Lanny Davis is a CRIMINAL!

[Joanne98]

Last Friday, I debated lawyer-turned-lobbyist Lanny Davis, now working for the business backers of the recent Honduran coup, on Democracy Now! It actually wasn't much of a debate -- in the way that word means an exchange of ideas -- as Davis was fast out of the box, preemptively trying to taint host Amy Goodman and me as "ideologues."

As Hillary Clinton's major fundraiser during last year's presidential primary, Davis is known for, among other things, leading the attack on Barack Obama for his association with Reverend Jeremiah Wright. "Why didn't he speak up earlier?" Davis asked in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, demanding to know why the candidate didn't distance himself from Wright's remarks. Recently, Davis has been hired by corporations to derail the labor-backed Employee Free Choice Act, which would make it easier for unions to organize, all the while touting himself as a "pro-labor liberal."

Davis was also the chief U.S. lobbyist of the military dictatorship in Pakistan in the late 90s and played an important role in strengthening relations between then President Bill Clinton and de facto president General Perez Musharraf.

Now Lanny Davis finds himself defending another de facto regime in Honduras that is engaging in "grave and systemic" political repression, suspending due process, harassing independent journalists, killing or disappearing at least ten people, and detaining hundreds as "constitutional," all the while touting himself as a (Honduran) constitutional expert.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-grandin/fact-checking-lanny-davis_b_255900.html

This is for trashing Raddow Maddow! Every time he opens his corrupt mouth I'm going to bring up Honduras!

[Greybnk48]

1. I couldn't believe he said this!

I used to like this guy, mainly because he defended the Clintons against the neo-con onslaught. But he truly is despicable.

[EFerrari]

2. Kidnapping, torture, rape, murder. That is what he is defending.

:shrug:

[tularetom]

3. he Clinton apologists are damn near as offensive as the bush revisionists

And fox democrat "Lanny" Davis is the lowest of the low.

Apparently this pissant was a skull and bones buddy of bush at Yale so maybe somebody is using pictures of him engaging in some sort of sick sex rituals to force him to say stupid shit about real Democrats.

Not that Rachel Maddow or anybody else really gives a rats ass about what a twit like "Lanny" says.

[Ignis]

4. K&R, thanks for posting this.

Davis deserves all this scrutiny, and more.

[girl gone mad]

5. What a creep!