Audio: Dem Congressman says it’s “likely” Rove planted the Rathergate memos

HotAir ^ | 1/17/07 | staff

[Shady]

OK, now here is a surprise, THE GOP COULDN'T FIELD A CANDIDATE TO RUN! This is the same Maurice (oops that's my gun) Hinchey who on Nov 30 1998 at Christ Church in Binghamton NY said and I quote "Conservatives remind me of the German Youth of the 30's.") I was there.

[Revolting cat!]

[Noumenon]

When Laura I hit him with that same question, his response was essentially, "What liberal media?" He actually thinks that NPR has a rightward bias that needs corection!

People like Hinchey are insane, and malignantly so. Unfortuantely for us, they're in power now.

[Arrowhead1952]

“There’s a significant amount of evidence,” he insisted, while conspicuously failing to provide any.

It's not the about the lack of evidence, it's about the seriousness of the charge.

[GoLightly]

Nickname is "Big Mo", per the previous e-mail to him/her from Hinchey's "guy running things in DC".

[GretchenM]

This shows the lengths some liberals will go to in trying to restore the credibility of a media organization that is caught lying in its pursuit of bringing down a credible conservative.

[capt. norm]

If Rove actually did plant the docs, it doesn't make CBS's credibility look any better. They swallowed the whole thing, hook line and sinker and tried to force-feed it to their audience (back when they had an audience).

[Reaganesque]

Even if this lunatic charge is true, the fact still remains that CBS ran with a story that they didn't bother to verify. They had a good, negative story on the President and ran with it, facts be damned. They threw journalistic ethics out the window.

[Arrowhead1952]

I heard this idiot on Laura's show as well. When she pinned him on the hollywood issue, I was screaming at her to ask about michael moron's F 9/11 documentary.

I wish she would have asked if it would have been required by his law to counter that BS with the facts.

[GoLightly]

He's also going with the fake (planted by Rove) but accurate line. If they come up with this kind of stuff, I gotta wonder what they're actually up to themselves (Freudian thing).

[Let's Roll]

"And enough of America is ignorant or doesn't care because they hand them the reigns to government."

And some of them are even preening because they did so.

[pissant]

We need to keep the pressure on the MSM until they collapse. They are teetering but got renewed life with "their" victory in the '06 elections. We can kill this evil beast before 2008.

[Buckhead]

Ooops!

Posted that on the wrong thread!!

Sorry!

Admin Mods, help!

[sappy]

So, if he planted them, then, the story is still false, obviously!

[GoLightly]

It was an interesting threadjack...

[GoLightly]

BUt Hinchey's trying to have it both ways, in the same way that Rather did.

[dmw]

And this guy is a Congressman? Shame on the idiots who elected this JERK.

[techcor]

It's better than that. A liberal I know thinks that Dan Rather is great but was duped. Then I asked him "Why was the source anonymous?" To which the reply is "Because the evil Bush would've had him killed." To which my reply is "But Dan Rather outed that source and had him on his show withing one week of realizing the documents weren't verified. Isn't that the worst thing a journalist can do? Out a source that will be killed by the evil Bush?" "And is that source dead now? What? He isn't? Then why again was this source anonymous and touted by CBS as unimpeachable?"

[dirtboy]

And this guy is a Congressman? Shame on the idiots who elected this JERK.

He's from Ithaca. Par for the course.