Fox News Falsely Claims Daschle and Gephardt Are Registered Lobbyists
Fox News Falsely Claims Daschle and Gephardt Are Registered Lobbyists
Fox News published a story this week headlined, “Premium Placed on Lobbyists Who Served in Congress.” The first two paragraphs:
What do Tom Daschle, John Ashcroft, Fred Thompson, J.C. Watts, Zell Miller and Dick Gephardt have in common these days?
They are all former members of Congress — and they are all registered lobbyists.
Actually, neither Gephardt nor Daschle (who is a fellow at the Center for American Progress) are or have been registered lobbyists since they left office, according to the U.S. Senate’s official database. We called both their offices to confirm the Senate’s records.
The error is especially egregious considering how easy it is to find out who has been registered as a lobbyist. Just search a name at http://sopr.senate.gov. Ashcroft, Thompson, Watts, and Miller are all there. Gephardt and Daschle — the only two progressives on Fox’s list — aren’t.
Email Fox News at politics@foxnews.com and tell them to correct the record for their readers. (Remember, be polite.)
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Fox should have mentioned the lucrative lobbying of MRS. Daschle, too…
March 23rd, 2006 at 3:53 pmHmmm, Fox didn’t tell the truth who would have guessed? Who also would have guessed that even when proven false the trolls still believe the faux news.
March 23rd, 2006 at 3:56 pmMA I searched and did not find any Daschles listed. Care to elaborate as to where you get your info from?
March 23rd, 2006 at 3:57 pmHEY TEXAS!!! How you like living in a POLICE STATE??? Hahahah
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/23/texas.bars.reut/index.html
March 23rd, 2006 at 3:58 pmNow, now. Expecting Faux to adhere to any outdated sense of journalistic integrity is an unrealistic expectation. Remember, balance means you have to say something bad about the opposition- not truthful, just bad.
March 23rd, 2006 at 4:01 pmMA I searched and did not find any Daschles listed. Care to elaborate as to where you get your info from?
Where do you think that idiot gets her info? Faux News and other conservatard and GOP bullshit mills. That’s why she’s an idiot.
March 23rd, 2006 at 4:01 pmI know, Aphro, while you’re lying, make a real go of it. What are you, republican? Listen, if Fox can’t find anything good, they make it up. That is what hacks do. You know, it’s never to late to educate yourself.
March 23rd, 2006 at 4:02 pmWHO CARES ABOUT FORMER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
It’s the present ones that stand Judged…
…that stand for re-election this summer.
March 23rd, 2006 at 4:04 pm…I think the most upsetting part of this post is that apparently the definition for “progressive” has been watered down so much by this point that it now includes Daschle and Gephardt.
March 23rd, 2006 at 4:06 pmWhat do you expect from Republican cable tv station. LIES LIES LIES!!!
March 23rd, 2006 at 4:08 pm3- She is a lobbyist, but of course, since she is married to a former Dem legislator, she must be __________ (insert ranting wingnut obsession of choice here).
After all, it’s only Republicans that are supposed to be
March 23rd, 2006 at 4:08 pmcorruptlobbyists.“Email Fox News at politics@foxnews.com and tell them to correct the record for their readers. (Remember, be polite.)” – - Yeah, cuz you sure don’t wanna incur the wrath of Fox Security. (eyefreakinroll)
March 23rd, 2006 at 4:15 pmI heard that Tom Daschle and Dick Gephardt aslos eat babies?
March 23rd, 2006 at 4:22 pmooops – also
March 23rd, 2006 at 4:32 pm#4
March 23rd, 2006 at 4:37 pmGod knows we don’t have enough people in jail down here! “Drag ‘em out of the bars and send ‘em off to the pokey” is our motto. Besides, what if we run out of people to execute? We wouldn’t want to lose our #1 status there.
To Mighty Hypocrite,
March 23rd, 2006 at 5:18 pmThis is a bit off thread, but since you falsely mentioned Daschle’s wife as a lobbyist, I recall how on various other threads you have insisted that it’s we progressives/liberals who are sympathetic with criminals, etc. Well, dear, a few days after White House Domestic Policy Advisor Claude Allen’s arrest for shoplifting became public, I saw your beloved commander-in-chief–yes, George W. Bush–say, “If Claude Allen is really guilty of these crimes, something must have gone very wrong in his life.” Sounds like one of the excuses you usually attribute to liberals, doesn’t it?
Also, I looked at a column by the usually acerbic Ann-thrax Coulter abut the matter, and she went into a long discourse on Allen’s background to evoke sympathy for him and closed by calling him a “good Republican.” Considering that the current GOP has become the party of kleptocrats, I suppose Claude Allen is “a good Republican.” His mistake was stealing only $5000 worth of goods; if he had stolen millions or had overseen the stealing of millions, he probably would have gotten an Ambassadorship to a nice country like the Netherlands or a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Incidentally, GOP Majority Whip Roy Blunt’s wife is supposed to be a lobbyist. Remember that the next time you try to tell us about Tom Daschle’s spouse.
