NPR Ties the Right & Limbaugh to Death Threats Against Gorelick (TOTENBERG TRANSCRIPT)

MRC ^ | 12:05pm EDT, Wednesday April 21, 2004 | BRENT BAKER, KEN SHEPHERD

[adam_az]

GORELICK HERSELF wrote in the memo that her policy went beyond what was required by law and a court ruling! She's spinning.

Also, she works for a law firm which is defending a Saudi against lawsuits from 9/11 survivors and families.

Also, she WORKED WITH AND FOR Richard Clarke on the Cyberterror Taskforce yet didn't recuse herself.


SHE MUST RESIGN!

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Even Nina's rabid defense (I use rabid because Nina is a DOG)

Dog, indeed... If you live in the Washington, DC area, there's a show on the local CBS affiliate station on Saturdays (Inside Washington) that is sometimes good. It's moderated by the faithful liberal local news anchor (Gordon Peterson) with guest analysts: Nina Totenberg, Jack Germond, Evan Thomas and Charles Krauthammer -- so as you can see, based on "weighted intelligence" is pretty well balanced but favoring Charles by quite a margin, actually. It is fun watching him make mince-meat out of Nina the Dog and Fat Jack to over-the-hill bag-of-barf.

[DBrow]

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[Cubs Fan]

NPR is responsible for democrat death threats to Rumsfeld

[CyberCowboy777]

Ping for the NPR tax dollar protection plan.

[Congressman Billybob]

Nina Totenberg is, of course, an incompetent reporter and a political bigot. In short, she's not very different from 99.44% of the staff of the New York Times. To that extent and because of the First Amendment, I have no quarrel with the lady's work.

However, since she works for National "People's" Radio, her salary is paid, in part, by my tax dollars. So at that point I DO have a quarrel with the lady's work.

And as for the separation between law enforcement (FBI) and national security (CIA), a competent reporter would know that it dates back to 1947 when the CIA was created. With the lesson of the German Gestapo clearly in mind, Congress deliberately chose NOT to create a new organization that could go anywhere and do anything in the name of national security.

Of course, the Gorelick memo itself makes it clear that Totenberg is a dishonest reporter. This report claims that Gorelick was creating a "bridge" that would cure this problem, as opposed to a higher "wall" that would make it worst. The text that Gorelick wrote made it clear that it created a "greater" barrier than what the law required.

I spit on Gorelick, Totenberg and NPR -- figuratively, of course.

Congressman Billybob

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[Eva]

Jamie Gorelick is on the 9/11 Commission for the sole purpose of cleaning up the Clinton record on terrorism and making sure that Bush gets the blame, not for the benefit of John Kerry, but for the benfit of Hillary. My guess is that Gorelick is Hillary's plant.

[AndrewC]

Of course, the Gorelick memo itself makes it clear that Totenberg is a dishonest reporter.

She's betting most people who would listen to her can't read. She is probably right.

Your comments on the memo are quite correct. The reason for the memo is not to initiate intelligence gathering nor promote it, but to control its potential impact on the legal cases in either effect or appearance of effect.

[ApesForEvolution]

With no help from anybody I determined that I wouldn't urinate on the gorelicker if she were burning to death. She is hiding on the 9-11 Commission in open daylight, thinking she and the Klintoon Admin will be saved their real legacy...islamocommiefascism.

[ApesForEvolution]

Totenberg ain't worth the air she breathes and the space she occupies...

[John Lenin]

The whole 9/11 commision is a farce. Any report they release will be a farce too. The only good thing to come out of it is that Bush's numbers went up the last few weeks. Keane is just as dirty as Gorelick with Hess oil connections to Saudi Arabia. This was a bad idea from the start, thank god it backfired on the RATS.

[MplsSteve]

How in the hell does Nina Totenberg keep a job as a "journalist"?

At least some left-of-center journalist make a hafl-assed attempt to camouflage their ideology.

I'm convinced that if she were a reporter for a TV or radio station other than NPR, that she'd have been shown the door a long time ago.

[Feiny]

I am so tired of liberals crying 'death threat" every time their rump is getting roasted. The will never do the honorable thing...they always throw a temper tantrum. The media enables their behavior.

If Gorelick were a republican, she would have already been kicked off the commission due to the endless moaning of the TV talking heads. But, there is no media bias, right?

[mware]

Interesting and who is to blame for saying that Rumsfeld should be put against a wall and pull the trigger????

[Snardius]

You can't get the real flavor of this story without a picture of Ms. Totenberg.

[Snardius]

My guess is that Gorelick is Hillary's plant.

You can take that to the bank.

[BushisTheMan]

Yeah, I also wondered how the protesters got Karl Rove's personal home address for their trampling of his lawn.

And how the anti-war protesters got Rumsfield's home information in New Mexico.

They must be fed that info by the DNC because I know war protesters are as dumb as they look.

[BushisTheMan]

You know, Jamie, if this story were actually true, you could call the FBI and they could trace the call. If the call was placed from anything other than a pay phone, they could catch the person making the terroristic threats against you.

Except there's this durn wall between the FBI and the CIA. So, if it is a terrorist out to blow you up, then unfortunately, the FBI can't help you....

[Freedom4US]

NPR skirted the issue entirely. In a nation of hundreds of millions, there are going to be a couple kooks, from all sides of the political spectrum. What was not addressed is the near fatal blow to the public's perception of the 9-11 commission - and NPR and Mrs. Totenburg should understand as well as anyone that oftentimes perception is reality. What's implied, but never said - is that despite the enormous public outcry for her to step down on the part of the citizenry, one death threat somehow negates this.

In other words, simply because she received a death threat, this somehow absolves her from the clear conflict of interest. Pure logical fallacy and rather cheesy at that.

[Drango]

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