Headline News Anchor: ‘Might Some Argue That Lamont…Is The al Qaeda Candidate?’
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Headline News Anchor: ‘Might Some Argue That Lamont…Is The al Qaeda Candidate?’
Today on CNN Headline News, anchor Chuck Roberts discussed the impact of the foiled British terror plot with Hotline senior editor John Mercurio. Roberts asked Mercurio, “How does this factor into the Lieberman/Lamont contest? And might some argue, as some have, that Lamont is the al Qaeda candidate?” Watch it:
Vice President Cheney said some pretty outrageous things about the impact of Lamont’s victory on terrorists. But even Cheney didn’t call Lamont “the al Qaeda candidate” That’s a Chuck Roberts original.
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The pugs are so desperate I almost feel sorry for them.
August 11th, 2006 at 4:20 pmw o w … ok … seriously - this shite just can’t go on…
August 11th, 2006 at 4:20 pmChuck Roberts. He’s been in that same position for years. He’ll always be a second-rate journalist. Now, he’s also a asshole.
August 11th, 2006 at 4:20 pmReally, anyone who buys into any of this downright CRAP are going to be cultists of bushco.
August 11th, 2006 at 4:21 pmIsn’t it time to do a call into CNN about this Anchor?
August 11th, 2006 at 4:24 pmDamn that liberal bias!
August 11th, 2006 at 4:24 pmAll the journalists who have been canned by the new MSM, all the military brass who are now retired, all the humanitarians, history buffs, economists, etc…all of them have written books. It is unreal. My little book store in my town has a WHOLE section dedictated to these books, and I have bought at least a dozen. But that’s just me. Try as I might to educate the ignorant to the truth, they seem to choose to believe the likes of bill o’leilly and ann coulter - they are SIMPLY A LOST CAUSE.
August 11th, 2006 at 4:24 pmHe’s a parrot with a hairdo.
August 11th, 2006 at 4:24 pmFINALLY! An intelligent journalist! Good for him!
August 11th, 2006 at 4:25 pmLiberal media at it again. All they do is bash Bush. :)
August 11th, 2006 at 4:26 pmLet’s just hope that there are a majority of people that can see this fearmongering for what it is, the last desperate attempts of a person and the media still supporting him.
August 11th, 2006 at 4:26 pmWell, I’m outta here. I cannot stand to hear anymore drivel from exley and his ilk.
August 11th, 2006 at 4:26 pmWow Exley, I think that is a stretch even for you. Or do you want to be put in the same class as Mighty Aphrodite?
August 11th, 2006 at 4:27 pmCNN has morphed into FOXNews Central.
CNN anchors are newsreaders- They are dumb as a rock. Yes, I’m talking to you, Paula Zahn.
August 11th, 2006 at 4:29 pmMight Some Argue That Headline News Anchor…Is The Latest in a Long Line of ReichWingNut Dick-Heads?
August 11th, 2006 at 4:29 pmCome on, exley — surely you’re forgetting the other “intelligent journalists” you wingnuts idolize — Bill O’Liely, Michelle Malkontent, Annie-Boy Culter…
I mean, if all it takes for you to call someone an intelligent journalist is to make up stuff and spew it on cable TV, then sign up the whole Faux News team!!
August 11th, 2006 at 4:30 pmTP, please provide an e-mail address to the good folks at CNN so we can let them know our…uh….”displeasure.” Yeah, that’s it, displeasure.
August 11th, 2006 at 4:30 pmWHAT LIBERAL MEDIA? If this isn’t fascist propaganda and fear-mongering, I don’t know what is. Reichwing smear machine.
August 11th, 2006 at 4:30 pmWell, since Exley is better at articulating his opinions and ideas, I think he has to take more responsibility than Mighty Aphrodite, who probably can’t even understand her own postings.
August 11th, 2006 at 4:30 pm#16 - …CNN anchors are newsreaders- They are dumb as a rock. Yes, I’m talking to you, Paula Zahn.
How big and exposed are Paula’s tits? I mean, if I’m going to be force-fed Rethuglican Party-line bilge, it might as well go down as nice and easily on the eyes as it can, right?
August 11th, 2006 at 4:31 pmRS: exley and MA are the two cheeks of the same ass; feel free to taunt them both equally
August 11th, 2006 at 4:32 pme-mail address to the good folks at CNN
August 11th, 2006 at 4:33 pmJC: Paula’s just trying to remind you that she’s a female, and therefore distinguished from Anne Culter on that ground alone…
August 11th, 2006 at 4:33 pmI disagree zippy, Exley is generaly lucid, respectful, and level-headed. Ma is well a freakish feces throwing wingnut.
August 11th, 2006 at 4:33 pm9/11 was an inside job. Faux News and the Bush admin continue to use this made-up Al Queda bullshit to parrot their talking points, and actually advocate the murder of anyone who disagrees with them? Back in the day, we called that fascism. We should call it that now.
When we get attacked by “Hezbollah,” “Iran,” or “Syria” in the next two months here, on our own soil, ask yourself, who really benefits from this “war?”
Wake up, people. For the love of God, wake up. Ask questions. Do research. 911blogger.com
August 11th, 2006 at 4:37 pmdisgusting.
Bin Laden probably waited until Bush was president before he attached us because he knew how Bush/Cheney would react.
The actions of Bush/Cheney have been consistent with everything Bin Laden wanted. If anyone is the Al Qaeda candidate, it is Bush/Cheney. They continue to fall into every trap laid by the evil mastermind OBL.
August 11th, 2006 at 4:37 pmRoberts has McCarthyism down to a science.
In fact, this terrorist plot supports Lamont by showing that the Iraq misadventure has taken resources away from the real war against terrorist attacks. The Lamont victory contributes to being able to apply more, not fewer, resources into things like bringing bin Laden to justice while at the same time removing one of the prime recruiting incentives for bin Laden.
In other words, Roberts has it exactly backwards in context. I would never say that Lieberman is the al Qaeda candidate. I would only say that his proposals will have the opposite effect from what his stated goal is. And there is evidence to back this up.
August 11th, 2006 at 4:38 pmAssumption being: if you believe in talking to people rather than blowing the hell out of them, you are ’soft on terror’
August 11th, 2006 at 4:39 pmBreaking News - Elections Cause Terrorism!
Bush has helped create more people willing to use terrorism (and therefore become terrorists) than anyone else in human history.
August 11th, 2006 at 4:39 pmMost insteresting aspect, is he is interviewing another member of CNN. The anchor lobs the talking point about Lamont, and Al Qaida, and the interviewee doesn’t refute the statement at all. Yeah CNN is really liberal.
