Hume: Gonzales was ’simply a crony.’
By on Aug 27th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
Hume: Gonzales was ’simply a crony.’
Fox News’s Brit Hume today on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales:
Gonzales was a man almost without fans in Washington at the end, because he was never much appreciated or accepted by the conservative base of the Republican party and the conservative activists in Washington. And he certainly wasn’t popular among the Democrats. He was simply a crony. And I don’t mean that word to sound any worse than it is, but that was the case here.
Watch it:
[flv http://video.thinkprogress.org/2007/08/GonzalesCrony.320.240.flv]
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Impeach Bush!
August 27th, 2007 at 5:30 pmUh oh, new talking point for the trolls. They better get up to speed… Gonzalez WAS a crony.
August 27th, 2007 at 5:31 pmSo? Brit Hume is simply a quisling.
August 27th, 2007 at 5:31 pmNow the rightards will start with the “we never liked him anyway” routine.
**yawn**
August 27th, 2007 at 5:31 pmThanks President Bush for keeping us safe from terrorist since 9/11.
Where is Osama bin Laden?
do you care?
August 27th, 2007 at 5:32 pmwhat cha drinkin’ Zo?
August 27th, 2007 at 5:32 pmThat’s Brit, stating the obvious and making the big bucks. Pfffft.
August 27th, 2007 at 5:33 pmBrit Hume is simply a quisling.
Agreed. He’s still correct, Gonzalez was a crony. A criminal would have been a more fitting description.
August 27th, 2007 at 5:33 pmWhere is Osama bin Laden?
August 27th, 2007 at 5:33 pmdo you care?
Comment by Bob – - The better question is, does Bush?
Zo, you need to quit watching Oprah and eatin bon-bons all day.
Stay away from the booze too.
August 27th, 2007 at 5:34 pmzup Z-POP?
quick post, hope you are well, and I..
AM…
OUTTA HERE!!!!!
*whooshBONG!!!!!*
August 27th, 2007 at 5:34 pmLARRY CRAIG ARRESTED AND CONVICTED for trying to blow off a plain clothes officer in a bathroom!!!
August 27th, 2007 at 5:34 pmZooey: You’re 100% dead-on.
August 27th, 2007 at 5:35 pmWhere is OBL? bob?
August 27th, 2007 at 5:35 pmBrit(tany) is quite correct, the white republican males in DC always looked down on the first Hispanic AG. They also knew he wasn’t very bright.
August 27th, 2007 at 5:35 pmBrit needs his job and now with the White House going out quickly and Murdoch giving to the Clinton campaign look for more turn coats. Brit has lied from day one and even made up stories himself that were fake now he says his buddy Gonzales was nothing but a crony. Brit was up Gonzo’s butt for the past 6 years now what’s with the crony stuff. Brit would say George W. Bush is God if they told him to say it. Now who’s going to turn on Gonzo next.
August 27th, 2007 at 5:36 pm“Simply a crony” who had Bush’s full confidence and who was defended to the last breath by Rightards. Now, it’s “meh, we never really liked the little guy anyway.”
August 27th, 2007 at 5:36 pmNow who’s going to turn on Gonzo next.
Comment by Jackie — August 27, 2007 @ 5:36 pm
Barney?
August 27th, 2007 at 5:37 pmI\’m a crony fur sure.
August 27th, 2007 at 5:37 pmYup. A crony. Just like you, Brit. And O’Reilly, and Hannity, and Brownie, and Harriet, and on and on and on. Heckuva job, cronies!
August 27th, 2007 at 5:37 pmTakes a crony to know a crony, Brit.
August 27th, 2007 at 5:39 pmMust be the “balanced” part of Fox. Pfffft.
August 27th, 2007 at 5:40 pmStay away from the booze too.
Comment by Bob — August 27, 2007 @ 5:34 pm
Please try and “make sense” when you post here, “Bob”. You only embarrass yourself w/ comments like this, and Lord knows, conservatives don’t need to embarrass themselves even more! ;-D!!!
