BREAKING: KMOV Fires Larry Conners *UPDATED

Posted on May 22, 2013 by danaradio

My producer, Kevin, was just contacted by someone with Conners’s legal team. KMOV just terminated his employed on the basis of, according to them, his Facebook post, which I first covered here.

Past coverage:

EXCLUSIVE: Source Says KMOV Forced Reporter’s Hand In IRS Scandal

KMOV Corporate Parent Throws Its Reporters Under The Bus

KMOV Boots Larry Conners Off Air

Larry Conners’s Lawyer: My Client Is Muzzled

KMOV’s Larry Conners’s Disappears From Twitter

From KMOV:

We regret to announce that Larry Conners is no longer a KMOV news reporter. Larry was a valued member of KMOV for a long time, and we will miss him.

For KMOV, there is no higher cause than unbiased, objective news reporting. It is what our viewers expect and it is what we work very hard to deliver. We can accept no less. Larry is certainly entitled to his opinion, but taking a personal political position on one of the Station’s Facebook pages creates an appearance of bias that is inconsistent with important journalistic standards. Larry’s departure has nothing to do with the particular position he took, but it does have to do with our belief that his actions made it impossible for him to report for KMOV on certain political matters going forward without at least an appearance of bias. Bringing you accurate and unbiased reporting is the reason we exist.

Mark Pimentel
KMOV TV President & GM
markpimentel@kmov.com

Larry Conners will be on my program tomorrow. My staff has also reached out to Pimentel to join as well.

Developing …

 

 

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Lois Lerner Attorney: Purpose Of Hearing Is Just “To Embarrass Or Burden Her”

Posted on May 21, 2013 by danaradio

This was just too much. Lerner’s attorney offers this excuse as to why she’s pleading the 5th:

Lerner ‘has not committed any crime or made any misrepresentation,’ Taylor’s letter read, ‘but under the circumstances she has no choice but to take this course.’

He is asking the oversight committee to excuse Lerner from testifying, claiming that calling her in a congressional hearing would ‘have no purpose other than to embarrass or burden her’ since members would not expect her to answer questions.

She’s embarrassed to be questioned or embarrassed by her actions? Poor Lois. It’s embarrassing and burdensome to tell the truth after you spend an inordinate amount of time targeting, embarrassing, harassing, and burdening groups of people because you don’t like the color of their thoughts.

Why is she still employed? Why are the people she wronged being forced to suffer the indignity of having to pay her from their own pockets?

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Update On Moore, Oklahoma Donation

Posted on May 21, 2013 by danaradio

Since the morning I have been on contact with Joe Kerry, President of Glenn Beck’s Mercury One charities, and of the Doug Stringer and Eric Cummings of Somebody Cares. All are on the ground in Moore, Oklahoma. Glenn took down two trucks of supplies last night. They explained that it’s a obviously chaotic right now and that debris blocks most access to the most affected — and in need areas. As a result they’re approaching relief efforts in phases to allow rescue workers to do what they need to recover individuals, find missing loved ones, and remove debris from roadways. There are very few unloading sites at the moment and they are slammed. There is no place to store anything. Cash through these two organizations, so that relief workers can purchase gift cards and storm victims can purchase what they need, are most desirable at the moment, along with bottled water and wet wipes.

We are still planning on collecting donations and a number of companies have graciously donated trucks and pledge supplies. Several of them have requested to remain anonymous, but one of those was made possible because of my good friend, Chip, and the truck is from Quincy, Illinois. Jeff Hansen of Hansen’s Tree Service has donated a truck and is currently waiting for the all-clear to take his rigs down to Moore and help remove debris. Brett Line of Aqua Systems has pledge a pallet of purified bottled water.

I am waiting for the all clear and will be conference with these amazing volunteers again in the morning for an update. As soon as we can, I’ll put the call out for volunteers and donations and we’ll get things moving and get it to a designated area where supplies will be distributed right into the hands of folks who need them.

Many thanks to the amazing people who are standing by, ready to pour out their hears to help. Also thanks to Gateway Grassroots, for behind the scenes coordination with area stores, and for my flagship station, FM News Talk 97.1 for fundraising on their site.

More info on donations, animal services, etc. 

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VOLUNTEERS, DONATIONS NEEDED

Posted on May 20, 2013 by danaradio

Moore, Oklahoma has been devastated. Families destroyed. Children gone. What do we do in this country? We help each other. We help each other grieve, we help rebuild. If you can read an article online, you can take a second to donate. If you can spend an afternoon at the pool, you can just as well spend it loading life necessities onto a truck to those who have lost everything. If you can Tweet or get on Facebook, you can click two buttons to send cash.

