Lehrer Asked the Question About Goss and the Hookers last nite.

[leftyladyfrommo]

So the news is poised and ready to go on that one.

It was during the news discussion with David Brooks. Brooks said the whole thing is till in the rumor phase but it's definitely out there.

They didn't bring up the "end signing" thing I would have liked that to have been "out there," too.

[AnnInLa]

1. Also, on the McLaughlin Group last night,

Elinor Clift brought up the subject....she said Washington is buzzing with the rumors of Hookergate. Her statement upset Tony a bunch! He challenged her to name names, to be specific. She replied that that she was only reporting that the rumors were out there. He was totally miffed.

[Gabi Hayes]

4. now THAT's funny! Newtie's buttboy, miffed at unsubstantiated rumors?

guess he had a memory wipe after being Gingrich's press secretary during the Clinton 'scandal' years

bet he just HATED all those rumors back then

[peekaloo]

8. lol....nice pic of Toadie Blankslate.

last week he heralded Karl Rove for his invaluable assistance regarding the Fitz investigation. Why else would he go before the grand jury 5 times if not to be so helpful? :rofl:

He also got pissed when Clift inferred some people thought Bu$h was a madman. He challenged her to name names and she backed down but it made for some entertaining teevee.

[Gabi Hayes]

10. ''some people thought Bu$h was a madman. ''

some?

how could she have any trouble naming names?

she should have axed him for a phone book and said that any random teardrop on the page would have a fifty fifty chance of landing on somebody who thinks he's a craven lunatic, unfit to change the diapers on a lemur, much less be the CINC

[AlCzervik]

7. saw that, Fat Tony in his pimp clothes took much umbridge with her

when imo all she did was mention Duke Cunningham, she didn't imply anything about hookergate, me thinks fat Tony protests too much.

[Gabi Hayes]

2. "end signing" ?

what's that?

thx

interesting that Lehrer would deign to bring up the hoor question

it's SO frickin' obvious that the reason Goss took off so INSTANTLY, without even having a replacement in the wings, is that it's something VERY bad

that said, I have zero faith that the media will go after this story any more than they have the COUNTLESS other scandals that break every day....and those are just the ones that of which we have only the slightest inkling.

like the Plame outing, lord knows what's going on about which we have no clue? if there was more than a handful of real journalists out there, we might be even more inundated than we already are with stories of the depredations of the crookedest bunch of thugs in the history of the solar system....galaxy?

[glitch]

11. This makes me think the Hayden choice to replace Goss is Bushy upping

the ante. You can just see his thought bubble "oh, so you think you're going to hurt me by taking Goss out, well here's Hayden, take that!"
I just hope everybody knows they may be playing chess but their opponent is a lunatic playing jarts.

[riderinthestorm]

3. What's the "end signing" thing? n/t

[Gabi Hayes]

5. signing statements?

[leftyladyfrommo]

6. That's the 750 laws by Congress that Bush says he can ignore

becuase it's his Consitutional right. He signs the bills by Congress and then when all the press is gone he signs another document stating that he doesn't have to abide by those laws.

Its been a hot topic this week. And I wish it would get a lot hotter.

[Gabi Hayes]

9. when it comes to the junta, NOTHING ever gets hot enough to maintain

public outrage

ever

otherwise, they'd be long gone

the MEDIA is responsible for this regime's stealing and maintaining its power


they're WORSE than the pugs themselves, cause they've chosen to support them, at the corporate level, to maintain their own power/profit margin. that's all they care about

[WiseButAngrySara]

12. I so agree with you! The media is more to blame than the backwash

Republican base. If we were properly informed on the evil workings of this administration, it would make Monica-gate sadly laughable. B* and his cabal would have been impeached long ago if the media had been doing their job. To see the way the Kennedy issue has been covered just proves my point. B*'s past excesses have been largely ignored by the M$M, but you can read all about it in foreign newspapers, the most recent open discussion of B*'s sordid past of drug and alcohol abuse reported in a Russian newspaper yesterday or the day before. I'll try to find the link, if you haven't read it.

[WiseButAngrySara]

13. Whoregate (or neuveaux Watergate, or Watergate 2) was alluded to

on MSNBC (O'Donnel covering for Tweety on Hardball) and also on CNN (can't remember by whom).

I've barely heard a whisper about the signing statements, which should be a red flag issue, if those covering the news care anything about our constitution. Our Founding Fathers were so enlightened by todays' standards, and that, in large part, is why our form of government has lasted as long as it has. Separation of powers, and checks and balances were reasoned to be crucial guards against tyranny and greed. This current gang of thugs has done everything in its power to thwart these protections. I doubt very seriously that B* has even read The Federalist Papers. He cares only about himself and those who "Serve at His Pleasure."

[leftyladyfrommo]

14. I know. The silence is deafening on the end-signing stuff.

The silence was also deafening on the mispent millions (billions?) in Iraq by Halliburton.

I don't understand it.

[WiseButAngrySara]

15. Maybe it's the "Sound of one hand clapping?" Hopefully, this silence

will itself become a "ROAR!" How many times will people tolerate lies of omission and commission, especially when their sons and daughters are being killed and wounded for life, and when it starts to dawn on them that they are filling their cars up with Iraqis blood, and that those in power have profitted off of that blood?

BTW, I'm sending you a PM! :hi: