CNN’s round-table on the new revelations and clarifications coming from Scotty McClellan’s book publisher really exposed Gloria Borger’s egregious White House shillery for what it is.
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Gloria thinks that because “nobody wants to see the President accused of lying” over a leak that was really just a “technicality” anyway that we ought to just wait until Bush writes his memoir to find out the truth (I’m so not kidding. I wish I were) about whatever happened because really “nobody cares anymore.” Thank heavens we had Jack Cafferty to help set the conversation straight.
Suzanne Malveaux: Jack, let’s start with you. With a bombshell accusation like this, what does it say about the administration?
Jack Cafferty: Well, a couple of things occur to me. The first one is, whoever is doing the PR for McClellan’s book ought to get a raise, because he’s doing a masterful of creating buzz and interest in a book that won’t even be out until next April. The second thing is, it doesn’t really seem to me like it’s breaking news that the administration, the White House, may have misled one of their own about something. After all, they’ve been lying to the rest of the country about a whole bunch of stuff for the better part of six and a half years. You remember when the story broke about the CIA agent and President Bush said I will fire anybody in the White House who was involved in compromising the identity of a CIA agent? Well, that was a lie wasn’t it? Because Karl Rove and Scooter Libby and some of those folks, they were up to their armpits in the compromising of Valerie Plame’s identity. so the President changed and he said I will fire anybody who is convicted of committing a crime in conjunction with the outing of a C… So I mean that place has turned into an oil slick a long time ago and I don’t believe a whole bunch of anything that comes out of there these days. … [snip]
Suzanne Malveaux: Gloria, how’s this going to be perceived by the White House? Who’s the potential fall guy in all of this?
Gloria Borger: Well, they are not happy obviously because nobody wants to see the President accused of lying and I think the key word to look at here which everybody seems to be throwing around is “knowingly.” I did not “knowingly” tell somebody a falsehood. If the President actually told Scott McClellan that nobody in the White House had leaked Valerie Plame’s name, that is probably what the Vice President, what the President was told. I agree with John. The question is who told the President that? Was it the Vice President? And we know how close the vice President was to Scooter Libby. And did Karl Rove technically leak Valerie Plame’s name or did he say to the Time correspondent when the Time correspondent raised it, said Yeah, I heard that.’ Is that technically leaking her name? Maybe not. I think this whole thing is a bunch of technicalities right now and by the way, I agree with you Jack this is a big publicity stunt because really nobody cares anymore.
Cafferty: Well I care, and I’ll tell you why I care. George Bush is the President of the United States and this idea that he was somehow victimized by his own people, he didn’t know what was going on. He’s the President. This was a huge story at the time.
Borger: But what if he’s lied to Jack? What if somebody lied to the President?
Cafferty: Excuse me. Excuse me. The buck stops at the oval office. He’s in charge. It’s up to him to find out who’s telling the truth and who isn’t. It’s up to him to tell the American people what went on in his White House. It’s his, it’s his White House. It’s his White House.
Borger: I think we’ll hear that in his memoir. I think when he writes his memoir, when he writes his memoir maybe we’ll get to the bottom of it.
Cafferty: I’d like to hear it now. No, I’d like to hear it now. There might still be time to impeach him.
Borger: I would to. I’d like to hear it.
Malveaux: Should we wait for the memoirs? Does anybody believe the President should jump in now, or the next 15 months?
Cafferty: No. How about the American public be told what the chief executive office of the United States government is up to? How about if we were told the truth? Wouldn’t that be a switch?
Yes Jack, it would be.
Filed Under: George W. Bush, Jack Cafferty, Plame Case/Pat Fitzgerald, The Situation Room/Wolf Blitzer, White House
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There might still be time to impeach him.
Good on Cafferty for saying that.
Wait….Dubya can write?
I am speechless….
The media is complicit in both the domestic crimes and international crimes of the Bush-Cheney administration….
People like Gloria Borger and other media accomplices of the crimes committed by the Bush administration are derserving of being put on trial for their helping the government commit and cover-up these awful crimes against the peace of the world and humanity.
The media is good for nothing at this point. And I mean nothing. They are a bunch of whores and stenographers who have minds like zombies.
Tell Pelosi to get a grip and put the Kucinich Impeachment bii HR 333 back on the table and out of judiciary, Impeach now.
The fact that Borger seems to think that “nobody cares” (wrong!) about a “technicality” (wrong!) or that Bush would be any more likely to be truthful in his memoirs than he’s been over (at least) the past 7 years (wrong!) should disqualify her from any further punditry. Period. Jeezus, what an idiot.
Impeach Now!
“nobody wants to see the President accused of lying”
I do, a thousand times a day
McClelland, the pussie, doesn’t want to implicate Bush… SO IMPEACH THE VICE PRESIDENT! He’s the real SKUNK in the yard!
