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April 2, 2000 -- WASHINGTON -- We were bored to tears by the obsession the Sunday morning talk shows have with little Elian Gonzalez. We wish the kid would just be packed up and sent back to Cuba.
Well, look at the bright side -- the decision to go with this politicized "human interest" story meant less time for the big networks to give much credence to CongressPunk Dan Burton's latest moronic investigation into a so-called "cover-up" of lost White House emails caused by a failed Zip disc and bug-ridden software.
We feel like sending Burton a whole stack of Zip discs in our office that have gone south so he can see for himself that this happens every day -- in fact, it's a wonder that all of the other glitch-ridden "backup" materials were intact and readable!
And Rick Lazio made waves on ABC -- looks like he's going to challenge Rudy Giuliani for a shot at the Senate!
Here's what we saw:
Fox Noise Sunday
Did Elian drown his mother?
Tony asked Senator Connie Mack (R-FL) to "straighten out" the Elian Gonzalez mess. Tony gave Mack pretty much a free pass to claim that a Florida court gives him standing to stay in the US, and that he should stay -- although he outright admitted "I'm not qualified" to say whether he could say definitively either way.
Brit Hume asked whether he would be prepared to see Elian go home of his dad came to the US -- and Mack (wrongly) concluded that the matter should be settled in a Florida family court. Tony asked if Mack would support visas for the direct family -- but not for the large entourage" of psychologists and school kids (as if that sounded spontaneous) -- giving Mack an opening to say yes!
In so many words, Mack acknowledged that Gore's position -- that Elian's dad should get permanent resident status -- adds a new wrinkle to the story.
In other words, it completely screws up hard-righters and anti-Castro Cubans in Miami who are trying to politicize this issue to the advantage of the Bush family.
Mack claimed that the Administration "caved" into Fidel Castro! What a laugh -- Fidel is an old commie has-been, the laughingstock of North America. The Clinton Administration strongly backs keeping the family together.
Tony and Mack tried to create a "vast left wing conspiracy" by suggesting that Clinton had a role in Elian's dad being represented by attorney Greg Craig, one of the President's former counsels.
We're just waiting for Congressnut Dan Burton to call hearings into that -- once his current e-mail hearings fail!
Tony and Brit talked "crowd control" and "public safety" with Mack -- and good for them, we say This was an implicit slam of Florida officials, including a county mayor who practically endorsed violence against Federal officials and representatives.
Mack attempted to cast aspersions on Elian's dad by raising questions about why Elian's parents separated.
Is Rep. Steve Largent (R-OK) getting ready to jump parties? Tony and the Fox gang milked the Elian story with two congressmen: Largent and Bob Menendez (D-NJ). But it was worth it -- both reps are taking positions that are the opposite of their parties' overall position. Largent, breaking with many GOPers, disagrees with Mack on having a family court determine Elian's fate -- and said the boy should be returned to Cuba! Tony asked Largent about it being a family values, and Largent said yes. Menendez said that Castro's Cuba lacks family values, and that America should abide by the mother's "decision from the grave" to let Elian live in America. Tony asked Menendez if "there was no other reason" -- a question that begged to answer "no," and got it from Menendez.
"Why is freedom not a more important issue?" Largent said that he would not sacrifice family for freedom. Tony then recounted the Administration "deadline" for Elian's American family -- and the fact that it has been pushed back. Largent called some of his colleagues "shameless" in politicizing Elian.
Wow. Largent may be a red-meat conservative, but he has a point -- and one at odds with his own party. We have a feeling he'll pay the price among his conservative brethren for his "insurgent" stand -- but you have to admit, the guy has real guts. Bravo, Steve!
One question: where did Menendez get that ash-blonde hair?
Following the break -- Mitch McConnell! Tony ran a clip of Clinton's now-famous "space alien" and "right-wing venom machine" comments, and McConnell came back with the prepackaged RNC spin: Clinton is acting like James Carville and acting as Al Gore's and Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, but there are still things that can be achieved on a bipartisan basis "if he wants it."
