Tom DeLay: I Don’t Write My Own Blog
Criminally indicted ex-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) launched a personal blog yesterday. The new site seemed to mark a shift for DeLay: last year, he said he found the fact that Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy “does his own research on the Internet” to be “just incredibly outrageous.” Now, DeLay says he wants to “be a role model that leaders ought to have their own blog.”
During an appearance last night on MSNBC, DeLay was asked about the mechanics of writing for his new blog. “Well, I’m not a very good writer,” DeLay acknowledged. “I have the ideas, and I have somebody else put the words together.” Apparently he still isn’t interested in doing research on the Internet.
Watch it:
Full transcript:
BARNICLE: TomDeLay.com, right? Is that — is that the blog?
DELAY: That’s new today. Yes. That’s my blog that we came out with today. And we’re very pleased with it. We’re getting a lot of comments and a lot of hits on it.
BARNICLE: So, like, do you get up first thing in the morning and start blogging away? Or what do you do?
DELAY: Well, I’m not a very good writer. I have the ideas, and I have somebody else put the words together. But yes, we’re going to post a lot during the day. And we’re going to respond to questions and comments.
And it’s — the conservatives need to push back on communications, and we need to compete, instead of…
BARNICLE: You’ve got to be kidding me.
DELAY: No.
BARNICLE: I mean, look at — you’ve got Rush Limbaugh out there.
DELAY: Oh, yes. Radio talk shows are great.
BARNICLE: You mean conservative bloggers?
DELAY: In any media. If there’s a blogosphere, we are sorely lacking in enough conservative bloggers to offset the liberal bloggers that are there. And I want to set — be a role model that the leaders ought to have their own blog, and they ought to talk to people around the country on these blogs.
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December 12th, 2006 at 1:22 pmAfter that disaster of a blog, I would say the same thing.
Now what is this guy doing on TV still?
December 12th, 2006 at 1:22 pmThe fact that this indicted crook still gets face-time on television should tell us all we need to know about cable news. Remember, Michael Moore can’t get on television. Scott Ritter, who was correct about everything, can’t get on television. Delay has been on television more often lately than the first female Speaker of the House in history. I don’t watch “Hardball” anymore and I can’t even understand why any Democrat pays attention to this disgrace of a show and its disgraceful host.
December 12th, 2006 at 1:23 pmdoes this mean he doesn’t read the comments either? cause if he did before it was taken down he would understand what many people think of him rather than being deluded into believing everyone loves him … but wait, he doesn’t think those like us are people, we are evil progressives who want to help everyone and find the truth and don’t fall in line with his ideology ….
December 12th, 2006 at 1:29 pmOh Tom, you didn’t write that inspired blog yourself? How disappointing…. Were you going to send someone else to my house, too?
Oh dear, what are you doing to your hair? Did you go see Antoine like I said you should!? I’m all shivery…
December 12th, 2006 at 1:30 pmwe are sorely lacking in enough conservative bloggers to offset the liberal bloggers that are there
I defy any troll to defend this ignorance.
I believe Kos and DU are by a distance the most visited political blogs on the net, but there’s absolutely no shortage of wingnuts blogging, and plenty of freaks who swarm over their puke.
December 12th, 2006 at 1:31 pmAnother child left behind…
December 12th, 2006 at 1:33 pmCan’t write his own blog? What a pathetic loser!
December 12th, 2006 at 1:36 pmThe reason there aren’t as many consevative bloggers as there are liberal and progressive bloggers is because:
1. Too stupid to operate a computer
2. They are the minority. There aren’t as many of them as the media would have you believe. They are just more vocal. That is where radical moderates like me come in. I am more vocal than any conservative wishes there were. That is how we won the election. The tripe about it not really being a democratic victory as much as a republican loss is complete and utter bullshEt. We won because we got the vote out and they didn’t. Fu*k them.
December 12th, 2006 at 1:36 pmPretty hardup for when you ask the likes of a tom delay to come on your show.
December 12th, 2006 at 1:37 pmNot only are there plenty of wingnuts blogging, Dumb_Fox, many of them are well compensated for their efforts.
In fact, if you are a conservative blogger not being paid by the well funded denialist industries (military, prison building, petroleum, etc.) then you are getting ripped off, doing work for free that others make hundreds of thousands a year doing.
