Rush Limbaugh Live Thread Tuesday 10-03-2006

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[MNJohnnie]

So it is starting to look more and more like Bob Woodward, in his following of Kitty Kelly's footsteps, also decided to simply made up large portion of his current book.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/10/1/151 303.shtml?s=lh

Andy Card Denies Woodward Claim

Ronald Kessler Monday, Oct. 2, 2006

Former White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. "Andy" Card Jr. has denied Bob Woodward's claim that he and first lady Laura Bush tried to get Donald Rumsfeld fired as defense secretary.

Card told NewsMax that the assertion in Woodward's book "State of Denial" that he thought Rumsfeld should have been the one to leave the administration instead of himself was also "not true." Card left as chief of staff in April.

According to an excerpt to be published in the Washington Post on Sunday, "State of Denial" says, "He [Card] was leaving. And the man most responsible for the postwar troubles, the one who should have gone, Rumsfeld, was staying."

But Card told NewsMax, "I never felt that someone should have left ‘instead' of me." Card said any implication that he was bitter about leaving was also "not true at all."

News accounts about the Woodward book led with Andy Card trying to oust Rumsfeld with the support of Laura Bush. But White House spokesman Tony Snow quoted Laura Bush's office as saying Woodward's claim relating to her was "flatly not true." In addition, Card told the Associated Press that Laura Bush never encouraged an effort to oust Rumsfeld.

"Mrs. Bush and I never discussed it," Card said.

Only two major news outlets ran Laura Bush's denial — the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post.

In his book, Woodward wrote that Card urged Bush to replace Rumsfeld with former Secretary of State James Baker following the 2004 election. According to the book, Bush decided not to do so after Vice President Dick Cheney and chief political adviser Karl Rove convinced him it would be seen as an expression of doubt about the direction of the war and expose Bush to criticism.

Woodward claimed that Card, with the backing of first lady Laura Bush, tried a second time to persuade Bush to fire Rumsfeld around Thanksgiving 2005. But according to Woodward, the president again refused to replace him.

But according to Card, he never pushed for Rumsfeld's resignation. He said he kept a list of potential Cabinet and staff changes for Bush to consider after the 2004 election, as he did after other important dates.

"To say that it was a campaign or an orchestrated effort would be wrong,"' Card said. "But were there times that we talked about potential changes in the Cabinet? Yes. Did they center around Rumsfeld? Not necessarily. They were in a broader context."

Tony Snow, besieged by questions about it at his daily briefing, said the book was similar to others critical of the war effort and that much of it was less than meets the eye.

"In a lot of ways, the books are like cotton candy. They kind of melt on contact,'" he said.

In a story that ran July 31, Card told NewsMax that his own resignation arose after he had been thinking for some time that "the president needed something that would allow external observers to see that he had new momentum." Card said he already had a lot of changes in the works, but nobody would have seen them as change.

"So it was time for new personalities to help give definition to the word change," Card said. "I first went to the president more than a month and a half before I left. I said, ‘You know, I think it's probably time to think about it.'"

"Nah!" the president replied at Camp David. "I'm not going to do anything."

Card suggested he give it some thought.

"We talked a handful of other times about it, and finally it was the right time," Card said.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

Good Morning hattie!

[ChicagoConservative27]

This is from Hastard's office.


A written statement from Hastert's office said that wasn't going to happen. "The Speaker has and will lead the Republican conference to another majority in the 110th Congress," the statement said, adding, "Mark Foley has resigned his seat in dishonor, and the criminal investigation of this matter will continue. The Speaker is working every day on ensuring the House is a safe, productive environment for members, staff and all those who are employed by the institution."

[hattend]

Hi alice! How's things this AM?

[beyond the sea]

Rush

When Rush gets to the ABOMINATION of the Washington Times editorial about Hastert, I wonder if he will ever get to THIS

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http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0906/364718.html

Newspaper HR Director Faces Internet Sex Charges

WASHINGTON (AP) - The human resources director of The Washington Times has been arrested on charges of soliciting a teenager for sex on the Internet.

D.C. police say 53-year-old Randall Casseday of Dobbs Ferry, New York, was arrested Tuesday night in Northeast Washington. He had allegedly arranged to meet what he believed was a 13-year-old girl he had been corresponding with in an online chat room. The person he was communicating with was a detective with the department's Internet Crimes Against Children branch.

