Libby’s Supporters Learn That Letters Take on New Life on the Web

[Zenlitened]

Well! I hope you're satisfied with yourselves! You... you... you big meanies you! :cry:

Libby’s Supporters Who Wrote to Judge Learn That Letters Take on New Life on the Web

By Noam Cohen (New York Times)
Published: June 11, 2007

In what may be a sign of things to come, the lawyers for I. Lewis Libby Jr. last month invoked the rarely used courtroom tactic: the “bloggers can be mean” defense.

(snip)

When representatives of the news media asked that the letters be released, Mr. Libby’s lawyers argued against that, saying it “needlessly risks undermining the fair administration of justice.”

Then, alluding to the sometimes combative world of online media, they added there was “the real possibility that these letters, once released, would be published on the Internet and their authors discussed, even mocked, by bloggers.”

(snip)

Asked about the amount of mocking he had seen online, Bill Moore, a lawyer who contributes to the blog Watching Those We Chose (proctoringcongress.blogspot.com), said: “There is some, sure — not an undue amount. Some of the stuff that goes on needs to be mocked.”

More:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/11/business/media/11scooter.html

The underclass is getting so uppity these days, huh? Discussing the ruling clique. And even mocking them. Good heavens! :swoon:

[illinoisprogressive]

1. like that traitorous snake, Carvelle.

[WiseButAngrySara]

5. Beat me to it! Thank you. I can't stand looking at his ugly

mug anymore! All of these people that I used to admire and rely on to tell the unbiased truth ... the list is too long.

[Coexist]

2. "mocked" by the bloggers

heavens to murgatroid!

Public figures should be able to secretly write drippy letters of support with no blowback.

[redphish]

3. The phrase "grasping at straws" comes to mind.

Although, since he had to listen to Dick Cheney to get his orders, I think he has a good shot at a temporary insanity defense.

[Fridays Child]

4. Heaven forbid that His Libbyness could be mocked.

I mean, honestly, just who the hell do these people think they are?

These are the same people whose minions have yet to stop mocking President Clinton, and not once has that good man's behavior even hinted at the shallow egotism of thin Republican skin.

It's just incredible.

[bleever]

6. "A cat can look at a king."

But when it learns to type, look out!

[EFerrari]

15. LOL!

:rofl:

[bleever]

16. .

:toast:

[EFerrari]

20. bleever, I was thinking of all the times I barely stopped my cats

from ordering Avon or car insurance on line.

lol

:toast:

[bleever]

33. Never

let your cat know your credit card number.

;)

[Gregorian]

21. We are all cats now.

Bush, you are no Churchill.

This emperor has no fur!

[bleever]

22. All Your Laps Are Belong To Us.

Churchill said, When you're going through Hell, keep going.

Bush leads us into Hell, and retires to his tract house and barren acres that he calls a ranch.


History is gonna be on you like catnip on a cloth mouse, George, and there's no fridge to hide under.

[Divernan]

28. My family thanks heaven that our cats can't talk - they would mock us endlessly!

My adult daughters and I once had an hysterically funny conversation as to what our cats would say to each other about us if they could talk. Where did the term "catty" come from anyway?

[SeattleGirl]

7. Well, boohoo, Scooter. So what if we, the great unwashed, want

to make fun of you and your supporters. Whatcha gonna do, CRY?

[robinlynne]

19. make fun? I want to put them all behind bars!

[Missy Vixen]

8. Oh, my GOD, call the WAAAMbulance!

It's terrible! Those bloggers are a MENACE! They laugh at people!

WAAAAAA!



Julie

[Zenlitened]

27. ROFL!!! That is THE poster-child for the Republican Party.

Poor little thing! Fortunately, he'll grow up. The prognosis for the Republi-colicky types... not so good.

:rofl:

[Patsy Stone]

9. I come to mock Scooter

not to apologize.

If there's anyone who should apologize, it's those, including many of the bloviating authors involved, who've made a mockery of the Constitution and American jurisprudence.

[AlCzervik]

10. They should be mocked and often, screen shots of the letters should be sent

out as Christmas cards, nytime someone see's a letter writer on the street they should point and laugh.

[Bitwit1234]

11. For the last six years

Democrats, and people who disagreed with bush and his henchmen have been subjected to all kinds of slurring and slamming. We don't get the chance to stand up in front of the corporate media TV cameras and mikes and defend ourselves. Now we have the internet and TRUTH and the republicans don't like it.

[Hekate]

12. This from the party that brought us "Swiftboat Veterans for Truth" & other mockeries?

Heaven forfend! :rofl:

Hekate

[La_Fourmi_Rouge]

14. Yes, this from the party of the Purple Heart Bandaid..

Frankly, each and every one of the Libby supporters needs to be mocked into the mud. Have, at is, blogosphere!

[Hekate]

17. Show forth the PDFs of those letters! Let the mocking begin!

:rofl:

[Me.]

13. Was The Mocking By Bloggers etc. On Parity With The Mocking The Judge Did

to the 12 lawyers who wrote him and told him why the entire proceedings were illegal? Cause there was some world class mocking going on with that judge.

[Gabi Hayes]

18. here are thirty of em

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0605071libby1.html

Rumsfeld

Kissinger

then, almost FOUR pages from Wolfowitz

cheese curdling bathos

[bleever]

24. "cheese curdling bathos"

:toast:

[Divernan]

29. These letters are nauseatingly self-serving of their authors' self-importance.

Bolton, Rumsfeld, Kissinger & Wolfovitz - all go on ad nauseam with paragraphs detailing what incredibly powerful and important people THEY are, and in describing their contacts with Scooter, they bloviate on how extremely hard THEY worked and how fortunate the country has been to have THEIR services - and Scooter was there helping. Remeber those cheesy commercials for Shake-N-Bake, where the little twin girls chirupped, "And I hepped". (they couldn't pronounce "helped"). That evidently was Scooter's role - he helped. And of course the ultimate help he provided was lying to derail a criminal investigation. Since he had such close contact with all these GOP VIPs, he's gotta know where each one of them has various bodies buried - so the LEAST they could do was write these letters in hopes of making Scooter keep his mouth shut should Bush fail to pardon him.

[ArbustoBuster]

23. So, their argument was that publishing the letters would facilitate the First Amendment?

The nerve! Why should the judge make it easier for the public to engage in the discussion of important activities of governance and jurisprudence?

The lawyers who prepared that brief should be laughed out of the Bar Association, since they have obviously never actually read the damned Constitution.

[Major Hogwash]

25. Every one of them that defended Libby should be taken out and horse whipped.

Libby is a traitor.

That may come as news to the liars that have been supporting Bush's Iraq War for 4 years, but it is the truth.

[Rex]

26. What's wrong, political assholes? Afriad the shitfest will be aired all over

the world? Scared much?

Fucking pathetic.

[underpants]

30. Why to think that THEY ( that's us to you and me) would read MY words!!!

said in the most asshole full-of-themselves voice you can imagine.

All they are missing is the powdered wigs

[Rex]

31. HA!

Powdered wigs! Indeed! Good one underpants! :rofl:

[zippy890]

32. kick

good laughs from this thread