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Wayne said:
"Huh? You don't have to go any farther than this thread to find an example of him out and out lying."
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Would you care to point them out to us--I am curious myself--


I thought I pointed this lie out earlier. Maybe you missed it.

Lie:


Supporters of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito may have considered his Senate confirmation hearings as a series of scurrilous Democratic attacks on Alito's character that drove his wife to tears.


kosar said:
Yes i'm being serious. Kennedy did his thing and the next senator up (forget who, but a Republican) basically was rebutting Kennedys nonsense and in the process went on and on about how great Alito is as a person and all sorts of other stuff. THAT'S when his wife started crying. They were actually tears of joy because of all the nice things he was saying. I was watching it when it happened, but I guess it's better copy to say the dems made poor Mrs. Alito cry.
 

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The tears thing--Maybe your right I couldn't say for sure--did search and only thing I could find on tears of joy were sarcastic--but doubt it could be proven either way without her acknowledgement --however if that is your arguement of Britt Hume being an "out and out liar" and only thing you can come up after all posts I made on The grapevine--I don't consider his image tarnished too bad :)
 

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lol- well, I don't do a fact check on his ramblings. I find most of it pointless and irrelevant, but I did see the tears thing as it was happening and he mischaracterized it, at best. 'Scurrilous.' lmao

Speaking of Maureen Dowd, does anybody else find her hot? Maybe it's just me.
 

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Hume is not an out an out liar but you have to admit that he deals in selective truth. He delights in exposing a Democrat crook who may have had dealings with Abramoff yet in the nature of "Fair and Balanced" he has yet to expose a Republican. Most of us would like to see all the crooks exposed not just the Republicans or the Democrats.

Maureen Dowd, I would do her with the lights on. But then again I love geek girls.
 

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StevieD said:
Hume is not an out an out liar but you have to admit that he deals in selective truth. He delights in exposing a Democrat crook who may have had dealings with Abramoff yet in the nature of "Fair and Balanced" he has yet to expose a Republican. Most of us would like to see all the crooks exposed not just the Republicans or the Democrats.
Yep. That's Fox's way of doing things in general. Completely exclude news on crap being done from the right. They can rarely be accused of "lying" (although it does happen), but they certainly don't give equal time to exposing law breakers on the right ....not even close.
 

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Dowd, she's aiight. Not crazy about the thin-lipped gals, but she's still a 1 on the binary scale (1 = doable, 0= not doable).

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"Hume is not an out an out liar but you have to admit that he deals in selective truth."

Very true Stevie--In fact his grapevine is about 100% selective pro-conservative.. However his panel discussion always have both sides comprising panel on topic discussions--with exception of guest appearances from Krauthammer I don't care much for either side on the general panel most of the time.
 

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Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine:

Protest Provocateur

The protests rocking the Arab world over cartoons of the prophet Muhammad ? originally published in Denmark more than 4 months ago ? may be the work of leading Danish Imam Ahmed Abu Laban.

After Denmark refused to punish the newspaper that ran the cartoons, National Review reports that the imam, a 60-year-old Palestinian with terrorist ties, took his case to the Middle East.

There, he presented the 12 cartoons to Islamic leaders, but also showed them other more offensive drawings of unknown origin that were never published in the paper ? including one depicting the prophet with a pig face and another portraying him as a pedophile.

Senate Sarcasm

Arizona Republican Senator John McCain has sent a sarcastic and withering letter to freshman Illinois Senator Barack Obama, a rising star in the Democratic Party, after Obama pulled out of bipartisan talks on lobbying reform. McCain writes to "apologize" to Obama for "assuming that your private assurances to me regarding your desire to cooperate in our efforts to negotiate bipartisan lobbying reform legislation were sincere."

McCain adds, "I'm embarrassed to admit that after all these years in politics I failed to interpret your previous assurances as typical rhetorical gloss... Again, sorry for the confusion, but please be assured I won't make the same mistake again." The two senators will appear before the Senate Rules Committee to testify on lobbying reform on Wednesday.

Canceled Contribution

New York Senator Hillary Clinton has put her money where her mouth is when it comes to criticizing Wal-Mart, returning a $5000 donation the retail giant made to her political action committee last November. Last week, Clinton blasted Wal-Mart for its lack of employee benefits and her staff tells Newsday she returned the money because of "serious differences with current company practices."

Clinton, you may recall, served as a paid member of the Wal-Mart board of directors from 1986 to 1992, a time when the company's benefits were less than they are today.

More from Maurice

New York Democratic Congressman Maurice Hinchey, an outspoken critic of the war in Iraq who says the Bush administration lied about pre-war intelligence, now claims the failure to capture Al Qaeda chief Usama bin Laden at Tora Bora was no mistake. New York's Mid-Hudson News reports that Hinchey says the administration "didn't want to capture bin Laden, because if they captured bin Laden and wiped out the Taliban, there would have been no justification for going to war in Iraq."
 
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