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Exclusive: Obama's Blago Report: Only One Rahm Call to Governor

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According to the report, there were also 4 calls to Blago's chief of staff. The report, due out this week, after a delay because of a request from the Department of Justice, will vindicate Emmanuel, and put to rest the notion lie that somebody on the Obama team was interested in making a deal.

Sources also confirm that Emanuel made the case for picking Obama confidante Valerie Jarrett during at least one of the conversations. In the course of that conversation, Harris asked if in return for picking Jarrett, "all we get is appreciation, right?" "Right," Emanuel responded.
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I have one small issue with this. And not so much my own issue, but an issue with hypocracy.

To my understanding, Emanuel and those in the Obama camp didn't just say they did nothing wrong but repeatedly stated that Emanuel had "NO" contact with Blago's office concerning the appointment. This however seems counter to that.

Now, it seems he's done nothing bad if this comes out as true (and if I wasn't going to believe the RUMOR that he was actually involved, I'm not going to believe this one either, till I see proof either way). And that's great and I don't want anything to happen to him.

But where is all those on the left, and even the right, that hounded the Bush administration when they would "lie" or "mislead" or other such things, even when they didn't do anything specifically wrong, yelling about the Obama administration doing the same thing? Espicially when it was a campaign ran on the promise of a more transparent administration?
 
Zyphlin said:
I have one small issue with this. And not so much my own issue, but an issue with hypocracy.

To my understanding, Emanuel and those in the Obama camp didn't just say they did nothing wrong but repeatedly stated that Emanuel had "NO" contact with Blago's office concerning the appointment. This however seems counter to that.

Now, it seems he's done nothing bad if this comes out as true (and if I wasn't going to believe the RUMOR that he was actually involved, I'm not going to believe this one either, till I see proof either way). And that's great and I don't want anything to happen to him.

But where is all those on the left, and even the right, that hounded the Bush administration when they would "lie" or "mislead" or other such things, even when they didn't do anything specifically wrong, yelling about the Obama administration doing the same thing? Espicially when it was a campaign ran on the promise of a more transparent administration?
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You have a point, except that the Obama campaign was asked by the Justice Department NOT to release their report on contacts with Blago, but to wait for a week, due to the ongoing investigation, and the Obama campaign complied. They are releasing the report this week.
 
danarhea said:
According to the report, there were also 4 calls to Blago's chief of staff. The report, due out this week, after a delay because of a request from the Department of Justice, will vindicate Emmanuel, and put to rest the notion lie that somebody on the Obama team was interested in making a deal.

Definition:

FOX News (Also see Drudge, Washington Times) - 1) A machine used in the manufacturing of counterfeit news. 2) A cloaking device used to disguise propaganda and political hit jobs as news reports. 3) See libel.

Article is here.
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What does Fox News have to do with it??
 
danarhea said:
You have a point, except that the Obama campaign was asked by the Justice Department NOT to release their report on contacts with Blago, but to wait for a week, due to the ongoing investigation, and the Obama campaign complied. They are releasing the report this week.
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I understand that part and agree. What I'm saying is (And I may be wrong as honestly I've been too busy to follow this closely) its not just that the Obama camp has been saying that they can't release information, but they've been saying flat out that no one on his staff had any contact regarding the seat.

There's a difference between saying:

"The justice department asked us not to talk about any possible interaction or non-interaction with the governors office"

and

"No one from our staff was in contact with the governor".

Its to my understanding that the Obama camp has stated something along the lines of the 2nd statement there. That's where the issue is in regards to the hypocracy.

As I said though, if I'm wrong and that kind of thing was never said and I'm getting bad information, np...i'll admit I'm wrong as I've not had a chance to follow this amazingly close
 
I love that we take the Obama's camps report. So as long as they say it, it's trusted right?
 
danarhea said:
According to the report, there were also 4 calls to Blago's chief of staff. The report, due out this week, after a delay because of a request from the Department of Justice, will vindicate Emmanuel, and put to rest the notion lie that somebody on the Obama team was interested in making a deal.
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"I did nothing wrong, and the report I wrote proves it".

:roll:
 
Zyphlin said:
I understand that part and agree. What I'm saying is (And I may be wrong as honestly I've been too busy to follow this closely) its not just that the Obama camp has been saying that they can't release information, but they've been saying flat out that no one on his staff had any contact regarding the seat.

There's a difference between saying:

"The justice department asked us not to talk about any possible interaction or non-interaction with the governors office"

and

"No one from our staff was in contact with the governor".

Its to my understanding that the Obama camp has stated something along the lines of the 2nd statement there. That's where the issue is in regards to the hypocracy.

As I said though, if I'm wrong and that kind of thing was never said and I'm getting bad information, np...i'll admit I'm wrong as I've not had a chance to follow this amazingly close
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I believe the official story was that Obama himself wasn't in contact. That stirred a minor controversy as Axelrod said casually previous to this debacle that Obama had spoke to Blagojevich at some point, though later said he was mistaken about that. I don't recall anyone suggesting that no one had spoken to Blagojevich.
 
So that settles it, right?

The internal review conducted by Obama's crew concludes that one aide had one contact with Blago regarding filling the vacant seat.

I'm sold.

Just imagine if the Bush administration had conducted such internal investigations. :roll:
 
MrVicchio said:
I love that we take the Obama's camps report. So as long as they say it, it's trusted right?
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JMak said:
So that settles it, right?