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All you need to do is google daschle lobbyist and the first several hits all mention his wife being a lobbyist, and apparently is daughter-in-law also. But I understand, google is to complex for you guys. How can you claim you searched and didn’t find her when you didn’t even google. That’s right, because you guys are waiting on someone to hand you the info, just like you all wait on gov’t handouts, it’s your culture after all.
March 23rd, 2006 at 5:19 pm“Fox should have mentioned the lucrative lobbying of MRS. Daschle, too…
Comment by mighty aphrodite”
The point was the sloppy reporting and dishonesty of Faux News in making YET ANOTHER FALSE CLAIM / LIE – you know, your speciality Mizz NaziDitie
And while we’re on ‘wives’, how about Delay’s wife that took large ‘consulting fees’ to lobby Delay? The difference between Mrs Daschle and Mrs Delay are also that Mrs Daschle refused to lobby ANY senators to ensure there were no conflicts of interest.
Once again, the propagandist BORING MORON gets it wrong. And just like FAUX news got it wrong by ‘implying’, ‘lying’ and ‘misrepresenting’ the facts. Anyone surprised that Mighty Moron is as inaccurate and off point as Faux News, your Nazi source of lies and orwellian propaganda?
Oh and Mighty Moron, Linda Daschle is not CURRENTLY registered – once again a ‘lie’ on your part.
How many lies does it take for a christian ‘womyn’ like yourself to go to hell anyway? Do you get a free pass for bashing muslims, poor people and gays? Or is that just for fun?
March 23rd, 2006 at 5:27 pmDear Mr and Ms MoonBats – Here’s a link for you re: Linda Daschle.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0201/mencimer.html
You’re welcome.
March 23rd, 2006 at 5:28 pm“That’s right, because you guys are waiting on someone to hand you the info, just like you all wait on gov’t handouts, it’s your culture after all. Comment by squegeeboo ”
Were you always mentally retarded, or did it happen recently?
That’s not relevant to the point that Faux News lied, and it’s easy to fact check this – it’s PUBLIC RECORD. Speaking of ‘too hard’, I guess it’s too hard for someone as stupid as yourself to ACTUALLY READ THE STORY.
MORON.
March 23rd, 2006 at 5:29 pm“Dear Mr and Ms MoonBats – Mighty Moron”
Dear Retarded DingBat – I already CORRECTED your erroneous reporting. Now you’re starting to look like that sloppy O’Liely who INTENTIONALLY repeats lies.
IDIOT.
March 23rd, 2006 at 5:30 pm“What do Tom Daschle, John Ashcroft, Fred Thompson, J.C. Watts, Zell Miller and Dick Gephardt have in common these days.”
Anyone notice this list and what’s ‘interesting’ about it? It’s all REPUBLICANS when you remove the lies. And before anyone tries to claim Miller is a Democrat – let me laugh – BAHAHAHAA
Lobbying and ‘cashing in’ is the Crony Capitalist (eg. Reichwing Nazi) way. It’s why they’re so inept. No qualifications – just ‘connections’ that are anti-capitalist and anti-competitive. They’re ‘cheating’, just like in the elections.
March 23rd, 2006 at 5:34 pmLinda Daschle says she will deal with that potential pitfall the way she has since she resumed her lobbying career in 1997: by never lobbying her husband or any member or committee of the Senate.
That came from the first link that came up in Google… I guess she lobbys the house?
March 23rd, 2006 at 5:35 pmDear Ryan Neat,
I would have read the story, if I knew what faux news was. Not a news channel that I’ve ever heard of. Why are you making up lies about a non-existant company? Is it because you are retarded also? And O’Liely? Never heard of him either, so does that make your lies intentional? Also, your capslock appears to be sticking randomly, you should look into getting a new keyboard, that is once your welfare check comes in.
March 23rd, 2006 at 5:39 pmWelcome back again, Ryan Neat, and Thank you!….Blessings
March 23rd, 2006 at 5:41 pm“This is a bit off thread, but since you falsely mentioned Daschle’s wife as a lobbyist, I recall how on various other threads you have insisted that it’s we progressives/liberals who are sympathetic with criminals, etc.”
- more lunacy from Lora
*****You’re forgiven – see post #19. Re: sympathy for criminals – I work in the criminal justice system and the ONLY people who are sympathetic to criminals are liberals and progressives. They are always explaining away someone’s behaviour:
a.) mental illness
b.) $h*tty childhood
c.) “cultual disadvantages” – I kid you not
d.) drug addiction (theirs or their parent)
I work very hard to see that my clients Constitutional Rights are upheld. A funny/sad thing happened a while ago. I had a client whose felon mother was busy telling me “what a good boy” her 4th gangbanger son was. I listened politely but I think I lost it when she started with the altar boy routine. I thanked her for her time and for coming in. With her last protestation of “the good boy”, I replied, “Ms. So&So, I am sorry to break this to you, “..but your son is a piece of $h*t.” Two of the many libs on payroll (both ACLU volunteers) were SHOCKED. I explained to them the difference between trust and stupidity….
