Comments on: David Broder Gives Cheney a Big Blow-Job

By: hankgillette

hankgillette — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:28:29 +0000

Love that he contends Ford’s pardon of Nixon was an act of courage, when history suggests the pardon was resonsible for Ford not serving another term.

The two are not mutually exclusive. In fact, if Ford believed that pardoning Nixon would lessen his chances of being elected, wouldn’t that make his decision more courageous?

By: PJEvans

PJEvans — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:16:30 +0000

Wasn’t perjury, though. He wasn’t being investigated for sex crimes; Whitewater was about money and real estate. The blowjob investigation was started because they couldn’t find any real crimes that the Clintons committed.

By: leftdcin72

leftdcin72 — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:05:09 +0000

rah rah Clintons. What an accomplishment!

By: x174

x174 — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:40:10 +0000

Steve Bell Sample

http://www.guardian.co.uk/cart.....86,00.html

By: x174

x174 — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:31:49 +0000

blow-job or no blow-job: Cheney–formerly of the Cheney Administration–is still in the news for allegedly breaking national and international law!

that’s better than watching Chimpy pee all over himself when his handlers let him leave his domestic crib. (See the Guardian’s cartoonist Steve Bell’s work for a chronicle of Bush’s unsightly ways.)

By: lllphd

lllphd — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:10:10 +0000

ha, thanks for posting this. he brings up many of the same points he did in the post i link to at 83 (which is even more fun because he was dissing jokeline).

By: OldFatGuy

OldFatGuy — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:04:55 +0000

Marcy,

I laugh everytime I see that MSNBC clip (mostly the hilarious over-reaction of the “pundits”). Thanks for posting it again.

And mostly, thanks for all your posts. I wish you were the special prosecutor. All them sumsabiches would get what’s coming to ‘em. And it ain’t no forking blow job.

Give ‘em hell Marcy!

By: fatster

fatster — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:42:13 +0000

Greenwald with a nice complement to yours, EW. (Lengthy thread, so hoping this is not a dupe.)

Glenn Greenwald
THURSDAY SEPT. 3, 2009 10:04 EDT
Who are Broderian anti-investigation journalists really protecting?
(updated below)

“In one of the most drearily predictable media developments ever, David Broder today — yet again — joins in with an endless string of establishment pundits to demand that there be no investigations by the DOJ of war crimes and other felonies committed by the Bush administration. The one silver lining from all of this is that it has clarified a crucial political fact: most establishment “journalists” don’t believe in the rule of law for political elites — period. They believe high political officials should be able to break the law — commit felonies — and be immunized from legal consequences. To any reasonable observer, that is simply no longer in doubt. Opposition to investigations — especially for the real culprits as opposed to low-level interrogators — is as close to a unanimous media view as something can be (though the NYT Editorial Board today, standing virtually alone, calls for full criminal investigations, including of high-level Bush officials).”

“>More.

By: lllphd

lllphd — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:21:08 +0000

great post, marcy, and great thread. have to dash before getting halfway down, but wanted to throw this little slightly OT link into the mix. only slightly OT because it does directly address the whole mediawhores issue, and as a bonus, it addresses the plame outing, libby’s crimes in particular. and as a double bonus, it resurrects some of the seeds of the great GG/JokeLine poetic justice debate slam down; enjoy (exhumed by my wunnerful bro):

http://www.salon.com/opinion/g.....index.html

By: lllphd

lllphd — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:16:12 +0000

um, sorry texan, that’s not how things work in our democracy. the AG is supposed to work independently of the prez; otherwise, how could we trust that actions of the prez would be investigated independently? recall (a memory task? no? history books, then?) that nixon really got himself in some big trouble when he tried to ‘lead’ by firing archie cox because cox was getting too close for comfort. that display of ‘leadership’ is what started that tricky dick down the slippery slope of history-making obstruction exposure.