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Affleck: Bush 'Can Be Hung' for Leakgate
NewsMax ^ | 4/8/06 | NewsMax

Posted on 04/08/2006 8:16:12 PM PDT by wagglebee

Actor Ben Affleck has made it very clear where his sympathies lie in the Leakgate affair -- and it isn't with the White House.

Appearing on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher," Affleck charged that President Bush "probably also leaked” CIA agent Valerie Plame's name and so "if he did, you can be hung for that! That's treason!” He continued: "You could be killed. That's not a joking around Tom DeLay 'I'll do a year, I bribed the state officials with corporate money.' That's like they shoot you in the battlefield for doing that.”

Affleck also called DeLay a "criminal."


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To: Lunatic Fringe
First of all, revealing classified information may be a felony, but it is not treason.

More importantly, isn't it up to the executive branch of the government to decide what is and what isn't classifed? And the last time I checked, the President of the United States is the head of the executive branch, and his decision to declassify something would be perfectly legal.

Mark

141 posted on 04/08/2006 11:01:39 PM PDT by MarkL (When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
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To: wagglebee

Toby Keith quote appropriate here:

"The people who say the most are the people who matter the least. Just because we're entertainers or songwriters, nobody should give a damn what we have to say."

-country muwsic star Toby Keith


142 posted on 04/08/2006 11:02:04 PM PDT by Anima Mundi
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To: wagglebee

Why in hell would that little duck care about the president?

Shouldn't he be busy peddling insurance?


143 posted on 04/08/2006 11:03:11 PM PDT by Dr.Zoidberg (The UN 1967 Outer Space Treaty is bad for America and bad for humanity - DUMP IT.)
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To: wagglebee

He just wishes he was hung.

To quote a famous American popularist; "What a Maroon!" (Bugs Bunny)


144 posted on 04/08/2006 11:03:51 PM PDT by truemiester (If the U.S. should fail, a veil of darkness will come over the Earth for a thousand years)
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To: wagglebee

Bill Maher surrounds himself with these intellectual midgets to make himself look sophisticated. Here's a hint, Bill-it ain't working.


145 posted on 04/08/2006 11:04:45 PM PDT by WestVirginiaRebel (Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
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To: wagglebee

A true idiot, with no knowledge of the english language. Meat is HUNG. People are HANGED!!!


146 posted on 04/08/2006 11:09:19 PM PDT by FlGoldwingGuy
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To: Atchafalaya
I'll put 50 that Garner will dump this dork in 5.

Jennifer Garner is a terrific looking girl. But as Ron White says, don't judge someone by their looks: You can fix cosmetic flaws: But "You can't fix stupid."

Mark

147 posted on 04/08/2006 11:12:05 PM PDT by MarkL (When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
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To: RichInOC

"I don't answer the twisted, you know, polluted imaginations of journalistic enterprise." - Richard J. Daley


148 posted on 04/08/2006 11:14:28 PM PDT by karnage
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To: wagglebee

Ben, Ben, Ben... you really are out of your element bud.

Bush determines what can and can't be declassified, so he can't be judged to have leaked anything. The one exception would be an active agent in the field, but if he did that for national security reasons, he'd probably be justified and not guilty of doing anything wrong by doing so.

As for Tom Delay, you have to be convicted of something to be a criminal. Just because you have determined he's gulity, it doesn't make it so.

Now, all that pompous anger sure looks childish doesn't it.


149 posted on 04/09/2006 12:27:24 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (If you don't want to be lumped in with those who commit violence in your name, take steps to end it.)
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To: wagglebee
Affleck: Leak this!
150 posted on 04/09/2006 2:29:37 AM PDT by M. Espinola (Freedom is not free)
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To: an amused spectator
Actually, I can't get mad at Affleck, because he's too pretty to be a deep thinker.

We used to snicker at his type affecting "intellectualism".


He brings to mind one of Albert's lines in Twin Peaks: "Look, it's trying to think!"
151 posted on 04/09/2006 2:38:35 AM PDT by GodBlessRonaldReagan (Count Petofi will not be denied!)
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To: wagglebee
Affleck also called DeLay a "criminal."

No, Benny: this is "criminal":


152 posted on 04/09/2006 3:46:31 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("It'sTime for Republicans to Start Toeing the Conservative Line, NOT the Other Way Around!")
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To: mbx1231

Red Sox fan... big time.


153 posted on 04/09/2006 3:49:10 AM PDT by johnny7 (“Nah, I ain’t Jewish, I just don’t dig on swine, that’s all.”)
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To: wagglebee

He maybe a moron, but the title is a bit of a lie. First he was talking generally that IF IF IF IF Bush did this he could be hung. What the hell are you guys drinking? If you bash someone do it truthfully.


154 posted on 04/09/2006 4:11:52 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: wagglebee

155 posted on 04/09/2006 4:21:47 AM PDT by Beckwith (The liberal media has picked sides and they've sided with the Jihadists.)
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To: wagglebee

Once and for all, WHO CARES what these CLUELESS SHOWBIZ IDIOTS have to say about anything? They're sub par and mediocre at best in their chosen profession (compared to the the great stars of the past) and they're miserably out of their league as political commentators as well. I'd care more and have more respect for my cat's opinion about political matters, but he refuses to comment. All of hollywood's dreck feeds at the same trough and their "opinions" are always so predictable and childish. As the untalented idiots that they are, who make their living parroting someone else's diologue, no one should expect them to have an intelligent, original thought about anything. They're like spoiled children who are dependent on their parents to make the ultimate good decisions for them that would benefit the country they are so fortunate to live in. Screw them all and by the way Freepers, please join me in my ongoing boycott against any and all of the garbage that seeps from that overflowing cesspool called hollywood.


156 posted on 04/09/2006 4:29:22 AM PDT by pallmallman (ww2.)
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To: wagglebee
Overheard in a Beverly Hills washroom, a conversation between Affleck and his publicity agent:

Ben: "I'm going on the Bill Maher show tonight. Quick, give me something controversial to say"

Agent: "Why don't you call Tom DeLay a criminal?"

Ben: "Who's Tom DeLay?"
157 posted on 04/09/2006 4:30:18 AM PDT by finnigan2 (OUS)
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To: wagglebee
An actor AND a Constitutional scholar. My, My, what a talented sod.
158 posted on 04/09/2006 4:41:43 AM PDT by Lion Den Dan
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To: wagglebee

I think he wants to use the term hanged. Hung refers to what some is and some isn't.
I have a dog named after Ben Afleck. He is always hicking his leg and trying to urinate on our cactus plants. That dog sure can howl when he does that. Ouch. Poor dumb Ben.


159 posted on 04/09/2006 4:44:13 AM PDT by em2vn
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To: armymarinemom
Let me guess. He isn't a lawyer but he may have played one on TV or maybe he just slept at a Holiday Inn.

If Afflack slept in a Holiday Inn, he would be a moron when he woke up.

160 posted on 04/09/2006 4:49:46 AM PDT by TC Rider (The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
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