Here’s how:

PHONE DONATIONS:

Salvation Army:
Text STORM to 80888 to donate $10 to the recovery and relief efforts

Red Cross:
Text REDCROSS to 90999 for Redcross to give $10

 

ONLINE DONATIONS:

Mercury One is taking online donations and sending trucks

Moore Recovers

 

GOODS NEEDED:

Mercury One is sending generators, water (some Sooners reporting that a water plant was hit), and blankets immediately. If you can help with this OR if you have a truck or can operate a truck and want to help, please email Mercury One:

#M1Charity is sending semi-trucks to OK & needs Generators, Blankets & Bottled Water. To contribute, e-mail questions@mercuryone.org

KFOR-TV reports that the Salvation Army in Oklahoma is accepting these donations at KFOR-TV beginning TOMORROW (Tuesday) Morning. Location at 444 E. Britton Rd., Oklahoma City, OK 73114:

Please DO NOT bring clothing. 

Items needed: 
- Bottled water
- Gatorade
- Wipes
- Diapers
- Baby formula
- Hand towels
- Individually wrapped snacks
- Work gloves

SHELTER

University of Oklahoma reports:

The University of Oklahoma is opening up spaces in Housing for the displaced families! Call 405-325-2511

Open to tornado victims via KFOR-TV:

University of Oklahoma – student housing (Norman)

Oklahoma Baptist University – student housing (Shawnee)

Graceway Baptist Church, located at 1100 S.W. 104th in Oklahoma City.

Oakcrest Church of Christ at 1111 S.W. 89th Street in Moore.

Victory Church, located 4300 North MacArthur in Oklahoma City.

Journey Church in Norman I-35 and Tecumseh Road is open as a shelter.

Fifth Street Missionary Baptist Church, located at 801 N.E. 5th St. Oklahoma City.

St. Andrews Church, located at S.W. 119th and May.

Trinity Church of the Nazarene is open as an emergency shelter. It is located at 7301 S. Walker, just on the north side of I-240.

Register yourself as “safe and well” via the Red Cross.

ANIMAL CARE

*UPDATE: Received this via Twitter on help with animal care:

Also Animal Resource Center is taking displaced animals and have shelter space. Located at 7949 S. I-35 Service Rd., phone: (405) 604-2892.

OK Humane Society also taking displaced animals.

Will continue to develop as needed.

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Maybe If The AP And James Rosen Had Made “Zero Dark Thirty” …

Posted on May 20, 2013 by danaradio

Where was the DOJ on this leak?

Eric Holder claimed that the story on the Yemen terror plot bust was the “worst” leak he’d seen. In fact, WaPo says just the opposite, that:

For five days, reporters at the Associated Press had been sitting on a big scoop about a foiled al-Qaeda plot at the request of CIA officials. Then, in a hastily scheduled Monday morning meeting, the journalists were asked by agency officials to hold off on publishing the story for just one more day.

The CIA officials, who had initially cited national security concerns in an attempt to delay publication, no longer had those worries, according to individuals familiar with the exchange. Instead, the Obama administration was planning to announce the successful counterterrorism operation that Tuesday.

AP balked and proceeded to publish that Monday afternoon. Its May 2012 report is now at the center of a controversial and broad seizure of phone records of AP reporters’ home, office and cellphone lines. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said the unauthorized disclosure about an intelligence operation to stop al-Qaeda from detonating explosives aboard a U.S. airliner was among the most serious leaks he could remember, and justified secretly obtaining records from a handful of reporters and editors over a span of two months.

Now, some members of Congress and media advocates are questioning why the administration viewed the leak that led to the May 7 AP story as so grave.

The president’s top counterterrorism adviser at the time, John O. Brennan, had appeared on “Good Morning America” the following day to trumpet the successful operation. He said that because of the work of U.S. intelligence, the plot did not pose an active threat to the American public.

Brennan himself said there was no threat, yet it was cited as an excuse to seize the AP’s phone records. So why was this spun as a grave threat to target the media, yet the bin Laden leak was not?

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates warned the Obama admin about these leaks as being legitimate threats back in 2011:

“My concern is that there were too many people in too many places talking too much about this operation. And we [had] reached agreement that we would not talk about the operational details,” he told reporters at a Pentagon briefing. “I am very concerned about this, because we want to retain the capability to carry out these kinds of operations in the future.”

The DOJ calls James Rosen “criminal” for reporting on an evergreen and non-secret “North Korea is going to conduct a nuke test?” The AP is targeted because it was going to scoop the White House? We have passed through the looking glass.

Maybe if AP and Fox reporters were making a laudatory film on Obama called “Zero Dark Thirty” the DOJ would have looked the other way, or maybe even colluded with them.

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KMOV’s Larry Conners’s Disappears From Twitter

Posted on May 20, 2013 by danaradio

An addendum to this story I first told you about, KMOV Channel 4 Larry Conners reportedly had a meeting scheduled with network brass today. Later this morning his Twitter account was gone:

Developing …

PAST STORIES:

Larry Conners’s Lawyer: My Client Is Muzzled

KMOV Boots Larry Conners Off Air

 

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