March 23rd, 2006 at 5:44 pmWhy are some of RyANNe’s comments deleted by the administrator???
March 23rd, 2006 at 5:45 pmsquegeeboo, I’ll get a new keyboard, when you get a new brain. Then the conversation will be easier for both of us.
March 23rd, 2006 at 5:58 pm“I work in the criminal justice system and the ONLY people who are sympathetic to criminals are liberals and progressives. Mighty Hypocrite”
And you claim to be a CHRISTIAN? By your standard the Jesus was definitely a liberal, and you’re not a Christian. I’ll buy that. CONservatives have no sympathy, no morality and are Anti-Christian. Finally something we agree on Mighty Moron.
You know Jesus forgave the thieves on the Cross, and he didn’t call them a piece of crap. Although I would imagine he might have called you one.
March 23rd, 2006 at 6:03 pmMighty Aphrodite;
March 23rd, 2006 at 6:07 pmYou are disgustingly rude and crude. There is no need to tell a mother “your son is a “. Especially if its true. Pat Robertson is surprisingly sympathetic to criminals, look at his investments in Africa. Past Republican presidents have pardoned quite a few criminals, see Iran Contra.
“I would have read the story, if I knew what faux news was. squegeeboo”
I’ll help you, since you’ve obviously had a long ride on the shortbus this morning. This is excerpted from the STORY above – you know the story that begin the thread. Oh there I go again CAPLOCKING my text – must be time for a new keyboard.
Here’s the LIE in the STORY that I suggested you read. I knew you were retarded, but I didn’t realize HOW retarded you were. So I’ll assisted mini moron.
Fox News published a story… What do Tom Daschle, John Ashcroft, Fred Thompson, J.C. Watts, Zell Miller and Dick Gephardt have in common these days?
They are all former members of Congress — and they are all registered lobbyists.
And here’s the RELEVANT part.
Actually, neither Gephardt nor Daschle (who is a fellow at the Center for American Progress) are or have been registered lobbyists since they left office.
So Fox/FAUX news lied. And just so you know, Faux is French for False. Both a play on words, and a smack at the anti-french Faux News. It’s a play on words – but that takes wit and a brain to process, something CONservatives tend to lack.
March 23rd, 2006 at 6:07 pmOlberman is gay. That is why he hates Bush, Olberman wants to push the radical gay agenda.
March 23rd, 2006 at 6:10 pmAnd Mighty Moron, was that one of the court days you had where you were posting here every 15 minutes? For someone that ‘pretends’ to be a lawyer, you sure do waste a lot of your clients’ billable dollars. And what are you doing defending a gangbanger anyway? That’s public defender work, and not something that a ’successful’ attorney generally does. Was it pro-bono? And if so, isn’t pro-bono a communist and freeloader thing? What’s wrong with you, have you gone soft, or was this just another case where you didn’t think through your FAKE cover story again?
You’re such an easy fraud to spot – you’re even more inept at trolling that Brown was at running FEMA. Keep trolling Mighty Moron, this is getting embarrassingly funny to watch as you fumble one thread after another. Bahahaha, what a LOSER!
March 23rd, 2006 at 6:11 pm#30 – Dear Skeptic – I guess the truth hurts – especially lying, crappy mothers.
March 23rd, 2006 at 6:15 pmDear Skeptic – I’m sure you and the oft – deleted RyANNe are familiar with “pro-bono” work – it’s how we justify our exorbitant fees…
March 23rd, 2006 at 6:18 pmThe fair and balanced Fox News does’t tell the truth? Shocked, I tell you, I’m shocked!
March 23rd, 2006 at 6:22 pm“The error is especially egregious considering how easy it is to find out who has been registered as a lobbyist”
LOL, what error?
If it had been any other organization, I would have agreed. But FOX knows what they’re doing: lying.
It’s run by liars, it tells lies, and it’s watched by people who don’t have the self-respect to not lie to themselves.
March 23rd, 2006 at 6:26 pm“Dear Skeptic – I guess the truth hurts – especially lying, crappy mothers. Comment by mighty aphrodite ”
Actually the truth educates, the tactless and the rude hurt people. Something you should know by now – oh ‘queen’ of both.
“Dear Skeptic – I’m sure you and the oft – deleted RyANNe are familiar with “pro-bono†work – it’s how we justify our exorbitant fees… Comment by mighty aphrodite”
And it is oh so socialist. How do you sleep at night Mrs Hitler?