McConnell also claimed that Gore's plan for public funding of elections was awful! He stupidly compared it to financing the war on drugs -- when many would say that pols are addicted to campaign cash. We don't like ore's plan at Ampol, but we snickered at McConnell's dumb-as-dirt comparison! Liz asked, "Is the Gore plan a methadone program for candidates?"
McConnell kept hammering on the amount of funds going to South American countries to fight drug traffic, and Clinton slamming the GOP for not signing the CTBT and then spending $50 on a trip to India.
Hey Tony, don't forget Pakistan and other countries!
McConnell: "I think we snicker when the President talks... he's in campaign mode."
Hey, "Cabbage Patch McConnell, you want to hear laughter? You should be in our media room when you appear on the Sunday blab circuit! You are the second-funniest -- and second-dumbest -- representative of Congress on the TV circuit, just behind Tom Duh-Lay!
Juan asked questions about the tobacco industry and Elian, but we were too busy laughing at McConnell to hear what he said outside of "it'll only be an issue in Florida," which yielded another wave of titters.
Tony asked McConnell about the FAIR ad campaign against Spencer Abraham -- and he called it a "population-control liberal group." Gee, when you can't argue issues, call names. ay "liberal bigot" enough times and people will believe it...
Wrong-o, Mitch. You sound like the bigot here -- a shallow, name-calling, narrow-minded bigot.
Panel time! Tony postponed dissing Algore in favor of talking about the Microsoft impasse. Hume, typically, grumbled about "trial lawyers," Tony said the lawyers will get rich, Karen Tumulty predicted a guilty verdict and said that the choice of breakup or restructuring is "unclear," and Juan said Microsoft thought the offer was so bad they're risking a breakup.
Hume defended conservative appeals court Richard Posner, who has been overseeing this case, a bit too conspicuously -- in fact, it was as if he was promoting Posner for one reason or another. Posner has been talked about as a GOP nominee for the Supreme Court -- but there is also talk that he would run into real trouble were he nominated.
The panel then bored us with the same details of the Elian fiasco we've heard all week. Yawn -- until Hume claimed that the INS was "in a desperate hurry to deport the kid." Juan bitch-slapped Hume back to reality, saying that they were in a hurry to resolve the matter. Hume claimed that nun who tried to negotiate Elian's custody was impartial. Oh, please -- too many people smelled a rat with that set-up from the start!
And bravo to Juan for slamming ABC News for interviewing Elian! Juan called it child abuse.
Tony and Brit then mocked ABC for hiring Leonardo diCaprio as an "Earth Day" journalist -- Brit called the "once-great" news division (when he was there, of course) a disaster. Well, it's no secret that Fox hates anything that is pro-clean-environment.
And if a celeb being fed questions can get slackers interested in tuning in for journalism, that's fine, we say -- let's face it, it's not as if real journalists aren't getting fed questions by their producers and owners!
Tony's final word -- a second "dis" of the census, over the issue of race. We disagree with his view, bolstered by arguments by one of the Thernstroms, that the ethnic questions on the census are just plain wrong, but Tony is prescient in pointing out that races are "blurring" in America, an issue which will emerge during the next decades.
The McLaugh-In Group
"Pope" John Slams Cuban-American Hatemongers -- Amen To That!!
Thanks to a satellite glitch, we got sound but no picture on McLaugh-In today. In our email edition, we incorrectly identified Larry Kudlow -- as Michael Barone!
We swear -- these days, you just can't tell the two apart! Our apologies to the producers of McLaugh-In for our-a culpa -- and Hughes Tech's.
Issue one: Elian!
Good grief -- even McLaugh-In can't resist making this kid issue one.
But John surprised us -- slamming Miami's Cuban-American population for locking out Cuban performers and musicians and for rioting over political causes. John also mentioned anger among other Hispanic Americans.
