A decision worthy of Fox News.
By on Jul 12th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
A decision worthy of Fox News.
“The Scooter Libby decision was, I thought, a fair and balanced decision,” Bush said.
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wow. we knew they were close but i didn’t know they one and the same.
July 12th, 2007 at 12:26 pma fair and balanced decision,†Bush said
Did he really say that? C’MON man, SOMEone tell me that this is made up. Please? Even if you have to lie.
July 12th, 2007 at 12:29 pmIt ws so fair and balanced that Bush communted Libby’s jail time.
July 12th, 2007 at 12:31 pmThis may be the most apt quote of his unfortunate tenure. What’s next? “I commute. You decide?”
July 12th, 2007 at 12:31 pmNext on “Hannity and Commutes”
July 12th, 2007 at 12:33 pm#2: if you can still trust the AP (which i realize may be asking a bit much) but read the seventh paragraph down.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003785903_webbush12.html
July 12th, 2007 at 12:33 pmComment by SGT Higgins
Suck it up, sarge. The Eagle has landed. And it’s hungry as hell.
July 12th, 2007 at 12:34 pmLady Justice just got gang-raped, but at least someone got off.
Yea, that seems fair.
July 12th, 2007 at 12:34 pmCome on, Bush!
Full Pardon!
Do the right thing!
July 12th, 2007 at 12:36 pmwell, this is something; At least he is watching some form of news. I thought he only watched cartoon with his favorite sippy cup.
July 12th, 2007 at 12:36 pm“fair and balanced”
Kind of like the twilight zone where the alien leaves behind a book titled “To Serve Man”. Istead of helping mankind as the aliens appeared to be doing, the book ended up being a cookbook. the aliens were simply increasing human livestock.
Orwell wasn’t a profit. He was just writing down what was happening around him. At least Orwell gave the rest of us the power to see it coming, and to understand what it is as fascism unfolds.
When Bush uses a specific sloganized term exactly like “fair and balanced” , He is speaking in code to his devotees. And he is also selling to all FOX fans in subconcious brand-identification speak.
July 12th, 2007 at 12:39 pmComment by Some Guy — July 12, 2007 @ 12:33 pm
Thanks. Guess I shouldn’t be too surprised, with Snow’s comments yesterday, it was pretty obvious that FOX is what’s tuned in.
July 12th, 2007 at 12:39 pmI’ve been reading Marcy Wheeler’s “Anatomy of Deceit: how the Bush Administration used the media to sell the Iraq ar and out a spy” (gotta love a good subtitle) which is provides excellent coverage of the Plame/Wilson story from the beginning. It’s cheap, concise and if you buy a copy you’ll be supporting excellence in blogging.
July 12th, 2007 at 12:40 pmi apologize in advance…
just goes to show you: commuty is in the eye of the beholder.
sorry.
July 12th, 2007 at 12:41 pmDamn. Can’t you take a joke, people!
July 12th, 2007 at 12:44 pmI have often said the the fourth branch of government is the press. And now that they are in bed with the military contractors and Hedge Fund Billionares, it is official. They have passed the pledge tests and are now officially as corrupt as the rest of our system.
July 12th, 2007 at 12:45 pm“As to the future, I rule nothing in and nothing out.”
Uh… that’s what your press people are supposed to say. If you aren’t ready to say what your decision is, you say “yes” or “no” or “I’m not answering that.”
Because if you say you aren’t decided then it means you aren’t decided, which is really f*cking wishy-washy for a guy who decided to commute the sentence for someone who just lied to the FBI about national security… which is kind of a big f*cking deal for someone to be wishy-washy about.
See? Now act like a President and not just some dumbsh*t from Texas.
July 12th, 2007 at 12:45 pmThis Libby scandal is never going away until Bush leaves office no matter how much Bush tries to put it behind him. It’s a permanent blot on his administration. That’s the price you pay.
July 12th, 2007 at 12:45 pm#6 – From the same article:
On one of the few other questions of the news conference not related to Iraq, Bush was asked he also had a “gut feeling” there might be a terror attack this summer, as Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff had recently suggested.
“My gut tells me that, which my head tells as well, is that: When we find a credible threat, we’ll share it with you.”
Question: Does Chimp realize that Colbert is a parody? That his gig at the Correspondents’ Dinner was satire?
July 12th, 2007 at 12:45 pmFair and balanced? Surely the Toy Emperor is joking, isn’t he?
No? He’s serious?
Gods! this boy is in need of serious medical treatment.
July 12th, 2007 at 12:45 pmSo he admits the leak came from his administration, but then blames that person for not coming forward? Wow, so much for
‘getting to the bottom of it’, so much for ‘…they will no longer work in this administration”
Bush has no moral standards.
We would know who that person was if Libby hadn’t lied and obstructed justice. What a piece of sht hypocrit.
July 12th, 2007 at 12:46 pmDoes this make Libby a Commie? Or Bush a Commutist? Fitting, as undermining the CIA sounds like something the Soviet Union might have tried.
