Tim Russert just mentioned the Rove indictment

[tulsakatz]

........on CNBC. He's asking what the implications of the indictment and how it will affect the administration.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

1. He's talking about it like it is a sure thing?

[tulsakatz]

4. yes!

He asked.......I forget his exact words but he asked what will happen now that Rove has been indicted.

[jenmito]

23. No he didn't...

He asked what will happen IF Rove is indicted. Kelly O'Donnell said Rove's still visible, he has a speaking engagement (I think it's monday...I saw it friday on MSNBC's crawl), and so he hasn't "gone into hiding." They talked about how IF he's indicted, and they ARE worried but not sure, it will be a big problem for the administration (of course).

[DoYouEverWonder]

25. Rumor has it

that Rove's speech at AIE that was scheduled for Monday night has been canceled.

[jenmito]

27. Are you serious?...

I DID search for a link to his monday speech and couldn't find anything. :shrug:

[DoYouEverWonder]

28. Here's a link to the thread in GD

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1181186&mesg_id=1181186

[jenmito]

30. Thanks!

:hi:

[wishlist]

6. He and panel are speculating on possible impact IF he is indicted n/t

[HereSince1628]

9. Very different from saying it's a done deal.

[Botany]

2. Guess now "they" will try to break the news.

:rofl:

[napi21]

3. Ooooo, you didn't tell me he was talking to David Gregory!

Chip Reid on too! This is GOOD!

[tulsakatz]

7. yeah.........

I mainly decided to watch because Gregory was on.........

[KeepItReal]

5. "To lose him..would be the kind of distraction he could not recover from"

David Gregory on Bush & Co. losing Rove

edit for wrong name

[tulsakatz]

8. true.........

....now Rove will be so busy trying to save his own ass that he won't have time to focus on the election!

[radio4progressives]

26. I'm with Mike Malloy on this Rove Indictment..

Rove is small potatoes compared to the issues that really matter to us.. I was hoping something would take him out of the picture before the 2004 elections - got teased big time back in October. If he goes down, cool but he's still a pissant in the larger scheme of things that we should be concerned about right now, and i just don't think it's going to matter much if he is indicted or not - he'll probably be "pardoned" before his indictment is even reported in the media. and if he's not, it still won't mean that he will be out of action.

[electropop]

33. Yeah, as opposed to his stellar recent performance,

20 points drop in the polls in a few months. Rove's been useless (though frantically busy) for quite a while now. Unfortunately, I think Bushitler will be better off without him.

[Kahuna]

10. Timmeh just said that voters may be having "buyers remorse" over

voting for bush over Gore. This was in response to the talk about Gore and Kerry getting early attention as potential 2008 candidates. :woohoo:

He also said Gore was right on the internet, right on global warming and right about Iraq. :woohoo:

[Sparkly]

11. .

[Blue_In_AK]

12. ...

:rofl:

[tulsakatz]

19. hahaha!!!

pigs are flying all over the place!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[tsuki]

20. ...

:rofl:

[robinlynne]

38. i love it!

[AX10]

15. Russert conceded that Gore was responsible...

for the promoting of the Internet? He actually admitted that?

[Kahuna]

16. Just a passing remark that Gore was "right about the internet....."

:)

[peacetalksforall]

17. Not creation of the internet - it was the awareness and promotion of the

internet.

Careful, because that was the lie that Repub operatives spread - that Al said he invented the internet. Not so. But the self-blinded followers won't give it up. They buy into what ever Pat, Jerry, Fred, Rush types say.

[hholli-1]

29. If anyone ever really analyzes Gore's statement on that

to Blitzer, Al Gore never said he invented the internet. I had to correct a guy giving us a training seminar from the DNC about this!!! I was actually shocked about that. I would always ask the freeper du jour whether he believed Wolf Blitzer was a journalist or not. Then I asked them to find the follow up question...because if *I* had a tv show, and the democratic nominee for POTUS said, "In Congress, I invented the internet" as opposed to "in Congress, I took the *initiative * in inventing the internet", my follow up, (the ONLY appropriate follow up) would have been, "Mr. Gore, are you saying you invented the internet?"

I know it digresses a bit, but I have probably confronted that issue more with rightards than even the war. They just drive me mad.

[Arugula Latte]

31. Welcome to DU !!

:hi: :toast:

[Qutzupalotl]

35. And he didn't even say "inventing".

His word was "creating".

Important distinction.

[The Wielding Truth]

24. Is it possible that the truth is surfacing?????

[Mountainman]

21. I know some of them personally

[faithnotgreed]

22. thanks for those details - if he said that then for once hes right

gore is actually getting some respect from the corporate media
lets hope he takes it all the way

[Writer]

39. Don't listen to that corporate media whore!

According to the Book of Chomsky, Chapter 22, Verse 17: "The path of the Russert is beset on all sides by corporate interests and the will of the public. Blessed is he who fails to see how his own bias leads to the art of uprighteous castigation of media figures, for they are truly Chomsky's children."

:eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes:

[hatrack]

40. Gosh but that Tim Russert's a perceptive, wise fellow, isn't he?

"He also said Gore was right on the internet, right on global warming and right about Iraq."

Tim Russert - fucking clueless corporate shitstain.

[globalvillage]

13. And yet

There's a Brangelina special on CNN and Headline News is still carrying this morning's McCain/Falwell lovefest.

Thanks for reporting some actual news.

[senseandsensibility]

14. Was he crying?

Poor widdle Timmeh.

[Kahuna]

18. Actually, Tim seems resigned to the chimp's fate. He gave it his best..

yet he couldn't convince the peope that the chimperor was wearing clothes.

[ginnyinWI]

32. I think this gets repeated at 1 am Eastern

CNBC. I think some other times too.

[Gregorian]

34. Oh, Monday looks like Funday!

I love the Fitzian slow motion method.


I'm melting................

[Fredda Weinberg]

36. Russert said no decision has been reached yet

Then the panel discussed the hypothetical.

[robbedvoter]

37. Timeeh is involved in this. he would know.

He wouldn't speculate without knowing for a fact.

[AX10]

41. True.