August 11th, 2006 at 4:40 pmDo they really think that the average American believes any of this crap? They don’t. While traveling back from Montana with my republican mom and her brother, an even more conservative republican, we were flipping through the radio stations and came across Sena Hannity. I was think “OMFG I am going to have to listen to this” Both of them asked, at almost the same time “Who is this whacko/” I chuckled a little and said “That would be one of the conservative spokes people. To which they both replied, at the same time “He doesn’t speak for me.”
I am so much happier these days. After taking a little trip to two conservative states and one liberal state, I couldn’t find anybody who likes Bush. None, zero, zip, nada, ziltch. Nobody.
Things are looking up.
Smile.
August 11th, 2006 at 4:40 pmI’ve already sent my complaint. Have at it ladies and gentlemen!
http://www.cnn.com/feedback/
August 11th, 2006 at 4:41 pmMighty Aphrodite, who probably can’t even understand her own postings.
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Now dammit, that was funny!
August 11th, 2006 at 4:42 pmthat does it. f**k headline news forever
August 11th, 2006 at 4:43 pmI just sent in a complaint:
http://www.cnn.com/feedback/hdlns/
Click on Roberts’ name and let your fingers do the talking. Keep it professional though.
August 11th, 2006 at 4:45 pmEven hard line repugs have got to be embarrassed by the outrageous comments from some of their people.
August 11th, 2006 at 4:47 pmChuck Roberts needs some time off to clear his head (like about 20 years) - what a jerk!
OK,
For the last f**king time people:
There was no connection between 9/11 and Iraq, or Alqaeda
the bi-partisan 9/11 committee chaired by a republican concluded that.
you can be for the “war on Terror” and be against the war in Iraq. They are two separate things.
August 11th, 2006 at 4:47 pmHeadline, cnn, fox, cbs, nbc, etc. . . . . same thing, different faces.
August 11th, 2006 at 4:48 pmOh, and No. 1, Suzy, I’ve got to agree, the operative word being almost.
It’s getting so their crap is so far gone it’s almost funny to watch them try to be serious.
randi just mentioned this… caution: washington times…
Purge by Taliban Democrats
By Cal Thomas August 11, 2006
The narrow primary defeat of veteran Sen. Joe Lieberman in Connecticut’s Democratic primary is more than a loss for one man. It is a loss for his party and for the country. It completes the capture of the Democratic Party by its Taliban wing.
…
these people are ugly ruthless liars and thieves…
August 11th, 2006 at 4:49 pm“Thank goodness our friends and allies did not desert us during our civil war.”-comment by Mighty Aphrodite - August 3, 2006 @ 3:22 pm
August 11th, 2006 at 4:52 pmMight some call Chuck Roberts a partisan asshole that doesn’t belong on television?
August 11th, 2006 at 4:52 pmSo if you use your rights and vote you are a terrorist, Now BushCo has his platform to outlaw elections.
August 11th, 2006 at 4:52 pmIs it genocide to kill republican toolbags? I mean seriously, how can they get away with this distasteful SHIT every fracking day?
I just :heart: the liberal media.
August 11th, 2006 at 4:54 pmFor months I have wondered how low the Republicans would sink in their efforts to maintain one party rule. Now I know.
My dear deceased mother would be appalled by today’s Republicans–the party for which she once worked. If I, myself, had not already given up on them, I would be embarrassed and ashamed by them today.
August 11th, 2006 at 4:57 pmI also do feel bad for the republicans, having to resort to such desperate measures.
But it’s gonna feel so good to see the looks on their faces when we win in November
I just wana go up to Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, ken mehlman, Don Rumsfeld, Bill Frist, Tom Delay, Tony Snow, Rupert Murdoch, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reily and last but not least, Joe Liberman, and just flip them off with both hands right after we win in November.
August 11th, 2006 at 4:57 pmCNN proves once again that it is just Fox Lite
August 11th, 2006 at 4:57 pmDisgusting journalism. Truly disgusting.
August 11th, 2006 at 4:58 pmAny media that allows Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin air time cannot really be called liberal. All this shows is that people like them have influence beyond Fox News.
August 11th, 2006 at 4:58 pmNow is that objective reporting or what! Such opinions should never even make it on to a program called ‘headline NEWS’.
can we start calling candidates that support GW and his facsist agenda the Nazi Candidates??
Some might argue that.
August 11th, 2006 at 4:58 pmit’s only going to get worse… they’ll use every dirty name in the book to hold on to their slipping power…. be prepared for more :(
Luckily the majority of voters think it really stinks when Bush/Cheney & Co call them “taliban” and “al qaeda candidates….”
These columnists and commentators are attacking the American Voter with everything they’ve got… BUT THEY ARE STILL GOING TO LOSE IN NOVEMBER damnit!
August 11th, 2006 at 4:59 pmIt HAS been argued that Lamont is an ” al Qaeda Candidate ” by some stupid people . But certainly Chuck Roberts , or any other talking head couldn’t have just inadvertantly let that slip or mention off-the-cuff something as politicaly bias as that . He should be fired and cnn should be fined or something . CNN the most trusted ? Glen Beck is on there now for cripes .
August 11th, 2006 at 5:00 pmD. Tree- if the Republicans didn’t lose in 2004, why would they lose in November? The endless stream of bile coming out seems to somehow motivate the core support. I just can’t believe that the Americans fall for their b.s.
August 11th, 2006 at 5:02 pmI feel sorry for people like him, too. Sorry example of what this country has become. Anything to get attention. Pitiful.
August 11th, 2006 at 5:03 pm“And might some argue, as some have, that Lamont is the al Qaeda candidate?â€
Who are these “some” nameless people Robert is talking about? Who has said that Lamont is the “AlQaeda candidate”? When did they say it? When was it reported? By whom?
This is the same tactic the Bush administration has used over and over again, claiming “someone says X” without naming the people who supposedly said it, or providing any specifics.
This is really outrageous.
August 11th, 2006 at 5:03 pmHey G S an argument like that is like arguing with a drunk , or stupid people , either way everyone arguing just ends up looking stupid .
August 11th, 2006 at 5:06 pmOh please Exley is just goading you. Ignore him. He’s a coward just like the rest of his kind.
August 11th, 2006 at 5:07 pmBushCo only likes the Elections that allow them to pick the winners. If a budding ‘Democracy’ makes choices that BushCo doesn’t like, however, all bets are off. Iraq is on it’s THIRD Prime Minister, since their first “Democratic” election. You think you know someone… but I digress. BushCo knows who they want, and it is not Ned Lamont. Let the ’smearing’ commence! Can’t they come up with a new scheme” Been there, done that, to DEATH. What a snore. Ned Lamont should ignore them, actually, everyone should. BushCo is bound to bore us all to death, but v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y, you know how much they enjoy torturing people, especially the innocent ones.
