Lib Talking Heads Stroking Out

Agreed - this campaign has been pure class.

Incredibly well done.

And reminding people that JFK would have very little room in today's radical left controlled Democrat Party is something that needs to be done far more often...


Scott Brown really has handled the vicious Liberal personal smears incredibly well. He really has proved what a skilled politician he is. All Republican candidates in 2010 should emulate his skill. Just weather the Liberal hate smears and you should win. The Democrats can longer win on issues & beliefs and they know this. It's kind of like Corzine up in New Jersey running ads screeching about how his opponent was too over-weight to be Governor. The Republicans better be prepared for the pathetic smears that will be coming their way in 2010. I don't think that stuff is going to work for the Democrats this time around though. People really are smarter than they think. Blame BOOOOOSH and vicious personal smears really are all they have left at this point. Will that be enough for them? I just don't think so.

Amen!

By the way Brown's TV ad featuring Jack Kennedy was one of the best I've ever seen. It starts with black and white footage of Jack sounding as conservative as Teddy was liberal, morphs into Brown in black and white sort of echoing Jack's words, and then further morphs into Brown in color continuing with his campaign message. Pure genius in terms of production creativity and an overall message home run.
 
ummm... I'm afraid you're the liar.

Rush said don't give money to Haiti because you already gave "it's called taxes".

Call someone else a liar. yourself, maybe?

thanks for playing, though.

How about having the quote in context?

Context is only important to the left when it tends to support their preconceived notions, otherwise it's just too inconvenient for them to bother with. I gave Jillian the context but as you can see from the response he/she doesn't care about the context because the hive mind says it's not important in this case. :)

except you LIED about the statement. And you're misdirecting. I wasn't talking about his lie about not giving to the red cross site the white house linked.

I was talking about his next sentence... the one that said we gave already to haiti, it's called paying taxes.

now please, lie to someone who doesn't actually reseach these things... not to me. mmmmkay?

thanks.
 
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Besides, we've already donated to Haiti. It's called the US income tax," Limbaugh said.
That's all I could find on the net. This quote came from The Guardian in the UK but all of the rest pretty much say the same thing as I quoted.
 
Hilarious watching these liberals cry like babies, and wish that they could just take the election fraudulently. They're being sore losers over a race that's not even over yet.
 
:lol::lol:

The lefts is stroking out at the prospect of a Republican taking Teddy's old seat...
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Keith Olbermann almost lost it when describing Scott Brown last night. But alas, you must first have it before you can lose it. Mr. Olbermann doesn’t have it anymore. I’m not really sure that he ever did have it. Anyway, I digress. It is nothing if not hilarious to see the left wingers losing their mind over Scott Brown’s surge in Massachusetts.

January 19, 2010 | Posted by Shannon Bell Keith Olbermann almost lost it when describing Scott Brown last night. But alas, you must first have it before you can lose it. Mr. Olbermann doesn’t have it anymore. I’m not really sure that he ever did have it. Anyway, I digress. It is nothing if not hilarious to see the left wingers losing their mind over Scott Brown’s surge in Massachusetts.

Libs like Olbermann, Matthews, and the rest think and thought that the Massachusetts Senate seat belonged to them in perpetuity. They think that simply because Martha Coakley has a (D) beside her name she would and should be allowed to just waltz right into the Senate.

To watch the reactions of Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, and the rest of the MSNBC clan is priceless. But to listen to the vitriol that these so called journalists spew at Scott Brown or the Tea Party movement’s direction is utterly sickening. In the video clip Olbermann has the nerve, the audacity to call Scott Brown a joke when we currently have Al Franken sitting in the United States Senate. That in itself is the joke.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLjAahyKfp0

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Actually that's disingenuous, Rush Limbaugh didn't say that, what he took exception to was the White House running a charity through the whitehouse.gov website (an unprecedented move by the Administration) and pointed out that the administrative costs of such a charity would likely be much higher than private charities (since it's being run by the government) .

So...the reality is....

He recommended donating to private charities for Haitian relief (and named several examples of them) instead of donating through whitehouse.gov

Another day, another left wing lie exposed.

That, my friends, is classic BULLSHIT.

