The Clintons: Tough-As-Nails on Perjury?

[White_Male_Canada]

Dick Morris outta know, he was there:

The Clintons: Tough-As-Nails on Perjury?

Former President Bill Clinton and Senator Hillary Clinton are absolutely outraged that President Bush granted executive clemency to Scooter Libby, recently convicted of making false statements under oath. They obviously believe that Libby should serve his 30 month sentence.

Does that mean that they now think that perjurers should go to jail? Or have they simply forgotten about Bill Clinton’s own plea agreement in the last hours of his presidency — for making false statements under oath? Some people would call that perjury.

One would have thought that Hillary and Bill Clinton wouldn’t touch the Libby executive clemency issue with a ten-foot pole — for lots of reasons.

After all, Bill Clinton has a well-earned reputation as the king of pardons — granting 140 of them during his last minutes in office — with many going to terrorists, people who had paid Hillary’s brothers to arrange for pardons, contributed money or key support to Hillary’s Senate campaign, given the Clintons expensive personal gifts, and/or made large contributions to Bill Clinton’s Presidential Library. One of the pardons went to Bill’s own brother, Roger, while another went to Susan MacDougal, who kept quiet about Clinton during the Whitewater trial.

That’s really cronyism, Hillary.

Given the disgraceful Clinton record on pardons, most reasonable people would have kept quiet — especially when Libby’s offense was so similar to Bill’s own criminal conviction. But the self-righteous former first couple couldn’t resist. Once the clemency was announced, Hillary immediately attacked President Bush, saying, "This commutation sends the clear signal that in this administration, cronyism and ideology trump competence and justice.”

Hey, Hillary, do you understand what cronyism really means?

Cronyism is favoritism shown to friends and supporters without regard to their qualifications. And that’s what Bill Clinton’s pardons were all about. Except, as usual, the Clintons went way over the top. So, in addition to granting pardons to undeserving friends, Bill Clinton also pardoned undeserving strangers who paid his family, friends, campaign coffers, and presidential library.

Now Bill and Hillary claim that his highly controversial pardons were “different” than the Libby clemency.

He’s absolutely right ....

The big difference was that many of the Clinton pardons were patently bought and paid for — something event he Clintons don’t claim to be the case in the Libby commutation.

Hillary’s brothers were paid more than $500,000 to lobby the president for pardons that were then granted to con artists and drug dealers. For a fee of $400,000, Hugh Rodham successfully pushed for a pardon for drug kingpin Carlos Anabel Vignali, convicted of shipping a half-ton of cocaine from L.A. to Minnesota. His father was a big contributor to the Democratic Party — he gave more than $150,000 to the Los Angeles Democrats. Obviously, the investment was a shrewd one.

That’s cronyism, Hillary. Get it?

Tony Rodham advocated a pardon for Edgar and Vanna Jo Gregory. The Gregorys, who owned a carnival company, defrauded a federal bank. When the pardon was publicized, Hillary stated that Tony was “not paid” by the Gregorys for his work on the pardon. Tony repeated that line on the Larry King Show.

After an investigation, the House Government Operations Committee disagreed and announced that Hillary’s statement was inaccurate. Now, a federal bankruptcy court overseeing the carnival company’s bankruptcy is about to rule on whether over $100,000 paid to Tony Rodham at the time of the pardons was a loan or payment for “consulting.”

The Gregorys contributed over $100,000 to Hillary’s campaign and other Democratic causes. These folks were well known to the Clintons — they visited them at Camp David a nd were hired to stage two carnivals on the White House grounds — paid for by the taxpayers.

That’s cronyism, Hillary.

When the Rodham brothers’ exploits were made public, Bill and Hillary announced that they were “shocked and saddened” by the disclosure. At the time of the pardons, the Rodham brothers were actually living in the White House with the Clintons and had made contact with the highest level of presidential assistants. But the Clintons claimed that they were totally unaware of what Hugh and Tony were doing.

But, it wasn’t just Hillary’s family who benefited from the Clinton cronyism. Bill’s brother Roger was pardoned for his drug conviction, and he was allegedly paid $30,000 to promote six felons — although those pardons were never granted.

That’s cronyism, Hillary.

