Journalist Whose Article Gave Obama Cause to Kick Out McChrystal Dies

[Geee]

PJMedia:

In the height of a number of scandals for the Obama administration, a journalist whose coverage gave the president a reason to fire the leader of coalition forces in Afghanistan has died.

Michael Hastings, 33, wrote “The Runaway General” article for Rolling Stone magazine in June 2010 in which Gen. Stanley McChrystal and his aides said disparaging things about Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.

Hastings’ body was burned beyond recognition in the single-car crash at 4:25 a.m. in the 600 block of North Highland Ave. in the Hancock Park area of Los Angeles, which is a residential area with lanes on either side of a grassy median.

A photo from the L.A. Times showed a scorched, mangled car alongside a palm tree. A witness told KTLA that the car suddenly jackknifed before the fiery crash.

“It sounded like a bomb went off in the middle of the night,” another witness told the TV station. “The house shook, my windows were rattling.” Another witness noted that the engine flew far from the car.

Police said he was driving a brand-new Mercedes.

Obama and McChrystal tangled in 2009 when the general went public with the need for more troops, saying in a leaked report to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, “We are going to win.” The White House, meanwhile, had been encouraging the commander to just worry about degrading the Taliban instead of defeating them.

[Valin]

I suspect A Plot! Single-car crash....Riiiight.

 

“It sounded like a bomb went off in the middle of the night,”

AH HA!!!!!

[righteousmomma]

AH HA is right.

Something seriously suspicious here.

1. A brand new Mercedes? A journalist can afford a brand new Mercedes? That looks like one of the REALLY expensive ones.

2. Why was he in LA driving that rate of speed at that time of morning. Why was he in LA period and alone. He has a wife on the East Coast.

3. From a purely amateur driver's view point who has owned and driven 3 Mercedes. They just do not explode like that from impacts This is like something out of a Hollywood movie for sure. Driver suddenly jackknifes the car and is burned beyond recognition from hitting a palm tree?

 

Interesting comments in this link at end of the article.

http://ktla.com/2013/06/19/driver-killed-in-fiery-car-crash-in-hollywood/#axzz2Wg7QaJ1Z