ROFLMAO! if you say so, but I actually heard what he said on my way to work and he did not say "don't give money to Haiti".........

Sheesh, I'm beginning to think that left wingers brains interpret the English language in a way that's different from the rest of the English speaking population of the World.

No, genius, it's bullshit to say that going through the whitehouse site results in administrative costs, etc.
 
If Brown gets the MA seat, he gets it. Don't see anyone "stroking out" despite your wishful thinking, Sinatra.

The right can't even be honest when they occasionally have an advantage.

Remember NY23 was a referendum on Obama too.

Scott Brown is running a brilliant campaign, especially in regards to keeping the kooks on the right at arm's length. If the Democrats want anything to really worry about, they should worry about the GOP getting a wake up call here and realizing that distancing themselves from the far right, from the tea partiers, from the Foxnews and talk radio nuts, from the Palinatics, is a formula for success.

That's right! It was a referendum and a Third Party Candidate came within the MOE there, more people now identify themselves as "Independent" than as either Dem or Rep.

So I won't sound retarded if Coakley loses and I go around claiming she won? Because I'd be sounding just like you are right now.
 
I gave Jillian the context

yeah, but you have to speak her language, you need to drop the traditional English and just say "teabagger" "wignut" or "neocon", and I have to agree with her - why think critically when you just spit back slogans and talking points from Rachel Maddow?
 
People's Rally - Amazing Video

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The Scott Brown Rally kicked the Obama/Coakley rally to the curb on Sunday.

Scott Brown drew larger crowds than did Obama - in Massachusetts no less.

He is the first politician I have ever considered capable of carrying on the great and hopeful tradition of Reaganism.

Ladies and gentlemen, today we are truly witness to the turning of the tide...


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Let me get this straigth? Clinton harasses, rapes, and assaults women. Then he lies under oath.

Whose fault what it that it cost taxpayers $70 million?

It was Clinton's fault for being the criminal and sexual predator that he is.

Apparently there is a double standard when the person is a member of your chosen political party.

What happened to the America we all used to know?

so it's ok that he just lied about President Clinton being a rapist? or having assaulted someone?

maybe THAT'S what happened to the America we used to know... that people make stupid, scurrilous statements like that...

and just to bring it full circle...

you mean desperation like the trash they harassed President Clinton with?


I am not a liberal I don't make stuff up.

I am trying to find the original dateline interview with Clinton's rape victim.

The rape of Juanita Broaddrick


Not long after that, she attended a seminar of the American College of Nursing Home Administrators at the Camelot Hotel in Little Rock. She stayed in a hotel room with her friend, Norma Kelsey. After they checked in to their room, Broaddrick called Clinton campaign headquarters and was told to call Clinton at his apartment. She did, and asked Clinton if he was going to be at his headquarters that day. He said no, but suggested they meet for coffee in the hotel coffee shop. A bit later the same morning, Clinton called her and asked if they could meet in her hotel room because there were reporters crawling around the coffee shop.

She agreed.

She felt "a little bit uneasy" meeting him in her hotel room, but felt a "real friendship toward this man" and didn't feel any "danger" in him coming to her room. When Clinton arrived she had coffee ready on a little table under a window overlooking a river. Then "he came around me and sort of put his arm over my shoulder to point to this little building and he said he was real interested if he became governor to restore that little building and then all of a sudden, he turned me around and started kissing me. And that was a real shock." Broaddrick pushed him away and said, "No, please don't do that" and told Clinton she was married. But he tried to kiss her again. This time he bit her upper lip. She tried to pull away from him but he forced her onto the bed. "And I just was very frightened, and I tried to get away from him and I told him 'No,' that I didn't want this to happen, but he wouldn't listen to me." But he "was such a different person at that moment, he was just a vicious awful person." At some point she stopped resisting. She explained, "It was a real panicky, panicky situation. I was even to the point where I was getting very noisy, you know, yelling to 'Please stop.' And that's when he pressed down on my right shoulder and he would bite my lip."

Clinton didn't linger long afterward. "When everything was over with, he got up and straightened himself, and I was crying at the moment and he walks to the door, and calmly puts on his sunglasses. And before he goes out the door he says, 'You better get some ice on that.' And he turned and went out the door." The whole encounter lasted less than 30 minutes, but it changed Juanita Broaddrick's life forever.

