Lou Dobbs to Judy Miller: "I will not forgive Fitzgerald for what he did"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/10/05.html#a5234



Lou Dobbs: Judy's Knight in Shinning Armor

Judy gave an interview to Lou and was he ever angry at Fitzgerald.

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Dobbs: I will not forgive Fitzgerald for what he did to you. I think it is an onerous, disgusting abuse of government power, and that of Judge Hogan, straightforwardly.

Judy on Prison: ...the most soulless place I had ever been....It was demeaning. It was degrading. It was very lonely."

Atrios says: Who knows how lives could've been improved if Judy had spent her time covering prison conditions rather than pushing phantom threats.

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[Straight Shooter]

1. Fitzgerald isn't going to lose any sleep over your inability to forgive.

Might as well slap him with a Kleenex, Lou, for all the effect you'll have on him.

Rock on, Fitz, rock on!

[tk2kewl]

4. too bad Dobbs didn't have any useful info for Fitz

[FourStarDemocrat]

41. Dobbs should just stick to covering the Outsourcing issue

And not open his stupid mouth about things he doesn't understand..unless he's trying to cover up for Judy-- it certainly seems that he's been going out of his way to do so for the last several months.

[Cha]

47. And what's to "forgive", anyway?

Didn't judy, judy, judy, put herself in jail?

Jon Stewart had a little of the judy clip on and I couldn't stand to hear her sanctimonious voice so I muted her and listened to what Jon had to say about her.

Jon wasn't too impressed with her, either. Said she's been in jail for 85 days and we Still don't know why.

Isn't dobbs smarter than falling for that judy Crap Crock?

[Dinger]

52. That's For Damn Sure

I saw that disgusting clip. I though Dobbs was halfway decent. Not any more. That little comment will come back to haunt him.

[AX10]

2. Dobbs is still a GOP Peice of Shit.

:argh:

[indepat]

6. A shameful worthless piece of GOP shit at that IMHO

[thinkingwoman]

3. Wow, I wonder...

do you thik Fitzgerald is losing sleep over Lou Dobbs' unwillingness to forgive?

[tompayne1]

5. for the last time (maybe)

Miller is a whore. Fitzgerald rocks, and Lou Dobbs is gonna burn.

[tanyev]

7. The most soulless place she's ever been?

Been to the White House lately, Judy?

[joemurphy]

9. Right Lou...Judy can keep quiet even if her source says it's OK

to talk. Who owns the privilege, Lou? The source or the journalist.

You've got it completely wrong. As usual.

[Straight Shooter]

11. I can name another one.

Republican convention. Or any gathering of the Young Republicans.

[Cha]

48. Martha Stewart whom I saw

on Letterman after she got out of prison..was actually quite upbeat about it. Course, she wasn't playing the freaked out martyr like little judy miller.

[ncteechur]

8. It wasn't that lonely--all the beltway crooks and insiders plus a

few other visited her. Maybe she can go back in the joint as one of the indicted and later convicted.

I have no sympathy for her! None at all.

[Carla in Ca]

35. Hey, maybe it was because her husband took a cruise!

I'll bet he didn't mention Starr's reprehensible treatment of Susan MacDougall. Boo Hoo, Judy.

[freethought]

10. Outing the name of a CIA operative for a political vendetta

Isn't THAT an abuse of government power as well, Lou?

[wishlist]

12. He conspicuously failed to mention failure of Bush officials to 'fess up

Rove and Libby and the other Bush officials lied in claiming to not be involved in the leak and failed to come clean. Lou Dobbs has his head in the sand to ignore the White House wrongdoers in this matter who are ultimately responsible for Judy's plight.

She obviously wanted to be the center of attention as the linchpin of the investigation and get a good scoop for NY Times plus money for her book deal, since she is not revealing anything significant yet per his and Barbara Walters interview.

[louis-t]

13. Hey, Joan of Arc, I heard Scooter said you could testify ,

like, months ago. I'd be pissed if I had spent one SECOND more in jail than I needed to.

[Crunchy Frog]

14. "It was demeaning. It was degrading. It was very lonely." Oh Judy.

