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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: stockman_scott who wrote (57103)	4/1/2006 5:36:43 AM
From: paret	Respond to of 93284

ABC Suspends Producer Over Bush-Bashing E-Mail By Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, April 1, 2006; C01 ABC News suspended the executive producer of the weekend edition of "Good Morning America" yesterday over a pair of leaked e-mails in which he used inflammatory language to slam President Bush and Madeleine Albright. John Green, whose unpaid suspension will last one month, apologized to the White House in a call to communications director Nicolle Wallace, while two ABC executives called the former secretary of state to apologize. "No one is sorrier than John for the embarrassment that these albeit private e-mails caused to his colleagues and to the people who were the subjects of those comments," said ABC News spokesman Jeffrey Schneider. "John would be the first to say this has been a real lesson to him. John is abjectly sorry for all the comments that have come to light, and that's appropriate." In one of the e-mails, written during the first presidential debate in 2004 and leaked to the Drudge Report, Green wrote to a colleague on his BlackBerry: "Are you watching this? Bush makes me sick. If he uses the 'mixed messages' line one more time, I'm going to puke." Green, who was not made available for comment yesterday, wrote his colleagues after that leak to say "how much I regret the embarrassment that this story causes ABC. It was an inappropriate thing to say, and I'm deeply sorry." Wallace said yesterday that she "appreciated the call and the apology." The second leaked e-mail surfaced Thursday on the New York Post's gossipy Page Six. In that note, Green wrote that Albright should not be booked on the show because "Albright has Jew shame." Albright, who was raised as a Roman Catholic, acknowledged her Jewish heritage in 1997 after it was discovered by Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs in the course of researching a book. Green wrote in that note that "she hates us anyway because she says we promised her five minutes and only gave her two . . . I do not like her." An ABC insider said Green was reacting to a heated dispute between Albright and a network producer. The Albright Group, a global strategy firm founded by the former Clinton cabinet member, took the diplomatic route. "Secretary Albright has always had an excellent relationship with 'GMA' and with ABC and she still does," her office said in a statement. "In fact, she looks forward to appearing on 'GMA' on May 2 in connection with the release of her book on U.S. foreign policy and the importance of religious tolerance." Both e-mails were disclosed at a time when public distrust of news organizations and their ability to be fair are at or near an all-time high. The suspension was ordered by Kerry Marash, senior vice president for editorial standards, and approved by ABC News President David Westin. Green, who got his job in 2004 as the Saturday and Sunday editions of the morning show were being launched, has worked for ABC for 12 years. He is highly regarded by many of his colleagues, and the show is in second place on Saturdays, trailing NBC's "Weekend Today," but is in third place on Sundays, when "CBS Sunday Morning" is No. 1. It is widely believed at ABC News that the e-mails were leaked by a former employee who has a vendetta against Green. "Everyone who works at ABC News is unhappy with the situation because it reflects on all of us," Schneider said. But, he said, "I don't think the e-mails tell us anything about the show John Green was putting on the air every Saturday and Sunday, which is fair and balanced and down the middle."

To: stockman_scott who wrote (57103)	4/1/2006 10:08:18 AM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 93284

``Mr. Bush is in the hands of a fortune that will be unremitting on the point of Iraq,'' Buckley said in an interview that will air on Bloomberg Television this weekend. ``If he'd invented the Bill of Rights it wouldn't get him out of his jam.'' Well, since Dumbya has actually trashed the Bill of Rights and flushed the Constitution down the toilet, we can safely rule out that!

To: stockman_scott who wrote (57103)	4/9/2006 8:49:14 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Bush has done unspeakable damage to the U.S. Brian Hughes Date published: 4/9/2006 As Iraq falls into the abyss of civil war, I consider America before and after Sept. 11. Before that date, Iraqis had basic utilities and relative calm. While Saddam's brutality is unquestionable, "threats to this country" weren't. No WMD have been found, or even evidence of their manufacture. Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's threat was real, and not even Ronald Reagan declared war. Red China is a threat to America, both militarily and especially economically. Iran is a nuclear threat to the planet. The recent "top secret" memos about the Bush/Tony Blair meeting documents Bush's lust for war. An insidious liar, Bush lied to America and the world, hoping to promote his rhetoric. Two-thirds of Americans are dissatisfied, even more worldwide. America's credibility is abysmal. We are now considered an imperialistic aggressor--which, thanks to Bush, is unfortunately correct. Bush's idiocy is compounded by his attempt to give control of our ports to an Arab country known as a conduit for al-Qaida money. I don't hate Arabs, just those zealots, like Bush, who try to ram their religion down my throat while looking down the barrel of a gun. I rebuke Islam, Bush's version of Christianity, and theocratic dictatorships. Iraqis don't want Christianity or democracy. Bush rails against terrorists, yet he unleashed the same horrors on the Iraqi people, and on a much bloodier scale. I would venture that not even Saddam would have killed 32,000 Iraqis in three years, or have been responsible for 2,400 dead and 17,500 wounded American service members. Those horrific losses and suffering are squarely on George Bush's shoulders. I pray the next presidential election does not produce another eight years of human and economic misery. Sept. 11 will never be forgotten, but George Bush has done far more damage to America than the terrorists did on that tragic day. fredericksburg.com