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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sully- who wrote (65463)	4/8/2008 2:55:42 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Its CNN...what's unbelievable about it...?

To: Sully- who wrote (65463)	4/8/2008 3:07:09 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 90947

A shoddy operation goes back to work Power Line 60 Minutes has now revisited its absurd story that former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman was the victim of a Rovean conspiracy that sent him to prison for bribery and mail fraud. John Hinderaker utterly demolished the story here [see link below], documenting at great length the facts omitted from its original hit job by CBS. Rove himself recently discussed the story in his interview with GQ Magazine: <<< Q: Let's talk about the last couple of scandals you've been involved in. Don Siegelman in Alabama [the Democratic governor whom Rove was recently accused of trying to sabotage by forcing U.S. attorneys to bring corruption charges against him prior to an election]. What happened? Rove: [rolls his eyes] Will you do me a favor and go on Power Line and Google "Dana Jill Simpson" [the Republican lawyer who told 60 Minutes that Rove asked her to take a picture of Governor Siegelman cheating on his wife]? She's a complete lunatic. I've never met this woman. This woman was not involved in any campaign in which I was involved. I have yet to find anybody who knows her. And what the media has done on this... No one has read the 143-page deposition that she gave congressional investigators-143 pages. When she shows up to give her explanation of all this, do you know how many times my name appears? Zero times. Nobody checked! Q: Then how did this happen? Rove: Because CBS is a shoddy operation. They said, "Hey, if we can say 'Karl Rove,' 'Siegelman,' that'll be good for ratings. Let's hype it. We'll put out a news release on Thursday and then promo the hell out of it on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday." And Scott Pelley-the question is, Did [60 Minutes correspondent] Scott Pelley say to this woman, "You say you met with him. Where? And you say that he gave you other assignments earlier. When did he begin giving you assignments, and what campaigns did you work with him in? What evidence? I mean, this woman, she said she met with him: Okay, you met with him-where? Did you fly to Washington?" Now she says that she talked to me on the phone and she's got phone records. Of calls to Washington and Virginia. But what's Virginia? I don't live in Virginia. And it's 2001. What is in Virginia? It's not the Bush headquarters; that was in Austin, Texas. What is in Virginia? So-but look, she's a loon. >>> 60 Minutes updated its story original story last night: <<< Siegelman was once the most successful Democrat in Alabama. He claims his prosecution by the U.S. Department of Justice was influenced by the president's former political advisor, Karl Rove. "What we need," Siegleman says, "is Karl Rove to get himself over to the Judiciary Committee and put his hand on a Bible and take an oath and give testimony. And he can either tell the truth or take the Fifth. Either one will satisfy me." Rove declined to appear before the House Committee investigating the case. but, he told 60 Minutes "I never talked to the Department of Justice about Siegelman. I never talked to anyone at the White House about Siegelman." >>> Apparently no one at CBS has read the 143-page transcript of the testimony given by its star witness -- Dana Jill Simpson -- with staff of the House Judiciary Committee. As John observes in his post, the whole point of the interview was to try to show that in 2002 Republicans including Karl Rove conspired to destroy Don Siegelman with a trumped-up prosecution. Nevertheless, Simpson never suggested that she knew Rove; that she had ever spoken to Rove; or that Rove had asked her to spy on Siegelman -- all facts that would have been highly relevant to the committee's inquiry. In his post, John diagnosed Simpson as a nut. Now we've got a confirmatory second opinion from an expert whom we highly respect. 60 Minutes has yet to reveal Simpson's testimony or other relevant information that belies its tall tale of a Republican conspiracy to "get" Don Siegelman. Last night's update of the Siegelman story provides additional evidence supporting Rove's skills as a clinician: Rove's diagnosis that "CBS is a shoddy operation" stands. powerlineblog.com powerlineblog.com