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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (51332)	10/20/2005 2:30:10 PM
From: Oral Roberts	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

This is plucked from Lindys thread and it is just appalling, I don't know how else to put it. I think we see the start of a trend here, we can't beat Republicans at the polls so we will hound them legally until they resign over nothing offenses and we will have the help of the system and Goerring's press corp the MSM. UFB. This guy should recluse himself from any trial having anything to do with politics giving to an organization like moveon.org for crying out loud. Unreal! DeLay Judge Should Recuse Himself MEDIA BLOG 10/20 12:21 PM Why? Because that's what he did when Ronnie Earle went after Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. Judge Bob Perkins would have heard the case, but he removed himself because he had donated $300 to her Democratic opponent, the Houston Chronicle reports today. The Chronicle also reports that Perkins, the judge who issued the arrest warrant for DeLay, donated $100 in 2002 to the Texas Partnership PAC run by a leading Texas Democrat. This is before he gave money to John Kerry and MoveOn.org in 2004. Perkins should have recused himself in the cases of DeLay co-defendants John Colyandro and Jim Ellis, but as the Chronicle reports, he did not: "Perkins already has ruled against Colyandro and Ellis on motions to dismiss the case because the election law is vague and a contention that money laundering does not apply in this case. Those rulings are on appeal." The case centers around the actions of DeLay's Texans for a Republican Majority PAC (TRMPAC) during the state elections of 2002. The fact that the judge donated to the Texas Partnership PAC, whose goals were in opposition to TRMPAC's, and did not recuse himself already is outrageous. DeLay "Filmmaker" is Professional Left-Wing Activist 10/20 12:53 PM When Byron York broke the news that Ronnie Earle had allowed a couple of filmmakers "extraordinary access" to his investigation of Tom DeLay, it got mentioned here and there in the media, but none of the major news orgs thought it might be worth looking into the background of the filmmakers and the nature of their project. Junkyard Blogger Bryan Preston thought, "You know, why not?" and what he's come up with is required reading for anyone who wants to understand the nature of the case. Turns out, filmmaker Jim Schermbeck is a professional left-wing activist and anti-business agitator. Here's Preston's conclusion: There's much more to the story, and I'm still working on it and am aware of another reporter who is as well, but for now just consider: DA Ronnie Earle has allowed this "filmmaker" inside his operation for two years. Earle's operation has been seeking an indictment of DeLay for that entire time, and grand jury shopped as his first indictment fell apart and deadlines loomed. Now here we are: The first flimsy indictment, which didn't even allege any specific actual crime had taken place, has fallen apart and that grand jury has dissolved. Grand jury #2 declined to indict. Grand jury #3 indicted, but based on evidence manufactured in Earle's office. Without that evidence, it's unlikely grand jury #3 would have indicted DeLay at all. It's clear that this isn't a serious case and will not result in conviction. But it has resulted in a warrant for DeLay's arrest. Should such an arrest be carried out, Earle's indictment will result in a grand photo op as DeLay is probably marched in handcuffs, has his mug shot taken and is fingerprinted. Which brings us back to Schermbeck, the "filmmaker." What better way to end his anti-DeLay film, The Big Buy, than with that visual of Rep. Tom DeLay, until recently the majority leader in the US House of Representatives, with a number plate tucked under his chin? What better way to cast Republicans, enemies both of Earle and the far left agitator Jim Schermbeck, as corrupt than with that visual? And what better to get that visual than to abuse the power of a district attorney to make sure you have the opportunity to manufacture it? Every time I write something about how the media are playing a particular Republican scandal for all it's worth, I get complaints like, "C'mon, you don't really think the media would pass up the opportunity to expose corruption, Democrat or Republican? The story is just too good." Well, in this story we have: 1. An indictment with no evidence; 2. A prosecutor cooperating with left-wing hacks to make a propaganda film; and 3. A judge who donated to DeLay's and his co-defendant's political opponents but hasn't recused himself. Among others. But none of these stories fit into the national news media's chosen narrative: the DeLay indictment is just one more brick in the wall of GOP corruption. So if you're a reporter out there who has a problem with my argument that the media are ignoring these developments for political reasons, then write a story about one of the developments I mentioned above and prove me wrong. I'm not holding my breath.