Daily Show catches Gonzales hypocrisy on McNulty.
Alberto Gonzales, 4/19/07: “Looking back, things that I would have done differently? I think I would have had the Deputy Attorney General more involved, directly involved.”
VERSUS
Gonzales, 5/15/07: “The recommendations reflected the views of the Deputy Attorney General. He signed off on the names and he would know better than anyone else, anyone else in this room.”
Watch Stewart’s segment last night:
Sort Comments By: Top Rated | Date
49 Responses to “Daily Show catches Gonzales hypocrisy on McNulty.”
Register
RSSLogin
View Most Popular
Visit Our Affiliated Site
What We're About
What We're Fighting For
What We're Fighting Against
Featured
Subscribe to the Progress Report
Got a hot tip?
Have a hot news tip? We'd love to hear from you. Use the form below to send us the latest.
Reports
In depth studies on select topics
Topic CloudView topics sorted by popularity
Afghanistan
Beck
Big Oil
Bolton
Bush
Cheney
Civil Rights
Dobbs
Drudge
Economy
Energy
Environment
Ethics
Feith
Fox News
GI Bill
Global Warming
Gore
Guantanamo
Hagee
Health Care
Immigration
Impeachment
Iran
Iraq
Justice
Kristol
LGBT
Lieberman
McCain
McClellan
Media
Military
O'Hanlon
O'Reilly
Obama
Politics
Race
Radical Right
Rove
Terrorism
Torture
Veterans
Wiretapping
Women's Rights
ArchivesBlog RollAbout Think ProgressContact Us
Donate
Once again JOn Stewart is doing the job the media doesn’t have time to do.
May 18th, 2007 at 12:44 pmthe truly hilarious thing about gonzo, which jon stewart obviously sees with crystal clarity, is that, besides not remembering events, persons, times, places, and dates, he doesn’t even remember what HE said… the man is such a loser, i simply cannot understand why congress hasn’t risen up en masse and tossed him out on his sorry ass…
May 18th, 2007 at 12:45 pmAnd, yes, I DO take it personally
Yeah, really, profmarcus. What does a guy gotta do to get kicked out? He’s trying his damnedest.
May 18th, 2007 at 12:47 pmThis clip is a great example of why Daily Show viewers are more informed about world events than FOX “news” viewers.
May 18th, 2007 at 12:49 pmGreat job Faiz! You guys catch these things that the rest of the media won’t!
May 18th, 2007 at 12:50 pmGone-zales
Abu, maybe you & Wolfoshitz can start a stand up comedy routine and give Jon Stewart a run for his market share.
One thing’s for certain, you’re both frick’en Clowns.
May 18th, 2007 at 12:52 pmWhat? Gonzales is a lying sack of human excrement without a single shred of honesty and decency and shame?
Say it aint so.
-GSD
May 18th, 2007 at 12:53 pmAs a rule, hypocrites are at least consistently dishonest. Gonzales is just a barefaced and unusually undisciplined liar.
May 18th, 2007 at 12:54 pmMaybe Gonzo will quit today. Its news dump Friday.
May 18th, 2007 at 12:54 pmGonzo lied? I’m shocked, I tell you, just shocked!
May 18th, 2007 at 12:57 pmOnce again JOn Stewart is doing the job the media doesn’t have time to do.
Comment by Kane — May 18, 2007 @ 12:44 pm
I don’t think it’s that they don’t have the time, they just don’t do it. Laziness, corporate conflict of interest, whatever…it’s not the time that’s stopping them.
May 18th, 2007 at 12:57 pmWHO IS THE HOTTY WITH STEWART? RAWR!
May 18th, 2007 at 1:02 pmSurprised Bush and Cheney didn’t go into surgery, disguised as surgeons, but of course they always send their thugs to do the dirty work.
May 18th, 2007 at 1:03 pm#11 - CONservative
Yeah, the news media has lots of time, they’ve forgotten their job, and they’re run by corporations who are only interested in the money.
May 18th, 2007 at 1:03 pmIt’s a very sad day in American when news outlets can’t report the news because it would be a conflict of interest.
May 18th, 2007 at 1:10 pmMaybe because the actions of this administration are so bizarre the only way to bring them to the people is comedy. That and the msm is just a bunch of talking heads, good looking actors posing as journalists.
May 18th, 2007 at 1:12 pmIt’s a very sad day in American when news outlets can’t report the news because it would be a conflict of interest.
