'60 MINS' PREPARING STORY ON DELAY

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash3c6.htm ^ | Mon Jan 24 2005 10:58:46 ET | drudgereport

[crushelits]

Here we go again...

According to Matt Drudge (who scoops the bastards every time) 60 Minutes is planning a hatchet job on Tom Delay. Let's be prepared for the bogus story even before it comes out this time. Remember, the (Dem) Travis County DA said he has no intention of indicting Tom Delay for anything. Reported by CBS News, no less:

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is about to get the full 60 MINUTES treatment.

CBSNEWS Lesley Stahl and her crew crashed a tsunami-relief photo op that Republican DeLay held last week.

Stahl hit DeLay with questions about Ronnie Earle, the Democratic Travis County district attorney who is investigating a Texas political action committee founded by DeLay.

“This is about children,” DeLay told Stahl, trying as hard as he could to put a plug in her relentless line of questioning.

Stahl hammered away.

After about the third question, DeLay ended the press conference.

DeLay spokesman Jonathan Grella said of the 60 MINUTES crew: “They couldn’t have picked a more inappropriate time to ask petty partisan questions when we’re working on protecting the lives of orphaned children affected by the tsunami.”

60 MINUTES spokesman Kevin Tedesco explained, “Lesley Stahl has every right to ask questions at a news conference.”

ROLL CALL reports how Stahl made a point of clarifying to the gathered congressmen that she works for the Sunday 60 MINUTES - not the shamed Wednesday night 60 MINUTES II that aired Dan Rather's now-infamous Bush report.

Developing...

[goldstategop]

Let's see: they'll find the incriminating documents on Tom DeLay in Travis County. Where the roads and Kinko's meet. This after all 60 Minutes! You'd think they would have a sense of humility after Danron. Apparently not and as The Gipper liked to say, "There they go again." When it comes to the legacy media, its more important to hammer at Republicans than it is to report the truth.

Denny Crane: "I look to two things. First to God and then to Fox News."

[wardaddy]

Third posting.

The AM will be along to tidy up shortly I'd guess.

Good Luck.

Just type Delay into search (by post time)

regards.

[thoughtomator]

Just in time to drive the news of the Iraqi election off the headlines! Imagine that.

[Stultis]

Let's see: they'll find the incriminating documents on Tom DeLay in Travis County. Where the roads and Kinko's meet.

The memos aren't finished yet...

[Liberty Valance]

Thanks for the heads up. If SeeBS can't get a hatchet in Bush, they'll go for any Repub. in Texas they can get. If they've got to get a Republican there's a lying Sphincter in PA that actually deserves it.

[MEG33]

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'60 MINS' PREPARING STORY ON DELAY
Drudge ^ | 1/24/04

[Tilly]

60 Minutes II was also the one that splashed the photo's from Abu Gharib all over the planet.

It's past time in the country to have a "dialogue" about freedom of speech versus RESPONSIBILITY. For example, with the Abu Gharib story, while the show had the perfect right to air the photo's, surely they knew that there were some Americans who were being held hostage by insurgents. They surely knew that the photo's were likely to inflame the Arab street.

In Thomas Hamill's autobiography, he describes being beaten by his captors in retaliation for Abu Gharib.

Abu Gharib was also NOT a new story .. the Pentagon had broken the story in print months before. There was no real justification for rushing to publish the photo's, except for the prurient interest angle, and of course, to embarass the US military and Bush.

We have LAWS in this country about slander and libel, and I just wish somebody would start using them. Perhaps if the Delay story gets too out of line, Mr. Delay will have the resources to sue the F*** out of them. Carol Burnett was able to collect a couple of million a while back.

Again, the MSM has the perfect right to publish anything it wants to. However, I just wish CONSEQUENCES would be at least considered. Unfortunately, while libs LOVE freedom, they seem to have a real aversion to things like CONSEQUENCES and RESPONSIBILITY.

[garylmoore]

Stahl made a point of clarifying to the gathered congressmen that she works for the Sunday 60 MINUTES - not the shamed Wednesday night 60 MINUTES II that aired Dan Rather's now-infamous Bush report.

Looks like their going down the same road now, doesn't it?

[MadAnthony1776]

60 minutes is 60 minutes or stupid is as stupid does.

[MEG33]

Pictures are worth a thousand words..They don't care about consequences to others and certainly not to our war on terror, military mission in Iraq, or individual soldiers ..

It's the press and they have the freedom to print it,broadcast it and the desire to hurt the administration

They did it first..that's what is important,too.