HuffPo editor mocks death of Cornell University swine flu victim
According to his biography, Adam Clark Estes “attended Harvard University where he was an editor at the Harvard Crimson and president of Current Magazine, a national student magazine partnered with Newsweek. Estes is also the editor of IvyGate, a blog covering the news and gossip of the Ivy League, and has worked at Salon.com, 826 Valencia, the U.S. House of Representatives, and the United Nations. He lives in New York City.”
He is also “Associate Editor of Citizen Journalism at the Huffington Post Investigative Fund.”
What does he do with all these credentials?
He uses his high journalism perch to…mock a young man who died of swine flu at Cornell University on Friday.
Yes, really. Read the whole thing.
Here’s the screenshot:
Getting your money’s worth, Arianna?
I’m delighted that today we are launching a new venture — The Huffington Post Investigative Fund. This nonprofit Fund will produce a wide-range of investigative journalism created by both staff reporters and freelance writers.
As the newspaper industry continues to contract, one of the most commonly voiced fears is that serious investigative journalism will be among the victims of the scaleback. And, indeed, many newspapers are drastically reducing their investigative teams. Yet, given the multiple crises we are living through, investigative journalism is all the more important. As a result, all who recognize the indispensable role good journalism plays in our democracy are looking for ways to preserve it during this transitional period for the media. …This investigative initiative is being funded by The Huffington Post and The Atlantic Philanthropies, and will be headed by Nick Penniman, founder of The American News Project, which will be folded into the Fund. Nick and I first worked together back in 2000 when we organized the Shadow Conventions to address issues — poverty, the failed drug war, and money in politics – that neither political party was focusing on. We’ve stayed in touch ever since, and I am really looking forward to working with him on producing journalism with real impact.
We’ll start with a budget of $1.75 million — and continue to raise funds and expand the project as we move forward.
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Disgusting. Many of us here have legitimate credentials; we can “tell war stories”, etc. But we choose to simply engage in meaningful dialog. Nobody needs (or wants) to hear our resumes.
These desperate individuals need to draw attention to themselves, any way possible. And worse, other mindless people soak it up and buy into their tirades.
…stepping down from soap box now…
I agree, Ken. But this person sounds like a young post-graduate man who thinks he has the whole world figured out. Typical behavior for those who think their brains are better than others. We call it being, “naive and gullible”. He is just trying to make a name for himself. It also makes himself feel important.
What a slimebag. What’s next for him: a picture of ZBT brothers looking like gorillas?
It is way past time for these two “writers” to face the real fact: They smell worse than the defecation of the pig they illustrated. Their disgusting “musings” are beyond the pale and HuffPo would be wise to distance themselves from these idiots.
Of course, that would be the wise choice…
This man’s lack of empathy for the young man who died is astounding. I only hope that he, when he truly needs it, someone will show him the meaning of compassion.
He may have all of the educational degrees known to man but he has an enormous amount to learn.
My prayers go out to Mr. Schor’s family. I doubt they thought they’d have to deal with something like this.
Here is the mutt
As to the second piece of the article, the announcement of the HuffPo “investigative” fund, I wonder which pro-life organization they will target first with some fake outrageous pregnancy scenario try to get the workers to say something untoward. Someone has to get revenge for ACORN, right?
I suggest every conservative community-outreach program prepare their employees / volunteers for outrageous scenarios. I suspect pro-life groups or any religious organization that has ever taken a stance against gay marriage should beware. These people will stop at nothing to make an O’Keefe / Giles style sting, but HuffPo will have their videos plastered all over CNN, MSNBC, etc.
I have lived about 10 miles from Cornell University all of my 73 years.IT is a left wing college as most so why would they make fun of it?
Last time I checked a virus or bio hazard does not make choices on what they feed on or infect. Rich or poor, smart or dumb as a rock – it only takes the right one to knock the chair out from under you. We’ve all been there, but this smuggly only thinks it strikes people he can satirize.
Remember Red Rider ?
They have gone too far…
Sometimes A. Huffington reminds me of the pathetic mom who not only lets her high school kids have a party in her house, but also sits at the kitchen table and joins in the drinking games.
I truly hope she finds the real answers to the obvious voids in her life, if it only makes her a better person than she is today.
When it comes to investigative journalism, Glenn Beck uncovers more significant stories in three days than Huffington in three years.
Jeff,
I remember that song and if I remember is was supposed to be an anti-Reagan song. But it seems they (Liberals) really are the Lunatic Fringe.
Well said and spot on 150%. If there are things I have learned in life about people they are,
1. People get much more angry when they are told the truth, truth they do not want to hear and
2. People who tell you their worth (fancy schools, yearly salary, to convince you how much better they are) are not worth having around. I refer to these people as presidents of their own fan clubs.
These people usually are the ones that get talked about behind their backs by people they think respect them. When you are in positions where you have to get to know them, you usually can sense the loneliness. I never want their bad karma rubbing off on me, so I avoid them.
completely classless, anyone surprised he’s a liberal?
Damn, if libs aren’t the most hateful people on god’s green earth. It flat amazes me the venom these cretins spew.
I remember that song and if I remember is was supposed to be an anti-Reagan song
Ditto
This story is another reminder of the institutionalized arrogance and elitism in our universities. The graduates that are being cranked out become the leaders of society. Is it any wonder why this country has come to its current state? Pride goes before a fall. We need our universities to once again teach the truth about man: that we are fallen creatures who are dependent on a loving, merciful, and just God to save us.
But, I remember Huff Poo deleted any Ted Kennedy comment that mentioned him killing Mary Jo.
But, then they make fun of someone dying from flu.
They are pathetic.
Arianna Huffington and her web site is what Van Jones had in mind during that speech in Berkley…he just slipped in the GOP by mistake.
It’s not HuffPo, but….
“I feel like setting up a sting where I send a pretty white girl, who happens to be pregnant, to one and get them on tape trying to coerce her into putting her baby up for adoption.”
The horror of not aborting your baby is something that needs investigated?
“Frat parties”…”rush for plan ‘B’”… “drinking games” – what reverence HuffPo does show for a grieving family’s loss.
Is it a coincidence that the poor kid was a student at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and that he contracted Swine Flu?
Is there a subtle connection?
Oh, I’m sorry, we are only supposed to look at hand soap and Beer Pong games. Rats.
Elites have a weird tendency to be sociopaths.
According to songfacts.com, the song is about the opression of Jews in America….so it’s not really anti-hitler or anti-Reagan.
More anti-left in my opinion…the left are the ones typically blaming jewish folks for all of the problems in the world…
I went to Cornell. Harvard students like to mock Cornell for its rural location, fraternities and sororities, and athletic performance — but above all things they love to mock the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences. In truth, any school that includes a “swine research facility” (look it up) makes a good target for sophomoric mockery.
This particular idiot thought he was writing one more funny article about the rubes in Ithaca, like countless other articles published in the Harvard Crimson before big football or hockey games. Too bad he never learned that, unlike a football game, the death of a human being is never a pretext for mockery.