The most outrageous Clinton pardons went to sixteen members of the terrorist gang, the FALN, a Puerto Rican nationalist group responsible for over 130 bombings in the U.S. — attacking the NY office of the FBI, military recruiting headquarters, and even former president Jimmy Carter’s Chicago campaign office. Six people died and dozens more were injured as a result of FALN’s actions. These terrorists never even asked for a pardon, but because Hillary wanted to ingratiate herself with the Hispanic population in New York during her first Senate race, they were suddenly granted a commutation of their sentences.

Although the commutations were opposed by the FBI and the Clinton Justice Department, Bill Clinton granted them to all 16 terrorists. Once again, Hillary claimed to have “no involvement in or prior knowledge of the decision.” Her statement is ridiculous. Two days before the announcement of the pardons, New York City Councilman Jose Rivera personally presented Hillary with a packet of materials including a letter asking her to “speak to the president and ask him to consider granting executive clemency to the prisoners.” What a coincidence — the sentences were immediately commuted!

Hillary, that’s another example of cronyism.

Joe Connor, the son of one of the innocent men killed by the FALN terrorists at the Fraunces Tavern in Manhattan, put it this way:

“The Clinton family traded the release of terrorists for votes, votes that were promised to be delivered by New York politicians to Hillary for senate and Gore for president. That was clear.”That’s cronyism, Hillary.

And Hillary actually has the audacity to accuse President Bush of cronyism! This woman has no shame.

Then, of course, there was also Marc Rich, the fugitive oil broker who renounced his American citizenship. Rich was illegally buying oil from Iran during the American trade embargo and hid the $200 million in trading (and over $10 0 million in profits) with Iraq using dummy transactions in off-shore corporations.

Ironically, Scooter Libby was one of Rich’s lawyers, while Rudy Giuliani was the U.S. Attorney who brought the indictment. Amazingly, the U.S. Attorney’s Office was never contacted by the White House for input into the pardon decision. Here’s what the prosecuting attorney had to say about the pardon:

“I cannot imagine two people that were less suited for a presidential pardon than Marc Rich and Pincus Green [the co-defendant]. It is inconceivable that President Clinton chose to pardon the two biggest tax cheats in the history of the United States who had renounced their citizenship, been fugitives for seventeen years, and who had traded with the Iranians during the hostage crisis. While I do not know what motivated President Clinton to pardon Rich and Green, I can state that it is implausible that those pardons were based on his evaluation of the meri ts of the case....”

Interestingly, Rich’s wife bought furniture for the Clinton’s Chappaqua home and contributed at least $450,000 to the Clinton Library.

That’s cronyism, Hillary.

Finally, there were the four New Square pardons. There, the Hasidic defendants were convicted of pocketing $40 million of federal scholarship money. Hillary visited the community, and on Election Day the community supported Hillary 1,400 to 12. Weeks later, on December 22, 2000, President Clinton met with the New Square leaders to discuss a pardon. Hillary attended the meeting, but claims that she did not speak.

Apparently, she didn’t have to — the pardons were granted.

That’s cronyism, Hillary!

By Dick Morris and Eileen McGann

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how come lil kim didnt get her sentence commuted?

[White_Male_Canada]

how come lil kim didnt get her sentence commuted?

Wasn`t she arrested for those skimpy get-ups she wore.

[Cuchulain]

ASSHOLE OF THE MONTH: Dick Morris

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Former Presidential advisor “Dirty” Dick Morris exemplifies the problems of our political system. Ethics? They don’t exist for Morris. Morality? The word isn’t in his vocabulary. Well-being of the people? Dicky-boy has never heard of that.

Morris has two primary concerns: money and power.

We were reminded of this sleazeball when his sweating, pudgy face and beady eyes recently started popping up on TV programs like Hannity and Colmes, Fox News Sunday and The O’Reilly Factor. Out of the public eye for the past decade due to scandal, the onetime respected political consultant has finally crawled from his hole. Morris is now whoring himself out as a paid talking head on Fox News.

Given the network’s history of biased reporting, it is hardly a surprise that the duplicitous wannabe pundit has joined its team. He supports Bush on the war in Iraq and on other issues. He is a consultant for Mexican President Felipe Calderón, who is believed to have stolen his country’s recent election. Morris is the right-wing’s favorite phony liberal who will gladly badmouth a fellow Democrat if the price is right. A glaring example is his 2004 book Rewriting History, which strived to discredit the Hillary Clinton memoir Living History.

