David Shuster slams Bush and Tucker
By John Amato Sunday Jul 01, 2007 6:19pm
David says the Judge (and the others) laid out the whole case and didn't find the sentence harsh at all. Tucker's been defending this felon for months. Shuster reminds him that Plame was classified and Scooter obstructed justice so that Fitzgerald could never get at the truth. His vision was blocked so to speak...
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Tucker doesn't care that Libby lied to the FBI and a grand jury...This garbage about an underlying crime is a joke and it shows what hypocrites the NRO, Fred Thompson, Mary Matalin and the rest of the crew that has been screaming for a Libby pardon by Bush. The DC beltway circuit can all breath a sigh of relief. Remember the Shiavo case? 79% of America was against Bush/Delay for interfering there and in a recent poll 72% of Americans were against a Libby pardon. You and I would never get such consideration.
Jane Hamsher: The dirty unwashed masses who populate our juries are fit to judge each other, but evidently not the ruling class. David Broder can breathe a sigh of relief that People Like Him are safe from those overly zealous US Attorneys who might want to hold them accountable to the same absurd standards that the little people must live by. How quaint.
The White House has turned off their phone lines. Evidently they don’t want to hear what you think. There will still be phones tomorrow, and I don’t imagine anyone who cared enough to drop Dubya a line is going to forget.
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Does Scooter get his own drive time slot on CLear Channel Syndication now? Or does he get his old desk back in the West Wing, too?
who cares? I am so tired, I feel I like I have been beat up by these blue-blooded fu&$s. May they all rot in hell.
Way to go, David...MSNBC send Tucker to Faux Noise ASAP...
Frist. Anyone really surprised?
"Rule of Law, we don't need no stinking Rule of Law."
Damn! I can't believe he did it on a Monday instead of a Friday news dump, and not even on Wednesday when people would be celebrating the 4th and thereby occupied with family events and so on.
Miscreant that bush is, he still managed to stick a firecracker up Cheney's arse.
so bush commutes libby's sentence and sends a mentally challenged person to execution...is this bringing them to justice? the hypocricy is now complete...and the great shame this thing in the white house has brought to our nation continues to grow
Must be George's way of saying Happy Birthday America...
Why is tucker still on TV? Most annoying person ever. Who watches his show???
Bush Campaign 2000 Flashback:
"So when I put my hand on the Bible, I will swear to not only uphold the laws of our land, I will swear to uphold the honor and dignity of the office to which I have been elected, so help me God."
"In my administration, we will ask not only what is legal but what is right. Not just what the lawyers allow, but what the public deserves."
For the history, see:
"Neither Right Nor Legal: Libby and the Bush 2000 Standard."
Why should Chimpy's White House care if their phones ring with angry calls? What's the worst that can happen...Chimpy's approval rating drops from 25% to 23%??? Who cares???
Tucker? Is it that geek with the bow tie? Who watches that sh*t? Shuster's wasting his breath on Tucker.
Libby may have the goods on Bush and Cheney and both would do anything to save their own asses.
We must not forget that Bush has 18 months to finish whatever is on his agenda. I can't even contemplate what horrors this can bring.
"You and I would never get such consideration"
It boils down to that observation. If there were ever a stark divide between us and the ruling class: there it is in a nut shell.
Makes you really feel safe doesn't it knowing Bush is protecting us from evil doers with the rule of law?
Only regular people go to Jail.
[...] what’s really scary is that even 28 percent of Americans, or so, approve of it. One out of four Americans does not believe the rule of law applies to the [...]
Lil' Cheney is not the decider. He's the VP Puppet-In-Chief. He's a muppet. Lil' Cheney muppet. Singing with a chorus of lobster muppets.
Nice to know that Bush is smarter than three appeals court judges (two appointed by Rep presidents).
L.A. Confidential @ 14:
Bomb Iran for starters...You think, after this, they give a crap what people think?
Bush had to do this..too many other people will be expected to fall on their swords for this admin.
If Scooter does time, those deals don't seem as sweet on offer?
It's just he Mafia mindset?
They probably just threaten to kill your family on the other side of the deal, if you plan on testifying against them?
At least Tony Soprano liked good food, not the swill that Bushy boy likes....
Bush finally did something with speed and efficiency.
The fact that they cut off the comment lines speaks volumes - the don't care (still) what the majority of the american people think or want - is there any reason whatsoever that impeachment shouldn't be on the table, is there any reason why we shouldn't be out in the street en masse demonstrating against this (and any of the thousands of other things)????!!!!
