Bad News for Mitt...
The best thing to happen to the Romney campaign, the Gawker Fox News Mole, has been discovered and relieved of his duties. Hat tip ABC News:
Less than 24 hours after Gawker introduced “The Fox Mole,” an anonymous columnist for the news and gossip site and current employee of Fox News Channel, Fox said it has figured out that it was Associate Producer Joe Muto who was leaking inside information, and has announced that he has been fired.
“Joe Muto is fired effective April 12. Once the network determined that Mr. Muto was the main culprit in less than 24 hours, he was suspended late today while we pursued concurrent avenues. We are continuing to explore legal recourse against Mr. Muto and possibly others,” a Fox spokesman said Wednesday.
In other news- what in the world is Gawker, anyway? In the last few days it's managed to make Mitt Romney look good and also landed the first post-Derbgate interview with Derb. Watch out Fox News!
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Ethan Safron:
In other news- what in the world is Gawker, anyway? In the last few days it's managed to make Mitt Romney look good and also landed the first post-Derbgate interview with Derb. Watch out Fox News! · · 5 minutes ago
Excellent point.
As for our mole, I'm kind of sad to see him go. I was hoping he'd follow up his expose on the state of the restrooms with a comment about the Fox News refrigerator.
The most alarming thing? His complete lack of news sense. That was the most boring mole-work I've ever witnessed. Shameful.
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Perhaps this is paranoia getting the best of me, but in the mole's first post on Gawker after being let go, he ended it with this foreboding message: "Stay tuned for much, much more tomorrow." It could just be another case of his bark being worse than his bite, but my biggest concern is that he'll make up stories and not be asked to validate them by the rest of the media.
Nevertheless, it's been an unimpressive run thus far for a self-anointed "mole." Who knows? Maybe, just to add to the whole mystery and secretiveness, he's actually a planted Romney backer posing as a Gawker mole by posing as a Fox News employee!