? Byron York observes the metamorphosis of Marco Rubio on immigration from border security stalwart to a flip-flopper who now wants amnesty first border security later, and who objects to being called a flip-flopper or #sellout. York puts it perfectly: Rubio: "We need to legalize immigrants so they can pay for border security"

Hmm-m... interesting. 

Out of curiosity I checked @marcorubio and he hasn't tweeted ANYTHING about immigration in well over a month. No tell-tale sign of his flip-flopping!

https://twitter.com/marcorubio

The Washington Examiner

Immigration fight revolves around security question

By Byron York, Chief Political Correspondent

June 13, 2013  8:00 pm

There's a fundamental conflict at the heart of the Senate debate over the Gang of Eight comprehensive immigration reform bill. Most Republicans believe a policy to integrate 11 million currently illegal immigrants into American society must be conditioned on stronger border security and internal enforcement. Most Democrats don't. At bottom, that's what the fight is about.

Most Republicans believe security must come before integration, in one of two ways. Some believe enhanced security must be in place -- not a plan, but a reality -- before the 11 million can be granted temporary legal status. 

Read the rest of the column at: http://washingtonexaminer.com/byron-york-immigration-fight-revolves-around-security-question/article/2531881

New: Rubio: We need to legalize immigrants so they can pay for border security. http://t.co/o6a10YosHn
— Byron York (@ByronYork) June 14, 2013

The Washington Examiner

Rubio: We need to legalize immigrants so they can pay for border security

By Byron York, Chief Political Correspondent

June 13, 2013  10:00 pm 

Why is it necessary to legalize the roughly 11 million currently-illegal immigrants in the U.S. before newly enhanced border security and internal enforcement measures are in place? Sen. Marco Rubio, the leading Republican on the Senate’s Gang of Eight, says part of the reason is that the federal government can’t afford to secure the border on its own and needs financial help from the immigrants themselves, in the form of fines paid when they are legalized.

Rubio made the statement during a radio interview after he voted against an amendment from Republican Sen. Charles Grassley that would have put off legalization until after the border is secure — a position supported by majorities of voters across the political spectrum.

Read the rest of the column at: http://washingtonexaminer.com/rubio-we-need-to-legalize-immigrants-so-they-can-pay-for-border-security/article/2531906

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— Instapundit.com (@instapundit) June 14, 2013

New NJ senator voted in favor of Grassley amendment. RT @itoldyoumonsoon: @ByronYork How did Jeffrey Chiesa vote out of curiosity?
— Byron York (@ByronYork) June 13, 2013

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Bad & unappealing journalism continues at The Tribune Company's South Florida Sun-Sentinel and their third-rate website: Still SO many longstanding problems!!! Missing Public Notices page, old information about their own Editorial Board, et al. They still list Earl Maucker as an Editorial Board member even though he retired in 2010. How can Howard Greenberg stand all the mediocrity and incompetence around him?

Bad & unappealing journalism continues at The Tribune Company's South Florida Sun-Sentinel and their third-rate website: Still SO many longstanding problems!!! Missing Public Notices page, old information about their own Editorial Board, et al. They still list Earl Maucker as an Editorial Board member even though he retired in 2010. How can Howard Greenberg stand all the mediocrity and incompetence around him?

For instance, Public Notices, in green

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/www.floridapublicnotices.com/

You click it at the top 

but when the page opens up, it's a page that doesn't exist.

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Another problem is that if you wanted to know who was actually on the newspaper's Editorial Board to know who's actually responsible for their many poorly-thought out and half-assed endorsements last year, like Michael Satz for Broward State's Attorney or ethically-challenged Hallandale beach City Commission incumbent Anthony A. Sanders over my friend, Csaba Kulin, despite the fact that Sanders did such a poor job of answering their questions last October at the candidates meeting -see bottom- often not making sense when asked very simple questions about himself, what you find out is... well, they don't pay much attention to that, either.

Meet the South Florida Sun-Sentinel's Editorial Board, including the person who left and hasn't been there since retiring in 2010, Earl Maucker. 
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sfl-meettheeditboard,0,1206118.htmlstory

What, he's still listed? 
Yes, that info is what you see as the first result of a Google Search.

That information is clearly wrong and yet the fact that it's still NOT been corrected in over two years, i.e. deleted, shows you everything you need to know about how much attention to detail is present under the geniuses there, doesn't it?

That's three things right there, but there's really no need to point out more right now.

You get the idea, plus, as some of you may recall, I still have that forthcoming blog post on the Sun-Sentinel's Rosemary Goudreau where I can pile on more material there, along with thoughts on what the paper's new owners should do after they purchase the paper and thoroughly clean house there.

