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MURTHA "LASHES OUT." AGAIN.
Irey for Congress ^ | August 2, 2006 | Irey for Congress

Posted on 08/02/2006 2:54:15 PM PDT by Just A Nobody

MONONGAHELA, August 2) -- Washington County Commissioner and Pennsylvania 12th district Republican Congressional nominee Diana Irey -- responding to Jack Murtha's statement today that "I don't blame the staff sergeant for lashing out," in response to a law suit filed against Murtha by Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich, claiming defamation -- today released the following statement:

"'I don't blame the staff sergeant for lashing out.'

"That's what Jack Murtha had to say today, responding to news that Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich has sued Murtha for defamation of character and libel.

"'Lashing out?' Filing a lawsuit for libel and defamation is not 'lashing out' -- it is using the legal system to protect one's good name.

"Leave it to Jack Murtha to libel a soldier and then call it 'lashing out' when the soldier responds in the appropriate manner.

"Jack Murtha was wrong when he said Frank Wuterich and the Marines under his command 'killed innocent civilians in cold blood' before the first Marine was charged, before the first court-martial was convened, before the first soldier was convicted.

"Jack Murtha wasn't there. Jack Murtha has no idea what happened there that day, other than what he has been told. But that didn't stop him from declaring as fact that American Marines had 'killed innocent civilians in cold blood' before the investigations were even complete.

"Shame on you, Jack Murtha. You should know better.

"Jack Murtha, of all people, should understand better than most the importance of letting the legal system work before rendering a judgment. If it hadn't been for the presumption of innocence until guilt is proven beyond a reasonable doubt, Jack Murtha's congressional career would have ended 26 years ago, when the FBI got him on tape first refusing a $50,000 bribe, and then saying, 'At this point, you know, we do business together for a while. Maybe I'll be interested and maybe I won't … Now, I won't say that some day, you know, I, if you made an offer, it may be I would change my mind some day.'


TOPICS: Extended News; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: bootmurth; dianairey; exmarine; firemurtha; haditha; irey; murtha; murthawatch; vets4irey; vetsforirey
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To: ChadGore

She is perfect!


61 posted on 08/02/2006 4:49:35 PM PDT by Just A Nobody (NEVER AGAIN..Support our Troops! www.irey.com and www.vets4Irey.com - Now more than Ever!)
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To: Just A Nobody

This should serve as a reminder to all not to be sloppy in the use of language. Murtha deserves the suit, and deserves to lose. OTT rhetoric, while protected, should be shunned by the public. It is fine to express outrage, but not to use phrases like "murder in cold blood" or even "murder" (which has a legal definition) in expression of outrage over an act which has not been so deemend by a court of law.

Sloppy use of language is for sloppy thinkers, and we don't want sloppy thinkers representing us in Congress. It's bad enough to see them on the web and on the TV.


62 posted on 08/02/2006 4:51:31 PM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: DoughtyOne
"I don't know anything about her, but then I know all too much about Murtha.

-- --

Yes you do. She has the ability and drive to kick Murtha's ass after every stupid statement he makes. It's keeping her damned busy too!

63 posted on 08/02/2006 5:05:21 PM PDT by HighWheeler (Whenever a Kennedy is piloting a vehicle near water, someone is going to die.)
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To: Just A Nobody

"She is fabulous, a God send, conservative, a steadfast supporter of the troops..........what else do you want to know?"

-- --

You forgot hot looking.


64 posted on 08/02/2006 5:06:39 PM PDT by HighWheeler (Whenever a Kennedy is piloting a vehicle near water, someone is going to die.)
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To: Just A Nobody
Coop, this was discussed at length on another thread today.

I saw it, and I disagree. What you're saying, and what our new friend is saying aren't the same.

65 posted on 08/02/2006 5:14:36 PM PDT by Coop (No, there are no @!%$&#*! polls on Irey vs. Murtha!)
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To: jrooney
I didn't realize the Marines were putting out such whiny pansies.

Me thinks thou doth protest too much, Deviled Egg!

66 posted on 08/02/2006 5:15:57 PM PDT by Coop (No, there are no @!%$&#*! polls on Irey vs. Murtha!)
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To: monkeyshine

Well said!