Why does “making sense” hate America so??
Hey everybody, “Bob” is gonna treat the whole thread to Freedom Fries! It’s The Taste of Liberty On The March! Chow down while they’re pipin’ hot!!! Uh, “Bob”, don’t try to sneak out w/out payin’ the bill, like other CONS have.
August 27th, 2007 at 5:40 pmGonzalez is a new libtard. He should be deported.
August 27th, 2007 at 5:40 pmThanks President Bush for keeping us safe from terrorist throughout your Presidency . . . oh, wait . . . weren’t you the one who allowed Osama bin Laden to fly jet airliners into the World Trade Center and The Pentagon — the worst terrorist attack EVER to occur on American soil . . . never mind.
August 27th, 2007 at 5:41 pmLibtards! Libtards! Pro-Repug! Pro-Repug!
August 27th, 2007 at 5:41 pmLibtards can’t serve in the military.
August 27th, 2007 at 5:45 pmGonzo quits on Monday…that gives Bush[Cheney] 5 WHOLE DAYS for announcing his recess appointment!!! My guess is it will be Friday 4:59pm EDT.
August 27th, 2007 at 5:46 pmI’m surprised that Fox News didn’t put a big “D” by Gonzalez name today. How dare Mr. Gonzalez the Democrat have infested our White House. It’s not President Bush’s fault that a Democrat like Gonzalez brought such dishonor to Chimpland.
August 27th, 2007 at 5:46 pmLibtards! Libtards! Pro-Repug! Pro-Repug!
Comment by ct — August 27, 2007 @ 5:41 pm
Libtards can’t serve in the military.
Comment by ct — August 27, 2007 @ 5:45 pm
Folks, this is all they’ve got. Pathetic, dribbling down their legs, note the lopsided grin and drool.
August 27th, 2007 at 5:47 pmHOW utterly disingenuous. Conservatives should have absolutely no credibility for their tacit acceptance of ANY behavior coming from this White House in the last 6.756 years. Oh yeah, where were the Conservatives when Bush nominated him? Where were the Conservatives when he referred to the Geneva conventions as “Quaint”. The Conservatives should STFU and go back to faculty obscura where they and their inept, impotent, greed driven, worthless theories exist, in a Vacuum. Conservatives constantly changing their principles to meet the times. They had to suck the nipple of the GOP to survive and now they’re jumping ship like the political parasites they really are. They remind me of Plankton from Sponge Bob.
August 27th, 2007 at 5:51 pmBrit(tany) is quite correct, the white republican males in DC always looked down on the first Hispanic AG. They also knew he wasn’t very bright.
Comment by RUCerious — August 27, 2007 @ 5:35 pm
Um, since you have no basis for saying this, then it’s obviously coming out of your head, not the white republican males in DC. Why are you making this charge?
August 27th, 2007 at 5:52 pmMust be a Republican Horn-Dog thread up, all the sanctimonious Libs are jumping ship.
August 27th, 2007 at 6:00 pmZo, you need to quit watching Oprah and eatin bon-bons all day.
Stay away from the booze too.
Comment by Bob — August 27, 2007 @ 5:34 pm
Actually, I thought this was pretty hillarious. I can only say, if the shoe fits…or, the bon-bons are in reach, and Ophra is on the tube, there’s a strong chance that the booze isn’t far away. All the props of the alternative reality we’ve been subjected to these past 7 years.
Snidely Whiplash, I love your name!
August 27th, 2007 at 6:06 pmHere’s my temporary take on it until I can respond more substantively to this. It’s an opus that I like to call, “Your Turn, Dick” (with a surprise cameo by Richard Viguerie).
It’s surprising to me that Viguerie so quickly turned on Gonzo as he did on Rove. In both cases, he’s saying, “Good riddance to bad rubbish” but for the wrong reasons.
