Calling bull on ABC News & Time magazine’s apologists for Pelosi
Photoshop credit: Bucktown Dusty
Lazy, lazy, lazy. Bull, bull, bull.
Time’s Karen Tumulty cites ABC News to prove that critics of Diva Pelosi’s air travel are blowing smoke. Both outlets pooh-pooh the controversy as old. ABC News, citing the JW release, shrugs that the e-mails were “from early in her tenure as speaker.”
It’s obvious that neither Tumulty nor ABC News read through the entire trove of documents. Instead, they rely on Judicial Watch’s press release — which included highlights, but obviously not all, of what was included in the FOIA request.
As I reported (yeah, we can do that, too, MSM), one of the most notable e-mail exchanges I found in the docs (which was not spotlighted in JW’s release, but could be found by anyone who actually clicked through on JW’s site to the actual records) dealt with Pelosi’s absurd demand in December 2008 (that’s just three months ago, not “early in her tenure”) that the military move her jet from San Francisco airport to Travis Air Force base (where she had “business” and where she just so happens to have a country home nearby in Napa 30 minutes away!) Queen Pelosi didn’t want to drive 1.5 hours. She demanded that the military come to her. DoD officials pointed out that this had never been done before — not even for the Defense Secretary.
Yet ABC News asserts that JW’s document release “doesn’t seem to prove the organization’s allegation that Pelosi has made ‘unprecedented demands’ for the flights.”
Let me repeat what I reported, since Time and ABC News missed it the first time around:
Three months ago, turmoil erupted over Queen Nancy’s demand for the military to reposition her plane to fly out of Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, Calif., closer to where she had “business,” instead of San Francisco Airport/SFO (1.5 hours away). A special air missions official wrote: “We have never done this in the past. The deal is…that the Speaker shuttle is from DC to SFO and back. We will not reposition. We do not reposition for convenience even for the SECDEF. It is not [too] far of a drive from Travis to SFO. Did the escort suggest to the Speaker that this is ok? If so, I hope you guys correct them immediately. If you agree with me that I am correct, then you need to stay strong and present the facts to the Speaker’s office.”
Another official stated bluntly: “We can’t reposition the airplane such a short distance. It is not a judicial use of the asset. It is too expensive to operate the jet when there is truly no need to do so.”
A beleaguered colleague responded: “[Y]ou know I understand and feel with you…but, this is a battle we are bound to lose if we tell the speaker office. In the end, this is what will happen…I wish that I could say this is a one-time request, but we know it will probably happen again in the future.”
In the end, the military won that battle. But a few days later, Pelosi was back with a new demand: that her military plane taking her from DC to San Francisco make a stop in New Jersey to bring her and three Democrats to an “innovation Forum” at Princeton University involving 21 participants and no audience. A Gulfstream jet was secured for the important “official business.”
But who am I to actually read the documents and refuse to swallow the MSM Kool-Aid? If Time and ABC News tell me there’s nothing there, there’s nothing there.
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Will these whitewashers respond? Or will they ignore the truth to curry favor with N-Pelo?
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I blame Boosh – you know – ’cause EVERYTHING to date is his fault.
The most reviled woman in the world.
She’ll smile her way through this.
this page was hard to look at..all those pictures of pelosi…wheres uncle Ted??? I NEED A DRINK!!
You tellin’ me that lady can’t fly across country on those inflated lips?
Bullstanky.
I believe you know the answer to that one, Michelle. The MSM is completely worthless and their ratings prove it. No one trusts their reporting. Only liberal moonbats even watch it any more. Or those who need to check in once in a while out of curiousity to see how they misreport the news.
The apologists have tried that one, Soap, by citing the Bush administration’s post 9/11 policies to extend protection to the Speaker.
However, none of that explains away her excessive demands and amount of money wasted on her “book every weekend” approach.
Botox has rendered any other expression impossible.
If Bush hadn’t perpretrated 9/11 maybe we wouldn’t need such security around our leaders.
Pelosi lives up to her favorite phrase “failed” this and “failed” that. She personifies the word “failed” by being the first “failed” female Speaker of the House.
This nationally-humiliating waste of protoplasm is so stupid and self-important that some day she might demand a military jet pick her up at the front driveway of her house.