Another blogger who takes a dim view of the Sun-Sentinel , Man, or Maniac?,
wrote this last year: Howard Greenberg Must Be On Crack
http://manormaniac.blogspot.com/2012/03/howard-greenberg-must-be-on-crack.html

Previous posts of mine re the newspaper's many shortcomings are here:
October 17, 2012

Absolutely pummeled! Hallandale Beach Comm. Anthony A. Sanders & ex-Comm. Bill Julian both bomb at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel's Editorial Board meeting for HB candidates Monday morning, while Csaba Kulin, Michele Lazarow and Gerald Dean shine while enthusiastically making the case for a pro-reform City Hall that actually serves taxpayers to replace the corrupt and unethical one we've been stuck with for years under Joy Cooper and her Rubber Stamp Crew; Kulin, Lazarow & Dean recount in detail most of the major issues and recent scandals; @SandersHB, @AlexLewy

http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/absolutely-pummeled-hallandale-beach.html

October 29, 2012

re South Florida Sun-Sentinel:When are Broward County residents FINALLY going to get the "whole truth" from the Tribune Company's South Florida Sun-Sentinel and some public explanation for their continued reluctance to report it and useful context in Broward County news? Their problems with facts & bias are getting worse by the month; Joy Cooper's red-light camera friends and supporters; Sun-Sentinel's pro-Debbie Wasserman-Schultz bias is a continuing insult to readers; @MayorCooper

http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/when-are-broward-county-residents.html

October 30, 2012

Their lack of Journalism ethics is hiding in plain sight: In their head-scratching endorsement of do-nothing Hallandale Beach Comm. Anthony A. Sanders over civic activist Csaba Kulin, the Tribune Co's Sun-Sentinel said he has "experience." Yes, but it's of the completely ineffective and unethical variety we don't want more of!; Vote Kulin!; @SandersHB

http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/their-lack-of-journalism-ethics-is.html

When Rush Limbaugh admits he's disappointed in Marco Rubio's flip-flop on immigration, it's only going to get worse for Rubio. Only positive of S.744, the Schumer-Rubio “comprehensive” immigration amnesty bill, i.e the #setup4sellout, IF it passes, is that Rubio gets properly 'schooled' and roughed-up a bit to wear off his new car smell and conservatives see his true faults for what they are -he's still too gullible. Consider that Mission (already) Accomplished; Mickey Kaus is masterfully connecting-the-dots on why defeating this is more important to U.S. long-term than getting more info re Benghazi, IRS, NSA snooping scandals

The Daily Caller video: Rush Limbaugh "disappointed" in Sen. Marco Rubio for changing his "set-in-stone" position on immigration and border security and now telling Spanish-language media (Univision) something different from what he'd been saying before.
http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/11/rush-limbaugh-disappointed-in-rubio-audio/

Senator Rubio now says he favors amnesty first and border security second, which in my opinion is not a good policy for this country's future because we know from past experience that the federal government will NOT fairly enforce new rules any more than they are enforcing the current ones. 
Especially under President Obama

is it too much to the fed govt to come up w/ a plan to secure our borders BEFOREcongress passes a mass amnesty? apparently so
— Rich Lowry (@RichLowry) April 18, 2013

TODAY"S BURIED LEDE: "Tough" @johncornyn amendment drops the fence requirement! RT @conncarroll: Cornyn done dropped the fence. :-(
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 12, 2013

@theplumlinegs @conncarroll So Sharry demands that there be no DHS border sec. f--k-up that could ever be big enough to derail citizenship?
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 12, 2013

.@conncarroll @theplumlinegs @davidmdrucker So under guise of getting tough, @johncornyn drops even Gangof8's fence requirement? Tough?
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 12, 2013

.@conncarroll @theplumlinegs So Cornyn drops the fence requirement, such as it is? All the more reason for Schumer to love. #setup4sellout
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 12, 2013

Rubio's yrs in the Fla Legislature made him too willing to compromise. Will he sell out his principles over Immigration? Egotism gone awry?
— David Skehan (@aretheynuts) June 11, 2013

On Tuesday, a big day for S.744, in the so-called gateway to Latin America, it was 16 minutes into the CBS4/Miami 11 p.m. newscast before immigration was even brought up -and that was less than 45 secs!

Not that it came as any surprise to your faithful observer of the passing political scene here at the blog, but on Tuesday, a big day on Capitol Hill for S.744, the Schumer-Rubio “comprehensive” immigration amnesty bill, here in what is constantly called The Gateway to Latin America, it was 16 minutes into the CBS4/Miami 11 p.m. newscast (while Miami Heat's blowout loss to the Spurs was still going on over at ABC) before immigration was even brought up -and was less than 45 secs!

Is that a result of the fact that the corporate management types at South Florida news media outlets, to say nothing of their sycophantic advertising people, are SO biased in favor of AMNESTY at all costs, that it never even occurs to them that it might not get the 60 votes?

