Tweety: "Maybe breaking the law is part of the president's job!?"

[Sparkly]

Tweety just said that if he'd been president on 9/11, and was told it's possible to "mine data" by eavesdropping on Americans according to specific words they spoke -- without a warrant -- he'd do it.

His guest said, "You'd be breaking the law."

Tweety replied, "Yeah, well maybe that's part of the job."

:wtf:

[Clark2008]

1. Tweety's new name should be "Twitty" because he's such

a TWIT!

Stupid spitter.

[liveoaktx]

16. VIDEO

On CanOFun

[radio4progressives]

29. I think I like this name Twitty. NT

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. Nutcase. nt.

[Atman]

3. Well, it's certainly part of THIS president's job

But I don't think it's part of his job description.

[The Magistrate]

4. That, Ma'am, Is The Most Un-American Thing I Have Heard In My Life

"The mind wobbles...."

[renie408]

5. Jesus Christ. When are they going to get him a muzzle?? And what

about BIAS?

Seriously, is he even TRYING to pretend that he is not a complete GOP tool?

[...of J.Temperance]

6. Tweety says "Breaking the law part of the job" JUST NO BLOWJOBS!!!

Tweety says "Junior and the Repukes can break the law all they want and that's okay...

...JUST NO BLOWJOBS OKAY!!"

[paineinthearse]

27. NO BLOWJOBS

Maybe that's his problem.

[...of J.Temperance]

30. Yuk!!!! What girl would want to give the Monkey a blowjob? I wouldn't

I wouldn't give the creep a blowjob if you paid me a billion dollars in cash.

[PatGund]

37. Don't worry about it....

That's Jeff Gannon's job anyway

[FreedomAngel82]

7. So was it okay when Clinton lied?

Nope, they kept quoting law law law. I'm getting so tired of this shit I just want to scream!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. Here's a hypothetical:

Let's say Monica Lewinski was actually a member of Al Qaeda, but Clinton seduced her to get information about AQ's operations. Would it have been OK for him to get extramarital BJs from Monica under those circumstances?

[AtomicKitten]

38. As Tweety said: "Yeah, well maybe that's part of the job." n/t

[medeak]

8. Tweety had Tice on

and it was good

[Sequoia]

9. Also for California governors

[Canuckistanian]

10. I think the founding fathers would have a contrary view

After all, the Declaration of Independence was aimed squarely at another "King George".

[aquart]

12. Which Americans does he suspect were involved?

I'd like to know.

[ginnyinWI]

13. At least he had Tice on and is talking about it

And he had Ed Meece on after, and let him say some outrageous things to which he didn't agree. He does good when he gives these guys enough rope to hang themselves.

I don't think he meant that a president should break the law. He just wants to get the idea out there.

[Mark E. Smith]

14. This Is All Moot

The Senate investigations will show General Georgie went after far more folks than just a few Al Qaeda suspects.

We're in the silly season here. It's when Tweety gets to open his mouth big and wide and we get to see up into his empty skull.

[appal_jack]

15. bad tweety! back to civics class for you

Yo Twitty,

Here's the 2nd-grader low-down on American Government.

Congress is responsible for passing laws. Ideally, these laws conform to the principles of the US Constitution (alas, a rarity these days, with NSA spying and wars on drugs and other-bogeymen-of-the-moment).

The executive branch is responsible for UPHOLDING and ENFORCING laws, and PROTECTING the US Constitution (it's getting hard to recall a time when the executive actually DID that, but I digress).

The judiciary must interpret the laws passed by Congress and the conduct of the executive branch. When such laws and conduct conflict with Constitutional principles, judges CAN (i.e.- must) rule against such.

feh to ignorant "commentators"

-app

[boobooday]

17. Newspeak!!!!!

Orwell would be SO proud that all his paranoid fantasies have come to life. I keep wondering, though, what he would say if he knew that his novel had become the playbook for captialist plutocrat dicatators instead of godless communists?

[FreedomAngel82]

33. Sometimes I wonder

if Orwell was trying to warn us. It's all too creepy and parallel.

