CNN's Inside Politics: Rep. Maurice Hinchey uncovers major Karl Rove plot!

CNN Transcripts ^ | Wednesday, February 23, 2005

[JohnHuang2]

WOODRUFF: As we reported a little while ago in our blog segment, the Internet is abuzz with reaction to comments by New York Democratic Congressman Maurice Hinchey. The congressman over the weekend shared his views about the now disputed CBS News report about President Bush's Air National Guard service. Representative Maurice Hinchey is with me now, he joins us from Albany, New York.

Congressman Hinchey, what exactly did you say on Saturday at this town meeting in Ithaca?

REP. MAURICE HINCHEY (D), NEW YORK: Well, Judy, what I said came in response to a question from one of my constituents. There were about 100 people there. And they asked some questions about media manipulation. They were concerned about the issue of Armstrong Williams, for example, people being hired by this administration to pretend that they were giving objective news and information but were really putting forth the point of view of the administration rather than doing it objectively. And also the issue with Mr. Gannon, who was admitted to the White House press corps but who was not a legitimate press person, and was there just to throw softballs to the president.

And then the issue of the CBS Dan Rather event came up, and I said that there were false documents or documents which were falsified and presented as being accurate and there was a question as to where those documents came from. And in the context of the discussion I suggested that -- my theory was that I wouldn't be surprised if it came from the White House political operation, headed up by Karl Rove.

WOODRUFF: Well, I'm reading here a transcript of what you said, you said: "I have my own beliefs about how that

[Jackson57]

I would have liked to hear Woodruff point out to Hinchey that making wild-a$$ed accusations wihout any substantive evidence is, in itself, a manipulation of the media.

[roaddog727]

"And in the context of the discussion I suggested that -- my theory was that I wouldn't be surprised if it came from the White House political operation, headed up by Karl Rove."

Theoretical clap trap.

Thinking is not the DEMS strong suit.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

If there was ever any doubt that many of our elected representatives (predominately the dem/liberal ones) are among the dumbest people on the planet...

Rove just makes them look that way. That is part of his genius.

[Waco]

If Rather's crime/treason had succeeded, would Rove still get some credit? Just kinda wondering.

[gaspar]

Hinchey, a member in good standing of the Democrat's Progressive (i.e., Marxist) caucus has for years sought to reduce the CIA to nothingness. He initiated an investigation of CIA activity in Chile, hoping to prove that it was involved in the death of Marxist leader Salvador Allende. It failed.
His efforts to discredit the White House are dilusional, and this Rove business is just another indication that term limits for Congressmen is a good idea.

[griswold3]

It's manipulation if "they" fall into it. Will Karl Rove be too busy in his new job to set the landmines for these Dems ? What a gull-a-bull, what a maroon, what a nincompoop!

[MisterRepublican]

Karl Rove seems to be the lefts #1 bogeyman. How long before we learn that he was behind:

the hacking of Paris Hilton's cell phone
the JFK assassination
the Iran embassy hostage taking
the replacement of Dick York with Dick Sargent on Bewitched
the mass suicide of the Jim Jones People's Temple cult in Guyana
the Bay of Pigs Invasion
New Coke
the Cuban Missile Crisis
the Love Canal
the Ford Pinto
the Arab Oil Embargo
the death of John Belushi
Britney Spears
the filming of Heaven's Gate, Ishtar and Gigli
the Chernobyl Disaster
the deaths of Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin
the Stock Market Crash of 1929
the Hindenburg
the Titanic
Disco Music
the Beatles breakup
Milli Vanilli
the Wardrobe Malfunction
Three Mile Island
the Challenger Disaster
Oil For Food
the replacement of Dick York with Dick Sargent on Bewitched
the Smokey and the Bandits movies
the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Richie Havens and the Big Bopper
the Mai Lai Massacre
the Soviet Union's Invasion of Afghanistan
Van Halen's replacement of David Lee Roth with Sammy Hagar
Clear Pepsi
Pete Rose
all Clinton scandals
Whip Inflation Now
the death of Marilyn Monroe
the Kent State Shootings
the kidnapping of Patty Hearst
the Attica Prison Riot
the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire
the 1972 AMC Ambassador
the Dust Bowl
the National Malaise speech of Jimmy Carter
Crack Cocaine
The Summer of Love
Joe Camel
the Gidget movies
the death of Che Guevera
Tail Hook
Duck and Cover
the unraveling of the Edmund Muskie campaign
Bigfoot


And the list continues to grow.

