Why is it so suprising that reporters are now whores for the corporatocracy? And have about as much depth as a bird bath...if that. Sort of reflective of society as a whole, though, don't you think?
grandma
· 1 year ago
good morning
The dumbing down of America.......that is what the media has become.
Dave_of_the_Jungle
· 1 year ago
Night of the Living Dead
grandma
· 1 year ago
At Annapolis, McCain, son of admirals, will call for service to country:
“I hope more Americans would consider enlisting in our Armed Forces..."
Suuuuure John.....enlist to fight in your unending wars.
Tell it to the chickenhawks in the GOP that don't want their own kids to serve.
grandma
· 1 year ago
There is something kind of cool about the fact that both Clinton and Obama will be speaking in Grand Forks, North Dakota Friday.
For all the griping about the primary calendar -- and with the serious exception of the Florida and Michigan messes -- this is a real national primary.
UPDATE: As a reader notes, North Dakota has already caucused. Obama is there, apparently, as a favor to an important backer, Kent Conrad. Hillary's decision to go is the subject of some speculation there. Is it a chance to denounce caucuses? An opportunity to pass through South Dakota?
Anyway, locals can't figure it out, says the Grand Forks Herald:
the thought of mcCain as president and appointing more right wing corporate judges to take more right away and destroy the constitution should be the best case against him. i mean beside the case of him being clueless on the economy,gay rights, hiv/aids, taxes, wto, nafta,cafta,war for one hundred more years..........................................oy vey.
grandma
· 1 year ago
A leading Latino civil rights group is calling on the Bush administration to suspend local law enforcement of federal immigration law after an undocumented immigrant was left in an Arkansas jail cell for four days without food, water or a toilet.
Adriana Torres-Flores, 38, was arrested for selling pirated CDs at a Washington County flea market and ordered held March 6 when authorities discovered she was in the country illegally, according to news reports. A bailiff took her to a holding cell and then forgot about her.
That was a Thursday. A snowstorm hit the region, and a reduced staff at the courthouse did not hear her cries for help that night, or any of the next three days.
In a separate letter to the Justice Department, Trasviña asks Attorney General Michael Mukasey to investigate “any potential civil rights violations that may have occurred in Washington County, Arkansas with respect to the incident involving Ms. Torres-Flores.”
Earlier, MALDEF filed a class action lawsuit in federal court alleging racial profiling by authorities in nearby Rogers, Ark. The organization is urging senators to raise the Torres-Flores incident with Chertoff today when he appears before the Judiciary Committee.
has florida and michagan more the date of their primary yet?
grandma
· 1 year ago
While he bypasses environmental laws today, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff lobbied for the border fence in October by stating, “Illegal migrants really degrade the environment.”
Good morning, beautiful AmBloggers. On the astrological front, the asteroid Pluto (formerly thought to be a planet) went retrograde this morning at 5:23 am, EDT. It will remain retrograde until September 9 at 11:14 pm, ET. Although the moon is in altruistic Aquarius and the sun is in cheerful Aries, Pluto is in stubborn Capricorn. A retrograde planet (or asteroid) usually signals blockage in some area. Pluto, the ruler of dark thoughts and deeds, retrograde in an earth sign portends devisiveness, veiled intentions, an unpleasant ambience and hostility in social settings. Saint Omen does not predict a "Summer of Love" so much as a "Season of Discomfort."
Savage8862
· 1 year ago
Why isn't the MSM asking McCain about his breaking his own campaign finance laws?
Thorpe
· 1 year ago
OT, I think I'm finally able to post. Just checking...Howdy ya'll!
mgardener
· 1 year ago
Every morning, after I read our local paper, I head for the computer to read the blogs and say to my husband " and now to find out how "bush has f----d up the world". I don't usually use the f word, but how else do you describe Bush's actions? I can't even bear the thought of 4 years of McCain!
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Have to work around the press.
They're John McCain lap dogs.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
BTW:
Yeah, it's too bad the press won't hold McCain accountable when he's, like, breaking the law, but when did they ever hold Bush accountable for breaking the law?
