Question for Happy Dancing LONESTARNOT :

[berni_mccoy]

Do you believe the story you are sitting on will actually be picked up by the MSM?

I ask because everytime we think there is a huge bombshell that the general public ought to care about, guess who doesn't cover it.

If that happens this time, I'll be extremely disappointed, so I want to set my own expectations on this before I find out. Right now, I'm approaching this with ever fiber of skepticism I have, not that the story will be potentially big, but that the MSM will bury it.

What say you, oh happy dancer?

[SheilaT]

1. What story?

n/t

[berni_mccoy]

2. This Story ===>

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3952119&mesg_id=3952119

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

3. ie Watergate with Nixon and the DSM with Shrub

[Lex]

4. I'll state again: unless it is a sex scandal, the media will. not. care.

nt

[dysfunctional press]

6. a sex scandal? with mcain? eeewwwwww...

eeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww...

[jakem]

7. even with Cindy, it would be a scandal. a shanda even...

[Lex]

9. Remember Vicki Iseman?

I guess the press didn't want to talk about it though. So maybe even a sex scandal won't be covered.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/20/vicki-iseman-who-is-mcca_n_87692.html

[Rockholm]

50. He is a serial cheater.

Or is that a cereal eater?
Either way, he is a disaster waiting to happen.

[screembloodymurder]

8. Hell, McCain already had a sex scandal.

You saw how long that was covered. I'm telling you that no story, no matter how big or how juicy, will be covered. Welcome to Mooselinni's America.

[WeDidIt]

12. What if Vicki Iseman is with child

and is about to file a paternity suit?

[dysfunctional press]

37. she'd go to bed one night and wake up not pregnant...

that's how poppy's crew plays ball.

[Barack_America]

41. More like she'd go to bed one night and not wake-up.

:scared:

[lonestarnot]

5. Hi Bernie!

Yes they will have no choice and in checking status this a.m. all I was told was "We're working on it."

[berni_mccoy]

11. In that case, I dance WITH YOU!

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:
:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

[Mz Pip]

13. "We're working on it."

That could mean that they find no truth to the rumor, whatever it may be. Sigh.

I hope this isn't like that Bush girlfriend's abortion story when, at the end of the day, she refused to talk about it.


I'll keep my fingers crossed for this to be real and major.

[onenote]

14. yesterday it was "maybe tomorrow" or Friday.

Then it was "October".

Now its "we're working on it."

My prediction: big pile of nothing.

[WeDidIt]

15. Give it five business days n/t

[Mme. Defarge]

18. Or, worse,

some big, hairy, Rovian trick like the one in 2004 that led to Dan Rather's fall from grace.

Hope we're both wrong!

[David Zephyr]

21. Thank you for your sanity and caution.

The example you provided could not make it any clearer.

[Orsino]

28. Or even worse...

...like the Rove indictment.

[mdmc]

42. imho

nothing more than attention seeking from du'ers.:cry:

[RagAss]

47. IMHO...Hallucinations from a poll panicked Du'er

[marlakay]

20. don't ya wonder what she got either paid or threatened with? nt

[lonestarnot]

31. Oh pleazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzze! Not a fucking rumor!

[Mz Pip]

33. Until something materializes

that's all any of this is, rumor and speculation.

I want there to be something real here. I hope you are right.

[dems_rightnow]

49. It's got a ways to go to qualify for "rumor"

Right now there isn't even that much.

[Midlodemocrat]

16. I trust you, lonestarnot. Don't let us down!!!!!!

[lonestarnot]

32. I do not intend to!

Waiting and watching!

[PearliePoo2]

22. lonestarnot

Did you say in the other thread: "This will make his fucking head explode?"
That possibility is worth sticking around for!
Is there a Larry Flynt connection here?

[Hekate]

29. >sigh< I'll wait until I hear the string section start before dancing.

My patented Schadenfreude Dance will have to wait a little longer.

