MSM Ignores Higher Placed Clinton Officials' Conviction to Tout Libby's (Henry Cisneros)

http://newsbusters.org/ ^ | July 2, 2007 | Warner Todd Huston

[doug from upland]

MEMORIALIZED IN SONG - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1860004/posts

[xkaydet65]

Sad to say that Cisneros was not a White House official. As a cabinet member he has a separate status. Strictly speaking Libby isn’t a WH official either. He served the Veep and was not in the POTUS decision making process.

[lowbridge]

White House officials are them there anoymous people that the press keeps quoting:

"A White House official said that..."

[Hoodat]

I guess Associate Attorney General Hubbell doesn't count.

[bikerMD]

the highest-ranking White House official ordered to prison since the Iran-Contra affair

Does Webb Chubbel count? Deputy Attorney General in the administration of Co-President Hillarious Clinton?

[lowbridge]

Sandy Berger? Well, he wasnt ordered to prison.

[weegee]

Clinton himself was convicted.

[new yorker 77]

The MSM is full of hate-filled anti-Americans who are probably just as angry that they can not use the word “PARDON” because that is the word that they have used relentlessly.

“COMMUTE” has less edge and will not be absorbed by the public. Rather, it will be ignored.

They hate free Rove. They hate free Cheney. They hate free Libby. More than anything, they hate that no one cares what they think about it.

[Frwy]

Thank God for FR. It’s where we all can get the real news. I don’t bother with the MSM anymore. Why would I want to fill my wee brain with their lies. What a waste they are.

[Bullish]

Did they happen to mention the only president that was impeached twice in the 20th century?

[C210N]

The MSM is in competition with Muslims everywhere to see which can protect their brothers in the battle better: Muslims and CAIR enabling Islamics with their minimal condemnation, and thus condoning of their terrorist actions; and the MSM/DBM enabling ‘Rats with minimal condemnation, and thus condoning of their terrorist actions.

[Still Thinking]

What was Klintoon convicted of? The impeachment vote failed. He was thrown out of the SCOTUS bar, but I don’t remember him being convicted of anything, except being a statist putz.

[Vigilanteman]

Yet, here we have the MSM constantly calling Libby the "highest White House official" convicted, completely ignoring the conviction of a much, much higher official with Cisneros.

Do you mean the MSM lies to us? I'm shocked! Tell me it ain't so!

[Salvation]

**the highest-ranking White House official **

I guess he forgot about Clinton almost being in jail, and for lying, no less.

[Bon mots]

They ignore tons of Klintoon scandals.

[jimtorr]

The impeachment vote failed. He was thrown out of the SCOTUS bar....

Actually, Clinton was impeached. The House voted for impeachment, but the Senate declined to remove him from office. Bill was also debarred by his home state of Arkansas.

[Polybius]

Sandy Berger? Well, he wasnt ordered to prison.

Neither was this perjurer who obstructed justice. (Remember that Libby was convicted of lying under oath, not for releasing Plame's identity.)

[Still Thinking]

Well, yes, that’s true. The ‘impeachment’ is the indictment, so to speak, which did happen. But I can’t remember him getting convicted of anything. And Begala talks about a “double standard” as if Libby is getting off easier than Slick.

[jimtorr]

No, Clinton was never convicted of anything. The disbarrments and fines were a result of lying in depositions for a lawsuit brought against him by one of his many girlfriends.

The judge handled it as contempt-of-court, as I recall, because he was actually present, via CCTV. The judge could very easily have prescribed jail time in the case.