It's a sad day when Joe Scarborough makes more sense than David Boies

[CatWoman]

and Pat Buchanan.

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. I actually think that Pat Buchanan is batshit crazy insane. And dangerous.

He is looking true criminal behavior in the face and denying it. He is creating false analogies. The man belongs in a loony bin - or jail. And they won't let the poor fellow in the middle get a word in edgewise! This is total, complete, unadulterated bullshit!

[shaniqua6392]

6. Yep. He was on Hardball earlier

and he was totally kissing Gonzales' butt on this whole mess. I could not believe my ears. He is an idiot and it takes him forever to admit Repukes horrible behavior.

[benddem]

21. you just noticing that?

he's had some periods of lucidity but has always been a few tacos short of a combo plate.

[Canuckistanian]

26. Scarborough and Buchanan, what a pair

Sometimes they're true Bushbots, loyal to the core, smearing and sliming Dems left and right (so to speak).

Then, all of a sudden, they're correctly criticizing neocons, questioning Bush's sanity and demanding resignations of top Bush officials.

It's like they haven't stabilized their med dosages.

I don't trust either of them.

But I especially pay attention to Buchanan, from whom I take my DU name. He's entertainment no matter which way he goes.

[opihimoimoi]

2. Tis a Sad Day Indeed... "Troubling ..."

[Gabi Hayes]

4. remember how everybody was so happy when he was appointed lead

attorney in the GFN legal doings in 2000?

he was PATHETIC.

wonder if he was hired by the same people who put Lieberman on the ticket

[indie_voter]

3. Pat Buchanan is all over the place

Some days he makes sense, other days he is a nutcase. Today he's a nutcase.

Scarborough makes my head spin. He is making sense. Ratings push? Maybe he wants to keep the Countdown audience?

[tulsakatz]

11. I've noticed........

...for about 6 months now, Scarborough seems to be making sense. I sometimes even enjoy watching his show!! And there was a time when I would NEVER watch his show because he was always giving the same right wing BS talking points.

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

13. I've noticed that too....

Joe has been making sense, in the last few months.

[NRaleighLiberal]

5. Wasn't Boies the attorney for Gore in 2000 electiongate?

And he is staunchly saying that there is nothing illegal here. So, what's up - did someone get to him? Does he REALLY believe the BS he is spouting?

[Gabi Hayes]

7. yes, he was, and he SUCKED it hard then. Also, what is his HURRY

to decide what really happened, before ANY evidence has been revealed to the Senate?

why doesn't he just STFU until we actually know what happened?

He's just a fricking mole, pushing a new book

he can crawl back into the hole he helped dig us six and a half years ago

[H2O Man]

24. In his book

on the 2000 election theft, Vince Bugliosi notes that David B's experience was in areas that were distant from the Gore v Bush controversy. Whoever recommended him set Gore up, either purposely or out of utter ignorance.

[Beausoir]

27. I have to believe that. It appears to be some kind of set-up.

I don't normally put on the tin-foil, but this Boies guy is so far out there that I have to believe it was a set-up.

[H2O Man]

31. From Bugliosi's book:

"As far as Boies is concerned, if I'm going to be candid I have to say that although he seems to be a very nice, pleasant man and quite intelligent, with a photographic memory, and although he may be a superb corporate or business lawyer, he bears no resemblance to what my conception of an effective trial lawyer is. At least based on what I saw of him in the case of Bush v Gore, not only wasn't Boies a fighter (indeed, he was almost meek), but he wasn't forceful or eloquent at all in making his points. And although he seemed to have a very good grasp of the facts, he seemed completely incapable of drawing powerful, irresistible inferences from those facts that painted his opposition into a corner." (pages 72-73 of "The Betrayal of America")

And that was a description of Boies before his decline.

[Beausoir]

33. My recollection on that terrible period in history mirrors the excerpt you have quoted.

Boies weak, meek and mild. I couldn't understand how it all slipped away from us.

What a shame. A terrible shame.

I think I need to read Bugliosi's book. I just don't know if I can stomach more outrage.

[etherealtruth]

8. I didn't see his comments ...

so... (I' guess I'll recklessly comment). My understanding is that the firings were not illegal (the USA's serve at the pleasure of the pres) ... however, the firings are unethical (firing as retribution for not pursuing politically motivated prosecutions)

[rusty_parts2001]

12. Boies was outgunned at every turn...

by Slick Jimmy Baker and his 60 million slush fund and Enron jets. Boies doesn't impress me. Furthermore, after Bush v. Gore, he got caught in a overbilling scandal when clients were ripped off by overcharges for document management by a firm owned by his children and relatives. http://www.bmacewen.com/blog/archives/2005/08/what_was_david.html

[shaniqua6392]

18. I have seen Boies on Faux Noise Channel a few times....

Makes me wonder.....

[Cha]

19. Not the best lawyer for Gore

to have had in retrospect but it is what it is.

[SeattleGirl]

9. I wish someone would stick a dirty sock in Buchanan's mouth, shut

him up!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

10. Nobody makes more sense than David Bowie.

NOBODY!

[CatWoman]

14. little China girl

:hi:

[nevergiveup]

15. I would watch Scarborough

except for Buchanan. Just seeing his face raises my blood pressure. Is there ever a night when Joe doesn't have him on the panel?

[SeattleGirl]

16. I don't think so. Seems he's on every night.

And he never talks in a normal tone of voice; he's always yelling!

[IChing]

30. Agreed .......Buchanan's voice grates on my soul and ears.

It is whiney to begin with then raises in pitch in increased whininess
he then starts using his hands in an arrogant posturing manner like Hitler did.

I would almost watch Joe because he has Huffington on sometimes
and other guests I would like to hear on his panels.
But every-time, I have to turn it off because of Pat.

[montanacowboy]

17. Easy to see why Al Gore

lost the fight in the vote recount; this guy is a real schmuck

[gumby]

20. David Boies is a High Level Gate Keeper.

A lot of those in Washington fit that function.

[mod mom]

22. My comment to hubby: Lieberman must have suggested Boies.

What is this man's background?

[mod mom]

23. from wiki: He was the president of the campus Young Republicans.

He has been married three times. He married his first wife - his high school sweetheart - just prior to enrolling at Redlands. While at Redlands he also taught journalism at a local mental hospital. He was the president of the campus Young Republicans.

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Boies

[Beausoir]

25. I saw it and couldn't believe it. Boies...what a slimey gooper. With friends like that.....

who needs enemies?

Remind me again..what the HELL did Gore see in him?

[Carolina]

28. or Liebermann

for that matter!

[Beausoir]

29. Yep. I am ashamed that I ever cast a vote for that traitor.

Al Gore is my President, but Lieberman can go to hell.

[Disturbed]

32. Joe stopped sippin' the flavor aide after Katrina hit.

He is still a Rethug but has disdain for the Neo Fascist Busholini Regime.

[UTUSN]

34. BOIES was on with HANNITY the night of the Scooter verdict & agreed with the wingnuts

Get THIS: The panel consisted of NOVAKula, Laura INGRAHAM, and BOIES, and he was INDISTINGUISHABLE from the wingnuts in his views.

He even looked at the camera with a sneer, like, "For any Libs watching me now..."

I was SHOCKED to see him on Faux. I posted, "What's up with BOIES?" that night.