Is the Dade County mayor inciting violence? Larry Kudlow , predictably, said no before he put in a good word for free trade. Eleanor Clift said that with Larry K, "it all comes back to the almighty dollar," then said the Mayor is condoning violence. Tony Blankley said that the Mayor's language "gets pretty close" to encouraging people not to obey the law. Larry O'Donnell said it was in effect inciting to riot -- "can you imagine anything worse that he might have said?" Eleanor said that Gore may have hit upon a compromise on the issue of permanent residency for Elian's dad -- and for Elian once he reaches 17 years of age. Tony called Gore "inexcusable" and "egregious." Is Tony working for Bush now? And there was a great shouting match when Barone compared Cubans in Miami to Irish in Boston. Irishman Larry O screamed back at Larry the K that it was not a fair comparison, because Irish groups did and do not block extradition of IRA terrorists.
And while there was much talk of rioting, "Pope" John said that the more businessmen who go to Havana, the more they undermine Castro. He and Kudlow had indirectly alluded to free trade and free markets, and on that issue we have to agree with them -- it would be the fastest way to end Castro's rule.
Issue two -- Billy and Willey Part II! John attempted to make much of Judge Royce "Klayman's Pet" Lambreth's questionable assertion that Clinton violated Willey's privacy, then played a clip form a Willey interview.
You have to laugh -- Willie lies so much, Ken Starr had to have her immunized TWICE! Of course, Mad Pope John talked about groping and genitals instead as he recounted the release of her letters.
John called her "Catherine Willey" as he asked a question of Tony. Tony implied that Clinton said he had to obey the law and somehow admitted he broke the privacy law. Eleanor said that "you boys are having your jollies reliving the Kathleen Willey story" -- and that a lot of public officials will be surprised at this ruling! She also mentioned an important ruling by Judge "Fat Tony" Scalia that Lambreth seems to have ignored!
Predictably silly predictions! Kudlow said Sen. Slade Gorton will introduce a price control bill on prescription drugs based on the Canadian model that "is doomed to failure." Ooooh, Larry -- tough call!
Eleanor said Gore would "eviscerate" Bush's education plans just as he did Bradley's health care plan. Wow -- another stretch.
Tony said President Clinton won't go with Congress on prescription drugs because "he wants the issue rather than the law." Not quite true -- he wants both, but will opt to put the GOP on the defensive.
O'Donnell said the Senate may suspend but not repeal the 4.3 cent per gallon gasoline tax. Another real leap... not.
Pope John McLaughlin predicted 53 Republicans and 47 Democrats in the next Senate. We say he's off -- the margin will be tighter and may even see a Dem majority.
We'll see...
Eat the Press
Fat Tim prosecutes the Clintons and Gore
Tim Russert 's opening bumper plugged McCain, then laid out the case "against" the Clintons as he plugged his first guest, former prosecutor Charles LaBella.
LaBella's been a "hero" of hard-righters bent on pinning any high crime on Janet Reno.
We doubt they feel that way now, after what LaBella had to say to Russert in response to his attack questions.
First, Russert claimed that LaBella's "claims" of wrongdoing were "ignored."
LaBella gave lie to Russert's assertion, making him look like a fool at the start of the interview. LaBella defended Reno, saying she had been supportive, and that there had not been the obstacles Tim implied in his question.
Why did Janet Reno reject his memo? LaBella said that he has never discussed the memo with Reno! "I assume she didn't want to talk about it... I would never have a conversation about this memo... I wanted to start a dialogue... It was an interim report."
Whoa. So LaBella was asking "Where do we go from here?" based on thin evidence. Russert then implied that Reno was saying "get lost!"
Well, maybe, Tim, just maybe, LaBella did not have all the facts -- and maybe the LA Times article you cite that claims that DOJ was using "intellectually dishonest" arguments and "contortions" are out of context.
