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RamboLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-11 05:43 PM
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Gohmert: FBI Mum On Loughner's Politics To Avoid Embarrassing Obama's Constituents
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) complained today that the FBI is not releasing details on suspected Tucson shooter Jared Loughner's politics, and suggested that it's because his politics may turn out to be liberal: "it may be embarrassing to some of the current administration's constituents, and, heaven help us, we wouldn't want to embarrass any of the president's constituents."

According to Bloomberg News:

Representative Louie Gohmert, a Texas Republican, said an FBI official who spoke today at a closed-door security briefing for lawmakers "stonewalled" attempts to learn about the personality and political beliefs of shooting suspect Jared Loughner, saying that could jeopardize the investigation and prospective prosecution.

Gohmert suggested the evasiveness was designed to insulate President Barack Obama's political base.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/01/gohmert-fbi-mum-on-loughners-politics-to-avoid-embarassing-obamas-constituents.php?ref=fpb

These fools can't just STFU. Who's politicizing this Louie?
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RagAss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-11 05:44 PM
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1. Prediction: The FBI is going to drop a turd on the GOP's head...very soon.
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arbusto_baboso Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-11 05:47 PM
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3. Which the corporate media will then quietly bury.
Gohmert is this brazen and smug for a reason. He knows he won't ever be taken to task for his words or actions.
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-11 06:45 PM
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12. Yep. The advantages of having their own Corporate Media attached to their RW Lie Machine.
n/t
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gatorboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-11 05:50 PM
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9. Which will then be slowly snuffed out just like the Knoxville church shooting.
Clear case of a man hunting liberals and after less than a week, the story went "poof" to protect the right.
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-11 06:53 PM
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14. As usual, with the help of local Neoconfederate, Neoconservative LEOs and prosecutors
they mnaged to suppress ALL MENTION of his note which he wrote as an explanation which reads like a verbatim Sean Hannity episode except for the 0.02% that talks about the actual killing, until the very last day of not just his trial BUT SENTENCING?

HOW, in God's Name, is it possible to have the whole TRIAL and NEVER ONCE mention the letter the defendant wrote to justify his crime.

In terms of Republic Party PR damage control, this was optimal. Made sure that, even during the renewed, with lesser, but still peaking, interest in the trial, his horrific letter would never NEVER NEVER be heard by 99.999999% of the American People.

This letter:

http://web.knoxnews.com/pdf/021009church-manifesto.pdf

Par for the course for the RW Lie Machine now essentially fused to the Corporate Media. All in a day's successful work.
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gatorboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-11 11:40 AM
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20. Thank You.
Yes, there wasn't a peep about his letter on any show that I can remember. Hell, the man was PROUD of what he did!
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onenote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-11 05:46 PM
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2. Louis Gohmert is possibly the stupidest member of Congress, which is saying a lot
Edited on Wed Jan-12-11 05:48 PM by onenote
By the way, Louis, everyone in the country counts as one of the President's constituents.
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sadbear Donating Member (799 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-11 05:47 PM
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6. +1
Is it wrong that I feel embarrassment for the guy? I can't help it. It's my bleeding heart.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-11 05:47 PM
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4. More on PATTERNS... we have crossed the rubicon as they say
there lies madness... there lies madness.
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-11 06:59 PM
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16. not just everything up until now but the crazed over-the-top of using "blood libel"
More signals that things still remain locked on course for a handful of the very worst possible scenarios on the next t-minus-20-years-or-so and counting to when these Aristocrats and their crazed Brownshirt Teabagger Henchpersons finally get us to the Final Stop (or solution, as it were) they have planned for all the rest of us.

Can't say I know exactly what it is gonna look like, because I'm no fortune teller, but I do believe I would rather be a hobo in 1975 than in the 50th percentile in 2030, let alone lower, among the invisible exploding ranks of the poor.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-11 07:28 PM
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19. T-10, we are that close my friend.
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immoderate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-11 05:47 PM
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5. Hard to imagine a man more stupid than Louie.
--imm
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W_HAMILTON Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-11 05:48 PM
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7. Isn't Gohmert one of Obama's constituents?
Or does Louie have a different president than the rest of us?
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onenote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-11 05:48 PM
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8. +1
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somone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-11 05:51 PM
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10. Grasping at straws

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Ezlivin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-11 05:53 PM
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11. Obama's constituents are already embarrassed
Republicans have been embarrassing this whole damned country for decades.



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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-11 06:53 PM
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13. What Juanita has to say about Louie
“Y’all, seriously, East Texas congressvarmint Louie Gohmert is gonna blow one day and fly around backwards spewing more crazzzy than we can catch with butterfly nets,” Juanita predicts.

“Louie’s tongue is running in the Looneyville Barefoot Marathon again,” Juanita suggests.

But that wasn’t enough. He’s accusing the FBI of “stonewalling” about Jared Loughner, and not telling the truth about Loughner because, “that he’s a liberal, hates the flag, supports Marx, that type of thing, turn out to be true, then it may be embarrassing to some of the current administration’s constituents, and, heaven help us, we wouldn’t want to embarrass any of the president’s constituents.”

more at the link
http://juanitajean.com/2011/01/12/louie-louie-oh-no-me-gotta-go/
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-11 06:54 PM
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15. this guy is a clown....shut the fuck up gomert
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pintobean Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-11 07:02 PM
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17. Obama's Constituents?
Um.....he's the President. All citizens are his constituents.
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treestar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-11 07:03 PM
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18. Who the hell are the President's "constituents?"
That would be the entire country.

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