Fox News Grills Gonzales: “Are You, Sir, A Pie A La Mode Man?”
Fox News Grills Gonzales: “Are You, Sir, A Pie A La Mode Man?”
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has a central role in some very important issues: the domestic spying program, the Patriot Act, and violations by the FBI and DOJ lawyers.
Today, Fox News still found time to question Gonzales on an equally important subject — pies. Watch it:
Transcript:
E.D. HILL: Ok. And finally, we were talking about this state pies. I don’t believe Texas has one. Florida is changing from key lime to pecan pie –
STEVE DOOCY: Yeah, maybe, it’s a big debate.
HILL: Now shouldn’t Texas lay claim to the pecan pie?
GONZALES: Oh, I’ll tell you, I’ve eaten some great — both key lime pie and pecan pie in Texas.
DOOCY: Are you a – if I can ask you a personal question – are you, sir, a pie a la mode man, do you prefer ice cream on the top or do you prefer whipped cream?
GONZALES: I’m not a whipped cream fan. I like good old blue bell vanilla ice cream from Texas.
HILL: The best. Ok, well, there’s an answer — thank you.
DOOCY: Alberto Gonzales, the attorney general of the United States and a confessed pie lover.
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The fact that these chickens*t (Abu G, Cheney, Condi, etc.) only go on Fox shows their eminent weakness, the petty way they rule our nation and the fact that they are dodging any and all accountability. They have betrayed the public trust time and gain.
And the rest of the bigtime TV news should be hammering the hell out of them. But they can’t cuz they’re chicken*t as well.
March 9th, 2006 at 12:05 pmHard hitting news stories we need to see! True corporatism (facism) down to the shameless plug for Blue Bell Ice Cream.
March 9th, 2006 at 12:08 pmAttorney General Gonzalez, after you wrote the memos justifying torture and bringing eternal shame on the United States, what happened to the bird? Did you get the bird? Did you make pie from the bird? Look, over there, it’s a bird! It’s a pie!
March 9th, 2006 at 12:10 pmthey’re tossin’ salad. do you prefer jelly or syrup? peckerwoods!
March 9th, 2006 at 12:11 pmwheew, I can sleep well tonight, I was living in constant fear these last few months, fearing the AG was a Moon-pie kinda guy…
March 9th, 2006 at 12:13 pmBlue Bell Ice Cream Co. — owned by the UAE???
I’m surprised the numnutz at Fox didn’t criticize him because his favorite isn’t Red Bell ice cream…
March 9th, 2006 at 12:15 pmThis was no less newsworthy than all of the countless poll stories around Bush! Are you telling me you’re not concerned what the official state pie of Texas should be?
March 9th, 2006 at 12:16 pmTalk about fiddling while Rome is burning.
March 9th, 2006 at 12:18 pmI’m a foreigner and don’t know how to pronounce exactly Doocy, is it pronuncied id-i-o-cy?
March 9th, 2006 at 12:20 pmJust once I’d like to see any of these assbites go on Al Franken’s show.
Now that would be a fun listen. (Franken would probably inexplicably show up at Gitmo, of course they wouldn’t alow anyone to know for months/years afterwards).
March 9th, 2006 at 12:21 pmThe F-Word network asking all the hardball questions.
March 9th, 2006 at 12:28 pmI’m so glad now that I know that Gonzo is not a fan of whipped cream I can finally sleep better tonight!
The stupidity of the F-Word network never fails to amaze me.
He has his DoJ seal and American flag in the background to talk about pies with Fox News? Now, I haven’t watched the clip which probably has some softies before the pie scene, but FOX can’t spin their garbage on the us winning iraq, etc. Now we’re about pies. Yep, that will help the ratings.
Seriously, that’s a bizarre exchange…especially the signoff ‘pie lover’ comment.
You would think that, say, Iraq’s morgues being instructed to not count people shot execution style as victims of insurgents/violence as a good story. Or, say, the 50 Sunnis taken hostage today by Iraqi Interior Ministry commandos (they’re not fake uniforms and not fake interior ministry vehicles with mounted heavy machine guns - I’m tired of that antideath squad argument). They’ll wind up in a ‘minibus’ like the last group half strangled half shot.
I think we miss the point about Fox though, or rather just ‘overlook’ it because we have a different view of how things should be. FOX is out to make money and set out to do it by creating a conservative channel that runs polarizing garbage with figures like Ann (kill their leaders, convert them all to christianity Ann).