Dick Morris has made a career of assisting scumbags. His Bush ties date back to 1980, when he ran an unsuccessful U.S. Senate campaign for Prescott Bush Jr., George W. Bush’s uncle. Prescott Sr. (Dubya’s grandfather), a former Connecticut senator, was a vice-president at W.A. Harriman and served on the board of Union Banking—companies that funneled millions of dollars to Adolf Hitler. In 1988 Morris worked on George H.W. Bush’s Presidential campaign, pushing the job-killing NAFTA and masterminding racist TV ads depicting the Democratic candidate as being soft on crime.

Morris has also lent his conniving political skills to noted racist senators Jesse Helms (R-North Carolina) and Trent Lott (R-Mississippi); his strategies have helped the likes of Dubya appointee Tom Ridge and Republican Pete Wilson, who, when governor of California, was responsible for deregulating that state’s energy market, an economic fiasco. By 1996 Morris was again working for Bill Clinton—with whom he got his start in 1978—on the Presidential reelection trail.

It was during this period that Morris cynically devised a shrewd move to keep Clinton in office, regardless of the consequences. His tactic was known as triangulation.

Realizing that the President could gain votes and donations by writing off the poor, Morris urged him to support a Republican-authored welfare bill. Even though Clinton opposed the measure, he caved in, ending federal government protection for America’s poor by limiting a recipient’s welfare payments to a total of five years. While Clinton jettisoned Progressive legislation, poverty-stricken families went hungry. Of course, Morris ignored corporate welfare, which cost taxpayers $167 billion in 1995, twice what was doled out to bona fide welfare programs that year.

Morris was paid handsomely for his consulting work. He received more than $90,000 in fees from October ’95 through April ’96; $21,000 in travel expenses; and a monthly retainer of $15,000. He also allegedly shared in big-ticket media commissions, such as percentages from TV ads booked by the Clinton-Gore camp.

It’s all business as usual for Morris, whose family history probably laid the groundwork for what was to come. In 1996 Morris told Time magazine that he was the cousin of Roy Cohn, another Democrat-by-name-only, who was counsel for Senator Joseph McCarthy, the scoundrel who nearly trashed the U.S. Constitution in the ’50s. Cohn was also an informal advisor to Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, as well as legal counsel to John Gotti and other mobsters.

In the fall of 1996, 12 hours before President Clinton delivered his acceptance speech to the Democratic National Convention, Morris shamefully resigned from his post as chief political strategist. All because of a nasty little sex scandal.

The emotionally crippled Morris, who has never been able to maintain a meaningful relationship with his wife, has a long history of seeking out prostitutes. In 1991 he fathered an illegitimate daughter with Texas escort Barbara Jean Pfafflin. Then, while working for the Clintons, he got in trouble for hiring a $200-per-hour whore named Sherry Rowlands. Worse, he let her listen in on calls with the President. Not surprisingly, Rowlands went public for $50,000. During a Hard Copy interview, the hooker gave the world a rare peek into Dick Morris’s bizarroland, revealing that the Beltway heavyweight’s favorite sexual fetish was toe-sucking.

Hey, Dick, we’ve got something else for you to suck on. And when you’re done, you can kiss our ass!

- Larry Flint

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[guyone]

More Bolshevik propaganda.

[White_Male_Canada]

More Bolshevik propaganda.

It`s the old, ' destroy the messenger in an attempt to destroy the facts the messenger reports' trick.

Doesn`t work for the reason the story was authored by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann and the facts behind Clinton`s orgy of pardons are, the facts.

[Cuchulain]

It`s the old, ' destroy the messenger in an attempt to destroy the facts the messenger reports' trick.[/quote]

Yep, it's a page right out of the Karl Rove manual of dirty tricks - always seemed to work for the REICHwing

Hey guyone, c'mon - can you really say with a straight face that you don't think Morris a putz?

[White_Male_Canada]

It`s the old, ' destroy the messenger in an attempt to destroy the facts the messenger reports' trick.

Yep, it's a page right out of the Karl Rove manual of dirty tricks - always seemed to work for the REICHwing

Hey guyone, c'mon - can you really say with a straight face that you don't think Morris a putz?

Morris isn`t a putz, he`s a toe-sucker.A toe-sucker who got the facts str8, regardless of the toe jam stuck in his teeth.