When questioned by an interviewer, "Is there any way at all that Bill Clinton could have thought that this was consensual?" Juanita Broaddrick answered, "No. Not with what I told him, and with how I tried to push him away. It was not consensual." The interviewer, NBC's Lisa Myers, pressed for specificity. "You're saying that Bill Clinton sexually assaulted you, that he raped you?" Broaddrick answered, "Yes."


Broaddrick's friend Norma said that when she left their shared hotel room that morning, Broaddrick had told her that she planned to meet with Clinton. When Norma called around lunchtime, however, Broaddrick sounded so upset that Norma returned to the room to find Broaddrick's lip and mouth badly swollen and her pantyhose ripped off. Broaddrick told Norma that Clinton had sexually assaulted her.


Broaddrick was too upset to stay for the nursing home meeting, so she and Norma drove the two hours back to Van Buren immediately, stopping for more ice to apply to Broaddrick's swollen mouth. On the drive back, Norma says, Broaddrick was in shock, and very upset, blaming herself for letting Clinton into her room. "But who, for heaven's sake, would have imagined anything like this?" Broaddrick said years later. "This was the attorney general – and it just never entered my mind." In her NBC interview, Broaddrick said she didn't tell her then-husband, Gary Hickey, who says now that he doesn't remember her lip being swollen (she says she explained that to him as an accident). Broaddrick did tell her now-husband, David Broaddrick, soon after she returned home, that she had been assaulted by Clinton. David Broaddrick recalls that her lip was "black" and "mentally she was in bad shape." Broaddrick told three other friends soon after the attack, all of whom vouch for her story.

About three weeks after the rape, Broaddrick told Lisa Myers, she and her first husband attended a Clinton fund-raiser together. She still "felt in denial" and "very guilty" and at that time still felt like she should "just shut up and accept [her] punishment" for letting Clinton into her room, since that must have given him "the wrong idea" about what she had wanted to happen. After that, Clinton called her half a dozen times at her nursing home. Once he got through to her and asked when she was coming to Little Rock again. She just said, "I'm not," and left it at that.

In 1979, Broaddrick accepted a non-paying position on a state advisory board relating to nursing homes – a position to which Gov. Clinton appointed her. For over a decade she dealt with the governor's office on occasion but not Clinton personally, except for a 1984 letter Clinton sent her after her nursing home was named one of the best in the state. At the bottom is a handwritten note, "I admire you very much." She interpreted it as a "thank you" for her silence.

In 1991 she attended another nursing-home meeting in Little Rock, with two friends. In person, Bill Clinton called her out of the meeting; one friend confirms seeing the pair talking. Immediately, Broaddrick says, Clinton "began this profuse apology," saying to her, "Juanita, I'm so sorry for what I did. I'm not the man that I used to be, can you ever forgive me? What can I do to make this up to you?" Feeling "absolute shock," she told him to go to hell and walked away. "In that moment," Broaddrick tells me, "I let go of my guilt and put it where it should have been all those years: on him." She continues, "It was a relief not to blame myself anymore." When she went to lunch with two of her friends who were also nurses just after the freak encounter with Clinton, the three women "actually began to discuss the possibilities that Bill Clinton might be remorseful." However, "that faded as soon as he announced his candidacy for president about three weeks later." Broaddrick and her friends were all at work when the news broke, "and we just looked at each other and shook our heads in disgust."

As early as the 1992 presidential race, Juanita Broaddrick's story entered the realm of rumors that swirled around Bill Clinton. Though her own account didn't appear in the news until one week after the Senate acquitted President Clinton in February 1999, her name had been circulating among the media, Clinton's political opponents, and later, Paula Jones's legal team. Broaddrick's "phone rang incessantly with requests for interviews, all of them refused" until January 1999.