August 11th, 2006 at 5:10 pmAnd might some argue, as some have, that Chuck Roberts is a pompous fool, an ass, and a lying, Republican shill?
August 11th, 2006 at 5:10 pmCalling liberals, who strongly believe in the seperation of church and state, the “American Taliban” is hilarious.
The irony of using the smear, American Taliban, coming from someone who supports school prayer, and the ten commandments in Government buildings, is priceless.
August 11th, 2006 at 5:10 pmIt’s funny how the repugs were calling Joe ” Loserman ” but now it sounds more like “loverman ” .
August 11th, 2006 at 5:14 pmCal Thomas - ugh! I can look forward to his column being in my local paper tomorrow morning. I think I will better spend the time cleaning the toilets.
August 11th, 2006 at 5:16 pmPeople like Chuck Roberts serve up this “unbiased news” and then Isreal asks the U.S. to hurry up and send the clusterbombs. Does the State Department wonder why we are getting hammered by world opinion. We need a 100 Ned Lamonts. I know he supports Isreal but the difference in him and Lieberman is mind boggling.
August 11th, 2006 at 5:16 pmOMG. How this guy is able to pose as a journalist is unbelievable. Yeah, that’s right, Ned Lamont wants to appeal to a mass murderer of 3,000 Americans. Yes, that’s correct, expecting accountability and competence from the Executive Branch somehow links Lamont to al Qaeda. This guy should be summarily fired for even getting that soundbite on the air and more so because it is transparently disguised as “Some might say . . .” Yes, some might say that Hitler is looking up from Hell in such admiration of Dick Cheney. Incredible. We as a nation are in decline when yahoos like this are considered professional journalists. He should be cleaning toilets on the Interstate, assuming he is even qualified to do that.
August 11th, 2006 at 5:20 pmEach internet user that disagrees with current US govt policy needs to voice their opinion outside the virtual net. If not, the MSM will influence too many of the ignorant.
print up one page flyers, signs, banners. post your opinion everywhere possible in realworld common eyesight.
just spend one hour a day participating in this action. reach out beyond the virtual. take the msg to the average joe.
you can make the difference
August 11th, 2006 at 5:27 pmHmmm…
Roberts must have heard of an opening at FOX NEWS and needed to add a clip to his audition tape.
Sounds like he’ll fit right in with Roger Ailes’ team: Need a fact? Pull it out of your ass.
August 11th, 2006 at 5:28 pmThe good news is more and more Americans are tuning out the increasingly irrevalent MSM like we just saw with Lamont over Lieberman.
So the MSM has to play more to the mostly lunatic Christian fascists that walk in goosestep to George Bush and his army of neocon psychopaths.
I love the smell of desperation reeking from Karl Rove, the GOP, and the increasingly irrevalent MSM.
August 11th, 2006 at 5:29 pmtypo correction for irrelevant
August 11th, 2006 at 5:31 pmMost irresponsible report I’ve heard today.
August 11th, 2006 at 5:31 pmComment by Mishkin — August 11, 2006 @ 5:02 pm
I’ve heard a lot of people ask if they didn’t lose in ‘04, why will they lose now?
Couple of reasons:
#1 we’re never gonna give up!!!!
#2 whether you love him or hate him, Howard Dean and his brother Jim (over at democracyforamerica.com) have put A LOT of new blood into the democratic party. New Candidates on EVERY level of office (did you know the state governors majority is about to change hands just like congress?)
#3 grassroots and netroots upswelling, and the 50 state strategy. This is making a huge difference, and we didn’t have this level of involvment in ‘04
#4 well… the republican record just keeps getting worse and worse… is there anything they can say they’ve actually accomplished? there is a huge menu of things to choose from that tells people not to trust republicans: voting fraud, corruption, lying cheating stealing… REPUBLICANS CANNOT BE TRUSTED ANYMORE
spread the word and get out the vote in November… and then it will be payback time.
August 11th, 2006 at 5:32 pmCan we now finally call CNN the Crapy News Network
August 11th, 2006 at 5:33 pmcan’t believe i said republicans can’t be trusted “anymore…” :P
probably should have said republicans can’t be trusted “now more than ever!”
August 11th, 2006 at 5:34 pmDo the fascist math. Lieberman loss + Rove promise to help him out = Red Alert! These scum are so transparent it’s a joke.
August 11th, 2006 at 5:36 pmFINALLY! An intelligent journalist! Good for him!
That’s not journalism, that’s spin. Totally different concept, moron.
August 11th, 2006 at 5:36 pmkinda funny that the GOP thinks Dems are gonna fall for their bid to hold up Lieberman as a “good democrat.”
Since when is the GOP looking out for the good of the Democratic party?
If the repooplicans support Lieberman, you can bet he’d bad for the party.
August 11th, 2006 at 5:40 pmWords can’t possibly convey how I feel about Chuck Roberts’ statement. I would really need to be within arm’s reach of the guy to give it the emphasis I think it needs.
August 11th, 2006 at 5:40 pmYet another shit smear on the once honorable profession called journalism. All American media whores should be required to review tapes of some of the fearless and fair-minded professionals in Europe, who don’t give a crap, challenge every outrageous assertion made by their guests and don’t repeat obviously vitriolic partisan rhetoric and lies. We will have a whole lot of house-cleaning to do after we purge the reichwing nuts. Re-regulating the media has to be item #1 on the list.
August 11th, 2006 at 5:44 pmTell CNN Headline News what you think about this outrage.
http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form1.html?33
August 11th, 2006 at 5:45 pmWho knew that Headchop News lead spokesman Chuck Al-Roberts would BETRAY US by revealing our secret plot to overthrow the United States by installing the oil-and-military industry into the entire heathen government via massive vote-fraud?
Somebody revoke his Islamofascist Jihad Membership Card. Only Al-Reilly is allowed to pretend to expose our methods on his Islamofascist Factor nighttime stroke fest.
Tell Olmert to get ready. Dennis Miller has been moved onto the Mothership, and we are going to need a new fake comedian.
August 11th, 2006 at 5:49 pmThis is OUTRAGEOUS!!
CNN Headline News just called a Democratic candidate for the US Senate a terrorist!!
They have gone WAY off the deep end.
This outrageous Democrat bashing HAS TO STOP. NOW.
August 11th, 2006 at 5:51 pm.
An Indictment of the Bush Administration (partial)
* Illegal domestic spying in violation of FISA and the Fourth Amendment.
August 11th, 2006 at 5:51 pm* Illegal detentions in violation of the Fourth Amendment, International Law, and U.S. Law.
