Scotty Roast @ 12:15 EST- C-SPAN

[npincus]

the natives are restless

[stop the bleeding]

1. thank you for the heads up - getting my snotty beating stick out n/t

[Coexist]

2. thanks!

I will tune in

It will probably be all Osama, all the time.

Nic Robertson (CNN) says it seems to have been "put on the shelf in case of an emergency".

[katinmn]

3. Scotty = Worst press secretary ever!

Truly not up to the task.

[displacedtexan]

4. Will the press corpse roll over to the Bin Laden tape?

Or will they continue the Abramoff waltz?

Hm. Only time will tell.

[Sydnie]

5. I hope they change the tempo long enough to do the

Delay/Frist Trader Two Step too!

I will be on a conference call and will miss it. Will try to follow this thread during the call anyway though.

[Perky]

7. It is going to be both

But the tape has not been authenticated and that is a legitimate out for Scotty. It is all hypothetical.

[npincus]

6. countdown to the bar-b-cue...

got any hot sauce?

[helderheid]

8. Osama osama osama 9/11 9/11 september the eleventh (just a preview)

[chat_noir]

9. bin Laden, bin Laden, bin Laden

[gristy]

10. is it on?

All I see is some hearing on decency in the media.

[underpants]

12. Yep-Scotty wasn't late today he couldn't wait to get out there (LINK)

http://www.whitehouse.gov/#

[helderheid]

15. don't see it! Just wednesdays and tuesdays. What am I missing?

[rpgamerd00d]

11. link?

[underpants]

14. LINK-Scotty right on time for some good old fashioned boogetty boo

http://www.whitehouse.gov/#

[Radio_Lady]

57. Thanks, underpants. Appreciate your posting this for those of

us who get up late on the West Coast!

[BuyingThyme]

13. Shenanigans!

[underpants]

16. Love the bit about people supporting terrorism being held accountable

Gee Scotty didn't you have Fox News on?

[helderheid]

18. Where is the link to TODAY'S briefing - I only see links to Wed and Tue

[underpants]

23. Whoops my bad that is yesterday's

DAMN!

[Doctor_J]

17. Scotty to be given a vicious tongue-washing by *-loving

former journalists, cronies, and paid operatives.

[Sydnie]

19. I don't have him on TV - are they covering later instead? n/t

[helderheid]

20. :(

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[SSX]

21. CNN &MSNBC covering also

Big day for Scotty.

[rpgamerd00d]

22. Link anyone? Bueller?

[Spazito]

24. CSPAN1 has it on their schedule for 12:15

Snotty is late as usual it seems.

[npincus]

25. WTF- briefing is listed on C-SPAN schedule... Scotty has stage fright?

http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/schedule.cs...

these things start late sometimes... the fucking incosiderate bastards. Will post when it "appears"- on tv or the web.

[Spazito]

26. My bet is Snotty won't start until Cheney has started his

'war on terra' speech in hopes his press briefing is ignored by the media.

[SSX]

29. Yep postpone it til Cheney starts ranting

who will get the coverage?

[rodeodance]

45. check this thread also. msnbc missed scotts opening while focus on VP>

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[helderheid]

27. he's late. c-span just announced.

[Sydnie]

30. Thank you - I am on a conference call so I have the tv muted

I was wondering ....

[npincus]

28. ***I'ts STARTING "shortly"! ***

The link is up on whitehouse.gov, and C-SPAN is "waiting" for it to begin.

[helderheid]

31. I'll miss most of the fun. Gotta pick my son up at school in a bit.

[npincus]

32. check this thread and others for highlights

or, perhaps 'lowlights' is a better word... if you have time, the video will be posted on whitehouse.gov.

Though there is something pleasurable about watching Scotty squirm in real time.

[helderheid]

33. yes, nothing quite like it. :)

[helderheid]

34. yes, nothing quite like it. :)

[SSX]

35. CNN went to cheney

said they are going to cover both live. That ought to be good.

[helderheid]

36. ON ON ON ON

[npincus]

Scotty's ON (C-SPAN).

[sabra]

37. it's on!

[helderheid]

38. taking the fight to the enemy - we are winning

[helderheid]

39. Holy hell. They did not start the war in Iraq, BUSH did.

[underpants]

40. Boy Scotty couldn't be any happier could he?

Big old grin....it's like Gannon is back in town.

[Skidmore]

43. Doesn't have to answer hard questions today.

Someone cue the superhero theme music. Dada da! All he needs is a cape.

[SSX]

41. can't comment right off the bat

on going investigation of the tape

[jayfish]

42. Looks Like The New OBL Tape Did Its' Job

So far it's all...

terra
terra
terra

Jay

[Skidmore]

44. And the press is scared.

[Coexist]

46. blahdee-blah

How many sound bytes can a person string together??
bringing-the-fight-to-them-use-everything-in-our-power-...

Will someone please ask about the scandal?!

[Coexist]

48. Helen Thomas nails him again 'WE started the war in Iraq"

Scotty lost his beaming smile.

[rodeodance]

49. te he Helen Thomas telling Scot it was us who invaded Irag. te he.

[Coexist]

51. yaowemeabeer

[rodeodance]

52. then Scott telling Helen she has a 'misunderstanding of the War on Ter.!!

great exchange--the simpleton and the educated.

[RebelOne]

47. "On the run." "On the run." I have lost track

of how many times he has said that.

[Sydnie]

55. He has said only about 3 phrases so far

"We are winning"

"they are on the run"

"war on terror"

[sabra]

50. Snotty: clearly Bin Laden is on the run

proof?

