Important KoKo01 thread on blatant lie by Mehlman, ignored by M$M

[Gabi Hayes]

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

Note: In article, Ed Gillespi also repeated the same lie)

Why isn't the Ken Mehlman lie a bigger story?
I want to return to what I think is an extremely important incident that occurred late in the day last Friday, when events typically get lost in the news cycle. As Think Progress documented, at some point during the day on Friday, the GOP decided to go on television and tell an outright lie -- namely, that when Denny Hastert learned the previous Friday about the IMs exchanged between Mark Foley and Congressional pages (as a result of the ABC story), Hastert delivered an ultimatum to Foley: either resign or be expelled. Thereafter, so the new GOP mythology claimed, Foley resigned.

This story is complete fiction. It never happened. It was just made up by Republican operatives in order to defend Denny Hastert and make him look like some sort of hard-nosed, no-nonsense tough guy who took extraordinary steps against Mark Foley. But there is no doubt that this never happened, and anyone who is saying that it did is, by definition, lying -- and is lying clearly and demonstrably.

It wasn't just some obscure pundit or GOP backbencher who told this lie. The Chairman of the Republican National Committee, Ken Mehlman, went on national television and claimed that Hastert did this:

more at......

http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com /

this needs somebody's attention. isn't there anybody in the M$M who'll cover this?

KO, have you seen this? who has an in to his office?

[Hav]

1. .

You can't count on them to do the investigations or ask the tough questions.
Email them and hopefully it will be revealed as yet another lie from the Repubs in their desperate attempts to avoid taking responsibility for anything at all.

[librechik]

2. sorry, MSM obsessing over possible nuke right now

no time for fact checking other stories

[Gabi Hayes]

3. yeah...and they lie all the time, so what's the big deal?

pretty sad

amazing how they were able to cover every aspect of the Clinton wrongdoings, though, isn't it?

[librechik]

4. no time to fact check Clinton Story, either, apparently

especially not even the acquittal. That would have required going back and admitting they were wrong.

[Gabi Hayes]

5. which acquittal are you talking about? if you mean Whitewater, they

were never charged, only WITNESSES, and the Fed prosecutor's closing statement DELCARED them to be VICTIMS of Hale, Tucker, and McDougal

something the Wash Post and NY Times didn't report for a LONG time, and BURIED deep in the paper, just as they did the Pilsbury report, which COMPLETELY exonerated them

[librechik]

9. Clinton cleared in every instance including WW, Paula and Monica

those acquittals that were whispered about in the back pages for a day or two after the slime was lallowed to swish around for years.

[Gabi Hayes]

10. he himself was never tried for anything, except the impeachment.

he lost his license to practice, but that was an administrative thing, I think, and he copped to that

other people were tried by Starr, and a few were convicted, like Hillary's law partner, but neither he nor Hillary were ever charged with anything by Fiske, Starr, or Ray

[David Zephyr]

6. Kick.

Thanks.

[ellenfl]

7. that's odd, reynolds' new mea culpa ad says HE forced foley to resign. eom

[Gabi Hayes]

8. yep....there could be some fun in that one: Hastert and Reynolds

arguing over WHO forced him to resign

this argument preferably taking place behind bars, with them sharing a cell for committing perjury