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Steve Benen on Thursday, July 5th, 2007 at 5:20 PM - PDT
Sometimes, these guys take all the fun out of it by making it too easy. From today’s White House press briefing, with fourth-string spokesperson Scott Stanzel:
Q: Scott, is Scooter Libby getting more than equal justice under the law? Is he getting special treatment?
STANZEL: Well, I guess I don’t know what you mean by “equal justice under the law.”
Oddly enough, Stanzel’s probably right; he and his colleagues don’t know what people mean by “equal justice under the law.” He is, however, supposed to pretend.
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Wow. It doesn’t come any better than this. It sort of takes the fun out of mocking them.
You can’t fix STUPID.
He looks like a woodchuck.
Only not as smart.
Ask him things like, “Where is a good place to pee in the Rose Garden?” if you want an answer.
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or criminal or intellectually dishonest.
How can anyone with a cranium like that…be that stupid. What a waste of space. Must be one hell of a hamster wheel in there.
Problem was, when the question was asked, there wasint any treats held in the hand from the interviewer.
lap puppy didint like it and did a piddle on the question.
He is telling the truth. Bush’s way of “equal justice under the law” are apply only to his base, the rich-conservative-white-men!
What a little twit!
Is there a way to fit “is” in that statement.
is there video????
that’s priceless….he must be an intern from the heritage foundation.
Not to mention the man looks like a all grown up version of beavis!!!!
Is there like a farm where they grow these assmonkeys? A refuge?
Gaydar is on RED.
Friar Tuck @ 11:
SPOT ON!
That was the most honest answer that has ever come out of the Bush press spokespeople. He should be promoted.
I’ll bet he’s even got a college degree… and that nice winning smile when talking about equal justice… I’ll bet he thinks about it a lot… probably loses sleep over it too… he’s THAT patriotic.
likely one more member of the regent university mob that’s infected the administration. i’ll lay odds he’s an evangelical (or pretends to be) AND an admirer of jeff gannon.
I thought it would be impossible to top “I’ll make sure that person is taken care of”,
but this one makes it a photo-finish.
What a week for Jon Stewart to be on vacation. Perhaps they should have a
special three hour installment on monday.
If this has been said, sorry…..
You’re doing a heck of a job Scottie!
He looks like Benny Hinn’s drummer. Is he moonlighting?
Scottie actually has a blog, but he hasn’t updated it lately….
http://stanzel.spaces.live.com/
Although he seems to suffer from terminal “gayface,” no gay man would go around with teeth that yellow when whitening treatments are readily available. Perhaps he does not realize that he is gay and therefore bound to maintain good oral hygiene.
Or perhaps those are shitstains?
Because some people are more equal than others.
Poster boy for the Young Republicans.
What was really disappointing was the reporters next question:
Leave it to the Washington press corpse to predictably misframe and misdirect from the real issue. What he should have asked was: What do you say to those who say that Bush pardoned Libby to obstruct the investigation and protect Cheney?
Would that have been so hard?
The Corporate Media have been in overdrive to portray this as simply Bush mollifying his base, intentionally ignoring and obfuscating the real issue. The immigration bill demonstrates that Bush isn’t even concerned with alienating his base. Bush and his henchmen know full well that the 30% that still support this regime are willfully blind to any evidence of wrongdoing, incompetence and deliberate malfeasance. Nothing Bush could do would sway the opinions of his fanatical base.
Hey!
This just in from Wayne Madsen!
July 5, 2007 — BREAKING –Judge Gladys Kessler vacates court order against “Washington
Madam.”
Now the DC press corps can dig up numbers of Cheney, Bush and White House staffers and interview the DC Madam about their preferences for prepubescent boys and corpses.
Maybe that will inspire impeachment proceedings.
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Of course, I think that Bush’s immigration policy is a strategic effort to allow Republicans to triangulate away from him on certain narrow issues so that they can claim to be independent; that Bush is no true Conservative and that they can return the country and the Republican party back to the promise of Reaganism. Don’t be fooled, Bush is merely Ronald Reagan on steroids and every Republican (even those who appear to criticize Bush such as Spector, Lugar, Dominici, Voinovitch, McCain and others) have given, and continue to give, Bush a free hand to do as he pleases.
“Um, Scott, are you as vapidly stupid as you sound, and as shallow as a wading pool?”
“well, I guess you’d have to explain what you mean by ‘wading pool.’ Then again, what does ’shallow’ mean? And who are you? Why are you here?”
Bush Bites @ 13:
LOL
You can’t fix stupid. What an airhead putz.
What is with all the personal attacks on this guy? His response certainly deserves criticism, but the personal attacks on his teeth, sexuality, etc are so Ann Coulter.
Isn’t Stanzel the one they have been quoting all day on the radio about Clinton pardoning so many at the end of his term. Bush only doing what Clinton did. The Repubs always seem to blame Clinton for everything they (Repubs) are accused of doing. Sorry he is an Iowan.
joker face pulled a Clinton there (the “depends on your definition of ‘is’ is…” argument). In both cases, this tactic is used to mock the people inquiring. In this case, Scott basically brushed off the question like bird poop on his shoulder (though, you can never really get rid of that damn stain:P). I’m a little that glad the press is starting to ask some harder questions. It’s like they’ve graduating from throwing deflated balloons to tossing whiffle balls. baby steps. baby steps.
Bush Bites @ 13:
Sorry, but the official gaydar scale tops out on fucia, not red, but I get what you mean. the GOP just keeps prancing these guys out. Gay is fine, of course - hypocricy about being gay, not so much.
I went to this thread, started reading posts, and couldn’t stop laughing. Thank you all! I needed this.