[adigal]

18. Did you hear that??

I swear, I am more and more stunned every day to hear what comes out of his mouth. He doesn't even pretend to be unbiased anymore.

[tocqueville]

19. little reminder

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

Article II, Section I of the U.S. Constitution:

where does it stand "break" ?

[Generator]

20. Is France going to rescue US this time from the fascists?

I'm afraid we need some outside help. Wish I wasn't kidding.

[TriMetFan]

22. I'm with you.

[tocqueville]

26. if there was a HOSTILE overtake of the US...

I am sure that France (and other European countries) would oppose it, but not militarily as long they are not threatened. It's always very difficult to OFFICIALLY take sides when it's an internal affair. France didn't take sides in the secession war (even if the political situation was different at that time).

But I can imagine that for example refugees and political opponents in exile would be granted asylum.

[aden_nak]

21. The US's defining principle is rule of law over rule of man.

The very real idea that human judgement is flawed and can be distorted, so while it is obvious and necessary, it must be tempered with established limitations. That whenever human judgement suggests something, it must be measured against the very limits of decency and freedom that we have already agreed upon. The law is there, in essence, to protect us from ourselves. It's actually a concept I'd expect most Christians to understand (that we are all flawed in some way, and thus have a higher order of rules to which we must adhere even against our own desires and vices). . . not that there are any real Christians in the NeoConservative movement.

If Chris Mathews can't understand that, then maybe his understanding of American government is too vague and misconstrued to hold the job he currently does.

[OneTwentyoNine]

23. WTF?!?!?!?!? Oh hell,its now OK with MSGOP if the Pres is a crook...

Naked pictures of Tweety with some em...thing to get him to say SHIT like that?!?!?

[A Simple Game]

24. Two days after 911 if you data mined for the words

Pentagon or World Trade Center, you would have to record every conversation and email. What do you think people were talking about for weeks on end.

Think before you speak Tweety.

[barb162]

25. he shows how amoral he is

[radio4progressives]

28. I heard this... what are people going to do about these GOP whores?

watch and complain? or organize against it?

[leesa]

31. But why would he do that if he could eavesdrop WITH a warrant?

Tweety is a traitor-wanna-be. Bush is just a traitor.

[Bozita]

32. So, "rule of law" was just a passing fancy?

How quaint. ... How yesterday!

[flyarm]

34. i can not and will not stomach that asshole any longer...

i watched tonight and have now vowed to myself to never ever watch that mother fucker again...

he was rude and crude to Tice...a career nsa agent who told the truth...

* broke the law...and then regans mouth piece came on and he never interupted him once...and was sweet as sugar with him,..that was the final strw for me..no more..its like self abuse watching that lying son of a bitch!

yes i am ranting!

fl

[Catrina]

36. I stopped watching all of them after Wolf's blatant lies last week

It IS self abuse, I finally decided.

Chris Matthews is DUMB. I began to realize that a few months ago!! He's just not very bright, and his smarmy, stupid, adoration of a man who is even more dumb than he is, is pretty sick to watch. I decided that it was masachistic to continue to watch these depressing, lying, psychophants and I'm saving $52 a month. I haven't even missed them. It's like getting rid of a bad sore.

I truly do recommend it, you will be way healthier and able to spend more time informing the indoctrinated.

Meantime, someone upthread asked 'what are we going to do about them'. Boycott their advertisers, and cancel your TV subscriptions. Pool the money saved, and buy our own networks. If we organized across the country, we could starve them out of existence. We just have to have the will to do it.

How much more evidence do we need, that there is NO free press anymore. All the good guys are gone. Only the ignorant propagandists are left. They are losing viwers, and at most, they only reach under a million people each night. Boards like this, collectively, reach way more and are growing each day as more and more people go online to get news.

The media is dead.

[McCamy Taylor]

35. Tweety must be on cough syrup.

[Vinca]

39. Apparently Tweety hasn't considered the possibility that his data

was mined. The people who are gungho over snooping without a warrant assume they could never be targets.