Tweety spins Abramoff: "I'm not sure it's partisan"

[sabra]

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/01/03.html#a6561

Tweety calls Abramoff: Satan!: The Spin begins


Chris Matthews seems to think that Abramoff is really the only "big bad" in all of this. The Gordon Gekko of Lobbists. Well even Gordon needed help to amass millions of dollars illegally, because without republican help, he could have never made so much money. Calling Ralph Reed! He spins the story that Americans won't see this as Republicans being deeply immersed into his pocket.



Chris: I'm not sure it's partisan. I'm not sure people are going to see him as part of any republican culture of corruption. I think Duke Cunningham also was sort of a lone wolf in that department...

Chris:...he's Satan!

So sayeth the spin masters. If Tom Delay hangs out with Jack and many other top republicans playing golf and yucking it up in overseas sweat shops-in Matthews mind that doesn't mean they are any worst then democrats. It's all about Jack-Jack-Jack.

[Loonman]

1. How dies an idiot like Matthews get a TV -program?

:shrug:

[Inland]

2. Well, I guess we'll just have to see, won't we?

Seems that a person pleading guilty to influence peddling is going to tell us to whom he peddled in the USG. Bring it on, bring it all on.

[Hello_Kitty]

3. No Chris, it's not partisan. It's corruption.

The perpetrators happen to have "R" by their names. That's not the point, or it shouldn't be.

Wrong is wrong no matter who's doing it so why don't YOU quit being partisan, Tweety. :grr:

[AntiFascist]

4. They should have kept Nora O'Donnell on Hardball...

she was much more intelligent when she substituted for Tweety over the holidays.

[Double T]

5. Sing the praises of bush on (R)NBC and you too can have your own program

It does not take any journalistic talent or objectivity; just become a GOP whore messenger and the check is in the mail!!

[Blutodog]

6. Tweety a MSM whore

Tweety's been a Rethug whore for years now folks having u been paying attention? If this had been a Demo centered scandal he'd be screaming it from the top of his lungs. The man is a pathetic parody. Haedball indeed but only if ur not for King George.

[caligirl]

7. Why did Cornyn shut down theSpeaking Rock Casino?

http://scoop.agonist.org/story/2005/11/11/202025/18
Cornyn Corruption Watch

Senator John "Box Turtle" Cornyn just keeps showing up. Today he popped up at The Irregular Times and at the non-FNC Roger Ailes' place and at The Blogometer which is published by the highly esteemed National Journal.

"The Irregular Times asks the same questions we did earlier:

Now, what, oh what, did Ralph Reed talk with John Cornyn about? This corrupt deal is enough to bring criminal indictments against Congressman Tom DeLay, so the fact that Senator Cornyn now has his fingerprints on the scheme ought to have his lawyers scrambling. It’s time to hand over your emails and memos, Senator Cornyn.

That sounds real familiar. Here's what we wrote back when this story first broke November 11:

My suggestion for the Senator is this: come clean now with all contacts and communications with Abramoff and Scanlon, most especially if you aren't guilty of anything. If you don't, most people will assume you're hiding something.

So here is a question for our local media here in the state, especially the hometown paper: when are you going to a.) ask our Junior Senator some questions and b.) report on what he says? Why do the blogs have to do all the work? Aren't you the media?"

And:

"As soon as Cornyn shut down Speaking Rock in February 2002, team Abramoff pulled off an extraordinary double play. Playing on their close ties to indicted former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (who once had employed Scanlon as a press secretary), the same lobbyists who had worked behind the scenes to shutter Speaking Rock sold themselves to the Tigua tribe as the lobbyists who could press Congress to reopen that casino. The Tiguas-who hired Abramoff's team for an initial fee of $4.2 million-have since accused Abramoff, Scanlon and Reed of fraud."

[Nimrod2005]

8. Tweetie, I will keep watching but I hate you asshole ......n/t

[biscotti]

9. I don't know who is worse

Tweety are Andrea Mitchell

[AlCzervik]

10. i think big head is projecting, _he_ doesn't want people to see it as gop

corruption. I'd like people to see me as 20 pounds thinner but in reality they don't.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

11. Now can all schizo DUers stop kissing Tweety's feet when he does good?

Since we know he'll be back saying something like this within the week?

Please? :shrug:

[Fla Dem]

19. I don't think I'm schizo, but I haven't checked lately..also don't kiss

Tweety's feet, he irritates me no end sometime. However, to be fair, what he said was..."I'm going to remain skeptical that it was partisan until I see the names."

A subtle difference, but basically remaining open minded until there is son documentation.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

21. No, the problem on DU is people fawning over Tweety and the other

media whores whenever they are the least bit critical of Bush, and then next week they are weeping "I can't believe he's sucking up to Bush so badly" etc.

I mean, the bottom line is that people have to realize that people like Tweety are what they are. And what they are is NOT a consistent champion of truth, liberty, and liberal ideals. Once they can accept the media whores for what they are, they can settle down and have a lot less heartbreak.

[gatorboy]

12. They can spin it any way they want at the moment

But when those Republican indictments start flooding in, their won't be any spin wiggle room left. :)

[wishlist]

13. Wonder when they'll admit to the close Abramoff/Rove WH connection

So far I have not heard the media inform people about the close connections between Abramoff and Rove/White House. You can bet that if the Clinton White House had close ties to someone like Abramoff, it would have been blasted over airways.

[gkhouston]

14. Probably will come up on Countdown tonight.

Olbermann rarely misses a trick, and seems willing to roast evildoers of any stripe. :evilgrin:

[cry baby]

15. The more trouble the repubs get in, the harder the spin the other way.

The Corporate Media is having to work really hard right now. The truth will come out that no dems were involved and he'll just have to say it. Someone better keep a suicide watch over him when that happens.

[Indykatie]

16. Tweety Was Pretty Hard On Ambramoff

in the part of the interviews I saw. He called him the sleeze ball that he is.

[cry baby]

17. Yes, he was hard on him, but he put Abramoff in the sleeze

category alone, without his repub friends. It's like he is saying "It's all Abramoff's fault that there is corruption in the congress." No mention of who (sleezy congresscritters) has been the beneficiary of Abramoff's treacherous acts.

I am no longer able to stomach the tiny tidbits Tweety is willing to give. He is still reeling from his Christmas Party encounter with *, you know - the man that Tweety said "glimmers with sunny nobility".

[graywarrior]

18. Tweety has such lovely brown lips.

I've had just about enough of him.

[Toots]

20. "republican culture of corruption."

Just keep repeating those words Chris.

[William Bloode]

22. The one that made me almost loose my dinner,

Was Howard Finneman. He said something along the lines of, we need to thank * for all this stuff coming out as it was his appointees doing the work. I almost puked right on the spot.

[SPKrazy]

23. I caught that today

Tweety was doing his best to make this a non partisan issue

it is a "bipartisan" issue, but it is mostly a Rethuglican issue

[carolinalady]

24. When he got the breaking news statement on Hastert-he looked

like he would puke. Could not spin that one.

[Tiggeroshii]

25. I think the culture of corruption is bipartisan, but

Abramoff clearly worked for the Republicans. He gave Republicans money for favors and not Democrats. Not to say the Democrats wouldn't take it if they could -cause they would(some have, but the amount was so small, it's almost insignifcant comparatively- they didn't ever get as much being dems, so they din't take as much).
The Repugs are screwed cause of the man now. I think it's clear the web of power is beginning to fall.