LaBella even said so: if there was gamesmanship, it was on legal, not political, grounds. But he did say that the prosecutors were involved in numerous meetings. Tim bashed the administration as he asked "What was the reason... politics?" LaBella said no.
Russert: "You do not believe Reno was trying to protect the President." Russert sounded as if he was reading from posts to the Free Republic Clinton-hating web site, including quotes from biased news accounts that he cast in his most ominous tone as "very serious charges."
LaBella essentially said that the facts were misrepresented in the LA Times article, and then dashed Russert's inquiries about Reno possibly "protecting" someone. "I don't think anybody was protecting anybody. I really don't believe that the attorney general, in any way, shape or form, was protecting anybody, or anybody else at the Justice Department was politically protecting anybody."
Aw, gee -- there goes another Free Republic conspiracy scenario down the drain.
Russert seemed a little stymied as he would bring up an anti-Clinton "news" story quoting some moron, and Labella would say, "Well, he's entitled to his opinion. Bottom line: LaBella was saying his memo was part of the process of debate and not a final, definitive conclusion.
LaBella said that there was credible evidence -- but as a seasoned prosecutor, he "saw that most if not all would wash out!" Tim, sounding disappointed, said that it was likely that the Clintons would not be prosecuted.
Tim then played the RNC's favorite footage these days -- Gore at a fund-raiser some years ago at a Buddhist temple, then ran words from a news story saying that some in the DOJ wanted to investigate Gore, including Steve Mansfield, a field prosecutor from California. LaBella said that the task force formed in 1996 wanted to gather evidence, but the DOJ is a policy-making entity, not an investigative entity. He slammed bureaucracy.
Tim pressed the point -- Mansfield's claim that time and evidence was lost when he was "yanked off" the investigation. Tim and LaBella pushed the number of Asians who "fled" the country.
Well, no kidding, Tim -- when out-of-control prosecutors start acting like the Beijing Secret Police, can you blame them?
Tim continued his anti-Gore rant, using LaBella to push his anti-Gore position. He then tried to "prosecute" Gore over the tired and already debunked matter of so-called "illegal" phone calls and disputed papers that somehow "prove" Gore a criminal. Tim slammed Gore's "iced tea defense" as he tried to build his case. LaBella said it should have been investigated.
What was most troublesome about Tim's "presentation" is that his spin is practically out of the Bush Campaign handbook -- and he was using Charles LaBella to push his views, not to elicit answers from LaBella.
Tim was essentially pushing for an independent counsel to look into 1996 fundraising by Gore. He did run footage of Clinton saying that his party spent $4 million to fix the situation... "No stonewalling, no nothing." Tim snidely repeated the President's words -- and LaBella said that Clinton was right! The Dems worked as quickly as they could.
Neither mentioned the GOP's refusal to return questionable Asian contributions.
But Tim, in an effort (ha, ha) to be "balanced," ran a news story in which LaBella said both parties need to be investigated.
What to do? LaBella called for self-regulation -- which had us laughing out loud! Look at the "self-regulation" Haley Barbour and Newt Gingrich cooked up in the 1990s. LaBella did say that the FEC is "impotent.... neither party is going to have its ox gored by this bureaucracy... we have no framework to enforce campaign finance law."
Holy cow -- during LaBella's meandering comment, he made a comment that essentially puts him in agreement with Gore, who was right when he said there is "no controlling legal authority!"
Tim tried to imply that LaBella was ousted as a prosecutor for his report, and LaBella sniffed at the notion! "What is the most important lesson?" asked Tim. LaBella said that we have to encourage people to speak out.
Good grief -- they do. They do it by leaking stuff, usually in a manner that impugns the Clinton administration. What a lame answer.
Tim then slammed Reno by saying she had been invited to "reply" to LaBella, but had "declined."
Well, duuuuuuuh, Tim -- it would have been inappropriate.
Tim Russert then welcomed John McCain just as Tony Snow over on Fox was interviewing yet another moron, Congressman Melendez, about Elian.
