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Tom DeLay Compares Himself To Duke Students Falsely Accused Of Rape

Last night on the O’Reilly Factor, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) compared himself to the Duke lacrosse players who were falsely accused of rape by district attorney Mike Nifong. “I haven’t been found guilty of nothing [sic],” DeLay said. “I’m presently under indictment for laws that don’t exist in Texas by a Nifong of Texas called Ronnie Earle, undermining our justice system here in Texas.”

DeLay has been indicted on money laundering and criminal conspiracy charges — yes, those laws exist in Texas. Ronnie Earle, whom DeLay frequently tries to paint as a bloodthirsty partisan, has prosecuted four times as many Democrats as Republicans during his career. Moreover, the indictments against DeLay weren’t even brought by Earle, but by multiple Texas grand juries made up of DeLay’s peers.

Nevertheless, DeLay’s “defense” won praise from O’Reilly. “See, I don’t think you even have to justify [the] statement with that,” O’Reilly said. “The record shows that, you know, you served your country. They may not like you, but you’re a public servant who’s walking around free right now.” Watch it:

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In his new book, DeLay also writes that by repeating the “big lie” that he violated campaign-finance laws in Texas, “liberals have finally joined the ranks of scoundrels like Hitler.”

O’Reilly and DeLay agreed on another point last night: that “left-wing blogs” are on their way to silencing all political discussion in the United States. As O’Reilly put it, “I’m getting to the point now where I’m seeing what the left-wing blogs are doing and what they’re doing is trying to wipe out people, like you said, carpet-bomb them, and if this starts to domino down, then you’re not going to have any commentary at all.”

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Transcript:

O’REILLY: I’m getting to the point now where I’m seeing what the left-wing blogs are doing and what they’re doing is trying to wipe out people, like you said, carpet-bomb them, and if this starts to domino down, then you’re not going to have any commentary at all.

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DELAY: … I haven’t been found guilty of nothing. [sic] I’ve been through 11 years of frivolous ethics charges, all dismissed, I even had a RICO suit, a racketeering suit, filed against me. I’m presently under indictment for laws that don’t exist in Texas by a Nifong of Texas called Ronnie Earle, undermining our justice system here in Texas. There is no evidence whatsoever that I’m immoral, number 1, or a crook, number 2.

O’REILLY: See, I don’t think you even have to justify her statement with that. I mean, I just wanted to prove to the audience that what she said and what Frank Rich said was so out of context that now they know who the true liars are, and the true people who have moral deficits. But you don’t have to do that. The record shows that, you know, you served your country. They may not like you, but you’re a public servant who’s walking around free right now.



85 Responses to “Tom DeLay Compares Himself To Duke Students Falsely Accused Of Rape”

  1. hil says:

    christ what a jackass


  2. Rusty says:

    God – I wish they would get on with the conviction. And make no mistake there will be a conviction of this thrice reprimanded (by the ethics com.) criminal. Then he can compare himself to someone who is currently in prison – who is, of course, totally innocent. Everyone in prison is innocent.


  3. Karim says:

    Can this man be an even bigger idiot?


  4. hellinabucket says:

    Talk is cheap and Delay is as cheap as the come.


  5. Raven says:

    Isn’t DeLay’s trial about due, this month or next?
    (Why the delay?… ararar)


  6. Mr. Bush Goes To Hell says:

    NO COMMENTARY???

    There is NOW!!

    Delay REPRESENTS the MALE face of the Rapeublican Party, with Ann Coulter the “female” face.

    TREASON, LIES, HATRED, party over country….

    Delay needs to have his face punched in until bloody….

    See YOU in hell Tom (cause I’LL be THERE),


    Mr. Bush
    MURDEROUS WAR CRIMINAL
    COXUCKER PUNK TRAITOR TO THE USA


  7. SouthWest Bob says:

    #3 – Suggested amendment to your comment: Can these men be even bigger idiots?