Is that a result of them being in complete lockstep over this issue and NEVER allowing their own people or others to write, report or comment intelligently on why so many Americans are genuinely opposed to the bad and unsound provisions of this bill?

Never allow any public discussion about why so many smug Democrats nationally and in Florida just shrug their shoulders over security and border control on our own borders, but when it comes to Israel's, well, that's another story.

THAT requires them to actually fly to Israel to -yes- "stand with Israel" after their taxpayer-financed spokesperson fires off some self-serving press releases to the lapdog legacy media
so that Jewish voters hereabouts know they've jumped thru the hoop again.

How many times over the years have we read about national, state and South Florida pols who are happy "to stand with Israel" but who don't give a crap about their fellow American on the Arizona border who lives on a farm or a ranch miles and miles from any police protection.

Yes, when strong borders have to do with Israel, a firm stance predicated on safety and security is always to be admired and never undermined.
Do they think we do not see the hypocrisy of this, the condescending and patronizing tone and the self-evident showboating?

Is that what we should expect from people in the media who never want to publicly discuss this hypocrisy and  border protection at all, or even gets into the particulars of what is being discussed?

Yes, yes and yes.

Laura Ingraham: Marco Rubio has betrayed conservatives

Washington Post
The Plum Line 
Marco Rubio’s careful immigration dance
By Greg Sargent, Updated: June 10, 2013
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/06/10/marco-rubios-careful-immigration-dance/

Washington Examiner
Marco Rubio: In immigration reform, legalization comes first — ‘It is not conditional’, 
By Byron York
June 10, 2013 | 12:36 pm | Modified: June 10, 2013 at 2:00 pm
http://washingtonexaminer.com/marco-rubio-in-immigration-reform-legalization-comes-first-it-is-not-conditional/article/2531504

Much of this genuine concern about the reliability of Marco Rubio and his willingness to actually adopt or formulate a position and keep it, recalls my blog post of April 27, 2013, which also featured a video of Rush Limbaugh talking about immigration.
Except that it was a conversation with Rubio on the air, with him in Washington, trying to defend his ever-changing position, and yet, seemingly, only making things worse for himself as far as reassuring his own past supporters, which has been a quite noticeable development over the past nine months.

Some people I talk to regularly in South Florida and in Washington who like Rubio but who are far from fanboys, wonder if that is because, quite frankly, the GOP has forced Rubio to be the face of the party nationally on far too many issues, while other Republican senators seem top be doing nothing at all. (Or less than nothing-at all, given how rarely you hear their names.)
In short, Rubio's over-exposure is now starting to rub people the wrong way.

That post was titled, BUSTED! Breitbart's Matthew Boyle reports that Sen. Marco Rubio was "outed" by a constituent over Rubio's lack of personal effort to meet with LEOs BEFORE the Gang of Eight released their very-flawed immigration bill; Daily Caller's Byron York on the deluge of angry anti-immigration bill email into Sen. Rubio's office; The shiny, new toy that is Rubio is now not-so shiny; audio of Rubio's interviews with Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin

http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/busted-breitbarts-matthew-boyle-reports.html

Meanwhile, blogger Mickey Kaus, long one of my favorite pundits going back to my days in Washington D.C. because of his great enthusiasm, mordant wit and willingness to actually READ everything on a subject instead of commenting on things he's never read -like South Florida's reps in Congress, who are a pretty dim crew collectively- has been doing everything he can to let people know that the defeat of this intellectually LITE immigration bill, NOT learning more details on Benghazi or the IRS or NSA scandals, is actually THE most important and far-reaching issue on the public docket now.
He's right, of course.  
Put trigger before legalization.

Below, Mickey makes the case against it.

The Daily Caller

Kaus Files blog

Handy U-Print-It Pocket Guide: Why S.744′s a Fraud

By Mickey Kaus

5:34 PM 06/06/2013

http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/06/handy-u-print-it-pocket-guide-why-s-744s-a-fraud/

http://dailycaller.com/author/mickeykaus/
https://twitter.com/kausmickey

It's raining cold hard facts again! Media Trackers Florida exposes the secret of Hallandale Beach's terrible After-School Special on Ethics starring Joy Cooper/Joe Gibbons pal & lobbyist Judy Stern; Some HB residents, previously on the fence, are finally seeing Joy Cooper's lack of character that we always knew was missing, a fact she confirmed herself years ago when she called yours truly a "Nazi" at a City Comm. meeting -where she thought I couldn't hear her- and then called HB Comm. Keith London "a Hitler." Yes, the same hypocrite who wants to lecture other people about civil behavior!