If that happens, I think the DOD should do everything in its power to accomodate her, as long as the pilot has a viable ejection seat that can be triggered 15 seconds before the plane rings her doorbell.
Speaker Newt Gingrich didn’t have his own private jet under Bush, nor did Speaker John Dennis Hastert, nor any others. What hicksville slackers… Queen Pelosi obviously plays the “it’s all about me” game far better.
/sarc
Pssst, Scarecrow, can you douse her with a bucket of water so we can watch her melt?
Rhetorical question. Answer is pretty obvious, no?
Common Chap, If you’re gonna troll at least use some real bait.
geez chappie, you can’t be one of those bush blew up those buildings whackjobs. i know by your blogging you aren’t crazy, so please tell me you were being sarcastic. lgm has the bush destroyed ny purposefully so we could go to war schtick. nearly as insane as our astronauts didn’t really land on the moon, but hollywood faked it.
Okay…how about if Bush wasn’t such a screw up Republicans would have never lost control of the House and thus Pelosi would have never made Speaker?
I know…let’s start a drinking game!
Oh wait, I’ve been doing that since Nov 4th.
Can you just imagine the outrage on the part of this same MSM if this was a Republican speaker? Shameful!
I hate to sound like a nit-picker, but I really think the world “too” does not belong in that sentence.
Chap, I think I am falling in love with you.
btw chap, i don’t mind MUCH that we are ferrying her wide load around the globe for security reasons, but i am p.oed that she is demanding the primo planes, not reimbursing adequately for them, and seeking to have the military act as if she is the owner of a private plane and can go wherever and whenever she likes. that is shear chutzpah given her loathing of the military.
Chap’s a truther?
Well…not him personally… We know where he was at the time. But where was Cheney?
I’ll never tell.
It wasn’t Hollywood. It was the Trilateral Commission, at the behest of Soros.
Sorry. My heart belongs to Obama’s pecs.
Can’t you tell by now when Chap is putting you on? His tongue is planted very firmly in his cheek. And his head is planted very firmly in his…oh, never mind.
Better chap. Bush did screw up in a lot of ways. He’s still a far better man than Dear Leader. What’s your prediction where BarryO’s approval ratings go from here? Gonna save your response.
Chap, keep that up and you’re in serious danger of losing your status as a Troll. The IBBT is liable to suspend your membership.
What baseline are we using? Gallup? Pollster.com?
You are absolutely right, but I still can’t understand how Pelosi got so much power. If more people educated themselves as to what she is all about their would be widespread outrage.
Yes, I do see the connection betweem my last two sentences.
You’re just trying to be kind. Actually, elderly, retired grandmothers just don’t turn you on. I understand. I’ll just have to try and live with my emptiness.
Chappy’s problem is that he is reasonable,and that is in direct conflict with liberal doctrine, something has to give.
How bout RCP average?
You might want to look up your local chapter of Forlorn Chapoutier Lovers Anonymous. It sometimes helps to talk through these things and know that you are not alone.
Now, now…we ALL know that it was zombie members of the Knights Templar acting on behalf of the Illuminati and a few renegade members of the Q continuum.
Damn, I said the Z word…Chap’s Law is hereby enacted.
Okay. Right now it is at 60.8. I say over the next 2 months it will go down and hover just around 50, above or below a couple points. It will stay that way for about 6-8 months before creeping back up and settling around 53-55%. This is barring us going to war with Iran or Great Britain.
If the Republicans in Congress had behaved and acted as Republicans are supposed to, like being fiscal conservatives and striving to enforce our borders, I doubt that they would have lost control of either the House or the Senate.
Chap! Please! Stop! How will I ever get over you if you continue to be so…well…funny, and witty, and…I have to leave this thread. I don’t want to, but it is too painful. Also, Little House on the Prairie is on in 10 minutes.
keep in mind I look just like a young Micael Landon.
Chap,
Glad to see you are drinking again and not so quick to get ticked off! Love the posts.
Truthfully, I prefer the older version! And I like fat Elvis too!
Geez chap, why would it go down if he’s doing such a spiffy job? Answer: Bush. Give it a rest.
Ha! I love it when the spell check/grammar nazis screw up their own corrections.