Since their advertisers know exactly what sort of person watches FOX relative to CNN/msnbc, etc they can tailor their ads. FOX also enjoys alot of repubs all to willing to come on their talkshows, interviews,etc. Basically they get special treatment.
It will get really ugly once there’s a democratic president - then it’ll be Ann saying ‘kill all the democrats, convert them to facism, err, my republican ideology”
March 9th, 2006 at 12:33 pmPronunciation….rhymes with Douche-y.
As to the talking heads on FAUX NEWS. Shut yer pie-holes.
-GSD
March 9th, 2006 at 12:36 pmHonestly, I would have thought that if the United States of America was going to be a dictatorship or monarchy, that it would be at the hand of an Alexander the Great or a Caeser a Melkisedek. Instead we get Pinky and the Brain. Narf.
Goper’s Lament
March 9th, 2006 at 12:37 pmIsn’t W the Texas state nut?
March 9th, 2006 at 12:40 pmmr murdock, as faux’s news ratings continue to drop, I wonder what it could be?…but then what do you care..what was your net worth again? faux news, just a toy? could you find another toy, (you can have so many) and shut this one down…i’m sure your bored with it by now. I bet you wonder what my favorate pie is,don’t you, well I can’t say on this blogg, but I do love thoes little animals that make dams.
March 9th, 2006 at 12:42 pmA new low….even for Fox News……
March 9th, 2006 at 12:42 pmThey never ever cease to amaze….
Wonder if Ann Coulter is offended by Gonzales’ penchant for pies….??
March 9th, 2006 at 12:43 pmGoper’s Lament
March 9th, 2006 at 12:46 pmAH-HA!!! Gonzo reveals his true anti-american self. He makes No mention AT ALL of the most AMERICAN of pies, APPLE!!! Shame on him!! And Key Lime Pie, without Whipped Cream?!? No wonder he has no problem with torture, it’s who he IS!!! Bad, nasty man.
March 9th, 2006 at 12:47 pmThey are just mindless twits…more propaganda puppets for the Bush Reich.
March 9th, 2006 at 12:49 pmHe likes pie, eh? Good to see he’s not gay.
March 9th, 2006 at 12:49 pm#10
March 9th, 2006 at 12:50 pmThe only problem with that is no one listens to Franken or Air America for that matter. Fox news is the number one news channel while Air America recently lost stations in Phoenix and Montana and is about to lose its flagship station in New York. Franken should actually be locked up at Gitmo for some of the treasonous things he said on the air.
Maybe Gonzales saves the whipped cream for his nightly trysts with Steve Doocy. Then again, he might save the Bell vanilla ice cream for his nightly trysts with Felafel Man.
March 9th, 2006 at 12:51 pmI’m reminded of the survival tactic: when aducted or held hostage, use any excuse or chance at conversation to humanize yourself as much as possible, becuase you’re less likely to get shot.
I’m just not sure how that lines up, since, honestly, if anyone is the hostage-taker, it’s these guys….
March 9th, 2006 at 12:55 pm24- There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your Felafel, see?
March 9th, 2006 at 12:56 pm23- you mean rather than the Oxy-Moron defending traitors and war criminals ad nauseum? Maybe you like living in a Dick Tater Ship.
Goper’s Lament
March 9th, 2006 at 12:59 pmAnd here this whole time, I thought the official pie for Texas was the Moose Turd Pie.
March 9th, 2006 at 1:01 pmI guess there wasn’t a single relevant question that idiot could ask Abu G today. Of course, he would lie through his teeth, and it is Faux “News,” so, nevermind…I hate pie.
March 9th, 2006 at 1:01 pmGonzo likes Chocolate Starfish Pie
March 9th, 2006 at 1:03 pmaka in Tejas as Terd Blossom
March 9th, 2006 at 1:03 pmTexans dont eat alot of Pie.
Beer BBQ Ice Cream
And Gonzo you fool Vanilla Ice Cream is made from cream and YES I have been to the BLUE BELL CREAMERIES!
Gonzo can’t even get the Ice Cream right!
March 9th, 2006 at 1:07 pmHeh. Substantive and weighty criticisms, all. I, for one, will sleep better knowing that the opinions represented here are shared by the power structure of one of the nation’s two major parties. I’m glad we can bring meaningful ‘douche’ debate to the country’s pressing issues.