  8. veritas says:

    Nice spin job but ONE MAJOR DIFFERENCE HERE: Tom DeLay IS an indicted criminal; these students were falsely accused by a GOP DA/Thug, Nifong. It’s Nifong who will be losing his license to practice law over this just like it’s Tom DeLay who will be going to jail for his criminal activities.

    Has the Bar Assn. ruled on Nifong’s license revocation yet?


  9. tarazan says:

    Delay:’ I just happened to be friend of nice people like Abaramoff,Cunningham and other….,who for some bad luck ended behind bars…”. I served my country well….You can ask Abramoff about that…”


  10. veritas says:

    Isn’t Tom DeLay just the poster child for “paranoid persecution complex” these days?? His mental incapacity is so profound that he isn’t capable of the necessary “insight” to see that what he’s thinking is acutely pathological.


  11. Republicans are the fear and smear party says:

    Comparing himself to Jesus is next.


  12. Crump's Brother says:

    Poor Tom,

    I still can’t believe that the news media never properly reported what truly makes Mr. DeLay a terrible human being. The Marianas Island tragedy. From Mark Shields…

    Moved by the sworn testimony of U.S. officials and human-rights advocates that the 91 percent of the workforce who were immigrants — from China, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh — were being paid barely half the U.S. minimum hourly wage and were forced to live behind barbed wire in squalid shacks minus plumbing, work 12 hours a day, often seven days a week, without any of the legal protections U.S. workers are guaranteed, Murkowski wrote a bill to extend the protection of U.S. labor and minimum-wage laws to the workers in the U.S. territory of the Northern Marianas.

    So compelling was the case for change the Alaska Republican marshaled that in early 2000, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Murkowski worker reform bill.

    But one man primarily stopped the U.S. House from even considering that worker-reform bill: then-House Republican Whip Tom DeLay.

    Among the manufacturers that had profited from the un-free labor market on the island were Tommy Hilfiger USA, Gap, Calvin Klein and Liz Claiborne.

    DeLay fully approved of the working and living conditions. The Texan’s salute to the owners and Abramoff’s government clients was recorded by ABC-TV News: “You are a shining light for what is happening to the Republican Party, and you represent everything that is good about what we are trying to do in America and leading the world in the free-market system”

    Later, DeLay would tell The Washington Post’s Juliet Eilperin that the low-wage, anti-union conditions of the Marianas constituted “a perfect petri dish of capitalism. It’s like my Galapagos Island.”

    What a courageous and persecuted man. How can those prosecutors in Texas do this to a man who such high moral credentials?


  13. Jake-off, Patrick Doesn't Have 1, & Fireant says:

    Clinton did it, too. So did Pelosi.


  14. Akhen says:

    Bill obviously didn’t do his homework or he would have recognized that Dick Armey questioned the morals of “the hammer” …


  15. Gregor Samsa says:

    O’Reilly is another one of those kiss-up, kick-down blowhard and DeLay is an ethically challenged hypocrite.

    Both of them are big-mouthed browbeaters.

    Interesting how these bullies like to describe themselves as victims.


  16. And You Thought REAGAN Was Stupid says:

    Tom “Never Surrender” Delay, who ran away from his reelection after being indicted, is different than the Duke players in two important respects: (1) he’s a criminal; (2) he will go to prison.


  17. CONservative says:

    Comparing himself to Jesus is next.

    Comment by Republicans are the fear and smear party

    My thinking exactly.


  18. Proud Dem says:

    O’REILLY: I’m getting to the point now where I’m seeing what the left-wing blogs are doing and what they’re doing is trying to wipe out people, like you said, carpet-bomb them, and if this starts to domino down, then you’re not going to have any commentary at all.

    Yeah, butt munch, we are carpet-bombing you with the truth! Wipe out people who tell lies for the Republican’ts! Too bad they can’t take him off the air for stupidity.


