(Hot) Reporter Investigated For Looting
No, not me this time. In case the (Hot) part and the Bond girl art didn’t make that clear. It’s CBS correspondent Lara Logan, now being investigated by federal agents for taking trashy Saddam propaganda from the wreckage of bombed-out Iraqi government buildings, at a time when U.S. soldiers were using Saddam’s mug for target practice and Iraqis were tap-dancing on it. Don’t federal agents have anything better to do? Sounds like an episode of Reno 911!
Hey Lara, do me a favor. Next time you talk to those layabout Joe Fridays at Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ask if they’ve returned my cheesy Saddam propaganda old master to the grateful Iraqi people yet. Also, ask when they plan to slap the cuffs on Aunti Zeituni. Fugitive alien. Here’s a clue. Aunti’s in Cleveland, and has misappropriated thousands of dollars worth of state and federal subsidized housing that belongs to actual U.S. citizens. There’s something the ICE task force assigned to Operation Spank Lara might put on its to-do list.
Damn, that really is one fine looking looter. Forget Saddam. Here’s Lara:
Here’s South Africa’s Independent Online:
Lara Logan, the Durban-born chief foreign affairs correspondent for United States television network CBS, could face charges of theft for allegedly looting mementoes from Iraq.
In a video profile of the 60 Minutes star, called “Lara Logan’s Spoils of War”, mementoes from Iraq and Afghanistan are shown in her Washington office.
She says she found the pieces, which include pre-invasion paintings of Saddam Hussein in army fatigues, in the ruins of the Olympic committee building after it was bombed.
Taking such items out of the country is considered theft under a US federal provision designed to protect Iraqi heritage.
Hate to quibble, but seeing as the Iraqi people, with considerable U.S. assistance, hanged Saddam, what’s wrong with Lara hanging a Saddam or two herself?
Logan is well-known for her coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and elsewhere around the world.
She has won numerous accolades, including an Emmy and an Overseas Press Club Award.
These guys look like they’d give her an award.
Before heading abroad, Logan cut her teeth as a reporter for the Daily News and the Sunday Tribune in Durban.
She was described by former colleagues as being driven by a burning ambition to succeed at all costs.
Durban journalist Liz Clarke has described Logan as having “rocket fuel in her wings”.
Yow. Don’t say.
Clarke, who was news editor of the Tribune at the time, said her beauty had transfixed many in the newsroom.
“Lara was amazingly good-looking and she looked sensational in her short skirts and tight tops. When she was assigned to go to the beach and do a holiday-in-the sun story, she was accompanied by three male reporters,” Clarke said.
Logan, 37, is no stranger to controversy.
Last year it was reported that she had been the cause of a punch-up between a CNN reporter and a US defence contractor in Iraq.
Logan is carrying the married contractor’s baby and is due to give birth in January.
Yeah, stuffs happens.
But you’ve gotta respect a girl who doesn’t mind getting a little dirty.
And cleans up that nice.
And that’s the news. … Hey, that looks like the Jumhuriyah Bridge in the background. I do believe I acquired an Iraqi masterwork near there.
(Images in this post looted from the bombed-out wreckage of the Internet)
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Topics: Iraq, art, media, moronocy
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:14 am on Sunday, November 9, 2008
11 Responses to “(Hot) Reporter Investigated For Looting”
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November 9th, 2008 at 9:39 am
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November 9th, 2008 at 11:37 am
[...] Jules Crittenden defends hot journalist Lara Logan against feds investigating her: for taking trashy Saddam propaganda from the wreckage of bombed-out Iraqi government buildings, at a time when U.S. soldiers were using Saddam’s mug for target practice and Iraiqs were tap-dancing on him. Don’t federal agents have anything better to do? [...]
November 9th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
…So if one is “really hot,” it’s ok to slut around? Mmmmkay.
Sounds like Ms. Logan managed to piss someone off over there, and this is the result.
November 9th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
It does sound petty, doesn’t it? But when US troops are prosecuted for looting small mementos (or big ones, let us not quibble), going after reporters is simply being fair.
November 10th, 2008 at 3:57 am
I have some nice Persian rugs and Japanese prints if she’s into looting private residences.
November 10th, 2008 at 6:56 am
I don’t have any nice rugs or prints unfortunate.. but if she wants to case my joint anyway I don’t think I’d mind too much.
November 10th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
You forgot to mention that you also became a war criminal by pointing out to gunners the whereabouts of Baathist nutjobs trying to shoot you.
Come to think of it, defending you at the time wasn’t nearly as fun as it would’ve been for Lara Logan. Mmmmmmm… Lara Logan…
November 10th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Lara is batshit crazy against the Iraq war; she is an advocate, not an objective reporter.
November 10th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
It’s true, Carl. You, on the other hand, are only guilty of making Rambo-like remarks while brandishing firearms. At least until you became one of the hated Crusaders, at which point you assumed Original Guilt. Personal to Mook … sometimes it is possible to overlook these things when the one who is BSC is also hot.
November 11th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Nicholas, just which joint do you want her to case?
Nevermind. Snerk…
I still say someone’s going for a cheap payback against her.
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