National Review: ABC News FABRICATED Ashcroft "Cover the Statue's Breasts" Story!!

National Review ^ | February 25, 2002

[Demidog]

What needs to be retracted. Be specific.

[Savage Beast]

Yep. I fell for it. But if a clunk like me can recognize these so-called journalists for what they are, later at least if not sooner, then NOBODY has an excuse.

[Savage Beast]

Some of us catch on fast, some slow. But even I can figure out what low-lifes these newsthings really are. NOBODY has an excuse at this point.

[Savage Beast]

You might wanta check out posts # 62 and 63.

[Savage Beast]

Gee, I think Liberals are much more Talibanesque than devout Christians. Liberals are much more controlling--and damning.

All this business about smoking, second-hand smoke, blah blah blah--it's nothing but neo-puritanism.

And political correctness--you can't say certain words--might as well bann "damn" and "hell".

And "sexual harassment"--make 'em all wear scarlet A's.

Liberals would love to reinstate the witch trials.

The environmentalist whackos are the same--controlling the amount of water you can use in your toilet or your washing machine.

Control! Control! Control! It's just like the Taliban banning kites and paper bags and music, telling people what they can wear. Liberals even attack their "infidels" and are merciless toward them. That's what their attacks on Aschroft amount to.

Neo-puritanism! Three hundred years ago these same people would have been burning us all at the stake! They would today if they could get away with it.

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[PJ-Comix]

I notice that Ms Lumpkin hasn't had any new DOJ stories posted on the ABC News website since February 9. Usually she has a new story posted there every week. Is this linked somehow to this fabrication story? Perhaps, Ms Lumpkin is working on a response.

Please check my Reply #34 on this thread to find out what may well have been Ms Lumpkin's motivation for this story. It could well be that she just wanted to please her PJ. Hee! Hee!

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[anniegetyourgun]

Couldn't help but notice you never got an answer to #35. It's sad to see folks do the "moral equivalence" thing when REAL evil exists out there.

[VRWCmember]

but the unease I feel with Ashcroft is astounding considering he hasn't done anything on the scale Reno did.
Well, excepting the US PATRIOT act.

Would you mind pointing out where the U.S. Attorney General was empowered to enact legislation? Last I checked the Constitution, responsibility for the US PATRIOT act would lie with the Congress, since Congress alone can pass legislation.

[mindprism.com]

Would you mind pointing out where the U.S. Attorney General was empowered to enact legislation? Last I checked the Constitution, responsibility for the US PATRIOT act would lie with the Congress, since Congress alone can pass legislation.

The principle lies in the idea that "advocating a crime is a crime". This was not a 'crime' exactly, (treasonous to the constitution and oath of office perhaps), but neither is supporting gun control. Does Sarah Brady get a pass?

Yes, congress is responsible for enacting things Ashcroft supported. This fact does not cleanse Ashcroft of his culpability, nor does it exorcize his constitutionally repugnant positions.

[FreeTally]

What needs to be retracted. Be specific.

Let me get this straight, dog. A lengthy thread about a story that everyone assumed to be true at the time, turns out to be partialy fabricated, and these posters say that "libertarians" who made "anti-Ashcroft" remarks are supposed to "retract" them, all the while many posters defended the (partially fabricated) actions of Ashcroft? These folks are a hoot.