  19. DoctorTexas says:

    O’Liely should be pissed at the idiot. Tommy D cost them everything. Think about it, once he was out the whole corrupt, stinking mess fell down. Don’t get me wrong, he was #1 on my hit list, and it irks me that someone, somewhere thinks its a good idea to support dickheads like the Bug Man. He should be wrapped in American Flag plastic sheeting and dropped off somewhere in the middle of Al Anbar province with a bouquet of flowers and a bible with the offensive, Danish Mohammhed cartoon on the cover.


  20. JesusChrist_GodofWAR says:

    … all these characters know how to be are victims… of crimes of their own doing…

    Some would say this is a sign of mental illness.


  21. Dumb_Fox says:

    Bullsh*t. His ethics charges weren’t all dismissed. The (GOP-controlled) House Ethics Committee censured him at least three times.

    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4106938

    And O’Reilly, well he’s just a sex pest.


  22. Kay says:

  23. freeman says:

    Who reads those crazy left wing blogs anyway ?

    The internet is the first good thing to happen to democracy since the Greeks ( not the fraternity and sorority Greeks, the other ones ) !

    Post a comment for democracy !
    Kill your television .The revolution won’t be televised !


  24. Proud Dem says:

    is different than the Duke players in two important respects: (1) he’s a criminal; (2) he will go to prison.

    Comment by And You Thought REAGAN Was Stupid

    You forgot one:
    (3) The Duke players told the truth from day one.


  25. OxyCon says:

    Repubs just hate it when you beat them at their own game.


  26. Fed the Fcuk Up! says:

    This is ironic. Both of these heinous morons are attention seeking malcontents. You all give them endless attention and whine about their misdeeds and shortcomings. They get the attention that they were hoping for and you get to air out your wit about how bad they are.

    An oddly symbiotic relationship that you here seem ignorant to. Want T.D. to go away? Stop talking about him, no one else is listening but you.


  27. Angry One says:

    Tom Delay compares himself to Jesus Christ:

    - “Let people see Christ through me.”

    - “People hate the messenger. That’s why they killed Christ.”


  28. freeman says:

    Hey Tom this blogs for you !
    Tom Delay , a roach in the kitchen of democracy ,awaiting his just desserts !


  29. Emerald says:

    Carpet bomb? If this is war, I am glad most Americans (70%) are using truth as their weapon. Sounds like O’Irrelevant is feeling picked on by those pesky facts. His “commentary” and DeLay’s “poor me” hypocrisy is almost a negative of reality. Develop that photo and poof-pretty much the oppositve of what they say is true.


  30. TripMaster Monkey says:

    Republicans are the fear and smear party sez:

    Comparing himself to Jesus is next.

    Already happened…numerous times.


  31. smafdy says:

    Isn’t “carpet bombing” what exterminators do when confronted with an infestation of vermin? Thought so.


  32. ggibson says:

    What Billo said is what happened to Imus…but Imus was not talking politics. The left does seem to pile on like a mob when some minority is offended about something, but I have yet to see it happen in a political debate. They call you on your lies, but that doesnt mean they want to silence you… it actually helps the left for the right NOT to be silence so their lies can continue to be pointed out.


  33. Geekfather says:

    Who Would Jesus Indict?


  34. Raven says:

    #31.. carpetbombing… LOL…….


  35. rabidbunny says:

    Innocent until proven guilty. That is the problem OReilly was speaking about. This man has not been found guilty of anythign, but he has already been hanged on blog sites like this. Carpet bomb is a good definition of the constant attacks without all the facts. If Delay is acquitted will there be any apologies from left wing blogs?


  36. pbg says:

    Scared, scared, scared.
    They thought they had a lock on it: do anything they cared to, and the media would quash it or ignore it. (They’re still trying.)
    But along came the blogs, and they found they couldn’t shut them up and couldn’t drown them out. And Liberals could raise millions of dollars out of it.
    So now they’re screaming about the Vicious Left Wing Bloggers just like their tools at Time and the Washington Post. Don’t listen to them! Pay attention to the big distinguished news media we own! They’ll destroy all discourse in America just like they destroyed Imus!
    Scared, scared, scared.