Comment by Republicans are the Fear and Smear Party — May 18, 2007 @ 1:10 pm
Well put…saddening to go back and read my comments on that. I’d take my words back but I’m afraid there’s something to them. So much for that ‘liberal media’…
May 18th, 2007 at 1:18 pmI just want to know why no one has been able to “nudge” Gonzales on to elsewhere!
http://OsiSpeaks.com or http://OsiSpeaks.org
May 18th, 2007 at 1:19 pmI don’t think I can name a single issue upon which I agree with John Ashcroft, but give the man his props. He’s showing a level of integrity in this incident that you don’t find in the Bush White House. Good for him. No wonder he was jettisoned after one term.
May 18th, 2007 at 1:24 pmKYJurisDoctor
Keep a watch out for valiant venus, one of our most despicable trolls who claims to be an attorney. You might have some fun whacking that one!
May 18th, 2007 at 1:26 pmSay what ever you want about Daily Show viewers. The show isn’t very funny if you don’t know what’s going on in the world of current events because if you don’t read the papers, internet, C-span, none of the jokes and satire on the show would be in context.
I believe this is why most modern day Republicans don’t understand the show and actually believe that DailyShow viewers are simply stoners that ‘get their news from a comedian’.
I work with people that still get their news from one of three sources: wall street journal editorial page, Rush Limbaugh and Fox. They’re a dying breed, but these dinosaurs still exist. They have no idea that there is a world of information at their fingertips. It’s no wonder they’re so disillusioned by an entertaining downward spiral (in real-time) of the Bush Administration.
May 18th, 2007 at 1:38 pmBig deal. I’ve known rabid, mangy dogs with more integrity than the Bush Administration.
Really, Ashcroft isn’t worthy of praise. Given the shit he not only supported but in some cases proposed, whatever it was that he refused to okay must have been really, really bad.
May 18th, 2007 at 1:40 pmWholy crap, that’s great. Good work Jon, and thanks TP for posting that!
May 18th, 2007 at 1:54 pmJon is coming to Minneapolis tonight. Can’t wait to see him!
May 18th, 2007 at 1:57 pmThe first two may be true, but the last time I checked, Comedy Central is owned by Time Warner, a corporation that I will go out on a limb and assume is only interested in money. So I’m not so sure that the news media being owned by corporations excuses their incompetence.
May 18th, 2007 at 2:01 pmPlease do not call Gonzo’s removal. Would you prefer that he be replaced with a competent Republican Party hack?
May 18th, 2007 at 2:01 pmIf the people of Missouri had known that Ashcroft had this much integrity, they might have voted for him instead of a dead guy.
May 18th, 2007 at 2:14 pmcompetent Republican Party hack?
Comment by syvanen — May 18, 2007 @ 2:01 pm
That is an oxymoron
May 18th, 2007 at 2:16 pm“Holy shit. Apparently the President of the United States sent his chief of staff and legal counsel to an ICU to convince a drugged-up, pancreatically inflamed John Ashcroft to subvert the constitution.”
I think that’s my new sig line, right there.
May 18th, 2007 at 2:21 pmWhy should Gonzales resign?
I know why a decent man would resign. I know why a decent president would demand his resignation, but that isn’t the situation.
What selfish reason does he have?
He has no pride. He has no conscience. Those are the levers that can be used to pry people out of office voluntarily. But they won’t work on Gonzales.
May 18th, 2007 at 2:38 pmHere’s more on Gonzales’ lying to Congress under oath for a second time.
May 18th, 2007 at 2:42 pmOne day John Ashcroft came to his senses in his office and realized, “Hey, there’s a real chance I might be the first AG to be convicted of treason!”
And that was it for him.
May 18th, 2007 at 3:38 pmPlease do not call Gonzo’s removal. Would you prefer that he be replaced with a competent Republican Party hack?
Whatever makes you think that one exists?
Besides, I’d like to see some accountability in government. I’d also like to think that’s what separates Democrats from Republicans. Or am I also being naive?
May 18th, 2007 at 3:52 pmGonzales is just a barefaced and unusually undisciplined liar.
I prefer to think of him as completely insane.
May 18th, 2007 at 4:14 pmThis is all smoke and mirrors!
Why won’t congress call out Gonzo et al. to address the underlying issue here — election fraud? The USAttys were fired because they refused to act on bogus allegations (furnished by the Bushies) of voter fraud. The Bushies are trying to create national hysteria on the subject of voter fraud in order to generate support for imposing the idea of “National IDs” on all US citizens. These IDs would be necessary to cast a vote in elections at all levels. Many US citizens will find themselves unable (physucally), unable (financialy), or unwilling to bother with the beaurocracy involved in registering for one’s own citizenship.
