Olbermann Broadcasts Cordier Story Live On MSNBC

[ruggerson]

He just showed the graphic of the cached webpage before Bush/Cheney dumped the name!!

[My Pet Goat]

1. Olbermman is all over this story tonight !!

Starts of with interview of Chicago Tribune chief editor. Very persausive. Swift vets on Trib. night editor's boat were FED UP WITH THE LIES!!

Running Harball from Thurs. again. LOL!

[My Pet Goat]

3. Report from a Diner:

They're getting tired of the mudslinging.

[napi21]

4. The only thing I don't like is the coverage this twit is getting! n/t

[Archae]

2. Who's Cordier?

:shrug:

[maine_raptor]

5. missed the beginning

but it's repeated at 11 pm est

[DeepModem Mom]

6. FAN MAIL FOR KEITH: [e-mail], and MSNBC...

[e-mail]

[grasswire]

7. champagne for the blogosphere!

If only the talking heads had realized earlier that thousands of netizens comprise a brilliant research department!

[Kahuna]

37. How about that. You guys rock!!!

There's no rapid response team that can match DU!

[ruggerson]

8. Here's the Back Story On Cordier

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x647199

[Moderator]

9. This is not Latest Breaking News

In the future post this type of observance in GDD2004 or another forum.

Thanks

[ruggerson]

10. I appreciate the rules

But if a national broadcaster breaks a story that we helped uncover here this AM, isn't that news?

And aren't we trying to get the truth out as effectively as possible about the collusion between Bush and the Swiftsmearers?

Cheers.

[janx]

13. I don't know that we helped uncover it, but we did help to forward

the information.

And you're right--it is news. I'm busy getting ready for work for the upcoming semester and haven't been around television at all.

Will the Olberman program be repeated tonight? I'd just love to see the screen capture that is on my PC replicated on MSNBC.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

15. 8 PM Pacific, 11 PM Eastern

I know I'll be watching.

:toast:

DU owes a BIG, BIG round of applause to our very own grasswire for picking up on Digby's blog (http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2004_08_15_digbysblog_archive.html#109305446449877913) this morning. Digby broke it, grasswire yanked it kickin' and screamin' into DU's backyard, and everyone here joined in while we fried it up on the grill.

:toast:

Currently, Digby reports that:

"The RNC lawyers seem to have forgotten to tell their local patriots to ixnay on the wift-boat-say on their official sites,too:

Patriotboy has a screenshot of the Collier County Republican Central Committee soliciting funds for the Swift Boat Liars.

Uh, and it's still on their web site right now at 3:45 PDT on August 21, 2004. Check it out.

The last google cache they have is for August 10th, but they were featuring the book "Unfit For Command" and the Swift Boat ad ready for viewing right up front then, too."

He's right...here's a screenshot I took just a moment ago, and once again I've highlighted it so you can go right to the part he mentions:



The source of the screen shot:

http://www.colliergop.org/

[Beetwasher]

18. HOLY COW!

Even MORE evidence!!! Yikes! Every one grab it before it's gone!!

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

27. People should check out their own local RNC Web sites too

If Digby is correct in his assertion...if the RNC is instructing all regional affiliates to scrub the Swift Boat garbage from their sites...there may be a limited window of opportunity for "documenting" their patriotic efforts.

:evilgrin:

[janx]

22. Damn! They are completely entrenched with the Bush campaign!

It's illegal for a 527 to do that.

Is there a search strategy that might help to uncover this activity in other states?

P.S. You're GREAT!

[Sparkly]

24. WHOA!!!

Amazing.

[Sparkly]

25. Tell me the "Bland Aid" joke isn't directly tied to the SwiftSmear, too!!

How obvious is that?!

[Kimber Scott]

41. I love the blog about WalMart! ROFLMAO!

He thinks Sam's Club is LIBERAL because he could only find "liberal" literature on display there. Now he's going to shop at CostCo! ROFLMAO! This is too great.

[My Pet Goat]

11. Missed the part about BC04 dumping the name from webpage...

Doesn't that have legal significance, like getting caught in the act cleaning up damming evidence? I think it makes the case easier to prove fraud or something. Sorta like, why would you be dumping the name from the web page if you did not think it was wrong?