  37. David O. says:

    Tom deLay- martyr.

    my heart bleeds for “the Hammer”.


  38. Crump's Brother says:

    ggibson,

    that’s a great point. As far as I’m concerned, we can’t get enough of the Tom Delays or the Ann Coulters. They make our job so much easier.

    I find it shocking that the right really wants these people around. It may rally the knuckle dragging base, but it gives us an oportunity to point out who they really are.


  39. Rusty says:

    #35 of course not. If you could read, you’d see that Delay has been indicted for a crime. You will also see NUMEROUS abolute moral failings that no court in the country can acquit him from. The illegal Texas redistricting. The Marianas Islands. (complicity in sweat shops and forced abortion). The K-street project. Tom Delay deserves to roast on a special spit in the deepest darkest pit of hell.


  40. DoctorTexas says:

    DeLay, aquitted…hah! The funny thing about us Texans and our politicians is that we support ‘em right up until they publicly shame themselvesby getting a little too arrogant and crminal for our tastes which is quite often and then, a funny thing happens; we give them the “How could you, after all we did for you”. People here got tired of that shitass and the majority of us are glad he’s gone. Won’t be long before some other crackpot takes up the torch. Bush, he’s a yankee, what else could we expect. (It has been a long damn time since we had the likes of Barbra Jordan, Sam Rayburn and the mighty LBJ though….I know, I know…


  41. Loonie says:

    So Tom DeLay is saying he didn’t commit rape?


  42. rabidbunny says:

    #35 of course not. If you could read, you’d see that Delay has been indicted for a crime. You will also see NUMEROUS abolute moral failings that no court in the country can acquit him from. The illegal Texas redistricting. The Marianas Islands. (complicity in sweat shops and forced abortion). The K-street project. Tom Delay deserves to roast on a special spit in the deepest darkest pit of hell.

    Comment by Rusty

    I’ve read all the all indictments and they are not verdicts. We will see.


  43. Kate Henry says:

    Delay is a pathetic has-been who can’t stand it that his 15 minutes of fame was up a long time ago. Hopefully he will be going to jail soon.

    Regarding O’Lieley’s statement “I’m getting to the point now where I’m seeing what the left-wing blogs are doing and what they’re doing is trying to wipe out people, like you said, carpet-bomb them, and if this starts to domino down, then you’re not going to have any commentary at all.”

    Hopefully what happened to Imus will domino down and wipe out all the hate mongers like O’Lieley, Limpbaugh, Hannity and Beck. These hate-mongering talking heads are scared to death that the American public has finally had enough of their hate and will start to expose their hate until they are left with no clothes on like Mr. Bush.

    Personally, I’m putting my money where my mouth is by letting all advertisers connected to these hate mongers know that I will not be giving my money to their company as long as they continue to sponsor hate speech. It’s very inconvenient, but it helps me to know that I am not only talking the talk, I am walking the walk.


  44. kelso says:

    Tom DeLay is always good for a laugh. I find it interesting that FOX recycles the biggest losers the world has to offer in the political realm. Let’s see, there’s Newt, DeLay, Bo Dietl, Bill Donahue, Pat Buch. over and over and over again. Does FOX have that hard of a time finding people willing to go on their around the clock pundit-gossip-pseudo-news-ish shows?


  45. rabidbunny says:

    and wipe out all the hate mongers

    I see much more hate mongering from blogs than I hear on any radio show or see on any television show.


  46. oldtree says:

    statement equals; ‘will you give me more money for my defense fund? I can count on you stupid cretins, right?”


  47. VerbalKint says:

  48. miguel says:

    Did you also hear BO apologize to Delay for Rosie’s remarks about him? He is the biggest ass kisser. Only Delay’s ass is big enough to fit BO’s big head.