* Maintaining secret prisons and extraordinary rendition, in violation of the Fourth Amendment, International Law, US Law.
* Illegal aggressive war - in violation of International Law, the U.S. Constitution, and the Geneva Conventions.
* Use of a variety of illegal weapons on non-combatants including White Phosphorous and Depleted Uranium.
* Illegal targeting of civilians, journalists, and hospitals.
* Illegal seizure of Iraqi oil.
* Illegal use of funds in Iraq that had been appropriated for Afghanistan.
* Leaking of the identity of an undercover CIA agent for crass political purposes and covering up same.
* Illegal retribution against whistleblowers.
* Use of signing statements to reverse 750 laws passed by Congress.
* Production of phony news reports at home and abroad, and corrupting and bribing the press.
* Dereliction of duty in neglecting global warming, hurricanes, hunger, AIDS, the needs of veterans, and warnings of 9-11 attacks.
* Planning, green lighting, and supplying advanced weaponry for Israel’s attacks on Lebanon, and urging further attacks on Syria and Iran.
* Illegal obstruction of investigations by Congress, the 9-11 Commission, and the Department of Justice.
* Illegal theft of national elections and fraudulent cover-up of same.
* Ordering, condoning, and conducting the torture of human beings in violation of US Law, International Law, the UN Convention Against Torture, and the Geneva Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, and the illegal cover-up of same.
He was a news anchor from the “Heartland” and did news in my home town (City just above Stratcom). Needless to say, the heartland are filled with followers of the President, right or wrong. The people in this area would make great SS men and women. It’s worse than in the red neck south! Columbia, SC is more open minded than Omaha, NE. To disagree with the President is equal to thoughcrime.
August 11th, 2006 at 5:52 pmMight some argue that the Republicans, sensing that for them, the worst is yet to come, have allowed their fear to erradicate what little reason they might have had left? Might some say, that they have become their own worst enemies? They are sowing the seeds of their own destruction, but they will save the blame for us, as always. The grass is always greener over the septic tank. Sigh…
August 11th, 2006 at 5:53 pm#71 The accomplishments of the GOP rubber stamp Congress. To wit:
1. The Terry Schiavo Bill (the only thing that can pry the idiot dauphine from his vacation).
2. Energy legislation written by the oil companies.
3. Senior drug benefit legislation written by the pharmaceutical companies.
As to numbers 2 and 3, if the respective oil and drug industries are actually doing teh work of writing legislation, why do we even need member of the GOP rubber stamp Congress? Let’s just cut out the middle man altogether, correct?
August 11th, 2006 at 5:56 pmIt’s amazing how passionately Republicans feel about the success of our party, isn’t it? It’s heartening, really…
You’d never think that my or anyone’s jury duty would make an effective parallel with the so-called war on terror. Think again.
August 11th, 2006 at 6:01 pmPlease Chuck…identify the “some” of whom you speak. Or are you reading from the WH points issued today?
August 11th, 2006 at 6:01 pmHere’s my message to CNN
August 11th, 2006 at 6:07 pmThis has got to be Keith Oberman’s Worst Worst Person EVER…Absolutely the most disgusting, infuriating, offensive BS ever spewed…
August 11th, 2006 at 6:19 pmChuck Roberts needs to fired and banned from the media…Every reasonably intelligent person with an ounce of decency needs to stand up to CNN and demand he be fired… We the people..(the television audience) …deserve respect….and if we don’t demand it (by expressing our outrage) we are not going to get it…..
Well, I guess we’ll have to start labeling all republican candidates the Bin Laden candidate.
August 11th, 2006 at 6:19 pmWe need to label all republofascist candidates as supporters of war crimes and supporters of genocide.
August 11th, 2006 at 6:22 pmspread the word and get out the vote in November… and then it will be payback time.
Comment by D.Tree — August 11, 2006 @ 5:32 pm
WIN FIRST — PURGE LATER
i heard that somehwere…
August 11th, 2006 at 6:23 pm(and there’s that word - we can use it too…)
On second thought, perhaps the Inquisition wing of the RepubliChristoFascist party would be more appropriate.
August 11th, 2006 at 6:23 pmWhat amazes me that they guy getting interviewed here does not stop and say, “That is the STUPIDEST thing I have heard asked in an interview, get some journalistic integrity!”
Until inflamatory news gets called out for what it is ON THE AIR, they will just keep pushing the envelope of stupidity.
August 11th, 2006 at 6:25 pmCable News Channels have all become FOX light. Screw all of them with the exception of Keith Olberman
August 11th, 2006 at 6:29 pmMeet CNN, the Joseph McCarthy network.
August 11th, 2006 at 6:30 pmAnd they wonder why we watch Colbert and Stewart!
August 11th, 2006 at 6:31 pmMight some argue that Chuck Roberts is the pedophile’s newsanchor?
I would never suggest such a thing, of course. But the question must be asked.
August 11th, 2006 at 6:31 pmand they wonder why I NEVER watch CNN anymore…..
August 11th, 2006 at 6:33 pm#98 - truly, the question must be asked. Why does Chuck Roberts hate 53% of the Democrats in CT?
August 11th, 2006 at 6:34 pmSome say that Chuck Roberts is a child molester, I would never suggest such a thing, but some might just argue it.
August 11th, 2006 at 6:42 pmAs #89 suggests, go to the CNN website and send them an email. Flood them with complaints about this nonsense. Great idea. Thanks hit_escape.
August 11th, 2006 at 6:43 pmSome might say they’ve seen Chuck Roberts visiting gay bathhouses, because they have actually seen him there. Just saying, some might say that. Some that have actually seen him. Hmmmmm…
August 11th, 2006 at 6:44 pmPathetic. Watching CNN and with the sole exception of Olbermann, MSNBC /NBC bleeding themselves stupid trying to out perform the Fox News Hate Machine has become a spectator sport of Roman gladiatorial proportions.
Chuck Roberts. What a fine illustrious journalistic career he is enjoying. I’ll bet he can’t wait for minimum wage to go up so that he can finally buy a brain.
August 11th, 2006 at 6:48 pm#104 - More like Bin Laden LOVES Republicans!
August 11th, 2006 at 6:48 pmHey Gay Bear… got connections? Need to take a few photos, that will change the “spin”. Good work.
Bin Lauden prefers Republicans because they make the kind of mistakes that Al Qaeda needs to thrive.
“When the revolutions comes… ” The Last Poets
August 11th, 2006 at 6:49 pmUnfortunately, facts have shown that the number of terrorists in the middle east have grown exponentially since Bush shoved our military down the throat of Iraq.
So, if anyone is the al Qaeda candidate, it was Bush from the beginning.