July 12th, 2007 at 12:46 pm#15: We can take a joke, in fact we’ve been taking this joke for seven years now. we’re kind of tired of this joke.
July 12th, 2007 at 12:47 pmThe hubris that goes with power can be awesome at times. Where the Bushneys used to hide what they did, now they operate openly with arrogance. Bush could just as well have said, “yeah, he did it, I commuted his sentence — so what are you gonna do about it?”
July 12th, 2007 at 12:47 pmWhere are the trolls now? BUSH ADMITTED SHE WAS COVERT!!!
On a separate note, if the investigation into who outed a CIA Agent is still open (which it is), and commuting Libby’s sentence interferes with that investigation (which it does), isn’t Bush GUILTY OF OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE?
Last Question. Is Obstruction of Justice a “High Crime and Misdemeanor(s)”
IIIII
July 12th, 2007 at 12:47 pmI
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Damn. Can’t you take a joke, people!
Comment by FantasizingAboutHarrietMiers
No. We’d rather impeach him.
July 12th, 2007 at 12:48 pm#25: Ok. Even if he did that, what are you and the Nancy-boys in the Congress going to do about it?
Nothing, I tell you.
July 12th, 2007 at 12:49 pmWhere are the trolls now? BUSH ADMITTED SHE WAS COVERT!!!
Comment by Jay — July 12, 2007 @ 12:47 pm
Yeah, that’s why Libby was convicted… Bush agrees,
what’s your point?
July 12th, 2007 at 12:49 pmWhat’s up, FT?!!!
July 12th, 2007 at 12:50 pmJust watching CSPAN3 and being lazy. Is it good to be king?
July 12th, 2007 at 12:51 pmIt’s GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
July 12th, 2007 at 12:52 pmI kind of appreciated Bush saying the Libby commutation was a “fair and balanced” decision.
With that phrase having entered the commonly accepted lexicon as a synonym for “right-wing biased and corrupted” Bush can be seen as being completely honest about his motivations, probably for the first time ever.
July 12th, 2007 at 12:52 pmDo you have any dooOOOoooobies?
July 12th, 2007 at 12:52 pmI see Mr. Pee has recognized that his typical efforts to be annoying were losing their punch as people tuned him out. So he’s reinvented himself and is trying new tactics to be annoying. It will probably work for a day or two.
July 12th, 2007 at 12:54 pmBush: Yeah, we outed Plame, what’s it to ya? Don’t question me.
July 12th, 2007 at 12:54 pmBush: Yeah, we outed Plame, what’s it to ya? Don’t question me.
Comment by Zooey — July 12, 2007 @ 12:54 pm
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Exactly!!!
but you forgot to mention:
Go Fuk Yourself!!!
hEyOOoooOOOooOoOOOOOOOOOoooooooooOOOOoooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
July 12th, 2007 at 12:57 pm#17, DM. Bush isn’t from Texas. He just moved here as a “grown up” to run a business or two into the ground. Basically the start of his record of miserable failures that include his current gig.
July 12th, 2007 at 12:59 pmHey King — would you mind removing some of the exclamation marks from your handle? It’s kind of messing with my computer screen. I promise I will be just as impressed with the grandeur of your name if it’s a little shorter…
July 12th, 2007 at 1:13 pm“The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use – of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.”
R. F. KENNEDY
July 12th, 2007 at 1:13 pmAmericans have waited for this Administration to tell the truth the day has come.
Bush admits administration leaked CIA name
Yes Bush and his team have been lying and obstructed the investigation of the CIA Leak Case. Now we know Bush knew all along that it was his office that leaked the name. To bad Bush/Cheney didn’t give Libby immunity as that would have ended Fitzgerald case. Now Fox News says it was a fair/balanced decision to let the convicted felon go free. Yes Fox News even support Fingers Foley a child molester who is free to continue his molesting. Fox News supports the Senators/Congressmen who use prostitutes and commit crimes.
The United States is in a crisis and the world sees it. Look any great world leader all are positioning themselves to take advantage of the now weak US. Harriet Miers is so deep in this she is willing to lose her law license rather then tell the truth. Bush/Cheney will use even their so called friends to save themselves from getting caught. As we see we have no Attorney General and Karl Rove is running the Department of Justice.
Now Americans have hear King George give his orders that we must move on from the Libby case and don’t bring it up again because our Dictator has spoken. Do as your told or you could be sent to Gitmo indefinitely.
July 12th, 2007 at 1:14 pm“Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.”
Alexander Hamilton
July 12th, 2007 at 1:15 pmhttp://www.c-span.org/watch/cs_cspan3_wm.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS3
c-span 3 on Cheney’s creation of new “secret” classification investigation.
July 12th, 2007 at 1:24 pmTo AR #18:
The blot won’t go away, but it may lose its visibility because of its juxtaposition with all the other blots. The whole sheet of the Bush admin is blotted now to the point of saturation.
July 12th, 2007 at 1:35 pm“God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments [as a nation] have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.”
