Posted on 03/11/2007 5:25:34 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, March 11th, 2007
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Former Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn.; Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va.; former Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan.; singer Loretta Lynn.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari; former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee; Sens. Joseph Biden, D-Del., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; Dole; former Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala; Shibley Telhami, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution; Michael Oren, a senior fellow at the Shalem Center.
Gretched is a stepford type host.
Absolutely right. As you point out, he allowed that juror on. The defense was out of challenges, but Walton had the power to keep him off and he did not. In addition, he essentially punished Libby for NOT testifying, something he had no right to do and which was an abuse of his power.
I have told people repeatedly for years that the "justice" system in this country has very little to do with justice. Judges are men and women with opinions and biases who, except in very few instances, do NOT set them aside when presiding over cases. They are absolutely drunk with power at every level of the system.
As requested, I'm re-posting this from yesterday about the Libby trial
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First class recounting of the TRUTH! Thanks, sleuthie, and thanks for highlighting this piece, phsstpok. I'm still sick to my stomach ............ (I corrected my *stick*, sleuthie, bah .. ;)
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http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=27278
"Some envision an ever-widening probe, or a back room deal in which Libby rats out his former puppet-master.
Blogger Andrew Sullivan thinks it’s time to consider impeaching Cheney, and Hardball’s Chris Matthews has long believed in the inherent evil of Vice President “Chee-nee.”
The Left’s fantasies aside, Fitzgerald has declared, “the investigation was inactive prior to the trial...I do not expect to file any additional charges.
We’re all going back to our day jobs.”
Leftists, too, have resumed their day jobs, which consist of slandering the president and undermining their nation’s morale during a war."
(snip)
* Wilson claimed Vice President Cheney dispatched him to Niger; Cheney did not even know of his trip.
* Wilson claimed his wife “had nothing to do with the matter. She definitely had not proposed that I make the trip.”; however, Plame wrote a memo successfully advocating her husband be chosen for the assignment (based in part on the fact that he had “lots of French contacts”).
* Wilson dissembled that he wrote a report of his activities; he never laid pen to paper.
* Wilson said his trip uncovered no evidence of Saddam Hussein’s attempt to purchase yellowcake uranium; the CIA agents who debriefed him averred that his testimony “lent more credibility” to the notion Saddam had.
* Wilson claimed he saw the documents the uranium claim was based on, and they were forgeries, because “the dates were wrong and the names were wrong”; however, the CIA did not have these documents until eight months after Wilson left. In this case – in which Wilson, not Libby, remembered things that never occurred – he sheepishly claimed he had “misspoken.”
The difference between Joe Wilson’s proven lies and Libby’s theoretical ones could not be more stark:
Libby’s endangered no one, while Wilson’s undermined the commander-in-chief while U.S. troops were in the midst of a hot war.
Neither could their recompense be any more divergent.
Libby faces 30 years in prison and a $1.25 million fine. Meanwhile, the Plame-Wilsons will proceed with their lawsuit against the Bush administration for “outing” Plame, field an offer from Hollywood heavyweight Jerry Zucker to make a biopic (which I believe is tentatively titled, “The Protocols of Learned Scooter Libby”),
and Valerie Plame will follow her husband’s bestseller with a $2 million book deal of her own. The disgraced ambassador said his wife “wept” – tears of joy – “when she heard the news” of Libby’s conviction.
The status-driven social climbers are crying all the way to the bank.
Patriotic Americans, dedicated to winning the War on Terror – or who simply believe in the ideals of truth and decency – cry, too.
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Thomas Sowell - Memory Problems
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MTc5MWEyM2ZlN2Q4ZTY5ZWQ4ODQyYWU3ZDMxNDI5OWU=
"A man's life has been ruined because his memories differed from that of others — whose memories also differed among themselves — and media liberals are exulting as if their conspiracy theories had been vindicated.
More important, how are we to expect highly qualified people, with far better options than a government job, to risk being put through the Washington meatgrinder because of politics, media hype and special prosecutors who can create crimes in the course of an investigation, when there was none to begin with?"
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Charles Krauthammer - Fitzgerald's Folly
http://www.scooterlibby.com/news/Read.aspx?ID=288
"There is a second instance of Russert innocently misremembering.