March 9th, 2006 at 1:08 pmBush lead the way. When you are seen as a fuck up just joke and pretend like all the “fuss” is just back ground noise…
Oops! no WMDs under here… Nope! none over here either …giggle… Here it is!! Oops…no that is an American soldiers head… giggle… maybe under my desk! Nope that is Frist. Where are those damn WMDs!!! Hahahhahah so funny… pass me some pie Bandar Bush …wink wink..
March 9th, 2006 at 1:09 pmIce ‘CREAM’ what part of that does Gonzo not understand?
The ICE or the CREAM?
Yew ar ah emabarrasment two Texas Gonzo
March 9th, 2006 at 1:09 pmYou expected, what, substance from Steve Douchey?
He wouldn’t ask a guest his/her name unless Roger Ailes’ second-in-command guy scripted the question for the ol’ “Douche-ster”…
March 9th, 2006 at 1:09 pm#Heh. Substantive and weighty criticisms, all. I, for one, will sleep better knowing that the opinions represented here are shared by the power structure of one of the nation’s two major parties. I’m glad we can bring meaningful ‘douche’ debate to the country’s pressing issues.
Comment by The Writing on the Wall — March 9, 2006 @ 1:08 pm
So this is Weighty?
But I do agree. This is Oprah Winfrey Politics, but thats all that FAUX news and the Neo-Cons have going for them. Yet some will say Gonzo likes Ice Cream he’s like me except that I dont Lie or Condone Torture That Gonzo is a Good Guy..
The last Bastion of Bush cant speak.Thats whats the post is about, to me.
Bushco CAN say or DO nothing correctly, They have lost their Number one Weapon.
SPIN
March 9th, 2006 at 1:14 pm#34
I hope a terrorist from Syria uses one of those WMDs to blow up your office and home. Then, we’ll see who is still laughing. Ha Ha. Everyone knows that Sadaam had more than enough time to get all WMDs moved since Bush had to comply with UN and congress.
March 9th, 2006 at 1:16 pmAnother thing that separates liberals from conservatives:
Liberals freely say they don’t like the ideas or inclinations of Conservatives.
Conservatives freely say liberals hate everything.
Conservatives readily accuse non-conservatives of treason.
Conservatives gleefully wish terror attacks on US citizens that are not conservatives.
You know what separates Conservatives (who post here with punctuation marks as names) from little boys? A crowbar.
March 9th, 2006 at 1:28 pmCake is better than pie!
March 9th, 2006 at 1:33 pmThey even managed to spin and distort that fluff peice. They end it by callin Gonzales a “confessed pie lover” yet he confessed nothing of the sort in the piece.
March 9th, 2006 at 1:34 pmMmmmm…. pie…. (drooling commence)….
March 9th, 2006 at 1:36 pm# 38
Despite your cowardly and insipid, not to mention threatening and belligerent, comments cloaked in anonymity, since your IP address is clearly visible, you may want to consider a piece of humble pie, before someone reports your dangerous rhetoric to the thought police. By the way, your bogeyman spells his name Saddam . Why don’t you grab a shovel, head on over to Syria, and start digging. When you find those WMD, let us know.
March 9th, 2006 at 1:37 pmLet Them Eat Pie!!!
March 9th, 2006 at 1:38 pmFox News? Who watches Fox News except frightened grandmas who can’t stand to hear bad news, and ex-Klansman who can’t stand to hear bad news?
March 9th, 2006 at 1:45 pmTotally irrelevant at this point.
#38:
That’s some serious faith-based knowledge you’ve got there.
March 9th, 2006 at 1:50 pmDamn! That’s some hard hitting shit!
March 9th, 2006 at 1:56 pmNow come now Beaver, was the Attorney General under oath when he answered his ice cream question? We’ll gee mom I hadn’t really thought about it. I was wondering why they’d be asking a guy like that questions about ice cream.
March 9th, 2006 at 2:46 pmWake and bake.
March 9th, 2006 at 2:54 pm#34
I hope a terrorist from Syria uses one of those WMDs to blow up your office and home. Then, we’ll see who is still laughing. Ha Ha. Everyone knows that Sadaam had more than enough time to get all WMDs moved since Bush had to comply with UN and congress.
Comment by .
