Smoke Signals (Is it obstruction of justice if fellatio isn't involved?)

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"Smoke Signals

by digby


I missed this yesterday and it's fascinating. Via Think Progress, here's Michael Isikoff yesterday:

ISIKOFF: 'As a general rule, if you’re the president … you don’t like pictures out there of you with convicted felons. It sounds like … there’s at least one picture of him with at least one convicted felon and another indicted, so it’s probably not a picture the White House is eager to have out there.

(snip)

Maybe he wants something from somebody at the White House, or he wants someone at the White House not to do something, and just sort of subtly playing with people here.'


It seems to me that might qualify as obstruction of justice. But what do I know? My recent exposure to that crime was when Clinton allegedly betrayed the republic by wearing a certain tie to signal Monica Lewinsky to ... well, we were never sure just what he was signalling her, now that I think about it.

Felon Jack Abramoff sending signals to the White House that he has embarrassing photos certainly doesn't rise to that level. That must be why this time we aren't seeing the heads of every graduate of the Barbizon School of Blond Former Prosecutors spin around on their shoulders while they spew green bile and speak in Aramaic on all the cable news shows. It just isn't as important, I understand that."

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Obstruction of justice? I think Jack-Off is capable of that. A very good point, I think.
I do indeed remember the many "graduates of the Barbizon School of Blond Former Prosecutors" who were on day in and day out at the height of the Fellatiary Constitutional Crisis, back in '98-'99. But I've never heard those talking heads described so accurately before...

[Missy Vixen]

1. Barbizon School of Blonde Former Prosecutors

>this time we aren't seeing the heads of every graduate of the Barbizon School of Blond Former Prosecutors spin around on their shoulders while they spew green bile and speak in Aramaic on all the cable news shows.<

My career as a television political pundit is over before it started. I'm a redhead without a law degree. Oh, the humanity.

I suppose this is for the best. It definitely wouldn't help one's continuing employment prospects when everytime someone like Tucker Carlson opened his mouth, for instance, I collapsed into hysterical laughter. I wouldn't be able to keep a straight face.

>Fellatiary Constitutional Crisis<

Question: Is Bill Clinton the only man in America who's ever had oral sex? Some days, it seems like it.

Julie