DeLay: Newspaper Pressured Prosecutor

[sabra]

http://www.leadingthecharge.com/stories/news-0078966.html

DeLay: Newspaper Pressured Prosecutor

AUSTIN, Texas - House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is blaming an editorial in the Austin American-Statesman for pressuring a Texas prosecutor to pursue the criminal case against him.

The indictment accuses DeLay of conspiring to violate political fundraising laws with two associates. He temporarily stepped aside as majority leader to fight the charge, which could result in a jail term of up to two years if he is convicted.

"Soon thereafter, Mr. Earle‘s hometown newspaper ran a biting editorial about his investigation, rhetorically asking what the point had been, after all, if I wasn‘t to be indicted," DeLay said.

A state political action committee that DeLay created, Texans for a Republican Majority, was indicted earlier this month on charges of accepting corporate contributions for use in state legislative races. Texas law prohibits corporate money from being used to advocate the election or defeat of candidates; it‘s allowed only for administrative expenses.

[lakeguy]

1. "it's the media's fault!"

[skooooo]

2. If he had any sense, he'd stfu...

....squealing like a little pig, makes you look even more like the idiot you are.

[Ishoutandscream2]

19. Exactly, He was all over the talk shows last night

Do you think he protests too much?

[truthisfreedom]

3. pesticides have improved a bit since you were the bugman, tom...

let's see how fast we can clear up this infestation of thugs.

[HereSince1628]

4. Maybe, but a Grand Jury decided to send the indictments.

Say that to everyone you meet. Citizens of Texas, not the prosecutor, decided that there was sufficient reason to believe a crime had been committed to warrant a trial.

[WePurrsevere]

10. Exactly!This means that there is enough evidence that CITIZENS,

that I believe are screened and agreed upon by both prosecution and defense attorney's, feel that there is probably enough evidence to take this thing to trial (if my foggy memory serves correctly this morning).

[acmejack]

5. Maybe he will blame DU too

He is blaming everyone else, he should get around to us pretty soon! Perhaps I should drop him a note, I would really like to be blamed for his legal problems.

As for the Austin American-Statesman, they endorsed *. Hardly upstanding liberal credentials. Perhaps the Iconoclast should be blamed, they would have endorsed Delay's indictment had they been given the opportunity.

[amber dog democrat]

7. That's right. Blame it on the Austin American Hatesman.

I am convinced Ronnie E had absolutely no intention of naming DeLay - until the newspaper MADE him do it. How funny is this?

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. See how proactive he is to look for a source for the pressure against

him? Not that I believe for one minute that one newspaper can do it, but Dems should have done the same thing in the 90s. To my knowledge, only Hillary Clinton spoke up about a right-wing conspiracy. But she should have gone one step further and identified the sources. It took ten years before we started clocking to the hour how right-wing lies bled from Drudge to the other bloggers like Lucianne Goldberg, then made it into FoxNews by 5:00 pm. And from there, Newt Gingrich took it as a mandate to BEGIN a witch hunt against Clinton.

To my knowledge, this Earle guy has already completed an investigation. If he has credible evidence, then it's his obligation to proceed. That's what you call process. And Republicans HATE process.

[msanthrope]

8. Keep Talking asshole, Keep Talking........n/t

[DRoseDARs]

9. So all we need to do is write a "biting editorial" and we can...

...get criminal indictments leveled against anyone?! Sweet.



Ladies and gentlemen, your task is clear... have at it. :sarcasm:

[Kingofalldems]

11. Yesterday he blamed Nancy Pelosi

and the 'Democrat leadership'. There seems to be a massive conspiracy against the former pest controller.

[tularetom]

12. He's getting hysterical and blaming everybody

The "partisan" prosecuter. the media, Nancy Pelosi (yesterday he accused her of conspiring with the DA to charge him). I say let him keep talking. The more he says the dumber or more panicky he sounds.

And from what I've heard and read on other threads there is a ton of shit about to drop on his shoe polish dyed head.

[tanyev]

13. Durn editorials. They ought to be outlawed.

[Fleshdancer]

14. Aaagh, the garbled sounds of a drowning political career

He's lashing out at anyone and everyone. You know what this means? Once the Republicans start to jump ship, Delay is going to start naming names in order to save as much of his own ass as he can.

[Kagemusha]

15. Editorials are politically protected free speech.

So there.

[AlCzervik]

16. Wait i thought he was blaming the house Democratic leadership

i guess he focus grouped that and found no one was buying it.

[quaoar]

17. If DeLay is correct

then I hereby nominate the Austin American-Statesman for the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Public Service.

[GayCanuck]

18. What a scary guy

How much of that money ended up in his pocket, or is that part of the Early investigation?

[SillyGoose]

20. Ok, so now the newspaper is in this conspiracy against him, too?

Lets' see...he's blaming dem leadership in DC, dem leadership in Texas, Nancy Pelosi, Earle, and the Austin newspaper for conspiring to indict him on what he says are completely trumped up charges.

I think he needs to get fitted for a tinfoil hat right away.

[fshrink]

21. That's what happens when the media do their job.

[Ishoutandscream2]

22. Come on, people! It's the liberal media's fault!!!

Didn't all of you get the memo?!!!!!!

[PurityOfEssence]

23. Aw, those big, big meanies; picking on a poor little weeble...

Why does everyone always pick on the nice guys?

The yammering hammer clambers to avoid the slammer.

[Dover]

If Earle isn't intimidated by the angry hornets nest of Tx. GOPer's

and their corporate backers, he's not going to flinch at the ramblings of a boring local rag like the Austin American Statesman. But maybe Delay is trying to do the intimidating....trying to let the American Statesman know of his displeasure.

[Dover]

24. If Earle isn't intimidated by the angry hornets nest of Tx. GOPer's

and their corporate backers, he's not going to flinch at the ramblings of a boring local rag like the Austin American Statesman. But maybe Delay is trying to do the intimidating....trying to let the Stateman know of his displeasure.

[yellowcanine]

25. The free press is such a pain, isn't it Tommy? Heh.