August 11th, 2006 at 6:51 pmGay Bear,
I am sure if he ended up at a gay bathouse, it was completely by accident, and he had “no idea” what took place there. Isn’t that what most of those “straight” guys say?
August 11th, 2006 at 6:52 pmbin laden (hearts) republicans
August 11th, 2006 at 6:57 pmKaty,
George W. Bush, and the republican and democrat enablers, are the best recruiting tool Al Qaeda has.
August 11th, 2006 at 7:01 pm111 - we need the bumper sticker :)
August 11th, 2006 at 7:01 pmI have not had time to read all the posts on this topic but has anybody explained that this demcrat talibans label was in Cal Thomas syndicated column this morning?
August 11th, 2006 at 7:02 pmhttp://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/8/11/185344/622
August 11th, 2006 at 7:05 pm#114 - no, Democrats can’t be a taliban. I thought that Democrats had no religion and the Taliban are extremely religious. Cal Thomas must have made a mistake. He must be referring to the American religious extremists. They are known as the American Taliban.
Just can’t trust that gosh darn liberal media.
August 11th, 2006 at 7:11 pmCNN proving once again that they are not only part of GPN “Government Propaganda News” but also part of the group digging themselves an even deeper hole.
The gig is up. GPN people are not journalists.
The BLOGS killed the “MSM star”
:-)
August 11th, 2006 at 7:17 pmMaybe UBL should have sent the following to CNN instead of Emperor Bush?
After numerous rounds of “We don’t know if Osama is still alive,” Osama himself decided to send George Bush a letter in his own handwriting to let him know he was still in the game.
Bush opened the letter which appeared to contain a single line of coded message: 370HSSV-0773H.
Bush was baffled, so he E-mailed it to Dick Cheney. Cheney and his aides had no clue either, so they sent it to the FBI. No one could solve it at the FBI so it went to the CIA, then to the NSA.
With no clue as to its meaning, the FBI finally asked Marine Corps Intelligence for help.
Within a few seconds the Marines cabled back with this reply: “Tell George Bush he’s holding the message upside down.”
August 11th, 2006 at 7:24 pmThis is bull crap! Lamont is stronger on defense than the Bush administration.
But I can’t say the same of Hillary though. She supports the illegal and immoral war in Iraq. Thousands have died and she refuses to say her vote on the war was a mistake.
John Tasini is running against her for the Democratic nomination for the us senate.
August 11th, 2006 at 7:25 pmTaliban democrats…
according to Cal Thomas:
“Taliban Democrats because they are willing to “kill” one of their own, if he does not conform to the narrow and rigid agenda of the party’s kook fringe.”
I would say that Leiberman is a Taliban democrat. He will run as an Independent so that he can split the Democrat vote and hand his Senate seat off to a Republican rather than see it go to a Democrat who took a principled stand against an unpopular right wing kiss ass.
August 11th, 2006 at 7:27 pmAnother verbal indictment of the Bushco admin has been handed down. Lou Dobbs reported this evening that a Democrat congressman has accused Bush himself of directing that Amurka have two sets of accounting books.
Bush uses one, and that is the one reported by the MSM. The Treasury Department has the other set.
There are huge, huge differences about how well this economy is under Bush. Bush stated at one time that the budget deficit was going to be lowered to 254 billion. The truth is the budget deficit is more than DOUBLE that at 756 billion, yes, 756 billion.
The national debt is a cool 76 trillion, yes, trillion with a capitol T. The cause - the Bush administration borrows a BILLION dollars a day from different foriegn countries, mostly China.
Chew on this shit for a while Bush lovers. If you can Bushies, do the math and see how much the national debt is for each person in this country, including you phony assholes, and your poor children.
August 11th, 2006 at 7:32 pm#110 — yes, an “accident” after an all-night bender, and paying the price of admission. Amazing how $22.00 exchanging hands can ruin a “career.” Tsk.
August 11th, 2006 at 7:32 pmWhat I dont get is why all this terrorism alerts and terrorism TV special effects ziping around on CNN and Fox and MSNBC… and all the extra security on the planes and all the hysterical news … ALL of this hoopla … and the WHOLE time the british had all these people under surveillance and knew that they were going to take a “dry run” in a few days and then attack sometime after that…. why a bunch of extra security … if you just rounded up these people and you knew they werent even going to be attacking for a while anyway… Are they thinking they are going to break out of british jail and get on the planes anyway? Or is it they want to use it as an excuse to have big dramatic stories that seem to make you think you just barely missed the big one when in reality those people had NO chance of pulling this off because they were being spied on by the british for a month or more…
Is the media going to be running around like chickens with their heads cuts off OMG! OMG! OMFG!!!! everytime a terrorist gets caught in a plot? These plots of been going on for decades and decades and they could go on for another hundred years and the terrorists STILL will not be the danger that the USSR and all their NUKES and BIOLOGICAL WORLD KILLER WMDs had through out the cold war….
Its very good that these people were caught… but lots of terrorists have been caught in the past even before 911 and there was not all the pissing down our own legs… I sure hope the White House and the Rightwingers and the Media are the only ones this freakin terrified. They are acting like another 911 happened… and all they got are some people with a plan… and because of a PLAN … a P L A N …. they jack with people getting on planes that they KNOW are not about to be bombed because they ALREADY caught these guys and have locked them up…. so who are they protecting these planes from? NO ONE… they did it solely to get the MSM stired up …
I just saw on the news someone from the white house saying the patriot act and things like it is what made it possible to stop these people… she said America really got these guys…. Yet every thing I have read said America had nothing to do with it was all the work of the British and Pakistan….
August 11th, 2006 at 7:33 pmThere’s a reason they never shoot a camera angle of Chuck Roberts from the side. Because you’d be able to see the computer chip Karl Rove had implanted in his head.
August 11th, 2006 at 7:39 pmmy comment to the Roberts feedback form:
http://www.cnn.com/feedback/hdlns/
Mr. Roberts asked the question, is Ned Lamont the Al Qaida candidate. That is not a serious question, and to act like it is one is an offense to Mr. Lamont, to CT voters who recently chose him as the Democratic Senatorial nominee, and to rational thinkers everywhere who are interested in serious discourse and who rely on news anchors for substance to fuel that discourse. To suggest that CT voters just voted for an Al Qaida candidate is an affront to the duty of the press to inform the public about our candidates, elected officials, and the inner workings of government. In this incident, Mr. Roberts has clearly abdicated his duties as a serious journalist and acted more along the lines of partisan provocateur. I do not take it upon myself to recommend and discipline or consequence, only to ask that Mr. Roberts himself volunteer to apologize for his mis-step or for his superiors to look into the issue and decide for themselves.
