Comments on: Fratto: ‘We Have Absolutely No Reason To Believe Any E-mails Are Missing’

By: enough

enough — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 11:48:01 +0000

Earth to Fratto. Earth to Fratto. …..

By: lorenzopt

lorenzopt — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:47:00 +0000

Please, just stop the lying. If you have to, don’t say anything, just stop lying.
http://www.spikesoft.net/blog

By: Moderation

Moderation — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:20:14 +0000

FRATTO: Iâ€™m not sure what was said on that. I could tell you today, though, that we have no evidence and we have no way of showing that any e-mail at all are missing.

I’ll bet you don’t, Mr. Fratto. Of course there is no evidence of, or way to show that any e-mails are missing. Because the White House (illegally) destroyed, or is in the process of destroying that evidence.

Love how he repeatedly mentioned, “we have no evidence”, and asked, “what missing e-mails?”. This is an attempt to change the framing. From now on, it’s, “We never lost any e-mails.”.

After all, we’ve always been at war with Eastasia.

By: TC-12

TC-12 — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:30:52 +0000

Just to clarify, I think that’s the same rug Barney urinated on…(or was it George?)

By: TC-12

TC-12 — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:29:09 +0000

Did they look under the rugs? The missing e-mails might be there. Maybe under that rug with the presidential seal in George’s office, the one he vigorously wipes his feet on.

By: Pursang

Pursang — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:58:57 +0000

What is amazing is that the media gave up any shred of integrity they had to have access to these pressers. Loss of integrity for the sole purpose of allowing yourself to be lied to. Sure doesn’t sound like a good trade to me.

By: Bad Eye

Bad Eye — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:05:24 +0000

Oft topic. Sheesh.

By: Bad Eye

Bad Eye — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:05:08 +0000

A little oft-topic but referencing this administration…

My wife just enrolled in an American History class taught via the Internet.

One of the first assignments was for each student to upload a brief message about who they thought the best president was, in part to practice uploading messages to the discussion area of the class’s web site.

Lincoln and Clinton split a majority of the votes, with one for Reagan, one listing Teddy Roosevelt, and one listing FDR.

Not one…ONE…listed George W. Bush (or George H.W. Bush) as their favorite. This from about 25 students who live in a very Republican area of TN.

Score one for today’s youth!

By: sacopenapa

sacopenapa — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:10:17 +0000

‘WAR ON DEMOCRACY’ JOHN PILGER, YOUTUBE!

By: sacopenapa

sacopenapa — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:08:17 +0000

The White House violated the Presidential Records Act . PERIOD! It is common place now to have a spokesman for the White House lying to the World community and to the people of America. That is what happens when you have a country rule by WAR CRIMINALS. Lies!

By: questioneverything

questioneverything — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:06:56 +0000

These people never give up. They don’t believe there are recording devices (even though they use them to record our every phone call while erasing 5 million white house emails). They also firmly believe that if you repeat a lie often enough, most people will buy it. With our current media, it’s working.

I am reading Naomi Wolf’s “The End of America,” and woke up the day after the NBC Nevada debate fiasco to discover I was on Chapter 9, “Restrict the Press.” This is a carefully devised plan and no joke, in spite of Fratto’s idiocy. They be dumb and evil all at the same time.

By: RUCerious

RUCerious — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:45:07 +0000

This guy reminds of the low level mob goon. The Godfather tells him to go whack some guy, and he just moseys off and does the whacking.

When asked by the cops about it, it’s “Hey, we got no reason to believe we were whackin da guy!”

By: DenverOasis

DenverOasis — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:42:18 +0000

holy crap what a lying sack of sh*t.

he’s not even a good liar!!

By: Frosty Cupcake

Frosty Cupcake — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:20:00 +0000

Katy, thanks for the link. :-)

By: PLU Tim

PLU Tim — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:04:20 +0000

Fratto is 100% telling the truth. There is no evidence that any emails are missing because the evidence was written over (destroyed) by new emails.

DUH!

By: theswan

theswan — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:03:41 +0000

“We have absolutely every treason to hide those emails.”

By: Merlin

Merlin — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:01:12 +0000

#52 Comment by muckmac â€” January 17, 2008 @ 7:13 pm

I think thereâ€™s a bit of a disconnect with folks here about what the White House spokespeople are there to do. Theyâ€™re there to deflect questions, not answer them. Theyâ€™re living â€œHappy Facesâ€ who with a pull on the cord in back spout out whatever the Head Bushies tell them to, and when asked questions, select options from their 24K modem brains like â€œwe havenâ€™t finished parsingâ€¦â€ or â€œthereâ€™s no reason to believeâ€¦â€

Exactly right. Especially the “disconnect” part. I said essentially the same thing in #28.

By: kasinca

kasinca — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:42:47 +0000

Republicans have to lie…think about it…who would ever buy the truth from these guys? They are thugs and they can’t tell the truth for fear of incrimination.

By: Ret. Col. Jack Ripper

Ret. Col. Jack Ripper — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:40:36 +0000

I remember when you could always expect at least a couple of reasonable conservatives to jump into these conversations and attempt a defense. This administration has gotten so absurd that reasonable conservatives don’t seem to want to even try anymore. What would be the point? Fratto is simply a ridiculous man. Would you even buy a used car from this guy?

By: muckmac

muckmac — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:13:44 +0000

I think there’s a bit of a disconnect with folks here about what the White House spokespeople are there to do. They’re there to deflect questions, not answer them. They’re living “Happy Faces” who with a pull on the cord in back spout out whatever the Head Bushies tell them to, and when asked questions, select options from their 24K modem brains like “we haven’t finished parsing…” or “there’s no reason to believe…”

I wonder why news reporters even show up at those propaganda events any more. Self-flagellation seems a less painful alternative.