Fresh from prosecuting the Clinton Administration, Russert spent most of the interview with McCain putting down Vice President Al Gore for having sided with Miami's Cuban community (who think they run that major American city). He also allowed McCain to put down Gore.
Russert also put down the President for saying that the GOP is beating up Hillary Clinton as part of the "right wing venom machine!"
Gee, Tim, what's wrong with telling the truth?
McCain, the loser, thinks that Rudy Giuliani would "make an enormous impact on the United State Senate."
Yeah, right -- he would drive it toward open Nazi membership. If you think Rudy is a liberal because he is "pro-choice" and parts with the RNC on other minor issues, it isn't because he's moderate, it's because he's a goddamn liar and only takes these positions to attract New Yorkers, the majority of whom are liberals.
Remember the Yassir Arafat debacle during which Rudy refused to go to some event Arafat was at? Or Rudy demanding that Arafat be ejected from a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony by the New York Philharmonic -- a landmark musical work whose message is brotherhood and reconciliation?
Why?
Maybe because Giuliani's a murderer as well?
He has unleashed the worst thug element within the NYPD -- a small minority within the department -- on a mission to lock up, murder, or torture any non-white wandering around Manhattan. As a matter of fact, he backed the cops for murdering an unarmed black security guard.
Russert, who we think dreams that he might "cornhole" McCain in the Senate gym shower, then smiled, turned to McCain, and asked "hopefully" whether McCain will run in 2003-4. McCain said he is sure that BushBaby will be elected. McCain then turned psycho on Bush and said he will support "the nominee," but will not "work hard" for him as Russert asked (this is about McCain's reform agenda).
But McCain lied when he said he felt Bush could be elected. He knows the numbers. Bush is running between 8-13 points behind Gore, depending on what day it is.
And we know because we conduct twice-weekly polls on this horse race.
Hey! We have a suggestion for you, McCain -- why don't you become a Democrat? You ran like one -- nearly everything you say stems from Democrat ideals.
Trent Lott said that even as Secretary of Defense (another stupid McCain rumor), McCain would approve Lott's multibillion helicopter air carrier. McCain laughed.
McCain said he hopes he can be a keynoter at the GOP Convention in Philadelphia. Russert asked whether he will be a prime time speaker. Russert said he thinks that people give a damn.
Russert then hit President Clinton again -- for putting down the GOP over their killing the nuclear test ban treaty. McCain toed the GOP line and pretended that Clinton was lying. Anyone who reads knows damn well that McCain and his little storm trooper military ass-kissing buddies were dead set against cutting any military budget.
Russert said that McCain gave an interview with Salon where he said he will always forgive, but he will never forget. Good.
He didn't deny it -- but instead went into some weepy charade saying all he cares about is the American people.
Ha, ha, ha, ha. We thought he cared about his stewardess-like wife whom he drove to drug abuse by simply not being there when she needed him. And that's the truth.
Don't be fooled by McCain.
He is, after all, the least-prepared man in the Senate, and has only one talent -- to be locked up in Hanoi for all too long.
We respect McCain for spending years and years in a tiger cage... but hey, that didn't make you a good prospect for a Senate leader (which he isn't) or a President. Every politician is, by definition, a sociopath. You couldn't run for public office in this nation if you weren't.
Russert returned one last time to say buh-bye and to remind us "If it's Sunday, it's Meet the Press."
How about this, Tim? "If its Sunday, it's Meet the Lying, Fat, Conniving Little Prick Neo-Nazi Tim Russert" -- who was never a journalist and feels insecure about that. That's why he has such a weight problem -- it's guilt at making a million a year merely to pose as a wonderful Catholic guy and family man while he is actually an operative for Bush, McCain or anyone who isn't a Democrat.
He knows where his host is buttered.
And General Electric, ADM and Pfizer know too.
Reliable Sources
We don't often report on Reliable Sources, but it is one show that we never miss. Forget Evans, Novakula, Hunt & Shields. The same goes for The Capitol Gang, Both Sides and even CNN Late Edition (which has gotten a lot better since Blitzer stopped focusing on Clinton's private life).
