Posted on 06/18/2013 12:35:13 PM PDT by maggief
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Lee’s argument is not based on the NSA or its monitoring of the nation’s communication. Rather, Lee said, there are indications that Roberts originally intended to vote against the act, but that a public “campaign of intimidation” made him change his mind.
First, the senator claimed “the opinion was written in a way to suggest he switched his vote,” and that the dissenting opinion reads like it was originally written as the majority. He added that several news outlets reported that Roberts did change his vote, based on insider information.
Not only that, he said, but the court performed an unusual feat of “legal gymnastics” in upholding the legislation, particularly with regard to whether the fines incurred are or are not taxes. They had to re-write sections of the the bill not once, but twice.
Lee continued to say that he has “no evidence” that Roberts was being blackmailed, but said that doesn’t mean Roberts wasn’t under any kind of “direct pressure."
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Winner! Beck is the Jim Rogers of the “news”. Make enough predictions and sooner or later you can claim to be right.
“If upheld...” Question the ‘if’. There is no place to go after the Supreme Court.
“I believe this has something to do with the CBS news reporter computer
being hacked, I believe they know the government DID IT!!!!”
The Obamacare Supreme Court ruling seemed strange. Chief Justice John Roberts’ reasoning was incoherent. The conservative’s dissent read like it was originally meant to be a majority opinion. Now, we know why. According to Jan Crawford of CBS News, John Roberts switched sides in May, withstanding a “one-month campaign” from his conservative colleagues to change his mind.
“I am told by two sources with specific knowledge of the court’s deliberations that Roberts initially sided with the conservatives in this case and was prepared to strike down…the individual mandate,” said Crawford on CBS’ Face the Nation. “But Roberts, I’m told by my sources, changed his views, deciding to instead join with the liberals. There was a one-month campaign to bring Roberts back into the conservative fold, led, ironically, by Anthony Kennedy.”
BILL O’REILLY HOST: Personal story segment tonight, CBS News announced on Friday that investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson’s computer was hacked into late last year. This combined with the James Rosen situation here at Fox News and the AP snooping causing a lot of concern. With us now in a Factor cable exclusive is Ms. Attkissoson. So when did you know that somebody was messing with your computer?
SHARYL ATTKISSON, CBS: Well there were signs probably around 2011, but I don’t think I recognized exactly what was going on until perhaps the fall of last year when so many things were happening in the Attkisson household, so many sort of strange electronic-related things that…
(snip)
O’REILLY: So what were you working on that might have interested somebody to try to intrude on your computer? What were you working on?
ATTKISSON: Well you know the first thing I thought some time ago were my personal accounts, my finances, my passwords and so on. But nobody has intruded upon my finances although they had access to that material. So nobody stole my identity or got into my bank accounts which they could have. So I assume the reason they were in the CBS computer was something related to what I was working on.
O’REILLY: Which was what? What big stories were you working on?
ATTKISSON: Well, at the time I was doing Fast and Furious of course, some green energy debacle sort of stimulus spending stories, and then later on the Benghazi story.
O’REILLY: Alright, so they were all not complimentary to the administration. You weren’t working on why is Barack Obama so brilliant and ObamaCare is the best thing in the world?
ATTKISSON: I mean, that’s kind of what I do whichever administration is in office. That’s kind of what I do.
O’REILLY: I’m not saying you’re partisan, but I’m saying the stuff you were going after if the information came forth might hurt the Obama administration. Is that accurate?
ATTKISSON: True.
O’REILLY: Okay. So then, CBS then, you tell CBS News that you think somebody is hacking you because your computers are coming on by themselves. They send in their techs?
ATTKISSON: Not exactly. I mean, I had more information than just my suspicion by the time I went to CBS. I had some help that I can’t go into detail about.
O’REILLY: Alright, so you got some computer geeks to help you find out if, indeed, you were being hacked.
ATTKISSON: I got some help. Then in January, this is about January of this past year, I informed CBS once I knew because this is CBS-issued equipment and they were in the CBS systems, and CBS hired an independent forensic firm that came and looked at the CBS computer.
bump
Once Sammy didn’t produce the tape, he started selling purses on the news site. I suppose he is still in Norway.
About Glenn, I gotta say with “the BLAZE” and his radio show, he has put his money where his mouth is by starting another news alternative. I think he got threatened at FoX.
With the mess our Country is in now with this bunch of commies/socialists/marxists destroying it, I tend to hang on to any HOPE that gets thrown my way and get pretty disappointed when it doesn’t pan out. (like the Rovian prediction of a Romney win) Perhaps that’s how many of us feel. We HOPE for these things to come out YESTERDAY because the desctruction of this Country feels like it’s coming faster and faster and it’s horribly disappointing when Barry is left untouched.
(holding up point cards)
ConservativeMan55 = 4.5
Nervous Tick = 9.75
Beck = 0
Gotta go... out of popcorn. ;>)
Fox Fired Beck. He was too kooky for even them.
Beck is just one more crying jag away from going all Howard Beale on us.
Sir prize ! Sir prize!
Perhaps one day we will know.
>> I defined negativity. I gave you a post number.
Only in the fever swamps of your cult-addled brain is a post number a definition.
>> Someone telling me I should get a hysterectomy is pretty damn negative.
Hmmm... by that standard, then, are any of these statements negative? Help me decide...
a) “all you’re doing to help screw the Republic by demeaning someone actually doing something”
b) “I hope you can sleep at night”
c) “Dear Leader will have you sent to the re-education camp last”
Pot. Kettle. Black.
You’re like a stumbling drunken cop pulling someone over for open container.
>> Here’s what’ll happen.
Not only what *will* happen — it’s what *has* happened.
Beck’s been playing this game for a while now. He’s got a *track record* of sensationalism.
But you are effectively accusing him of lying, without evidence. Even if someone is unable to fulfil a promise, that is not proof of intentional falsehood. At best, it is only proof that conditions he believed would be true did not materialize as expected. You may credit that to a problem with judgment, or something worse, but you can’t know for certain without some direct evidence that he claimed something was true that he knew at the time to be false.
I take defamatory statements very seriously. I have been subjected to some awful assumptions that were completely false, but they damaged me anyway because a lie travels round the world before the truth gets out the door. Or something like that. Bearing false witness against someone is a violation of God’s law, and it should not be done, least of all by those who claim the mantle of conservatism.
ROFL!
...is that out of 100? :-)
I used to watch his show just in case his producers decided to turn on him Like Beale's did at the end of Network.
I thought Roberts vote for Obamacare was supposed to be some sort of brilliant legal ju-jitsu that I still don’t really understand.
Apparently, Glenn Becks’ “bombshells” consists of lifting material that was posted to FreeRepublic years ago. At least Rush lifts his material in a timely fashion :)
God bless you Longfellow, we need this kind of encouragement. Just listening to Freepers fighting amongst ourselves about a fellow conservative is like, well, spinning our wheels.
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