EXCLUSIVE:This afternoon: Bush ties to Abramoff, firm probed... Developing

EXCLUSIVE: This afternoon: Bush ties to Abramoff, firm probed... Developing...
http://www.rawstory.com/

First Bradblog and now Raw Story have developing stories and breaking news for us. I hope it's worth the wait and the suspense. I'll be dissapointed if its another story that sinks like a rock and is totally ingnored by the MSM.

I think the corporate media will ignore everything connected to Bush.

Original Message
"I've given up"

and it wouldn't get mentioned in the MSM.

Then they could disprove Ron Reagan's statement that his dad "crapped bigger ones than Bu$h."

If it was just big-time campaign donations it won't even get a glance by the media.

Just when you least expect it...Boom!

is out there that the right wing controlled press will not spin if it is already widely known, or bury the report on the news if it is just a blog item.

Welcome to GOP state media - if you are GOP it is "fair and balanced".

a lost cause. Even if they covered the story, they would put a pro-Bush spin on it and hire thousands of right-wing talking heads to cover the bases. Before long, the whole thing will be made into a partisan attack by us powerful liberals. There is no penetrating the MSM without coming up with our OWN media. That is the bottom line.

I still do not understand why anyone thinks that GE, Viacom, and Disney will do the right thing concerning telling the American people the truth. They won't. Not while they are raking in MAJOR bucks on other ventures and barely have to pay any taxes on their ill-gotten gains.

As far as the MSM is concerned, Bush is king and we had better start liking it.

and the MSM Corporate puppets would totally ignore it, therefore it would never have happened in the eyes of the murkins.

They would laud him for promoting diversity... and, with all the stress of the War on Terror, he needed the relief. Unlike Bill Clinton who presided over happy times and his incident with Monica was just pure evil lust.

for the "soft bigotry of refusing to commit adultery with an African American woman."

:patriot:

There is so much real illegal activity going on why does anyone think that SmirkCo 'having' vague 'ties' to Abromoff is going to get us anywhere?

Sounds like sensational rhetoric to me.

There's like ten threads on DU trumpeting this vague 'developing' stuff. What is up with all this?

If there's a story, publish the fucking thing. If there's not, stop cluttering up DU with tabloid headlines that are meaningless.

previous thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3602300

There is another post from the BradBlog site.

....FIRM FOR WORK DURING 2000 RECOUNT... 3:45 PM...

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www.missionnotaccomplished.us - STOP THE ATROCITIES; INDICT BU$H AND ALL THE OTHER WAR CRIMINALS, NOW

if the bill is old enough.

Might be something here.

then it is a clear violation of election laws, especially if the group filed their financial reports and omitted to report all of their campaign contributions.

"As a corporation, Greenberg’s unpaid tab represents a massive in-kind campaign contribution, far larger than anything that went unreported by DeLay. But it appears to be legal: corporations are allowed to donate any amount to the nebulous type of committee employed during the recount. It would, however, violate the committee's self-imposed $5,000 contribution limit from individual donors."

http://rawstory.com/exclusives/byrne/abramoff_florida_recount_bush_505.htm

Bu$h doesn't pay his bills. Didn't the Bu$h campaign leave a bunch of unpaid bills in its wake?

And the MSM still isn't talking about that memo are they?

The M$M is becoming irrelevant anyway.

Not a word. :(

will be news and have to be covered. When does the news understand that you can't hold back the little snowfalls until they become an avelanche?

Alberto Gonzales. Whoopeeee.

doesn't bring the house of cards down...I am frustrated too. But I keep on, keeping on. Trying to be the media ourselves.

Give them links to the British papers, Raw Story, Greg Palast, BBC, etc. The news is out there. We need to somehow force feed it to the clueless.

and when I do, they look at me as if I had two heads! I swear, people don't want to hear it! They might not like *, but anything about 911 or the stolen election or even the crudefest ala Laura the other night-forgetaboutit! People want to live in their own little bubble world where everything's fine just as long as they can pay their bills AND don't have to go and fight in the war or their kids don't have to fight in it. It's damned frustrating! I'm really starting to think that we will be suffering through years and years and years and years and years of this shit. They've got us and they know it.

:argh:

I asked my co-worker: "do you want a politician making end of life decsions for you?" She said "no." She is very conservative but cool at the same time. :eyes:

This morning I've got a new idea. How about all of us take to the streets with bullhorns and start "broadcasting" the truth. Since god knows the corporate media isn't doing it. Maybe we could reach some people, I don't know. But I guess desperate times call for desperate measures! I don't know if this makes me want to laugh or cry... :shrug: :cry: :rofl:

Iraq pre-invasion plans, they are hopeless. We have to get our own stations/outlets.

Maybe, just maybe, enough people will tune in and hear some real news. I'm not hopeful in my area because the Air America station in Atlanta can hardly be heard in my NE GA town.

if Enron didn't sink them, why do you think this will?

or inaction appears less bizarre. They are doing what they are paid to do, and it's not journalism.

on BigEddie Schultz right now on this story.

dp

to him no matter how disgraceful his behavior. I comfort myself in remembering that the original Teflon Don, Mr. Gotti, eventually spent the rest of his natural life behind bars for his crimes.

It could happen.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/05/05/national/w234745D97.DTL

Lobbyist Had Close Contact With Bush Team

By SHARON THEIMER, Associated Press Writer

Thursday, May 5, 2005

(05-05) 23:47 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) --


In President Bush's first 10 months, GOP fundraiser Jack Abramoff and his lobbying team logged nearly 200 contacts with the new administration as they pressed for friendly hires at federal agencies and sought to keep the Northern Mariana Islands exempt from the minimum wage and other laws, records show.


The meetings between Abramoff's lobbying team and the administration ranged from Attorney General John Ashcroft to policy advisers in Vice President Dick Cheney's office, according to his lobbying firm billing records.


Abramoff, a $100,000-plus fundraiser for Bush, is now under criminal investigation for some of his lobbying work. His firm boasted its lobbying team helped revise a section of the Republican Party's 2000 platform to make it favorable to its island client.


In addition, two of Abramoff's lobbying colleagues on the Marianas won political appointments inside federal agencies...

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materials. This was my first thought. No way Bushco will let their "golden boy" (Ha!) get hit with anything. I predict another plane crash.

from Gore.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31074-2005Jan23.html