RS remains CNN's most provocative and consistently interesting weekend program. The program claims to put a critical lens on the press -- and they do, but inevitably talk turns to politics. We feel they're not hard enough on the opinion shapers and the print press, but at least they're talking about it. And much as we often disagree with Howard Kurtz, he's far and away more fair than Russert, Hume, Sam, Cokie and the rest -- and we enjoy the wisdom of his co-host, the wise and underrated Bernie Kalb.
And the middle segment was delicious -- host Howard Kurtz brought up Diane Sawyer's "interview" with Elian Gonzalez, and gossip reporters Jeanette Walls, Richard Johnson and Lloyd Grove all took pot shots at the network. Walls and Grove made especially withering comments about ABC treating the tabloid aspects of this story as "serious journalism."
Earlier, Walls dissed Internet gossip slug Matt Drudge, who was so infuriated at Walls's reporting on the Fedora'd Fascists's sex life that he posted her home telephone number to his overrated -- and often inaccurate -- web site.
This Weak!
Lazio makes waves, Will critiques Staph!
Who do Spam and Cockie bring on to discuss Elian? Two leading Democrats -- Charlie Rangel of New York and Bob Torricelli of New Jersey. Charlie is leading House Democrat, Torricelli (a.k.a. The Torch) is a freshman Senator.
Isn't that just like Cockie and Spam -- to pit two Democrats against each other. Of course, they stole that idea from CNN who did the same thing a week ago.
Rangel thinks the Cuban-Americans in Miami suck, and so do we. Who the hell are they to impact the foreign policy of the United States by threatening sitting and upcoming Presidents, congressmen and Senators with riots, boycotts, and worse unless they continue this stupid blockade of all Cuban trade?
Generally, all Cubans in Miami are quitters. They came to this country under various bullshit excuses to gain citizenship. Most of them claim to have been doctors, lawyers, professors and, of course, HUGE sugar can plantation owners. So, of course, they hate Fidel for taking away their UNBELIEVABLY high incomes made on the slave labor of their fellow countryman who were part of the 500-year-old underclass supported by the likes of Batista, who was overthrown by Castro -- and for damn good reason.
These creeps would put Batsita's relatives back in power in order to gain there money back.
Rangel accused Gore of playing politics. Torricelli said there are real reasons for our separation from Castro. Even now, any Cuban can apply for asylum, but because Elian "Speedy" Gonzalez is a child, he can't apply on his own.
Why not? Who knows? Who cares?
Torricelli, who has a penchant of his own to protect foreign nationals, is concerned about Elian being sent back to the horrors of Cuba. Gee, we haven't heard of Castro torturing anyone. Sure, he kills people trying to overthrow his government -- but hey, don't we? Take Ruby Ridge, or Waco, where the Branch Davidians weren't even trying to overthrow the government, as just a couple of examples.
Torricelli reminded us that Castro used fire hoses to sweep children off their rafts and send them to their death. Rangel said screw Castro -- the kid should be with his father.
We don't agree with either side.
We think that he should have his own television show! Then he could get a green card and residency. Don't all the Brits who act in B movies get that? Sure!
Elian could star in the new sitcom, "Havana Hillbillies" or "Green Sugar Cane Acres," with Eva Gabor taking the role of Mama Gonzalez, who rules her son's home from the grave. The father could be Jose Clampettandez and the brother Jethro Bodinez. Fidel, who wouldn't mind living in California either, could play the evil banker, Senor DrysFiDale.
Hey! Why not? It wouldn't be anymore of a pathetic circus than the politicians and the self-serving Miami-based Cuban-Americans swine who think they can run this country and blackmail our leaders. We say send these stooges back to Cuba or, better yet, put them in internment camps. We recall that the American Japanese who we locked up for the whole of WW II (while we didn't lock up the Germans who were, believe us, cheering on Hitler as he gassed the Jews), did not try and force America to change its relationships with prewar Japan, or to boycott it or threaten to riot or from chains of human beings to block the cops.
