ILLEGAL?

If this BILLION AND A HALF has been spent ILLEGALLY, according to the GAO ... then where are the INDICTMENTS charging the illegality?

Oh, damn. I forgot. All the mechanisms of "checks and balances" ... the Justice Department, the Congress, the Courts, the Executive Branch, the appointments of independent counsels ... are ALL under the control of the Republicans.

There will BE no indictments. The practice will continue, and will continue to be against the law, and there is NOBODY with the power to challenge or stop it. It becomes ever more clear that we have lost our nation to tyranny.

The taxpayers must continue to pay dearly for state-supporting propaganda, promoting the policies of our dictator, further economic injury added to the insult.

Tex

The Congress has the power to stop the President's abuses and illegalities, they just won't do it. This Republican controlled congress will not hold this President accountable for anything; and the Bushiest are quite aware that the congress will not go against them other then the occasional public chastisement. Did Bush get away with similar abuses when he was Governor of Texas? There was a Democratic controlled state legislature during his governorship correct?

Dems in Texas...

are just Republican Lite. Anyway, as Molly Ivans has explained, the legislature has all the power in Texas. The Governer has very little power there.

Fair and Balanced... as always

Yeah, right Hume. You can always depend on Fox to present the Bush administration position in a positive light. Need proof? Just go to their website and check out their online polls.

FauxNews SNL (Spins Nightly Lies)

Amazing how the Bush followers get all of their so-called news and believe every word they hear on FauxNews SNL (Spins Nightly Lies). I have never in my life seen a news network that could manage to spin everything to blame victims and/or make Bush and his crooks look good.

Running the gammut, from A to B.

Fox IS absolutely Fair and Balanced(tm). Where else could we hear the entire range of conservative opinion and half-truths?

Republican News Channel

Explains this: Cheney to Break Silence in Fox Interview

[link to news.yahoo.com]

FOX

Yeah, ol' Deadeye Dick is going to be peppered with marshmallow questions from some FOX shill, and the amazing thing is they're not even showing it live. The interview's at 2 and "excerpts" will be available a few hours later. As if there will be something that has to be edited out, like candor or truth.

rusty

I am sure editorial control by Cheney's folks was a stipulation of doing the interview. These folks are strange and cowards to boot. Cheney's afraid to take questions from the real press.

FOX this time.......who's next?

Hume knows that most people watching won't take the time to actually read the GAO report. FOX news is clearly geared toward a partisan point of view and not just "reporting" the news. You only have to watch 5mins of a broadcast to find that out. What I find troublesome is that other news organizations are adopting the FOX style of reporting. Already I see MSNBC mimic FOX and now CNN has begun to slip as well. I believe any reporter/anchor that withholds relevant facts to a story is disingenuous at minimum. The GAO summary is certainly relevant. "We Report You Decide" is nothing but a ploy to attract viewers. When you only report "half" the facts, you are disingenuous and misleading to your viewers. The report says that what the Bush admin has done is ILLEGAL! Haven't we heard this before?

"The White House says...

..the use of PR firms is legal and helps get important information to the public." Right. It's ironic that the right, the side that makes the most noise about preserving democracy and freedom, supports not only government propaganda, but the current slide towards a corporate media that exists mostly to advance one political point of view.

state news agency

Fox news like Tass news before it is serving as the government's news agency for the dissemination of propaganda. If the administration wants something put out there Fox is where they go and Hume is their boy.

Imagine if Hume said this.

"Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot a hunting companion. The White House says that firearms are legal."

That is pretty much what Hume did in this segment. The disputed issue originally was the use of video news releases and paying commentators to promote administration policy. At the very end, he changed it to make it look like the disputed issue is the use of PR firms.

Standard operating procedure...

It's legal because the administration says it is.

And...

then faux news reports it as fact.

isnt the doj

in charge of law enforcement??

Yep

Federal law enforcement, not state. If Cheney committed a state crime he'd be subject to state law enforcement authorities.

Rrastro:

The Department of Justice under Alberto Gonzales is charged with protecting the President every much as a Mob Lawyer is charged with protecting Mobsters. The difference is, the Mob has prosecutors with actual POWER as a countering point of view. The Department of Justice has no such co-equal "check". Attorneys General can continue being scofflaws until held to account, like John Mitchell and Ed Meese. With Republicans who are equally corrupt in Congress, Gonzales is safe from having to actually enforce the LAW.

Oops!

Thought I was on one of the Cheney threads! Yes, the DOJ prosecutes federal crimes.