Judy, Judy, Judy. Maybe you would have been happier at Abu Graihb or Gitmo. Maybe it would be less degrading for you to be stripped naked and dragged around on a leash. Or maybe you would have found it more commodious at the Superdome or Convention Center in NOLA after Katrina.

I just wish you would quit whining. At the very least you'll get a huge book deal out of this, maybe even a movie of the week.

I wish that she could get the opportunity to experience something that would truly live up to the name "degrading".

[xchrom]

15. ''the most soulless place I had ever been....It was demeaning.''

shocking -- just shocking.

and i might feel for you -- if i wasn't so fucking sure you weren't a traitor.

[AllegroRondo]

16. I guess she hasnt been to the Crawford ranch.

[FreedomAngel82]

31. She's more then a traitor

She's a part of treason. How is that for a legacy Judy? Eh? Someday I'll let all my future grandkids know about you as a treasonists. How is that eh? And since so many rightwingers claim Abu Grhaib and Gitmo are lovely places why didn't she go there to see for herself? I'm sure she would've liked a nice lemon chicken dinner.

[smoogatz]

17. I'm continually amazed by the degree to which the MSM are willfully

not "getting" (or pretending not to get) the true import of the Judy Miller Goes to Jail story. It's one thing to protect a source who i serving the public interest by blowing the whistle on government malfeasance. It's another thing altogether to protect those who are ENGAGED IN government malfeasance. Why is that so hard for even veteran, lefty newshounds like NPR's Daniel Shore?

[xkenx]

27. Amen, Smoogatz, You Nailed It

Too bad the traitor Judy Miller didn't rot in jail.

[Cha]

49. It's not hard for fake "lefty newshound",

Jon Stewart! He Ripped judy on his show tonight.

Gotta see it!

[MidwestTransplant]

18. Touche Atrios!

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

19. "...It was very lonely. " Well maybe if...

...Big Lou would've come across with the occasional conjugal visit, things wouldn't have had to be so lonely.

[frogmarch]

21. As a fellow "journalist," he

was mad that Fitz sent Miller to jail for protecting her source (no matter that her source is a criminal).

He knocks Bushco around some on his show, so I haven't stuck any pins in my Lou Dobbs doll yet.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

20. Oh man, I bet Fitzgerald is shitting his pants right now over this.

:eyes:

[FreedomAngel82]

32. Yep

I'm sure he's calling Secret Service men right now to come protect him. :eyes:

[carolinayellowdog]

22. Yet Judy said perhaps her imprisonment was justified!

Couldn't believe my eyes, but here is her reply:

She admitted, however, that perhaps she will feel that the federal prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, acted in good faith if he brings indictments this month. "Let's wait and see what Mr. Fitzgerald has. If he brings indictments, if he has a very serious case, then I might have to say that perhaps his zealousness with respect to this mission was justified," Miller said.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

25. Sounds like she's...

...ready to confess Karl Rove is guilty.

[Hidden Stillness]

23. Cannot Understand Dobbs Sometimes

Lou Dobbs completely baffles me. Dobbs goes back and forth between being a lying, censoring rich Republican operative, to being absolutely brilliant and scathing on corporate crime and outsourcing, even being pro-union, extremely rare among Republicans these days. Then you get this bizarre, total incomprehension of what the Judith Miller case was about. She covered up a crime, protected criminals who were persecuting a critic of their lies by exposing active CIA agents to the threat of death! She would not help with an investigation to find the persecutors of government whistleblowers! The Bush neo-cons are targeting and destroying honest people who try to get the truth out, and she protects the criminals! Lou Dobbs completely baffles me.

[childslibrarian]

26. Yes, I agree

He can be puzzling

[Dr Fate]

34. Dobbs does not want to admit he was fooled by Miller/Bush's Iraq lies.

n/t

[FightinNewDem]

44. Not pro-union.

He's anti free trade, which means his agenda dovetails with that of the labor movement on that particular issue.

But Dobbs doesn't seem to be motivated by a genuine concern for workers so much as by a nasty strain of xenophobia. His rants against immigration (legal or illegal)show where his true colors lie.

He's basically a Buchanan-style paleocon. Remember them?

[Catherine Vincent]

24. From now on he should be called: "Boo Hoo" Dobbs

LOL!

