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Atman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-01-09 08:11 PM
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Tom Ridge can't even look at the camera OR Rachel when he lies.
Edited on Tue Sep-01-09 08:22 PM by Atman
HE LIES. Through his teeth. He looks down and to the right EVERY time he responds to hard questions from Rachel about the contradictions between his words in his book and his current backpedaling.

Another Republican fuck-face trying to profit off the disastrous BushCo years. And/or lining up for a run for office.

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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-01-09 08:12 PM
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1. he comes across as a gutless
POS.
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-01-09 08:14 PM
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5. That's why he was chosen for the job! Cheney & Co must be
really hammering him about this book!
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MadMaddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-01-09 08:14 PM
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2. Rachel is holding his feet to the fire
He is a liar, liar, liar!!

Loved Rachel's why didn't you warn us?

He left because he saw the shit storm on the horizen!
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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-01-09 08:14 PM
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3. He's speaking faster than I've ever seen
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Siwsan Donating Member (385 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-01-09 08:14 PM
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4. An amazing display of verbal backpeddling and tapdancing
Why the heck would he think he could pull this off, on Rachel's show?????
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alsame Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-01-09 08:15 PM
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8. And it makes no sense - he's trying to contradict his own words
in the book. The spin he's trying isn't working.
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-01-09 08:14 PM
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6. Tom Ridge, himself, acknowledged (about the time he quit DHS)
that the raised alters were politically motivated. Can some clever media sharp shooter puuuuleeze find the video of him making those comments? He can't have it both ways.
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spinbaby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-01-09 08:15 PM
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7. I can't stand to watch it
Turned it off.
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bushisanidiot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-01-09 08:17 PM
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9. He's completely contradicting his own book and Maddow is calling him on it!
Go Rachael go!

Ridge is a complete slimeball.
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Gregorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-01-09 08:17 PM
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10. I'm confused. It seems that he wants to tell us something, but he can't.
Why did he even hint at this subject if he wasn't prepared to follow through with it? Why would he even go on Rachel's show knowing she would work to examine the subject?

To some of us this was rather transparent. In fact it seemed so much so that we even became comical about it on this forum. And in retrospect it's hard to even think of what may have constituted reason for raising a threat level. Especially given they didn't even care about catching Osama Bin Number One Wanted Man in the country.
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-01-09 08:20 PM
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11. he doesn't want to be Luca Brasi'd
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Gregorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-01-09 08:27 PM
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13. I was thinking Tommy DeVito
A big mouth. I knew he'd never be the don.

This is weird stuff. But I am excited to see so much open discussion regarding the Bush era crimes right now.
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-01-09 08:38 PM
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16. Rachel is nailing his ass, too
and doing it all being "nice nasty" :)
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4lbs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-01-09 08:21 PM
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12. Rachel should simply show Tom Ridge all of the "terror alerts" from late 2003 to late 2004
Edited on Tue Sep-01-09 08:26 PM by 4lbs
and ask him to explain how EVERY ONE OF THEM came on the heels of bad news for the Bush Administration and/or good news for the Democratic challenger(s).

Unemployment numbers go up? Bad for Bush. Send out a terror alert. People forget about the increasing unemployment rate.

Large stock market drop because of something Bush did? Send out a terror alert. People forget about the stock market bad news.

Democratic challengers getting a good bump in polls? Send out a terror alert. New polls suddenly have Democrats back lower while Bush increases.

New Abu Ghraib story and photos break, causing worldwide interest? Send out a terror alert. People forget about it for a few days.

And so on, and so on....
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Atman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-01-09 08:36 PM
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14. Rachel is DESTROYING Ridge.
Period.

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MadMaddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-01-09 08:38 PM
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17. She Destroyed Him!
I love the way she ended it!
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-01-09 08:39 PM
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19. She tore him a new one
with that Rachel smile. As you pointed out, he didn't have the guts to look her in the eye -not even once. That's the classic tell tale sign of a pathological LIAR.

The fucker even lied about his own book.
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david13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-01-09 08:37 PM
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15. Well, he could, but then you'd see his beady little eyes twitting back and forth.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-01-09 08:38 PM
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18. hey tom, were you lying then, or are you lying now?
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