And I’ll accept occasionally deleted over the Always Irrelevant slot you occupy.
March 23rd, 2006 at 6:28 pmso, is Mrs. Daschle a former member of Congress?
March 23rd, 2006 at 6:29 pm“so, is Mrs. Daschle a former member of Congress? Comment by walter66″
No she isn’t, but Fox/Faux news and the resident trolls are present members of the governments propaganda staff. They’re just doing their orwellian best to cover up and ignore yet one more proven case of the Reichwing Media Bias, and Propaganda efforts.
But the harder they struggle, the more desperate and obvious they make the case for those opposed to these Fascist policies.
March 23rd, 2006 at 6:33 pmMighty Aphrodite;
And your excuse for being mean was? Do you have a good answer?
Anyway the truth in this thread is that Fox news was wrong. This shows stupidy and probably malicious negligence on their part. You have attempted to change the subject by dragging in irrelevant arguements and personal attacks. Why don’t you give up?
March 23rd, 2006 at 6:35 pmsympathy for criminals – I work in the criminal justice system and the ONLY people who are sympathetic to criminals are liberals and progressives. They are always explaining away someone’s behaviour:
Comment by Mighty Hypocrite
Mighty Hypocrite,
March 23rd, 2006 at 6:42 pm“If Claude Allen is really guilty of these crimes, something must have gone very wrong with his life:” words from George W. Bush. You don’t call that sympathy for the criminal or trying to explain it away? Or look up Ann-thrax Coulter’s take on Claude Allen.
Also, I don’t believe you are a woman lawyer.
As for whether or not Mrs. Daschle has had a lucrative career as a lobbyist, you never seem to mind when Republicans are making money. Why now? Moreover, if Mrs. Daschle really is a lobbyist, why is it unforgivable of her but okay for Mrs. Roy Blunt or people who have actually been in government like John Ashcroft, J.C. Watts, etc.? Besides, the point of this article is that Faux News falsely mentioned Tom Daschle and Richard Gephardt as “lobbyists.” You appear unable to dispute that, so, as usual, you change the subject.
Skeptic,
Mighty Moron isn’t really an attorney – (s)he fabricates stories all of the time. She’s famous for her BORING stories. And they’re ALWAYS the same Zzzzz…
They always go like … I have this friend, who’s liberal, and she/he said, and I said “you’re a liberal idiot”. That’s the extent of the originality, creativity and ‘intellect’ the little bugger has.
Fake attorney.
Fake news.
Fake storied.
Fake ‘evidence’.
Fake resources.
Everything about Mighty Moron is a fake, right down to the fake claim (s)he’s a woman. The women in a John Waters move are more real, and so are the ’stories’.
Mighty Moron is just a snoozer ZZZzzzz….
March 23rd, 2006 at 6:45 pmRyan;
March 23rd, 2006 at 6:50 pmYou mean I have been criticizing a fictional character for lack of courtesy and kindness? Thanks for telling me, I will avoid it in the future. I find it hard to believe that a woman can tell her friends “your are a something idiot” and have any friends. I normally tell even acquaintances “I don’t believe you are correct. What were your reasons for that last statement?”
Claims by Mighty Moron
I’m 34
I married my ‘husband’ and we had 4 children.
My oldest child is over 14 (they were 14 months ago).
I served 12 years as a military JAG officer.
I’ve been in private practice for years.
I’m an attorney.
So lets assume Mighty Moron met her husband in college, and quickly got ‘married’. If we’re very kind, we assume she can go to school and have her first child.
19+3 years college + 4 years law school + 12 years military service + 2 years of private practice (minimal) already gets us to 21 years. Lets not forget the time off for pregnancy, bar exams and any number of other items required.
So we’re to believe that Mighty Moron who has the reading comprehension of a housecat was able to somehow compress this plus more outrageous claims into 14-15 years of time? bahaha, yeah right, and rumsfeld always said Iraq would be a quagmire. Bahahahaha
March 23rd, 2006 at 6:50 pmSkeptic,
Mighty Moron is a man who has ‘idealized’ his idea of what a ‘CONservative’ woman is light. My guess is that he’s sucked in Ann Coulter and transformed her into his own vision of what a doting housewife and mother of 4 would be like if his ‘Coulter’ could be found.
Mighty Moron is just a projection of some fat, stupid and ugly man with gender identity issues and a psychologically disturbed mind. In otherwords to quote the ‘liberal bias’ I supposedly have – it’s probably not his fault, but he’s still a loser and a piece of s$@! :)
March 23rd, 2006 at 6:52 pmMighty Moron who has the reading comprehension of a housecat
Comment by Ryan Neat
Ryan,
March 23rd, 2006 at 6:59 pmI am normally on your side, but please don’t insult the intelligence of my housecats by comparing them to Mighty Hypocrite.
