Scholarship Scandal Congresswoman Falls Apart in Anderson Cooper Interview

breitbart.tv ^ | 9-4-10

[Justaham]

Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson has a tough time responding to Anderson Cooper's questions after he attempts to get her off her pre-approved talking points which she tries to repeat over and over again.

Bravo, Mr. Cooper.

[Kansas58]

We need a “Public Defender’s Office for Liberals” don’t we?

I mean, it just isn’t fair to make liberals hire their own lawyers.

[samtheman]

At one point in the video she tries out the recently used (by a former staff member) Ted Kennedy Defense: Very Busy Doing Important Things The Rest Is All Side Stuff Not Very Important.

[Joe Boucher]

And still the voters in her district will return this ethically challenged hag overwhelmingly.

[samtheman]

Anderson Cooper sure is big and brave going up against a small-time no-account representative, but where was all this hard-hitting journalistic integrity when Barak Hussein Obama stood up before the American people and claimed to attend Rev Wright servicehttp://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post#helps for 20 long years and never hear a word of Hate America?

Not saying that Cooper is wrong here. Of course he’s doing the right thing. But interesting that he goes after the small potatoes with such zeal and leaves the Big Boy completely alone.

Chicken!

[samtheman]

I have no idea how that random bad link got inserted in my post. Gremlins?

[chopperman]

Anderson Cooper is now a racist.

[samtheman]

Anderson Cooper sure is big and brave going up against a small-time no-account representative, but where was all this hard-hitting journalistic integrity when Barak Hussein Obama stood up before the American people and claimed to attend Rev Wright service for 20 long years and never hear a word of Hate America?

Not saying that Cooper is wrong here. Of course he’s doing the right thing. But interesting that he goes after the small potatoes with such zeal and leaves the Big Boy completely alone.

Chicken!

[Quiller]

interesting that he goes after the small potatoes with such zeal and leaves the Big Boy completely alone.

He must follow the lead of the IRS.

Besides, he knows CNN would relegate him to interviewing the latest candidate for city council in Bumpkis, Alaska if he threw an off-points (or un-rehearsed) question at their 0.

[SonOfDarkSkies]

Breitbart's title is incorrect!

In no way did Rep Johnson fall apart. She lied from the beginning to the end of the interview and her voice never wavered nor did her story change.

She may be an unethical crook, but she never cracked!

[counterpunch]

Good work from Anderson Cooper.
Too bad no one saw it.

[Colvin]

My parents created a scholarship for graduates from their high school. By federal law they have NO say in who gets the money. As I understand it She was breaking federal laws, not just the rules of the specific scholarship.
But that is no big deal. She was busy crafting the laws you and I have to follow.

[Walkingfeather]

she may be telling the “troof” maybe the grand kids never saw the forms because they didnt fill them out, a staff member or congressman herself did.

[Liz]

Pastor Stephen E Broden is running for Johnson's seat.

Pastor Stephen E Broden, right, at Republican get-together. Awarded “Champion of the Republican Party” by the NRCC Business Advisory Council Texas. Served as Republican Precinct Chairman in DeSoto, Texas, 1999-2002”

President of the African American Alumni Association Executive Committee, Founder of Ebony Berean, an organization with a mission to inform African-American Pastors of the “Cultural Wars”.

President of the Fair Park Friendship Center, Senior Pastor of the Fair Park Bible Fellowship.

Husband to Donna W. Broden, father to Jamaal 29, Maia 27, and Stephenie 22.

Graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary with a Masters of Arts in Bible Studies. Graduate of the University of Michigan with a Bachelors degree and Masters of Arts in Communication; worked in the inner city over 27 years.

Executive Director, President of Fair Park Friendship Center for over 22 years. Planted Fair Park Bible Fellowship in 1987.

Served as an Adjunct Professor at the Dallas Baptist University from 1990-1992.

[Liz]

US Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson awarded eight scholarships last year to her grandsons and a top aide's children – bringing to 23 the number of awards she handed out since 2005 in violation of Congressional Black Caucus Foundation eligibility rules. The Dallas Morning News reported that over the last five years, the Dallas Democrat awarded up to $20,000 in 15 scholarships to two grandsons, two great-nephews, and aide Rod Givens' children between 2005 and 2008. The 2009 awards – reflected in a previously undisclosed list provided Monday by the foundation – push that above $25,000. (Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...

REFERENCE Each member of the Congressional Black Caucus is given $10,000 annually by the "CBC Foundation" and have a large amount of leeway in how they disburse the funds.

QUESTION Can Congressional Black Caucus members prove where they spend the annual $10,000? The IRS has targeted Foundations as the locus classicus for tax evasion and money laundering.

Cong Eddie Bernice Johnson: "The $10,000 annually?
That's reparations b/c our ancestors were slaves."

[RVN Airplane Driver]

Broden may have a chance...he’s the right color for that ghetto district and the voters are upset about her being an uppity los negroes and not sharing the “stash” with deserving folks and keeping it for herself and her kinfolk. Just telling it like it is.......

[WKUHilltopper]

She doesn’t know what else she can do? How about resign, criminal wench.

LOL...as justification of her “mistake”, she said it’s a “minor part of what we do on a daily basis”.

Yeah, she has bigger things to steal from—so you can’t blame her for not knowing all the details of this “petty crime”.

What a piece of trash.

[WKUHilltopper]

Don’t disagree with that...Cooper got the green light to go after her—as a means of appearing “balanced”

[Liz]

....Johnson's voters are upset about her being an uppity los negroes and not sharing the “stash” with deserving folks and keeping it for herself and her kinfolk......

Working class voters will be even more upset when they find out where the money is really going.

NOTE: to save her skin she says she's going to pay it all back. If the money went to tuition, how's she gonna do that?

Of course it's in her bank account.

[CynicalBear]

>>We need a “Public Defender’s Office for Liberals” don’t we?<<

I thought that was the DOJ.