CNN BREAKING NEWS: Attorney General Mukasey collapsed on way to hospital

[originalpckelly]

Per CNN, erroneous source reports death falsely apparently.

Is still at site of speech, which was to the Federalist Society. EMTs working on him now.

Now on CNN.com


http://www.cnn.com/

MSNBC.com has it too:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/

[lovuian]

1. Oh wow this is a sad turn of events

talk about freaky

[originalpckelly]

2. It would suck to die while serving der shittenfuher.

[Phredicles]

11. True enough - doesn't that automatically send you to one of

the lower levels of the Inferno? (it's been too long since I read my Dante...)

[jmowreader]

23. Working for the Bush administration--PERIOD--sends you to the eighth circle

Specifically, Bolgia 5, where corrupt politicians are immersed in boiling pitch.

[johnfunk]

14. Collapsed during speech to the seditious, authoritarian Federalist Society

Smited by Jehovah before the most notorious corruptors of the judicial system. Take a hint, fascists!

[EFerrari]

15. Fitting but sad anyway. I hope the slime lives to repent. n/t

[malaise]

33. He will be the first of many

You can't contemplate the stress of this whipping. Further men have lots of stuff to shred and even more skeletons to bury.

[tekisui]

3. Wow.

Bad times for the bushies.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. his standing up to BushCo had nothing to do with this. really. honestly.

do no radiation or drug tests.

[originalpckelly]

5. The CNN Wire Blog:

AG Mukasey collapses during speech

"WASHINGTON (CNN) — Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapsed while giving a speech Thursday at the Federalist Society dinner at the Marriott Wardham Park Hotel."

Check here for more as it comes in, Cooper said EMTs were working on him. That doesn't sound good, sounds like a heart attack.

http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/20/ag-mukasey-collapses-during-speech/

[EFerrari]

6. Kick

[Fleshdancer]

7. on his way to the hospital

just heard it on CNN

[codjh9]

8. I don't know shit about him, but I'm sorry. If it was Dick Cheney, I would NOT be sorry. n/t

[Rockholm]

9. He died? I didn't see that part.

[Rockholm]

10. If you are going to change what you posted, you should note the changes.

[originalpckelly]

13. I did, it was some stupid ass who claimed it falsely...

people erroneously posting to his Wiki article, claiming he died. Although, it doesn't sound good.

[upi402]

35. was he due to testify or something???

Like CID Casey on Iran Contra

[originalpckelly]

36. I don't know...

Notta.

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

12. Rec. Get to greatest page, lots of DUers surf by the greatest threads.

[bertman]

16. God's will again. He's taking away another suckass fascist who was willing to burn the

Constitution just so he could be in the ring of vultures around the corpse of Amerika.

[originalpckelly]

18. The MSNBC article says the No. 3 guy has been notified while on vacation...

sounds like he'll be needed. Do they know something we don't?

[originalpckelly]

17. MSNBC has link, says he started shaking while giving speech then went down

"WASHINGTON - Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapsed during a speech Thursday night and was taken to a hospital.

Associate Attorney General Kevin O'Connor says Mukasey began shaking during a speech to the Federalist Society and collapsed. He did not immediately regain consciousness.

O'Connor, the No. 3 official at Justice, was traveling at the time and was alerted to the incident right after it happened."

[originalpckelly]

19. Bloomberg has a lot, does NOT sound good for the poor guy:

"Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapsed while giving a speech in Washington tonight and was taken away on a gurney by emergency personnel.

Mukasey, 67, slumped at the lectern and fell to the floor as he neared the end of a speech to the Federalist Society. Several people gathered around him to offer aid, and emergency workers arrived.

Members of the audience, including former Attorney General John Ashcroft, formed a human wall so people could not view the attorney general as he was taken away. A member of the audience offered a prayer for Mukasey from the lectern and told everyone to go home.

Mukasey, a retired federal judge from New York, became attorney general in November 2007, replacing Alberto Gonzales, who resigned after a congressional investigation into allegations he politicized the department.

In his speech, the attorney general defended the Bush administration's anti-terrorism strategy against what he termed ``relentless criticism.''"

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a0WjNCWLcNe4&refer=home

[originalpckelly]

20. Newsweek: it's uncertain if he's regained consciousness, No. 3 at DOJ says "they're very concerned"

http://www.newsweek.com/id/170062

[FarCenter]

21. Doesn't sound good

"Members of the audience, including former Attorney General John Ashcroft, formed a human wall so people could not view the attorney general as he was taken away."

Like when they bring out the big, black curtain after a horse goes down at the track?

[originalpckelly]

22. Yeah, that's what makes me wonder.

[Posteritatis]

30. Crowding in those kinds of situations is a Bad Idea anyway

A few seconds can matter, especially if it's something like a stroke, and rubberneckers getting in the way of EMTs is not the best of things.

People wouldn't be able to tell an unconscious person from a dead person at a glance anyway; I'm assuming this was more keeping the gawkers at a safe distance and not just preventing the guy from being seen.

(Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to recall Gonzales and a few others trying to jerk Ashcroft around while he was on a hospital bed about some Bush policy or another? Maybe the guy's just got a "please don't fuck with the casualty" thing going on because of that. I hope I would.)

That said, something like this doesn't sound good, and if I can be temporarily heartless and political, it's really lousy timing for it too.

[Bluebear]

24. 'former Attorney General John Ashcroft, formed a human wall'

Wow, he did one nice thing during his lifetime!

[southern_dem]

25. What about his stiring rendention of Let the Eagle Soar

:rofl:

[southern_dem]

26. Sounds bad

I want him and all the Bush cronies out, but not quite like that. Prayers to him and his family.

[originalpckelly]

27. FOX NEWS has new information, sounds like stroke possibly:

"Mukasey was 15 to 20 minutes into his speech about the Bush administration's successes in combatting terrorism when he began slurring his words. He collapsed and lost consciousness, said O'Conner, the department's No. 3 official.

Mukasey's was noticeably shaking during his speech before he collapsed shortly before 10:20 p.m. EST. His security detail called 911. Mukasey was on the stage for 10 minutes being attended to by his FBI detail before medics arrived, according to a Justice Department official who was there. Mukasey was still breathing at the time, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because she was not authorized to talk to the media.

A senior law-enforcement said Mukasey appeared to be talking when he was taken away. That official also spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the situation."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2008/11/20/attorney-general-mukasey-collapses-speech/comments/

[originalpckelly]

28. Sounds like he had a stroke, just saw the video.

[The Backlash Cometh]

29. Damn.

[malaise]

31. Doesn't sound too good

Why haven't they rushed him to a hospital?

[davefromqueens]

32. Best Wishes

To him and his family.

[originalpckelly]

34. He was conscious on way to hospital...

per FOX NEWS again, it seems like they've got some good exclusive Republican sources on this, so I'm using them.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2008/11/20/attorney-general-mukasey-collapses-speech/

[goclark]

37. Any more news?