Blitzer goes after McHenry: Asks five times to Provide Evidence

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McHenry Speechless When Asked To Provide Evidence That Foley Scandal Was Election Ploy
Freshman Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) has been appearing on television shows all week suggesting that the Foley scandal was engineered by Democrats for electoral advantage. Today on CNN’s Late Edition, he said “all the fact points lead to one question”: whether House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) timed the release of the Foley emails.

In response to his talk of “fact points,” Wolf Blitzer asked McHenry five separate times whether he had any evidence whatsoever to support his conspiracy theory. McHenry had no answer. Watch it:

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http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/08/mchenry-pelosi/

[blitzen]

1. Repuke to Wolf: "Do you have any evidence that they WEREN"T

involved"?

hope the GOP keeps putting this shit-for-brains front and center

[LostInAnomie]

29. He tried that shit on Tweety.

Tweety looked at him like he was an idiot.

I guess he doesn't understand that you can't prove a negative.

[happydreams]

36. That's the same logic they use for detaining people without

charges. Guilty until proven innocent. :eyes:

[bullimiami]

2. why now? blitzer has let republicans tell him lies without challenge for

over 6 years now.

[last1standing]

8. Sinking ship, my friend. Sinking ship.

n/t

[tuvor]

3. McHenry: "Do you have evidence that they weren't involved?"

You can prove a negative, dumbass.

:eyes:

[Bad Santa]

22. Do you have evidence the Cylons weren't involved?

"Those human model cylons can be awful darn sneaky."
------ Gaius W. Baltar

[senseandsensibility]

4. I wish wolfie had said that brian ross

has already admitted that his sources were all republicans, and that this has been reported extensively elsewhere as well. It's not jut a matter of not having evidence; there is actual evidence to the contrary. It was weird seeing charlie rangel grinning in the background. Was he ever allowed to talk?

[spanone]

23. Wolf actually said this to the asswipe. He was just ranting this rw bullsh

it. I've seen this sick fuck on three or four shows during the last week. Talking that shit like it was fact. Wolf, I believe, will not have him back on.

[Reciprocity]

5. Claims he never knew Foley was gay. He is the only one I heard say this.

Wolfie this is your opinion not fact.

[Cha]

18. Beside the point...now that ol pat

mchenry knows foley is a child sexual predator..what does think of that shit?

[Crunchy Frog]

24. Probably wants to turn him loose on his own children

if he has any. I expect he would like to make some extra money on the side by selling the sexual favors of his children. In fact, I think that alot of Republicans are doing that these days.

At least that's what I feel to be true, and will be saying so every chance I get. The gloves are off now.

[madrchsod]

6. who approved this guy to be on tv?

was this the only guy anyone could find to answer questions. where`s karl? hiding out?in the closet? i almost feel sorry for this dumb ass to take the assignment

[Gabi Hayes]

7. one thing I found interesting, and a bit unsettling, on This Week:

some other android pug was on opposite Emanuel, and kept spewing the same crap, demanding if Rahm, personally KNEW about these emails, and RE said, at least twice, "I never SAW the emails" til after the story broke. when the pug repeated the question, as to whether he KNEW about them, RE said again that he'd never SEEN them.

that creeped me out, because he had every opportunity to deny ANY knowledge, and he didn't; he kept saying only that he hadn't seen the emails

I found this disconcerting, and I'm afraid the pugs are going to hammer on this

not that I think they can make a difference, unless this becomes a big RW talking point, which the M$M may dutifully concentrate upon, to the exclusion of all the other filth gathering about the pugs' knees these days.

interestingly, also, George S. didn't pick up on this bit of parsing, and ask RE about it, but he was PO'd at the guy for bringing him into it, via his Clinton connection (the creep brought up the Lewinsky fiasco, at least by inference, and GS told him that he'd left the oval office by 96, before Lewinsky raised her, uh, head)

[last1standing]

9. I"m sure some Dems did know something about this.

The problem with that line of questioning though is that even if they did know, they had no power to do anything about it. The repubs have effective control over investigation, subpoena, the ethics committee, and every other outlet in congress that could have been used to get to the bottom of the foley scandal. The repubs wouldn't even let Kildee (the Dem on the pages' panel) know what was going on. What makes anyone think they would let Dems investigate?

Everything comes down to one solitary fact: The repubs, who had complete control over everything, did nothing to stop child molestation within their own ranks even when explicitly warned about it. There is no accusation that can mitigate that statement and I think the voters have finally realized that.

[lcordero2]

12. AND CONTROL OVER THE PRESS

[DemocratSinceBirth]

11. Rahm Emanuel Is Not Responsible For Reporting Second Party Heresay

We call that gossip...

[StClone]

13. Saw it too parallel thoughts

The RW Points are set and Emanuel was not good at cutting the mental midget McHenry off at the knees. I'd say a Freeper watching the exchange was doing high fives. Though it is pretty apparent that no matter what the spin the Rs can not escape the weight of Foley's Scandal.

[Gabi Hayes]

15. righto....and this is an answer to the above posts, as well:

the pugs don't CARE about facts, truth, the law, or anything like that.

