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Posted: **Wed Oct 19, 2005 8:15 pm**

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?

Posted: **Wed Oct 19, 2005 8:56 pm**

Its not every day the former House Majority Leader does the perp walk.

Posted: **Thu Oct 20, 2005 12:14 am**

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!

Posted: **Thu Oct 20, 2005 12:23 am**

BSmack wrote:Its not every day the former House Majority Leader does the perp walk.

Word. But does Blitzer need to be visibly erect during the interview?

Posted: **Thu Oct 20, 2005 2:31 pm**

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...

Posted: **Thu Oct 20, 2005 2:37 pm**

DrDetroit wrote:Pathetic, but the media is not biased at all...no way...

The media is biased towards sensationalisim. Color me shocked. :roll:

Posted: **Thu Oct 20, 2005 3:03 pm**

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.

Posted: **Thu Oct 20, 2005 3:24 pm**

MSUFAN wrote: Full body cavity search!!?? - Utopia!

Once my sig bet is paid off, I'm considering using this one.

Posted: **Thu Oct 20, 2005 4:31 pm**

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!

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.

sayin'.

Posted: **Thu Oct 20, 2005 4:33 pm**

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.

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.

Posted: **Thu Oct 20, 2005 4:43 pm**

I certainly don't remember it. I do remember Clinton forming up his "team" to savage Starr, though and the media willingly carrying his water.

Posted: **Thu Oct 20, 2005 4:56 pm**

DrDetroit wrote:I certainly don't remember it. I do remember Clinton forming up his "team" to savage Starr, though and the media willingly carrying his water.

starr was easy to dislike even for republicans

Posted: **Thu Oct 20, 2005 5:01 pm**

Even so, he was appointed by Janet Reno.

Nonetheless, I do remember the media gladly carrying Clinton's water as he savaged Starr.

Posted: **Thu Oct 20, 2005 6:23 pm**

DrDetroit wrote:Even so, he was appointed by Jesse Helms.

FTFY

Posted: **Thu Oct 20, 2005 7:04 pm**

BSmack wrote:
DrDetroit wrote:Even so, he was appointed by Jesse Helms.
FTFY

Wrong.

And, much to your guy's chagrin and denial, Reno approved that investigation and every expansion of it.

Posted: **Thu Oct 20, 2005 7:13 pm**

DrDetroit wrote:
BSmack wrote:
DrDetroit wrote:Even so, he was appointed by Jesse Helms.
FTFY
Wrong.

And, much to your guy's chagrin and denial, Reno approved that investigation and every expansion of it.

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.

Posted: **Thu Oct 20, 2005 7:23 pm**

Looks like we are both wrong...

In 1994 Starr was appointed by a three-judge panel to continue the Whitewater investigation, replacing Robert Fiske, who had been specially appointed by the Attorney General prior to the re-enactment of the Independent Counsel law.

I got Starr and Fiske confused. Nonetheless, he was not appointed by Helms or the Republicans.

Posted: **Thu Oct 20, 2005 7:59 pm**

DrDetroit wrote:Looks like we are both wrong...

In 1994 Starr was appointed by a three-judge panel to continue the Whitewater investigation, replacing Robert Fiske, who had been specially appointed by the Attorney General prior to the re-enactment of the Independent Counsel law.
I got Starr and Fiske confused. Nonetheless, he was not appointed by Helms or the Republicans.

Helms and Faircloth submitted Starr's name and rigged the process. You don't think that name came from Reno? Do you?

Posted: **Thu Oct 20, 2005 8:10 pm**

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.

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.

Posted: **Thu Oct 20, 2005 8:16 pm**

BSmack wrote:
DrDetroit wrote:Looks like we are both wrong...

In 1994 Starr was appointed by a three-judge panel to continue the Whitewater investigation, replacing Robert Fiske, who had been specially appointed by the Attorney General prior to the re-enactment of the Independent Counsel law.
I got Starr and Fiske confused. Nonetheless, he was not appointed by Helms or the Republicans.
Helms and Faircloth submitted Starr's name and rigged the process. You don't think that name came from Reno? Do you?

"Rigged the process?"

Evidence?

Posted: **Thu Oct 20, 2005 8:16 pm**

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.

More Louis Freeh than Reno.

Posted: **Thu Oct 20, 2005 8:17 pm**

starr went 'les miserables' on clinton and came up with nuthin but charging a shitload of money to us

yea props

Posted: **Thu Oct 20, 2005 8:21 pm**

Don't blame Starr, blame Clinton's own AG. Reno approved and authorized the investigation and every expansion.

Oh, and don't forget about the 40+ criminal convictions, too.

Posted: **Thu Oct 20, 2005 8:27 pm**

christ---clinton deserves eternal props for appointing will ferrell as attorney general

Posted: **Fri Oct 21, 2005 3:30 pm**

DrDetroit wrote: Nonetheless, I do remember the media gladly carrying Clinton's water as he savaged Starr.

Even so, he was appointed by Janet Reno.

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Arrest warrant -- things just got worse

Arrest warrant -- things just got worse