Duke Cunningham's sad letter from prison

[Philosoraptor]

http://www.abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2541128

Cunningham has lashed out at the reporter who uncovered the corruption scandal that sent him to prison, telling him in a letter that his "constant cruelty" had nearly destroyed Cunningham's life.

"I hurt more than anyone could imagine and without my faith your constant cruelty would destroy me," Cunningham wrote.

"I should have said no to the gifts. For that, I am truly sorry," Cunningham wrote.

"Each time you print it hurts my family and now I have lost them along with everything I have worked for during my 64 years of life," Cunningham wrote. "I am human not an animal to keep whipping."

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boo hooooo, you've got me crying, for yoooooo....

[zanne]

1. I usually feel sorry for people once they repent...

But not in this case. Sorry, Dukie, you're just a big pile of crap.

[hobbit709]

2. My response

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[The Count]

26. To which I reply (just for fun):

[Jack from Charlotte]

40. He should be executed. Anyone who accepts bribes during a time of....

war, regarding defense contracts should be executed. I'd hang this republican mofo. And since he was in the military and still committed this crime I'd hang this republican mofo, twice. And I'm not to big on the death penalty either.

[acmejack]

3. As a Captain in the Navy I know he had mercy on the Enlisted Men

He sentenced to terms in the brig, gave bad discharges to, and ruined their lives in various and sundry manners. But that was different, no doubt. He was righteous then...

[annabanana]

4. "Don't do the crime

if you can't do the time."

sigh

[ChairmanAgnostic]

24. but these are just "gifts"

a Rolls, a house boat, home sales, MILLIONS of dollars - just gifts?
Talk about being delusional.

[PDittie]

5. Suicide is not the answer, Duke

What would Jesus have done?

Why, he would have accepted his scourging like a man and looked forward to his greater reward.

Now buck up, little fighter pilot. No more whining. Sac up.

[Hubert Flottz]

6. Sympathy can ALWAYS be found...

In the dictionary, between Sh*T and Syphilis.

I can't bring myself to feel sorry for someone who helped Bush ruin my country.

Edit...Try and...Act like a duke instead of an oaf!

[Philosoraptor]

10. I bet his imprisonment scares the hell out of the MANY other crooks

[Hubert Flottz]

11. I hope they are all together in the slammer real soon.

Ali Bushco and the 40 thieves can't take the shit they dish out worth a damn. Duke acts like a little baby girl. He should have listened to Gawd...his co-pilot...but he chose to hear the "Devil" Bush instead.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

25. but not fast enough, Phil. just not fast enough for our country.

[bluerum]

7. I worked all my life too Duke. But I DIDN'T break any laws and

I have been left with crap thanks to bush and his criminal gang - of which YOU were a part.

Enjoy your stay in the rockpile hotel - STILL on the taxpayers dime.

[notadmblnd]

8. Again.. it's someone elese fault

Yo Duke, This is the kind of thing you need to think about before you decide to commit illegal acts. :nopity:

[originalpckelly]

21. Yeah, that evil reporter doing his job! Perish the thought...

a reporter might actually hold the government accountable! What has this cruel world come to?

[The Count]

27. Nailed it! Of only the media were more obedient.....

[mikeytherat]

9. Duke pulls a Fonzie! Can't form the word "bribes."

"I should not have accepted those bri...brib...br...brib...GIFTS." - Duke Cunningham

mikey_the_rat

[EST]

12. He has not repented. He doesn't give a damn about what he

did, only about being caught.

For the first time, he is being required to be responsible--in the only way a repuclown can be--in prison.

[Hubert Flottz]

13. We need to K&R the Grand Duke's Lament, to page one...

Let us focus on the things he mourns over.

1. His big flabby ass...

Edit...for Schpellin'

[Crankie Avalon]

14. How truly, truly Republican...

"The former Navy "Top Gun" pilot also blasted defense contractor Mitchell Wade, who helped implicate him to authorities.

"Wade is the absolute devil," Cunningham wrote in the four-page, handwritten letter, excerpts of which were published Saturday on the San Diego Union-Tribune's Web site.

Wade has pleaded guilty to giving Cunningham more than $1 million in bribes and is awaiting sentencing."

So is Wade "the absolute devil" for twisting the Honest Dukester's arm into accepting more than a million dollars in bribes, or for not continuing to lie and instead finally admitting the truth about the whole sordid affair?

[Philosoraptor]

16. the absolute devil made me do it

[Kingshakabobo]

36. The "absolute devil" didn't swear to uphold the ........

.....constitution and the laws of the United States.

[Virginia Dare]

15. He's sorry alright...

sorry he got caught, otherwise he'd still be living the high life on ill-gotten taxpayer dollars.

Suck it up Duke, and may there be many more just like you.

