Alabama Republicans Respond to 60 Minutes Report

[sabra]

Source: AP

Republicans have a different story to tell today concerning a Sand Mountain attorney's interview on 60 Minutes last night.

...

Simpson alleged that Karl Rove lead a secret five year campaign to get Democratic Governor Don Siegelman.

Here is the rebuttal today from Alabama.

Simpson was just a low level party employee who would not have had the kind of access she claims.

She never mentioned any personal conversations with Rove before.. Even when she was giving a sworn deposition to Congress.

And they also say that.. despite claiming to be a party insider.. No one in the state party had ever heard of her until she began making accusations.



Read more: http://www.wdef.com/news/alabama_republicans_respond_to_60_minutes_report/02/2008

[9119495]

1. Re-pub-lee-cans in Ah-lah-ba-ma. Why, I nevuh!

[bamademo]

18. Fiddle-dee-dee!

:-)

[dflprincess]

2. And the black out of the story in Alabama was the network's fault

:sarcasm:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. and Nixon said he wasn't going to bother

himself about a two-bit burglary.

[Supersedeas]

4. another non-denial denial

[sabra]

5. "Simpson was just a low level party employee who would not have had the kind of access she claims."

indeed.

[OnyxCollie]

10. Valerie Plame was a desk jockey.

Nothing to see here. Move along.

[electprogdems]

6. Cant those pea brains think of something new?

It is always attack the messenger. Not one word to address the actual charges - So I saw on another blog that the ALGOP knew all along what was going on and spoke of it openly. They thought it was just, you know, freaking Hysterical!! Yuck yuck yuck.

Sick old ALGOP'er #1 - Hey did ya all hear that Don Siegelman has a plan to fund the schools!!!> HAHAHAHHAHA

Sick old ALGOP'er #2 - Hey that's funny, lets go get him, I'll call Carl right now.....hahahhahaha

[Kolesar]

7. Is it time to start a Democrats-Don Siegelman group on DU?

My compliments to the members who have been following this story.

[electprogdems]

8. yes

I am having a hard time moving on, the more I read about it, the madder I get, and I want to see that man out of jail now.

[wryter2000]

9. Is this a tactical error on their part?

Wouldn't they be better served by keeping quiet in hopes the story will die?

[sabra]

11. for sure, considering their first response was we never heard of her

she never worked here... to well she was just some low level operative...

[JerseygirlCT]

16. Her interview last night on Dan Abrams' show

She sure seemed confident that they'd be proven wrong on those counts. Sounds like she's got records of phone calls, meetings, etc. I hope so.

[99th_Monkey]

12. GOP: "we through Simpson under the bus long ago"

after all, her house was burned down just before her scheduled testimony to Congress and she was run off the road too.

What more proof could you ask for?

[pattmarty]

13. Remember the 60's, George Wallace, Neil Young's "Alabama"?

Lucky for alabamams that "we" now have Texas.

[FVZA_Colonel]

14. And I wonder which version of this issue is going to get the bigger play in the national media...

the truth... or this one?

[Riddler]

15. Maybe when any of the repukes get the balls to testiify under oath before Congress

their denials may start to carry a little bit of weight. And how many times as Rove dodged testifying under oath for any of the crimes he's been associated with? Assholes! Republican = Whiny Assed lying piece of shit.

[damntexdem]

17. These politicians had better watch out, or they'll alert Alabamans ...

to the 60-Minutes report.

[struggle4progress]

19. Chairman Conyers Releases Jill Simpson Transcript on the Prosecution of former Alabama Governor ..

.. Siegelman http://speaker.house.gov/blog/?p=833

pdf of transcript available via link

in the usual tiresome way, the Pubs misrepresent what is said, then play the misrepresentation off against various other misquotes of their own

[fasttense]

20. I love the smell of a cover up in the morning. n/t