Don’t worry, we still think the world of you, also.
Maybe Barney Frank told ABC and Time they were blowing the scandal out of proportion, so they obsequiously complied. Just like Andrea Mitchell when Bawney Fwank told her to lay off Obama’s tax cheats.
That’s just great news journalism there.
IN OTHER NEWS
Lyle Menendez still says his brother Eric is innocent. In turn, Eric says the same about Lyle. It must be true.
Arr.Arr.Arr. Chap is going MistressJustice on us.
Actually, according to Google Maps, directions from the main gate of Travis AFB to the main entrance of SFO is 1 hour, 8 minutes.
Enter standard disclaimer of just under two hours in traffic. Ooh, but if you did that, you’d have to do what we peasants do: plan ahead!
What a prima donna.
I’m sorry, but I don’t think it’s as innocuous as ‘kool-aid’ anymore. What they’re expecting us to swallow is a lot more….vile.
MSM says ~ Nothing to see here folks.
Let’s cover some REAL news.
Octomom’s porn gig, Angelina vs. Jennifer, and Obama’s sex appeal.
You know, the serious stuff facing our Nation!
Pfft. Silly Michelle reading documentation and doing research… Don’t you know “conservative bloggers don’t do original reporting”?
I hope Pelosi doesn’t get arthritis.
Makes it hard to snap one’s fingers.
Is it just me or does she always look like she just sat on something either squishy or cylindrically shaped??
Just a point to ponder on a chilly Texas day. (no pun intended)
Hangfire ~ That’s what aids are for…Queen Nancy can’t burden herself w/ snapping!
Marie Antoinette, “Let them eat cake.”
Queen Nancy, “Let them fly coach.”
I love imagining the look on the reporter’s face as he or she reads a post like this one and proceeds to justify their “reporting,” all the while I’m sure thinking Michelle is a nuisance and irrelevant. I guess they’ll know what it really means to be irrelevant when they no longer have a job.
As far as I’m concerned, the Air Force should boot her okole out over a desert island with a radio that only receives Rush Limbaugh and a case of Rely tampons.
Do you think the Airmen have to pick out the red M&Ms for her?
A little Streisand / Republican humor.
That is rhetorical, right?
You obviously don’t know Chap as well as this woman does.
Charlie was thinking of Katie in the Pike Position and couldn’t be reached for comment.
I just threw up a little in my mouth. Not fair, Aloha. It’s almost time for supper. Now I’ll have to wait until tomorrow.
Seeing such a grotesque visage on the nose of that C5 makes me realize
that Senator Robert Byrd is no longer the most pathetic, despicable, humiliating member of Congress. I never thought that was possible.
It’s all just so un-F’ing-believable.
Maybe the Bush-haters are (now) right: maybe it is time for the US to abjectly apologize to the rest of “the world”.
Cruella Pukosi’s very existence is a virtual war crime all by itself.
Actually, Aloha this is more my type.
I guess Chap likes a woman who can smoke a five dollar cigar in the rain.
I sense a disturbing trend in the Force… A juicy nugget of Democrat stupidity is unearthed by the blogs on the right… and the first thing the MSM does is to try to downplay it by pooh-poohing the righty blogs.
We actually need to go farther, and begin to contact the management at these news companies. Smack them in the face with proof their “reporters” are incompetent! No one likes to pay for stupidity! Let’s get someone canned today! Ha, ha!
OK, I’ll give you credit for patiotism. But is James Brolin going to take this lying down?
Incidently, let this be an object lesson for all you young singers out there. If you don’t write your own material (to get residuals), you’ll be doing “fundraisers” in your old age to pay the taxes on the Malibu property…and keep your boy toy in hair gell.
or gel…
Time has ALWAYS been in the tank for the Dems and Libs, and ABC News is most of the time — unless you count somebody like John Stossel, who’s sort of the loyal opposition and relegated to 20/20. Instead, they go to Clintonista George Stephanopoulos. Good ol’, unbiased George. Oh, he may be on those morning calls with Rahm Emanuel and the others, but hey, he’s MSM now, right? Wrong! He’s still a Dem operative.
Just my opinion, albeit somewhat drastic and dare I say … radical!?
