Carville and the Rathergate characters. Let us list the connections [Vanity]

September 25, 2004 | syriacus

[syriacus]

James Carville, the man who said Zell Miller was probably drugged while delivering the RNC keynote address, deserves a little scrutiny of his own recent actions and associations.

Carville and CNN stand to benefit from CBS's plummeting ratings. Carville's friends, the Clintons, stand to benefit from the defanging of any Kerry attacks on Bush's national guard service. He has connections to Burkett's lawyer, Van Os. He's got connections to Joe Lockhart.

[syriacus]

Carville: GOP Probably Drugged Zell Miller

[jmaroneps37]

There is a question in Latin that fits well here: Cui bono?
It means " Who benefits?" If we answer this question we can unravel this one.

[BillyCrockett]

You're NOT suggesting that James would do anything...sneaky, are you??? Hehehe.....

[syriacus]

Joe Lockhart says of James Carville:

From Campaign Trail to Celebrity Circuit

James is a multimedia corporation, and he's been smart about it," said Joe Lockhart, a former Clinton press secretary and a partner at the Glover Park Group, a communications consulting firm in Washington. "He is a model of the future. This could not have happened pre-1992 when campaign consultants were viewed by a small audience. Now they are public celebrities."

[syriacus]

What's bad news for CBS, is good news for CNN, James Carville's employer.

Burkett's Lawyer, David Van Os with James Carville
Jefferson-Jackson-Johnson Dinner

(Vanity) Carville on O'Reilly (Drool-Donkey Alert)

[posted on 09/24/2004 10:41:40 PM EDT by Ikaros]

[snip] Did anyone catch Carville's reaction to O'Reilly asking him if he had anything to do with the fake Bush documents? Carville looked really nervous all of a sudden like he was backed into a corner like he thought O'Reilly "had something on him" and started babbling in an incoherent fashion! Then O'Reilly said he was only joking and Carville started smiling and said yeah, yeah, right or something close to that! This was the most interesting part of the interview because I got the impression Carville was hiding something for those few seconds of disarray. [end Ikaros' posting]

Now Carville needs to worry that CBS has asked Dick Thornburgh to check into Rathergate.

Yet More Sickening Health Care Bickering

Back in 1991, a political off-year, an obscure political consultant named James Carville advised Democrat Harris Wofford, who was seeking a Pennsylvania Senate seat, to focus his campaign almost exclusively on health insurance. Wofford took heed and upset his Republican rival, former Attorney General Richard Thornburgh. Catapulted into national prominence, Carville hooked up with a certain Arkansas governor, and the rest is history.

[syriacus]

Don't CNN's ratings go up, if CBS's go down?

Who is "Dupe Throat"?

"I've fought the Bushes. I've fought the Starrs.
I've fought the Thornburghs," Carville said in a statement.
"Now I am ready to take on the Novaks and the Carlsons."

[syriacus]

Carville fills in for McAuliffe

Carville, not McAuliffe

Robert Novak (archive)

September 13, 2003

WASHINGTON -- Democrats received in the mail this week another appeal for contributions to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) that was not signed by Chairman Terry McAuliffe. This letter bore the signature of consultant and television commentator James Carville.

When this column reported surprise by donors that recent DNC appeals did not contain the controversial McAuliffe's name, he demanded a "retraction." His aides contended the chairman had signed more such letters than any predecessor.

However, last week's appeal for "the Democratic Party's 2004 victory campaign" was signed by Carville, who holds no party position. The letterhead consists of "James Carville" in bold letters, with this small-type disclosure at the bottom of the letter: "Paid for by the Democratic National Committee." The reply envelope is addressed to the DNC.

[syriacus]

James Carville was at the Jefferson-Jackson-Johnson dinner in San Antonio, Texas, June 11, 2004.

[syriacus]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-09-21-cover-guard_x.htm

At one point Thursday, as he spoke on a cell phone to his San Antonio lawyer, David Van Os, Burkett's voice froze in midsentence and his body convulsed in a violent seizure. He was helped to the floor and then to a couch. He has had such bouts sporadically over the past several months, but this one was worse, his wife said.

[syriacus]

What was James Carville doing AFTER the memos were released, but BEFORE we learned the memos were forgeries?

9:45am EDT, Thursday September 9, 2004 (Vol. Nine; No. 171) : 1. Squelched Swifties, But Now Pounce on "New Questions" About Bush

[snip]Thursday morning network morning shows and newspaper front pages trumpeted the "new questions" about Bush. [snip]

On NBC's Today, Matt Lauer previewed a face-off between James Carville of CNN and the Kerry campaign and Tucker Eskew of the Bush campaign: "New questions are being raised about the President's National Guard service record." Before that debate, reporter Carl Quintanilla summarized the documents first reported on CBS's 60 Minutes and showed a brief clip of the ad from Texans for Truth.

[syriacus]

OT: Dems Credibility Destroyed? . 9/09/2004 9:03 PM

For two days now, Dems from Harkin to Edwards to Carville to you-name-it have been all over the talk shows, calling the president a liar, spewing venom and holding up these forgeries as some kind of smoking gun.

[deport]

That Carville fellar has connections all over the place...

[CyberAnt]

"sneaky"

Hmmmm? He told O'Reilly he didn't work for the Kerry campaign ..?? How could you suspect Carville ..??

/sarcasm

[syriacus]

What does Ted Kennedy know about frauds made up in Texas, and when did he know it?

Kennedy Says Iraq War Case a 'Fraud'
  The Associated Press,Thursday 18 September 2003

  BOSTON - The case for going to war against Iraq was a fraud "made up in Texas" to give Republicans a political boost, Sen. Edward Kennedy said Thursday.

[syriacus]

Thornburg-Carville-Heinz (posthumous) connection.

Carville worked for the campaign of Harrison Wofford who won the election, over Dick Thornburg, to fill Sen. John Heinz' vacant seat.

CARVILLE BLASTS RIGHT WING, CALLS FOR DECISIVE ACTION,By Mike Hudson

I first became acquainted with Carville years ago in Pennsylvania when, after the tragic death of Republican Sen. John Heinz, he ran the campaign of an unknown college professor, Harrison Wofford, against that of Republican Gov. Dick Thornburg to fill Heinz's seat.

Thornburg had a huge war chest, the backing of the first President Bush and had served two terms as governor. Wofford wasn't given a snowball's chance in hell. But Carville and his candidate pulled it off, and Thornburg was forced to take a position as secretary of something or other down in Washington.