Victoria Toensing on Lehrer, commenting on guess what? 6:21 PM CST.

[Gabi Hayes]

can you believe it?

opposite her: Richard benVeniste

she hasn't opened her gin hole* yet.

don't know if I can stomach it.

*thanks to a witty DUer who said that last night. can't remember who it is, alread, but thanks!

[Gabi Hayes]

1. She's talking about the "piece" she wrote a couple of weeks ago,

would that be the piece where she was yawping about all the OTHER people who should be indicted?

funny, she didn't mention that in her opening spiel, in which she said there was no case, since no third party came forward, or something like that....hard to keep up.

[Swede]

2. You ever notice how she always has her head turned slightly?

She never looks head on into the camera,it's weird once you notice it,but she always does it.

[Gabi Hayes]

16. ha....I noticed that! it makes her look so very

SEXY!

that come-hither look.

and the new dye job is much less Lucille Ball-ish, don't you think?

[Swede]

3. Please delete this dupe.

nt

[MoonRiver]

4. I heard her on Blitzer earlier.

And, surprise, surprise, she just kept spewing, with no supporting relevant arguments btw, about what a "travesty of justice" the Libby conviction was. Even Wolfie was able to blow her out of the water without even trying hard.
:eyes:

[TomInTib]

5. I caught her on Blitzer earlier.

Had to switch channels, she makes me want to do really bad things.

[Gabi Hayes]

6. jesus....benVeniste hardly got a word in edgewise. at least she didn't

have the gall to call it a travesty of justice, apparently the main RW talking point, but she DID call it a political prosecution, then, when benVeniste, in one of only two brief comments he was allowed, said that the PRESident, Cheney, you name it in the admin stayed away from calling Fitz's prosecution "political."

THEN, she denied that was what she said!

amazing!

she does that all the time, btw.

[Arkansas Granny]

11. I heard that also. And her denial followed her statement that

it was obvious that Fitzpatrick had an "agenda".

[Gabi Hayes]

12. yep...it INFURIATES me that PBS, out of ALL the 'experts' available to

comment on this verdict, they chose HER, who wrote an article that most objective observers think was very close to, if not actually, jury tampering, released the weekend the jury started considering

it's widely believed that HER ARTICLE was the one read by the infamous 12th juror.

[aquart]

7. Ben Veniste: No, I think it's a case of he said, THEY said.

Good comeback to her intentionally misleading and belittling "it's a case of he said, he said."

My, she is a distorting, lying, twisting hack.

[Gabi Hayes]

8. thanks...that was about all he was allowed to say, and did they put him on Haldol, or what?

Toensing, too, for that matter

just another reason to never give a penny to PBS. what did they give it, about five minutes?

http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/02/delusional_rede.html

Larry C Johnson

Congratulations to Victoria Toensing, former Reagan Administration Justice Department official, for plumbing new depths of delusion and crazed fantasies in her latest Washington Post op-ed. Ms. Toensing's piece--Trial in Error--should have been titled, "I Am Ignorant of Basic Facts". She offers up two special gems:

Valerie Plame was not covert.
Ambassador Joseph Wilson (Valerie's husband) misled the public about how he was sent to Niger, about the thrust of his March 2003 oral report of that trip, and about his wife's CIA status
Valerie Plame was undercover until the day she was identified in Robert Novak's column. I entered on duty with Valerie in September of 1985. Every single member of our class--which was comprised of Case Officers, Analysts, Scientists, and Admin folks--were undercover. I was an analyst and Valerie was a case officer. Case officers work in the Directorate of Operations and work overseas recruiting spies and running clandestine operations. Although Valerie started out working under "official cover"--i.e., she declared she worked for the U.S. Government but in something innocuous, like the State Department--she later became a NOC aka non official cover officer. A NOC has no declared relationship with the United States Government. These simple facts apparently are too complicated for someone of Ms. Toensing's limited intellectual abilities.

She also is ignoring the facts introduced at the Libby trial. We have learned that Scooter Libby, Karl Rove, Ari Fleischer, and Richard Armitage told various members of the press that Valerie worked for the CIA. In fact Scooter Libby was the one who told Bush press flack, Ari Fleischer, about Valerie's covert status. Richard Armitage told Novak (who confirmed the story with Karl Rove) and Novak ultimately exposed not just Valerie but her NOC cover company, Brewster Jennings. That leak by the Bush Administration ruined Valerie's ability to continue working as a case officer and destroyed an international intelligence network.

[Annces]

9. I saw it

Ray Suarez called her on her remarks that Fitzgerald was criminalizing the way people play politics. Ray said but Libby lied in the grand jury, regardless of whether there was an original crime or not, he lied.

[Gabi Hayes]

10. and then she backed off, right? I was trying to type as they talked, but

got the impression that this whole thing was no big deal, and we won't hear much more on PBS about it.

and there was NO mention of Brewster Jennings

none at all

what's the matter with benVeniste

oops...forgot he was one of the 911 whitewashers

how convenient

[Annces]

13. Yes, she did a little dance around it

But for Suarez to even challenge her was something he does not normally do.

[Gabi Hayes]

14. Ha...it reminded me of Alan Colmes, or that little dweeb in the original

Office Space cartoons that appeared on SNL

[peacetalksforall]

15. They had her on Fox right after the verdict - this is what I was

able to catch - read the last sentence for sure:

Verdict is inconsistent.
Lots of bases for appeals.
Walton will have to decide is there is an issue that is compelling that could result in overturn.
No conviction until sentence
Guidelines - not in cement because of recent SC decisions.
Sentence based on most serious, lesser ones not usually counted - ten years - then I was called away for a second and heard her say 10 months to 1 year - I think she meant that a ten year could be reduced to 10 months to 1 year??? Is that possible?

[Cha]

17. Is she still an

ugly blowhard?