  49. Captain Kirk says:

    indictement, unlike most Liberals believe, doesn’t mean that you are guilty of a crime…..

    if we are going to play the indictment of politicians game look within the Democrat Party and you will all be shocked as to how many Democratic Politicians have been indicted.

    furthermore, it is true, left wing blogs love stepping on freedom of speech…well obviously unless that speech agrees with their point of views. That is nothing new.

    Look how the blogs went crazy against Imus. What he said was disgusting, but the left wing blogs went after him with a vengence, with the typical hateful rhetoric that is so prevelent in left wing blogs.

    What it is well known is that it is ok to attack with hate and venom anything that is from the right, but if anyone dare attack anything that the left holds up to a pedestal, well now you are in trouble.

    Liberals believe that it is freedom of speech to spit ona statue of Jesus, but they don’t believe that it is freedom of speech to wear a Jesus Christ shirt to a public school.

    Liberals believe that it is freedom of speech to lie about someone they disagree with, but they don’t believe it is freedom of speech to speak the truth about Democrat Politicians.

    Liberals believe that it is freedom of speech to spew hate against religion, but they don’t believe it is freedom of speech if someone speaks against homosexuality.

    I mean the liberal mantra is….you have freedom of speech as long as your speech agrees with the Liberal ideology.


  50. Gregor Samsa says:

    All O’Reilly has to do to get “conservatives” to stand by him is mention the word ‘god’ at some point while he blathers about being the victim -even as he puts down women, minorities, Muslims, or any other group he can kick down and get away with it -because, you know, Christians are prosecuted minorities in the US.

    Also, wasn’t he the blowhard most vocal about how people should “take responsibility” and that victims are to partly blame in a crime; or at least when the victim is a woman and the crime is rape.

    C’mon Billy boy, grow up, be a man, and take responsibility.


  51. pikkel says:

    It is just astonishing how the republican party will stand by these crooks (in the face of astonishingly overwhelming evidence) until the bitter end. That puzzles me. Unfortunately I don’t think it is an affliction unique to that party. And that saddens me.


  52. Fun-gi says:

    Just like Delay, the students denied the crime.
    They didn’t deny screwing someone.
    Just like Delay.


  53. rudy says:

    Who do you think is on top ,when Delay and O’Lielly “get it on”?


  54. PatrioticLiberalChristian(PLC) says:

    “I haven’t been found guilty of nothing [sic],” DeLay said.

    No, but you probably will be found guilty of something, I say.

    indictement, unlike most Liberals believe, doesn’t mean that you are guilty of a crime…..Comment by Captain Kirk

    And impeachment is a form of indictment and, unlike what most Neocons believe, does not mean that Clinton was guilty of anything


  55. Captain Kirk says:

    pikkel,

    so like a typical nazi or communist you don’t believe in being innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, eh? nice, liberal justice, if you are indicted it means you are guilty. poor ignorant children of the left.


  56. Hench Ellis says:

    On Sunday 4/15, I heard Delay interviewed on Emerson College’s (Boston) student radio station, WERS. He expanded on the statemeent in his new book that Democrats and liberals are just like Hitler and the Nazi party. I’m trying to get a transcript. It was pretty outrageous stuff.


  57. Crump's Brother says:

    Capt Kirk,

    Look how the blogs went crazy against Imus. What he said was disgusting, but the left wing blogs went after him with a vengence, with the typical hateful rhetoric that is so prevelent in left wing blogs.

    Are you saying that right-wing bloggers were comfortable with Imus’ dumb comments? Hateful rhetoric only comes from the left? Really? So Glenn Beck calling the Katrina victims “scumbags” is the left? When Rush Limbaugh mocks the symptoms of someone who has a terrible disease like Parkinson’s, is that the left being hateful? When Ann Coulter calls the 9-11 widows harpies, or John Edwards a “faggot”, would you call that the language of inclusion and love?