In November 1997, investigators for Paula Jones confronted Juanita Broaddrick – and tape recorded the encounter – but she slammed the door in their faces saying she didn't want to relive the "horrible thing" that had happened. When Jones' attorneys subpoenaed Broaddrick, she signed an affidavit saying she'd never experienced unwanted sexual advances from Bill Clinton. Paula Jones' lawyers used Broaddrick's story, disguised as "Jane Doe No. 5" in a court filing based largely on a 1992 letter to Broaddrick from a friend of hers, Philip Yoakum. In that letter, Mr. Yoakum wrote that he was "particularly distraught when you told me of your brutal rape by Bill Clinton, how he bit your lip until you gave into his forcing sex upon you." When this letter and the Jones court filing hit the news in March 1998, Mr. Yoakum told reporters he'd tried to get Broaddrick to go public during the 1992 campaign, but she'd said to him, "Who would believe me, little old Juanita from Van Buren?"

Some people would. Reporting in March 1998 on the Yoakum letter, NBC's Lisa Myers called Broaddrick's story "potentially the most explosive allegation out there." Myers pointed out that "Juanita Broaddrick has never tried to sell any story. She has never gone after the president. She is a nurse who built a nursing-home business. She is a respected member of her community in a little town in Arkansas." Through lawyers, the White House called Broaddrick's story (as represented in the Paula Jones court papers) "outrageous" and smugly pointed journalists toward Broaddrick's affidavit denying it.

Ken Starr provided the impetus forcing Juanita Broaddrick's story into public view when he subpoenaed Paula Jones' lawyers for records relating to Broaddrick and three other specific women (in addition to Kathleen Willey and Monica Lewinsky) in March 1998. In April 1998 Broaddrick admitted to the OIC that she'd lied in her affidavit, but Starr didn't pursue her story because she insisted she'd never been threatened or bribed into silence – hence there was no obstruction of justice angle for Starr to use in his investigation. To the public eye, Juanita Broaddrick's story remained a mere footnote to the Paula Jones lawsuit and the Monica Lewinsky scandal engulfing the Clinton administration throughout 1998. She spoke with The Washington Post in April 1998 but insisted on staying off the record.

Even though she'd signed the affidavit and had consistently refused to discuss her story on the record, "Jane Doe No. 5" appeared in materials turned over to Congress during impeachment hearings and reportedly influenced several wavering Republicans to vote in favor of impeachment, although House of Representatives prosecutors declined to include her story in their case against Clinton at the Senate trial.

Rumors about her story wouldn't disappear. Some of them offended Broaddrick, and one in particular pushed her over the edge into public disclosure: on New Year's Eve 1998 a friend handed her a tabloid story stating that Clinton had bribed David Broaddrick to suppress his wife's account. By January 1999, NBC correspondent Lisa Myers had been trying to persuade Broaddrick to tell her story publicly for months. Kathleen Willey tells me, "Lisa Myers called me and asked me if I would talk with Juanita." Willey talked with Broaddrick "many times … I told her what I went through" going public with her story. "Juanita would tell me, 'I'm just so afraid that I'm finally getting this off my chest and then people won't believe me,'" Willey tells me sadly. "She kept saying, 'I don't want it to be for naught.'" After everything Willey had been through herself, she didn't feel like she could offer Broaddrick much comfort. "I had to tell her there are no guarantees; look who you're dealing with," Willey says, before adding quietly, "All of us involved in this Clinton thing, we really have not fared well." Willey stopped short of giving Broaddrick any specific advice. "I wouldn't tell her what to do," she says.

Broaddrick was in her mid-50s in January 1999 when she finally relented and taped an interview with NBC. NBC had the scoop, but held off airing the interview for a month, citing the need for further investigation into the details of Broaddrick's account. The delay frustrated Broaddrick, who said NBC had been investigating for nearly a year already, even combing through "old papers about the case we settled with two employees fired for theft 20 years ago." During the delay, NBC interviewer Lisa Myers told Broaddrick, "The good news is you're credible. The bad news is that you're very credible." The story looked explosive, and NBC wanted to make sure it was "rock solid" before airing it.