Not surprised, but damn enraged by the whole thing.
Just when I think this administration cannot have any more hubris, they surprise me yet again. This is just another criminal display of how much disdain this man, ney, this ruling class has for the rule of law.
Monkey boy has nothing but contempt for the law. DUI, desertion, lying to start a war, an absolute piece of crap. As my friend says he's a waste of skin.
Impeach this a**hole before he can pardon again.
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Tucker reminds me of those privileged blue blood frat boy jerks I knew in school. Clearly he owed his daddy a lot and clearly his daddy is tied in to corporate media. How else could such an intellectually devoid ninny get so much airtime?
I do believe that by commuting Scooters sentence Bush has just opened himself up to investigation by Patric Fitzgerald.
Anyone catch the GOP candidates discussing this crap. They all blamed Fitz, claimed that Valerie wasn't an operative and said there was no crime. Fitz didn't do a thing but prosecute a crime, Plame as we all know was an operative and Libby's did commit a crime of lying to a grand jury. Is this what the right wants, more liars? The big liar has killed over 3500 soldiers. I think this is the last thing we need is another liar as president. Immigration, Iraq, and Libby is going to doom the right for YEARS, and rightfully so. Come 2008 regardless if we need it, the Dems will be filibuster and veto proof.
There's no honor amongst thieves.
Imagine the dirt Libby could have unleashed on Bush and Cheney in the next 18 months from a prison cell.
Wow. Get a load of Tucker:
"I've said from the beginning. I like Scooter Libby, and I don't want to see him go to prison. I think he lied. I thought that from day one."
Yes. He did lie. He just shouldn't go to prison for it. For shame!
Give David the show
I thought it was curious that the one thing the news speculators didn't speculate about is the possibility that Bush commuted the jail time because he was afraid that if Scooter actually had to spend time in jail he would suddenly be happy to tell Fitz anything he wanted to know.
If impeached, do you think he would leave. I have to go explain to my kids it is not OK to lie.
thebewilderness @ 34:
Nooooooooo not at all.
L.A. Confidential @ 31:
Or, the NEXT minion Cheney asks to fall on his sword for him?
If Scooter was in jail, that's not such a strong promise.
This way, the next guy will know, hes going to be protected as long as he doesn't turn on Cheney?
Now, all that's left to do (and the Right Wing Blogs are all suggesting this) is Scooter gets some big job some place for BIG DOUGH and the message is complete!
We take care of our own, just DON'T rat us out, or will will kill your children!
Lie, protect us, and we will keep you out of jail and make you rich like us.
Joe Wilson will be on Countdown. Love David Shuster. He slammed Fred Thompson today on his hypocrisy regarding Clinton vs Scooter.
John Edwards:
"Only a president clinically incapable of understanding that mistakes have consequences could take the action he did today. President Bush has just sent exactly the wrong signal to the country and the world. In George Bush's America, it is apparently okay to misuse intelligence for political gain, mislead prosecutors and lie to the FBI. George Bush and his cronies think they are above the law and the rest of us live with the consequences. The cause of equal justice in America took a serious blow today."
This gives Chimp’s cronies the green light (as if they didn’t know already) to rape, pillage and loot for another 17 months, knowing He will absolve them of all their sins.
I call the White Horse Souse Comment Line all the time. 12024561111. I always tell the old ladies that I hope George WMD Bush and Richard Bruce Cheney are "Brought to Justice" for their war crimes against humanity, just like our former ally in Iraq, Saddam Hussein, I always ask the White House Comment Line about the hunt for Nine Eleven Conspirator Osama Bin Laden too! I'm mad as hell. There is something terribly wrong with this country. I have a terrible foreboding. We only want justice for the Third World War. regards
I guess Scooter will get his job back!! I am not surprised by Bushs decision...
Do you think Michael Moore and the 9/11 volunteers who went to Cuba will get the same as Scooter? Priorities people, priorities. National security, making a movie.......
I want to see the Dems put their balls together and do something about Bush, and even more, Cheney. They have made the American political process a joke. Under Republican rule, you can be a pedophile, a murderer, a money launderer and enjoy the rewards that go along with it.
As one who is living overseas helping to fight against corruption in the developing world, I say, "Thank you, George Weasel Bush!" You have put me out of work. Never again will any thinking person accept what the U.S. says about the adverse impact of cronyism and corruption on U.S. companies and investors. It's long past time that the Congress impeaches Bush and Cheney and removes them from office. Then remand them to an international tribunal for war crimes. If it's good enough for Slobodan Milovich (remember him?), it's sure as hell good enough for BushCheney. And I will NEVER, EVER tolerate listening to any smug, self-righteous Republican claim the mantle of "law and order." Fuck them all.