[janx]

12. HAHAHA! Amazing! We were doing screen captures of that

less than twelve hours ago! It started in the blogosphere!

Somebody (from here or elsewhere) sent it to MSNBC!

[oasis]

14. Cheating, lying rethug bastards.

[AmerDem]

31. Remembe,r the only way repukes ever have gotten ahead is...

Lying, Cheating and Stealing!

[Catherine Vincent]

16. Damn!

I didn't know Olbermann was on Saturday nights too!

[nostamj]

28. "Special Edtion" of Olberman tonight....

hmmm....

[ruggerson]

17. This Story Has Legs Folks

People can relate to simple concepts like the Bush/Cheney campaign pulling down a name mysteriously after an FEC complaint was filed.

Send this one out to Reuters and AP if you know any reporters there. This is good for a three or four day cycle and may explode into a MUCH bigger story.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

19. You BET, and you know what I just realized when you said that?

ANOTHER reason it has legs...whoever the players are from the Bush campaign who are scurrying around removing names from Web Pages and Web Pages from Google caches and so on...doesn't it remind you of a certain Commander Bunnypants who hippity-hopped all over the U.S.A. on Air Force One on 9/11 to save his fluffy-tailed little behind?

You better BELIEVE this story has legs.



:evilgrin:

[Chichiri]

20. Is that . . .

Bush and Card in the schoolroom when the 2nd plane hit the WTC?

Did you make that graphic yourself? I shuddered just looking at it. It should be released to the general public.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

23. Yes, it's Andy interrupting George's dramatic reading of "My Pet Goat"

I did it in Photoshop. Thanks for the comment...print it, e-mail it, drop it into your posts, pass it around. If Bush wants to run on his record, let's get the good word about that record out for him.

:evilgrin:

[AmerDem]

32. Nice photo of shrub shitting himself!

What a vacant piece of shit he is! Look at that expression, he is completely clueless!

[ItsMyParty]

21. Olberman also revealed that one of them in on the board of

the Bush I Library. I didn't catch the name but I don't believe it's Cordier because he then went into Cordier being on the Vets for Bush/Cheney group. Could you give me any info on who the guy is that's on the library board and whether that has come out in the news the last couple days (first I heard of it).

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

26. There was a second guy "outed" in the U.S. Newswire release today

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?ReleaseID=34994

I posted this URL in another thread but only excerpted the Cordier stuff:

PAUL GALANTI

JUDGEMENT: Wanted To Ban Draft Dodgers From Public Colleges

"A House of Delegates committee yesterday killed a bill sponsored by Del. Warren E. Barry (R-Fairfax) that would have directed Virginia's state colleges not to admit any young man who failed to register for the draft. Barry appeared before the Education Committee along with a former Navy flier, Paul Galanti of Richmond, who had spent seven years as a North Vietnamese prisoner of war, but the panel nonetheless killed his idea for the second year in a row, this time by a vote of 12 to 8." (Washington Post, 2/5/83)

JUDGEMENT: Called Conservative Christians "Sheep"

"They probably called their little followers. They vote on that one issue. They call them sheep. That's exactly what they are." -- Paul Galanti, McCain's Virginia campaign co-chairman, on the backlash by Virginia's conservative Christian voters after McCain's attacks Monday on the Rev. Jerry Falwell and Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson. AP, 2/29/00

JUDGEMENT: Insulting Disabled Vets?

"Life has a way of throwing curve balls and John (Hager) got beaned by one when he acquired polio as an adult and lost the use of his legs. He would have been forgiven for tossing in the towel, drifting over to the VA hospital and spending the rest of his life feeling sorry for himself." (Richmond Times Dispatch, 6/2/01)

JUDGEMENT: On Critics Of The Vietnam War: "Communist Sympathizers"

"It caused me to question anything I hear from Communists or their many sympathizers or copycats or dupes in America who tended then -- and still tend -- to distort the truth for their personal gain, or even (gasp) to lie if that will achieve the desired end." (Richmond Times Dispatch, 6/17/01)

PARTISAN: Carter-Basher

"I had a great final three years in the Navy despite the devastation Carter's policies had wrought on the military. My last Navy year was under one of the finest-ever Commanders-in- Chief, who led the country out of Jimmy Carter's unlamented and self-caused "malaise."" (Richmond Times Dispatch, 6/17/01)

[noamnety]

30. That would be Harlan Crow.

Crow is a member of the founders committee of the Club For Growth, a conservative political group that raises money uses it to influence public policy and elect political candidates who advocate the "Reagan vision of limited government and lower taxes."