Broaddrick wound up giving The Wall Street Journal's Dorothy Rabinowitz a heart-to-heart chat, which the WSJ published on Feb. 19, 1999, a week after the Senate acquitted President Clinton. NBC aired its interview with Broaddrick on "Dateline" on Feb. 24, 1999. WSJ editorial writer Dorothy Rabinowitz described Broaddrick as "a woman of accomplishment, prosperous, successful in her field, serious; a woman seeking no profit, no book, no lawsuit." Ms. Rabinowitz continued: "[She is a] woman of a kind people like and warm to. To meet Juanita Broaddrick at her house in Van Buren is to encounter a woman of sunny disposition. ... She sits talking in the peaceful house on a hilltop overlooking the Broaddricks' 40 acres, where 30 cows, five horses and a mule roam. .... It's a good life all right."

By the time it finally aired its interview with Juanita Broaddrick, NBC had done the thing properly. Lisa Myers reported that NBC had talked to four friends who corroborated Broaddrick's story, and had even tracked down a detail that would be often used to challenge it: Broaddrick could not remember the month or date of the rape. Springtime of 1978 was as close as she could recall, though she recalls with clarity many other details, like what she was wearing, the hotel room furnishings, the view from the window.

NBC checked all of Juanita Broaddrick's personal and business records, public records, nursing-home records and convention schedules, and learned that there was a nursing-home meeting at the Camelot Hotel in Little Rock on April 25, 1978. State records even show that Broaddrick received credit for a seminar that day. The White House refused to answer NBC's requests for information, and NBC could find no evidence about Clinton's whereabouts that day, which contradicted Willey's claims; he had no "public appearances on the morning in question," and newspaper articles "suggest he was in Little Rock that day."

Other details checked out, too.
The "little building" visible from the hotel room window that Broaddrick says Clinton pointed to was the Pulaski County jail. Though it was torn down later, in April 1978 it was visible from river-facing rooms in the Camelot Hotel. Local law enforcement officials told NBC that Broaddrick was a solid citizen with no criminal record and that they took her allegations very seriously; of course, there was nothing that law enforcement could do, since the statute of limitations for the crime of rape had run out more than a decade earlier.
 
Threadjack alert!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


apparently there is a double standard when the person is a member of your chosen political party.

What happened to the america we all used to know?

so it's ok that he just lied about president clinton being a rapist? Or having assaulted someone?

Maybe that's what happened to the america we used to know... That people make stupid, scurrilous statements like that...

And just to bring it full circle...

You mean desperation like the trash they harassed president clinton with?


i am not a liberal i don't make stuff up.

I am trying to find the original dateline interview with clinton's rape victim.

the rape of juanita broaddrick


not long after that, she attended a seminar of the american college of nursing home administrators at the camelot hotel in little rock. She stayed in a hotel room with her friend, norma kelsey. After they checked in to their room, broaddrick called clinton campaign headquarters and was told to call clinton at his apartment. She did, and asked clinton if he was going to be at his headquarters that day. He said no, but suggested they meet for coffee in the hotel coffee shop. A bit later the same morning, clinton called her and asked if they could meet in her hotel room because there were reporters crawling around the coffee shop.

She agreed.

She felt "a little bit uneasy" meeting him in her hotel room, but felt a "real friendship toward this man" and didn't feel any "danger" in him coming to her room. When clinton arrived she had coffee ready on a little table under a window overlooking a river. then "he came around me and sort of put his arm over my shoulder to point to this little building and he said he was real interested if he became governor to restore that little building and then all of a sudden, he turned me around and started kissing me. And that was a real shock." broaddrick pushed him away and said, "no, please don't do that" and told clinton she was married. But he tried to kiss her again. This time he bit her upper lip. She tried to pull away from him but he forced her onto the bed. "and i just was very frightened, and i tried to get away from him and i told him 'no,' that i didn't want this to happen, but he wouldn't listen to me." but he "was such a different person at that moment, he was just a vicious awful person." at some point she stopped resisting. She explained, "it was a real panicky, panicky situation. I was even to the point where i was getting very noisy, you know, yelling to 'please stop.' and that's when he pressed down on my right shoulder and he would bite my lip."

clinton didn't linger long afterward. "when everything was over with, he got up and straightened himself, and i was crying at the moment and he walks to the door, and calmly puts on his sunglasses. And before he goes out the door he says, 'you better get some ice on that.' and he turned and went out the door." the whole encounter lasted less than 30 minutes, but it changed juanita broaddrick's life forever.