This entire “Gonzogate” drama is a diversion intended to draw attention away from the disinfranchisment of voters. They’re imposing a kind of voter tax, a tax which was outlawed decades ago.
Why are drivers licenses or passports no longer good enough?
May 18th, 2007 at 5:02 pmSo What! The Congress has had enough on this fool for months if not years and he is still there lying his way to 09. The dems just don’t have the balls to win and at the rate they are going, 08 will be another disaster.
May 18th, 2007 at 5:25 pmThe thing about Jon Stewart is that he believes it’s enough to point out the simple facts, that the people in power are being hypocrites, without needing to put it into the context of some ‘balanced’ story or “Democrats say” frame. Unlike ‘actual news’ sources.
One of the things that reaffirmed by high opinion of Bill Moyers was when, on a recent program, he said he started his day by reading Josh Marshall and ended it watching Jon Stewart.
May 18th, 2007 at 5:56 pmWhat a “disaster” we have who is supposed to be “watching over”us! In the meantime, I have been the victim of two (2) “Identity Thefts” from “stolen laptops” in the past 10 days! This has happened to many millions of our citizens since February, 2005, in this country!
May 18th, 2007 at 6:46 pmFor more on this subject, read the “Wayne Madsen Report.”
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/Datathefts.php
Your ABC
Your CBS
Your PunK’d by a Comedy Channel; like Stevo’s Stingray barb in reverse; up your arse, Couric and ABC’s Botox faces
May 18th, 2007 at 7:14 pmF—-ng BRILLIANT!
May 18th, 2007 at 7:21 pmI think the woman “at the movies” was Jon’s wife in a cameo. Friday night date night?
May 18th, 2007 at 8:37 pmAwesome.
Jon Stewart, American Patriot…when such is truly needed.
May 18th, 2007 at 8:55 pm>I think the woman “at the movies†was Jon’s wife in a cameo. Friday night date night?
If true, he is a lucky man. She is very attractive and she get the refreshments. : )
May 18th, 2007 at 9:50 pmGoddamit - quit distracting me from John Edwards haircut!!
May 19th, 2007 at 1:20 amComment by Fred App
“I don’t think I can name a single issue upon which I agree with John Ashcroft, but give the man his props.”
Fred, even a stopped clock is correct two times a day…
May 19th, 2007 at 1:14 pmI think under any presidency in the last 200 years, Gonzales would be gone. The fact that he isn’t under W brings two possibilities to mind: first, that Bush is a psychopath — no, really, a genuine psychopath — and the second is that his administration is composed of thugs. And maybe that isn’t contradictory.
I’ve been slow on this, but I’m beginning to think that impeachment is the only possibility.
May 19th, 2007 at 2:04 pmmatt@25 - check again, TimeWarner doesn’t own COmedy Central, Viacom does. Not that it’s much of a difference but at least we should check our facts since FOX and the rest seem to be content to pull things out of their asses to report as the truth.
May 19th, 2007 at 4:06 pmFYI peoples, in case you weren’t aware already, as of yesterday neither ABC or CBS even reported on the hospital incident. Shocking even in this day and age; it makes one seriously question just how far this collusion between media, corporations, and republicans (mostly) goes, or will go, to keep Americans in un- and misinformed- i.e., protect their interests and maintain the status-quo.
I think Bush is terrified at the thought of someone else besides Gonzales running Justice- aint that a laugh, “Justice”- because he’s a criminal and he knows it. It’s about high-time to start protesting in the streeets to demand the removal of Bush, Cheney, and Gonzo- at the very least. In fact, it’s long overdue. Will this be the scandal that finally pushes this country in that direction?
Between the war, Katrina, and now this- which is ultimately about election theft- I’m hoping the remaining 28% of Bush supporters might get cut to below 20%, and the pressure on legislators to impeach these monsters becomes overwhelming… am I dreaming here?
How much more can it possibly take, how much more damage to the country must they inflict, before this nation just says ENOUGH already?!
May 19th, 2007 at 4:11 pmJon Stewart should be given a medal but that is not to imply that he is a “cowardly” lion…just a LION. Stewart has all the guts that the simps throughout the MSM do not have. Give ‘em hell, Jon.
May 20th, 2007 at 3:27 am