Posted on 07/23/2004 3:49:11 AM PDT by IowaHawk
Washington DC - Embattled US President George W. Bush today sought to distance himself from the simmering 'Timingate' scandal that has dominated the national press and broadcast news for the past three days, and threatens to topple his administration.
In what many saw as an evasive and legalistically worded defense, Bushed denied any personal culpability or involvement in L'affaire Berger, in which thousands of Washington GOP operatives remain under a cloud of suspicion for leaking sensitive information about an informal advisor to Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry.
Bush's denials prompted immediate condemnations from the Kerry campaign and Hill Democrats, many of whom saw Bush's denials as suspiciously timed and politically motivated.
"I find it rather curious that the President has chosen the very week before the Democratic Convention to deny his deep involvement in a potentially criminal effort to smear an anonymous private citizen," said Kerry spokesman Chris Lehane. "Coincidence or not, I would note that the GOP has a long, sordid history of pushing pro-Republican and anti-Democratic stories, often during election years."
Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) agreed, saying that "the timing of this weak response stinks to high heaven, and raises more questions than it answers."
Daschle also called for immediate Senate hearings into the deepening Timingate affair, chaired by Massachusetts Senator John Kerry. The proposal brought a tepid response from Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN), prompting many to suspect that congressional Republicans were coordinating a 'stonewall' campaign to contain further scandal damage to Bush.
It is unclear how long such stonewalling efforts will succeed, as press interest in the scandal has picked up momentum over the past 48 hours. On Thursday, the CBS Evening News reported over 20 separate allegations of suspicious GOP behavior, while the New York Times is set to release a 20,000 word piece on Sunday detailing recent cases of suspicious GOP timing, with timelines showing a suspicious pattern of suspected charges of suspiciously timed alleged charging.
While space constraints limited coverage of the actual charges, Times editor Bill Keller promised the report will be "Pulitzer bait."
"The article is important because it illustrates how the Republican smear machine uses dubiously timed charges to manipute a gullible press in order to further its political agenda," said Keller. "It also importantly illustrates how the Kerry campaign is reached at 1-866-455-3779, and also gives vivid details how contribution to it will be highly appreciated, and provides readers with insight about how their donation can be charged to Master Card, Visa or American Express."
Keller also indicated that the Times is pursuing a profile piece on Sandy Berger, the obscure Kerry volunteer who was the alleged target of presumed GOP leak campaign. "This whole sordid story reads like a modern Les Misérables, with Berger as its poignant Jean Valjean," he said.
"At the Times we consider it our journalistic duty to clear the names of the forgotten victims unfairly tarred by the Republican smear machine," added Keller. "Like Alger Hiss."
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LOL!
Don't give the Democrats any ideas...
ZOT Alert!
I blame Bush.
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NOT!I can't keep a straight face. DUmmies puppet steals classified documents and somehow Bush is to blame. Sad.
You had me going for a minute then I figured it out. Rush had it right--the Dems are the ones that leaked the "Berglar" affair
This is a parody, poking fun at the Democrats typical spin of getting on the offensive and attacking the "whistlebower" in order to obfuscate the scandal. Just like they did with the Senate judicial obstruction memos.
You may note that this was posted to the "humor" section.
Yeah. The DU Dummies though would come up with something like this about Bush. You never know, they're desperate to bring him down and so far nothing they've tried has worked for them.
I guess the writer of this crap doesn't realize that on the Chris Matthew show Tuesday night it was outted that Berger's lawyer called John Solomon of the AP Monday night to leak the story HIMSELF!!! Hah!
Mark Levin on another show said that Solomon is who the Clinton administration used whenever there was damaging information about to come out.
A typical DU rant on Berger sounds exactly like Iowahawks satire. There's a few sane ones over there that realize Berger screwed up big time, but most are brushing it under the rug and making the "Bush leak" the real crime. They are insane at DU.
The difference is with a Republican its about the charges. When its a Democrat they try to divert attention to something unrelated to what he did. The old double standard at work.
Of course its like simething DUmmies would come up with. That's what makes it so effective - it almost could pass for Democrat spin, but exposes the absurdity of it at the same time.
The best way to combat propaganda is to shine a bright light on it. Ridicule is very effective for defusing spin. We need to see more of this.
Peach, it's a parody.
Iowahawk is so good at it, sometimes he fools himself. ;-D I'm a big fan of his, and I hope he keeps posting his articles here.
Super !!!!
Look for Paul Bagalla, Joe Lockheart, Lanny Davis and Richardson to show up on every Sunday talk show reading word-for-word from the same spin script!!!!!
The Clintons leaked it.
The one thing that will blow this scandal wide open, is the evil dims line that it's the "timing" of the leak that matters. YOU CAN"T GO TO JAIL FOR POOR TIMING (not my point of view on the timing issue; I think the timing was fine)... but you can for violating National Security Regulations (multiple times)!!! The one thing that the dims do not understand is that it was not leaked for partisan reasons (IMHO), but a Patriot working within the Department of Justice leaked it (because he/she loves this country, and is as tired of this crap as we all are)!
I hope sandy bergeroid ROTS is jail forever!!! I just hope they send "klintoon and his goons" with him!
I FIRMLY believe that kerry and edweirds were privy to, and knowingly published TOP SECRET and CLASSIFIED documents (or the contents within). There is ample evidence in kerry’s past speeches, and web site content. Talk about suspicious timing…
These pukes will be begging the President for pardons before this is all over. bubba won't be laughing by then...but I certainly will be!
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Next they'll claim Bush shoved the documents down Berger's pants.
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