When questioned by an interviewer, "is there any way at all that bill clinton could have thought that this was consensual?" juanita broaddrick answered, "no. Not with what i told him, and with how i tried to push him away. It was not consensual." the interviewer, nbc's lisa myers, pressed for specificity. "you're saying that bill clinton sexually assaulted you, that he raped you?" broaddrick answered, "yes."


broaddrick's friend norma said that when she left their shared hotel room that morning, broaddrick had told her that she planned to meet with clinton. When norma called around lunchtime, however, broaddrick sounded so upset that norma returned to the room to find broaddrick's lip and mouth badly swollen and her pantyhose ripped off. Broaddrick told norma that clinton had sexually assaulted her.


broaddrick was too upset to stay for the nursing home meeting, so she and norma drove the two hours back to van buren immediately, stopping for more ice to apply to broaddrick's swollen mouth. On the drive back, norma says, broaddrick was in shock, and very upset, blaming herself for letting clinton into her room. "but who, for heaven's sake, would have imagined anything like this?" broaddrick said years later. "this was the attorney general – and it just never entered my mind." in her nbc interview, broaddrick said she didn't tell her then-husband, gary hickey, who says now that he doesn't remember her lip being swollen (she says she explained that to him as an accident). Broaddrick did tell her now-husband, david broaddrick, soon after she returned home, that she had been assaulted by clinton. david broaddrick recalls that her lip was "black" and "mentally she was in bad shape." broaddrick told three other friends soon after the attack, all of whom vouch for her story.

about three weeks after the rape, broaddrick told lisa myers, she and her first husband attended a clinton fund-raiser together. She still "felt in denial" and "very guilty" and at that time still felt like she should "just shut up and accept [her] punishment" for letting clinton into her room, since that must have given him "the wrong idea" about what she had wanted to happen. After that, clinton called her half a dozen times at her nursing home. Once he got through to her and asked when she was coming to little rock again. She just said, "i'm not," and left it at that.

In 1979, broaddrick accepted a non-paying position on a state advisory board relating to nursing homes – a position to which gov. Clinton appointed her. For over a decade she dealt with the governor's office on occasion but not clinton personally, except for a 1984 letter clinton sent her after her nursing home was named one of the best in the state. At the bottom is a handwritten note, "i admire you very much." she interpreted it as a "thank you" for her silence.

In 1991 she attended another nursing-home meeting in little rock, with two friends. In person, bill clinton called her out of the meeting; one friend confirms seeing the pair talking. Immediately, broaddrick says, clinton "began this profuse apology," saying to her, "juanita, i'm so sorry for what i did. I'm not the man that i used to be, can you ever forgive me? What can i do to make this up to you?" feeling "absolute shock," she told him to go to hell and walked away. "in that moment," broaddrick tells me, "i let go of my guilt and put it where it should have been all those years: On him." she continues, "it was a relief not to blame myself anymore." when she went to lunch with two of her friends who were also nurses just after the freak encounter with clinton, the three women "actually began to discuss the possibilities that bill clinton might be remorseful." however, "that faded as soon as he announced his candidacy for president about three weeks later." broaddrick and her friends were all at work when the news broke, "and we just looked at each other and shook our heads in disgust."

as early as the 1992 presidential race, juanita broaddrick's story entered the realm of rumors that swirled around bill clinton. Though her own account didn't appear in the news until one week after the senate acquitted president clinton in february 1999, her name had been circulating among the media, clinton's political opponents, and later, paula jones's legal team. Broaddrick's "phone rang incessantly with requests for interviews, all of them refused" until january 1999.