He stated under oath that he did not know that one may not be accompanied by a lawyer to a grand jury hearing. This fact, in and of itself, is irrelevant to the case, except that, as former prosecutor Victoria Toensing points out, the defense had tapes showing Russert saying on television three times that lawyers are barred from grand jury proceedings.
This demonstration of Russert's fallibility was never shown to the jury.
The judge did not allow it. He was upset with the defense because it would not put Libby on the stand -- his perfect Fifth Amendment right -- after hinting in the opening statement that it might.
He therefore denied the defense a straightforward demonstration of the fallibility of the witness whose testimony was most decisive.
Toensing thinks this might be the basis for overturning the verdict upon appeal.
I hope so. This is a case that never should have been brought, originating in the scandal that never was, in search of a crime -- violation of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act -- that even the prosecutor never alleged.
That's the basis for a presidential pardon. It should have been granted long before this egregious case came to trial.
It should be granted now without any further delay."
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Fitz's overblown, crimefighter Cheney obsession .. his daydream of some dark and sinister conspiracy, it's just outrageous. What an egotistical, blasphemous, fantastical and flimsy premise for the national tumult and personal damage he engineered.
Any future judicial engagement by him is now completely suspect in my mind. He exhibited a profound lack of judicial and even common sense discretion.
Who watches the "watcher?"
I wonder if he's been reading all the dissident opinion pieces about him and clipping for his scrapbook.
God bless the grownups in this time of war:
Vice President Cheney, President Bush and our awesome troops ... doing their job 24/7 throughout this shameful debacle, as they will and with honor, till their terms are over.
God bless Scooter Libby and his family.
Fitz:
You could have used your time to hunt and destroy the "gold bars" of real corruption and national security risks; instead, you were pathetically bent over ... picking up "pennies" off the floor.
http://scooterlibby.com/
Guilt by association.
The DBM will tar and feather EVERY Republican with the pardon if the President does it right now.
What race does the President stand to lose? The 2008 race for ALL of us.
Agree--and it is the right thing to do.
OOOOOHHHHH tell me what happened to chuckie on IPUS's show.
Had to be those men hearing that harridan hillary down in Selma.
Senator Thompson is 64 years old. He would be a 66 year old President.
You know, you're right. It's been so long since I've watched, that I'd forgotten that particular camera angle. Actually, that's a part of the reason I don't watch.
I love the three guys in the morning. Doucy, Kilmead, and Kelly. They are great together and none show more leg than I care to see! LOL
I just read the recipe you are making today..Now I heartily love Mac N' Cheese, but that recipe will kill you!!!
Way too much fat--Holey Moley- It sounds soooo good!
Fred made the exact same comments about the war that Rudy made last week. He, too, supports the President and acknowledges that mistakes were made which is what happens in a WAR.
From your lips/keyboard to the ear of God. I really pray he does ... he's a sound, nationally recognized unifying force, which the Pubs need desperately.
I agree
I think that the defense mechanisms that they use are important to understand.
Dr Sanity calls it the emotionally hard of hearing.
I am going to
The argument is nothing is off the table for what to do with Iran. It's just the methods need to reflect reality and what we can do today. Supporting dissidents, stopping the funding and galvanizing other countries could work. Might not but the point is the automatic response of bomb them should not be an initial response.
That's not the substance of my argument. The Dems [Reid and Pelosi] have already launched a shot across the bow warning Bush not to pardon Libby. It was a premptive attack drawing a line in sand. If Bush crosses it now, it will have political ramifications in Congress and in the media. The Dems will use it as a pretext/justification to take some other actions. What are the political advantages to taking the Dems on now by issuing the pardon?
Pardoning Libby now would be a declaration that Fitzgerald himself committed an unlawful act by abusing his office and prostituting the law for political gain. But the President would have to do this 100% in the open, with an Oval Office speech, lay down the challenge to the moonbats that they must stop waging war on our country for their own selfish ends.
He could do that if he wants to commit political suicide. Do you honestly believe that at this juncture coming out against Fitzgerald from the oval office would be politically wise? This is the guy he appointed and praised.
I bought it for my folks. I am still catching up on my reading - two books by Ayaan Hirsi Ali and PJ O'Rourke's book on the Wealth of Nations.
I am saving PJ's book for last, although sadly this is a serious tome. While I am sure it will be fascinating, I will miss his humor.
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