I heard Limbaugh, Hannity, and O'Reilly all say the same thing,

[Tim4319]

that they do not discuss the Downing Street Memos because there is nothing to it. Now, my thing is, if there were nothing to these memos, similar to "Rather-Gate", when it was in the news 24 hours a day 7 days a week. The evidence in case, as opposed to the story Dan Rather ran with, is more substantial. How come the Downing Street Memo's don't matter? The truth must really hurt. This time we have to keep this issue alive!

[AlCzervik]

1. almost like they're all reading off the same talking points.

[Liberal In Texas]

2. Imagine that.

Gee, like maybe Rove faxes the daily WH talking points to the party's radio attack dogs?

[Tim4319]

3. verbatim!

[SalmonChantedEvening]

4. The reason they aren't talking about it is simple:

KKKarl told them not to, until it could be spun properly.

[Vyan]

5. They HAVE to say that...

because they can't really answer the issue that's in the Minutes!

If they try to discuss it, their falling into a trap and they know it. RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman has already tried the "this has already been investigated" arguement and fell flat on his face. The issue was not investigated by the 9/11 Commission, the Rob-Silbermann Commission or the Senate Select Committee on intelligence.

The claim that it's just "Old News" and we "Already Knew This" just gives credance to prior statements by Richard Clarke and Paul O'Neill, who the Reich-Wing has been trying to discredit for years -- but now all of sudden, they were right all along?

Then of course there's the arguement that "facts being fixed around the policy" is just the "opinion" of Sir Richard Dearlove and Jack Straw. Well, all the Bush Admin has to do to disprove that is simply release the minutes of the meetings between Dearlove with Condoleeza Rice and George Tenet.

Problem solved. Or is it?

Vyan

[MsConduct]

6. Robots never think for themselves. limppaw, hangnity and o'lielly are

definitely robots.

[AlCzervik]

7. you know Fox "News" didn't cover the Mississippi case yesterday

hits a little too close to home i guess

[Tim4319]

8. Oh, but they send reporters to Aruba, to Neverland, and Florida.

Not making light of any of they those issues, because they all are tragic in there own way. But, not to cover the Mississippi case, which is American History, and not to address the DSM, really puts into perspective the RW agenda.

[babylonsister]

9. If there was 'nothing to' the DSM, those guys would

be shouting from the rooftops about the idiocy of bloggers, Conyers, Dems, et al. Their utter silence about lack of discussion regarding the DSM means they're spinning this and are hopefully worried. I agree, Tim, the minutes matter, and these hacks know it also!

[NewJeffCT]

10. If they found old memos on Whitewater...

And, it tied WW to the Clintons, you can bet your frackin' ass that Rush, Hannity, Fox, CNN, etc would be all over it like the proverbial white on rice.

[underpants]

11. The meeting at Grover Norquist's was this morning BTW

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2001-06-01-grover.htm

Grover Norquist calls on a White House official, who rises to thank more than 100 conservative activists for their help in passing the sort of sweeping tax relief this group has been pursuing for years at weekly strategy sessions known as "the Wednesday Meeting."

Through the Wednesday Meeting, senior White House officials got their first heads-up about a brewing conservative revolt over a little-noticed comment Bush had made during the campaign endorsing mandatory caps on carbon dioxide emissions. Weeks later, the president drew environmentalists' ire by reversing himself and rejecting the idea of such limits.

The Wednesday Meeting and Americans for Tax Reform, an advocacy group Norquist heads, also pushed the tax cut. ATR encouraged state legislatures to pass resolutions urging members of Congress to back the bill. The targets were Democratic senators in Republican-leaning states. Among them: Sen. Max Baucus of Montana, the ranking Democrat on the Finance Committee, who ended up cutting a deal with Republicans on the tax package, to the dismay of Democratic leaders.

[UTUSN]

12. But-------O'Loofah Is an INDEPENDENT! He's NOT an Ideologue!

Here's chickenhawk O'LOOFAH receiving the VFW Errect Loofah Award