In november 1997, investigators for paula jones confronted juanita broaddrick – and tape recorded the encounter – but she slammed the door in their faces saying she didn't want to relive the "horrible thing" that had happened. When jones' attorneys subpoenaed broaddrick, she signed an affidavit saying she'd never experienced unwanted sexual advances from bill clinton. Paula jones' lawyers used broaddrick's story, disguised as "jane doe no. 5" in a court filing based largely on a 1992 letter to broaddrick from a friend of hers, philip yoakum. In that letter, mr. Yoakum wrote that he was "particularly distraught when you told me of your brutal rape by bill clinton, how he bit your lip until you gave into his forcing sex upon you." when this letter and the jones court filing hit the news in march 1998, mr. Yoakum told reporters he'd tried to get broaddrick to go public during the 1992 campaign, but she'd said to him, "who would believe me, little old juanita from van buren?"

some people would. Reporting in march 1998 on the yoakum letter, nbc's lisa myers called broaddrick's story "potentially the most explosive allegation out there." myers pointed out that "juanita broaddrick has never tried to sell any story. She has never gone after the president. She is a nurse who built a nursing-home business. She is a respected member of her community in a little town in arkansas." through lawyers, the white house called broaddrick's story (as represented in the paula jones court papers) "outrageous" and smugly pointed journalists toward broaddrick's affidavit denying it.

ken starr provided the impetus forcing juanita broaddrick's story into public view when he subpoenaed paula jones' lawyers for records relating to broaddrick and three other specific women (in addition to kathleen willey and monica lewinsky) in march 1998. In april 1998 broaddrick admitted to the oic that she'd lied in her affidavit, but starr didn't pursue her story because she insisted she'd never been threatened or bribed into silence – hence there was no obstruction of justice angle for starr to use in his investigation. to the public eye, juanita broaddrick's story remained a mere footnote to the paula jones lawsuit and the monica lewinsky scandal engulfing the clinton administration throughout 1998. She spoke with the washington post in april 1998 but insisted on staying off the record.

Even though she'd signed the affidavit and had consistently refused to discuss her story on the record, "jane doe no. 5" appeared in materials turned over to congress during impeachment hearings and reportedly influenced several wavering republicans to vote in favor of impeachment, although house of representatives prosecutors declined to include her story in their case against clinton at the senate trial.

Rumors about her story wouldn't disappear. Some of them offended broaddrick, and one in particular pushed her over the edge into public disclosure: On new year's eve 1998 a friend handed her a tabloid story stating that clinton had bribed david broaddrick to suppress his wife's account. by january 1999, nbc correspondent lisa myers had been trying to persuade broaddrick to tell her story publicly for months. Kathleen willey tells me, "lisa myers called me and asked me if i would talk with juanita." willey talked with broaddrick "many times … i told her what i went through" going public with her story. "juanita would tell me, 'i'm just so afraid that i'm finally getting this off my chest and then people won't believe me,'" willey tells me sadly. "she kept saying, 'i don't want it to be for naught.'" after everything willey had been through herself, she didn't feel like she could offer broaddrick much comfort. "i had to tell her there are no guarantees; look who you're dealing with," willey says, before adding quietly, "all of us involved in this clinton thing, we really have not fared well." willey stopped short of giving broaddrick any specific advice. "i wouldn't tell her what to do," she says.

broaddrick was in her mid-50s in january 1999 when she finally relented and taped an interview with nbc. Nbc had the scoop, but held off airing the interview for a month, citing the need for further investigation into the details of broaddrick's account. The delay frustrated broaddrick, who said nbc had been investigating for nearly a year already, even combing through "old papers about the case we settled with two employees fired for theft 20 years ago." during the delay, nbc interviewer lisa myers told broaddrick, "the good news is you're credible. The bad news is that you're very credible." the story looked explosive, and nbc wanted to make sure it was "rock solid" before airing it.

Broaddrick wound up giving the wall street journal's dorothy rabinowitz a heart-to-heart chat, which the wsj published on feb. 19, 1999, a week after the senate acquitted president clinton. Nbc aired its interview with broaddrick on "dateline" on feb. 24, 1999. Wsj editorial writer dorothy rabinowitz described broaddrick as "a woman of accomplishment, prosperous, successful in her field, serious; a woman seeking no profit, no book, no lawsuit." ms. Rabinowitz continued: "[she is a] woman of a kind people like and warm to. To meet juanita broaddrick at her house in van buren is to encounter a woman of sunny disposition. ... She sits talking in the peaceful house on a hilltop overlooking the broaddricks' 40 acres, where 30 cows, five horses and a mule roam. .... It's a good life all right."