Hallandale Beach CRA accused of misspending $2.1 Million, Broward County Commission takes no action on audit request.
By Bob Norman, Reporter, bnorman@Local10.com, Published On: Jun 04 2013 05:17:10 PM EDT
 Updated On: Jun 05 2013 11:02:28 AM EDT
http://www.local10.com/news/hallandale-beach-cra-accused-of-misspending-21m/-/1717324/20421380/-/mcmla1/-/index.html
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#UNC Hallandale Beach CRA accused of misspending $2.1M: A report by the Broward County Office of Inspector G... bit.ly/17YATUG
— trish galla (@GallaTrish) June 4, 2013

State of the South Florida news media in 2013: A non-reporter is seemingly paying more attention to the biggest ethical scandal in Broward County than CBS4, NBC6, 7News and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. 
Surprise! 

* To give you an accurate idea of how badly things are botched at Hallandale Beach City Hall and the city's complete lack of any kind of transparency (or remorse to taxpayers) on this matter, the Broward Inspector General's preliminary and final report about the City of Hallandale Beach CRA -characterized by them as "gross mismanagement"- as well as the city's own response to them, have still NEVER appeared on the city's own website. 
Not once. 

But because of this Broward County Commission meeting that touched on the scandal, the city's response to the preliminary response IS on Broward County's website, but still NOT on the city's. Really. 
Who could make this sort of thing up?
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Lobbyist Judy Stern uses texts to thwart Hallandale CRA investigation florida.mediatrackers.org/2013/06/10/hal… @browardpolitics @browardbulldog @buddynevins
— MediaTrackersFL (@MediaTrackersFL) June 10, 2013

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MediaTrackers Florida

Hallandale Beach Mayor and Controversial Lobbyist Thwart Investigation of Financial Mismanagement

By Tom Lauder

10TH JUN 2013 AT 14:20

Hallandale Beach Mayor Joy Cooper and controversial lobbyist Judy Stern joined forces to prevent a Broward County Commission investigation of the misappropriation of funds by the Hallandale Beach Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA). Hallandale Beach residents asked the Broward County Commission for assistance after a Broward County Office of the Inspector General (OIG) investigation “identified numerous instances of gross mismanagement that stemmed from institutional deficiencies in the establishment, organization and function of the CRA.”

Read the rest of the post at:

http://florida.mediatrackers.org/2013/06/10/hallandale-beach-mayor-and-controversial-lobbyist-thwart-investigation-of-financial-mismanagement/

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Having nothing to do with this very meaty post below, I'll soon be doing a public records request for all 2013 correspondence between HB City Hall and lobbyist Judy Stern, since HB City Hall so completely tried to sandbag me on the Stephen Riemer request, taking well over a month to respond after they'd promised a response within five days.

All of this is a result of my trying to connect-the-dots on the fact that real estate developer Riemer has met several times with City Manager Renee Miller and CRA Director Daniel Rosemond without the city publicly disclosing that as required by state law, or the city's own ordinance that requires a public disclosure within 72 hours.

Instead, the Broward city where the buck rests with Renee Miller took almost three months.

Then, they insulted me by asking me to pay $677.18 for copies of completely extraneous documents that I'd specifically said I didn't want, i.e bury me under paperwork. 

Trust me, I can spot the rope-a-dope strategy from a mile away, so I didn't fall for it, but this should be a clear sign to all of you reading this that HB City Hall is once again engaging in their longtime practice of trying to frustrate HB citizens and taxpayers making valid public information requests, and choosing to play hardball with public information that should've been properly disclosed and made public MONTHS AGO.

I found this information from this article re a text message from Judy Stern to Broward County Comm. Tim Ryan to be especially amusing:

"Media Trackers Florida obtained text messages sent by Stern to Ryan’s office on the morning of the Commission meeting. Stern blasted whistleblower Keith London for bringing the item before the County Commission. She wrote, “Keith and his blogs are such twists of the truth.”

Amusing since I'd already contacted Comm. Ryan the week before the meeting and had shared more facts with him connecting-the-dots on this HB scandal than he could probably have known existed.

Plus, until Keith London left a message on my voicemail last weekend, a few days before he and Comm. Michele Lazarow spoke to the entire Commission, I hadn't spoken to him or Michele in-person or by phone in well over two months -March 31st.

But when you're Judy Stern, what are a couple more lies and half-truths to tell after a career of them?

That's who she is.

In any case, it's not a half-truth but rather the complete truth that I'm the person who discovered that Dr. Deborah Brown's little HB group was no longer considered a non-profit by the IRS -because they hadn't filing their Form 990's for years- and that COHB officials were clearly 

NOT performing even the most cursory due diligence or double-checking of documents.

Which is exactly what I told the Broward Inspector General's office last year.

AFTER posting it here on the blog first.

As if we didn't already know from their not-so-glittering track record, Judy Stern and Joy Cooper's understanding of the word 'truth" is NOT the same as yours and mine.

A distinction for which you and I are clearly very thankful.