Where do they get these Barbie Matel plastic homos? Why does one of the most anti-gay White Houses do all of its recruiting at the Log Cabin Republicans headquarters?
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news.....70705.html
Well if you view every case different; yes, there’s no doubt Libby’s, and every case is unique.
Guess that means Bush now gets to act like Caligula giving thumb up or down on any judgment as he sees fit? And why the concept of equal justice has no meaning to this sideshow barker.
There’s a guy who you know is a Republican just from his shit-eating grin.
I hate to sound partisan, since I can’t stand the Democrats either, but Republicans are just extra slimy.
i hope i,m wrong but i think stewart and colbert are on a 2 week vacation.
We are all equal before the law.
Some are just more equal than others.
His right wing yellow teeth are sickening.
Put a gun in this putz’s hands and send his ass over to fight. He looks healthy enuf.
comsympinko @ 39:
That’s from Orwell’s “Animal Farm” isn’t it?
If I remember right it was “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others”.
GonzoD @ 42:
A perfect anology of the Bush Administration!
Doesn’t this guy look like a grown up Bobby Brady?
That’s got to be the fakest, most disingenuous smile I’ve seen in a long time. Looks like another Rovian lying weasel to me.
Stanzel apparently auditioned for the role in the movie but he was incontinent during the screen test.
True story.
Vincennes @ 44:
Today, Tony Snow responded to criticism from the Clintons about the Scooter commutation thus:
“I don’t know what is Arkansan for chutzpah [1] but this is a gigantic case of it.”
We have reached a sad time when goyishe [2] Tony Snow is speaking Yiddish from the White House. Don’t we Jews have enough tsouris?[3]
Apparently, in this latest iteration of the “Bill Clinton did it, too” excuse, the White House is seeking to evoke the recollection of the Mark Rich pardon. Gay gezinteh heit. Chub a gutten yur. [4]
On Bill Clinton’s last day in office, he pardoned a refugee from the Nazis, Mark Rich, M.O.T., [5] a financier and philanthropist who had been falsely accused of tax evasion by Rudy Giuliani.
I say falsely accused because such is the opinion of U.S. tax professors Bernard Wolfman of Harvard Law School and Martin Ginsburg of Georgetown University Law Center. It was also the opinion of a panel of distinguished Republican lawyers including I. Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby. Be that as it may, these kinds of disputes are not unusual, and they are normally resolved in civil suits.
In the Republican orgy of recriminations against the Clinton administration that was the hallmark of the early days of the Bush administration, it was alleged that President Clinton pardoned Rich in return for favors paid to him. Indeed, the Prime Minister of Israel, Ehud Barak, who had worked so hard with President Clinton to secure a lasting resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian problem, had made a clemency plea on behalf of Rich, as had numerous other Israeli officials.
Grasping at straws, Clinton-haters pointed out that Rich’s former wife and the mother of his three children, socialite Denise Rich, had made large donations to the Democratic Party and the Clinton Library during Clinton’s time in office. A Federal Prosecutor was appointed to investigate whether or not a crime was committed by Clinton’s exercise of the plenary pardon power. The conclusion arrived at by James Comey, who was to later become the Acting Attorney General under George W. Bush, was that there were no grounds to present to a Grand Jury.
Nobody, not even the most rabid Republicans ever suggested that the pardon of Mark Rich was a part of a conspiracy to protect members of the administration. Never was it suggested that Bill Clinton had a political motive for his decision to right a wrong committed by an over-zealous prosecutor, who now happens to be running for the Republican nomination for President.
Still want to talk about Mark Rich? Gai kakhen afenyam. [6]
“… and tell ’em Menachem Mendel [7] sent ya!”
Footnotes for the Yiddish challenged:
[1] lit. Nerve. Colloq: balls, as in “He had the chutzpah of a blind burglar.”
[2] Non-Jewish, and (when used in an otherwise English sentence) non-Jewish in a stereotypical way.
[3] troubles
[4] “Go and be healthy. Have a good year.” The equivalent to the dismissive “Knock yourself out,” you should pardon the expression.
[5] Member of the Tribe, (e.g. Rich, Libby)
[6] Go shit in the ocean.
[7] Big Mitch
Thank you for the enlightenment, Big Mitch.
Is it just my liberal bias or does he look like the dumbest cum guzzling fucktard these assholes have tossed at the the WH press corpse so far? I’ll be honest, I’m not much of a pacifist because from mmy point of view this guy has that “hit me right here” X on his snotty little mug.
When I saw the news conference I couldn’t believe that came out of his mouth. Okay people, when do we start storming the Bastille?
Big Mitch thank you for that, well thought out and well written. That’s why I come here.
Of course he doesn’t know what is meant by “equal justice under the law”. Look at his picture. Look at his face. He smiles beautifully. His default personality is that of the smiling liar. He probably began his career at age 5 or 6. He had perfected the part by his freshman year in high school. He’s an accomplished smiling liar. To him, shallowness of spirt is depth of character. At the core they are all alike. Everyone of them. Smiling liars. Sociopaths.
This is NOT a personal attack. This is a scientific observation from my experimental software:
When you zoom out on the picture you can see that Scottie has just completed a ride on the bucking T-Rex at the Creation Museum. His adoring parents are supervising his safety from both sides, but are a little embarassed about the visable wet spot in his pants.
moonsha @ 30:
So true.
Further, Stanzel is not confessing or revealing titanic ignorance or stupidity; he is evading the question. Instead of the administration and its understanding of equal justice, the issue becomes the reporter and her views on the matter.
In context, he does not say “I don’t know what you mean.”
He does say “I don’t know what you mean.”
Much like Condi Rice and her, ahem, testimony before the 9/11 commission, he is playing out the clock.
I think this guy is FAB-U-LOUS!