Reporter Who Brought Down the ‘Runaway General’ Dead at 33
Michael Hastings is best known as the Rolling Stone contributor whose reporting ended the military career of Gen. Stanley McChrystal but more important, he was a fearless reporter who did not suffer bullshit answers. He died Tuesday at the age of 33 in a car crash.
Rolling Stone recalls the kind of intensity that made Hastings so good at his job:
Hard-charging, unabashedly opinionated, Hastings was original and at times abrasive. He had little patience for flacks and spinmeisters and will be remembered for his enthusiastic breaches of the conventions of access journalism. In a memorable exchange with Hillary Clinton aide Philippe Reines in the aftermath of the Benghazi attacks, Hastings’ aggressive line of questioning angered Reines. “Why do you bother to ask questions you’ve already decided you know the answers to?” Reines asked. “Why don’t you give answers that aren’t bullshit for a change?” Hastings replied.
You can find Hastings’ work for Rolling Stone here and an archive of his BuzzFeed posts here.
—Posted by Peter Z. Scheer. Follow him on Twitter: @peesch.
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It sounds rather suspicious. I’d like to find out more details before making comment. My condolences and prayers go out to his family. 33 is a rather interesting number, though.
Nice try, but you did just make comment and offered your opinion in the thinly veiled attempt to disguise your world-view. While I might agree with you, you shouldn’t pretend to be objective when you aren’t. It only discredits even your subjective opinion.
I’m reminded of Andrew Breitbart. I’m thinking about the NSA’s capabilities and recalling how Sheriff Joe was one of the last people to speak with AB. From this article, I thought well I guess Hillary is up to her old tricks and clearing the way for her big run in 2016, which in light of this woman’s handling of Benghazi and total lack of performance as Sect’y of State and everything else about the Clintons, should not even be possible. If you go to the link, check out the comment by Frank. Seems Hastings was working on the NSA story. Scary times we are living in.
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the religion of love and peace whose followers are currently being paid to make war in Syria, one of the followers seen on video eating part of another human being, other followers of islam beheading christians because islam is so secure that it cannot tolerate any type of competition!
yes it most certainly sounds like a religion that I would run right out and join! EXCEPT that this wonderful religion has one edict to its followers, convert, enslave or MURDER ALL NON BELIEVERS!!
if that isn’t an incentive to becoming a muslim, I don’t know what is!!!
The number of whistle blowers who have met with car crashes, plane crashes and the like, is far higher than general happenstance would suggest. This pathetic attempt by the uniformed satraps to justify their Orwellian lifestyle is embarrassing. They haven’t ‘foiled’ anything. It is standard FBI procedure to create these plots then ‘foil’ them at the last minute, as though we were stupid. That way, they protect their funding and feed their adolescent need for excitement and derring-do. It’s all a pack of lies.
Does it remind you of the Clinton years?
Don’t worry they are psychopathic criminals that only think of themselves. Give them a little time and they will kill each other when it looks like they are going to get caught. Hillary the Dyke, long legged mack daddy, slick willie, dubya and his psychopath father along with a whole slew of other criminals have guaranteed their own demise either in this life or the next.
Isnt it funny that anyone who goes after the military seems to disappear or die!
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I’ll bet his home and computers were siezed or comprimised prior to his death…files earsed etc….