December 12th, 2006 at 1:38 pmThis story and most of the comments here have seem to have forgotten or just ignored the big splash that http://www.tomdelay.com made on Crooks and Liars back on 10 December 2006 (ancient history). Commenters from Crooks and Liars and others visited the new T. Dale Delay blog and added over 110 nasty and on-target comments before the T. Dale dudes shut the blog down and closed off “unregistered” comments… This whole episode would make a great column for Molly Ivins or someone else with access to mainstream media… A Cautionary Tale: T. Dale visits the Internets and gets paddled for his troubles…
The original 110 first comments have been saved on a crooks and liars link. Very funny. I printed them out : 23 pages of free speech about T. Dale…
Cheers.
December 12th, 2006 at 1:40 pmI hope the MSM keeps trotting this guy out as much as possible for the next few years. He’s the posterboy for everything wrong with the Republicanism, and his appearance on these shows can only do good things for the Democratic party.
December 12th, 2006 at 1:40 pmTom,
It would be best if you could tell me you read my comments before you took down your blog. You know how I hate to be ignored, and I’m not having it from a little man like you. Understand?
The color on your hair is still wrong, darling…
December 12th, 2006 at 1:41 pmChris will be so sad that he missed his BFF, Tom DeLay.
December 12th, 2006 at 1:42 pm“Sorely lacking in enough conservative bloggers to offset the liberal bloggers “
That’s because all the money in the world can’t hire enough PR firms to push all the BS that the current administration has been trying to pull off.
December 12th, 2006 at 1:44 pmWhere does he get this money? I mean, he’s paying this person to write his blog isn’t he? Or is it his wife or some other family member?
Weird, just weird.
December 12th, 2006 at 1:45 pmWhen DeLay was asked to describe a “true conservative” Mike Barnaby responded “with a couple of exceptions, that sounded a lot like Barak Obama”.
The “that wasn’t me” defense DeLay is floating just got shot down.
December 12th, 2006 at 1:48 pmDELAY: Well, I’m not a very good writer. I have the ideas, and I have somebody else put the words together. But yes, we’re going to post a lot during the day. And we’re going to respond to questions and comments.
I have a feeling that there will be noticeable sentence structure changes on his blog when Tom has his cellmate Bubba “put the words together” for him.
December 12th, 2006 at 1:52 pmUmmm, the ThinkProgress posters were there too.
Here, take a look:
http://thinkprogress.org/ 2006/ 12/ 10/ tom-delay-starts-a-blog/
You will notice that one of the posters here made a mirror of TomDelay.com which you can find at:
http://tomdelaydotcom.blogspot.com/
Enjoy.
December 12th, 2006 at 1:54 pmWhen will the bugs start spraying Tom?
December 12th, 2006 at 1:58 pmTommy boy doesn’t realize that when something is written in this style:
People assume that it is you who have written it.
December 12th, 2006 at 2:00 pmExcerp from TomDeLay.com:
“To our surprise there are some on the left who evidently do not like Tom DeLay…”
God these guys are so clueless.
I’d like to know how many congress critters surf the net on a regular basis and I’d especially like to know how many of those that surf the net actually visit sites that don’t like them.
December 12th, 2006 at 2:00 pmNot enough conservative bloggers?!? What a load.
After searching through the Weblog Finalists in the final category “other” - I felt I needed to shower. I only found 2 progressive sites until I couldn’t open another link . . . couldn’t make me.
December 12th, 2006 at 2:02 pmyou can tell this network has no taste or remaining credibility when they put this on the air. imagine, calling this comedy?
December 12th, 2006 at 2:09 pmtest
December 12th, 2006 at 2:12 pm“I have the ideas, and I have somebody else put the words together.â€
Well, if Delay is as good a writer as “Duke” Cunningham, maybe it is a good idea for him to have an editor/writer who will translate his babble into coherent English sentences.
The fact that semi-literate people manage to get elected into office is truly mind-boggling.
December 12th, 2006 at 2:17 pmI can’t stand him. My ex-wife’s son loves him. Bear in mind, this isn’t why i dumped them, but for different reasons all together.