#18
“And while we’re on ‘wives’, how about Delay’s wife that took large ‘consulting fees’ to lobby Delay?”
DeLay’s wife lobbied him?
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/08/politics/08alexander.html?ex=1294376400&en=35d50d087f91ab09&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
“The difference between Mrs Daschle and Mrs Delay are also that Mrs Daschle refused to lobby ANY senators to ensure there were no conflicts of interest.”
Well maybe not directly. She knew how to lobby congress and play the game.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0201.mencimer.html
“But Schering-Plough isn’t the only one of Linda Daschle’s clients to simultaneously seek good will from her husband: The air transport industry gave more than $100,000 in campaign contributions to the senator’s campaign in the last election cycle. Northwest Airlines, which paid Linda Daschle’s firm $190,000 in 1999, was the second-largest donor to Tom Daschle’s Senate campaign in 1998.”
also…
“Congress has no rules prohibiting members’ spouses from lobbying. Notoriously porous, congressional ethics rules were written on the not so unreasonable theory that it’s impossible to forbid each and every potential conflict of interest, and that in the end, the voters are the ultimate arbiters of congressional behavior.”
Friends get special treatment after 9/11….
“Gary Ruskin, director of the Congressional Accountability Project, says he isn’t concerned with who Linda’s clients are, but what Tom Daschle may have done for those clients. At least for Linda Daschle’s airline clients, the answer to that question is fairly clear: The airline bailout bill, shepherded through the Senate by Tom Daschle, sent nearly a billion dollars to American Airlines and Northwest Airlines. Northwest, which has received $404 million in cash grants from the government, actually posted $19 million profit in the third quarter.”
March 23rd, 2006 at 7:01 pmLora – maybe I should have said a ‘common’ housecat ;)
March 23rd, 2006 at 7:09 pm#48 Tracy, Mighty, and other trolls,
If you are planning to go on and on about Mrs. Daschle, what do you have to say about the fact that John Thune, the man who won Tom Daschle’s former Senate seat, was a lobbyist up through the election and now deals with bills in Congress for companies for which he used to work? Since I know you trolls are unlikely to take a recent article in the NY Times about this seriously, I quote below from an article last fall in the “Rapid City Journal,” a local South Dakota paper;
Thune to continue work as lobbyist
SIOUX FALLS (AP) — Republican John Thune said he will continue working as a lobbyist as he campaigns for a seat in the U.S. Senate.
Thune, the former U.S. Representative for South Dakota, left office in January 2003 and formed his own company, The Thune Group. He confined his dealings to federal agencies, because former members of Congress are prohibited by law from lobbying their former colleagues for a year after they leave office. That year has expired for Thune, and he is free to deal with the legislative branch of the federal government as a lobbyist.
“I like to help people tear down barriers,” Thune said. “The complexity of federal government and all the various bureaucracies associated with it can be numbing to people. Helping them navigate that, working through it and solving problems is very fulfilling.”
Thune is running against Democratic incumbent Sen. Tom Daschle in the November general election.
March 23rd, 2006 at 7:18 pm#32 Olberman is gay. That is why he hates Bush, Olberman wants to push the radical gay agenda.
Comment by Az Joe —
To A..Joe,
March 23rd, 2006 at 7:24 pmWhat does Olberman have to do with this thread? And if you’re going to get into this gay-bashing bit again, please explain why gay hooker Jeff Gannon/James Guckert was, according to Secret Service records, getting into the White House even before he managed to get a press pass from a now defunct Texas-based GOP website. It seems to me that someone in the White House is actually quite fond of gay company–and more.
None of the media is factual. In order to get a semi-fair/semi-balanced side to a story you have to read the same story from 4 different sources.
March 23rd, 2006 at 7:39 pmDear unbelievable – Remember how you “jokingly” thought I was 104 – and I “jokingly” thought you looked older than 17….I guess”that other one” has trouble with “jokingly”. Too sad…..
Dear Mr. Septic asks Mighty Aphrodite;
March 23rd, 2006 at 7:41 pm“And your excuse for being mean was? Do you have a good answer?”
****Actually, you don’t know the meaning of the word “mean”. “Mean” is an 18 yro son with a rap sheet that looks like the phone book of a small city. “Mean” is an arrest (for the third time!) for attempted murder – if he’d been a “better” shot he would have had a first degree murder charge due to “special circumstances”. Why was I asked to represent him? He had some Miranda “issues”. So, Mr. Septic, get back with me when you understand the concept of “mean”. Clueless is as clueless does…
Mighty Moron,
Which ACLU case were you involved in again? None of the ACLU cases seem to reflect a ‘gangbanger’ case.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ACLU_Cases#2000s
Why am I not surprised you would ‘lie’ about your experiences. Lying, and being unsocialized are the only traits you seem to present consistently.
