OMFG !! MSM gets it right ?! WTF? How can this BE !? This is HUGH!!1!1

[rpgamerd00d]

By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer

<snip>

"I think his hypocrisy knows no bounds," McClellan said of Gore.

But at the time of the Ames search in 1993 and when Gorelick testified a year later, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act required warrants for electronic surveillance for intelligence purposes, but did not cover physical searches. The law was changed to cover physical searches in 1995 under legislation that Clinton supported and signed.

Bush's attorney general, Alberto Gonzales, made the same arguments as McClellan during interviews Monday on CNN's "Larry King Live" and Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes."

Gore said Gonzales made a "political defense" of the president, showing why the attorney general should not be in charge of reviewing charges against Bush and should instead name a special counsel.

"His charges are factually wrong," Gore said in a written statement Tuesday. "Both before and after the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was amended in 1995, the Clinton-Gore administration complied fully and completely with the terms of the law."

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more...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060117/ap_on_go_pr_wh/gore_domestic_spying

[hedda_foil]

1. Holy farking cow! It's not just AP, it's NEDRA PICKLER!

[emulatorloo]

2. NEDRA gets it right? HELL MUST HAVE JUST FROZEN OVER! EOM

[mzmolly]

42. I thought the exact same thing.

:wow:

[Usrename]

60. There is a cold front moving through, is this Hell yet? EOM

[Gidney N Cloyd]

5. Who's 'Nedra Pickler'?

Sounds like the cranky old lady at the end of the block who yells at kids for stepping on her lawn.

[rpgamerd00d]

6. Hi diddly ho, neighbor !

[ohio_liberal]

17. She is "The Pickler"

She has whole websites devoted to her AP hackery and devotion to the Bush cabal.

[rpgamerd00d]

18. Don't hit me for this but.... should we write her a thank you email ?

I dont know her history, so, just askin ?

[ohio_liberal]

23. Maybe write and thank her for finally doing her fucking job!

:hi:

[WhereThereIsFire]

65. And to think I always thought PICKLES was Homocidal Laura Bush!

:dilemma:

[Mabus]

27. Nedra, Nit Picklering at its finest

Here's a crash course in Nedra.


Nit Picklering
AP reporter Nedra Pickler is known as being a stickler for detail in her presidential-campaign coverage. Too bad she gets so many things wrong.
By Matthew Yglesias
Web Exclusive: 1.20.04

Print Friendly | Email Article

A Dec. 10 wire story took a look at a recent Democratic debate and concluded that Democrats "sometimes leave out the facts" in their critiques of the Bush administration. For example: "(S)everal of the nine candidates criticized the tax cuts George W. Bush pushed through Congress. But none mentioned that Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan . . . has cited those cuts as a reason for the recent economic growth." Shocking! Sources indicate that the candidates also failed to mention the Tuesday-evening chicken wings special at the Lucky Bar and my little brother's late guinea pig, creatively named Guinea.

Welcome to the exciting world of "Nit Picklering," a label devised by popular liberal blogger Atrios to honor Associated Press campaign reporter Nedra Pickler's invention of a new standard for honesty whereby a Democrat is lying every time his or her comments neglect to include literally the whole truth, whether or not the overlooked fact actually contradicts the claim in question.

Elsewhere in the same article, Pickler, a 28-year-old Washington-based reporter who covered the auto industry before moving to the campaign beat last January, took Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) to task for telling the story of a New Hampshire couple whose water supply was rendered unsafe for drinking or showering due to the presence of a gasoline additive, MTBE, without noting that they now, in fact, had potable water from an alternate source. Was Kerry remiss? Certainly no more so than Pickler, who failed to mention that the senator's remarks came up as he was discussing the Bush administration's efforts to shield manufacturers of the toxic substance from lawsuits. (MTBE has a propensity for poisoning groundwater). A revised version of Pickler's story was released on the wires the next morning, now leading with the Kerry-bashing in the first paragraph, insinuating that the senator had inflicted emotional distress on the victims of his "dishonesty." Actual harms caused by the chemical didn't make the cut, however.

Pickler struck again on Dec. 13, charging that "when he criticizes Bush's links to Lay, Dean never mentions that Enron's mismanagement was not a result of the president's tax-cut package." Similarly, Dean never mentions that the No Child Left Behind Act was not responsible for the Iraq War. Apparently he's in the grips of a theory holding that some issues are unrelated. Fortunately, Pickler is around to correct his thinking.

rest at: http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2004/01/yglesias-m-01-20.html

[Usrename]

62. That was worth the read.

Thanx for the crash course. Just toppled the Coultergeist out of top honors (she still has a better Adam's apple, though).

[The Backlash Cometh]

31. snort

[Mabus]

16. Ahh, I remember the "Write Like Nedra Pickler Day"

by Atrios. http://www.atrios.blogspot.com/2003_12_07_atrios_archive.html

[ohio_liberal]

19. LOL

That was hilarious. :D

[mzmolly]

41. My thoughts exactly.

Loard - hell hath frozen over!

[FreedomAngel82]

48. So I wonder what's going on

Maybe the shit is about to hit the fan and she doesn't want to ruin her "career."

[mzmolly]

50. Perhaps she's attempting to "appear" credible?

To late! ;)

[danalytical]

3. HUGH or HUGE?

No offense, but I swear I read at least one thread every single day that says some new bit of information is a person named Hugh. I was wondering if you all mean it's HUGE news and not some guy named HUGH? ;P

[Faygo Kid]

7. It's an Internet thing. Somebody used "hugh" for "huge" once

and it really caught on. Even the Freepers (shudder)use it.

