plus John DEAN on Shrub's impeachment scenario. Gibby is halfway down.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10626716/.... DEAN: Well,
I don't think there's any question he's violated the law. He's admitted to violating the law. What he is saying, I have a good defense, and that is national security. I have this power to do this, or this very vague resolution that the Congress granted for my using force in dealing with Afghanistan and terrorists. I can read into that that it also includes collecting signal intelligence.
It's a stretch. So what does this all mean? Is it an impeachable offense? Keith, that is a purely political question, and only the House of Representatives can decide it in the first instance. And I don't think they're going to decide it against the president at this point.
OLBERMANN: Two years ago, when you were writing your book
“Worse Than Watergate,” you entitled a chapter “Scandals or Worse,” and
you listed 11 specific areas where trouble might be brewing. And then you wrote less specifically about two other areas of concern.
Let me just review those 13 points, if you will, quickly here.
One, character issues would meet Mr. Bush's past conduct, service record, and what not.
Two, his prior business conduct, how to get a company and your own ball club without really trying or paying. Number
three, whether or not the vice president had been truthful about his own health. And number
four, Mr. Cheney's past business conduct. Hello, Halliburton. ....
Our number-three story in the COUNTDOWN, we have a complaint. Evidently John
Gibson and Bill O'Reilly of Fox News don't like being considered among the worst persons in the world, even though they clearly are.
O'Reilly first. He was funnier. Last week the big giant head did some sort of year-end wrap-up of his rants and distortions, it was a kind of
self-loofahing of congratulation for the nightly disaster his program means for the truth. ....
Unfortunately, I now have to change the subject to John
Gibson. And this is greatly painful because I really don't know why he's decided to try to destroy himself. But he has. O'Reilly is one of those blissful idiots who can rationalize anything, that doing this enough usually results in a nervous breakdown is well-known and his clock is clearly ticking in that regard.
But even he is not so functionally stupid as to deny saying things that are preserved on tape, which is what Mr. Gibson is doing. ....
...whether he thinks me insincere or not, I really did like
Gibby, hardworking here, always there, able to cover a shift or help out in any way he could. Now, instead, he's denying he said despicable things, things that where recorded for posterity and worse he is now trying to blame those hateful things on me. Ordinarily, when somebody gets caught saying to something as intolerant as this, their choices are A: to apologize, B: to
resign, or C: to make sure there's no tape and try to lie their way out of it.
John, unfortunately, chose D: blame it on somebody else. The audio clip is the definitive answer, and
I would hope John would have the self-respect to acknowledge what he said and to
leave the airwaves for good, because between the remark and the denial,
he has, sadly, forfeited his right to stay here. ....
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