Comments on: Regular Joe

By: VJ

VJ — Fri, 15 Apr 2005 07:55:52 +0000

Umm, I’m sorry, I was in direct contact with several medical investigators working with the media on the story behind Lori Klausutis’ unexplained death. There was simply nothing wrong with her as far as I can recall. She was in the peak of health, a runner, a well rounded and proud mom who had just had a medical exam prior to her untimely demise. The autopsy WAS botched, there can be no doubt about that. There were media stories on it, the APJ covered it, but few others followed up. They are the ruling elites (for real) so no one much questions what goes on, right? As long as it’s the R’s with all the dead bodies there need NEVER be any serious questions asked, OK. That’s the deal here. Had this been say Condit, he would have been laughed off of TV by now. Think about it! But yeah, it’s always safe to assume that no one here ever knows what they are talking about, that’s the MSNBC standard anyway, right?

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 15 Apr 2005 03:59:40 +0000

Walt, perhaps we could weigh the seriousness of the charge and the influence of the pundit, assign a mathematical score to each and use a formula to weigh the various offenses (x times y equals z, with x representing the seriousness, y the influence and z the reprehensibility of the accusation). For example, on a 10 point scale: False accusation that one’s political opponents “hate Jesus” is a 1, with publication of that viewpoint on a MSNBC television show is a 3, and the reprehensibility of the conduct is 3. False accusation that someone is a murderer/necrophiliac is a 10, with publication in USA Today, the NY Times and on ABC News a 9 (we’ll save 10 for Drudge), giving a reprehensibility score of 90. And the false accusation that Joe is a murderer is, say, a 9, published in the CT comments a 1, for a score of 9. By my (admittedly imperfect) scoring, that makes the conduct here worse than Joe’s conduct on MSNBC.

By: Walt Pohl

Walt Pohl — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 22:25:04 +0000

And Thomas is also right to point out that random commentators on Crooked Timber’s comment site are as influential as a pundit with his own TV show. Tremble before the mighty power of the CT comment board!

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:25:22 +0000

Subsitute the word “Jew” for each time he uses “elite.” That is, after all, what he actually means.

By: John

John — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:24:03 +0000

“Conservatives in the House of Representatives once again passed legislation to repeal the Estate Tax. The repeal of this tax helps only the wealthiest among us. Most Americans won’t be affected.”

Sure they will: they’ll have to make up the difference. The Rethuglican campaign against wage earners continues apace.

By: Ted

Ted — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:01:13 +0000

Sorry, I hadn’t been paying attention, but Thomas is right.

I didn’t say anything in my post about Lori Klausutis because I read up about it and found that there’s nothing to say. It’s a terrible tragedy that a young woman with a heart condition died in his office, but there’s no reason that I can see to throw vague accusations at the guy. As far as I can tell, it could have happened to anyone. I don’t have the knowledge to say whether or not Ms. Klausutis had a “botched” autopsy, and I doubt that the commenters do, either. These accusations are PowerLine-grade.

Scarborough is a bad guy, and it’s hard to see why Gary Condit became a national obsession while he became a millionaire pundit. HOWEVER, there’s no evidence of foul play, and he doesn’t deserve to have this follow him around.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 15:44:18 +0000

In Ted’s circles—in most circles in contemporary America—it is certainly more serious to say that someone is a murderer than to say that he is irreligious. An unfounded accusation of murder is generally thought worse than an unfounded accusation of hating Jesus.

I wonder if Ted has any outrage left for the comments here.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 13:58:04 +0000

Went to U of Alabama with Joe Scarborough. Funny guy. Ran as an independent for SGA President; was making a serious challenge to the established Machine (shadowy dirty-tricks coalition with a long dark history—wire tapping; tire slashing; etc.); then Joe dropped out 2 days before election day. Stated reason: the Machine-controlled Senate would still be in charge, even if he won.

Wish I could find an old campaign flyer—I recall Joe quoted “Won’t Get Fooled Again”!

He’s just another bad TV personality now, saying whatever sells ads/creates controversy. The Klausutis case will apparently never be explained or investigated properly.

By: Uncle Kvetch

Uncle Kvetch — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 12:56:30 +0000

“WOODRUFF: And so it was that the Prince of Darkness [Novak] embraced the Prince of Peace.” And because he's a conservative, we can be sure Novak will be the good kind of Catholic.

By: VJ

VJ — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 05:12:05 +0000

Geez, someone beat me to the Lori Klausutis reference. Nice Catholic woman. Wife and mother found dead in Regular Joe’s office late at night. No investigation. Autopsy botched by a fellow incompetent (cited many times for his frequent dereliction in Fl & TX), but politically well connected crony. (You’d never suspect, right?)

‘Devout young woman, found dead in Congressman’s office?’; the headline you never read. Very suspicious circumstances behind her death. Never explained movements and acts of Congressman Joe in the days and hours before her (LK) unlikely and untimely demise of ‘blunt force trauma’ to her head from a simple suspected/conjectured ‘fall’. Except that it never quite all adds up. The angles never work in the diagrams, such that they are. A later independent investigation by real Doctors reveals how unlikely it is that the stated cause of death is indeed correct. Getting away with murder? Just another Repug prerogative perhaps.

By: Andrew Boucher

Andrew Boucher — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 05:09:22 +0000

Doesn’t seem that different from Franklin Saint Roosevelt denouncing “economic royalists” or “malefactors of great wealth.”

Wasn’t that Theodore?

By: carla

carla — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 03:54:44 +0000

Conservatives in the House of Representatives once again passed legislation to repeal the Estate Tax. The repeal of this tax helps only the wealthiest among us. Most Americans won’t be affected.

And how did Jesus feel about the wealthy?

They aren’t getting into Heaven, apparently.

Scarborough is a disgusting hack.

By: P O'Neill

P O'Neill — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 03:36:56 +0000

Ted clearly hasn't heard that the Prince of Peace is tight with Bob Novak and therefore surely hates all liberals. No less a source than Judy Woodruff said so: "WOODRUFF: And so it was that the Prince of Darkness [Novak] embraced the Prince of Peace." See the Daily Howler for all the details.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 03:20:14 +0000

I wonder what Jesus think of the Lori Klausutis case. The fact that Scarborough got away with this madness in the summer of Bill Condit and Chandra Levy proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the "liberal media" bit is pretty much a canard.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 03:14:01 +0000

Whether the debate centers around a Presidential election, the right to die movement, the gay agenda, prayer in school, or simply letting our children recite the Pledge of Alligence, the teachings of Jesus Christ always seems to thwart the agenda of America’s left wing elites.

Damn good thing Jesus rose from the grave, otherwise he’d be spinning in it right now.