Taxpayer-financed Journalist: Arrest Bush!

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"Lying" about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, holding detainees at Gitmo, and prosecuting the saintly matron of all things domestic, Martha Stewart. Those are just three reasons taxpayer-financed journalist Bonnie Erbe finds for filing criminal charges on outgoing President George W. Bush and his dastardly underlings.

The PBS "To the Contrary" host and U.S. News and World Report contributor shared her thoughts in a January 13 entry on her Thomas Jefferson Street blog:

I understand the politics of letting bygones be bygones. But Bush has so thoroughly destroyed this country and encouraged such heretofore unimaginable abuses of office (lying about weapons of mass destruction to lead the country into an unnecessary war; the firings and politicization of the attorneys general; the prosecution of active Democrat Martha Stewart for relatively minor stock abuses while permitting subprime lenders and GOP donors to swindle billions from the economy; the abuses at Guantánamo; and the list goes on and on and on) that to act as if this never happened is to encourage future abuse.

Bush's behavior, and that of his subordinates, should be punished so future presidents and their appointees will not feel free to mimic it with impunity.

But wait, there's more.

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In another blog post, the liberal journalist shows that while she is happy to be rid of President Bush, she still hasn't forgiven the vast right-wing conspiracy for Hillary Clinton's demise in the Democratic primary, even though, well, it was a Democratic primary and Erbe's imagined arch-villain Rush Limbaugh urged his listeners to vote for Clinton in open primary states:

Hillary Clinton ran a flawed campaign, which she launched as a flawed candidate (she had very high negative ratings from voters). That said, however, if the sexist derision and insults hurled at her during her run (being called a she-goat, her laugh being called a cackle, etc.) had been translated into racial slurs and used instead against Barack Obama, they would never have been tolerated. Yet, to this day, no one has been forced to apologize to Clinton for all the gender-based abuse she had to endure.

Right-wing radio mouthpiece Rush Limbaugh made derogatory comments about Clinton, asking whether the nation wanted to watch her age in the White House (as if he could walk down a runway in Milan).

[...]

White men still feel more comfortable sharing power with men of color than they do with white women or women of color. The 15th Amendment to the Constitution, granting black men the right to vote, was ratified in 1870. The 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote on the federal level, came 50 years later.

The first black man elected to the U.S. House of Representatives was Joseph Rainey, who won his seat in 1870 during Reconstruction. The first woman was Jeannette Rankin in 1916.

Part of the reason for women's slow progress is women ourselves: Organizing women along political lines is like herding cats. African-Americans, on the other hand, stand up for members of their community. Recall the Rev. Jesse Jackson's boycotts in the 1980s of companies that did not promote enough African-Americans or of franchises that discriminated against African-American owners. One could never get women to boycott a company because it refused to hire enough women. Until we get there, we need to accept responsibility for holding ourselves back.

—Ken Shepherd is Managing Editor of NewsBusters


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Oh, for crying out loud!!!

Oh, for crying out loud!!! (Literally!!!)

Quit whining and get a grip!

Is anyone else filled to overflowing with frustration and disgust over this constant caterwauling and vitriol, not to mention the complete Obamafication of the media?

This is beyond belief!

I know, mb

Martha Stewart?

Sheesh!

 

and worst of all, WE are paying her salary!!!

A PROUD member of the Oogedy Boogedy branch of the GOP!

the yummy koolaid - BDS

the yummy koolaid - BDS flavor:) 

congrats to all the new U.S presidents - and press secretary obama

I'll play that game....

I'll call Martha Stewart and raise Scooter Libby.

Okay, PBS.  Beat that!!

I like it

I'll hold.

 

Out of context

Right-wing radio mouthpiece Rush Limbaugh made derogatory comments
about Clinton, asking whether the nation wanted to watch her age in the
White House (as if he could walk down a runway in Milan).

Anyone who heard Rush's comments in context knows Rush was commenting on the shallowness of many people in this society.  Hillary's already in her 60's.  The presidency tends to age the people who hold the job.  What would Hillary have looked like in 8 years if she had won?  Do you think she'd have vanished for a few weeks to get a face lift?  Flown someone into the White House for Botox treatments?  Would people have been talking about how the first woman president was getting grey or wrinkling up?

Think about the endless fawning over the looks of Bill Clinton and the Obamas.  The left seems obsessed with "pretty" candidates.

Welcome to the era of unity, you racist!

And remember Nancy Pelosi's 'few weeks away' before

she assumed her new position of 'Queen of the House' - and came back looking like Andrea Mitchell and Barbara WaWa - stretched to the nth degree!

The essence of freedom is the proper limitation of government!

Part of the reason for

Part of the reason for women's slow progress is women ourselves: Organizing women along political lines is like herding cats. African-Americans, on the other hand, stand up for members of their community.

  Reading those two sentences together you would have to conclude her complaint is against white women.

Gee, you think?

That's why the old media have gone after Sarah Palin with such a vengeance.

 

 

Blonde - MidAmerica

Exactly folks - I had just copied that exact same excerpt - and was about to note -- but did Bonnie Erbe stand up for Palin - a woman breaking new ground - for women? Just wondering. (;~/ gary

Exactly

I, for one, resent the implication, too. 