It looks like Mr. Obstruction of Justice cant even commute a sentence legally.
According to Section 1-2.113 Standards for Considering Commutation Petitions
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/014963.php
The people of this Country now know.
That will just about do it for the Republican Party in 2008.
What a Legacy.
The family that destroyed the Republican party.
George W. Bush, President 2004-2008
George W. Bush, President 2000-2004
George H. Bush, Vice President 1980-1984
George H. Bush, Vice President 1984-1988
George H. Bush, President 1988-1992
Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely.
Indeed.
interview with Joe Wilson
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/014966.php
mistletoe @ 42:
Just like Wolfowitz was over the weekend, Scooter will be asked to join the American Enterprise Institute, one of Washington’s conservative think tanks, where he will live out his life in comfort with a six-figure salary, never in want of breaking bad on his partners in crime
As soon as I heard of "this, I put a large sign in my back window ---------- " Don't Tell the TRUTH in Court
Scooter,,,you lied to Save MY ass,
& I'll KEEP yours Free !"
G.W.Bush-------------
The ones that go on my back-side windows tomorrow are:
-----------------Phuk the LAW,,,
the Bushit prez DOES!-----------------------
The "America" we've grown up loving , that our fathers and mothers shed blood for; has died some more today, Rule-of-Man TRUMPS Rule-of-Law......................................................................
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I think I hate Tucker more than Cheney. Ok, almost as much as I hate Cheney. At least it is close.
Why is Tucker still on TV?
Impeach the chimp and impeach Mr I like to shoot my friends and the face.
This "administration" never ceases to amaze. Hope the poll numbers dive some more. Scary that the democrats are going to allow these clowns to remain at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for 18 more months.
Oh and once again WTF
I wish I could do something as badly as Tucker does his job while getting paid his kind of pay. I'd be smirking fulltime too.
Tucker is just another republican criminal enabler. If the republicans commit crimes they are NOT in any way ever to be held accountable. They are above the law, and to hold one of them accountable is too dangerous for all of them. They are the mafia. They are all god damned criminals.
David Shuster Slams Bush And Tucker
Shuster reminds him that Plame was classified and Scooter obstructed justice so that Fitzgerald could never get at the truth. His vision was blocked so to speak… Tucker doesn’t care that Libby lied to the FBI and a grand jury…This garbage about a...
Tucker stated that the judges wanted Libby to go to jail "bad", as in badly.
Instead of sober professionals adhering to the rule of law he paints them as having a vendetta,
foaming at the mouth for a Libby's blue blood.
How is this guy on a supposed news show?
myko @ 54:
Because the corporate masters want him there. Next question.
Our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren will study in their history books of George W. Bush, the most traitorous president who ever occupied the White House, and his treasonous apologists who supported his acts against this nation. They, like the “good Germans” before them, will claim they didn’t know of the atrocities committed by their leaders. Students of history will know they lie.
Hey, Tucker, you human bowtie:
What the HELL does your "liking" Libby (do you even know him, you ass-pucker kissing dolt?) have to do with his well-deserved jail sentence? And for that matter, how can you sit there calling him a liar, i.e. friggin' GUILTY, and in the same sentence say you don't want to see him in jail?
Oh just go away. Get a real job, you man-child.
AUGH! I HATE these people!
David Shuster is the sharpest reporter I've seen in a long time.
A very bright guy.
Tucker's no match.
We love you, man!
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"I like Scooter."
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What an unbearable putz.
don't disappoint you daddy tucker. god knows he got you that job.
This must be an example of the illiterate juries Ann Coulter speaks of.
[...] of Scooter Libby. You can read about it elsewhere. One tidbit caught my attention (thank you Crooks and Liars for pointing me to Atrios via Jane Hamsher.). Jane Hamsher: “The dirty unwashed masses who [...]
Am I the only who called the comment line and heard that it has operating hours? This is not the same as pulling the plug. Am I wrong? I doubt they run the comment line 24 hours a day. So perhaps, if I'm correct, maybe we could get a correction of Hamsher? (Atrios' post went up at 17:46, fyi.)
Regardless, this is still such criminal behavior; I've lost my appetite.