The Mayors of San Francisco and Los Angeles did not scream out that they would not help the Feds lock up "The Japs" -- so what is this bullshit? We say lock up any Cuban-American who is trying to undermine this nation's foreign policy and threatening the rule of law. Screw 'em.
As for Al Gore: well, we understand he had to do what he did and back these punks, but those punks don't represent the entire Cuban-American population. Gore should have gone to Miami and met with them and tried to work out a compromise. He could have done that, but instead he simply backed their threats of riots and worse.
Gore: get rid of the idiots advising you or you will blow your 11-13% lead over the Bush Baby. You should have remained silent on the issue if you weren't willing to go down there and straighten the trouble makers out. Now that you haven't, well, you're toast in Florida. The Cubans think you are a Johnny-Come-Lately, and the other Floridians couldn't stand you in the first place. Now you'll only get 30% of the Florida vote.
Cockie then brought up an old story -- the MURDER of Patrick Dorismond, a black man, whose juvenile record Gestapo Colonel Rudy Giuliani illegally released, because he had once been arrested for a minor offense. In New York City, this wise move by Giuliani cost him a 20% loss in support from New Yorkers in less than week!!!
Thank God.
Rick Lazio was the next guest on This Geek -- and a geek his is.
He generated the big buzz of the weekend. He's going to challenge Giuliani.
What does this punk, who looks like an Italian Bar Mitzvah boy, think he's doing running for the United States Senate? Pataki, New York's governor with no mind, still supports Gestapo Rudy. That seals Pataki's fate. But what does he care? Lazio quotes John Zogby -- oh, no! Zogby is ALWAYS WRONG -- except once when Zog got lucky.
George Will, another Neo-Nazi, takes un the Giuliani mantle. He said that Rudy has to get off the pro-abortion bandwagon so he can get THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY of NY's backing.
What a joke! Rudy, if he was sane, would know he does not need these God-awful upstate freaks to win or lose.
He will lose because:
1. He is ugly as sin - inside and out.
2. He is a crook.
3. He was "doin' the nasty" with his PR "coffee" girl right in front of his wife's eyes and couldn't give a damn.
4. He lets the NYPD beat up, rape, and murder whoever they wish.
5. He enslaved blacks and other minorities in his vicious back-to-work program and now wants the mental patients -- people he and his crony Republicans threw into the streets by closing the mental hospitals -- to work for their rat-infested cots which he offers in City-run shelters.
We want Giuliani to run. Why? Because he will lose by the biggest majority in history and any chance he had to be Governor of New York, God help us -- the real reason he is running for Senate by the way.
The Round Table began. Staphylococcus said that the Gonzalez family is concerned about what happens if the father comes back -- he can get on a plane and take off with the kid. Hey, Staph -- WHO CARES?
Cockie said she wants Elian to come live with her -- AND GET THIS -- to get away from all these crazy politicians! AWAY FROM POLITICS? Don't make us laugh, Cockie! You're a political hack for your mother, the Ambassadorette to the Pope! Your father and mother were two of the snakiest pols in Louisiana and Washington history.
Will thinks that the Cubans should disobey the law -- so now we guess he is backing Gore. He compared this crap to the Underground Railroad, Martin Luther King's movement etc.
Then Staph shows his real GOP colors -- saying yeah -- then why don't we invite everyone in poverty to the nation? A real liberal -- not! -- the little twit.
Will said he thinks that living in America is better than living with your family. Staph said he thinks that living with your Daddy is best. Staph claimed that family courts ask whether the father is fit, not what is in the best interests of the child.
WRONG AGAIN, you little back-stabbing slime. The family court could look at anything it wants to -- just like any judge can consider any extenuating circumstance.