And speaking for many women here, it's disgusting that these liberals would pander to us, believing we're more concerned with the "sisterhood" than with the reality of our (conservative) lives.

I'd like to try catherding liberals some time.

 

'Rat herding' seems more

'Rat herding' seems more appropriate.

In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.

Just one more reason

This is just more proof that 'journalists' should be licensed.

We license just about every other 'profession', yet few other professions have the ability to disrupt and ruin other peoples lives with no accountability.

If they have a political agenda they wish to put on the airwaves, fine, just present it as opinion and REPORT the news as what actually occured. 

Presenting opinion as fact should earn a 30 day suspension for the first offense.

Second offense should be a lifetime ban from the profession.

They do it with doctors and truckdrivers, why not give the same treatment to a bunch of liars?

But Bush has so thoroughly

But Bush has so thoroughly destroyed this country and encouraged such heretofore unimaginable abuses of office (lying about weapons of mass destruction to lead the country into an unnecessary war;

I am curious, dos anyone know what this chick is referring to when she says that the nationis destroyed?

I mean, it isn't as if he removed two divisons from the force structure after a decade of cuts that have now proven to be "two divisions too far."  But then again that was CLINTON who did that.

Unneccessary war in Iraq, once again she follows the rest of her ill-trained and ill-informed comrades in making the assumption that the only reason for the Operation Iraqi Freedom was WMD.  It was not, it was not even the first of the 16 rationale presented to both the legislative branch and UN for reasoning to resume hostilities.  But being a member of the press she cannot fathom more than one rationale.

radical lefties

I'll ask the woman I work with at my school... she says that "Occupied Bushistan" (her words) is now a third-world country.  With a straight face, she told me that America is now a third-world country.  I was stunned.  She also believes that the Fanny/Freddie thing is entirely Bush's fault because he de-regulated everything.  I tried to tell her that there was documented proof that dated this mess back to not only Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, but also to Jimmy Carter.  She says that's not true, and that she can show documented proof that I'm wrong about it.

I've given up trying to talk with her about it because she says that I'm blind to the truth and won't listen.

I have no idea how our nation is destroyed, either, but apparently our friends on the left have it figured out. 

Did she say this while

Did she say this while scrolling through her mail on her BlackBerry, chomping on a fast food sandwich and wondering which boutique to buy new shoes at?

Third world country my rear end. 

Or was she driving her $50,000 SUV...

...on her way home, with the kid in the back seat watching a DVD, so she could watch the soap operas she recorded on her TIVO that's attached to the 42" flat screen with the Bose sound system?

Isn't that the 'way of life' in ALL third world countries???

The essence of freedom is the proper limitation of government!

Well, there is a difference.....

The biggest difference I have found between liberals and conservatives is about 60 IQ points.

The way to tell the difference is look to see who has a job and who LOVES their country.

Please point her to this

Please point her to this video:

http://www.youtube.c...

Gotta love the special "shout out" that imbecile Maxine Waters gives to her pal Franklin Raines.

Don't expect any of this footage to air on MS-NBC.

What frightens me most is Obama's message

to the ACORN group that they WOULD be a big part in setting his administration's agenda...YIKES! 

The essence of freedom is the proper limitation of government!

Well, there is a difference.....

The biggest difference I have found between liberals and conservatives is about 60 IQ points.

The way to tell the difference is look to see who has a job and who LOVES their country.

I am curious, dos anyone

I am curious, dos anyone know what this chick is referring to when she says that the nationis destroyed?

Liberals don't have to give reasons.  They just "know" it.

 

Liberalism is a mental disease

These people should be rounded up and stored forever outside of the normal population.

Broken Shovels

These snide, BDS-(and BS!)enraged, cultural-effete, self-righeous journalists (but then, I repeat myself, to pilfer from Mark Twain's assessment of congress).....

There's a generations-old phrase "and then the shovel broke" to refer to someone just piling on what the listeners know to be a load of, shall we say, "ferilizer" on some topic of conversation.

These folks have long ago run out of broken shovels and have now gradulated to front-end loaders.  It's much more efficient and keeps one's hands from getting tained by the manure one is flinging around.

Supposedly objetive people like this give the relative minority of conservative and ethical journalists a bad name.  Besides, how many of the Dummies, um, Democrats in congress were years ago bloviating in session and in news ops about how Iraq's WMDs were a source of concern to world peace, to include the ones who were later briefed on, and gave approval for, the interrogation techniques they now supposedly abhor?  When will those Dems also be included in any indictments?  Anytime soon?  Hmm.. I thought not.

What a bunch of strutting sycophants.

 

Never-ending "Bush destroyed our country" hystrionics from libs

These people are nothing but left-wing partisans who could care less about the country.

Fastest way to shut up a liberal  when they screech "Bush destroyed our civil liberties" is "Really? Which civil liberties, exactly, have you lost?"