Mr. XXXX at #3 above sez “… the media is complicit…”
Yer DAMNED RIGHT THEY ARE! Media people like Jack Cafferty and Keith Olbermann are deserving of Medals of Freedom… FOR PROTECTING OUR MOST CHERISHED RIGHT… which is the freedom to speak your mind freely without fear of retaliation or punishment. God Bless those few.
It is time to start holding journalists accountable for the war crimes and domestic law breaking of the Bush-Cheney administration and not allow them any “journalistic” legitimacy if they continue on their deliberate and direct misinformation campaigns of trying to deceive the American people of their ethical duties to be the watchdogs of democracy.
If journalists want to be part of the political establishment rather than honest analysts about policies and crimes committed, then its time to ask for these “journalists” to be held for trial for the crimes of the United States government. If “journalists” want to continue to be an extension of the Bush-Cheney administration then they have no right to claim their constitutional exemption of “freedom of the press” as long as they subvert the truth and continue deliberately to confuse and misinform the public.
“Journalists” who knowingly falsify the truth in favor of pushing government propaganda do not deserve to be called bonafide journalists whatsoever, but, definitely have earned their right to be called propagandists and crooks.
Gloria Borger has just attempted to misinform the public at-large in what is known as the “manfacture of consent” in a direct attempt to confuse and misinform the public. Borger is ethically no better than the criminals inside the Bush-Cheney administration who leaked the name of Valerie Plame Wilson to Robert Novak.
It amazing that only cable news has any discussion on this story. It hasn’t even been mentioned on network news. On the contrary sycophants like Charlie Gibson are conducting PR offensives for Bush and company.
I think Senator Dodd has it right. A trust in the president is gone and an investigation is necessary. Trust is absolutely fundamental. Nothing, NOTHING operates properly without trust. This is a factor that Bush and Cheney understand only to use in a political and criminal way. They do not understand what trust really is. They don’t understand that honoring trust the people have in their president is an act of love of country and honor of their positions. Bush and Cheney do not understand that even though I did not vote for them and still consider them to have stolen the presidency, I must trust their honor towards country. AND I CAN’T. I must trust the acts as being for the good of the people. AND I CAN’T. And therefore I have lost the trust of the presidency itself. The position has been sullied. It has been bought and sold.
Impeach him now! If the democrats don’t have the huevos to follow protocol, lets vote them out too.
nobody wants to see the President accused of lying
Didn’t seem to bother any of these yoyos when Bill Clinton was being branded a liar nearly every day of his presidency by these misfits.
Wait for his self serving memoirs that some hack will write for him?
Like we should believe a goddamn thing in his memoirs? Are you fucking kidding me?
Guys - when I see this type of systematic mainstream-media apologizing for the Bush elites, I immediately think of one thing.. Allen Dulles and Operation Mockingbird.
Go look that operation up online - basically a massive US govt operation to penetrate deep into the most influential sectors of the media and control the message from within.
I think after Vietnam and the media’s contribution to helping show the truth [after a decade of doing nothing of course], no govt would ever risk NOT controlling / embedding ‘their guys’ into the debate via television networks.
I literaly cannot watch this without thinking of Dulles and all those scary quotes associated with just how successful that operation was [and likely still is].
Imagine if Jack had Wolf Blitzer’s job - wow what a difference.
[wolf blitzer was a lobbyist for the all-powerful Jewish lobby AIPAC by the way - guess we won’t be hearing about Israel’s illegal occupation much then will we!]
For my money, both Borger and Malveaux are shilling for bush. And I cannot comprehend why - unless their jobs are at risk if they don’t. As a matter of fact, Malveaux has been much more visible and “important a shill” since shrub was “re-elected”.
As for a bush memoir, HA! This is the gang that said “we make our own reality, and when you are challenging that reality, we are onto another” (or some such thing). Why would anyone bother to read an account of this administration from the viewpoint of bush? If he had no respect for the truth when he was in school, or when he was involved in Harken Oil or Arbusto Oil, why would he be interested in the truth now. Read “Fortunate Son”. There has been no respect for truth in the history of his entire family. Even the story of his father’s “heroism” is a fantasy.
As for Gloria and Suzanne (originally pronounced Suzanne not Suzahn when she started out), Let them eat cake. Cafferty is the truthteller here.
Who the hell is Gloria Bolger?
No matter who writes it, we will never know the absolute truth about this administration.
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There are some absolute truths about this administration. They can’t be trusted. That we do know. They act with their own interests in mind. That we do know. They think they are above the law and the laws that might get them in trouble they try to change. We know that too.
Knowing those three things keeps you one step ahead of their trying to outwit you. The problem is we can’t stop them. The checks and balances have failed.
Bolger is the idiot after that last debate that said some stupid crap that made me scream at the TV. She and Suzanne are two of the dumbest people on TV. I remember an audience person asking a question and then Suzanne said some crap and asked another question, I wondered ‘what happened to the audience question and why is Suzanne inserting herself into this like that’. CNN I give up, the debate was idiotic and the analysis was terrible. Bolger, who the hell is she and what are her credentials? Oh, I just saw Anderson Cooper yukking it up with that racist Beck. CNN no more.