August 11th, 2006 at 7:46 pmTo CNN:
“How does this factor into the Lieberman/Lamont contest? And might some argue, as some have, that Lamont is the al Qaeda candidate?â€
—Chuck Roberts, CNN anchor
CNN is the last remaining news station that isn’t a complete sell out to the ideology of fear-mongering and partisan smear tactics. With commentary like Mr. Roberts becoming more and more frequent lately, even CNN is going to lose the viewership of everyone with a functioning brain.
Do you really want to be catagorized as news-tainment like FOX News? I personally hope not.
Thank you
August 11th, 2006 at 7:52 pm“bin Laden (hearts) Repubs”
August 11th, 2006 at 7:53 pm*****THAT is just too cute….but I have it from reliable sources that bin Laden actually WON the election pool betting on Lamont. Who knew? I think his exact words were, “I’m banking o Ned to kick that Jewish Joe’s a$$ to the curb.” I was impressed he remembered what a curb was - but then I remembered his civil engineering background….
Please share the permalink for this with everyone you know.
This is beyond the pale. Outrageous. Highly unethical.
And its libel. Lamont should sue CNN and the jackass who said this.
This is a good example of the “some people say” unattributed quote that Fox News has been doing for years. It is unethical. It is not journalism, it is bias.
This Democrat-bashing has to stop. We must stand up and say ENOUGH!
August 11th, 2006 at 7:57 pm.
Mighty, what drug did you forget to take today? Run along and get back on those meds. You’re frothing again and it isn’t pretty.
August 11th, 2006 at 8:04 pmyou’re banking o? #127?
August 11th, 2006 at 8:04 pmmighty aphrodite is a typical inbred chimpylover. she lives in a red state and married a relative. she is an “authoritarian follower” who would follow chimpy off a cliff.
Chimpy should go on vacation at the Grand Canyon. I hear the bicycling is great there, and he could rent a Segway too.
August 11th, 2006 at 8:16 pm.
I can say this stuff because I am not a network news anchor.
If Roberts was a right wingnut commentator like Junkie Rush, PervOReilly or Mann Coulter, he could say shit like that and it would be outrageous but not a violation of journalistic ethics, because none of them are journalists.
But he’s a news anchor. He has a higher standard and he violated it.
Roberts must go. That kind of bias cannot be tolerated on a news network.
August 11th, 2006 at 8:22 pm.
After dinner I plan to e-mail CNN and say that I think Roberts should be fired. Put together with David Brook’s comment in the NYT that “we the people” basically shouldn’t be allowed to vote is beyond the pale.
August 11th, 2006 at 8:32 pmTom, sure like that toleRANT attitude “Roberts must go.â€
Comment by mighty aphrodite — August 11, 2006 @ 8:42 pm
Only in your deranged brain (or whatever is left of it) can tolerance translate into abandon of ethics. When Roberts “quoted” what “some people” say, he abandoned his journalistic ethics -you know, the ones that say that deliberate distortion is never permissible.
Roberts depiction of Lamont as the “AlQaeda candidate” was a smear, pure and simple. For that reason, as when a lawyer is found in breach of professional ethics, he must suffer the consequences.
Did you say the same thing when Dan Rather used to gush all over Mr. and Mrs. Previous Adminisration??
Your talk is always so ethereal. Provide evidence, particulars for a change…
August 11th, 2006 at 8:58 pmSupporting a president with a 33% approval rating makes all these rightwing haters sound like a bunch of dopes. The American public has caught on to the republican attack machine. It ain’t working no more but they won’t realize it until after they are out of power come November.
August 11th, 2006 at 9:05 pmDan Rather did not smear Dubya, he presented facts.
Chuck Roberts smeared Lamont by using “some people say”, an unattributed quote, to call him a terrorist supporter. Lamont is not a terrorist supporter. Roberts lied.
Democrats need to fight back and stand with Lamont against this outrage.
Republicans need to stop drinking the Koolaid.
August 11th, 2006 at 9:08 pm.
“And the next day you saw Senator Joe Lieberman sounding a lot like Vice President Cheney”
At least the guest was standing up for Ned.
August 11th, 2006 at 9:10 pm“Thank goodness our friends and allies did not desert us during our civil war.”- comment by Mighty Aphrodite-August 3, 2006 @ 3:22 pm
August 11th, 2006 at 9:10 pmI will hound you EVERY day til you do.
Comment by Ho Chi Minh
This is going to be good. I’m getting popcorn…
August 11th, 2006 at 9:15 pmZooey, I want extra butter on mine.
August 11th, 2006 at 9:18 pmoh zooey! i sure wish you could see this…
some amusement here… this is really unique and fun:
OK Go - Here It Goes Again
August 11th, 2006 at 9:28 pmhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=pv5zWaTEVkI
I want extra butter on mine.
Comment by Ho Chi Minh
I’m sorry, that’s not good for you. :)
August 11th, 2006 at 9:34 pmHo Chi Minh,
Oh god, I’m sorry. I feel dizzy. I think I was channeling my mom…
August 11th, 2006 at 9:35 pmButter coming up!
Zooey, a doctor I once worked with said that we all have our vices., junk food junkie is me, tho I am trying to eat better(no twinkies, carrots & fruits instead).
August 11th, 2006 at 9:42 pmGoodnight Ho Chi Minh!
August 11th, 2006 at 9:44 pmMight some argue that… Chuck Roberts gobbles Dick Cheney’s mansauce?
August 11th, 2006 at 10:33 pmEconAtheist,
How could one even begin to argue with that! ;)
August 11th, 2006 at 10:36 pm“How does this factor into the Lieberman/Lamont contest? And might some argue, as some have, that Lamont is the al Qaeda candidate?â€
—Chuck Roberts, CNN anchor
As many of you know - CNN is owned by Time Warner.
Time Warner is run by Dick Parsons - who is a Republican and was involved in Republican politics early in his career.
While still in his 20s, Parsons was an adviser to New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller and to President Gerald Ford.
http://www.businessweek.com/ magazine/ content/ 03_20/ b3833001_mz001.htm
The same article says that G.W. Bush had offered Parsons a job during his first term ( it does not say what job ).
I do not intend to indict Parsons of “playing dirty pool” with his influence and party loyalties. I do not know much about him. Seems like a reasonable guy whenever he shows up on CNBC.
But we do have to keep an eye out for more bullshit like this from CNN.
After all that has gone on with Bush in charge - dots that connect the way these dots seem to be connecting cannot be ignored.