Or take the ever-pathetic Jimmy Carter, claiming that Iraq is the worst foreign policy disaster in the history of the country.  Really?  Then where exactly would, say, Vietnam rank, Jimmy?  A conflict that was the equivalent of FIFTEEN Iraqs in terms of US casualties, a conflict we LOST and a conflict that resulted in millions of civilians being murdered after our departure.  But, no: Jimmy runs around screeching, "Iraq is the biggest foreign policy disaster", because Jimmy don't like George.

 

OT:  Do you have to prove you've been involved in a drunken hit and run incident to be hired as a "journalist" at CNN? (See Cafferty and Sanchez).

Exactly...

...every time a lib mentions Iraq, we should counter with Vietnam and remind them it was LBJ who dumped 500,000 troops there and it was Nixon who got them out.

Wasn't Carter the same

Wasn't Carter the same jxckxss who encouraged Iraq to pick a fight with Iran back in 1980 ??

What about Iran?

Wadn't it Jimmah Cattuh who wishy-washed his way into Losing Iran and 444 days of hostages? And then was so impotent he couldn't come up with a workable plan to rescue them?

 How bad was THAT foreign policy disaster? 

 From my vantage point, Iraq (so far) has exhibited our resolve and ability to  protect our interests. IMHO, that's much more important than being "liked".

The hostage crisis? Confirmed to the world that we were a paper tiger, unable even to protect our citizens on our own sovereign soil.

 President Carter, I understand from my friends that have known you are a good man,  but STFU. You are not in charge anymore, your public opinions not only don't count, they effectively undermine the man doing the job now.

"Paper Tiger"

Now that's a term that readers under the age of 30, particularly those with a "liberal education," may not have heard of.

 

And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall.   -- Edgar Allan Poe

erbe

And we foot the bill for this b.s.

All of the Bush hatred has

All of the Bush hatred has always been about punishing him for winning the 2000 election.

He was supposed to lose, just like Dole, and McCain.   That's why the MSM was running all the positive articles about him in 1999 and early 2000 . . . just like with McCain . . . to get them nominated by the GOP

 

"Gov. Palin has been subjected to one of the most massive and dishonest pile-on smear attacks in the history of liberal media."  -- Lowell Ponte

Exactly right, Free!

The essence of freedom is the proper limitation of government!

Very interesting, Free...

And just think, this nefarious scheme of the MSM was foiled only by a stupidly [Democrat] designed ballot in Palm Beach county, Fla.

Which Republican candidate or potential candidate do you believe the media conspirators were secretly terrified of?

Jer

It's time the

It's time the democrat/liberals get over this arrest Bush bs. The worst thing he did was keep them alive and safe so they could spout their stupidity.

with GWB being hated by the left-lets prosecute he and Chaney

folks like this piece of goat dung, make me scream. however. thinking things through, lets have an open Senate Hearing, on TV with Bush and Chaney at the microphone. no top secrets kept a secret. who knew what when. What roles did the Senate and Congress have in making decisions GWB and his staff. from who did what info for de3cion making come from.

With GWB being blamed for the economy, lets get GWB tell the role of our fine Barney Frank,Chris Dodd, Frank Raines and who ever else had a dirty hand in this debacle.

Once GWB sat behind that microphone, rats would be running to get off the ship. Once he named names, get them behind the microphone as well, lets tell the story and get the truth.

Wow how naive does that sound.

as i understand the role of the President, most of this hatred should be focused on the Senate and Congress, who are not qualified nor competent to lead under trying times

 

 allow me to Love America

 

uhhhh Jimmy1600?

I know goat farmers that are not nearly as offended walking through goat dung as they are listening to the liberal syncophants and embiciles.

I say we get Gov. Palin

I say we get Gov. Palin to invite Dingy Harry, Nancy Pee, The Chosen One, and Missing in Action Joe on a moose hunting trip in Alaska.

Vice president Dick Cheney would be in charge of firearms and Uncle Teddy can be the designated driver.

liberal media misandry

More mindless propaganda, meant to incite anger among women against men, which is precisely what this sad world doesn't need more of.

"...humanity, its dignity and its balance at every moment and every place on the globe will depend upon who man will be for woman and who woman will be for man."  -- Pope John Paul II

Sorry, but Hillary does cackle, and to her credit, she has a thicker skin than you, Little Miss Bonnie.

Hillary lost the Democratic nomination to Mr. Obama, fair and square.  Is Bonnie blaming Barack?  Get over it, man hater.

 

And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall.   -- Edgar Allan Poe

 Another idiot has spoken.

 Another idiot has spoken.

Idiocy voiced...

As a friend once said, decades ago....

"There are some people who, when they speak, immediately subtract from the sum total of human knowledge."

This mindless journalist twit not merely subtracts from it, but divides it by infinity.

What's that quote?  "First

What's that quote?  "First they came for the trade unionists, but..."?

One of the 24% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 89% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.

Silly bi*ch.

Silly bi*ch.

Meow... You've got that

Meow...

You've got that exactly right.

I've watched a few of her shows...and you have her pegged to a Tee.

"You've gone beyond the law"... Sen. Kerry~ Head of Foreign Relations Committee to Hillary at Sec.of State confirmation hearings~1-13-09