On the plus side, it gets Obama off the hook for any deals he might have made with McCain to limit fundraising.
Thanks to McCain's actions, Obama and small donor Dems will be free to turn on the money spigots this fall.
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
there is no longer news on teevee. just infotainment. because teevees are on inside peoples' houses 24/7 it's best for programming to just be a numbed out droning in the background.
if you want news, get it elsewhere.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
"Five times to my face (Richardson) said that he would never do that," a red-faced, finger-pointing Clinton erupted. The former president then went on a tirade that ran from the media's unfair treatment of Hillary to questions about the fairness of the votes in state caucuses that voted for Obama.
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Ha!
Bubba's really becoming unhinged, isn't he?
1billinnj2
· 1 year ago
please register as many democrates as possible by november. the supreme court will rule on a indiana identification law and it will knock off millions of voters from voting. just like 2006 you have to have more people on board then will be affected.
Webster
· 1 year ago
4012 American combat deaths in Iraq as of today.
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
Bill Clinton became unhinged a long time ago. Remember when, after the Lewinsky affair, he was asked why he did it? "Because I could" was his answer. Terrific to have a president who lets his sex drive override his judgment and not think voters won't remember his and Hillary's actions, and another lie of Hillary's, who had famously proclaimed, "I'm not a 'stand by your man' kind of woman." Not, that is, until I'm given something huge in return.
Reminds me of toddlers who don't get their way and hold their breath until they're blue...self-defeatism. We need an adult in the WH, not a spoiled child(ren). We've gone through too many years of this phenomenon.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Reminds me of toddlers who don't get their way and hold their breath until they're blue...self-defeatism. We need an adult in the WH, not a spoiled child(ren). We've gone through too many years of this phenomenon.
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It's funny.
Bubba and Hillary and McCain and Bush are always having temper tantrums, and Obama seems so cool about everything, even when you can tell he doesn't like something.
I don't know if it helps him or hurts him with the Great Unwashed--they may consider him "aloof"--but it makes me think he's the only adult in the playground.
I can't believe this fucking lobbyist on CSPAN just said that citizens are "lobbyists" every time we write or call our reps...sure we are. We have big offices, staffs, money from corps that we can spread around...yeah. We're exactly the same as those criminals who are nothing more than "super-citizens" given "personhood" by the SC...
Un-fucking-believable.
Webster
· 1 year ago
That was addressed to busboy. Don't care for this comment format...
Busboy
· 1 year ago
Webster, the way Disqus is working today is that when you reply to me; your response shows up in my e-mail and also on the thread. I called you a necromonger because you have siezed on an hysterical reason to end the war; meaning that you have given up on rational argument. After all, don't more than 50,000 people die in auto accidents every year; not counting the maimed and disabled?
Webster
· 1 year ago
Busboy, you eternally mind-fried idiot, Bush didn't force people into those cars and send them out on roads with no laws. You're comparing apples and grapes as usual. And just because 50,000 people died in auto accidents, it makes the unnecessary deaths of 4,012 people in an unwinnable and stupid war less tragic? You're a dissembler and disingenuous. Don't get into a war of wits with me--you're only half-equipped.
High Crimes & Misdemeanors
· 1 year ago
Webster Today 11:58 AM You're a dissembler and disingenuous. Don't get into a war of wits with me--you're only half-equipped. ---------------------------------
I was going to say this as well, but you took the words out of my fingers. and bushboy is hardly even equipped with any wits, so your'e giving him to much credit.. and yes bushboy, almost everyone here is more ethically and superior to you.... webster just spanked you a new one....
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Busboy
· 1 year ago
I'll try to keep your mental and ethical superiority in mind on future comments.
S_in_Tokyo
· 1 year ago
I've just been watching the evening news here in Tokyo. A soldier AWOL from the US army base in Yokosuka (south of Tokyo), who happens to be of Nigerian citizenship, has admitted to killing a Japanese taxi driver about two weeks ago, evidently because he wouldn't accept the soldier's American credit card, which of course isn't valid in this country. This is striking the Japanese as very odd. Why a Nigerian in the US army? Another odd thing about it is that the Japanese authorities have to request permission of the US army authorities even to question him, let alone take him into custody. There are doubts about whether he will be turned over to the Japanese authorities. Something is very wrong here, in lots of ways.