Heh you are really funny…but you know what… I was doing a parody of Bush as he was cutting it up acting like he was looking for WMDs on stage somewhere…he was caught on TV making fun of the fact that there were no WMDs found… HE was the one laughing about it …I didnt find it too funny myself and apparently neither do you…maybe you should look into the BS YOUR leader does so you can direct your anger towards him.
March 9th, 2006 at 3:04 pmWow! Usually you’d have to go to stileproject.com to see someone getting sucked off by their lapdog.
March 9th, 2006 at 3:09 pm.
TEXAS IS BAD FOR AMERICA
March 9th, 2006 at 3:46 pmI’ve heard of journalists pictching soft questions — but about PIE? You gotta be kidding me…
I for one couldn’t care less what sort of pie Gonzales likes best — what business is it of mine? I’m not planning to invite him over for dinner any time soon…
March 9th, 2006 at 4:47 pmAfter a long, hard day conjuring up new defenses for the Bush&Co criminal activity, L’il Bert just orders himself a nice slice of pie a la mode. A little comfort food after a day at the office.
March 9th, 2006 at 5:45 pmCan a person choke on ice cream?
Those Fox guys are tough reporters; they’ll do anything for a scoop. I wonder what Gonzalez’s favorite cake is!
Woodward & Bernstein, eat your hearts out! Mike Wallace has nothing on these guys!
March 9th, 2006 at 6:17 pmThis just proves that Fox news, like the administration idols they worship, all have tapioca for brains.
March 9th, 2006 at 6:41 pmThis man deserves more than a pie in the face.
March 9th, 2006 at 7:32 pm#23-”The only problem with that is no one listens to Franken or Air America for that matter. Fox news is the number one news channel while Air America recently lost stations in Phoenix and Montana and is about to lose its flagship station in New York. Franken should actually be locked up at Gitmo for some of the treasonous things he said on the air.
Comment by . — March 9, 2006 @ 12:50 pm”
Franken has a great show. I’m sorry you confuse someone telling the truth, or even expressing an opinion that you disagree with, with being a traitor. It just shows how poisoned our society has become under conservative domination of the news, talk radio, and the press. I feel sorry for you, whoever you are. You don’t even realize that we’re becoming an authoritarian society, a fascist state, and that the very people you defend wouldn’t blink at throwing YOU in jail or spying on you or auditing your taxes if they felt like it. You’re a fool if you think agreeing with them makes you immune to their arbitrary abuses of power. And you’re an idiot if you actually believe they want you in their club. They’d as soon squash you like a bug if it served their interests.
As for Air America getting pulled, I suspect there’s a lot more going on than meets the eye. I do know that O’Reilly’s radio show in New York City is subsidized by FOX and that it would have been dumped a long time ago otherwise. But that would have been too embarrassing for Murdoch so he actually pays for it to stay on the air.
(Ooo! Oooo! Is FOX Security going to visit me now? Do they have my number? Ooh! Ooh! LOL, just try it fuckers. Nothing would make me happier than someone from FOX trying to get on my property. The Second Amendment works both ways, assholes.)
March 9th, 2006 at 8:15 pmPS: Air America seems to be doing allright:
National
XM Satellite Radio ch. 167
Eastern
Akron, OH - WARF-AM 1350 AM
Ann Arbor, MI - WLBY-AM 1290 AM
Asheville, NC - WPEK-AM 880 AM
Atlanta, GA - WWAA-AM 1690 AM
Bennington, VT - WBTN-AM 1370
Binghamton, NY - WYOS-AM 1360 AM