All they care about are OPENINGS, and Emanuel gave them a huge one

just wait

watch the pugs seize on that "didn't see any emails statement" and redouble their demands to know "what the dems knew and when they knew it"....and watch the media bend over like like limp pages to help them spread this fertilizer

[madmom]

16. the dems need to start saying, no we didn't, but so what if we did,

it takes nothing away from what they did!

[Erika]

10. The GOP owns this scandal, lock, stock, and barrel

Their efforts to blame the democrats and avoid accountability only make them look weaker.

[JohnnyRingo]

14. McHenry wants key Dems to swear under oath that they didn't have anything

to do with the release of evidence.
Then maybe he can get all the Green Party members under oath.
Then everyone at the NY Times....
Reporters at The Post
All the pages
Maybe the House cafeteria workers

Don't ever let a Republican hand near a bible though, unless they're pandering for votes.

All this crap from McHenry sounds like Repub ethics revolve around who catches them, not the act itself.

[Missy M]

17. And what purpose would that serve....

it's a good thing this is finally out in the open and should have been done a long time ago.

[driver8]

32. Who was the comedian who said, "Oh, Republicans just love the bible...

until you ask them to testify under oath. 'I'm not touching that book -- no way.'"

[Wednesdays]

33. This is the textbook definition of a fishing expedition

"McHenry wants key Dems to swear under oath that they didn't have anything to do with the release of evidence."

Shoot, we could play that game all day...while we're at it, make every key Repuke swear under oath that they didn't have anything to do with 9/11.

[tinymontgomery]

19. I'm in this ass wipes district

some folks I've spoken with think he's gay also. I personnel think the DEMS should look at them and demand THEY go under oath about what they knew and when and then ask them under oath if they are gay. Dems need to get back on the offense as soon as asked.

Mcshit also needs to go join the military since he's only 30 or 31 years old. Guys a pure chicken shit!

[Postman]

20. I think Harvey the invisible rabbit did it because he hasn't denied it...

what an a-hole.

[Igel]

21. E-mails aren't the problem.

I've read them, or at least some of them (so hard to know if I've read them all). Annoying, irritating, but I'm unconvinced I'd have done anything about them.

The IMs ... different story.

"The source who provided the e-mails that ABC News first reported on its blog, denied sharing the more explicit IMs." (From your link.)

Was McHenry really so much of a twit as to focus on the e-mails?

[bvar22]

30. The E-Mails are a HUGE Problem.

If you read them, and don't see a problem, then I hope you don't work with children.

[KharmaTrain]

25. So A Democrat Learns Of A Repugnican Predator...Then What?

Let's test this stupid talking point and what would have happened.

Let's say Emanuel did have these emails...protocol would have been for him to take this matter to the head of the Page board and his superior...in this caes it wouldn't just be Pelosi, but to Hastert's office. The buck stops there. Now knowing these goons like we do, what action would Hastert have taken? Gone to the ethics committee that he, personally, defanged? Have his buddy Reynolds give Foley one of those "cool it will ya" and then take the $100G check and wish his re-election campaign well. Where would Emmanuel go then?

Personally, I hope a Democrat learned of these emails and may be helped to blow the whistle. The bottom line is there's oe less predator in the House of Representatives today than there was two weeks ago...and if it had been it had been left to McHenry or Putnman or any of these young fascists, Foley's predatory antics would still be tolerated.

Maybe these screws can tap dance around a double-negative, but Democrats are being smart by not doing anything more than rubbing the highlights of this scandal right back into their faces.

The game here for Putnam and McHenry is like the mafia neophyte who has to kill someone to prove their value, this is somehow earning their wings in wingnutland.

[Stinky The Clown]

26. That smarmy little fuck is exactly the type whose face I'd want tor ip off

Join the fucking army, you little dweeby asswipe.

Oh I forgot, you can't, if my gaydar is properly calibrated .... and I think it is.

[Gabi Hayes]

28. he was a kute kid, tho

[Jack Rabbit]

27. That was a smackdown

From an unexpected source.

Thank you, Mr. Blitzer. You've done a good deed today.

[oasis]

31. McHenry gets his info from Rush Limpwad, he don't need no stinkin' proof.

:puke:

[yurbud]

34. Ironically, it would be an improvement if Dems timed this release

But I don't think they have the cajones.

Parking ticket scandal? Maybe.

Something that gets to the heart of the duplicity and rape of America by the GOP? No.

[yurbud]

35. contrast this with Kristol: "Bush can't act on Iraq until AFTER election"

In this video, Smith says maybe we need to put more troops in Iraq, and Kristol says Bush can't do that until after the election.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=2278294

So if GOP theory about Dems is true, they timed the revelation of this perv's tendencies to coincide with the election--so what?

By contrast, Kristol admits that Bush might be putting off action that could save troops lives (at least in some minds) to avoid losing votes for GOP in November.

Outing perv vs. letting troops die.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

37. If anyone wants to contact him here's the info:

I sent him an e-mail asking why he's so involved in covering up for pedophiles.

http://mchenry.house.gov/Contact/