The time is right for Impeachment. Let the proceedings begin. Cheney, Bush and Gonzalas, all three simutaneously. Don’t forget, Libby can be subpeonaed to testify before Congress. If he lies before Congress he can still be charged again. It won’t be a get out of jail free if Bush and Cheney are under impeachment.
I have rewritten an updated version of our Declaration of Independence for 2007. Ihope you all will take a few minutes to read it and pass it on to friends and relatives.
http://myfightfordemocracy.blo.....-2007.html
>>Tucker’s been defending this felon for months.
Tucker Carlson's father Richard was one of the founders and is on the advisory board of the defense fund for Scooter Libby. Tucker briefly addressed this -- on his blog... once -- by saying his father's "support" for Scooter Libby is irrevelent. "Support." Not "my father's role in starting a legal defense fund for Scooter Libby and being an advisory member of the board for said legal defense fund."
Tucker's behind should have been in Iraq long ago, "walking the walk" for his president. Hard to define which is least a journalist, Tucker, Geraldo or Gannon.
>>I do believe that by commuting Scooters sentence Bush has just opened himself up to investigation by Patric Fitzgerald
Yeah right. Don't hold your breath waiting for Pussy.. I mean "Patrick" ... Fitzgerald to move against anyone else in the Bush administration. His marionette act is finito.
I'm loving me some Davey Shuster.
Dump the former bow-tie wearing twat, and fill the slot with Dave.
Tucker Carleson, what a cock sucking whore you are!
fire carlson he's so tired.
Shuster knows this case inside and out as he's tracked EVERY detail for Hardball since it was announced. He would probably do a better job than Fitzgerald in prosecuting this case. Tucker was way overmatched because he had an agenda, but like most Republican talking points, the facts just never support it.
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So much for equal justice under the law...
Say, wasn't that why we fought a war against King George?
I wonder if we'll defeat this one.
smack down by david.
For Tucker to say, "he likes Scooter (inmate 28301-016) and doesn't want to see him go to prison".
Well I guess Tucker feels justice and prison is only for people he doesn't like. Nothing to do with crime and punishment. There are many people in prison for lying to grand juries and FEDS. But Old Tucker doesn't know them and therefore doesn't like them.
Tucker ought to move, in time to Germany during Hitlers rise. His justice opinions would fit right in.
Jane Hamsher is being shrill. The WH comment lines are shut down every evening, and the dirty, unwashed masses who heard this case had nothing to do with the sentencing that Bush found so "excessive". Jane Hamsher should pay the hell attention to what's going on.
Tucker, yo' daddy headed Scooter's Defense Fund and you are a shameless, hypocritical bore. MSNBC, please get rid of this shill and replace him with David Shuster.
Bonkers @ 57:
He already bombed on Dancing With the Stars. Bowtie porn, mebbe? Oh, right, you'll have to find someone who'll sleep with him for money.
boosh's commutation of Libby's sentence smacks of judicial review, a power presidents don't have in the constitution, only higher courts. Even with the prescedence of Ray Gun giving 13 commutations, this smacks of a breach of the Seperation of Powers.
I have to do some research on Ray Guns 13 commutations, but perhaps they were federal death penalty cases commuted to life?
How can boosh commute a sentence we he can't even compound one?
when
I vote that MSNBC replace Chris Matthews with David Schuster. He was so much better as host on Hardball last night than Matthews could ever hope to be.
What else can you expect from Tucker "I disagree with whatever or whoever, but let me go ahead and defend them anyway..." Carlson
Let the slam-dancing beginulate!
Tucker Carlson is still on T.V.?! Why? Who decides that the irrelevant are relevant?
Somebody...help us...PLEASE!!
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I think the reason people like Tucker, Maitlin, Fred Thompson, the DC "Beltway circuit" NRO, Rush, etc... were calling for Bush to pardon Libby was not because they wanted to pardon Libby. I believe it was because Bush wanted to pardon Libby and they were softening up the ground for his decision. I think the decision had been made before the case was brought to court. In the same way the Plame leak was orchestrated, the Pardon Libby call was established by someone in the Whitehouse. To pretend that the call to pardon Libby is some kind of neoconservative grass roots movement is ridiculous. The average neocon can't have an original thought, because they like being told what to do. They like the authoritarian life style, where the trusted leader tells them what to do and how to think. So, the whitehouse sends out a few phone calls, and those who have an ear for the song, like Fred Thompson, pick up on it and sing it as well. I'm afraid it is going to take more than Olberman and the Daily Show to turn this country around.
Our nation is in distress, fly your flag upside down for the Fourth of July. We need help.
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