August 27th, 2007 at 6:10 pmr, your word 1 : hypocritically pious or devout
August 27th, 2007 at 6:13 pm2 obsolete : possessing sanctity : HOLY , Conservatives to a T.
And you are what… Britt? Why the long face?
August 27th, 2007 at 6:19 pmI can’t believe all the smoke being blown up everyone’s ass by the RWSM, rightwingscreechmachines, regarding Dear Leader’s selection of Torquemada Jr. It’s just pure distraction techniques to the simple question, Why did he resign? Not this horse shit a bout, he really wasn’t the favorite of Conservatives. The Conservatives stood by as this man sent the Gov. of alabama to the slammer, innocent people were tortured and the AUMF was portrayed as the end all power source. Kiss my Libtard, ass.
August 27th, 2007 at 6:25 pmI didn’t follow at first, but now I get it. I said Libs were sanctimonious in jujmping on the story about a Horn-Dog Republican.
Then you said the word “sanctimonious” defines conservatives to a T.
Comment by the fly-man — August 27, 2007 @ 6:13 pm
So basically, your rebut is “I know you are, but what am I?â€
I can’t compete.
August 27th, 2007 at 6:28 pmAttorney General Alberto Gonzales may have his announced his resignation, but his wrongdoing – and his words – live on. Here are:
August 27th, 2007 at 6:37 pm“Alberto Gonzales’ Greatest Hits.”
r, it’s true my retort is exactly back at ya. You have exhibited a classic tactic, by instantly defining your quarrelsome opponents in the phraseology best describing yourself. Go read Brit Hume’s comments and let the savory flavor and aroma of pure indifference satiate your predictably crass and self serving ass.
August 27th, 2007 at 6:44 pmBurnt Humas is a COMPLETE CRONY and TOOL of the useless REPUGNISCUM GRAND OLD PEDOPHILES!!!
August 27th, 2007 at 7:04 pmThanks President Bush for keeping us safe from terrorist since 9/11.
…
Comment by Bob — August 27, 2007 @ 5:32 pm
Thanks Lord Cornwallis, for keeping us safe from Continental Army attacks on our soil since 9/11
Comment by King George III – October 19, 1781 @5:32 pm
August 27th, 2007 at 9:31 pm“He was simply a crony.”
Takes one to know one.
August 27th, 2007 at 9:36 pmCome on, someone must be able to find the Fox News commentaries on Torquemada’s 2005 confirmation. I bet Brit ‘Bonehead’ Hume was more charitable then…
August 27th, 2007 at 9:41 pmBrit Hume is a moron. Boycott Fux news!
August 28th, 2007 at 1:00 ammy latest “nightly nolo video”,
on alberto “the torture
endorser,†and bush’s #1
“man of integrityâ€, is
now posted. . . it is
only 1:25 — and nails
that little sadist to
the wall. . . i’ve nailed
his boss, too. . . all with
a sampled bit o’ marvin gaye,
for the sound track — “make me
wanna’ holla’! (the way they do
my life. . .)â€
do take a look. . .
g’night all. . .
August 28th, 2007 at 2:13 amWho told you to say that, brit? Down deep you really didn’t mean it. Some one made you say it, didn’t they brit?
August 28th, 2007 at 9:02 am“I don’t mean that word to sound any worse than it is”
Bwahahahahahaha! The Fox News attempt at damage control. Hilarious and pathetic at the same time.
August 28th, 2007 at 10:53 amSo, the Brit Hume’s of the world spew words about it being the Dems fault for – egads! – expecting our AG to be above the law and open to scrutiny, but when Fredo exits, he is now only a crony, and oh well, was never popular with the righties so in some twisted way, they are taking credit. It’s amazing how these guys are wired.
August 28th, 2007 at 11:31 amDoes this guy ALWAYS look like he’s got a Cadillac shoved up his ass?
August 28th, 2007 at 12:52 pm