Vast Right Wing Conspiracy indeed.

[TeddyCon]

Judy Woodruff to play lead in upcoming made-for-tv movie "Desperate News Anchors", a TBS production.

[Nick Danger]

The Wall Street Journal has a good editorial today about the blowback from the media's insistence that the government investigate who "leaked" the identity of Valerie Plame.

Now comes a Democrat to say, of the CBS documents, that "this is something that ought to be investigated by the Congress of the United States."

Do these guys even think about what they are wishing for? They'll howl if they ever get it.

Yeah right, let's have the Congress "investigate" where the media is getting its documents. Let's drag reporters up to Capitol Hill and make them sit through grillings by grandstanding Senators. Intimidating the press? Naww, that's how we're gonna Save The Republic.

Democrats don't think. Everything is a short-term partisan spear: throw it now, face the consequences later.

[SAWTEX]

And we still do not know who did it. How after all this time
can that possibly be true? Why arn't O'Reilly, Hannity, Rush, Beck and all the other pundits demanding the answer.
The person or persons responsible for this should be facing
serious jail time. Forgery of government documents must be
a crime or maybe not. Just follow the trail back with the
threat of inditment if not forthcomming and you will get
the answer. Please what am I missing here?

[Tribune7]

Moonvies: What happen ?

Heyward: Somebody set up us the Dan.

Operator: We get signal.

Moonvies: What !

Operator: Main screen turn on.

Moonvies: It's You !!

Rove: How are you gentlemen !!

Rove: All your base are belong to us.

[Phrostie]

We need to get to the bottom of the whole business of manipulating the media that has gone on in the context of this administration.

Should read:

We need to get to the bottom of the whole business of the media manipulation that has gone on in their attempt to discredit this administration.

[coffmg]

JH2.
Your mind is so devious, cunning, full of bull and insipitous twards the VAST LEFT_WING.
And those are just three of the reasons I love you and your mind so much.

Please keep up the good work

[Reaganesque]

OK, let's grant for a moment this fantasy that Karl Rove is the source of the forged document. Let's say it was all an evil Republican plot to suppress the story. That granted, we still have CBS and Dan Rather running with a story that could injure the President's re-election if not ruin it, despite being warned by several of their key sources that they could not verify the authenticity of the document at the center of the story. Which leaves the distinct "impression" that CBS threw journalistic standards to the four winds in pursuit of a story that benefitted their political allies. That is the story here, not the source of the document.

[beyond the sea]

I fed him this idea in a fake memo, from Karl Rove to me. The whole plot is to make Hinchey look even dumber than before. Please don't let this get out. Sincerely ..... Dick Cheney VP USA

Slick move, Dick. I thought it was you. How's the ticker?

[roses of sharon]

We know who did it.

It was Rather, Mapes, Burkett and Kerry's Campaign.

They were desperate for a story on Bush after the Swift Boat ads came out, so they forged documents.

It is very simple. Really.

[beyond the sea]

um....wasn't that a Temptations hit?

They both did it. Temptations were great. I loved their stuff back in college in the mid 60's.

[JFC]

Judy Wolfie drives me nuts. I can not stand her snippy attitude. She can go live with IMUS... in the land of la la.

[Polyxene]

You forgot the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby!

[Polyxene]

Why doesn't CNN just drop the pretense and call Inside Politics what it really is: The Daily Bush-Bash Show with Judy Woof-Woof!