NEWS: I Miss The Old Made Up Scandals

POLITICS: I Miss The Old Made Up Scandals

Remember Travelgate? How cute was that scandal? It started in May of 1993 when seven employees of the White House Travel Office were fired after the FBI started poking around. The Clinton administration said they were fired because of "financial improprieties." Then the right wing went fucking batshit crazy and claimed the Clintons had brought in the FBI as part of some crazy plot to get rid of the employees and replace them with their friends.



Then everybody but the White House janitorial department investigated. The FBI jumped in, and so did the Justice Department, the General Accounting Office, the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee and the Whitewater Independent Counsel. Kenneth Star exonerated Bill Clinton and an Independent Counsel concluded Hillary had made false statements, but nothing that warranted prosecution. It was a big old pile of nothing that cost taxpayers millions.



Now, that was just the firing of seven people - who worked in a God damn travel office. Now consider that the Bush administration looks mighty suspect for firing US Attorneys who did not aggressively prosecute Democrats or were prosecuting Republicans and the difference in the way the administrations have been treated is quite startling. Where's the independent counsel? Where are the millions of dollars to follow those serious accusations up? No?



What about the fact that the White House appears to have blatantly broken the law by deleting 10 million emails?

Now let us close our eyes and imagine what would have happened to a Clinton White House if it had deleted 10 million emails. It's a bit different, isn't it? Imagine if those emails that were deleted occurred during a time when Bill Clinton took us to war, outed a CIA agent and fired a bunch of US Attorneys. Seems Bill might have actually been executed.



And forget about those possible violations of the law they could have been hiding, just deleting the emails is completely illegal.

Little media coverage? You don't say? You mean the media doesn't cover the Bush administration with the same rabid dog mentality that they treated the Clinton administration? Wow. You mean when CREW issued a report two days ago detailing how the number of deleted emails could actually be 10 million and no major media organization picked it up, that wasn't the same way Clinton would have been treated? Shocking.



At least last month the media was able to jump all over the story of how the RNC has started a petition to get the Clintons to release 20 million emails. Now, that is some important shit.



Why do I bring up this comparison nonsense? Because idiot right wing douche bags continue to bring up Clinton to this day. "But Clinton got away with, you didn't care when Clinton did it, Clinton was a criminal…" On and on and on.



Anyone who brings up Bill Clinton's name as a comparison to anything George Bush has done is a complete and total fucking moron. The mentally retarded should look down upon you as an intellectual inferior. You should actually be taken behind a barn a shot in the head because you are such a useless waste of humanity. Even worms and insects should shun your useless, decomposing body for its lack of substance. A steaming pile of shit will give more to the Earth than your corpse as it rots. Basically, your existence is an affront to God.



So, do everyone a favor and shut your pie hole.



FearTheReaper was no Clinton fan, but if you can't see the difference…

This article is bias.

Typical Liberal comeback. Obviously the republicans are saving the taxpayers millions of dollars by removing the need for a costly investigation


In all seriousness regardless of who is in charge the law is the law and must be followed and the correct steps must be taken to ensure this is followed through with.

Damn, that was funny.

I think there's an element of partisanship on both sides in terms of who gets investigated and for what. That being said, partisanship in prosecution (and the lack thereof) is unquestionably more egregious among Republicans.

I hate to agree with you, but only because I find it so hard to believe that people can be so that short sighted in their interests. The facts however say otherwise.

jesus christ 10 million e mails? no wonder the country is all fucked up. all these motherfuckers do is spam all day!!!

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FearTheReaper why do you hate America so much?
Don't you get it? Bush is God's president, he was chosen by God to lead us, therefore the only person who can judge Bush and his administration is God.
God is infallible ergo Bush is infallible. It's science, oh wait, creationism.

Yeah GW bringing back the divine right. Now all we need is a little "L'etat, c'est moi" to come out of his mouth and we're all set.

God deleted those emails? Crazy trickster God is at it again! Planting dinosaur bones, providing evidence for evolution, and now this! What a joker.

When did you cross over to become this boring middle of the road don't offend anyone voice of milk toast reason?

milquetoast

lol...that's why you post in blue...

Clinton got fed to the rabid media dogs for lying under oath. No such thing has happened to Bush for...oh...failing to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States. One of those little things where he put his hand on a bible and took an oath to do.

People actually say "clinton got away with lying to a court, so bush should get away with lying to us constantly?"

no. Milk and Toast.

No, Cigarette's right. It's "milquetoast."

And what are we to make of this; a re-emerging model of indignation?

I lol'd.

Dammit, now I want toast . . .

Dude you gotta find someplace to dispell all this angsty energy, It doesn't seem healthy!

All opinions are biased. It is infact extremely difficult to be partial about much of anything. Especially politics.



That beiung said. I'm going to pray to God that I get an iphone for christmas. I mean he deleted all those emails. What's $400 for a deity?

Of course not! Because the media is librul! LIBRUL!!!!1!!1!

Bush is a Crip, and Clinton is a Blood. And if you can't see that there's no difference ...

You must be new here.

FearTheReaper: sometimes I get the feeling your articles are tailored to certain trolls, not that it bothers me.

Wha?

A quick survey reveals that the CREW lawsuit and the temporary restraining order issued by Judge Kennedy was covered by:

ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, Yahoo News, Google News, the Washington Post, the New York Times, The Atlanta Journal / Constitution, the Boston Globe, the LA Times...just to name a few.

What other "major media organizations" would need to report this story for you to feel better?

The law governing the retention of these emails is clear. If the White House cannot produce the documents in question then they are in violation of the law and should be held accountable.

By the way, my comments regarding Clinton were posted in response to your assertion that Rudy's sex life had irreparably damaged his bid for the White House. I made no comparison between Clinton and Bush.

Even the most elementary attempts at accuracy seem to be beyond you.