Hearing Update: Brad Schlozman tries to dodge Sen. Leahy’s (D-VT) questions about why he violated DOJ guidelines in bringing a rushed (and bogus) vote fraud case in time to affect the November election.
Rep. John Conyers’ (D-MI) office not happy about Fox News Channel’s substituting video of Rep. Conyers in place of video for indicted Rep. Jefferson of Louisiana.
Just out from the congressman’s office …
Yesterday, Fox News Channel broke the story of Rep. William Jefferson’s indictment with video of House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers greeting Attorney General Alberto Gonzales at a recent Judiciary Committee hearing. The network apologized on-air for airing the wrong video; however, they did not personally apologize to Mr. Conyers or describe the video they aired the previous day. Chairman Conyers responded today:
“Fox News has a history of inappropriate on-air mistakes that are neither fair, nor balanced. This type of disrespect for people of color should no longer be tolerated. I am personally offended by the network’s complete disregard for accuracy in reporting and lackluster on-air apology.” – House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI)
Here’s the original video …
Schlozman on ACORN: Don’t know anything about them really.
There’s a pretty healthy dose of fibs in Bradley Schlozman’s testimony today. But this has to be one of the funniest.
Did the Associated Press hype a speech by Obama as something scary and racially-threatening?
Elizabeth Edwards compares husband John to Jesse Helms. That and other political news of the day in today’s Election Central Happy Hour Roundup.
In Bradley Schlozman’s testimony today before the Senate Judiciary Committee he hung most of his decision to deliver a series of pre-election ‘vote fraud’ investigations on the sign-off of Craig Donsanto, head of the Election Crimes branch of the Justice Department. But the TPMmuckraker staff dug up an email from fired US Attorney David Iglesias contained in one of those DOJ document dumps. And Iglesias provides a very different account of Donsanto’s opinion of indictments brought right before elections.
GOP Debate Update:
Rudy suggests to Wolf that he’s in favor of making English the U.S.’s official language.
But as Mayor of New York City, he was strongly against it — and even viewed such efforts as little more than an effort to “insult” and “offend” people.
GOP Debate Update:
McCain strives for his big Bill Clinton moment.
As most of you know, Sen. Craig Thomas (R-WY) died Monday night while undergoing a second round of treatment for acute myeloid leukemia, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow. Thomas had been reelected for a third term in the senate only last November.
Now, a number of readers have written in to ask why it is that though the state’s governor, Dave Freudenthal, is a Democrat, he’ll be appointing a Republican to replace Thomas in the senate. The reason has to do with Wyoming’s unique law governing the appointment of senators, which we explain here.
TPM extends our condolences and best wishes to Thomas’s family, friends and supporters.