[undergroundpanther]

17. Now he knows

How the other half lives when thugs like YOU ruin their lives and their crimes are not NEARLY as huge as yours was,and they go to jails far rougher than the one YOU are at....Get over it duke you puke.Psychopaths like you belong in jail. You deserve all this(and more) for what you have done consider yourself lucky you haven't been sentenced to death..and SHUT UP you psychopath bully thief.
I don't give a shit about you or your life'cause you fucked your own life all by yourself asshole,and who knows how many other's who were innocent and got fucked over by your greed,.Why don't you just kill yourself.
At least when you are a corpse you won't be whining for pity you don't deserve anymore from people that do not care about your discomfort in jail. Fuck off..CunningHAM.

[SmokingJacket]

18. Why do I think he's going to be back to his old tricks the minute

they let him out??

Oh, I don't know.

[undergroundpanther]

19. He will

Psychopaths never learn.
I hope he dies one less psychopath makes for a better world for those of us who aren't.

[originalpckelly]

20. Is little Dukie upset? Your friend ben dover not playing nice?

Well, time for you to take it up the ass like the rest of us did because of your corruption, you son of a bitch!

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

22. Screw you, Duke

One of the many who arrogantly spouted off about how Clinton needed to be removed from office, while whining to a judge about how his drug addict should be given a break.

[madmax]

23. Yada, yada... cry me a river. n/t

[peekaloo]

28. Boo Hoo. the thugs on the playground mock me and I'm always the last

to be picked for gang banging. :cry: :nopity:

[ecstatic]

29. Do Repugs take responsibility for ANYTHING they do??!!

It's ALWAYS somebody else's fault when they F*CK up!

[bumblebee1]

30. No Duke,

that reporter who broke the story of your corruption didn't ruin your life, YOU DID! He didn't ruin your family's lives, YOU DID. You made the choice to be greedy. MIllions of dollars in "gifts?" Man, I wish someone would give me gifts of even a third of the amount the defense contractors gave you.

[BurtWorm]

31. World's smallest violin

:nopity:

[FredStembottom]

32. We wouldn't let a child act like this for 30 seconds!

We'd say: Take responsibility for your own actions, young man!

My God! The Repubs make parenting so much freakin' harder than it needs to be!

In so many ways!







:nopity:

[progressoid]

33. Hey Duke, you're just supposed to blame it on ALCOHOLISM!

C'mon it's all the rage today!

[Philosoraptor]

34. I was embezzled as a teenager

in response to progressroid

[October]

35. Is it me, or does he imply animals should be whipped?

This guy still will not accept responsibility and thinks he deserves sympathy. Unreal.

[Kingshakabobo]

37. I always think of this South Park episode when I think of ......

.....Randy "crybaby" Cunningham......

Cartman licking the tears of his enemy:


12 seconds:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30zwjlb4z_Y

[Beelzebud]

38. Hang yourself with your bed sheets, Duke.

[lonestarnot]

47. bwwwwwwwwwwa

:rofl:

[AlCzervik]

39. the blaming of the media never stops even after the perp is convicted

"it's your fault i'm in here even though i'm guilty!"

[Hawkowl]

41. Evil

Dukester's letter is wrong on so many levels it makes we want to puke. "gifts"? WTF? If he was an animal it would be o.k. to keep whipping him?????! He's not sorry about anything. That reporter needs to keep printing and NEVER relent.

I hope he's in for a long time and when he gets out he is continuously hounded. Otherwise, the rethuglicans will bring him back, distort the past, and rehabilitate him like Nixon.

Remember his comments, when you start to feel urges of bipartisanship and letting bygones be bygones. Remember that the rethuglicans are NEVER sorry, and just playing you for an advantage to stick a knife in your back!

[kerry-is-my-prez]

42. No Randy - you destroyed your own life NOT the reporter.

Looks like he hasn't learned a thing.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

43. He is genetically precluded from understanding what he did wrong.

his tears came because he was caught.

[Cleita]

44. So he's sorry for accepting the gifts, but nothing else?

Then he blames others for his problems, not himself? I really can feel no sympathy for this man and his amoral behavior.

[Philosoraptor]

45. ------------

[Libby2]

46. I am truly sorry, I got caught.

Boofreakinhoo

[mitchum]

48. I'm going to start sending taunting letters to that motherfucker...

in prison.
Telling him about all of the wonderful food I'm eating, how nice it is to walk around city streets, spending a day in the country, etc...
I encourage others to do the same.

[Philosoraptor]

49. Having wonderful time. Wish you were here asshole

[HamdenRice]

50. Booooo fuc*ing hoooo! nt

[ck4829]

51. Hey everybody, let's give it up for Marcus Stern!

The reporter who exposed him!

:yourock::woohoo::applause:

[LeftishBrit]

52. Well, most crooks hate the cops and the 'grasses' who put them inside

so it makes sense that Cunningham would hate the reporter.

Just being a typical crook, I suppose.

It's amazing how many Republicans seem to end up in trouble with the law, for one thing or another. And then it's supposed to be the moral and religious thing to vote for them!

[lectrobyte]

53. I guess that Cunningham doesn't understand that some folks would

hold his betrayal of the public trust as "constant cruelty" inflicted on all of us. I know mercy is something we should all strive for, but I just can't scrape anything at all for him. Thank God that we still have some reporters who are actually shining some light into this darkness when they can.