Bush met with, and praised, corrupt lobbyist

[BILL53]

Bush met with, and praised, corrupt lobbyist -- Although White House spokesliar Scott McClellan claims lobbyist/crook du jour Jack Abramoff only met with administration staff two or three times, the scandal ridden buyer of influence enjoyed frequent private meetings with President George W. Bush, who referred to Abramoff as 'one of this administration's greatest friends.'
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_8013.shtml

[Lochloosa]

1. I wish people would stop posting from CHB

not a reliable source!

[BuyingThyme]

2. I love CHB. Much more reliable than NYT or WP.

[bpilgrim]

3. no source would be allowed then

keep the scathing bush revelations/articles coming :bounce:

peace

[Jackpine Radical]

9. Prove that their error rate is greater

than that of the New York Times.

[leftofthedial]

11. compared to what?

Fox News?

[BuyingThyme]

4. Welcome to DU, Billy!

:hi::hi::hi:

[The Whiskey Priest]

5. That is not news...real news

would be if he stopped meeting with them.

[orwell]

14. Good one...n/t

[Fridays Child]

6. We need a forum called "Baseless Speculation By Suspected Shills"

:eyes:

[BuyingThyme]

8. A named and quoted source is baseless?

[Fridays Child]

10. I remain unconvinced of CHB's legitimacy as a real news source.

[SidDithers]

15. Who's the named source?...

We've got "A former DeLay staffer who is cooperating with the investigation into both Abramoff and the disgraced GOP leader’s activities, has told investigators that Abramoff and DeLay visited Bush at his ranch on at least four occasions in 2003 and 2004."

The only name in the piece is Dale Knally, who saw Bush and Abramoff during a campaign stop in Florida. He's not the former Delay staffer who told of the Crawford meetings.

Sid

[BuyingThyme]

16. Answered your own question.

[SidDithers]

18. Uh, no I didn't...

The "source" for the meetings in Crawford, with Delay, is an "former Delay staffer".

Sounds kind of unnamed to me. Like most of Thompson's stuff.

Sid

[BuyingThyme]

19. Am I supposed to play pretend with you?

[madokie]

7. Thanks for that, I kinda' like chb myself

but you'll get a lot of flack here for posting from chb
Welcome to DU, as my dad would say, there is always room for one more.

[mattclearing]

12. This should be posted in LBF: Latest Breaking Fabrications.

:D

[BOSSHOG]

13. IRONY

So much is written on DU about how the MSM is wrong not to do stories that CHB does on a relatively daily basis. And then when CHB offers what we want, their credibility is called into question. I've checked them out on a few occasions, particularly about bush berating junior staffers; a story which eventually made the MSM. And who amongst us would doubt that bush would consider the constitution a goddamned piece of paper or that he would cavort with the likes of abramoff?

It was, after all, the National Enquirer that brought us the "truth" about the pigboy and his drug issues.

[spanone]

17. Probably told Abramoff he was doing a 'heckuva' job.

He's a 'heckuva' president, ain't he.