Shannon
· 1 year ago
Don't forget that Japan is still an occupied country, when we take over, we never leave, soon we will "own" the world at the point of a nuke, but Americans are o.k. with that....it is call Democracy.
High Crimes & Misdemeanors
· 1 year ago
In case you did not hear this excellent interview:
EXCLUSIVE…Bush’s Law: Eric Lichtblau on Exposing the NSA’s Warrantless Wiretapping Program and How the White House Pressured the New York Times to Kill the Story
In a national broadcast exclusive, we speak with New York Times reporter Eric Lichtblau about his new book, Bush’s Law: The Remaking of American Justice. Lichtblau won the Pulitzer Prize for exposing the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program in December 2005. He reveals the inside story of the New York Times’s decision to delay publication of the story for more than a year after intense lobbying from the White House.
I'm off to buy the book. Need more evidence of the boooosh crime family???? Here it is folks.
jr
· 1 year ago
John McCain uses his con man charm on these bumpkin reporters and they memory hole his health, lying and law breaking because he pretends to care about them
flapoolfool
· 1 year ago
I read a story Tuesday by the Northern Writers Group and posted on Mike Rivero's WhatReallyHappened.com that Hillary Rodham was fired for lying during her stint as a lawyer working on the Watergate hearing when she was 27 years old. The man who fired her refused to give her a letter of recommendation and said that she was totally corrupt insofar as she tried to cover up JFK's attempt to murder Fidel Castro. How come we haven't seen a word of this on MSM.
kevinbgoode
· 1 year ago
Well, since the press spends so much time socializing with the McCain family, one would hope they have had ample opportunity to scrutinize the sermons of his minister. . .
Hangtown Danile
· 1 year ago
Yesterday 60 some odd years ago the USA invaded the Guam. 5 Months and 24,000 dead and 65,000 more wounded men "coming home with missing limbs etc..." we had control of the island some 24 square miles of dirt. Had we not dropped nukes on Japan we would have had to invade them possibly costing more than 1,000,000 more allied dead not to mention the 4-5 million dead Japs! Oh how war has changed in 60 years! Lots more expensive and lots less deadly! Just sayin...
Hangtown Danile
· 1 year ago
almost everyone here is more ethically and superior to you....
Ethics depends of the company you keep. Or in this case, the Blogs were you type. :>)
Superior just depends on its correct use in a sentence. If you guys are going to beat me up for my spelling I can snipe you for sentence errors!
High Crimes & Misdemeanors
· 1 year ago
Yes Hangtown, we all slaughter the english language here. Misspellings and sentence structure are not always the best. some of us take the time to really make sure all the "i"'s are doted and "t"'s crossed. But we are not perfect. Some of us do this on the fly, hoping that you get the jist of the comment. I try to sometimes go back and re-read my post, and make all the corrections. Not always successful.... on that note, please forgive me for my "miss-errors" (booooshism)
On another note: I dissagree whole-hardedly with your statement about Japan: "Had we not dropped nukes on Japan we would have had to invade them possibly costing more than 1,000,000 more allied dead not to mention the 4-5 million dead Japs!"
You have been misslead, lied too, and have been given only a cursory understanding of history and unfortunately you continue to repeat the OLIGARCHY's story.
Japan had already asked and was pleading for surrender BEFORE we bommed them. They wanted to surrender. They knew we had a "great" weapon, we used it because we wanted to see what would happen. Nothing to do with ending the war, AT ALL!!!!
If you want to know more about this part of history you have not been told about, google: Bertrand Russell (an evil man) The come back here and lets debate and see if you mind has changed. Good luck!