The internal review conducted by Obama's crew concludes that one aide had one contact with Blago regarding filling the vacant seat.

I'm sold.

Just imagine if the Bush administration had conducted such internal investigations. :roll:
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Absolutely, as I said:

Zyphlin said:
(and if I wasn't going to believe the RUMOR that he was actually involved, I'm not going to believe this one either, till I see proof either way). And that's great and I don't want anything to happen to him.
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I do get a good laugh out of anyone on this thread that was acting incredulous to the threads of reports/rumors that Obama's staff was involved somehow and saying "We need to hear the OFFICIAL story, not supposed leaks" but now are harrolding, surprise surprise, NOT an official story as somehow much more factual.
 
I thought it was said that the FBI recorded 21 conversations between Rahm and Blago...

whats going on?
 
DarkWizard12 said:
I thought it was said that the FBI recorded 21 conversations between Rahm and Blago...

whats going on?
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The media whores lied or, if you want to go easy on them, didn't check out their sources. Same difference.
 
danarhea said:
The media whores lied or, if you want to go easy on them, didn't check out their sources. Same difference.
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Or there is 18 and a half minutes of tape missing. :shock:

:mrgreen:
 
DarkWizard12 said:
I thought it was said that the FBI recorded 21 conversations between Rahm and Blago...

whats going on?
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If you're referring to the story I think you are, the news story never stated that the conversations were between Rahm Emanuel and Rod Blagojevich.
 
Kandahar said:
If you're referring to the story I think you are, the news story never stated that the conversations were between Rahm Emanuel and Rod Blagojevich.
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It doesn't matter. The number 21 has been in the news on countless occasions, and that what people will remember. How many times have untruths become the "truth"? Way too many times.
 
Therefore Obama is a liar when he claimed that there was "no contact"....

2 lies actually, december photo, and now this rhambo call.


Great start to the administration. :roll:
 
danarhea said:
The media whores lied or, if you want to go easy on them, didn't check out their sources. Same difference.
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First of all, your FOX compiled video takes the quotes "21 contacts" out of context so that we don't even know where all these comments originated from (some of them appear to be legitimate guests on the show, not FOX reporters). I have to admit that this reminds me of the way every MSM (i.e. ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, except FOX) outlet handled attacks on any conservative stance (and anything Bush said) over the last few years. Sean Hannity would be proud of your work, Dan, as he likes to do similar hatchet jobs.

Doesn't any thinking individual on this website find the quote below interesting?
Harris asked if in return for picking Jarrett, "all we get is appreciation, right?" "Right," Emanuel responded.
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If this doesn't look like a set up by someone who suspects they are being recorded than I don't know what else it could be. It would be different if Harris asked for money and Emanuel responded "All you get is appreciation." No, Harris throws out the appreciation thing there right up front as if to put on record (you know, the "secretly" recorded record) that "Lookie here, we ain't passin' no bucks here!"

Is it just me or is this a set up reminiscent of Abbot and Costello's best stuff?

Oh, pardon me... Obama investigated his people... how stupid of me to question!
 
Honestly when I read that line I thought the same thing for a moment.

I'm not making any decision on this either way till some actual legitiamte FACTS start coming out on this case. People on every side of this are laughably jumping and swearing by whatever RUMOR (however you wish to term it, this unofficial speculatory "facts" are nothing but rumors) fits their mind set and condemning any that don't.
 
rebelbuc said:
If this doesn't look like a set up by someone who suspects they are being recorded than I don't know what else it could be. It would be different if Harris asked for money and Emanuel responded "All you get is appreciation." No, Harris throws out the appreciation thing there right up front as if to put on record (you know, the "secretly" recorded record) that "Lookie here, we ain't passin' no bucks here!"
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It sounds more like a way of testing the waters for how receptive he'd be to bribery. It's not a good idea to just flat-out ask someone for a bribe if you have no idea what their reaction would be.

By asking him if "all we get is appreciation" instead of flat-out asking him for a bribe, Harris maintained enough plausible deniability (at least for that conversation) to claim that he meant something other than a bribe. Harris probably didn't realize that ALL of his conversations were being recorded and there was plenty of OTHER evidence to link him to this.

As for Emanuel, I don't see how that reflects negatively on him at all. He might not have even known what the comment meant, or he might've thought it meant the usual politicking and deal-making as opposed to outright bribery.
 
you know, I have an easy, easy, easy solution to this: Lets see what happens in court.
 
danarhea said:
Now why would I be so hard on Fox News and the other media whores?

Let the presstitutes answer that in their own words:
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Oh, I see. Your mention ONLY of Fox and not the other news organizations in the video was just an oversight??? :roll:

By the way, do you actually believe that an outfit like Daily Kos would honestly edit the statements in the video?? If you do, I'd like to talk to you about some money that's available to you in a Nigerian bank account. All you have to do is send your account number and we'll wire it right over to you. :lol:
 
Gill said:
Oh, I see. Your mention ONLY of Fox and not the other news organizations in the video was just an oversight??? :roll:

By the way, do you actually believe that an outfit like Daily Kos would honestly edit the statements in the video?? If you do, I'd like to talk to you about some money that's available to you in a Nigerian bank account. All you have to do is send your account number and we'll wire it right over to you. :lol:
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Do you often ask questions of people who can't respond?
 
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