And there are only 74 cases litigated by the ACLU listed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Court_cases_litigated_by_the_American_Civil_Liberties_Union
Sure, we believe you’re an attorney who argues cases with the ACLU – NOT!
March 23rd, 2006 at 8:10 pmHey people, check out cnn.com!
Look at all of the news headlines on their homepage. Pathetic! I think the mainstream news media got a call from the white house telling them to cool it on their reporting of REAL ISSUES. I’m not joking! They have launched an all out campaign to distract the public! Wow, I just saw “V For Vendetta” last night and the parallels our striking! WTF is happening to this country.
March 23rd, 2006 at 8:12 pmRyan,
Not that I am defending Mighty Aphrodite here. but
http://www.aclu.org/scotus/index.html
Has a list of the top 100 ACLU cases. I trust that source a little more than Wikipedia.
The ACLU supports more than just action with the Supreme Court. They also do stuff at the State level and lower.
March 23rd, 2006 at 8:33 pmTundra,
Thanks for the link – quite useful. It has a few more cases than the wikipedia – I’m guessing it’s more up to date.
And I did find the local ACLU of So Cal, and so far blanko on the cases that match the claims of mighty moron.
It’s clearly just more posturing and lies from the queen of gender confusion.
March 23rd, 2006 at 8:41 pmAnd the concept that a 19 year old would be ‘free’ to commit a 3rd murder just shows how retarded this troll is. That’s the most idiotic and insanely retarded claim imaginable.
March 23rd, 2006 at 8:45 pm#58 – ….and the lunacy that awarded this “other one” a high school diploma (comprehending words like “attempted” CAN be difficult….) must be traced back to an exceptionally poor education. Too bad…..Zzzzzz
March 23rd, 2006 at 8:51 pm“….and the lunacy that awarded this “other one†a high school diploma (comprehending words like “attempted†CAN be difficult….) must be traced back to an exceptionally poor education. Too bad…..Zzzzzz Comment by mighty aphrodite ”
So now we’re ‘guilty until proven innocent’ in your world? You bring up him being ‘arrested’ as though he were convicted, and now you say he was never proven guilty – yet you assumed he was guilty and told his mother she had a son that was a piece of $h##.
Wow, your fantasy of working with the ACLU must have been an interesting one. Generally it’s the job of the defense attorney to assume innocence until the person is proven guilty. Are you saying that you don’t believe in the american legal system?
It would be consistent with your general anti-american Fascist sentiments.
I’m still waiting on the case – so far the searches all say you’re a liar – no surprise.
March 23rd, 2006 at 8:57 pmSo what Mighty Moron is really pointing out is that she feels the ‘conservatives’ in charge of the police department in San Diego and the Prosecutor’s office are inept. After all, if they weren’t inept, they wouldn’t arrest someone 3 times without being able to get a conviction now would they?
Mighty Moron not only hates america, she hates her police and prosecutors – you heard it here first folks.
March 23rd, 2006 at 8:59 pmLora – maybe I should have said a ‘common’ housecat ;)
Comment by Ryan Neat
Ryan,
March 23rd, 2006 at 9:28 pmThanks for the addition, but I don’t think you should be insulting anyone’s housecat here. I’m sure all their owners think they are intelligent and sweet–qualitiies you undoubtedly agree that Mighty is lacking.
As for your calculations about Mighty’s background numbers, you’re right on target. Even if he/she didn’t take time off for pregnancy leaves, etc., 12 years of military service plus 3 or 4 years of college, 3 years of law school, and an unclear number of years as an attorney add up to over 20 years, which means we are expected to believe she/he graduated from high school somewhere between maybe 10 and 14, if he/she is really “34,” as claimed. While it’s true that Mozart and Mendelsohn wrote some very lovely music at that age, Mighty Hypocrite has never shown him/her-self to have such genius.
#26- M.Aphrodite, I have to disagree with your statement here, “The only people sympathetic to criminals are Liberals and Progressives.” A most recent example of that mistaken belief: The recent sentencing of Randy “Duke” Cunningham. His attorney asked the judge to consider his tours of duty in Vietnam, and the medals he recieved in recognition of his service, as well as his service in the House, and to the constituents he represented. And claiming that his physical health was in decline, and that he might not survive a sentence of 10 years. All of that, he reasoned, should persuade the Judge to be lenient to the Congressman, in handing down his sentence. This was obviously an attempt to elicit sympathy for a criminal. And I can’t recall Mr. Cunningham objecting to it. And people such as G.Gordon Liddy, Ollie North, John Poindexter, and others, seem to have been welcomed with open arms by the Righties, even though they are “criminals”, as well. And the Judge DID consider the attorneys pleas, and knocked almost 2 years of the possible full sentencing range.
