College student shouts ‘You lie!’ to Alberto Gonzales during speech.
College student shouts ‘You lie!’ to Alberto Gonzales during speech.
Former Bush attorney general Alberto Gonzales recently spoke at the University of Tennessee at Martin about “Living Legal History: Working with the White House, the Department of Justice and the Supreme Court.” Gonzales received a “mixed” response from students and residents, and he had a Joe-Wilson moment when a student interrupted his speech and shouted out “You lie!”:
At one point, Gonzales referred to America’s war on terrorism.
“President Wilson and Roosevelt engaged in massive collections of electronic communications during the first and second world war,” Gonzales said. “The collection performed by President Bush was much more narrow.”
At this moment, a student in the crowd interjected with: “You lie!” After some quiet applause the speech continued.
Gonzales is currently a political science professor at Texas Tech, where students and faculty have protested his appointment. (HT: TPM)
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See what you staarted Joe?
Now we’ll never see the end of this shit.
October 28th, 2009 at 3:32 pmElectronic communications in the first WW? Wow, ex-AG AG sure does make up some whoppers – kind of like “I don’t recall.”
October 28th, 2009 at 3:33 pmWhat’s right or wrong or against the law is not important to this government.
October 28th, 2009 at 3:35 pmIt’s the money they endlessly crave.
Joe Wilson opened the floodgates to incivility.
You can forget debate from this point forward.
October 28th, 2009 at 3:35 pmBetween giving $25 speeches, Mr. Gonzales works a night job at a Dallas Burger King.
October 28th, 2009 at 3:37 pmI wish I could attend an event where Joe Lieberman is the guest speaker. I would shout “YOU LIE” so loud, they would arrest me and put me in jail for a week.
October 28th, 2009 at 3:38 pmrobbez, that was my first thought too…
what kind of “electronic communications” did Wilson collect?
Telegraph transmissions?
This is what happens when an idiot is selected President and he surrounds himself with underlings who will not challenge him intellectually.
You end up with Gonzo as AG.
October 28th, 2009 at 3:39 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Actually, I think it’s at a Dallas-area Sonic.
Abu G couldn’t meet the stringent hiring standards of BK.
October 28th, 2009 at 3:40 pmAlberto Gonzales can recall what Presidents Wilson and Roosevelt did historically but he cannot recall what President Bush and he himself did contemporaneously.
Dementia or lying?
October 28th, 2009 at 3:42 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
backup should be installed as one of the animals on a carousel, he spins so much. He’d have to be installed facing the opposite way of all the other animals, of course.
October 28th, 2009 at 3:44 pmIts rude. When people are invited to speak you let them speak. You take YOUR turn to make YOUR point. I think Gonzo is a punk who should go straight to fking jail but I also think it is rude to interrupt a scheduled speech.
October 28th, 2009 at 3:44 pmI voted you up, STORM, since I can’t detect sarcasm on this computer.
October 28th, 2009 at 3:45 pmStop the presses! See if hell has frozen over! Is this the start of end times? Storm posted something that wasn’t cut and paste! (Stupid, yes, but original, sort of.)
October 28th, 2009 at 3:46 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
STORMfront
What an ingnorant punkass troll you are
October 28th, 2009 at 3:47 pmSTORMfront
Do us all a favor and STFU until you grow a real brain
October 28th, 2009 at 3:48 pmLeave it to Texas to hire a known liar as a professor.
October 28th, 2009 at 3:48 pmI thought it was against the law to yell the truth to a republican in public?
October 28th, 2009 at 3:49 pmAs far as I’m concerned, far, FAR more people should have been shouting “YOU LIE!!” at the Chimperor and his court from day one – and perhaps we wouldn’t be in this mess.
October 28th, 2009 at 3:49 pmEugeneDebs. you’re right.
Wilson was an idiot to do what he did.
What he did was worse than the offender at UT, because he’s a congressman and the venue had much higher significance.
But, the behavior at UT is also wrong.
We’re in trouble if people are going to start using Wilson’s behavior as the standard going forward.
October 28th, 2009 at 3:51 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
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Why is this bastard not in prison for corrupting the DoJ?
October 28th, 2009 at 3:53 pmPresident Wilson and Roosevelt engaged in massive collections of electronic communications during the first and second world war,” Gonzales said. “The collection performed by President Bush was much more narrow.”
Thats a very narrow minded opinion that with modern technology is in no way accurate.
