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  • "Who the heck played me in his murder boards?" (**)

    [Read the article: Gonzales' Fan Club of One]
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    wondered Senator Leahy, off-the-record, during a recess in today's hearing.
    (**) I wasn't taking notes. Quotation may not be exact.

    I think even the Dems expected those famous endless murder boards to produce some kind of a well-scripted and well-rehearsed defiance.
    But, as Glenn Greenwald wrote,

    (1) Although Gonzales began with a combative tone, he quickly abandoned it, because it is not his natural approach. He has neither the instincts nor the abilities to engage in a full day of verbal combat with anyone.

    The GOP base hoped to see another Ollie North performance. The base never cared that Ollie North perjured himself -- they loved him for giving the finger to Congress.

    But no amount of murder boarding could make Gonzales into Ollie North.
    Here's Andy McCarthy at NRO:
    http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZDk5Mjk2MzAwY2U4ZjY5MTg5MzQyNTA4MGExMDVkZTE=

    . . . It takes a certain supremely confident character type for a witness to carry off a combative approach — think Ollie North. Gonzales has never struck me as that type. (I don't mean that as a dig — it just doesn't seem to be his personality. Gonzales seems naturally reserved and respectful. When you prep a witness, you have to keep him/her within the witness's own personality . . . )

    "I don't mean that as a dig," claims McCarthy, but despite that disclaimer, for the GOP base, it's a cruel dig.

    Thursday, April 19, 2007 08:03 PM

  • RECORD SLAYERS

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    Olbermann: More "Lost" Documents
    http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc.htm?g=25b9c66d-49ec-4223-b750-b3947789a508

    Countdown with Keith Olbermann
    Thursday, April 19, 2007
    [Video: Keith Olbermann]
    [Graphic Inset: "Files Not Found" error message in foreground, picture of the White House in background.]
    Keith Olbermann: If it seemed as if there was no smoking gun in today's testimony from Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, it may well be that the gun or guns in question have been lost, destroyed, or locked away. The battle over White House emails about the U.S. Attorney firings, for instance, continues today, Congress laying down a deadline of -- tomorrow, for the Republican Party to reveal exactly who in the White House had private RNC email accounts, the RNC refusing to turn over those emails, written by public servants about public matters, after the White House demanded the chance to look at them -- FIRST.
    In other words, the Administration, perfectly happy to have its emails read by members of a political party, civilians both unelected and unaccountable, but not read by the people's representatives in Congress.

    Our fourth story on the COUNTDOWN tonight: Some of those emails have allegedly been "lost."

    And, as Glenn Greenwald chronicled on Salon-dot-Com, this is hardly the first time members of this Administration have benefited from lost documents or information.

    The Scripps News Service found that, even though President Bush sold himself as a "CEO president," the ratio of allegedly missing records has skyrocketed, under his administration . . .

    - - Keith Olbermann

    Thursday, April 19, 2007 10:51 PM

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