March 23rd, 2006 at 11:29 pmhttp://www.lobbyinginfo.org/search/
Do a search under former member of congress turned lobbyist. I guess he was just a political advisor for a huge firm that specialized in it.
March 24th, 2006 at 12:11 am[...] From ThinkProgress.Org [...]
March 24th, 2006 at 12:37 am“Do a search under former member of congress turned lobbyist. I guess he was just a political advisor for a huge firm that specialized in it.
Comment by Tundra ”
You missed this quote:
They are all former members of Congress — and they are all registered lobbyists.
They didn’t claim the democrats were ‘working for a company’, they claimed they were ‘registered lobbyists’.
The key word is ‘registered’, and that was the dishonesty.
March 24th, 2006 at 12:39 amEither TP really screwed up on this one or it’s another example of deceiving it’s gullible followers.
Tom Daschle was working as a lobbyist in 2005 for Alston & Bird as a Special Policy Advisor. The report fox sources was prepared by Public Citizen in 2005, when Daschle was a lobbyist.
Dick Gephardt worked as lobbyist for Piper Rudnick and Gephardt & Associates in 2005.
They both are not currently working as lobbyist.
Let Fox know that you were suckered by a liberal website and are willing to believe anything you’re told, especially if it’s a slander against Fox.
Then write TP and demand a correction. Please be polite.
March 24th, 2006 at 12:43 amBasically Fox misses the facts as much as the rest of the Media. I don’t think I have read 1 article that was “Factual” from any of them. They all look for a “Grab Line” and run with it.
Should Fox write a correction that states “They all work for Lobbying firms”
Sure.
The impression from the site here is that Daschle was an innocent politician slandered by Fox. I just like to have as many facts as possible and not jump off the handle. TP should have wrote that Daschle did work for a Lobbying firm but was not a registered Lobbyist as Fox suggests. At least this way the people demanding a correction can at least sound informed when writing them. Sadly some people from here will write them and claim that he has nothing to do with any lobbying and tear down the whole purpose behind asking for honest reporting.
Suggestion for anyone that wants to waste some time:
March 24th, 2006 at 12:54 amFind any article from any where and research it/ I bet within 30 minutes you can prove any of them wrong or skewed.
It would be much easier to expect honest reporting if it was possible to get honest responses to your questions, or to even have your questions answered at all. Or for that matter, just being in a position to ASK a question in the first place. So to hope for honest reporting from reporters who are questioning pathological liars is pointless. If reporters are lied to, reporters will report lies. Plain and simple.
March 24th, 2006 at 1:42 amThis still implies he’s doing lobbying – and is ’spin’
But at least it would have been a true statement.
Just a question do you believe honestly he is not making phone calls and setting up appointments for the “Lobbyists” to get in?
but anytime ‘politics’ is involved, at least one side of the story is usually worthless spin, sometimes both sides.
I agree fully with you on this one
A weather report that reported the temperature at a particular location at a particular time isn’t ‘wrong’ or ’skewed’ – it’s factual.
March 24th, 2006 at 2:17 amA Weather report isn’t an article. Once someone decides to turn it into more than a list of facts it will become skewed.
Mighty Aphrodite;
Sorry to take so long to get back to you. Mean has several definitions. This is some of the definition given in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary “shabby, contemptible: ignoble, base: characterized by petty selfishness or malice”
How does this not apply to your words?
March 24th, 2006 at 7:41 amOh sorry I forgot you are an imaginary character and can not participate in a debate.
This sort of story not mere mis-reporting; these are intentional lies, published to promote a partisan agenda.
It is time to treat FOX as a political entity under campaign finance regulations. Advertizing on Fox is no different from donating money to the Republican party, and the corporations that do so should not be able to write-off advertizing expenses before tax. The public must reclaim the airwaves as publically owned and demand that their use be regulated to benefit the entire public. At a minimum, we must re-instate the fairness doctrine.
March 24th, 2006 at 8:56 am#73
The the same can DEFINATELY be said of the NY Times and their liberal partisian agenda.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002235060
Does anyone actually read this deceitful rag anymore?
March 24th, 2006 at 9:43 amLooks to me like Fox news is correct. Old Tom shows to be registered with Alston & Bird in 2005 and unless somebody can show he isn’t there’s no reason we should take “his office’s” word for it.
http://www.lobbyinginfo.org/search/results.cfm?searchtype=2&Org=2909
Oh my…the Goddess is correct too. Mrs Daschle is a registered lobbyist as well…for Pharma no less. Uh oh…this could be trouble…
Linda Daschle
Baker Donelson Bearman & Caldwell employs Lobbyist is Linda Daschle, wife of Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota. [1] (http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0201.mencimer.html)
[edit]Jill Gimmel Daschle
Another lobbyist relation of the US Senator is his daughter-in-law, Jill Gimmel Daschle.