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Hangtown Danile
· 1 year ago
I have read lots of history of warfare. (it is my second biggest intrest right behind biking) Mostly WW2. Mostly from books that were written shortly after the war was over. I have also read plenty of other books concerning that time in history. So I assume that if everything I read on the internet is correct then. -The holocost never happened it was just US propaganda. (And those god damned JEWS!!) -The USSR death toll is grosely overinflated. (It was really the winter that killed most of the Russins!) -Germany was simply trying to help the USSR survive the winter of 1941... -The Baton Death March never happened. -No US serviceman taken in arms was ever harmed by the Japos during WW2. In fact there treatment of our men was better than the treatment that FDR treated the American Jappos in the USA. (This is almost true, but at least we did not starve our political prisoners to death) -The Japos were crawling on there hands and knees willing to let the USA do anything to prevent us from bombing them with a weapon that the Japps did not even know exsisted. But hey who am I? Just a person who has read quite a few books written around 1950 buy guys who were there when it happened. History is prolog. Yes I know the Japs were asking for surender. they wanted one under there terms. Letting the enemy decide the terms of surender is only going to lead to another war shortly down the line. I guess the "OLIGARCHY" just decided that they really just wanted to see what would happen when one of these things went off right? WOW I thought I was a cynic... Who controles the past controles the presint. Who controle the present controles the future. Long live the concepts of Oligartical Colectivisum. Vote Hillery for Dictator! (Just kidding on that)
Hangtown Danile
· 1 year ago
Just sayin....
Gary SF
· 1 year ago
Someone tossed a glass of water on the Clintons and now they're melting...
"It was one of the worst political meetings I have ever attended," one superdelegate said. . . .
But as the group moved together for the perfunctory photo, Rachel Binah, a former Richardson delegate who now supports Hillary Clinton, told Bill how "sorry" she was to have heard former Clinton campaign manager James Carville call Richardson a "Judas" for backing Obama.
It was as if someone pulled the pin from a grenade.
"Five times to my face (Richardson) said that he would never do that," a red-faced, finger-pointing Clinton erupted. The former president then went on a tirade that ran from the media's unfair treatment of Hillary to questions about the fairness of the votes in state caucuses that voted for Obama. It ended with him asking delegates to imagine what the reaction would be if Obama was trailing by just 1 percent and people were telling him to drop out.
"It was very, very intense," said one attendee. "Not at all like the Bill of earlier campaigns." When he finally wound down, Bill was asked what message he wanted the delegates to take away from the meeting.
At that point, a much calmer Clinton outlined his message of party unity. "It was kind of strange later when he took the stage and told everyone to 'chill out,' " one delegate told us.
"We couldn't help but think he was also talking to himself."
When delegate Binah - still stunned from her encounter with Clinton - got home to Little River (Mendocino County) later in the day - there was a phone message waiting for her from State Party Chairman Art Torres, telling her the former president wanted him to apologize to her on his behalf for what happened.
Still, word of Clinton's blast shot all the way back to the New Mexico state Capitol, where Richardson spokesman Pahl Shipley reiterated Tuesday that his boss had never "promised or guaranteed" Bill and Hillary his endorsement.
Somebody needs to remind us of what the hell is going on in Iraq--every day, not just when we hit a round number. Every single death is a tragedy--not only for the wasteful life of that soldier, nor just for his family--but for us who need to keep the pressure up, every day, to stop this senseless, stupid, wasteful war.
You have a problem with that?
Shannon
· 1 year ago
You forgot to mention the Iraqis who have suffered the most............and for what? So some Capitalist pigs with a huge military war machine can rape and pillage then blame the victims while they glorify the sensless murdering and hold no one accountable for the carnage and the slaughter of innocent humans beings then ask the rest of us to support the effort and the people carrying out their terror for profits. We all need to be reminded that they are doing this in each of our names.
Busboy
· 1 year ago
Busboy
· 1 year ago
There's probably a good reason that nobody's paying attention to McCain beibg over the limit when he switched from government to public financing. There's never been a law without a loophole, the FEC can't conduct business without a quorum and, so what if they had a quorum; They'd only slap his wrist with a $10,000 fine. Time to quit beating the dead horse...
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The dumbing down of America.......that is what the media has become.
“I hope more Americans would consider enlisting in our Armed Forces..."
http://blogs.trb.com/news/politics/blog/2008/04...
Suuuuure John.....enlist to fight in your unending wars.