    Liberals believe that it is freedom of speech to spit on a statue of Jesus, but they don’t believe that it is freedom of speech to wear a Jesus Christ shirt to a public school.

    You ought to read the Supreme Court decision in regards to this issue. Though public school students do possess First Amendment freedoms, the courts allow school officials to regulate certain types of student expression. For example, school officials may prohibit speech that substantially disrupts the school environment or that invades the rights of others. I guess the question is, would object to a child wearing a shirt that says “Satan forever” on it?

    Liberals believe in freedom of speech as much as anyone else Capt. We just believe it should be fought with more and better more reasoned speech. Your problem is that you don’t like the fact that America is tired of intolerant speech. Imus was not arrested. He was fired by a company that decided they could no longer do business with a close minded bigot. Freedom pf speech has to do with governments ability actually censor someone through coercive means. It doesn’t mean that people shouldn’t be able to laugh Imus off the air. That’s the free-market of ideas Capt. Love it or leave it.


  58. Shane says:

    I see much more hate mongering from blogs than I hear on any radio show or see on any television show.

    Comment by rabidbunny — April 17, 2007 @ 1:21 pm

    That’s because you look at the world through neocon colored glasses.


  59. JesusIs Gay says:

    Capt Spunk,

    There’s also a small bit of difference in speech against gays and blacks, versus Christians. Being a Christian is a choice, being gay or black is not.

    And if the Christians had better spokespeople, perhaps we wouldn’t make fun of you so much.. But look at your leaders:

    Dobson I take showers with my son to show him my manhood.

    Haggard, “Don’t be gay & Pass me the meth pipe after I’m done giving you a blow job”

    Jim & Tammy Faye.

    Pat “I can leg Press 800 lbs with my Jesus Juice” Robertson

    Dubya “I talk to god” (People like this are normally locked up)

    See Christians have turned themselves into a joke. Clean up your house before you try to clean up someone else’s.


  60. ForTruth says:

    Both political parties have hateful nutjobs. Should we compare lists?

    Overall, the scales tip toward the right when hatefulness is measured.


  61. ForTruth says:

    Why is Delay still wearing an expesive suit and being interviewed by media outlets? Isn’t he in trouble or something? Didn’t he lose his job?

    I don’t get it.


  62. Democrat Soldier says:

    #49 – “with the typical hateful rhetoric that is so prevelent in left wing blogs.”

    Says the person who has obviously never visited ANY right-wing blogs in which the hate spews more than Mount Vesuvius.

    Conservatives believe that the Second amendment is more important than the First Amendment. Wake up right-tards! The Constitution is important in its entirety!

    Conservatives believe that scraeming about Fmr-Pres. Clinton is a God-given right, but mentioning anything bad about Prs. Bush is just appeasing terrorists, and the “fist amendment” is only applicable in special locations miles away from Pres. Bush.

    Conservatives believe that Fmr-Pres. Clinton should have been shot for lying about sex, but Pres. Bush should be cannonized as a saint for lying the US into a war.

    Conservatives believe that supporting the troops is underfunding the VA, underfunding their training and under-armouring their vehicles, but saying we should question the “war for oil” is treason.

    Conservatives believe that they should be able to force their religious opinion on you whether you want ot hear it or not, but if anyone questions their pick-and-choose approach to what verses of the Bible they believe in is going way too far.

    Conservatives want to foce everyone to live by their double-standards, and whine like loosers when they’re caught practising those same double-standards.

    Conservative ideology states: “As long as you mouth the words, we don’t care if you walk the walk.”


  63. Shane says:

    I mean the liberal mantra is….you have freedom of speech as long as your speech agrees with the Liberal ideology.

    Comment by Captain Kirk — April 17, 2007 @ 1:39 pm

    On the contrary we don’t feel we have freedom of speech any more. Otherwise you would know how we really feel about the President, Vice President, Bush Cabinet and neocon troll Nazis like you.