Boston, MA - WKOX-AM 1200 AM
Boston, MA - WXKS-AM 1430 AM
Brattleboro, VT - WKVT-AM 1490 AM
Buffalo, NY - WHLD-AM 1270 AM
Burlington, VT - WVAA-AM 1390 AM
Chapel Hill, NC - WCHL-AM 1360 AM
Charlottesville, VA - WVAX-AM 1450 AM
Chattanooga, TN - WDOD-AM 1310 AM
Cincinnati, OH - WCKY-AM 1530 AM
Cleveland, OH - WTAM-AM 1100 AM
Columbia, SC - WOIC-AM 1230 AM
Columbus, OH - WTPG-AM 1230 AM
Detroit, MI - WDTW-AM 1310 AM
East Longmeadow, MA - WHNP-AM 1600 AM
Grand Rapids, MI - WTKG-AM 1230
Greenfield, MA - WHMQ-AM 1240 AM
Huntington, WV - WRVC-AM 930 AM
Ithaca, NY - WNYY-AM 1470-AM
Key West, FL - WKIZ-AM 1500 AM
Miami, FL - WINZ-AM 940 AM
Montpelier/Barre/St Johnsbury, VT - WDEV-AM 550
New Haven, CT - WAVZ-AM 1300 AM
New York, NY - WLIB 1190 AM
Petoskey, MI - WWKK-AM 750 AM
Pittsburgh, PA - WPTT-AM 1360
Portland, ME - WLVP-AM 870 AM
Providence-Warwick-Pawtucket, RI - WHJJ-AM 920
Rochester, NY - WROC-AM 950 AM
Rocky Mount, NC - WEED-AM 1390
Sarasota-Bradenton, FL - WSRQ-AM 1450 AM
Springfield, MA - WHMP-AM 1400 AM
State College, PA - WBLF-AM 970 AM
Washington, DC - WWRC-AM 1260 AM
West Palm Beach, FL - WJNO-AM 1290 AM
Central
Austin, TX - KOKE-AM 1600 AM
Baton Rouge, LA - WYNK-AM 1380 AM
Brainerd, MN - WWWI-AM 1270 AM
Chicago, IL - WCPT-AM 850 AM
Corpus Christi, TX - KCCT-AM 1150 AM
Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX - KXEB-AM 910 AM
Davenport, IA - WKBF-AM 1270 AM
Duluth-Superior, MN - KQDS-AM 1490 AM
Ely/Hibbing, MN - WELY-AM 1450 AM
Lafayette, LA - KEUN-AM 1490 AM
Madison, WI - WXXM-FM 92.1 FM
Marion/Carbondale, IL - WINI-AM 1420
Memphis, TN - WWTQ-AM 680 AM
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN - KTNF-AM 950 AM
New Orleans, LA - WSMB-AM 1350 AM
San Antonio, TX - KTXX-FM 103.1 FM
Mountain
Albuquerque, NM - KABQ-AM 1350 AM
Denver, CO - KKZN-AM 760 AM
El Paso, TX - KHRO-AM 1650 AM
Santa Fe, NM - KTRC-AM 1260 AM
Taos, NM - KVOT-AM 1340
Pacific
Albany, OR - KTHH-AM 990 AM
Eugene, OR - KOPT-AM 1600 AM
Eureka, CA - KGOE-AM 1480
Fresno, CA - KFPT-AM 790 AM
Los Angeles, CA - KTLK-AM 1150 AM
Monterey-Salinas-Santa Cruz, CA - KRXA-AM 540
North Bend / Coos Bay, OR - KBBR-AM 1340
Portland, OR - KPOJ-AM 620 AM
Reno, NV - KJFK-AM 1230 AM
Riverside, CA - KCAA-AM 1050 AM
Sacramento, CA - KCTC-AM 1320
San Diego, CA - KLSD-AM 1360 AM
San Francisco, CA - KQKE-AM 960 AM
San Francisco, CA - KSRO-AM 1350
San Luis Obispo, CA - KYNS-AM 1340 AM
Santa Barbara, CA - KIST-AM 1340 AM
Santa Cruz - Monterey, CA - KOMY-AM 1340 AM
Seattle, WA - KPTK-AM 1090 AM
Spokane, WA - KPTQ-AM 1280 AM
Victor Valley, CA - KSZL-AM 1230 AM
Alaska/Hawaii
Anchorage, AK - KUDO-AM 1080 AM
Honolulu, HI - KUMU-AM 1500 AM
Kihei, HI - KAOI-AM 1110 AM
Lihue, HI - KQNG-AM 570 AM
The tide is turning, folks. It took rightwing nutbag radio decades to get to where they are today. Considering Air America has been on what, 2 years, that is a damned impressive list.
March 9th, 2006 at 8:24 pmSo we are supposed to care what pies Gonzales likes to eat? I do NOT care if he likes Key Lime pie or Pecan pie or whatever > just throw all the pies in his face > PERIOD.
March 10th, 2006 at 4:10 amLet’s secede Texas to United Arab Emirates.
March 10th, 2006 at 2:35 pmAlberto can have his pie shipped in direct,
but the Ice Cream will have to be bought locally,
after torturing someone at the creamery.
As we worry what pie who eats. The Bush regime disassembles the constitution, removes more of our rights. All in the name of home land security. Its time for a regime change at home. This is what happens when one party is in control.
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