Tell it to the chickenhawks in the GOP that don't want their own kids to serve.
For all the griping about the primary calendar -- and with the serious exception of the Florida and Michigan messes -- this is a real national primary.
UPDATE: As a reader notes, North Dakota has already caucused. Obama is there, apparently, as a favor to an important backer, Kent Conrad. Hillary's decision to go is the subject of some speculation there. Is it a chance to denounce caucuses? An opportunity to pass through South Dakota?
Anyway, locals can't figure it out, says the Grand Forks Herald:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0408/The...
Adriana Torres-Flores, 38, was arrested for selling pirated CDs at a Washington County flea market and ordered held March 6 when authorities discovered she was in the country illegally, according to news reports. A bailiff took her to a holding cell and then forgot about her.
That was a Thursday. A snowstorm hit the region, and a reduced staff at the courthouse did not hear her cries for help that night, or any of the next three days.
In a separate letter to the Justice Department, Trasviña asks Attorney General Michael Mukasey to investigate “any potential civil rights violations that may have occurred in Washington County, Arkansas with respect to the incident involving Ms. Torres-Flores.”
Earlier, MALDEF filed a class action lawsuit in federal court alleging racial profiling by authorities in nearby Rogers, Ark. The organization is urging senators to raise the Torres-Flores incident with Chertoff today when he appears before the Judiciary Committee.
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog...
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/01/administrat...
On the astrological front, the asteroid Pluto (formerly thought to be a planet) went retrograde this morning at 5:23 am, EDT. It will remain retrograde until September 9 at 11:14 pm, ET. Although the moon is in altruistic Aquarius and the sun is in cheerful Aries, Pluto is in stubborn Capricorn. A retrograde planet (or asteroid) usually signals blockage in some area. Pluto, the ruler of dark thoughts and deeds, retrograde in an earth sign portends devisiveness, veiled intentions, an unpleasant ambience and hostility in social settings. Saint Omen does not predict a "Summer of Love" so much as a "Season of Discomfort."
I don't usually use the f word, but how else do you describe Bush's actions?
I can't even bear the thought of 4 years of McCain!
They're John McCain lap dogs.
Yeah, it's too bad the press won't hold McCain accountable when he's, like, breaking the law, but when did they ever hold Bush accountable for breaking the law?
On the plus side, it gets Obama off the hook for any deals he might have made with McCain to limit fundraising.
Thanks to McCain's actions, Obama and small donor Dems will be free to turn on the money spigots this fall.
if you want news, get it elsewhere.
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Ha!
Bubba's really becoming unhinged, isn't he?
Reminds me of toddlers who don't get their way and hold their breath until they're blue...self-defeatism. We need an adult in the WH, not a spoiled child(ren). We've gone through too many years of this phenomenon.
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It's funny.
Bubba and Hillary and McCain and Bush are always having temper tantrums, and Obama seems so cool about everything, even when you can tell he doesn't like something.
I don't know if it helps him or hurts him with the Great Unwashed--they may consider him "aloof"--but it makes me think he's the only adult in the playground.
http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/02/mccains-intol...
Un-fucking-believable.
I called you a necromonger because you have siezed on an hysterical reason to end the war; meaning that you have given up on rational argument. After all, don't more than 50,000 people die in auto accidents every year; not counting the maimed and disabled?
You're a dissembler and disingenuous. Don't get into a war of wits with me--you're only half-equipped.
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I was going to say this as well, but you took the words out of my fingers. and bushboy is hardly even equipped with any wits, so your'e giving him to much credit.. and yes bushboy, almost everyone here is more ethically and superior to you.... webster just spanked you a new one....
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EXCLUSIVE…Bush’s Law: Eric Lichtblau on Exposing the NSA’s Warrantless Wiretapping Program and How the White House Pressured the New York Times to Kill the Story
In a national broadcast exclusive, we speak with New York Times reporter Eric Lichtblau about his new book, Bush’s Law: The Remaking of American Justice. Lichtblau won the Pulitzer Prize for exposing the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program in December 2005. He reveals the inside story of the New York Times’s decision to delay publication of the story for more than a year after intense lobbying from the White House.
