CNN has not yet reported Ronnie Earle's failure to produce a document central to his indictment of DeLay — a major development in the story — but The Situation Room today hyped a report that a Texas court had issued an arrest warrant for DeLay — a routine procedural event that doesn't really help explain the investigation to the public but builds the impression that DeLay is guilty.
Wolf Blitzer eagerly asked correspondent Joe Johns if DeLay would be fingerprinted and photographed, and Johns speculated about whether DeLay would do a perp walk. They pondered the ramifications of DeLay's decision to be processed in his home county of Fort Bend rather than Travis County — a decision that will have no impact on the case at all, other than to indicate that DeLay wishes to avoid the circus-like atmosphere that would await him in Austin. So once again, insignificant developments like this are given major air time while missing evidence and prosecutorial misconduct are ignored. Just another day in the Media v. Tom DeLay.
Props to CNN....
What can possibly explain garbage reporting like this?
Arrest warrant -- things just got worse
Moderator: Jesus H Christ
Lou Dobbs went even further...
Lou Dobbs led his broadcast tonight with the story about the arrest warrant issued for Tom DeLay, choosing to play that angle up without mentioning that Ronnie Earle cannot produce the most important piece of evidence listed in his indictments. CNN's lead graphic was a wanted poster with DeLay's picture on it.
CNN missed several opportunities to inform its viewers about a major development in the story that occurred last week when DeLay's co-defendants demanded that Ronnie Earle produce a document that he had referenced in each indictment that supposedly proved that money sent from Texas to the RNC was meant to be sent back in the form of seven checks to Texas House candidates. Earle could not produce the document. He instead claimed that he had a "factually related" document that listed 17 candidates, not seven, but that had no author or date on it.
CNN political analyst Bill Schneider could have informed CNN viewers about the missing evidence — it would have been a first for CNN. But instead he compared Earle's prosecution of DeLay to the U.S. military "decapitation strike" against Saddam Hussein.
To Dobbs' credit, he spent the last minute or so of the report talking with legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, who reported that Earle actually had a choice of whether or not to issue an arrest warrant for DeLay. In white-collar cases in Texas, lawyers can usually work out a surrender agreement that avoids an arrest warrant. Earle issued a warrant because he knew the media would hype it up. But I doubt even Earle imagined that a national news network would put DeLay on a wanted poster. That was CNN's special touch.
And from now on the media, whether or not DeLay is convicted of anything, will show DeLay's mug shot...
Pathetic, but the media is not biased at all...no way...
Lou Dobbs led his broadcast tonight with the story about the arrest warrant issued for Tom DeLay, choosing to play that angle up without mentioning that Ronnie Earle cannot produce the most important piece of evidence listed in his indictments. CNN's lead graphic was a wanted poster with DeLay's picture on it.
CNN missed several opportunities to inform its viewers about a major development in the story that occurred last week when DeLay's co-defendants demanded that Ronnie Earle produce a document that he had referenced in each indictment that supposedly proved that money sent from Texas to the RNC was meant to be sent back in the form of seven checks to Texas House candidates. Earle could not produce the document. He instead claimed that he had a "factually related" document that listed 17 candidates, not seven, but that had no author or date on it.
CNN political analyst Bill Schneider could have informed CNN viewers about the missing evidence — it would have been a first for CNN. But instead he compared Earle's prosecution of DeLay to the U.S. military "decapitation strike" against Saddam Hussein.
To Dobbs' credit, he spent the last minute or so of the report talking with legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, who reported that Earle actually had a choice of whether or not to issue an arrest warrant for DeLay. In white-collar cases in Texas, lawyers can usually work out a surrender agreement that avoids an arrest warrant. Earle issued a warrant because he knew the media would hype it up. But I doubt even Earle imagined that a national news network would put DeLay on a wanted poster. That was CNN's special touch.
And from now on the media, whether or not DeLay is convicted of anything, will show DeLay's mug shot...
Pathetic, but the media is not biased at all...no way...
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The media is biased towards sensationalisim. Color me shocked. :roll:DrDetroit wrote:Pathetic, but the media is not biased at all...no way...
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not like many people read or even give a fuck about your posts, but having that boob mpg in your sig will draw even more attention away.MSUFAN wrote:And it's not like Wolf Blitzer could be confused with Amy Goodman.
Really, now.
Delay's pompous ass attitude, and total discontent with the authorities in this case, are the only reason he's going on that Perp Walk.
Fingerprints. Mugshots. CUFFS!!! ( i hope!)
Full body cavity search!!?? - Utopia!
sayin'.
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And I think you are a fucking imbicile if you think for one second that the media didn't act the same why during the Clinton Presidency.DrDetroit wrote:Sorry, but you are wrong. With the media all but having Rove, Libby, and Cheney jailed, base don nothing more than pure speculation and then this type of reporting re: DeLay, I think it's clear that the media's partisanship is getting in the way.
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I know, I should have also included Lauch Faircloth with Jesse. Reno didn't appoint Starr. That is plain and simple. If you think otherwise, feel free to proove it or STFU.DrDetroit wrote:Wrong.BSmack wrote:FTFYDrDetroit wrote:Even so, he was appointed by Jesse Helms.
And, much to your guy's chagrin and denial, Reno approved that investigation and every expansion of it.
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Helms and Faircloth submitted Starr's name and rigged the process. You don't think that name came from Reno? Do you?DrDetroit wrote:Looks like we are both wrong...
I got Starr and Fiske confused. Nonetheless, he was not appointed by Helms or the Republicans.
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You always know when a dittotard is out of arguments, they start deliberately misspelling Clinton's name. I bet all your pals at Free Republic think you're da bomb.mvscal wrote:Yeah, if it was up to Reno she would have stuffed the investigation entirely like she did with Clowntoon's illegal fundraising activities.
"Once upon a time, dinosaurs didn't have families. They lived in the woods and ate their children. It was a golden age."
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"I do have respect for authority even though I throw jelly dicks at them.
- Antonio Brown
"Rigged the process?"BSmack wrote:Helms and Faircloth submitted Starr's name and rigged the process. You don't think that name came from Reno? Do you?DrDetroit wrote:Looks like we are both wrong...
I got Starr and Fiske confused. Nonetheless, he was not appointed by Helms or the Republicans.
Evidence?