or uglier than a pan of worms,
horse face, with a voice to match?
reminds me of a creepier version of Babs "human ashtay" Olson
sorry to be petty, but Comstock is one of the very WORST of all the slimeballs
can you say boiler room?
found this:
"Barbara Comstock, the scuzzy spokesperson in charge of bald-faced lies at the Justice Department will be departing for a public relations job at a lobbying firm, Blank Rome Government Relations."
http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:hUjqouCnNGgJ:mithras.blogs.com/blog/2003/09/barbara_comstoc.html+barbara+comstock+lies&hl=en&start=1&ie=UTF-8then this:
Apparently National Review doesn't read The Conch. OR Slate. Or they're just willfully peddling lies and propaganda to further their agenda.
Right-wing hack wanna-be "journalist" Barbara Comstock led off her story at National Review Online today with a scathing indictment of Senator Kerry's votes to slash intelligence funding. What a lily-livered commie pinko Massachusetts Mekong River rat liberal!
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comstock200403100835.asp
>>>In September 1995, two years after the first World Trade Center attack, Senator Kerry proposed cutting $1.5 billion from the intelligence budget. Kerry included the cuts in a laundry list of government expenditures that Kerry described as "pointless, wasteful, antiquated, or just plain silly." Kerry heralded these cuts as part of "one senator's common sense effort" and claimed the proposed cuts were part of a "bipartisan, common sense direction," which he said was "in our best interest."
>>>>How many other senators followed Kerry's bipartisan "common sense direction" in 1995? Not a one. Not California's Barbara Boxer or Michigan's Carl Levin, who have never seen a defense cut they didn't relish. Not even Kerry's Massachusetts liberal colleague Ted Kennedy. Some leader!
A reader told me yesterday that this "story" appeared on NBC News last night. This is a poor showing for American journalism.
excellent site, this fact checking bush
http://theconch.typepad.com/theconch/2004/03/factchecking_bu.htmlcheck this for analysis of the above story cycle regarding the Kerry defunding intel lie
Kerry's proposal would have not have cut a single intelligence program.
On the same day that Kerry's bill was read on the Senate floor, two of his colleagues—Democrat Bob Kerrey and Republican Arlen Specter—introduced a similar measure. Their bill would have cut the budget of the National Reconnaissance Office, the division of the U.S. intelligence community in charge of spy satellites.
According to that day's Congressional Record, Specter said he was offering an amendment "to address concerns about financial practices and management" at the NRO. Specifically, "the NRO has accumulated more than $1 billion in unspent funds without informing the Pentagon, CIA, or Congress." He called this accumulation "one more example of how intelligence agencies sometimes use their secret status to avoid accountability."
The Kerrey-Specter bill proposed to cut the NRO's budget "to reflect the availability of funds … that have accumulated in the carry-forward accounts" from previous years. Another co-sponsor of the bill, Sen. Richard Bryan, D–Nev., noted that these "carry-forward accounts" amounted to "more than $1.5 billion."
This was the same $1.5 billion that John Kerry was proposing to cut—over a five-year period—in his bill. It had nothing to do with intelligence, terrorism, or anything of substance. It was a motion to rescind money that had been handed out but never spent.
That's a much different story isn't it?
Kos wrote today that the blogosphere has become an instant factchecker, filling in for lazy journalists. And Republicans aren't used to it. Slate's not exactly the blogosphere, but I think this example proves Kos's point.