GEORGE W. BUSH
July 12th, 2007 at 1:38 pmThat’s nothing! The money shot of the press conference came when Shrub said, “I believe freedom is a universal commodity. Freedom isn’t just for Americans, or…or…Methodists!”
George W. Bush: Lifetime Mensa Member.
July 12th, 2007 at 1:45 pm#44 — quoting GWB — now there’s a sure way to impress folks.
Not only do you have his notorious gift for public speaking going for ya, it’s backed by his iron-clad reputation for honesty and forthrightness.
(sarcasm/off)
July 12th, 2007 at 1:47 pmTHE SO-CALLED LIBERAL PRESS:
A reporter brought up Bush’s decision to commute the prison sentence of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby and asked the president to weigh in on the “morality” of his advisers leaking the name.
“I’m aware of the fact that perhaps somebody in the administration did disclose the name of that person (Plame),” Bush said, “and, you know, I’ve often thought about what would have happened had that person come forth and said, ‘I did it.’ Would we have had this, you know, endless hours of investigation. … It’s been a tough issue for a lot of people in the White House, and it’s — it’s run its course, and now we’re going to move on.”
No follow-up questions were asked about Bush’s initial pledge, which was not kept, to fire anyone in the administration found to be involved in the leaking of Plame’s name.
HOW ABOUT JUST DOING YOUR JOB AS THE PRESS??
July 12th, 2007 at 2:08 pm#46-I thought you’d appreciate the pious hypocracy that can only be told through the words of Dear Leader
July 12th, 2007 at 2:10 pm(sarcasm turned up to eleven)
“It’s been a tough issue for a lot of people in the White House, and it’s — it’s run its course, and now we’re going to move on.”
Ummm… Maybe NOT!!!
Not until the person or persons (whether it be Cheney, Bush, or Cheney AND Bush) responsible for the outing a CIA operative who death with the Middle East and WMD in a TIME OF WAR, and I am not talking about the person (Armitage) who admitted to physically doing it, is charged and tried for treason! Armitage and Libby were just the soldiers, the good little authoritarians, doing what they were told. This should NOT be done with until the person responsible for giving the orders to commit the treason AND fall on the swords to obstruct the investigation is found out, charged, tried, convicted, and imprisoned WITHOUT A PARDON OR COMMUTATION!
Nice try to simply make the issue go away!
July 12th, 2007 at 2:25 pmsorry – not ‘death’, I meant dealt. Typo..
July 12th, 2007 at 2:26 pmAha another victimless crime by the BushCo.
Where’s the victim?
July 12th, 2007 at 2:42 pmWhere’s the victim?
It’s us. The American people. It’s the soldiers and their families by putting them in harms way by sending them into a war based on lies and manipulations. Its the Iraqi people who’s losses are unimaginable and whos future is bleak. It is our system of justice. It is the Constitution. It is our US Attorneys, it is all the disenfranchised voters from the last two elections, it is Valerie Plame who’s career was destroyed along with the reputation of her and her husband, and who knows what other operatives’ (who remain covert) lives were put at risk or may have been killed – we would never know that.
We are all the victim with this Administration.
July 12th, 2007 at 2:49 pmIt’s We The People.
July 12th, 2007 at 2:50 pmFlaco — July 12, 2007 @ 2:42 pm
…wait for it……wait for it………….
July 12th, 2007 at 2:53 pmJG
July 12th, 2007 at 2:56 pmHoly cow dude I didn’t realize the Libby trail had the whole world as a victim.
Well, now you know.
July 12th, 2007 at 2:59 pmYour welcome.
Poor muslims victims we need to give them restitution for our insensitivity to their feelings. What dogs we were.
July 12th, 2007 at 2:59 pmI submit all TPers convert to Islam and this bad dream (war) will all be over.
‘You’re’ welcome. Duh..
July 12th, 2007 at 2:59 pmJG
Holy cow dude I didn’t realize the Libby trial had the whole world as a victim.
Comment by Flaco
July 12th, 2007 at 3:00 pmLet’s make it easier for you, Flaco.
Did not a jury of Libby’s peers find him guilty of obstructing justice, perjury, and lying under oath?
July 12th, 2007 at 3:08 pmWhere’s the victim again?
July 12th, 2007 at 3:11 pmClinton did it too.
July 12th, 2007 at 3:12 pmThat’s not the question I asked you, Flaco. You aren’t permitted to ask a question in response to a question. Did not a jury of Libby’s peers find him guilty of obstructing justice, perjury, and lying under oath? Yes or no?
July 12th, 2007 at 3:13 pmOh, and CLINTON DID IT!!!!!111!111!!!one!!!!1!1!!1
July 12th, 2007 at 3:14 pmWell, I guess Flaco won’t answer. Man, I shut up a troll! Wow! The answer, Flaco, is yes, a jury of Libby’s peers did find him guilty of obstructing justice, perjury, and lying under oath! If you or I were found guilty of obstructing justice, perjury, and lying under oath, we’d spend at least 30 months in jail. But Libby didn’t. Hardly fair and ballanced, now, is it. :)
July 12th, 2007 at 3:46 pm