And I could not resist …
Depends
(You may have to think about commercial products to understand the implications)
A good part of the problem lies in the fact that the MSM would rather hire a 2.0 average journalist from Columbia or Berkeley than a 4.0 average journalist from Oklahoma or Kansas State.
My laugh of the day…thanks!!
I am MUCH better looking than her! And a better singer too.
But does James Brolin clean your swimming pool?
My hustband just poked his head in my computer room to find out what I was laughing at. I have been cackling for 10 minutes. You guys have really hit your stride today. Just when I think I have had the laugh of the day, War Tip says, “Depends”. OMG…! I think I just wet my pants.
Is that anything like cleaning her pipes?
She can have him. He’s too old for me. And too liberal. Oh, and I don’t have a swimming pool.
Maybe that is exactly what he does. You know us libs, especially Hollywood libs are into the kink.
All right, fine. Who cleans your frozen pond?
Listen you, I get enough guff from Bill Grant and his incessant Minnesota-bashing! I wouldn’t talk…don’t you live in the hell-hole of the country…DC? And I clean my own frozen pond, thank you.
Not yet. For the next few weeks I live in the hell-hole known as Rhode Island.
Pelosi Galore believes she is Grandmother Royalty herself.
She has been insulated from real life Americans for so long that she believes she can have anything she wants the way that she wants.
Wait til this war in Afghanistan blows up in their faces. We havent seen the worst from this moronic leader of the most ethical Congress ever. To think our warriors die for this pupsteak.
Bear1909out
uh oh—are those of us with swimming pools now considered in the same, um, yacht as arugula-eaters?
If I have to be stuck in a boat with anybody, I would like to be stuck in this boat thank you.
And it sinks, (On purpose) just like B Hussein O’s policies
Unless this is your pool, the answer is yes.
I read those emails, and even tried to submit information to ABCNews.com’s website last night, but it would not take my submission, nor would it take my comments, but yet they had other people’s comments posted. I told them to READ THE FACTS as I had. But I guess that’s just too much to ask for these days.
Dang Chap, that sure is a waste of space. Just think of how much ice and beer a hard working man could fit in there!
It’s “perpetrated” and Nancy Pelosi is still a twit.
So now the Pbo is in the drivers seat, if we are attacked….is it still Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooshes fault?
Will Pbo man up, or just bend over and take it like a Barney Fwank?
I know the answer is now and ever shall be “It’s Boooooooooooooshes Fault!!!” 30 or 40 years from now, when your great grandchildren ask why they are letting you die and you have to say that you are no longer a viable productive member of the collective as seen by co-prezzdents Sasha ‘n’ Malia, you can say with your dying breath…”It’s Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooshes Faulttttttttttttt!”
Chap, I gave you credit for half a brain and a bit of logic. I guess there was a lot more poison ivy than I thought in that Ivy league law school edumacashun.
I really want to know who was there and what was discussed. What do you want to bet that this “innovation forum” was held at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University?
Any time you see “foreign relations” or “international affairs”, realize that these are often code words for the globalist socialists.
And keep in mind that Woodrow Wilson “play[ed] a central role in the construction, alteration, and passing of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913“.
So, coming back to Pelosi, what was the purpose of this meeting, and who are the “key players” behind the scenes who are driving this socialist agenda?
Now that is a REAL man! Be still my heart. I am SO over you, Chap.
Just a reminder that those who actually did swallow the deadly Kool-Aid were followers of Socialist/Communist “Liberation Theology“.
Seriously.
And we all know that Obama attended a “Liberation Theology” chuch for over 20 years.
And for all of those who want to talk about 9/11 on this thread, I say:
Truth: Years ago, William Ayers and the Weather Underground bombed the US Capitol Building.
Truth: William Ayers said, “I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.”
Truth: Those words were printed in the New York Times on the exact same day that both New York City and the US Capital city were bombed with commercial jets…September 11, 2001. It is believed that the 4th jet, which passengers tried to take back and which crashed in PA, was intended to hit the US Capitol Building.
Opinion: Given what Ayers said, I assume that he would have been pleased to see that 4th jet hit the Capitol Building.
Question: What did William Ayers know about the 9/11 attacks, and when did he know it?