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/4/1/exclusiveb...
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I'm off to buy the book. Need more evidence of the boooosh crime family???? Here it is folks.
Lots more expensive and lots less deadly!
Just sayin...
Ethics depends of the company you keep.
Or in this case, the Blogs were you type. :>)
Superior just depends on its correct use in a sentence.
If you guys are going to beat me up for my spelling I can snipe you for sentence errors!
On another note: I dissagree whole-hardedly with your statement about Japan: "Had we not dropped nukes on Japan we would have had to invade them possibly costing more than 1,000,000 more allied dead not to mention the 4-5 million dead Japs!"
You have been misslead, lied too, and have been given only a cursory understanding of history and unfortunately you continue to repeat the OLIGARCHY's story.
Japan had already asked and was pleading for surrender BEFORE we bommed them. They wanted to surrender. They knew we had a "great" weapon, we used it because we wanted to see what would happen. Nothing to do with ending the war, AT ALL!!!!
If you want to know more about this part of history you have not been told about, google: Bertrand Russell (an evil man) The come back here and lets debate and see if you mind has changed. Good luck!
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Mostly WW2. Mostly from books that were written shortly after the war was over.
I have also read plenty of other books concerning that time in history.
So I assume that if everything I read on the internet is correct then.
-The holocost never happened it was just US propaganda. (And those god damned JEWS!!)
-The USSR death toll is grosely overinflated. (It was really the winter that killed most of the Russins!)
-Germany was simply trying to help the USSR survive the winter of 1941...
-The Baton Death March never happened.
-No US serviceman taken in arms was ever harmed by the Japos during WW2. In fact there treatment of our men was better than the treatment that FDR treated the American Jappos in the USA. (This is almost true, but at least we did not starve our political prisoners to death)
-The Japos were crawling on there hands and knees willing to let the USA do anything to prevent us from bombing them with a weapon that the Japps did not even know exsisted.
But hey who am I?
Just a person who has read quite a few books written around 1950 buy guys who were there when it happened.
History is prolog.
Yes I know the Japs were asking for surender. they wanted one under there terms. Letting the enemy decide the terms of surender is only going to lead to another war shortly down the line. I guess the "OLIGARCHY" just decided that they really just wanted to see what would happen when one of these things went off right? WOW I thought I was a cynic...
Who controles the past controles the presint.
Who controle the present controles the future.
Long live the concepts of Oligartical Colectivisum.
Vote Hillery for Dictator! (Just kidding on that)
"It was one of the worst political meetings I have ever attended," one superdelegate said. . . .
But as the group moved together for the perfunctory photo, Rachel Binah, a former Richardson delegate who now supports Hillary Clinton, told Bill how "sorry" she was to have heard former Clinton campaign manager James Carville call Richardson a "Judas" for backing Obama.
It was as if someone pulled the pin from a grenade.
"Five times to my face (Richardson) said that he would never do that," a red-faced, finger-pointing Clinton erupted. The former president then went on a tirade that ran from the media's unfair treatment of Hillary to questions about the fairness of the votes in state caucuses that voted for Obama. It ended with him asking delegates to imagine what the reaction would be if Obama was trailing by just 1 percent and people were telling him to drop out.
"It was very, very intense," said one attendee. "Not at all like the Bill of earlier campaigns." When he finally wound down, Bill was asked what message he wanted the delegates to take away from the meeting.
At that point, a much calmer Clinton outlined his message of party unity. "It was kind of strange later when he took the stage and told everyone to 'chill out,' " one delegate told us.
"We couldn't help but think he was also talking to himself."
When delegate Binah - still stunned from her encounter with Clinton - got home to Little River (Mendocino County) later in the day - there was a phone message waiting for her from State Party Chairman Art Torres, telling her the former president wanted him to apologize to her on his behalf for what happened.
Still, word of Clinton's blast shot all the way back to the New Mexico state Capitol, where Richardson spokesman Pahl Shipley reiterated Tuesday that his boss had never "promised or guaranteed" Bill and Hillary his endorsement.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/...
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2008/0...
You have a problem with that?