[edit]Airline Industry
Linda Daschle married the future senator in 1984 while she was working at the Civil Aeronautics Board. She later served as deputy administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration in the Clinton administration. Today, she is a lobbyist for Baker Donelson Bearman & Caldwell, where her clients include American Airlines, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin’s Air Traffic Management unit. [2] (http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/CNBCTV/Articles/TVReports/P57479.asp)
[edit]Drug Companies
Linda Daschle’s name shows on the form for her firm’s lobbying on behalf of Schering-Plough. At the time the company was seeking a patent extension on its anti-allergy drug, Claritin.
The company paid $470,000 to Daschle’s firm, Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, the Thune ad ends with the line: “Only one candidate has personally profited from big drug companies. That candidate is Tom Daschle.†[3]
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Baker_Donelson_Bearman_%26_Caldwell#Jill_Gimmel_Daschle
Apologize huh? When pigs fly.
March 24th, 2006 at 10:03 amAs others have noted, the Fox story referenced a Public Citizen 2005 report on lobbying that indeed fingers both Daschle and Gephardt for the L word. The Public Citizen chart references a “lobbying database” at http://www.lobbyinginfo.org that appears to no longer exist (and in a strange circularity points back at the same report). TP should place an “Update” on this story, particularly since it now appears that TD & DG were both lobbying last year.
March 24th, 2006 at 10:17 amI hope we can hang Bushiva, L’il Dick, and Roger Ailes (”politically” speaking) with the same rope…
…they’re all TRAITORS!
…you know who the TREASONOUS Bushites are…
…they’re your neighbors, family members and friends…
…you must shame them into seeing that their ‘conservatism” is ugly, anti-American and unChristian…
…they’re supporting mass murder, the bankrupting of poor/middle working class America, and creation of a permanent under class…
…you either love America (and your children), or you love Bushiva…
…but there’s no way in hell you can love both!
March 24th, 2006 at 12:00 pm#72 – Dear Mr. Septic – You might be right…I have dealt with alot of clients and their parents. Many good and decent people are stunned when one of their children chooses the “wrong road” and winds up in serious legal trouble. I had one client who was the third of five children – mom and dad were solid people and involved in the children’s school, sports, etc. But “middle” daughter broke every rule set and crossed every boundary. There came a time when she had to “pay the piper”.
So maybe you’re right… as “mom” was sitting in my office telling bald-faced lies about her “piece of cr*p” spawn, I should have nodded knowingly, empathetically sighed, AND patted her hand. My purpose in dealing with “mom” was based on protecting Constitutional rights – if she needed to assuage her “guilt”, she should have talked to her priest or rabbi.
March 24th, 2006 at 1:33 pmCharlie Sheemn gets 911 in the open.
March 24th, 2006 at 5:23 pm
It is time to start petitioning the FCC to revolk Fox’s broadcasting licenses – the individual stations and any that pertain to the parent company.
And how about some class-action lawsuits for slander and libel?
March 25th, 2006 at 10:36 amYou can listen to Tom Daschle talk about his new career as a lobbyist on NPR, in his own words. Tom Daschle on His New Role as Lobbyist.
Dick Gephardt now works for Goldman Sachs as a lobbyist, and is currently lobbying in California in an attempt to get Goldman Sachs in on the largest public works project in California state history. Here is a story about it: A feeding frenzy for lobbyists
March 25th, 2006 at 5:04 pmIf I were Gephart or Daschle, I would bring suite agains Fox for defimation of character. What could be easier to demonstrate in a civil court here in the US than that in our times to lable anyone a lobbiest is to defame that individual. The only thing that outlets such as Fox will understand is a serious loss of assets due to their misuse of the public ariways with fabrication of matters regarding public figures.
March 26th, 2006 at 10:52 pmIf I were Gephart or Daschle, I would bring suite agains Fox for defimation of character.
Comment by richsmith
First they’d have to prove in a court of law that they possess character. That would be problematic for those two gentlemen.
March 27th, 2006 at 11:26 amAnybody that watches Fox/White House news needs help in the form of treatment given to those who have been held captive and brainwashed for a long period of time.
Fox/White House News is far more dangerous then most people could ever imagine.
April 4th, 2006 at 7:33 am[...] On March 20, Fox News wrote an article claiming former Sen. Tom Daschle and former Rep. Dick Gephardt were lobbyists. It was completely untrue. ThinkProgress encouraged our readers to demand a correction: Actually, neither Gephardt nor Daschle (who is a fellow at the Center for American Progress) are or have been registered lobbyists since they left office, according to the U.S. Senate’s official database. We called both their offices to confirm the Senate’s records. [...]
April 10th, 2006 at 5:24 pmAllergies and Dust Mites: Get the facts about Allergen-Impermeable Encasements
It is estimated that over 50 million Americans suffer from allergies, and of that number approximately 30 million American suffer from asthma.
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