Alack...Karl Rove must be off his game (TPM tidbit)

[FredScuttle]

Gotta love Josh Marshall:

"As this site notes, the lawyer representing President Bush in the Plame case, James E. Sharp, is also defending Ken Lay in the Enron Götterdämmerung case. (bold is mine)

Admittedly, it probably doesn't presage a joint defense. But the optics leave a bit to be desired, no?"

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_07_11.php#003159

(mods - sorry if this doesn't qualify as LBN...feel free to move as appropriate)

[Robbien]

1. They cannot be this stupid

Can they?

[FredScuttle]

4. Karl Rove: Political Genius or Humongous Tool?

Bwaaah! The bloom is definitely off the rose (or Turd Blossom, if you prefer)

[Cha]

2. Coinsidence? It smacks of cronyism!

kenny boy said they were good friends ..they just haven't spoken since the whole thing went down.

[FredScuttle]

3. I wonder how long before Scotty Boy

gets up in his usual flop sweat and stammers "But....Mr. Sharp also represented someone who once met a second cousin of Bill Clinton!"

[fearnobush]

5. Save this one for later, we'll

need the ammo during the Repuke Convention.

[Robbien]

6. Without Josh we would have completely missed this one

Appears that the blogs are doing all the work the media used to do in years gone by. The media just repeats sound bites and party propaganda talking points while the blogs are doing all the investigative work. And the reporters have the nerve to look down on blog writers. Ha! At the conventions the reporters will all be flocked around the routine campaign speeches while the blog writers will be out there scoping the crowd and scooping up the real dirt.

[Octafish]

7. You missed this DU thread from yesterday...

seemslikeadream and susu369 caught it off Ken Lay's appearance on Larry King.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1979019

As usual: DUs ahead of the game.

[Robbien]

8. Doesn't surprise me one bit

DUers are great at this type of investigative work.

NYT and WaPo along with the network alphabets suck, big time.

[FredScuttle]

11. Thanks Octafish

I missed it. Great catch by those two


Don't you long for a responsible media that would connect the dots and actually report this?

[Octafish]

12. You're welcome, lib71!

You are absolutely correct, lib71. A free press is so important, the Founders made it the only business named in the Constitution. The First Amendment:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

What these crypto-fascist turds of Corporate McPravda have done with their professional responsibilities today is a shame. These presstitutes and those who lower themselves even further to serve as the squeaky pipes of (to paraphrase Dulles) the crook's Mighty Whorelitzer are to be pittied. Their behavior and words are there for all to see through our future history and their inactions will ring through eternity.

[FredScuttle]

15. Agreed

It turns my stomach to see a complete and utter tool like Russert fashion himself as some sort of Brahmin of electronic journalism when, in actuality, he's just another bought-n-paid-for harlot.

Thankfully, we have blogs. And the international press. And this board.

[tom_paine]

25. Well said, Octafish. Love that "Corporate McPravda" line

May I use it?

[Octafish]

26. Anytime, Tom!

We need to spread the news.

[Solly Mack]

16. Sharp also represented General Ver (Aquino murder)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=623987&mesg_id=624868&page=

check out post #28 & # 29

[Octafish]

21. I knew he seemed dirty. Didn't know he could be THAT dirty.

Thanks, Solly Mack! Greeeeeeat thread, that.

[Solly Mack]

22. Welcome!!

It's one big circle. One person seems to lead to another and they all seem to connect somehow.
Maybe it's just a power circle...maybe it's something else.

[proud patriot]

9. Wheeeeee !

:D

[iconoclastic cat]

10. Is this the Repub version of a Mob lawyer?

"My client has nothing to say to your honor, except that he hopes your car is running well." (tie being straightened in a menacing fasion)

[Kool Kitty]

13. I'm certain this is no more than a coincidence.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! Funny how NOT ONE OF THE NEWSMODELS MENTIONED THIS?

[FredScuttle]

14. If this makes Faux News...

I will buy everyone on this board a beer.


(just one beer! Ha!....apologies to Richard Pryor)

[SpiralHawk]

23. Make mine a Modelo Especial

in a flagon, please.

Chimpy and Kenny-boy sitting in a tree,
hiring the same criminal lawyer,
totally devoid of glee.

[hedgetrimmer]

17. James E. Sharp

~SNIP~

"He began practicing law in Navy JAG and also served as assistant US
District Attorney for the District of Columbia. In about four decades of law practice, he has represented Richard Nixon friend Bebe Rebozo, Nixon advisor Jeb Stuart McGruder during the Watergate scandal, and Gen. Richard V. Secord during Iran-Contra. Sharp has also numbered former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay and author Clifford Irving among his clients. Maybe that's where the estate planning comes in. Despite the list of well-known Republican clients, his political donations go mostly to Democrats, including the presidential campaign of Sen. John Kerry."

... more ...

link: http://mailman.efn.org/pipermail/local_activists/2004-June/000453.html

[lostnfound]

18. LOL. Either the behavior of the Repubs has disgusted him so much

that he wants Dems in office, or it's an attempt to sling mud onto his enemy by contributing money..? :shrug:

[hedgetrimmer]

19. Or, they are all on the same team. Hmmmmmmmm... n/t

[dusty64]

20. Huge tidbit you will

NEVER see in the corporate "news".

[Manix]

24. Rove is over-rated! I have always thought so. His goofs are numerous.

[banana republican]

27. They are trying to coordinate ther lies

so that they agree with each other on the witness stand when they are tried.

[Democat]

28. Why would Bush have a lawyer? Lawyers are evil, they are bad for America!

Wait, that only applies to Democrats.