DUmmie FUnnies 05-15-06 (Pied Piper PItt Bets The Farm On Fitzmas)

DUmmie FUnnies ^ | May 15, 2006 | William Rivers Pitt, Skinner, DUmmies, and PJ-Comix

[PJ-Comix]

Leopoldism. LOL!!!

[finnman69]

Hey, maybe Truthout is on Uranus Time!

The length of a Uranus day is 17.24 hours.

[franksolich]

Some of the new responses in DUmmieland:

Taxloss (1000+ posts) Mon May-15-06 06:03 PM
Response to Original message

4. "reportedly" been indicted?

Reported on your website Will! Yesterday it was certain, know it's only "reported"?

Media_Lies_Daily (1000+ posts) Mon May-15-06 06:07 PM
Response to Reply #4

6. Geez. Give it a rest.

Taxloss (1000+ posts) Mon May-15-06 06:07 PM
Response to Reply #6

7. When you do.

deaniac21 (130 posts) Mon May-15-06 06:15 PM
Response to Reply #4

9. There are still 24 business hours..

meisje (1000+ posts) Mon May-15-06 06:21 PM
Response to Original message

10. Shouldn't "reportedly been indicted" read "allegedly been indicted"?

[DesScorp]

"Is there video of that incident and was Hillary caught on tape applauding the arrest of Rove?"

Man, I hope so...what a commercial THAT would make.

[franksolich]

[bcsco]

"The CBS "news" blog thinks something is fishy in Truthoutthewindow land: "

Gee, do they really think so?

I love how they give passing reference to Leopold's credibility issues, but then treat him as if that doesn't matter. It's business as usual in 'Leftyland'.

[finnman69]

subtle reporting...

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove listens to questions after his speech on economic policy at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington May 15, 2006. Rove said on Monday worries about the Iraq war had contributed to a sour public mood but Republicans would fare 'just fine' in November's congressional elections. REUTERS/Jim Young

[CAluvdubya]

Did Skinner write that?

Either skinner or maybe the dirty one? LOL!

[DesScorp]

Heh, I love that Roverian graphic....good stuff...

[Kay]

Placemark. This is an incredibly funny post.

[jennyjenny]

He doesn't have the balls to say the only place it's been reported is his own site? My.

[CAluvdubya]

The site admins ought to pay me cold hard cash. . . . They oughta pay me . . .

"I could'a been a contenda!"

[finnman69]

more background

talkleft has confirmed the denial

http://talkleft.com/new_archives/014847.html

Monday :: May 15, 2006
Luskin Denies Truth of Leopold Article on Karl Rove Indictment
Robert Luskin, Karl Rove's attorney, has officially denied the allegations in Jason Leopold's article reporting Rove has been indicted and that there was a Fitzgerald-Luskin meeting on Friday.

I received the denial directly from Robert Luskin this afternoon.

1. Luskin stands by his April 26 statement in its entirety.

2. Karl Rove's status has not changed. They remain confident Fitzgerald will decline to bring any charges.

3. There is "no truth whatsoever" to any of Jason Leopold's recent stories about Karl Rove's resignation, the alleged meeting in his office or the Indictment. The denial he gave me Saturday night was and was intended to be "all purpose."

4. As far as he knows, Patrick Fitzgerald was in Chicago on Friday.

5. People should not interpret their "unwillingness to comment on every wild and malicious rumor as a change in position."

As background, Saturday night I reported on my dismally failed attempt to get Robert Luskin to discuss Jason Leopold's article.

Sunday night I reported the details of my phone call with Jason in which Jason expressed confidence his report was correct and confirmed that he would out his sources if it turned out they provided false information.

This morning I reported on my telephone conversation with Rove media strategist Mark Corallo and his full and complete denial of the accuracy of Jason's article.

After that call this morning, I e-mailed Mr. Luskin to properly introduce myself, thank him for connecting me to Mark Carballo and apologize again for calling him so late Saturday night. He responded favorably. Just over an hour ago, he sent me another e-mail with the above denials. He also said his cat is better now.

Update: Some verbatim quotes from Bob Luskin, reprinted with permission:

The cat's fine, thanks. Her stool sample shows no evidence of harmful parasites, which is one of the big differences between my cat's stools and this case. i do, occasionally, take a day (or, if i can, an evening) off.

