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’:
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.)
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.”
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.
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.
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Cross-post at LetFreedomRingBlog
August 7th, 2006 at 11:08 pm
Fuck you you jerk-off. How about trying to dispute the facts instead of offering up your useless opinion. THE PRESIDENT IS A CRIMINAL AND WILL BE IMPEACHED. Get used to it. Byron York is a hack and a stenographer for the White House. Good to see you’re no different. Try to dispute one fact in that report. It’s obvious you haven’t even read it. You and your kind wrap yourself in the flag and think you’re patriotic but you know nothing and do nothing. I certainly hope you’re children, unless of course you’re a closet homo like so many other Republicans, have volunteered to fight in Iraq. You’re a coward.
August 9th, 2006 at 10:07 am
“The loud little handful will shout for war. The pulpit will warily and cautiously protest at first…The great mass of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes, and will try to make out why there should be a war, and they will say earnestly and indignantly: ‘It is unjust and dishonorable and there is no need for war.’ Then the few will shout even louder…Before long you will see a curious thing: anti-war speakers will be stoned from the platform, and free speech will be strangled by hordes of furious men who still agree with the speakers but dare not admit it…Next, statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.”
— Mark Twain