Hekate

[ailsagirl]

46. I love Schadenfreude... haven't felt it in ages. Bring it on!!! n/t

[Hekate]

48. It's hard to truly get in the mood for Schadenfreude when the other side has no shame...

They feel no shame when their scandals are revealed -- only if they are forced to resign do they start to get a glimmer.
:-( I keep hoping.

Hekate

[ailsagirl]

51. Me too

[Vote2008]

36. I heard something about the Grassy Knoll and a one armed man!!!

[Old and In the Way]

10. If the various scandals and exposes haven't done the trick yet...not sure

what will. Hope the bombshell exceeds the hype.

[fascisthunter]

39. why would it... the Corporate Media has chosen a side

a long time ago....

[Blackhatjack]

17. Official Message to Lonestarnot: "The Raven Flies At Midnight...."

... there are certain rules that must be followed before a well-kept secret can be divulged!

There ... the signal has been given ... let's hear it!!!

[Javaman]

19. LONESTARNOT job is done. I suspect you won't get a reply.

the board is now all worked up into a lather over something that was total and complete bullshit.

[Barack_America]

27. Except he did. And well before you posted. nt

[Javaman]

30. meh, I stand corrected. big deal. nt

[VOX]

23. lonestarnot, you've put all your credibility-eggs in one basket. If this story doesn't pan out...

You are going to have numerous po-ed DUers doggin' your tail if it's just so much smoke!

[crimsonblue]

24. the witch hunt will be a hoot, though!

"He's a witch. Burn Him!"

[Carni]

25. Does it involve the rep from New Mexico?

It's clear from identifying details in the indictment -- which refers to a New Mexico Indian tribe that hired Abramoff's firm, Greenberg Traurig around March 2002 -- that the tribe is the Sandia Pueblo Indians, who are represented in Congress by Wilson. So in other words, a staffer for Wilson was actively involved in helping Ring and Greenberg Traurig (Firm B, where Ring worked at the time), retain their contract to represent the Sandia Indians. And Ring's Greenberg partner -- most likely Abramoff himself, but certainly a member of Abramoff's team at Greenberg -- believed he had the power to affect decisions made by Rep. Wilson concerning the tribe's interests.

A spokesman for Rep. Wilson declined to comment on the information in the indictment.

We already knew that Wilson had accepted political contributions from both Abramoff himself and David Safavian, a former Abramoff crony and Bush administration official convicted for obstruction of justice as part of the Abramoff probe. But the information in the indictment suggests that her office worked with Abramoff more closely that has yet been reported.

Wilson has been a stalwart supporter and prominent surrogate for John McCain, painting him as a crusader against Washington corruption. Just last night, she appeared on MSNBC's Hardball to make the case for him, and last week she told NPR: "John McCain has chosen a reformer ... to be his running mate and I think that's a perfect complement to who he is and what he's done in his life."

Wilson may have good reason to hold the GOP nominee in high regard. In his 2005 Senate investigation, McCain had access to the Greenberg Traurig email trove, presumably including the ones cited by prosecutors in the Ring indictment highlighted above. But his final report generally avoided focusing on members of Congress, and omitted any mention of Wilson.

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[Libby2]

34. HTF do you know??

[Vote2008]

35. You are 100% correct! I hate these false "stories" that never turn into anything!!!!!

[dysfunctional press]

38. oh no! -lonestarnot's i.p. info shows registration to a leopold, jason...

:banghead:

[crispini]

44. Wait, are you kidding?

LOL

[wvbygod]

40. If it is real then giving the subject now won't matter

Time to cut out the games. What is the rumor?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

43. can we guess?

my guesses

Sarah Palin is male?

:evilgrin:

[DCBob]

45. Perhaps. How about lobbyist Vicki Iseman will spill the beans on McSleaze?

That would be salacious!

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

52. You've gotta be kidding me......people are still waiting for something that's never happening?

Just proves......how do you keep an idiot in suspense.....