Texans for Public Justice and Homeowners Against Deficient Dwellings, public watchdog groups in Texas, have criticized the wealthy businessman for making contributions to Texans for Lawsuit Reform, a conservative political lobbying group which protects the interest of big business. They claim he runs a business which leads the state in workplace deaths and injuries." http://www.savannahnow.com/stories/101401/LOClibrary.shtml

In 1988, he and Vice President Dick Cheney served on the board of trustees of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, a conservative think tank that funds research promoting conservative business and political interests. AEI promotes neo-conservative ideals and has close ties to the current Bush Administration. On February 26, 2003 President Bush was the key-note speaker at the American Enterprise Institute. He enthused that, at AEI, "Some of the finest minds of our nation are at work on some of the greatest challenges to our nation. You do such good work that my administration has borrowed twenty such minds. I want to thank them for their service" (Quoted by J. Pilger (2004) the Case for Civil Disobedience in Tell Me Lies Propaganda and Media Distortion in the Attack on Iraq, ed. D. Miller, Pluto Press, p25) AEI has been an avid opponent of the Kyoto protocol, as well as most other environmental regulations. AEI climate science skeptics include James K. Glassman, also of ExxonMobil-funded Tech Central Station. ExxonMobil CEO Lee Raymond is on the AEI board of trustees. ExxonMobil gave AEI approximately $925,000 between 1998 and 2003. http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=9

Crow is a trustee of the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation. http://www.georgebushfoundation.org/bush/asp/OverView/Trustees.asp

When is the media going to report the Crow - Cheney connection?!

[Mz Pip]

29. Can't wait!

THis won't be on for nearly an hour out here in still sunlit CA.

Sounds like Olbermann is pushing that boulder closer to the cliff. Th.e press haas been so easy on BushCo that maaybe Rove and company got sloppy.

One question, though. If this is illegal what would the next step be. Just because something is illegal it doesn't mean that anyone (the FEC or John Asscrack's Justice Dept.) will do a damn thing about it.

MzPip
:dem:

[Doosh]

33. thanks keith

you won't see brit hume covering this, that's for sure

[alarcojon]

34. Rerun coming on now

for those who missed it the first time.

:kick:

[Justice]

35. Cool. I emailed Countdown the DU link this morning

when I heard he was having a Saturday show.

(I am sure other DUers did as well - great work everyone!!)

[Rosco T.]

36. "she has discovered there is no emoticon for 'BackPeddle' !!!!!!!

ghod, I love this guy!

[Skip Intro]

39. LOL - that caught me too

directed to michelle malkin, about her whining over something that didn't effin happen.

Keith Olberman - I f**king love you!

[DU GrovelBot]

38. ## PLEASE DONATE TO DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND! ##

==================
GROVELBOT.EXE v3.0
==================



This week is our third quarter 2004 fund drive. Democratic
Underground is a completely independent website. We depend almost entirely
on donations from our members to cover our costs. Thank you so much for
your support.

[rullery]

40. Olberman rerun - Wow!

Just caught the rerun on MSNBC. Thanks to you who pointed us to it. One of the most devastating and poignant things Olberman said, was the words of one of the Iraqi Olympic soccer players, protesting Bush using them for his campaign ad, and saying of Bush:

"How will he face his God, having slaughtered so many men and women?"

This is a question that we should all put to Bush, every day from now until the election!

[many a good man]

42. The Devil has a special place in Hell for men like Bush...

...and others who have started unjustified WARS throughout human history. The hell they have unleashed on Earth will be magified one hundredfold in the afterlife.

[madfloridian]

43. Found this reference to the page at Jeeves.

GeorgeWBush.com :: Veterans - National Steering Committee
Bush’s Agenda. Pres. George W. Bush. Vice President Cheney. Laura Bush. Lynne Cheney ... Kenneth Cordier Colonel, USAF (Ret.), ...
www.georgebush.com/Veterans/SteeringCommittee.aspx

[DeepModem Mom]

44. kick