  64. ForTruth says:

    Liberals believe that it is freedom of speech to spit on a statue of Jesus, but they don’t believe that it is freedom of speech to wear a Jesus Christ shirt to a public school

    Bong hits for Jesus?


  65. Shane says:

    Who do you think is on top ,when Delay and O’Lielly “get it on”?

    Comment by rudy — April 17, 2007 @ 2:06 pm

    Oh my, I just lost my lunch.


  66. Shane says:

    Comment by Crump’s Brother — April 17, 2007 @ 2:21 pm

    Love your post.


  67. Shane says:

    Why is Delay still wearing an expesive suit and being interviewed by media outlets? Isn’t he in trouble or something? Didn’t he lose his job?

    I don’t get it.

    Comment by ForTruth — April 17, 2007 @ 2:26 pm

    Apparently he’s still wearing a rug on his head. Good look, huh?


  68. elemgee says:

    “I haven’t been found guilty of nothing”>

    Hell-OOOOH!!!! Anyone out there?

    Did Delay just infer he has been found guilty!!

    It wasn’t an example of his piss-poor grammar skills: It was an ADMISSION!!!!!!!!!!


  69. rabidbunny says:

    That’s because you look at the world through neocon colored glasses.

    Comment by Shane

    All you have to do is read some of the posts by left wingers here. You are choosing to be blind.


  70. rabidbunny says:

    On the contrary we don’t feel we have freedom of speech any more. Otherwise you would know how we really feel about the President, Vice President, Bush Cabinet and neocon troll Nazis like you.

    Comment by Shane

    You are right, nobody ever speaks negatively about the President, Vice President, Bush Cabinet or any “neocons”.


  71. delabarre says:

    Well, if by “commentary”, O’Reilly means “right-wing lies that aren’t debunked”, then the answer is yes.

    See, you just have to understand their secret code…


  72. Mr. Bush Goes To Hell says:

    FREE SPEECH on the Rapeublican blogs??? NOT!!!!

    Yesterday, on another thread, a poster put in the non-sequitir how Nancy Pelosi and the Dems were abusing “junkets”.

    The link was to an article by Charles Hurt of the DC Examiner:

    http://www.examiner.com/a-675671~Congressional_junkets_picking_up_steam.html

    Upon investigation, Charles Hurt is the former editor of the

    Moonie-owned Washington TIMES (NOT “Post”, trolls).

    The one owned by Rev. Sun Myung…

    One person posting blamed the DEMOCRATS for NOT PROVIDING ARMOR (a LIE), whereas in REALITY, they have voted for that and MORE in the bill that TRAITOR Bush is threatening to VETO.

    When I pointed out that the Dems’ bill had that, and that Rummy had stated “the army you HAVE, NOT the army you want”,

    the post was GONE in 3 minutes!!!

    So for those of you who complain that the “liberal blogs” are “hate-filled” “suppress “free speech”,

    YOUR POSTS, however they LIE or are STUPID, are STILL HERE…

    So much for “free speech” with the Nazi RapeTards…

    See YOU in hell RabidBushLicker (cause I’LL be THERE),


    Mr. Bush
    MURDEROUS WAR CRIMINAL
    COXUCKER PUNK TRAITOR TO THE USA (TM)


  73. freeman says:

    Say a few nice things about Hitler bunny, he killed millions in his attempt to control the world.Sometimes complicity is a greater tradgedy than the crime , as is in your case .
    If someone yelled a profanity at the nazi’s after the first 3/4’s of a million lives were lost thru a war of agression ,you would object to the rudeness of their outrage ?
    You have no shame for the support of a regime which violates our constitution endlessly ,tortures , kidnaps, spies on 100’s of 1000’s of it’s own citizens ,and whose plans pre 911 were to control the developing world through control of the worlds oil suppy ,leading to the deaths of 3/4 of a million people ,wounding several times that and refugeed 3 1/2 million more?
    You would have loved the 3rd reich , that is until it lay in ruins ,with many of it’s largest cities 90 % destroyed !This is a fate which me and mine wish to avoid !SHAME ON YOU !


