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Cocoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-30-04 03:42 PM
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"Fahrenheit" scene puts heat on Porter Goss (spoiler alert)
http://www.news-press.com/news/local_state/040630fahrebheit_sider.html

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“We’re getting hundreds of calls,” said spokeswoman Julie Almacy.

The brief segment is intended to make Goss, 65, chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, look uninformed at best and misleading at worst. The segment has been greeted by applause and laughter at some showings in Southwest Florida.

Almacy said Goss didn’t mean to imply an 800 number really exists. She said he was referring to the intelligence committee as if it were a “help line” Americans could call with concerns they have about the Patriot Act or other aspects of U.S. intelligence gathering.

“It is a reference to the intelligence committee,” Almacy said. “Mr. Moore decided to take it literally and it wasn’t meant that way.”

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jdsmith Donating Member (612 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-30-04 03:44 PM
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1. The excuse is purely idiotic
In the film, it is clear that Goss is trying to answer a question by replying with a Gotcha--but it turns out that he was the one who got got.
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SW FL Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-30-04 03:55 PM
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7. Welcome to my world :(
Goss is my Rep.
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jdsmith Donating Member (612 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-30-04 04:16 PM
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16. Hey. Mine is Hal Rogers.
You know, the one whose name is now on the "Hal Rogers Parkway" in Southeastern Kentucky. It used to be the "Daniel Boone Parkway," but apprently Mr. Boone didn't do enough for the area.
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TankLV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-30-04 04:20 PM
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17. Who ya gonna believe - your lying ears and eyes that actually saw and
Edited on Wed Jun-30-04 04:21 PM by TankLV
heard what I said, or what I'm now telling you I said DESPITE WHAT THE RECORDED AUDIO & VIDEO INDICATES?

Assholes - the whole lot of 'em!
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bagnana Donating Member (858 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-30-04 03:47 PM
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2. what a lame excuse
"People with concerns can call our 1-800 toll free number" sounds pretty specific to me. What liars these people are. What a liar he is. I hope he gets called on this when he is nominated to take Tenet's place.
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Cocoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-30-04 04:10 PM
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13. lying might be a job requirement
I've seen Tenet utter some whoppers in Congress.

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Wind Dancer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-30-04 03:49 PM
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3. LOL!
Glad to hear they're getting hundreds of calls. Don't you just love it?

"Almacy said Goss didn’t mean to imply an 800 number really exists."

Huh??????????? Idiots!



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Jim__ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-30-04 03:50 PM
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4. My phone call to his office was really just intended as a metaphor.
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PartyPooper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-30-04 03:51 PM
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5. I'm not from Florida. But, that scene made him look like a lying idiot.
The audience shook their heads while laughing.

:D
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skypilot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-30-04 03:55 PM
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6. He didn't mean to IMPLY...
Edited on Wed Jun-30-04 03:55 PM by skypilot
...that the number existed?? He didn't imply it he SAID it. Jesus Christ.:crazy:
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CO Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-30-04 04:06 PM
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12. Just Call 1-800-ASSHOLE
:-)
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killbotfactory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-30-04 03:56 PM
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8. People clapped at that in my theater
lying crap sack.
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skypilot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-30-04 04:01 PM
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10. They didn't mean...
...to imply applause, I'm sure.:)
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louis-t Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-30-04 03:56 PM
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9. "When I said WMD...
I didn't mean to imply that they actually existed". "When I said 'bring 'em on' I didn't mean that they should actually attack us". "When I said 'Mission Accomplished' I didn't mean that there was actually a mission or that it needed to be accomplished". "When Cheney said 'fuck yourself' he didn't actually mean that Leahy should insert something..."

Weasely lyin' bastards.
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Cerridwen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-30-04 04:04 PM
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11. call 1-800-eat-shit
I saw the movie; he sounded like one of those bumper stickers that says "don't like how I'm driving? call 1-800-eat-shit!"


It got a big laugh here in Vegas, too.


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TankLV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-30-04 04:23 PM
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19. I traveled to see it in Summerlin - same reaction there.
I'm in Henderson.
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Cerridwen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-30-04 04:29 PM
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20. Rancho Santa Fe Station

which is not on Rancho or in the Santa Fe Station.


I love Vegas naming conventions.
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-30-04 04:14 PM
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14. Porter Goss, future Director of the CIA.
Sounds like he'll fit right in. :eyes:
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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-30-04 04:14 PM
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15. Goss should " watch what he says" like the rest of us have to
unless he doesn't expect to be called on it.
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StaggerLee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-30-04 04:22 PM
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18. He should have just left it alone.
He's only making it worse.

Bwahhahahahahahahhahahahahhahahahahaaaaa!

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DeepModem Mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-30-04 04:32 PM
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21. Isn't Goss rumored to be the next director of the CIA????
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Fleshdancer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-30-04 04:44 PM
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22. I for one have never heard of a figurative 800 number before
Funny me for thinking that when someone says he has an 800 number, that he literally has an 800 number. What was I thinking??? :eyes:
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Tight_rope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-30-04 04:53 PM
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23. What's the #...I got 400 minutes to use up before the 4th of July.!
I don't mind making several calls to ask a few questions about my new rights under the Patriot Act. After all I should know what they are and second Goss whether he knows it or not still works for the people of the United States.:kick:
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Realityhack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-30-04 05:06 PM
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25. Sorry I didn't catch it...
I was reaching for my cell phone in the theater when it went off screen.
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JustFiveMoreMinutes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-30-04 04:55 PM
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24. Say what you mean, mean what you say ... is difficult to comprehend?
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MrBenchley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-30-04 05:23 PM
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26. "Goss didn’t mean to imply an 800 number really exists"
Wonder what he thought "I have an 800 number" DID imply?
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Lefty48197 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-30-04 05:23 PM
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27. 202-225-2535? Was that his number??
253something, I'm pretty sure.
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Ivan Zero Donating Member (184 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-30-04 05:24 PM
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28. The intelligence committee IS the 800 number???
Jeeeeeezus. The sumbitch can't admit he lied on camera, so he pretends he was being abstract.

So just how do we utilize this figurative help-line? By telepathy?



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