Charlie Rose - Antonin Scalia (Bush v. Gore 2000)

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Run time: 03:17 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK8TiD9Xkcw   Posted on YouTube: June 24, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: June 25, 2008 By DU Member: Amerigo Vespucci Views on DU: 1483

 
From the clip:

Charlie Rose: Some say we'll never know who won that election in Florida.

Scalia: Well, the press unanimously...there were a number of different organizations involved...they unanimously came to that conclusion.

[frog92969]

1. I saw this on TV

Charlie couldn't have licked his boots any cleaner, it was truly disgusting.

Scalia is the real poster child for rat bastards.

[Maureen1322]

2. Gobama.

[bulloney]

3. Scalia sounded so concerned that the U.S. was the laughingstock of the world over the '04 election.

Yet, he doesn't seem to have any problems with James Baker and his goons infiltrating Florida and strongarming the ballot counts.

You think the U.S. was the laughingstock of the world during the '04 elections, Scalia? What do you think the world's opinion of the U.S. is now, after 8 years of Bush in the White House? You are partially responsible for this debacle.

[JHB]

4. "Some say we'll never know who won..."

That'll be true as long as people like Rose let people like Scalia blankedly claim that "the press ...unanimously" found that the outcome hadn't changed. By never addressing the critiques of that investigation, and thus the reasons "some say" otherwise, that's a prescription for leaving it in limbo.


And as to that "laughingstock of the world" that we "couldn't hold an election" horseshit? We had a process for sorting out close elections, and it was in progress until the SC interfered. Since when does Fat Tony care about what foreigners think of us?

(And that's not even considering how many people in other countries simply had the wrong impression of what was happening: in the parlimentary systems most familar to citizens of other democracies, the government changes immediately after an election so a disputed election means that there's no government, so they were worried that a military and economic power of our magnitude was running around headless. Some of them needed reminders that we still did have a president, Bill Clinton, and he would remain so until Jan. 20, by which time we expected to have the dispute resolved.)

[digidigido]

9. You've cursed the name Fat Tony. I used to name my computer drives after

my italian heritage, Guido, Pietro et al, and I of course had the Big Louie and Fat Tony, but even they could
not be as evil and venal as that fat fuck. I'm going to have to lose the adjective and re name the drive

[whistle]

5. What a corrupt lying mafia shill Scalia is...he looks acts, plays, talks and even smells like a thug

[AlexDeLarge]

6. Baseball Analogy

So let me get this straight. Because we were the laughingstock of the world because we couldn't settle the election quickly, we just go with whoever's ahead (based on what results I'm not sure). That's like ending a baseball game in the fifth inning, so whoever's ahead is going to be the winner anyway, right, justice. In his opinion then, the conclusion to draw would be it's better to make a decision quickly than to work through the process and get it right. And what have we gotten by 'quickly' deciding the election. The US is no longer the laughingstock of the world. He's right about that. We are now despised by the rest of the world. Once again the repugnants have proven that they know how to win elections but have no idea how to actually govern.

[AlbertCat]

7. Laughing Stock

If Fat Tony had REALLY been worried about something so unimportant to our elections as a few jibes by the British... if being a world-wide "laughing Stock" was the serious problem he claims to have feared so, then he wouldn't have allowed a "Gentleman's" C flunky, dry drunk, AWOL, illiterate Jackass who can't speak English to become our Commander and Chief.

No, Scalia needed his soul mate, Dick Cheney in charge, and since NOBODY was ever gonna vote for Dick.....

The only laughing stock issue Tony was worried about was that the Repugs couldn't even steal an election without screwing up and having to pull out "Plan B...involve the Supreme Court".

[DailyGrind51]

8. "Strict Constructionist" my ass!

What about his Screw the Constitution! What about the "Islamo-fascists?" rant following his loss in the recent decision of hi colleagues' determination that detainees actually had rights?