[Poiuyt]

28. Does this mean that Dobbs will diminish any indictments that come out of

Fitzgerald's grand jury?

[FreedomAngel82]

29. Want to talk about abuse of government power Lou?

Let's talk about outing a CIA agent for political purposes that in return killed THOUSANDS of your fellow countrymen and innocent people in another country! THAT IS ABUSE OF GOVERNMENT POWER LOU! GET REAL!

[mithnanthy]

46. I sent a similar message...

to Lou Dobbs, blasting him for being taken in by Judith Miller and that he WILL gain repect for Fitzgerald and will consider him a HERO, when all is exposed. (Considering, Lou has a "school-boy crush" on her. Geesh! At his age!)

[xkenx]

30. Poor Lou, Poor Judy. Boo Fuckin' Hoo.

The Rethug apologist and the traitor. They can both rot.

[pretzel4gore]

33. dobbs is a traitor too

what the hell is he talking about? he needs to be punished for mediawhoring for the worst enemy the usa has ever had

[shance]

36. Wonder what is his motivation is for saying something like that?

Is he truly stupid and doesnt understand that she is covering for people who have broken the law? I have a hard time believing that he doesnt know whats going on.

Why in the world would he make such a curiously biased statement?

Is he a schill? And who for?

[renie408]

37. Is he supposed to be a journalist? Should they say stuff like that? n/t

[KoKo]

38. Lou Dobbs's sucks Propaganda...he's on the Anti-Immigration Payroll...

where he turns a blind eye to the thousands of Mexicans who are coming into the Gulf to rebuild living in the worst of worst Migrant Worker Conditions (but, then many folks in the Gulf Coast are living in those same conditions, having lost everything.)

But, Dobbs feigned "outrage" at "over the border folks taking Americans jobs" kind of is "old hat" considering that those workers and the jobs are need to rebuild the infrastructure, oil refineries and rigs down there.

What a F**ing Hypocrit. He had it all sewed up until Katrina and Rita struck...now he's gotta get a New Line to support his payoff or his schtik...whichever it is.

He has moments of great honesty and then cancels it out in his next breath. It must be tough work being a "media whore." :-(

[Skittles]

51. that f***ing flag waving behind her head

good lord, can propaganda get any worse? The non-so-subtle message is TRUTH, JUSTICE AND THE AMERICAN WAY when in reality Ms. Miller collaborated with a corrupt administration to print lies to promote war in Iraq, the worst foreign policy blunder EVER in American history.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

39. Wonder what his take will be tomorrow.

Or whenever the indictments rain down.

I predict a chord change.

[PurityOfEssence]

40. So are all you Dobbs apologists seeing the light yet?

This guy's the John McCain of journalism; he's nothing but a good old-fashioned fiscal conservative monarchist, and I'm sure he thinks that if scratched, he'd bleed the blue blood of the better.

Nobody's above the law, and when someone is in the thick of propagandizing to lie us into war while abetting people as they "out" crucial operatives fighting to keep this country secure, that person should be called as a witness.

Fuck his indignation; he's an economic supremacist thug.

[joemurphy]

42. I see him as a Paleoconservative. In the Buchanan mold. n/t

[PurityOfEssence]

54. Couldn't agree more.

Buchannan is a Catholic conservative, though, and that's a different critter than WASPy old patricians like Dobbs. Much as the antipathy's been blurred in the past few years, this used to be a very anti-Catholic country, and those bigotries are still very much there.

Still, they're old-time fiscal conservative, racist elitists, so they're very much from the same cloth.

[joemurphy]

43. So much for reasoned and impartial journalism, Lou. n/t

[corbett]

45. You're Right - He Offered An Editorial, Not An Interview

Opinion pieces need to be identified as such in advance, like Aaron Brown does.

[NVMojo]

50. Media whores covering their own complicit asses ....

[flpoljunkie]

53. Perhaps ol' Lou Dobbs is closer to Judy "kneepads" Miller than we know.

[Uncle Joe]

55. Can you say corpwhorate owned MSM, I knew you could. n/t

[Disturbed]

56. That's it for me.

I didn't view this and I will stop watching Dobbs from now on. He is correct about the Outsourcing but little else.

[killbotfactory]

57. Miller was being a propaganda tool of the government

fuck her