[IndyOp]

30. DU uses it *because* it was a Freeper mistake - to make fun of them

Like using "moran" - also a Freeper mistake - for moron.

:hi:

[The Backlash Cometh]

32. Also, the "1"s instead of ! is an intentional typo.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

8. He meant to say "HUGH!!1111"

[rpgamerd00d]

15. fixed :) -nt

[hootinholler]

51. SERIESLY!1!!11!!1!1!11!1

[ixion]

10. it's an inside joke

welcome to DU! :hi:

It's a joke that originated from the throngs of poor spellers over at Freeperville, a.k.a. Free Republic.

[The Backlash Cometh]

33. Unfortunately, we don't get to see "stocker" quite as often.

[eleny]

38. Are you sure it's "throngs"? I thought it was "thongs"...

But that's okay. We all make mistakes some time. :silly:

[antigone382]

11. "Hugh" is a DU in-joke.

Other common mispellings are "series" instead of "serious" And "moran" instead of "moron." They all originated from mispellings on freeper websites.

[central scrutinizer]

12. making fun of freepers

Some DUers have the stomach to visit Free Republic and share the hilarious malapropisms and misspellings they find there. That is why you will find HUGH!1!!11, (for huge) series (for serious) and moran (for moron) appearing frequently.

[driver8]

34. I don't know how DU'ers can stand wading into that cesspool...

plus, the board looks like it was set up by a two year old! I can never figure out which poster is responding to what comment.

I'm series1111

[Mabus]

49. Neither can they

but it doesn't stop them from shooting their mouths off. :rofl:

[Sick_of_Rethuggery]

13. CLUE: ALL CAPS ;-)

[helderheid]

26. He/she was speaking/typing freeper. I'M SERIES!!111

[0007]

36. I'm dizzy getting keep up with this HUGE pickle that .....

[Faygo Kid]

44. It gets worse. FReeper wrote, "This is hugh. Really series."

Or very, very similar. So, it's also "series" for "serious". OK, joke ruined on this thread, but it's a laugher. Everywhere on the net.

[0007]

46. Da frog is hugh, LOL! I love it BTW

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

4. Holy Shit, They Actually Debunked Spin Rather Than Let It Seem Like He

said she said bullshit.

I'm actually in awe right now.

[txindy]

9. It looks like 'business as usual' has finally jumped the shark.

The devil has finally strapped on the ice skates instead of just hefting them in his hands.

Oh, the M$M will be back to 'normal' soon, I'm sure, but for now.......:woohoo:

[CatWoman]

14. IT'S ORGASM TIME!!!!!!!!!!

:D

[laruemtt]

20. it's about time! this foreplay's been going

on long enough, dontcha think...............

[rodeodance]

21. David Riskin, WH councel just called ACLU suit 'frivilous"--so it is a tal

king point.

[Guaranteed]

53. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! nt

[ohio_liberal]

22. Well!

I envy your excitement. :evilgrin:

[TahitiNut]

40. Please ....

.... not on my monitor. :eyes:

[Faygo Kid]

45. TIME TO PAR-TAY. Us Scandinavians are going to stay up till 10!!

If Catwoman were here, she would be purring. Along with this icky 13 year old cat that is inevitably in my lap. Well, two would be good.

[LittleClarkie]

24. Hi Hugh

Now what were you saying?

[HughMoran]

37. I'm HUGH111!!!

And I wasn't saying nuttin ;)

[egadsbrain]

39. And I thought this was HUGH!!11!... HUGH11!

:rofl:

[AX10]

25. This is BIG!

!BIG!

:bounce:

[Justice Is Comin]

28. Just in time to slather up Gonzalez

and get him ready for the barbecue spit in the hearings coming in two weeks.

All we'll need to do is put the apple in his mouth. I've got everything wired for the power.

[Eric J in MN]

29. Let's say there was ambiguity about physical searches for

national intelligence purposes before FISA was amended in 1995.

I'd still prefer if the FBI had gotten a warrant from a normal court before physically searching Aldrich Ames' house.

[lovuian]

35. Gonzalez is head of the Gestapo and not policing US

He swore Oath to the Constitution NOT to BUSH!!!

[Nothing Without Hope]

43. Amazing - it's Pickler! For a COMPILATION of Gore's speech and

the response to it, see this thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x161222
thread title (1-17-06 GD): ***COMPILATION*** of links & DU threads on the historic 1/16 GORE SPEECH

[Straight Shooter]

47. Whoa! What's that up in the air I see?

[rpgamerd00d]

54. roflcopter!

lolerskates!
lmaonade!

[upi402]

52. Doh!?!

huh? ya sure?

[Imagevision]

55. Gonzalez should recuse himself and Hire Fitzgerald to do the investigation

Like Ashcroft did when choosing Fitzgerald for investigating Plamegate because Ashcroft didn't want to investigate Rove...!

[oasis]

56. Gonzales is acually dumber than Ashcroft. Who'da thunk it?

[rpgamerd00d]

59. Thats scary. -nt

[Doctor_J]

57. Gore is partially right

Gonazales has shown himself to be so partisan and corrupt that he should RESIGN instead of just recusing himself for this case.

[rpgamerd00d]

58. Dems need to be all over Gonzales like white on rice.

Otherwise he will just remain silent and stagnant on this.

[helderheid]

61. the was in the Salt Lake Tribune today

[MsAnthropy]

63. The headline is, of course, lopsided

It should be "WH lobs accusations, Gore volleys right back"

[rucky]

64. trouble is, they added the facts after most papers already picked it up.

don't kill the messenger.

[mitchtv]

66. Hugh Lurie, Hugh Grant??

whatever

[greiner3]

67. I wouldn't believe scotty if he announced he was going on a diet;