  74. freeman says:

    Conservatives are falling out with the neo cons and are calling for the reigning in of everything from signing statements ( which the American Bar Assoc is calling the greatest threat to our system of government in a generation) to torture and convictions based on secret evidence of American citizens by Kangaroo courts , ( military tribunals ).
    !/3 of the American public and growing believes that 911 was a put up job by the bush administration !
    Bush arguably was never legitimately elected in the first place !
    The neo conservatives planned to invade the mid east pre 911 and said so in print and statement.
    The president has been caught lying to the American people on Television ,while violating their basic rights under the constitution.
    George Bush , Dick Cheney and company are WAR CRIMINALS ,whose actions have led to hundreds of thousands of human lives lost and the very real misery of millions more innocents .
    The court of world opinion has already convicted these men (?) .Is that a little to strong for you rabid bunny ? Gee I’m sorry .GROW A CONSCIENCE !


  75. freeman says:

    If you aren’t outraged ,you haven’t been paying attention !


  76. Jeff Coleman says:

    What’s going to happen in these charges on which DeLay was indicted? Isn’t indictment the first step before a trial?

    I’m not too clear on the whole thing, but it’s bizarre how he keeps going around claiming these laws “don’t exist”.

    Is DeLay still going to be tried? Is it correct that he’s been indicted, but not convicted? DeLay’s Wikipedia page didn’t clear it up much.

    Thanks for any help.


  77. nofltwlt says:

    Tom Delay is a virus. He should not be given a platform to spout any more of his nonsensce and lies.

    Please, let’s not hear one more word about him or from him until his trial, and hopefully his conviction.

    He thinks of himself as a tough guy (the hammer) so he should serve time in the general population of a real prison.


  78. trippin says:

    DeLay should not be allowed out without his ball gag.


  79. AboveTheClouds says:

    DeLay writes a book titled “No Retreat, No Surrender” that details his retreat (resigning in shame from the House) and his surrender (losing his house seat to a Democrat). DeLay is a victim of his own greed and stupidity.


  80. Lora says:

    Remember: Tom Delay also tried to link the Terri Schiavo case to himself. The Bug-man said:
    “And so it’s bigger than any one of us, and we have to do everything that is in our power to save Terri Schiavo and anybody else that may be in this kind of position, and let me just finish with this:
    “This is exactly the kind of issue that’s going on in America, that attacks against the conservative moment, against me and against many others. The point is, the other side has figured out how to win and to defeat the conservative movement, and that is to go after people personally, charge them with frivolous charges,….”
    Of course, this is from a man who had the plug pulled on his own father, abused Homeland Security to send airplanes after Texas Dem legislators, etc.


  81. BK says:

    Sounds like Ol’Hot Tube Tom has switched over to doing
    Stand Up Comedy.


  82. Jim says:

    I just can’t beleive what I have read. O’rielly says leftwing blogs are attacking people and you all disagree by attacking him and Mr Delay with some of the most vile stuff you can imagine. We are all Americans. If you disagree ok, but attacking does nothing to help. I don’t care if your left or right, Democrate or Republican you are innocent until proven guilty. I even read a comment that says he will see Mr Delay in hell. I pray for you my friend lets stop the hate and wait for the trial. If convicted he will pay but I pray the hate that hardens our heart in this country can stop.


  83. mali says:

    It’s getting awfully crowded on that cross. Jesus should think of subletting to the GOP/RNC. Lousy neighbours but they got plenty of $$$


  84. jurassicpork says:

    Thank God for Republicans that breathing is an autonomic function. If this man was any stupider he’d be contagious.


  85. jurassicpork says:

    And, wasn’t this guy the same Hot Tub Tom who’d flown a Big Tobacco corporate jet to his own arraignment?



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