67 posted on 08/02/2006 5:16:12 PM PDT by Just A Nobody (NEVER AGAIN..Support our Troops! www.irey.com and www.vets4Irey.com - Now more than Ever!)
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To: HighWheeler

Girls don't typically refer to other girls that way. ;*)


68 posted on 08/02/2006 5:17:36 PM PDT by Just A Nobody (NEVER AGAIN..Support our Troops! www.irey.com and www.vets4Irey.com - Now more than Ever!)
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To: Coop

No need for that


69 posted on 08/02/2006 5:19:10 PM PDT by Just A Nobody (NEVER AGAIN..Support our Troops! www.irey.com and www.vets4Irey.com - Now more than Ever!)
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To: Just A Nobody

Spare me.


70 posted on 08/02/2006 5:19:28 PM PDT by Coop (No, there are no @!%$&#*! polls on Irey vs. Murtha!)
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To: Coop
Keyboard tough guy, making insults to people make you feel big?

The metal of a man is said to say allot about him. You must be made of tin.
71 posted on 08/02/2006 5:31:18 PM PDT by jrooney ( Hold your cards close.)
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To: jrooney
... shrieks the l'il feller who misspelled "STFU."

:-D

72 posted on 08/02/2006 5:34:34 PM PDT by Coop (No, there are no @!%$&#*! polls on Irey vs. Murtha!)
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To: Just A Nobody
No, I don't have a law degree, but it seems as if the media made a little error in terminology, and Mrs. Irey's people unfortunately repeated it. It's important that those who make the laws are precise about things like this.

The suit filed by the Marine is not a libel suit, as far as I know, since libel refers exclusively to the printed word. The correct terms are "slander suit" (slander refers exclusively to the spoken word) or "defamation suit" (defamation is a broader term which includes both libel and slander). I believe that the claims in the suit refer only to material spoken by Murtha.

Separately, it was an excellent strategy by the Irey people to point out Murtha's involvement in Abscam and to contrast Murtha's getting the benefit of the doubt there to his failure now to cut the Marines whom he accused the same break.

The Irey campaign should also issue a statement attacking Murtha for his support of an immediate cease-fire in the current Israel-Hezbollah conflict, and I'm confident that they will.

73 posted on 08/02/2006 5:37:28 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: Coop
Coop you are a drive by poster. Like to throw insults for no reason. I have met my share of people like yourself whom will let their mouth overload their ass. They can never back it up though.

Popping off to "Just a Nobody" a nice girl whom did nothing to you makes you feel good too?

Pretty pathetic. I can only imagine the people whom read this entire thread and sides with you would be in the minority.

Looks like not all of us is here trying to positive things. That is a shame.
74 posted on 08/02/2006 5:40:02 PM PDT by jrooney ( Hold your cards close.)
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To: Just A Nobody

Irey isn't missing any opportunities to land body shots on Bloody John Murtha.

I like that.


75 posted on 08/02/2006 5:40:40 PM PDT by Interesting Times (ABCNNBCBS -- yesterday's news.)
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To: jrooney
My word, you're in tears, aren't you?

I've been called lots of things (especially by whiny victims), Newby, but a "drive-by" poster isn't one of them! :-D

76 posted on 08/02/2006 5:44:13 PM PDT by Coop (No, there are no @!%$&#*! polls on Irey vs. Murtha!)
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To: jrooney
I am here to be enlightened and learn
* * *
I am not her to be insulted for no reason.


Apparently you have a lot to learn.
First lesson: stop being a whiner.

It's plain to see you can hand it out [#46] but obviously don't have the gumption to take it when thrown back at you. Try growing up a little and discard your 'potty mouth' if you want to be taken seriously.
77 posted on 08/02/2006 5:48:48 PM PDT by AmeriBrit (Spreading the truth - Doing the job the MSM won't do!)
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To: Coop
You make my point for me Coop. You can't back it up, so you drive by post. There is NO DIFFERENCE between you and John Murth because you both say outrageous things. You say things because you think it makes you look big and important. Problem it does not.

What ever issues make you and John Murtha similiar, you should leave them at your end of the key board tough guy.
78 posted on 08/02/2006 5:50:21 PM PDT by jrooney ( Hold your cards close.)
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To: Just A Nobody

"hot looking" is an absolute. It does not depend on who is saying it, if it's true.


On the other hand, words like "handsome", "good-looking" cannot be used by (real) men to describe other men.

It's a Man Law.


;o)


79 posted on 08/02/2006 5:50:51 PM PDT by HighWheeler (Whenever a Kennedy is piloting a vehicle near water, someone is going to die.)
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To: AmeriBrit

Second lesson, quit being a drive by poster and insulting people for no reason.


80 posted on 08/02/2006 5:51:32 PM PDT by jrooney ( Hold your cards close.)
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