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You are here: Home / The Sounds of Desperation

The Sounds of Desperation

by John Cole|  August 3, 20048:58 pm| 25 Comments

This post is in: Democratic Stupidity

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Joe Wilson- up in smoke.

Sandy Berger- stuffing documents down his pants.

16 words- accurate then and still true.

What do the Democrats have left? Well, there is this:

Plane Diverted For Bush Twins

Last Saturday, a flight from Boston to Washington was redirected to Albany in order pick up Barbara and Jenna Bush, the Washington Post reports. “In addition to the Bush twins, 22 other beleaguered passengers also boarded in Albany.”

From the Post: “‘We land in Albany, and the doors open and in come Jenna and Barbara and several Secret Service agents,” our spy, who declined to be named ‘for fear of going to Gitmo,’ told us. ‘I kept thinking, I haven’t heard of anybody diverting planes for all these other people being inconvenienced. This doesn’t fit in the norm of airline travel.'” The plane eventually arrived two hours late in Washington.

Oliver wants you to think that the only reason the plane was diiverted, inconveniencing the ‘common man,’ was to pick up the Bush twins. Otherwise, he certainly would have included this bit:

But before blame goes to the first daughters, it turns out that it’s not unusual for US Airways to make such diversions. “Yes, there are times when we will divert an airplane to pick up passengers off of another canceled flight. We do that when we have no other way to accommodate those customers,” said airline spokesman David Castelveter. In addition to the Bush twins, 22 other beleaguered passengers also boarded in Albany.

Petty, transparent, and desparate. It will get worse.

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  1. 1.

    Oliver

    August 3, 2004 at 9:07 pm

    Yes, pay no attention to deficits, missing WMDs, or torture, to mention just a few issues.

  2. 2.

    Niraj

    August 3, 2004 at 9:18 pm

    Yes, John Kerry is for the common man. He and Edwards, another commoner, stop by a Wendy’s for a “lite” lunch and a photo-op, but later on the campaign bus, they wolf down a high-class lunch.

    Truly, they are one of us.

  3. 3.

    John Cole

    August 3, 2004 at 9:20 pm

    Yes, pay no attention to deficits, missing WMDs, or torture, to mention just a few issues.

    You certainly weren’t in the snotty post I just blew out of the water.

  4. 4.

    Paul

    August 3, 2004 at 9:21 pm

    Way to Change the subject, Oliver.

  5. 5.

    M. Scott Eiland

    August 3, 2004 at 9:42 pm

    Post more of the hot babe pictures, Oliver–it’ll make the next four years and four months go by faster.

  6. 6.

    Terry

    August 3, 2004 at 10:24 pm

    John, why do you bother to read the drivel flushed out of Oliver’s brain? In the course of a litle over a year, he has moved from a somewhat straight-shooting moderate liberal to a flaming, screaming leftie with a tinfoil hat to hold together what remainig cells he still has. He is increasingly indistinguishable from posts that one might find over at Dem Underground.

  7. 7.

    Randal Robinson

    August 4, 2004 at 1:13 am

    I worked as a flight dispatcher in the airline industry for 13 years and part of my job was cancelling and diverting flights. Yes, we did divert flights sometimes to pick up stranded passengers that we couldn’t accomodate any other way. It wasn’t an everyday occurance but it wasn’t all that unusual either. It was a pain in the butt to set up and pilots always bitched about it but I did it dozens of times over the years for passengers who weren’t named Bush.

  8. 8.

    Andrew J. Lazarus

    August 4, 2004 at 1:15 am

    Sixteen words, still unsubstantiated and uncorroborated. I’m not sure how far they’ve swung towards 50-50 from probably false.

    We are all OK on the fact Berger didn’t keep anything from the 9/11 Commission, right?

  9. 9.

    Oliver

    August 4, 2004 at 1:55 am

    John, I was responding to your assertion that the Bush administration has their hands clean. As far as the twins go, no, it isn’t a big issue, just somehting of note.

  10. 10.

    Sharp as a Marble

    August 4, 2004 at 5:56 am

    No Olivier, it’s not worthy of noting if you’re going to do it Moore style and leave out the context. You just got caught trying to make a big deal out of nothing. It’s very telling when you have to change the subject (and to tired, worn out cliches at that) so fast.

  11. 11.

    JohnO

    August 4, 2004 at 7:16 am

    “missing WMDs”.

    I wish every moron who parroted this line would volunteer to store the ones we’ve found in his/her bedroom. The number may be small, but even in the amount we’ve found they’re still pretty deadly.

  12. 12.

    Slartibartfast

    August 4, 2004 at 8:32 am

    “We are all OK on the fact Berger didn’t keep anything from the 9/11 Commission, right?”

    Not committing to that one way or another; not sure the evidence is in. But that’s irrelevant; what’s relevant is that Berger removed highly classified documents from their authorized repository. That’s a crime. Compounding that, he lost track of at least one document. As many, many people have said, this is an offense that would have someone like me, for instance, do jail time.