I can already see it now:
“Mr. President, in your memoirs you state that…”
“Sorry, i have no knowledge of that, I have not read them yet.”
these authoritarian cultists will do anything to please their blackshirted master
This is not the 1st time that Jack Cafferty has put Borger in her place. Prior to the last Dem “debate”, on the pre-debate show, Borger tried to sell the line that the debate is all about “leadership”. Jack wasted no time and I paraphrase, “That’s a joke, this is not about leadership, this is about (inserted litany of National Crises War, Debt, Civil Liberties etc.). Even AIPAC’s Wolf Blitzer was stunned. It seemed like a couple of seconds before he picked up the dead air.
I don’t always agree with Jack, but I love the Old Curmudgeon. I think he cares about his Journalistic Integrity.
Peace.
xoites defends Constitution @ 21:
ROFLOLw/KFIA!
Who’d have thought Jack Cafferty would be
today’s Edward R. Murrow? (With Keith).
I watched him do local years ago.
He grew balls.
Borger is a paid Beltway type like Tweety, Timmeh & Broder.
jr @ 22:
They are obviously Facists who yearn not only for a Facist America but hope to be on board the ruling dictatorship and get a nice job.
You know, I’m kinda curious about what Bolger’s credentials are too. Some of the statements these so called journalists make are so bias and just too ridiculous for words. Who covers for a man who has literally damaged the position of president? Who honors somebody like that? I mean you can do it if you’re sitting on a bar stool in the local tavern but if you’re on the air the integrity of that position should be honored. Everything is bought and sold in this country. There is no honor.
Jeanne @ 27:
It’s Borger
Jeanne @ 27:
No, there is honor in this country. There just is not much in the Corporate Media. Look around this site, it is full of honorable people such as yourself.
Can you imagine if, in 1960, someone said, “BTW, Person X is a US intel operative who created intel networks in Eastern Europe?” Their trial would have been bigger than Ronserberg.
Cafferty just gave that lady a bitch slap of the highest order. “Who cares”, “I CARE!! That’s who!”.
The impeachment line was just brilliant. The line of Dubya “writing a memoir” was as lame as Rush Limbaugh’s dick.
Truly Equal @ 31:
He has genitals?
xoites defends Constitution @ 32:
He does, just very small, non-functioning ones, exactly what happens when someone is very, very fat and takes lots and lots of pain killers. Being an idiot doesn’t help of course.
The MSM needs to understand that there is no statute of limitations on treason.
Truly Equal @ 33:
As long as they are non functioning, i was worried about offspring there for a moment.
Coffins draped in flags @ 34:
And realy no limit on the penalty for it either.
I’m thankful for Jack Cafferty!
Friends,….I know I’m probably going to get mauled for saying this so I hope I can say it correctly without appearing like I condone Borger’s point of view. Rest assured I despise this administration no little bit so I ask for your patience and hear me out. In some ways I do agree with Borger particularly her comment about nobody cares. Now, what is absolute and unequivocal nonsense is the idea that she could use that as an excuse to condone bush’s reprehensible actions to date! In that regard she is absolutely full of shit and I hope she gets squashed by a garbage truck (I don’t do PC—remember?). However, when she says that “…nobody cares anymore…” I’m hard pressed to disagree. I took it to mean she was describing the state of apathy in america today and we cannot deny that there is apathy otherwise how the hell else can the Cheney gang get away with all the bullshit to date? Seriously, think about that. Not one slimy piece-of-shit bush accomplice from Gonzo to Rove to Libby and yes, to McClellan and Snow has been held accountable! The so-called Democratic-majority Senate is as effective and competent as a box of hair! We here at C&L represent a very small minority of people who do care but again—we are the minority! Gloria may be a nothing more than an occasional sperm receptacle with a penile speech impediment but she’s right about ‘nobody cares’. I also hate the fact that she can be so fucking smug about that, too!
SpankyTheMonkey @ 38:
If nobody cares it is only because people are being told nobody cares, that makes people give up. I remember when i discovered Democracy Now! so many years ago that i realized i was not alone. A lot of people out there do care but are isolated from others who care.
You can plant a tree but it needs encouragement and watering to grow. You can’t birth a child and walk away and expect to come back in a few years and find it thriving. The Corporate Media is killing common sense and compasion on the vine everyday. It is up to us who have the support of each other and others to reach out to all those people who feel alone in their frustration and anger and let them know they are not alone.
hot damn!!!….this scandal has a life of it’s own……and that’s a good thing.Spanky….I care.I want to see reporters lock onto this like a crazed pitbull.and not let go until the bleeding stops.
noonan @ 37:
me too….this made my day.
free manuretv round-table: “nobody wants to see the President accused of lying”
And I wonder what Edward R. Murrow is saying in his grave.