"60 Minutes" blames Karl Rove for fmr Gov. Don Siegelman's (D-AL) prosecution; state GOP says "show proof or shut up"
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According to The Birmingham News:
In the segment aired Sunday [on 60 Minutes], north Alabama lawyer Jill Simpson said Republican strategist Karl Rove in 2001 asked her take a compromising photo of [former Democrat Gov. Don] Siegelman with one of his aides.
Rove has denied knowing Simpson at all. Siegelman was, of course, convicted of conspiracy and bribery in 2006. During his trial:
Prosecutors contended [HealthSouth founder Richard] Scrushy bought a seat on a state health board with $500,000 in contributions to Siegelman's 1999 lottery campaign.
Siegelman was also convicted on an unrelated obstruction of justice charge that he hid $9,200 he received from a lobbyist.
I have no idea why this story suddenly came up now, outside of the MSM's complicity in the well-publicized attempt to spike GWB's legacy before it gets started; however, the chairman of the AL state GOP has in effect told 60 Minutes to put up or retract.
"If you are unable to publicly produce hard and convincing evidence that backs the outrageous charges you aired to millions of viewers across the nation, I ask that you publicly retract the story on your next broadcast," Rep. Mike Hubbard, R-Auburn, head of the Alabama Republican Party, wrote in a letter to the show.
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"60 Minutes" blames Karl Rove for fmr Gov. Don Siegelman's (D-AL) prosecution; state GOP says "show proof or shut up" 17 Comments (0 topical, 17 editorial, 0 hidden) Post a comment »
No offense, but if I was going to hire an Alabama woman to get into a compromising situation with Don Siegelman, she'd be about number 1,523,640 on my list.
Just sayin'
which is, of course, that a jury of Gov. Siegelman's peers convicted him.
"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong." - Winston Churchill
He is a straight-up guy. Kudos to him for calling out CBS.
Would that we had more like him.
My second most favorite movie about the press is absence of malice. The one problem is that the Sally Field character develops a conscience and regret over her actions. The movie might as well have been a documentary 30 years ago, now its too kind by far. The reporters aren't willing dupes they are crazed psychotics abusing their position without compunction or regret.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
...we should all just thank God Karl didn't use Siegelman's midddle name, cause then he would of been in some real hot water... ;-)
And what's the problem with Karl Rove, he forgot to come out publicly and apologize before the news even broke...? (Better know as the McCain method of PR...)
(Sorry, just had to say it.)
"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing." ~ Oscar Wilde
The Methuselah like scandal, doomed to be 900 years old, similar to the Great Libby Scandal where no law was broken.
A dedicated, not until he was released, federal prosecutor pressured or dumped because of the Nazi's in the White house. All to put a good man, a man of the people, behind bars.
If so I guess Rove picked the juries for both the peoples servant/governor and concerned citizen Scrushy.
Rove's evil tentacles reached farther then I imagined.
"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville
C.B.S. will probably next blame Karl for inspiring the Holocaust. "Journalism", whether television, blog, or newspaper/magazine has reached a level of corruption as to call into question the constitutional protections, or at least the liberal coursts interpretations of them. Rove should sue for one billion dollars!
It was common knowledge that Siegelman was sleeping around. Very common.
And by the way, reading Hubbard's comments, I'm just happy to see that one positive thing has come out of Auburn. :)
2002: 17-7
2003: 28-23
2004: 21-13
2005: 28-18
2006: 22-15
2007: 17-10
Looks to me like there's been 6 positive things in a row coming out of the Loveliest Village. :)
(We now return to your regularly scheduled thread.)
Many of the people who worked on the Siegleman case also worked on Guy Hunt's case in 1993. Hunt was the first Republican Governor of AL, who was removed from office for corruption.
So, apparently these people are not such huge partisans after all.
..thread? Hm?
Threadjack again and you'll be making your blog-home somewhere else.
Siegleman and Hunt were both Albama Governors. Siegleman was a Dem and Hunt was a Republican. Many of the same people who drove Hunt from his office also worked on the case that sent Siegleman to jail. Considering that the Dems have been complaining that it was a partisan charge that brought down Siegleman, Hunts removal seems to undermine that charge.
It is very germane. Not sure why you are threatening me for saying it.
That makes perfect sense. Appreciate it.
No problem. I was just confused by your reaction.
The thread was about 60 Minutes and a supposed Rovian setup of the former D Governor; you stepped in to talk about GOP corruption that was unrelated to Rove or 60 Minutes.
In seeing that, I missed your point. My bad.
What if Karl Rove really DID ask for a compromising photo of Siegelman? Am I the only one who asks "So what?"
Did he also try to put Siegelman and an aide into the mood by getting them drunk and playing Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get it On?" Why so much shock at the idea of a political operative wanting to get the dirt on a political opponent, if the dirt was there to be had?
Would a news organization itself, I wonder, ever ask for and/or publicize, say, incriminating sexual text messages from a Republican congressman?
Even if true, this a very weird complaint.
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