Maddow debunks Hatch smear on Lam

[jumpoffdaplanet]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/4/4/10486/64524

What Hatch said on Meet the Press:

"She was a former law professor, no prosecutorial experience, and the former campaign manager in Southern California for Clinton, and they're trying to say that this administration appoints people politically?"



Who Lam really is:

"Lam's people told her that Lam had never been a law professor, that she had 15 years of experience, and that she'd never worked for a Clinton campaign.

Clinton's people had never heard of her before Bush appointed her to be US Attorney."


Hatch's people refuse calls.



Direct Link to Maddow debunk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRAKnm7hhGw

[Beaverhausen]

1. I knew what Hatch was saying was bullshit!!! Glad Rachael got on it

Good for her!

[mainer]

2. Astonishing. Just astonishing.

I can't imagine the Republicans running with such a blatant lie. Is this just mere incompetence again? Did they confuse her with another attorney named Lam? Is it that all these Asian people look alike to them?

[peacetalksforall]

3. Hatch is a known liar.

Hatch is a Mormon.
Therefore, all Mormons are liars.

This man does not represent ANYONE well.

[zbdent]

11. How dare you use repuke logic

oh, wait ... that's an oxymoron ... they wouldn't know logic if it bit them on the ass while carrying a sign notifying them of its intentions in 20 foot letters ...

[spanone]

4. Orrin Hatch was absolutely disgusting on MTP. A total asshole.

I have no respect for this lying man at all.

[Dhalgren]

5. How can these whore press people live with themselves?

Not one ever even attempts to set the record straight or call these liars on their lies! It just makes me sick, no matter how jaded I become to the "press" and its sell-out to the fascists...

[deutsey]

8. Their masters pay them quite handsomely, I'm sure. n/t

[kevinmc]

6. I knew that line was BS ......

I had never heard that before and as usual ... was not challenged when it was said.

[Hand]

7. "Senator Unctuous of Utah," as Carl Rowan called him. nt

[maddezmom]

9. more from Bud Cummins re:Hatch's statements Carol Lam and Tim Griffin

On NBC’s “Meet the Press” last Sunday, Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, a senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, hailed Griffin as “a person with prosecutorial experience who the attorney – who the U.S. Attorney who was going to be removed said was his right-hand man and one of the best prosecutors he had.”

In an e-mail to me, however, Cummins disputed Hatch’s characterization of the letter.

“I don’t see here where I referred to him as my ‘right arm,’” Cummins said. “I don’t know where they are getting that. Tim worked hard and did a good job organizing the launch of what became a very successful PSN program. But the great success was at least equally due, if not a great deal more, to the efforts of virtually every prosecutor in the office after his departure.”

False Talking Points

Cummins noted that Hatch also made disparaging remarks about Carol Lam, the U.S. Attorney in San Diego who was another of the eight federal prosecutors fired last year because the White House and Justice Department didn’t rate them highly on lists that included an assessment of whether they were “loyal Bushies.”

“I imagine Senator Hatch will be very upset with the person or persons that fed him all the wrong information,” Cummins said in the e-mail. “I know he doesn’t want to put HIS credibility at risk, too. Sounds like he was provided talking points by someone as reckless with the facts as other previous occurrences in this saga.

more:http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/040307b.html

[Jim__]

10. I wonder if timbo will put out the corrected information on his next show - n/t

[Hubert Flottz]

12. Hatch can't be the new AG he's a known LIAR!

honorable

adjective
1. not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent; "honest lawyers"; "honest reporting"
2. worthy of being honored; entitled to honor and respect; "an honorable man"; "led an honorable life"; "honorable service to his country"
3. adhering to ethical and moral principles; "it seems ethical and right"; "followed the only honorable course of action"
4. deserving of esteem and respect; "all respectable companies give guarantees"; "ruined the family's good name"


http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/honorable

A liar is not an honorable person.

[RedEarth]

13. Typical repuke............ a liar

[EVDebs]

14. I wonder if Hatch might be one of the "others" mentioned in this article ....

"It's all part of a growing ongoing investigation into corruption in defense and intelligence contracts, which already has sent former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham to prison and, legal sources say, may threaten others in Congress and the CIA. "

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12634250/

Obstruction of justice takes many forms; diverting the media is one of them it seems.

[pigpickle]

15. kick