    The whole business about keeping relevant data from the 9/11 Commission is a side issue. It needs to be resolved, but it’s a separate offense that doesn’t in any way affect the pilfering of classified documents. Again, I’m not sure how many times this has to be said in order for it to sink in.

  13. 13.

    Dean

    August 4, 2004 at 8:43 am

    Slarti:

    Just ’til after the election. If Bush wins, it’ll be a non-issue (although when Berger gets “frog-marched” a la Wilson’s fantasies, listen to the Lazarus’s scream). If Kerry wins, Berger’ll be granted a pardon and an appointment, and again, it’ll be a non-issue.

  14. 14.

    John Cole

    August 4, 2004 at 8:44 am

    Slarti-

    Re- the 9/11 commission.

    Democrats are geniuses at blurring thecrimes. Remember, Clinton’s perjury was all about sex…..

  15. 15.

    HH

    August 4, 2004 at 8:57 am

    “Sixteen words, still unsubstantiated and uncorroborated.”

    Except by Joe Wilson’s book, the Butler report, the Senate intel report, the Daily Howler, the Financial Times (twice), etc.

    “We are all OK on the fact Berger didn’t keep anything from the 9/11 Commission, right?”

    If you’re “OK” with that, you ought to be OK with the fact that the “leakers” told the God’s-honest truth and it looks less likely that they broke the law. As far as lawbreaking, though, one can’t say the same for Berger. The investigation is still ongoing and attempts to hide info and/or feed it to the Kerry campaign and/or add info are no better than keeping things from the commission.

  16. 16.

    Tom Maguire

    August 4, 2004 at 9:32 am

    Sorry for being an idiot, but where is the link to Oliver’s post? I am finding two to the WaPo and one to “Poltical Wire”.

    Thanks.

  17. 17.

    John Cole

    August 4, 2004 at 9:42 am

    Tom- I added it above, however, the link is here.

  18. 18.

    capt joe

    August 4, 2004 at 10:35 am

    Oliver, Krypton’s Michael Moore.

    like flypaper to sad little man.

  19. 19.

    Bloggerhead

    August 4, 2004 at 12:24 pm

    Damn, it’s like teaching kindergarten here at times…but if it’s repetition you demand.

    Look, Slarti, you can no more definitively state that Berger committed a crime than you can that the outer of Valerie Plame did so, not on the facts as we presently know them.

    While its certainly possible that Berger is guilty and the Plame outer (can I just dispense with the pretense here? Ok, Scooter Libby) is not, it’s really too soon to tell. An act cannot be properly deemed criminal until there is a conviction, notwithstanding your own apparent jailhouse fantasies.

  20. 20.

    Dean

    August 4, 2004 at 12:30 pm

    Bloggerhead:

    So, since no one was convicted in the death of Nicole Simpson Brown, there is no crime?

    Or try this one: Because John Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity, his shooting Reagan was not a crime?

    Berger (through his lawyer) has already said he took classified documents and notes out of the National Archives. THAT IS A CRIME.

    The Plame business is irrelevant to whether Berger committed a crime. That is a separate issue.

    But if you want to draw a parallel, it would require Scooter Libby or Karl Rove or Dubya to say, “I knew Plame was a covert agent, but I outed her anyway,” to violate the statute in question.

  21. 21.

    HH

    August 4, 2004 at 1:08 pm

    Please explain in fifty words or less how one “inadvertently” takes documents that it is illegal to take on multiple occasions.

  22. 22.

    Slartibartfast

    August 4, 2004 at 1:19 pm

    “Look, Slarti, you can no more definitively state that Berger committed a crime than you can that the outer of Valerie Plame did so, not on the facts as we presently know them.”

    And it’s like teaching preschool the other way: it’s immaterial whether he “inadvertently” took the documents. Unauthorized removal of classified documents from their place of storage is a crime. Period.

    Or is your point that there’s some doubt that Berger removed them, despite his already having admitted doing so? Hey, I’m willing to entertain pretty much anything, as long as it’s not blind, obstinate arguing in the face of what everyone who’s had any exposure at all to classified data knows to be true.

    You could check out the statute, which pretty much everyone who’s commented on this issue has linked to. Or, alternatively, you can continue making arguments that are disjoint from fact.

  23. 23.

    Ryan

    August 4, 2004 at 1:48 pm

    Wasn’t Oliver and the Leftosphere screaming about the anonymous “spies” reporting that John Kerry cut in line?

    Gee, becoming a paid whore from Soros sure does a number on one’s principles.

  24. 24.

    scott

    August 5, 2004 at 8:30 pm

    Andrew-

    We are all OK on the fact Berger didn’t keep anything from the 9/11 Commission, right?

    We all know that the statutory penalty for Berger’s crime is 10 years in prison- no matter what the circumstances, right?

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