December 12th, 2006 at 2:24 pmWe are led by the least among us.
December 12th, 2006 at 2:36 pmNow what was that part about workers in the Marianas Islands having to undergo forced abortions………..
December 12th, 2006 at 2:39 pmMay be ideas come to him e-mailed or faxed by Abramoff from his prison cell.
December 12th, 2006 at 2:48 pmGosh who is that skank person?
December 12th, 2006 at 2:51 pm….doesn’t comb his own hair, either, or wipe his own ass.
December 12th, 2006 at 3:08 pm“Well, I’m not a very good writer. I have the ideas, and I have somebody else put the words together.”
What Tom doesn’t seem to grasp is that THINKING and WRITING are very closely related cognitive activities. If you can’t put your ideas into words yourself, those ideas are probably a muddled mess. Tom’s real problem, however, is that he is too stupid to hide his true ideas behind fancy words and misleading arguments. And he certainly can’t state his ideas outright: lie, cheat, intimidate, bribe, steal, kill.
December 12th, 2006 at 3:11 pmI don’t write my own comments.
December 12th, 2006 at 3:16 pmHow do these ideas come to him if not in the form of words?
In the words of Joe Pecsi from “My Cousin Vinny,” he could use a good ass kickin’. I got to be honest wid cha!
December 12th, 2006 at 3:33 pmI’d be surprised if Tom can write at all.
December 12th, 2006 at 3:56 pmDeLay has the intellectual standing of a cockroach. Wait, let me take that back becasue I do not want to offend cockroaches.
December 12th, 2006 at 4:07 pmWe need to make sure that the bottom feeders of the Republican party do not get rehabilitated… this means, Gingrich, Lott, Delay and whoever else they try to bring out.
What is fun though is watching the “swiftboating” of Mr. Baker by the neocons and other Bush supporters.
BTW, has anyone thought about these “Red Dog” conservative Democrats? Wouldn’t that be a neocon in another name? A 1960’s liberal who, on matters of national defense, spilt with the Democrats and founded the neocon movement?
We need to make sure that they don’t slip this crap by too!
December 12th, 2006 at 5:30 pmBlogging is more about the spirit of the blogger than about sheer writing skills. Any ol’hack can do a blog for crying out loud. DeLay is just lost out there.
December 12th, 2006 at 6:38 pmSleazebag central.
December 12th, 2006 at 7:30 pmThe burning question is:
How will he raise money from the apparently large constituency of Republican pedophiles? Any ideas Tom? You have that …home for children…you know…the one Abramoff gave money to…
Sleazebag central.
December 12th, 2006 at 7:30 pmThey haven’t all been in one room since Abramoff flew them to the Marianas to endorse slavery.
The burning question is:
How do they raise money from the apparently large constituency of Republican pedophiles? Any ideas Tom? You have that …home for children…you know…the one Abramoff gave money to…
Well, Tom Delay was a bug exterminator before entering politics.
December 12th, 2006 at 7:59 pmThere are plenty of right wing bloggers. They just all suck.
December 12th, 2006 at 9:00 pmI been blogging for years, Tom Delay style. It’s called Think Progress. I don’t actually write any of the blog entries but from time to time I chime in on some of the stories I supposedly write. I’m just waiting until it gets profitable so I can start getting those checks.
Ah…my job is almost done today. I think I’m going to work on my other blog, Crooks and Liars, and then get some sleep.
You can see my acceptance speech on the NBC/It’s Your Show site:
December 12th, 2006 at 10:33 pmhttp://www.iystv.com/3633/media/
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December 13th, 2006 at 5:50 am[…] I think for now I’m just going to throw this one out there at you as I could go in many directions on this one. Still, Tom Delay is blogging? But, as Think Progress notes: During an appearance last night on MSNBC, DeLay was asked about the mechanics of writing for his new blog. “Well, I’m not a very good writer,†DeLay acknowledged. “I have the ideas, and I have somebody else put the words together.†Apparently he still isn’t interested in doing research on the Internet. […]
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Tom Delay has started a blog and he aims to shake up the blogosphere the way he shook up Congress….
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December 22nd, 2006 at 6:04 pm[…] Whatever “career” DeLay decides to take up, he must hope it is more successful than “his” blog. […]
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