[Binka]

53. Sputter Sputter Sputter

Snotty is beyond blathering.

[rodeodance]

54. and our mighty military can not catch that frail old man??

[rodeodance]

58. oh yeah--we took a sidetrack to Irag. how silly of me to forget.

[Sydnie]

59. HE IS HIDING - what don't you get about that?

J/K I loved the question that followed that - "even for the best military in the world?" Why can't they find him? He must not have RSVP'd his dinner invite last week.

[underpants]

56. Bush wasn't told about the OBL tape

It was on CNN and Fox before he was told. HE was briefed after his NoVA appearance.

[rodeodance]

60. "a regime more interested in serving their own purposes than the people"

Is he talking of the Bushco Regime?

[Sydnie]

61. they always project like that

I swear, just change the names and they ARE talking about themselves.

[rodeodance]

62. msnbc is tired of scott blatter, they just went to Cheney!

[liveoaktx]

63. This is a country of RULE OF LAW, therefore Scotty's baloney about

not a law enforcement matter but an ideology is crap.

[carolinalady]

64. Seems like he is a lot more repectful of reporters when he is on

national tv vs. the usual c-span.

[Sydnie]

66. He is just more comfortable with the subject matter

It's easy when you have given the same answers 2,987,693 times.

[RebelOne]

65. Why even bother having these briefings?

He just says the same things over and over. And I know all the reporters don't believe a word he says.

[npincus]

67. Scotty BOMBSHELL quote:

"If there is something of an urgent nature, the President is informed" (he said this with respect to B*sh not being told immediately about OBL tape)

OH REALLY. So the WH did not view the flooding of NOLA and all the dying inhabitants, all those trapped in the convention center without food and water "something of an urgent nature". So THIS is why Chimpy enjoyed 3 more days of vacation and fund raising before returning to Washington? So THIS is why Andy Card took the extravagant measure of MAKING A DVD about NOLA flooding, in order to inform Chimp of what was happening? What about a fucking phone call?

The incredible betrayal of NOLA and our citizens per the federal response to Katrina has drifted WAY too far out of mainstream consciousness.

I repeat Scotty's words: "If there is something of an urgent nature, the President is informed"

[underpants]

69. Rember when the plane was supposedly flying towards his wife

and they didn't interrupt his bike ride for that???

Do they brief him on ANYTHING?

[gkhouston]

70. they brief him on legislation

after he's signed it.

[Sydnie]

74. Only when SpongeBob will be a new episode

Otherwise, leave him alone, he's prezidenting just fine.

[Sydnie]

68. Les - what the hell is he talking about?

Clipper Ship? What the hell is that?

[RebelOne]

71. That's news to me also. Never heard of it.

[jayfish]

79. No,No,No...

that's a total misrepresentation of the clipper-chip(which I opposed at the time). The clipper-chip is basically a back-door for law enforcement to run a tap. It still would have required a warrant.

Jay

[carolinalady]

72. Clipper Chip? what is it

[gkhouston]

75. been around for years. Big Brother in your computer. n/t

[spuddonna]

73. LOL!!!!!

Les:"Gore was tryin to tap every phone..." Oh man...

[Sydnie]

and every fax machine too

[CottonBear]

76. He's trying to smear Al Gore and Hillary...don't know where he's going...

Les is Bill O'Lieley CRAZY!

[blogslut]

87. notice how relieved Snotty was

to answer Les' question?

[CottonBear]

89. Les is the next best thing to Guckert/Gannon. n/t

[bettyellen]

78. chip

i think it's a built in tracer of some sort.

[gkhouston]

85. it encrypts messages; it doesn't actually transmit them. The idea

is that you and the sender can decode the message but a third party can't except there's a back-door way for law enforcement to read the encrypted messages assuming they have a warrant.

The basic idea is that if you want to send email for your personal privacy or for business privacy, this encryption would allegedly be good enough, but if you were a crook, the cops would still be able to eavesdrop on you.

[Sydnie]

86. Yes, it's CHIP not SHIP - damn Les getting all excited and not speaking

clearly.

BOSTON - A new method of communicating is creating intriguing services that beat old ways of sending information. But law enforcement makes a somber claim: These new networks will become a boon to criminals and terrorists unless the government can easily listen in.

This was the story line in the mid-1990s when the Clinton administration sought to have electronic communications encrypted only by a National Security Agency-developed “Clipper Chip,” for which the feds would have a key.

The Clipper Chip eventually went the way of clipper ships after industry balked and researchers showed its cryptographic approach was flawed anyway. But while the Clipper Chip died, the dilemma it illuminated remains.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9924039/from/RL.2/

[gkhouston]

90. so why did Les bring this up? Are they going to try to bring

this back from the dead, using a viable algorithm (for a change)? And what's gonna stop me using something like PGP before I send the message?

[Sydnie]

91. Nope, he just wanted to cast a shadow on Gore's speech

Stick it out there and see who salutes it. He didn't get much response and I bet it isn't brought up again.

[SSX]

77. Abramoff finally

[RebelOne]

81. Yup. He contributed to Democrats and Republicans.

[tishaLA]

80. Kenny Mayne is asking questions?

[CottonBear]

82. "Patriot Act is an important tool...President will use every LAWFUL tool

at his disposal."
TERROR TERROR TERROR!

[bettyellen]

83. took the oath of on "on September...." OOOPs!

[SSX]

84. asked if Pres would renew PATRIOT ACT on his own

He will use whatever authority he feels like basically.

[spuddonna]

88. It's over? Where was Gregory?!

I was hoping to hear him follow-up on Abramoff...