Posted on 08/20/2007 2:22:42 PM PDT by Sioux-san
When the history of the Bush era is written, no scandal will impress the reader as more telling of the time and place than the one that has engulfed Curt Weldon, the deposed Republican congressman from Pennsylvania.
To be clear, Weldon is not the perpetrator of this scandal but its victim. To understand how he got embroiled, a quick look back at a nearly forgotten chapter in the annals of the Clinton administration is in order.
In January 1997, the Clinton White House went public with a 332-page report that bore the "Austin Powers"-like title, "Communication Stream of Conspiracy Commerce." In its unapologetic paranoia, the effort recalled nothing so much as the final days of the Nixon administration.
"What is striking about the document," observed the Washington Post, "is that it lays down this suspicion-laden theory about how the media works in cold print, under the imprimatur of the White House." According to the document, here is how "the stream" worked:
First, well-funded right-wing think tanks and individuals underwrite conservative newsletters and newspapers such as the Western Journalism Center, the American Spectator and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Next, the stories are reprinted on the Internet where they are bounced all over the world.
From the Internet, according to the report, the stories go through the right-wing British media, back through the respectable right-wing American press, into Congress, "finally to be covered by the remainder of the American mainstream press as a 'real' story."
A year after its introduction, Hillary Clinton would echo the findings of this report on the Today Show in her self-parodying alarm about a "vast right-wing conspiracy."
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
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will read later.
Pennsylvania's 7th got a carpetbagging "rent a vet" to replace him.
The dimoRATS have not yet plumbed the depths to which they will sink to regain power!
Umm . . . it was the Bush Justice Department that went after Weldon.
The Democratic Alliance Democrat Crime Syndicate at work.
It was the Clintonistas in the Justice Department that went after Weldon.
the stories go through the right-wing British media,
Mmmm. OK.
To be bold and to attack one’s enemies, means first to martial your forces for a counterattack...
You will notice that Weldon has not been indicted for anything in the Court, and he was never found guilty of anything by his brethren in Congress. They all tried and failed. Stay tuned - this is a four part series.
Danger, Able
FANTASTIC ARTICLE by Jack Cashill!!!!! Thanks for posting.
able danger.....swept under the rug by the clinton appointees in the state dept.....
who lost...the US and Curt Weldon!!!
able danger.....swept under the rug by the clinton appointees in the state dept.....
who lost...the US and Curt Weldon!!!
You are sadly mistaken if you think that decisions to go after sitting Members of Congress are not reviewed at the very highest levels . . .
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