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A Conspiracy So Lunatic...(Only 60 Minutes Could Fall for It)
Weekly Standard ^ | May 26, 2008 | John H. Hinderaker

Posted on 05/19/2008 4:50:54 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

Jill Simpson is an unusual woman. A lawyer, she has scratched out an uncertain living in DeKalb County, Alabama. Fellow DeKalb County lawyers describe her as "a very strange person" who "lives in her own world." The daughter of rabid Democrats, she has rarely if ever been known to participate in politics as even a low-level volunteer. Yet today, she is a minor celebrity who is unvaryingly described in the press as a "Republican operative." Those who know her in DeKalb County scoff at the idea that she is a Republican at all.

Recently, Simpson's house and law office were on the auction block. Rumor has it that she is leaving DeKalb County for good and heading for the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Jill Simpson, who barely got by in Alabama, is now toasted by the national Democratic party and featured on network and cable news. All this because she has testified--without a shred of supporting evidence--to a conspiracy so vast as to be not just implausible, but ridiculous.

Simpson claims to have participated in a phone conversation with several Alabama Republicans in which she was made privy to a plot involving the Republican governor of Alabama, Bob Riley, a former justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, a federal judge, two United States attorneys, several assistant United States attorneys, the Air Force, and, apparently 12 jurors, to "railroad" former governor Don Siegelman into his 2006 conviction for bribery and mail fraud. Every person whose name Simpson has invoked has labeled her story a fantasy, including Siegelman; she claimed to have played a key role both in his giving up his unsuccessful contest of the 2002 gubernatorial election and in his defense of the criminal charges against him.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 60minutes; alabama; bobriley; conspiracy; dekalb; dnc; donsiegelman; jillsimpson; rove

1 posted on 05/19/2008 4:50:54 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

This was on 60 Minutes? Huh, I didn’t watch. Come to think of it, I never watch. I prefer my fantasy entertainment to be animated or with computer special effects.


2 posted on 05/19/2008 4:54:35 AM PDT by henkster (Obama '08: A 3rd world state, here & now!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Every person whose name Simpson has invoked has labeled her story a fantasy, including Siegelman

That should throw a monkey wrench into a typical conspiracy theory but it doesn't even slow down liberal moonbats.

3 posted on 05/19/2008 4:55:48 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (Hillary/Obama or John Mccain - -easy choice for me.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Jill Simpson - Any relation to O.J.? “If the glove don’t fit . . .


4 posted on 05/19/2008 4:59:36 AM PDT by Perseverando
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To: Graybeard58

“Every person whose name Simpson has invoked has labeled her story a fantasy, including Siegelman”

Conyer has threatened to subpoena Rove over this accusation.


5 posted on 05/19/2008 5:10:26 AM PDT by y6162
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

GUILTY. Besides, Rove's operatives are much hotter looking than this troll.

6 posted on 05/19/2008 5:16:51 AM PDT by rock_lobsta (Not Your Ordinary Crustacean.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Cindy Sheehan redux.
Another moonbat the dims will toss aside when she is no longer useful.
7 posted on 05/19/2008 5:20:02 AM PDT by Malone LaVeigh
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

All this nut had to do was mention the magic name “Karl Rove”, and the idiots at CBS heads spun around like the kid in The Exorcist.


8 posted on 05/19/2008 6:05:25 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: rock_lobsta

That is about the worst wig I think I’ve ever seen.


9 posted on 05/19/2008 6:21:13 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: rock_lobsta

Jackie Gleason, in drag...? ;)

10 posted on 05/19/2008 6:26:22 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (If McCain really CAN "win without conservatives," then why do you care if I vote for him or not?)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Don Seigelman is trying to blame his corrupt administration on politics...that’s all you need to know.


11 posted on 05/19/2008 6:32:29 AM PDT by blam
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Jackie Gleason, in drag...? ;)

More like Dick van Dyke....

12 posted on 05/19/2008 6:36:50 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: SoFloFreeper

It’s not the wig, it’s what it sets on.


13 posted on 05/19/2008 7:39:12 AM PDT by count-your-change (you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I used to live in Rainsville, Alabama - not far from Ms. Simpson’s office.

IIRC, she was widely regarded as a total loon in the community - nobody paid her much mind.

DeKalb County is a rural county with nothing much going for it except the sock business and the country group Alabama (from nearby Fort Payne), lots of very pretty countryside and lots of very nice common-sensical folks. It is still in the grip of the democrats (though it is transitioning to a 2 party system). Rat politics dominate the political landscape there - it is highly unlikely that there was any local republican involvement - and if there had been the local rats would have known about it and brought it up in time to keep The Don out of the hoosegow (where he likely belongs).


14 posted on 05/19/2008 10:53:26 AM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Nope. Not gonna do it.)
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