Casseday, who rents a room in the Washington area, was charged with attempted enticement of a minor and was due to appear Thursday in U.S. District Court. Brian Bauman, a spokesman for the Times, says the company is cooperating with authorities and that Casseday has been suspended without pay pending the results of the investigation.

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A FReeper wrote earlier: There is another dimension (above) to this editorial to dump Hastert ---- and it has to do with the Times worried about their own image with regard to a recent in-house scandal (above) involving a sexual predator. I have heard from reliable sources at the Times that management is in near panic mode over the in-house scandal and fears that this will be used against them, tainting their image as a "family values" paper. . .etc. They are in the extreme overreacting mode and are not thinking clearly.

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Was the Washington Times compromised????

[StoneWall Brigade]

Thanks for the Ping Johnnie

[alice_in_bubbaland]

PM here and all is well! How about you?

[StoneWall Brigade]

Did you hear about a HighJacking?

[CAWats]

Hi All!!

[LibertyLee]

Good afternoon, Johnnie...thanks for the ping. Not surprising that Woodward "makes up" his latest book. He's the only reporter in DC who can read minds...lots of quotes go in with "he thought" when I don't think Woodward can read minds. Here in work, lurk, n'lunch mode...

FNC is reporting an air hijacking in Turkey because of a Papal visit??????

[angcat]

Good Afternoon Godfather......

[bwteim]

Just on the radio:

"Republicans facing mounting criticisms over the email scandal"

Partly because MSM the conveniently muddles by omitting the distinction between email and a variant, Instant Messaging.

[acsrp38]

Here is a reply to your Laura post -- I figured you might notice here more easily

What he was talking about was really, really, really distorted as usual by the MSM. In a devastated country after so many years of total destruction (we did this after WWII in Germany, Italy, and Japan) is talking low level (most obvious are those who ran the electric and water plants and low level officials -- because are the ones who have the knowledge and experience) and integrating them into the present system. He was NOT -- (I repeat NOT and I repeat NOT and again I repeat NOT) talking about those who commited terrorist acts. In a country like Afghanistan after so many years of taliban rule if you weren't or didn't at least profess to be ture to the taliban -- you didn't live. EVERYONE still alive in the country who had any type of a job or skill was part of the taliban. NO ONE in the country of working has even the slightest knowledge or skill for anything. This is how a system like that works. The idea is to take those at the lower end of the "party" and put them back in charge of infrastructures and civil affairs until the next generation can be trained and educated. This is what he was talking about!!! Stop reading the MSM propaganda

[ChicagoConservative27]

Nope.

[ct_libertarian]

Hey everyone.

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[alice_in_bubbaland]

Heads up! Press conference on Amish Schoolhouse Shooting on FNC.

[bwteim]

Greek plane, did land with fighter escort, per news, and has been termed a failed hi-jacking.

[gopwinsin04]

500-600 replies today?

[beyond the sea]

If he doesn't get to it (http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0906/364718.html ---- Newspaper HR Director Faces Internet Sex Charges) ...... pass it along to him. It probably says a lot about that knee jerk editorial!!!

The Washington Times has curled up into the fetal position............ and perhaps injured the Republicans terribly in November..............

Unless the truth of who SAT on those IM's for so long......... and we all know who THAT was.

[Current Occupant]

Rush, you may want to check this out. WTH.

http://hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?b60b0733-fa7e-4b1c-bcc0-0a442fd0f8fb

[acsrp38]

What he was talking about was really, really, really distorted as usual by the MSM.

In a devastated country after so many years of total destruction (we did this after WWII in Germany, Italy, and Japan) is talking low level (most obvious are those who ran the electric and water plants and low level officials -- because are the ones who have the knowledge and experience) and integrating them into the present system. He was NOT -- (I repeat NOT and I repeat NOT and again I repeat NOT) talking about those who commited terrorist acts.

In a country like Afghanistan after so many years of taliban rule if you weren't or didn't at least profess to be ture to the taliban -- you didn't live. EVERYONE still alive in the country who had any type of a job or skill was part of the taliban. NO ONE in the country of working has even the slightest knowledge or skill for anything. This is how a system like that works. The idea is to take those at the lower end of the "party" and put them back in charge of infrastructures and civil affairs until the next generation can be trained and educated.

This is what he was talking about!!! Stop reading the MSM propaganda

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