Will, who doesn't know anything about, Cuba claims that in Cuba you "are either a jailer or a prisoner." Ha, ha, ha. Good one Will, but no Cohiba.
If Elian goes home, he will become a Cuban national treasure -- get his own sugar cane farm and probably serve as Castro's Secretary of State. So don't worry about him.
In America, Elian will be discriminated against because his skin is dark and his name is Hispanic. He will continue to live under a jet runway in Miami. He will go deaf. He will get a lousy education. He will then, most likely, join a Cuban-American gang, get hooked on crystal meth and die. Either that or he will become a priest. That's the story for anyone non-white and non "born again" in the new Neo-Nazi America that Bush and his cronies have been planning.
Will then went into his baseball crap. Who cares? He worries that the Yankees make so much money and the Montreal Expos get nothing except some money from just one Canadian radio station.
Finally, Will threw a wild one at Staph (ha, ha, ha) -- Staph said that he is always embarrassed by his abject lack of knowledge about baseball.
Will turned to him and said, not baseball, just your abject lack of knowledge!!!!!!
George Will: Our Pundit of the DAY!!! Can you believe it?
CNN Late Edition
Wolf Lets Madman Dan Burton Make Fool of Himself!
We were so sick of Elian mania that we tuned out the first segment of Late Edition.
But we did catch some of Wolf's interview with the lowest form of life to be found in the halls of congress, Rep. Dan Burton (R-Cantaloupe Child Support Hypocrite). What is his position on Elian? Burton began bragging about his subpoena of Elian to prevent Immigration from "whisking the boy away."
We say that Burton has prolonged the psychological torture of Elian -- who is now bound to grow up to be a bigger sociopath than Burton. Burton talked about being beaten as a kid (implying Elian's dad is abusive without one iota of evidence.
Well, at least the beatings explain his psychotic behavior as chair of the House Reform Committee, which he runs as his own Star Chamber.
Wolf reminded Burton that no member of the family has claimed the dad is unfit -- then replayed Steve Largent's comment on his "brethren" being "shameless on the issue! Burton said he respected Largent, then started talking about being beaten again.
But this is typical of Burton -- accusing someone of something with not only no evidence, but evidence to the contrary! This is just what Burton does to the victims who appear before his committee. Wolf did not interrupt, choosing instead to let Burton make a fool of himself.
Burton said that Castro "is for Communist expansion" -- but acts oblivious to the fact that Castro does not have one Communist friend left to help him! Burton is clearly delusional, living in a 1961 Cold War dream world.
Following a break, there was a short clip of Joe Lockhart "responding" to Burton's call for a special counsel into White House emails.
Wolf, he wasn't responding -- he was putting down Burton.
Burton proudly said that he has called for two ICs and has subpoenaed the White House 30 times. He then lied about what the White House knew, and then claimed that emails were not put on a server, but "into a kind of dead space."
Wow -- a dead space! Spooky! Maybe Burton should to hold a seance!
Wolf said that databases would have to be rebuilt -- and then asked Burton if a White House counsel lied. Burton hemmed, hawed, and then backpedaled, even though he had said at the hearing that he did not believe Beth Nolan.
Instead he whined about the White House "threatening" Northrup-Grumman about the email glitch.
What a complete idiot. Like any Fortune 500 company, like any other branch of government, the White House wants these glitches handled discretely and quietly, for security reasons. And he is mischaracterizing what was said by and to Northrup-Grumman employees.
Wolf thanked Burton for appearing. We could practically hear him thinking, "Thanks for making a fool of yourself again, jerk."
Good going, Blitzer!
We ignored Wolf's interview of Peggy Noonan's non-sourced book that libels Hillary Clinton -- although we will mention that Wolf mentions George Will's put-down of her obnoxious polemic.
We once thought Noonan, who did a superb job as a speechwriter for Reagan, had class -- more so than to pull a stunt that lowers her to the level of a middle-aged Ann Coulter.
She doesn't. It's her shame.
