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Cheney Killed Bambi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-22-07 10:33 AM
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Breaking: Roger Stone resigns after Spitzer voicemail fiasco!
Roger Stone was hired as a consultant to the Senate Republican
Campaign Committee in June. He has agreed to resign and end his
relationship with us at our request.


http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2007/08/bruno_stone_has_resigned.html
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HeraldSquare212 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-22-07 10:35 AM
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1. NY politics is so messed up right now
I can only hope a real anti-incumbent fervor is the outcome of all this nonsense.
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WorkingClassGuy Donating Member (47 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-22-07 10:36 AM
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2. Was He The Guy Who Advertised In Swinger Magazines?
eom
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Cheney Killed Bambi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-22-07 10:37 AM
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3. He went to swinger's parties
He's a long time Repub dirty tricker, who got his start working for Colson in the Nixon administration. He's rumoured to be behind the TANG forgeries.
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WorkingClassGuy Donating Member (47 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-22-07 10:39 AM
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6. I Think I Saw His Personal Ad On A TV Program..
He's a bodybuilder and was looking for a female partner to join him and his wife...
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LiberalHeart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-22-07 10:55 AM
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11. Remember when he trotted his wife around to talk shows and...
...and they chatted about the oh-so-terrible (alleged) pass Bill Clinton made at the wife?
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girl gone mad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-22-07 11:04 PM
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19. All I have to say is..
where there's smoke, there's fire, my friend.
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lovuian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-22-07 10:38 AM
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4. the Scum of the Earth has been found out as Republican
thuggery and they have targeted Spitzer as the enemy

Spitzer has to be smiling at their idiocy

Keep attacking Republican Idiots...

Republican threats is dirt...Stone worked for Nixon and Delay all crooks
Republican Party crooks

and surprise surprise Stone worked for Sharpton
Wake up
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-22-07 10:38 AM
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5. crissakes this asshat has been around forever, i cannot believe people still hire him.
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Cheney Killed Bambi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-22-07 12:28 PM
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14. Republicans will hire anyone
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Gold Metal Flake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-22-07 10:40 AM
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7. Roger Stone is a prime RNC dirty tricks operative.
He was involved with the Florida Coup in 2000.

He was the one who passed on the TANG docs that were subsequently alleged to be forgeries.

He and his wife are a constant source of RNC attacks against this nation.
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Cooley Hurd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-22-07 10:44 AM
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8. Here'a the background to this by Josh Marshall:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/024762.php

<snip>
Here we pick up the story from the sedate pages of the hometown paper ...

The message, left at Bernard Spitzer’s Manhattan office just before 10 p.m. on Aug. 6, says that Mr. Spitzer, 83, a wealthy real estate developer, would be “compelled by the Senate sergeant at arms” to testify about “shady campaign loans” he made to his son during Eliot Spitzer’s unsuccessful campaign for attorney general in 1994.
Mr. Winner’s committee has been holding hearings into a scheme by some of Governor Spitzer’s top aides to use the State Police to embarrass the Senate Republican leader, Joseph L. Bruno. Senate Republicans have said they were considering reviewing Bernard Spitzer’s 1994 loans to his son.

“If you resist this subpoena, you will be arrested and brought to Albany,” the message says, according to a transcript. The message also calls Governor Spitzer a “phony” and a “psycho.”



That led Spitzer's dad to hire a private security agency which ... well, back to the Grey Lady ...

Bernard Spitzer’s lawyers hired Kroll Associates, the private investigative firm, to trace the message, and their report was included with the letter to Mr. Winner. The firm traced the number that appeared on Mr. Spitzer’s caller identification system, linking it to listings under the name of Mr. Stone’s wife, Nydia.
“The review of publicly available records,” the report says, “strongly suggests that the number is controlled by Roger Stone.”

Digital recordings were also sent to Mr. Winner, including the audio of the voice mail message and “a sample of Roger Stone’s voice from a broadcast interview” to allow for comparison. The Times was given a copy of both recordings, but was unable to draw any conclusions about whether Mr. Stone’s voice was on Mr. Spitzer’s phone message.

In the message, the caller says, referring to a potential subpoena: “There is not a goddamn thing your phony, psycho, piece-of-shit son can do about it. Bernie, your phony loans are about to catch up with you. You will be forced to tell the truth and the fact that your son’s a pathological liar will be known to all.”

</snip>

Roger Stone's a major creepizoid...

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peacetalksforall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-22-07 10:52 AM
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9. Guess he's a failure as a Rovian.
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The Count Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-22-07 10:53 PM
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18. You mean, unlike the Turd himself who also resigned???
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Cassandra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-22-07 11:09 AM
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13. " phony, psycho, piece-of-shit"
Wow. Projection, much?
I think Bernard Spitzer is not easily intimidated.
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sallyseven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-22-07 10:53 AM
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10. The statement is nowhere to be found in the articles.
What did he say?
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sallyseven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-22-07 10:58 AM
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12. Never mind I just read it.
God those repukes have no shame do they?
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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-22-07 12:29 PM
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15. lol!
I was just reading the story on the way to work! I love his excuse - "someone must have broken into my apartment and used my phone!"
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-22-07 12:31 PM
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16. HAHA!
Asshole roger stone.. fucking intimidator wannabe.
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mod mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-22-07 10:20 PM
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17. MUST READ from the NYT:
-snip

As a 19-year-old student at George Washington University, Stone was the youngest Watergate dirty trickster. On orders from Creep boss Bart Porter, Stone hired Michael McMinoway — known as “Sedan Chair II” — to infiltrate the McGovern campaign and report back. Using the pseudonym “Jason Rainier,” Stone made contributions to the New Hampshire McCloskey campaign in the name of supposed left-wing groups like Young Socialist Alliance. He then sent the receipts along with an anonymous letter to The Manchester Union-Leader. He also recommended that Creep hire a fellow student named Theodore Brill, who was subsequently paid $130 a week to spy on “radical groups.” Stone says the ideas for this “kid stuff” — none of which was actually illegal at the time — emanated from Charles Colson, and that if he had refused to do it, Creep would have fired him and gotten someone else.

-snip

Some pointed the finger at him as having a role in the scandal over forged documents related to George W. Bush that were the undoing of Dan Rather. But Mr. Stone denied any involvement.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/22/a-political-operatives-career-the-stone-zone/index.html?hp
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NanceGreggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-23-07 12:30 AM
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20. He resigned?
Edited on Thu Aug-23-07 12:30 AM by NanceGreggs
I AM shocked!

Why just yesterday, he was proclaiming his innocence, talked about how he'd be completely exonerated once the facts were out, the same way Michael Vick was claiming he was set-up and the whole ...













Nevermind.
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Mabus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-23-07 09:47 AM
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21. His next career option: Fox News Analyst
Edited on Thu Aug-23-07 09:48 AM by Mabus
Someone of Stone's caliber can always find a good paying job at Fox. Maybe he'll become a Fox News All-Star. :rofl:

edited to change "All-Start" to "All-Star"
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wicket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-23-07 04:54 PM
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22. kixk
:kick:
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