October 28th, 2009 at 3:55 pmIf it’s got to happen, please place me next to a pink pony. I love ponies. -BU
Well, I dont think you will like where the pole runs thru.
October 28th, 2009 at 3:55 pmthe difference backup, is that President, and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Obama wasn’t lying when Mighty Joe stepped up to the plate.
Gonzo on the other hand, was lying, had lied in the past, and corrupted our country’s judicial system for political gain commiting treason in the process and getting away with it. HIs behavior has earned him the scorn of the informed. President Obama, by being an articulate and intelligent human being who happens to be biracial at the same time he’s president, has earned the scorn of the uninformable.
October 28th, 2009 at 3:56 pmSTUDENT: You lie!
GONZALES: What’s your point?
October 28th, 2009 at 3:57 pmLook, if your going to yell ‘You Lie!’ throw a shoe at the same time.
October 28th, 2009 at 3:58 pmAnd yet you just had to make a [completely pathetic] comment.
October 28th, 2009 at 3:58 pmSTORMfront
You are a liar and a fool a brainwashed moron and an ignorant punkass troll. Just STFU
October 28th, 2009 at 3:58 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
STORM says:
Sherifffruitfly says:
Leave it to Texas to hire a known liar as a professor.
University of Illinois hired a terrorist.
And I hired your mom. For a ten minute BJ. In a Porta-John. Tell her to call me if she wants her teeth back.
October 28th, 2009 at 3:59 pmMr DUKE
YOU are also a LIAR. You have never THOUGHT in your LIFE. All you do is regurgitate what Rush TOLD you to think. You are far too stupid to actually THINK. You flat out dont have the requisite equipment
October 28th, 2009 at 3:59 pmSTUDENT: You lie!
GONZALES: I DONT RECALL!!
October 28th, 2009 at 3:59 pmMr.Duke says:
I think kids confused Gonzales with Obama.
Just because they’re both minorites doesn’t mean they all look the same you inbred cracker racist.
October 28th, 2009 at 4:01 pmI bet stormfront is so stoopid he paid 19 dollars for his whole office to go see chimpy talk about how hard it was to be prezidint.
October 28th, 2009 at 4:02 pmCaption: I think I skipped a nougat!
October 28th, 2009 at 4:02 pmSherriffruitfly and STORM,
Let us not forget that Cal has the shit-stain John Yoo on their Law School faculty.
He may actually be more of a terrorist than Gonzo and quite a bit more dangerous as he actually has some level of intelligence.
October 28th, 2009 at 4:03 pmWhat’s the matter duke, don’t like your sheet pulled up? Get used to it, and maybe wear some undies that don’t have snail tracks in the back.
October 28th, 2009 at 4:04 pmSTORM says:
What a big story! TP is doing some heavy hitting journalism work.
Compared to opinion programming. Yes.
October 28th, 2009 at 4:04 pmGuess this just proves that there is no difference between Texas A&M and SMU. Both are third-rate schools with their heads WAAAAAY up W’s arse.
October 28th, 2009 at 4:06 pmbackup says:
“I’ll go out on a limb and say I don’t believe the outburst was motivated by racism.”
That’s not out on a limb, backup, you’re hugging the stump.
October 28th, 2009 at 4:06 pmMr.Duke says:
I think kids confused Gonzales with Obama.
If that was the case, Duke, I’d be happy that they at least would not be able to see people by the color of their skin.
October 28th, 2009 at 4:08 pmMan, the trolls are especially lame today.
I’m betting that Troll Central put out their Halloween candy way too early and the trolls all got wired on a sugar binge. Today must be the hangover day.
October 28th, 2009 at 4:08 pmI’ll go out on a limb and say I don’t believe the outburst was motivated by racism.
How are you going to do that when the family tree has no branched or limbs?
October 28th, 2009 at 4:08 pmI’m all for heckling this lying sack of dung, but can we use our brains and yell something original? “YOU LIE!” is already over. Put that one to bed with your Ed Hardy hat, please.
Joe Wilson owns it. Keep it that way.
October 28th, 2009 at 4:16 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
If you take an exam in Professor Gonzales’ class and you answer the questions with “I don’t recall”, “I’ll get to you on that”,
“I don’t remember”,”I don’t recall”, “Not to the best of my recollection” and “I don’t recall”,
will you still get a passing grade?
