Exposing John Conyers
Byron York has done us a great service by highlighting
John Conyers' quest to impeach President Bush. Here's a look at Conyers' 'case':
You know that this 'report' is hot air when Jason Leopold is cited. Leopold is the man who 'reported' that:
Further proof of Conyers' 'unfitness' to serve is displayed when he's willing to cite legendary Bush haters like "Paul Krugman, Maureen Dowd, Bob Herbert, Frank Rich and former Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal." That bunch hasn't written a single positive article about President Bush since he took office. Based on their track record, I wouldn't trust their opinions of President Bush if my life depended on it. If President Bush signed a proclamation saying that the sun rises in the east, I'd expect that chorus of haters to each write a column stating that President Bush didn't consult the scientific community enough to make such a statement.
It's insulting that a dingbat like Conyers is even taken seriously. It's insulting that he's even part of the House of Representatives.
Posted Monday, August 7, 2006 9:37 PM
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While it's absent in the body of the report, the I-word does appear a few times in Conyers' 1,401 footnotes, which include citations of authorities ranging from the left-wing conspiracy website rawstory.com to the left-wing antiwar sites democracyrising.us and afterdowningstreet.org to the left-wing British newspaper the Guardian to the left-wing magazines The Nation and Mother Jones to the left-wing blogosphere favorite Murray Waas to the New York Times columnists Paul Krugman, Maureen Dowd, Bob Herbert, and Frank Rich to former Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal to the New Yorker's Seymour Hersh. (Sources for "The Constitution in Crisis" even include one story co-written by the disgraced Internet writer Jason Leopold.)In other words, absent the Nutroots blogosphere's consuming Bush hatred and its nutty, unproven conspiracy theories from discredited political hacks masquerading as reporters, there wouldn't be much to the report except Conyers' hatred of President Bush.
Relying on such material, Conyers has created what might be called the definitive left-wing bloggers' history of the Bush administration. "I would like to thank the 'blogosphere' for its myriad and invaluable contributions to me and my staff," Conyers writes in the report's introduction. "Absent the assistance of 'blogs' and other Internet-based media, it would have been impossible to assemble all of the information, sources and other materials necessary to the preparation of this report."
You know that this 'report' is hot air when Jason Leopold is cited. Leopold is the man who 'reported' that:
"Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald spent more than half a day Friday at the offices of Patton Boggs, the law firm representing Karl Rove. During the course of that meeting, Fitzgerald served attorneys for former Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove with an indictment charging the embattled White House official with perjury and lying to investigators related to his role in the CIA leak case, and instructed one of the attorneys to tell Rove that he has 24 business hours to get his affairs in order, high level sources with direct knowledge of the meeting said Saturday morning."We now know that Rove wasn't indicted. In fact, he was never a target of the investigation. That Conyers would cite anything from a disgraced journalist like that shows the investigative integrity, or the lack thereof, of his work. Conyers is a hate-filled, bitter old man who isn't even qualified to be a congressman, much less a committee chairman.
Further proof of Conyers' 'unfitness' to serve is displayed when he's willing to cite legendary Bush haters like "Paul Krugman, Maureen Dowd, Bob Herbert, Frank Rich and former Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal." That bunch hasn't written a single positive article about President Bush since he took office. Based on their track record, I wouldn't trust their opinions of President Bush if my life depended on it. If President Bush signed a proclamation saying that the sun rises in the east, I'd expect that chorus of haters to each write a column stating that President Bush didn't consult the scientific community enough to make such a statement.
It's insulting that a dingbat like Conyers is even taken seriously. It's insulting that he's even part of the House of Representatives.
Posted Monday, August 7, 2006 9:37 PM
July 2006 Posts
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