August 11th, 2006 at 10:37 pmThese guys are so out of their mind, they don’t even know how incredibly dumb the stuff is that comes out of their mouth. I feel like Liberals are the new Blacks. (in terms of bigotry and outright insane lies)
August 11th, 2006 at 10:41 pmIf I was al Qaeda, would I want to support Ned Lamont who supports a withdrawal from Iraq, heavy diplomatic negotiations in the Middle East, diplomatic engagement with Iran, Syria and North Korea to try to stabilize relations, get help to squash the really extremist groups and try to use incentives to bring about more democracy in that region, re-engage with our allies in order to regain respect and get them to fall in line when it really counts?
No of course not. If I was al Qaeda, I’d want to support Bush and the Republicans who are doing everything in their power to besmirch the respect and honor and standing of the United States of America on the global stage. With every miltiary engagement, the US is losing not only respect among its allies but gaining enemies in the Middle East. It’s been three years since the Iraq War started and nothing — NOTHING — has been accomplished that can point to stabilization in that region.
If I was al Qaeda, I’d be jumping for joy that Bush is doing everything in his power to make things worse. So why would al Qaeda, a ruthless terrorist organization that has MURDERED nearly 3,000 people on 9/11 and only wants a worldwide war, support a candidate who wants peace? They don’t. Al Qaeda would probably support Republicans.
August 11th, 2006 at 10:45 pm#27:
August 11th, 2006 at 10:45 pmSome of us know it’s fascism.
When Neocons and Zionists get desperate their shit hits the fan and stinks up the place.
August 11th, 2006 at 10:48 pmAl Qaeda wants us to leave Iraq so they can take over, Lamont wants us to leave Iraq giving it to al Qaeda. I bet OBL will campaign for Lamont like he did for Kerry.
August 11th, 2006 at 11:25 pmChuck Roberts hates freedom. It’s slantofacism!”
August 11th, 2006 at 11:28 pmWe need to take up a collection to do a full page ad in the major newspapers, expose this trash and ask for an apology.
August 11th, 2006 at 11:35 pmChuck Roberts is a stupid cocksucker and he should lose his job for that comment.
Honeydipper, how do you claim to know so much about Bin Laden’s preferences?
August 11th, 2006 at 11:45 pmalot of morons in media these days
August 11th, 2006 at 11:46 pmI like how Osama Bin Laden has been forgotten by our government and is only used by asshats like exley and honey dipper (dude, how lame is your handle?) out of sheer desperation because they don’t have anything else.
August 11th, 2006 at 11:57 pmHeres an e-mail I Sent to CNN
August 12th, 2006 at 12:03 amCNN should present the news, should be able to know the difference between a Democrat and a member of Al Queada and if they can’t they should be fired. Ned Lamont is not a member of an extremist party apparently you commentators are allow to say the sun sets in the west. Without editorial oversight or journalistic intregrity there is no reporting only political posturing, pandering and shilling for the party in power. Your contined support of the obvious bias of Mr Charles Roberts places you network in the position of cheerleading and not news. Mr Roberts just called 52% of the people who voted in a legitimate primary terrorist sympathisers. Shame on any network that contains such utter nonesense and such blatant falsehoods to be broadcast. Where can the truth be found when lies are allowed to go unanswered when a program allows smears instead of the news. This kind of talk should not go unpunished and un-repudiated by a credible network. My ancesters arrived in 1635 and settled in CT and although, I can’t vote in that cradle of freedom, I support Mr Lamont, now more than ever, regardless of the smut allowed on you network. Please just the facts, fearmongering is not an occupation that looks good on the resume’
CNN is turning into FOX News. Notice the waving flag banners and cheap sound affects. Seems they are copying everything Fox news is doing including the political attacks disguised as news. Coorporate news is just a puppet of the republican dictatorship. Fox - CNN al the same, don’t know why CNN just doesn’t turn their station over ti Rupert Murdoch, it’s just Fox news with a different name.
August 12th, 2006 at 12:22 amYeh, yeh..dabnagitt, as pasted ‘bove, what’s the deal here anyway…all these “liberal” networks doing all this bush bashing kind o’ liberal talking crazy, hell bush is off talkin ’bout darn liberals pagans banana daiquiris hormones all in one sentence.
da man was talking absolutely krazy sheeit, I mean, this man, george,our president, would probably nuke the bahjeebies outta some folks if’n he had any more o’ dem gott durn banana daiquiris
August 12th, 2006 at 12:38 amwithout alcohol, give the man a drink…sheesh. =)
Boy, the nervousness of the liberals ever since the story broke of this new planned “9/11″ is palpable. You folks realize that you lost big time in 2002 and 2004 because the American people don’t trust liberals with protecting the national security. Now that world events have again thrust national security into the forefront of the American consciousness, you see your hoped-for gains in November slipping away.
Here’s a suggestion…Stop being the party of appeasement and surrender to America’s enemies, again pick up the mantle of Harry Truman and JFK, who were strong pro-national security Democrats, and then you won’t be so prone to electoral defeat again and again and again.
August 12th, 2006 at 12:40 amChuck Roberts is a stupid cocksucker and he should lose his job for that comment.
Honeydipper, how do you claim to know so much about Bin Laden’s preferences?
Comment by Redleg
Bin Laden aint had no sex since the jihad started, every time Bin raises a skirt he sees Bush…
August 12th, 2006 at 12:42 amBoy, the nervousness of the liberals ever since the story broke of this new planned “9/11″ is palpable. You folks realize that you lost big time in 2002 and 2004 because the American people don’t trust liberals with protecting the national security.
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Lemme see port deals, 20 some odd tunnels dug under the mexican border since 9/11, some with air conditioiong and vent systems, a drug war on southern border
billions lost in Iraq, no ‘course’, war profiteering
corruption, scandals…limos prostitutes, DHS porno, bush ignored the daily brief, apparently the Brits weren’t asleep at the wheel, not to mention that Pakistan also made several of the arrests.
The Faux media see’s a terrorist threat as something to get them relected…that’s pretty sad when you think about it.
The Republicans are trying to steal the work of the British security for self serving chickenhawk ends.
Thats pretty lame, something a teenager might do on the playground.
August 12th, 2006 at 12:50 amBoy, the nervousness of the liberals ever since the story broke of this new planned “9/11″ is palpable. You folks realize that you lost big time in 2002 and 2004 because the American people don’t trust liberals with protecting the national security.
August 12th, 2006 at 12:58 am~~~~
not to add insult to the Republican injury, most of the people doing these jobs are not presidents, pundits, politicians or even ambassadors,they do not run corporations, or representatives,nary a lobbyist one, many of these agent’s can barely afford to send their kids to college, think about that next time you fiscal ‘Republicans’ think about a fair wage, because it is these people that will save your ass and not faux news Bush, Cheney, Rove, or any other one of the finefolks in the Senate.