October 28th, 2009 at 4:18 pmPresident Wilson and Roosevelt engaged in massive collections of electronic communications during the first and second world war
Electronic communications in the 1910s? Is Gonzo implying Wilson listened in on Marconi Morse code transmissions?
October 28th, 2009 at 4:18 pmXisithrus. you are on fire. Very nice.
October 28th, 2009 at 4:19 pmnoseeum. also very nice.
October 28th, 2009 at 4:21 pm….and when asked for clarification on his claim that President Bush’ electronic communications “gathering” was much more narrow, the former AG replied “I can’t recall”.
October 28th, 2009 at 4:22 pm49 – Yeah, bobwurst, Storm’s mom has enough to be ashamed of already – having hatched that creature.
October 28th, 2009 at 4:24 pm49 – Yeah, it’s bad enough Storm has to shave her back twice a week.
October 28th, 2009 at 4:27 pmXisithrus. you are on fire. Very nice.
Ah, a snarky way of saying burn in hades, very clever.
October 28th, 2009 at 4:29 pmMan, the trolls are especially lame today.
The Buckley fax is down for repairs
October 28th, 2009 at 4:32 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
THe same thing happened during a debate between Dean and Rove on health care reform. I personally would have yelled out WTF aren’t you in jail?
I’m pretty sure I read this today over at TMP but I can’t find the link.
October 28th, 2009 at 4:42 pmPeople, in Stormfronts perfect world of unfettered capitalism, his mom is able to sell whatever she wants for whatever price the market will bear. It’s not my fault that the market has collapsed for inexpensive, yet experienced, hookers. Maybe storm-mom should move to South Carolina and work the republican pol market. She’d do well in the cemetary…
October 28th, 2009 at 4:44 pmLeftside Annie says:
49 – Yeah, bobwurst, Storm’s mom has enough to be ashamed of already – having hatched that creature
Hatched? I thought she plucked stromfront out of the toilet one hung-over morning, picking him out of the litter of corn-infested turds because he looked cute and placed him next to her vein ridden breast and nursed him back to heath with that curdled, sour mother’s milk that she has. I guess I was wrong, my bad.
October 28th, 2009 at 4:48 pmGonzales’ knowledge of history is very flawed. Electronic eavesdropping did not really start until after World War I and then it was over bootlegging — Capone, if you will.
http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1613130
It makes no mention regarding World War II but the fact that there is no mention probably means there was no widespread use. Also, the technology then required a tap an each and every line so the capability for widespread wiretapping wasn’t yet invented, futher pointing in the direction that Gonzales is full of crap regarding World War II.
October 28th, 2009 at 4:48 pmbackup says:
“Besides, I don’t want you in hades, cause I’ll be there.”
Let me guess, the satanic mechanic…
October 28th, 2009 at 4:50 pmGonzo does lie and continues to lie.
Why is this criminal not in jail?
October 28th, 2009 at 4:53 pmThe finals for his class are easy. There are 72 questions in the test, but the answer to all of them is ‘I don’t recall.’
October 28th, 2009 at 4:53 pmThe “Everyone else did it too” defense.
October 28th, 2009 at 4:57 pmWe must accept that the circle jerk in room 318 of the AT&T building continues to this day. the eavesdropping circle jerk will grow ever larger until it is shut down and room 318 is mopped and disinfected.
October 28th, 2009 at 5:36 pmThe only good thing out of Texass is being out of Texass!
October 28th, 2009 at 6:09 pmMZ
Gonzales said:
“The collection performed by President Bush was much more narrow.”
Why is Alberto defending the administration that threw him under the bus?
Is he nervous about something?
October 28th, 2009 at 6:17 pmNicely played, Sir, Nicely played.
October 28th, 2009 at 7:13 pmXisithrus says:
Look, if your going to yell ‘You Lie!’ throw a shoe at the same time
Actually, just bring a clothesline noose with you, and when telling the traitorous scumbag talking, Rummy, Chezey, Gonzo, or Dinkledoofus, hold up the noose and tell them “You will be hung for TREASO,N motherFCUKER, TREASON of your admission!!”
October 29th, 2009 at 8:46 amOf course add the motherfcuker for effect.
And what exactly is his point? President Wilson was perhaps the biggest traitor of this once great nation, his treachery rivals that of George W. and his father.
October 29th, 2009 at 2:03 pmCC YOU are perhaps the stupidest most brainwashed moron to ever walk the Earth. Do you even GET how stupid you are?
November 1st, 2009 at 7:27 am