Watching Ridge and Maddow for the first time, somebody has gotten to him

[Botany]

Ridge is nervous as hell and using lawyer talk to try to say that what he wrote in the
book isn't what was written in the book.

I might be nuttier than a squirrel turd but it sure seems that somebody has gotten to him.

[lapfog_1]

1. Somebody told him to never fly in small planes

and his family too.

[tblue37]

17. And probably his little dog, too. nt

[DesertFlower]

2. rachel will get them all the time. nt

[Booster]

4. Rachel was hard on him, but she did it in such a nice way, he

didn't know she got him. Idiot.

[Cresent City Kid]

3. Was he still wet from the waterboarding?

Cheney could have "walled" him but the bruises would show up on TV.

[Stinky The Clown]

5. I wonder who could have gotten to him?

[grasswire]

8. my bet is that he said provocative things to sell the book...

...and never really intended to waver from the Bushie narrative.

[jaysunb]

15. I'll bet you're right

n/t

[Mike Daniels]

23. Just like any other former Bush official out to make some bucks on the book market

1. During the pre-book release window start revealing a bunch of stuff that supposedly happened but which you didn't have the guts to expose when you were in a position to do something about it.

2. Start backpedaling when you start to do TV appearances because what's actually in the book doesn't match up with what you were spewing a few days earlier.

[Botany]

14. I am a big fan of your films

[rhett o rick]

16. Barbara Bush

[Old Codger]

6. complete

180% from last week...

[DearAbby]

7. My thoughts exactly

This man is doing some major back peddling.

[annm4peace]

9. I thought Rachel was holding back tears during clip of Katrina

I wish she had hit him harder on Katrina.. We failed the people in new orleans.
Our government refused to fail the people in the gulf coast. The could have been and should have been helped. AT the very least our government should have been dropping in water, food, medicine.

It was painful to watch then and still painful to watch now, except now it includes guilt of not taking over congress member's offices to force them to take action to help those people.

PBS should be playing "Trouble the Waters" over and over again.

[Botany]

13. He dropped two of the biggest lies about Katrina

1) The buses ... if all those school buses that were scene in the pictures were used lots of people could have gotten out of
New Orleans ..... bald faced lie (Sean Hannity loves the bus story)

a) many of the school buses were not running

b) many of the bus drivers had fled the city

c) the water was blocking the roads for the buses

2) On Saturday before the storm the Governor of New Orleans had signed a state of emergency order after that it was a federal
problem .... the storm hit sunday night ... the levies were breached monday morning.

[left is right]

20. the bus story makes me madder than all the other lies

even if the buses could have been used. where would they have gone? other cities made it plain that refugees from the storm were not welcomed. Some had armed guards to repel the refugees. The mayor of NO had no authority to make the other cities take NO residents

[Ecumenist]

10. That's exactly what I said to my husband when we were listening

to him tapdance around what he said. He was ducking and dodging his own words.

[Octafish]

11. I'd like to K&R several parts of that post.

Ridge almost seemed innocent, although nuttier than a squirrel turd, when they followed up with Simon Bar Sinister Bernie Kerik. Those who employed them aren't We the People - they're the warmongering, war criminals and traitors who still pull the levers of War Inc.

[bertman]

12. A visit from Agent Smith will do that to you.

[lonestarnot]

18. Just bullshit advertising for book sales, but who'd buy his bullshit, cowardly motherfucker

turd sniffing sniffy. Sniff, that nervous sign of lying tic warrants a Swampie pic! Evil fuckwad money grabbing serial killing country killing snake.

[omega minimo]

19. When he was lying through his anvil shaped face, how did he think he would get away with

his part in this?

[SoCalDemGrrl]

21. No shit Sherlock. He was a very nervous boy....

[Loge23]

22. No question about it!

One of the more amusing moments for me was the reference to the book jacket, which Ridge immediately shook off as "not my words".
Are you kidding me??
This is YOUR book!! You don't know what is on your own jacket??
We should let the fact that Ms. Maddow is one of the very best in the business at her craft get away from this discussion.
I loved her close - "this is why I am so grateful for this show!"
Truly an amazing, Godsend, of a person - Rachel.

[Botany]

25. "not my words"

most of the time publishers put other people works in the dust jackets of books ..... really they do :sarcasm:

When publishers do put other peoples words in or on the dust jacket they alway credit the person i.e.

A damn fine read Dr. H. G. Smartguy

I couldn't put it down Norah O'Donnel


Please what a line of crap ...... "not my words" :puke:

BTW When Ridge took credit for the Coast Guard's response to Katrina I wanted to vomit. The Commandeer of the Coast Guard said he
and his forces acted independently and had no orders from the White House or Homeland Security.

[madokie]

24. Rachel wasn't having any of it either.

Bless her, she is so good at interviewing these turds that makes me wonder what he expected to do on her show except show his ass and maybe sell a book or two but at what cost.

[ThomWV]

26. LINK: If you missed it last night here's your chance

Enjoy.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#32650857

[bleever]

27. "I didn't say in my book what my book says I said."

Sic semper pusillanimus.

[Botany]

28. Tom Ridge: I Was Pressured To Raise Terror Alert To Help Bush Win

So much wiggle room there.



I wonder if he even read the book .... now Lary Bloom must have read it.

[bluesmail]

29. Exactly what I thought. eom

[redqueen]

30. That would not be at all surprising. (nt)

[Raine]

31. I think he's scared

someone paid him a visit. :scared: