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Channeling the Nut Roots Award
Winner
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MSNBC’s Chris Matthews: “Russ Feingold wants to censure the
President, the Vice President...”
Left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore: “Good idea....Personally I’d
like to see a perp walk coming out of the West Wing of the White House.”
Matthews: “Do you think they’re guilty of war crimes?”
Moore: “Absolutely....I think we need a trial, in this country,
where Mr. Cheney and Mr. Bush would be brought up on charges for causing
the deaths of so many people....”
Matthews: “It’s interesting if you go back....the Nuremberg Trials
weren’t about the genocide, it was about waging an aggressive war. I
love reading some of that language. It’s interesting.”
— MSNBC’s Hardball, July 23. [79 points]
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Runners-up:
“The list of Bush administration crimes is very real, but I have not
paid much attention to the blogs, petitions and other efforts to promote
impeachment, on the theory that they are diversionary to the more
important efforts to end the war in Iraq....The crimes are real and
probably impeachable, and the monarchial arrogance of the Bush-Cheney
administration is monumental. But the timing is wrong.”
— Former NBC and CNN newsman Ken Bode, now the ombudsman for the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting, in a July 20 column in the
Indianapolis Star. [54]
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“[Democratic presidential candidate Chris] Dodd also said this: ‘If we
become preoccupied with an impeachment process, I think we could turn
off an awful lot of people who might otherwise be willing to support
Democrats and be willing to change the direction of the country in the
fall of 2008,’ unquote. So, Senator Dodd is putting the election
prospects of the Democratic Party next year ahead of whether or not
President Bush might be guilty of high crimes and
misdemeanors....Congress’s job is oversight of the executive branch —
unless, of course, that oversight interferes with getting elected.”
— CNN’s Jack Cafferty, The Situation Room, Aug. 21. [40]
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