On his belief that Fitzgerald was in Chicago Friday,

To paraphrase 'my cousin vinnie,' even in this investigation, the laws of physics apply.

[KJC1]

New juicy post about Leopold's double life as a sockpuppet! Ha ha ha!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/5/15/184318/243

[franksolich]

Heh, I love that Roverian graphic....good stuff...

That one was actually made by one of the shining lights in the other conservative web-site. There is no way I could be that creative.

Charles Henrickson and speed_addiction here in the DUmmie FUnnies do similarly remarkably good work.

[decal]

"He once threatened me physically and said he was going to fly to Toronto and beat me to a pulp, stomp on my head, then scrap me off his boot and feed me to his cat."

FS, wasn't there a chef or some such from Toronto who was one of the bigger commentators on Scamdy at CU?

[dirtbiker]

I can't sit still. and I can't pull my ass away from the computer!

And just HOW is this different from any other day.....

[finnman69]

Jason Leopold, Sockpuppet Extraordinaire

by DHinMI

Mon May 15, 2006 at 03:43:18 PM PDT

I had hoped Jason Leopold would just go away.  It's clear from his own statements in various places that he's struggled with some substance abuse and mental illness issues.  He has my sympathy for this.  But he's now become a bigger story because he's made such grandiose claims about having deep sources all through the government and somewhere among the investigators or investigated in the Valerie Plame outing.  So it's time to come forward and give you some evidence with which to assess Jason Leopold's credibility.  I'll refrain from making conclusions, but it's worth putting out there for people to assess.

On January 14, 2006 in an excellent post at The Next Hurrah, emptywheel closely examined an article by Leopold in which she demonstrated his claims were not supported by his sources.  Leopold showed up in the thread, and things got interesting.  Leopold called me a pussy.  Some guy named Tom Marconi claiming to be former CIA threatened commenter jonnybutter.  Andy Gumbel, a writer at the Guardian, vouched for Leopold.  And someone named Adam Yorkshire shilled for Leopold's book.

But here's the problem.  If all these comments came from different people, they appear to have all spent that evening together, because all those comments came from just two ISP addresses.

All eight comments from Jason Leopold came from the same ISP address.  (Typepad allows the administrator of a blog to see the ISP address comments come from, as well as ban by that ISP.)  That ISP was also the address from which we recieved all three comments by Adam Yorkshire.  And so did the second comment from Tom Marconi, the one where he threatened jonnybutter.  But the first comment from Tom Marconi, as well as the comments by Andy Gumbel and Joshua Klein, originated from a different but common ISP address.  Thus, one Marconi comment came from the same ISP address as all the Leopold and Yorkshire comments, and those are connected to the Gumbel and Klein comments by the other Marconi comment.

One could conclude quite easily that Jason Leopold wrote all those comments himself.  It would not be out of character, for on another thread a few months later Leopold admitted to posting comments on TNH under the moniker Harry Shep.  The ISP address from which Leopold posted his mea culpa was, in fact, the origin of the comments on this thread by HS, and the comments by Harry Shep on these two posts.  But I'll only go as far as we can be sure from the evidence here, and just say that at best it's peculiar that Jason Leopold spent the evening with all these characters, and they posted on emptywheel's thread as if they weren't all together, going so far in one case to claim to have been directed to the thread by Larry Johnson.

Does this mean Jason Leopold is wrong in his claims regarding the Plame investigation leading to an indictment of Karl Rove?  No.  Does it mean that he's a reliable source, and someone from whom one should expect credibility, integrity, and care with sources?  I think that answer is obvious, but again, I'll let you draw your own conclusion.

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[CAluvdubya]

I made the DUmmie FUnnies three times as a LOUSY FREEPER TROLL. See my profile.

HA! I was just wondering how many here see their DUmmie persona's in the DUFUs as LFTs. LOL

[franksolich]

FS, wasn't there a chef or some such from Toronto who was one of the bigger commentators on Scamdy at CU?

I can't confirm the occupation or the location, but anyway there was an "AndyScam" who was prominent, prolific, illuminating, reasonable, enlightening, posting over there circa a year ago.

Despite that some members of CU didn't seem to, uh, like "AndyScam," I'm sure that "AndyScam" boosted the membership over there quite a bit; I myself became a member there because of "AndyScam."