Everybody needs to chill the hell out. Did any of you actually watch the clip??? Roberts wasn’t directly calling Lamont the al Qaeda candidate. He was referring to all the piece of shit republicans like Cheney and Cal Thomas who are SERIOUSLY calling Lamont’s victory a win for the terrorists. Relax. He’s just reporting the news.
August 12th, 2006 at 1:07 amHere’s a suggestion…Stop being the party of appeasement and surrender to America’s enemies,
Comment by Exley — August 12, 2006 @ 12:40 am
You oscillate between the lucid (even though I disagree with you) and the borderline deluded beyond all repair.
Who in the world has ever advocated surrender?
The thwarted plot could only validate the strategy proposed by many in this blog: Better intelligence, proper use of law enforcement, and international cooperation. It could only cause nervousness on those who defend the bellicose, military approach in exclusion of everything, and everyone else -the world be damned.
It takes a few mental contortions to see that success story as propping up the Bush administration’s approach to the “war on terror”.
August 12th, 2006 at 1:08 am[…] And might some argue, as some have, that Roberts is the male version of the vacuous Kira Phillips? Jebus Chuck, I expect better from you […]
August 12th, 2006 at 1:11 amI assume Roberts was trying to draw John Mercurio into inferences Dick Cheney and Joe Lieberman made after the primary. Mercurio properly corrected the record that neither had called Lamont “the al Qaeda candidate” but had insinuated terrorists might be pleased.
Several links reference the construal:
http://www.nytimes.com/ 2006/ 08/ 10/ washington/ 10senate.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
“The attacks came in searing remarks from, among others, Ken Mehlman, the chairman of the Republican National Committee and Vice President Dick Cheney, who went so far as to suggest that the ouster of Mr. Lieberman might encourage ‘al Qaeda types.’”
August 12th, 2006 at 1:25 amTHIS IS WHAT I SENT TO CNN, AND IF ANY OF YOU HAVE ANY SACK AT ALL YOU WILL DO THE SAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
August 12th, 2006 at 1:26 amSORRY I AM SO F*CKING MAD I FORGOT TO POST WHAT I SENT CNN, HERE IT IS.
”
“I watch your network EVERYDAY!!!
BUT AS OF TODAY, 8-12-06 I WILL NEVER WATCH HEADLINE NEWS AGAIN, AND TO BE HONEST, I MIGHT EVEN JUST NEED TO WRITE REGULAR OLE CNN OFF TOO.
THE ROVIAN SPIN THAT CHUCK ROBERTS BELCHED OUT SAYING “MIGHT SOME SAY LAMONT IS THE AL QUEDA CANIDATE” IS THE BIGGEST BUNCH OF GOP PANDERING BULLSHIT I HAVE EVER SEEN ON A CNN NETWORK!!!
IF ANYONE HAS HELPED THE RANKS OF AL QUEDA IT IS THE POLICIES OF GEORGE W. BUSH. I KNOW IT AND YOU KNOW IT, IT IS NOT A SECRET.
AND FOR CHUCK ROBERTS TO TAKE A TIP STRAIGHT OUT OF FOX NEWS WITH “MIGHT SOME SAY………” AS IF “SOME” WITH ANY SENSE OR REASON ACTUALLY THINKS THAT AND THAT IT HAS ANY FACTUAL RELLAVENCE AND BELONGS ANYWHERE ON ANY NETWORK IS ….APPALLING TO SAY THE LEAST.
THIS IS JUST MORE SWIFT BOATING THAT I WILL NOT TOLERATE IN THE LEAST
YOU CNN CAN KISS MY ASS”
August 12th, 2006 at 1:28 amAND SOME MIGHT ARGUE, AND “SOME” HAVE, THAT CHUCK ROBERTS IS A NO GOOD WORTHLESS, LYING, SPINNING, TAKING IT IN THE ARSE FROM ROVE, PIECE OF SH!T.
August 12th, 2006 at 1:30 amRoberts wasn’t directly calling Lamont the al Qaeda candidate.
Comment by Ernest — August 12, 2006 @ 1:07 am
Yes, he was, No one else has called Lamont the “AalQaeda candidate”, which is the reason why Roberts could only say “some say”, without naming names. That was his own shameless smear.
The smear is transparent, even as Roberts tries to hide behind those anonymous “others”.
August 12th, 2006 at 1:35 amGregor, I too find you (and Krazny and Brian Coughlan and a few others) lucid (most of the time).
I think an argument can be made that the Ned Lamont-John Murtha wing of the Democratic Party is indeed advocating surrender. And that is a surrender from responsibility. ThinkProgress can call it “redeployment” all it wants, but by any other name it is a surrender and retreat.
Now, as you know, and as I have stated, I was a strong supporter of the initial decision to liberate Iraq and depose Saddam Hussien, chiefly because of his now-established links with Al Qaeda and my belief the democratizing Iraq would have a salutary effect in the Arab world and serve as an example to other Arab states. And also as you know, I have become increasingly pessimistic that Iraq will indeed seize this golden opportunity we have handed them to create a paceful, civilized, tolerant democratic state. Thus, I do not believe we should stay in Ieraq forever (or indeed for mych longer) unless we soon see tangible signs that the Iraqis step up to the plate and start acting responsibly instead of like a primitive band of warring tribes. Someone needs to remind the Iraqis that it is 2006 and not 983 A.D. Grow up, Iraqis!
My problem with the Lamont-Murtha wing is they have no stated plan or contigency for what to do with Iraq other than cheap sloganeering about “bringing them home.” Okay, fine…We all want the troops home (or in Afghanistan and Pakistan hunting Bin Laden)…But the situation in Iraq and the Middle East requires more than people like Ned Lamont and Nancy Pelosi saying we should get out of Iraq. Okay, Ned and Nancy,…And then what?
August 12th, 2006 at 1:36 amThis is what I sent to cnn.com
Please read this carefully:
Today on CNN Headline News, anchor Chuck Roberts discussed the impact of the foiled British terror plot with Hotline senior editor John Mercurio. Roberts asked Mercurio, “How does this factor into the Lieberman/Lamont contest? And might some argue, as some have, that Lamont is the al Qaeda candidate?â€
Can you see how asking this question is biased, and defamatory. Do you have the integrity to require Roberts to apologize to Lamont on the air or else fire him? Mmmm…. That’s what I thought. You guys are cowardly a**holes.
go to http://www.cnn.com/feedback/ to tell them what you think.
August 12th, 2006 at 1:36 amAmerican people don’t trust liberals with protecting the national security
Which political party, the (Democrats) or the (Republicans), do you trust to do a better job handling the U.S. campaign against terrorism?
The answer: Democrats 46%, Republicans 38%