NBC Republican: Scarborough Says 'Throw Hastert Under The Bus'

Today Show/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[FreedomNeocon]

Newt -- Thrown Under
Lott -- Thrown Under
Delay -- Thrown Under

I'm not a huge fan of Hastert, him and those stupid investigations of the gas 'price fixing' and all.. but the libs are already so far down the road from the original incident that I refuse to accept the logic.

Of course they've run with and spent years on non-issues like the Plame case, so when they have a scintilla of anything to go with and then 'camouflage' it by quickly proposing followup attacks, they think they really have something they can get away with.

[DocH]

Isn't it "funny" how NBC, and the rest of the left-wing media, TRIP OVER THEMSELVES to get a f*cking RINO like McCain, or Scarborough to support their wildly exagerated, Bush/Republican-bashing, rabid pre-election agenda?

They are almost giddy with excitement at the prospect of getting the upperhand in this election cycle and getting back into power.

Just as Wayne LaPierre once said that Clinton (and all other gun-grabbing demonRATS) is willing to accept a certain level of murders of innocents by criminals/crazies with firearms to put forward their gun-banning agenda (notice THIS time around, even with the recent school shootings, the dems are quiet - for now), the dems would be HAPPY to have children, not just get suggestive emails from a Republican congressfag, but they'd LOVE to have them physically abused, assaulted, and violated to get their way in the upcoming elections.

demonRATS are willing to SAY or DO ANYTHING to get back in power.

Scumbags.

[auto power]

We need to find out who's been sitting on these IMs for the last 3 years and why and who released them at this time during October before the November election....that's what inquiring minds want to know....

[gogeo]

I think that a lot of conservatives haven't clued in to the fact that, in the immortal words of Snakehead Carville, "THIS IS WOAH."

We addressed the issue of Foley; he's gone. There's a lot more in play here; so-called conservatives need to wake up and smell the coffee. Foley is just the latest in a long line of politicians, stretching back to Newt, Livingston, Delay, Lott, Libby, etc...

RATs have perfected the art of the smear, the accusation, the manufactured outrage. They keep doing it because it works. The RATs have allies on our side of the aisle...others have labeled them "Useful Idiots."

[gogeo]

I see...internet sex is sex, but blow jobs aren't...

[SmoothTalker]

There is no question that this situation could have been handled better but barring some huge new revelation, I don't see any reason for Hastert to resign over this.

[OESY]

Clinton's sexual pathology is a genuine risk to national security

It's one of the most underreported facts found in the Ken Starr report: Bill Clinton warned Monica Lewinsky -- who later obtained a security clearance at the Pentagon -that a foreign government might be monitoring their telephone conversations and that they should concoct a cover story to explain them. Was this "private affair" involving the president and Lewinsky a national-security risk to the United States?

Start reports that, "according to Lewinsky, she and the president had a lengthy conversation that day. He told her that he suspected that a foreign embassy (he did not specify which one) was tapping his telephones, and he proposed cover stories. If ever questioned, she should say that the two were just friends. If anyone ever asked about their phone sex, she should say that they knew their calls were being monitored and the phone sex was just a put-on."

If they were under surveillance, one might think that Starr would have investigated further to determine if Clinton had been blackmailed. If so, how had the president responded to the threat? Had he allowed U.S. foreign policy to be influenced? Lewinsky had talked about her relationship with the president to many of her friends. She allegedly gave White House documents to a high-school teacher with whom she had previously had an affair. It is possible that foreign agents could have learned of the president's risky behavior directly or indirectly from one of her friends.

The danger of damage to our national security was real because the conduct made Clinton a blackmail target. In September 1994, Clinton signed Presidential Decision Directive 29 that established a body known as the Security Policy Board. This entity developed guidelines for determining eligibility for access to classified information. It states that: "Sexual behavior is a security concern if it involves a criminal offense, indicates a personality or emotional disorder, may subject the individual to undue influence or coercion, exploitation, or duress or reflects lack of judgment or discretion."

Another guideline states that a security clearance should be questioned in a case in which a person has engaged in the "concealment of information that increases an individual's vulnerability to coercion, exploitation or duress..." and "activities which, if known, may affect the person's personal, professional or community standing or render the person susceptible to blackmail.... "

A former government official who specialized in security and intelligence matters told us that it is clear that the president is emotionally disturbed and that this dangerous behavior alone made him a security risk. Indeed, it seems obvious that the man has a personality disorder, is fascinated with sexual perversion and may even have a sexual addiction. This expert doubted that Clinton was serious in talking about his phone lines being tapped, although he acknowledged that could be possible. He said it would be much easier to intercept microwave transmissions.

We asked Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists what he thought about the reference to a foreign embassy monitoring Clinton's phone conversations. He said he thought it might have been a pretext that Clinton used to try to keep Lewinsky quiet about the relationship. But wouldn't the relationship itself have been enough to deny Clinton access to classified information?

Despite the fact that the security guidelines apply to all civilian and military personnel, Aftergood said that they don't really apply to the president. He said, "The president is cleared [in a security sense] by the voters." By electing him, he indicated, the voters have given him their trust and want him to have access to our most closely guarded national secrets. However, he acknowledged that an ordinary citizen might have problems in getting a security clearance if he or she had engaged in the same kind of behavior.

So, for all practical purposes, the president is above the law concerning the requirements for security clearance. But it really is an old story. Former FBI agent Gary Aldrich discusses this in his book, Unlimited Access: An FBI Agent Inside the Clinton White House. He said, "The only people at the White House not required to have extensive background investigations conducted by the FBI are the president and vice president and their immediate families, and yet, perhaps under certain circumstances, they are the ones who need a proper vetting most of all."

-- Reed Irvine, AIM, 10/19/98, http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_n38_v14/ai_21224322/print

[capydick]

This is what hurts Dennis Hastert and Republicans more than anything else:

Wrong Joe. What hurts Dennis Hastert and Republicans more than anything else are spineless Republicans who ingratiate themselves with the MSM in order to collect a paycheck and insulate themselves from reporters looking into their own backgrounds.

[bonfire]

Scarborough is a poser. Does anyone even watch him??

[bray]

The Spitball wannabe is just saying what they want him to say. He can come back like the rest of the Mediots how surprised he is at the results.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[therut]

I have watched this guy in the past. He comes across as not very smart. Plus his show has gone sensationalist and silly. He is not a serious thinker.

[Yo-Yo]

You forgot Speaker-for-a-Day Bob Livingston, who threw himself under the bus.

However, I want to know what Nancy Pelosi knew and when she knew it. If the Dims are so concerned with protecting the children, then why did they sit on these text messages until 6 weeks out from the election?

I hope this Dem dirty trick backfires on them, like the "accidental" Newt scanner recordings did.

[capydick]

He thinks that by going negative on President Bush and the Republicans he will get ratings. As he sinks lower into the abyss, the only people he can now reach out to are people like Sissy Matthews, Russert, and Lauer, who will give him exposure, as long as he is going negative on Republicans.