by the time it finally aired its interview with juanita broaddrick, nbc had done the thing properly. lisa myers reported that nbc had talked to four friends who corroborated broaddrick's story, and had even tracked down a detail that would be often used to challenge it: broaddrick could not remember the month or date of the rape. Springtime of 1978 was as close as she could recall, though she recalls with clarity many other details, like what she was wearing, the hotel room furnishings, the view from the window.

nbc checked all of juanita broaddrick's personal and business records, public records, nursing-home records and convention schedules, and learned that there was a nursing-home meeting at the camelot hotel in little rock on april 25, 1978. State records even show that broaddrick received credit for a seminar that day. The white house refused to answer nbc's requests for information, and nbc could find no evidence about clinton's whereabouts that day, which contradicted willey's claims; he had no "public appearances on the morning in question," and newspaper articles "suggest he was in little rock that day."

other details checked out, too.
the "little building" visible from the hotel room window that broaddrick says clinton pointed to was the pulaski county jail. Though it was torn down later, in april 1978 it was visible from river-facing rooms in the camelot hotel. Local law enforcement officials told nbc that broaddrick was a solid citizen with no criminal record and that they took her allegations very seriously; of course, there was nothing that law enforcement could do, since the statute of limitations for the crime of rape had run out more than a decade earlier.
 
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:lol::lol:

The lefts is stroking out at the prospect of a Republican taking Teddy's old seat...
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Keith Olbermann almost lost it when describing Scott Brown last night. But alas, you must first have it before you can lose it. Mr. Olbermann doesn’t have it anymore. I’m not really sure that he ever did have it. Anyway, I digress. It is nothing if not hilarious to see the left wingers losing their mind over Scott Brown’s surge in Massachusetts.

January 19, 2010 | Posted by Shannon Bell Keith Olbermann almost lost it when describing Scott Brown last night. But alas, you must first have it before you can lose it. Mr. Olbermann doesn’t have it anymore. I’m not really sure that he ever did have it. Anyway, I digress. It is nothing if not hilarious to see the left wingers losing their mind over Scott Brown’s surge in Massachusetts.

Libs like Olbermann, Matthews, and the rest think and thought that the Massachusetts Senate seat belonged to them in perpetuity. They think that simply because Martha Coakley has a (D) beside her name she would and should be allowed to just waltz right into the Senate.

To watch the reactions of Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, and the rest of the MSNBC clan is priceless. But to listen to the vitriol that these so called journalists spew at Scott Brown or the Tea Party movement’s direction is utterly sickening. In the video clip Olbermann has the nerve, the audacity to call Scott Brown a joke when we currently have Al Franken sitting in the United States Senate. That in itself is the joke.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLjAahyKfp0
 
Scott Brown is refreshing. He could be a real leader in the Republican Party win or lose. He seems to have a lot of energy and doesn't back down to the Liberal wingnuts. He has handled their vicious personal smears with dignity and class. The Republicans really do need to get behind this guy. He's a winner.
 
How about having the quote in context?

Context is only important to the left when it tends to support their preconceived notions, otherwise it's just too inconvenient for them to bother with. I gave Jillian the context but as you can see from the response he/she doesn't care about the context because the hive mind says it's not important in this case. :)

except you LIED about the statement. And you're misdirecting. I wasn't talking about his lie about not giving to the red cross site the white house linked.

I was talking about his next sentence... the one that said we gave already to haiti, it's called paying taxes.

now please, lie to someone who doesn't actually reseach these things... not to me. mmmmkay?

thanks.

Yeah...but try researching using other sources than left wing blogs.

The context was the white house wanting people to give to them to distribute to Haita.
Rush was making a point that their are charities and private organizations to give too.

Rush was saying that there is no reason to give money to the white house, and that many people (including me) have little confidence it would get to the right place, and that we wouldn't end up on the white house mailing list.

We already give enough in the form of taxes.
 
Scott Brown is refreshing. He could be a real leader in the Republican Party win or lose. He seems to have a lot of energy and doesn't back down to the Liberal wingnuts. He has handled their vicious personal smears with dignity and class. The Republicans really do need to get behind this guy. He's a winner.


This is the single best campaign video I have seen in years.

The guy appears to have "IT" - and win or lose today - he has a very very bright future ahead of him...
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[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCcxxnBNwUM[/ame]
 

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