Is "fake, but accurate" the new standard by which liberals claim corruption? First were the SeeBS memos that turned out to be clumsy forgeries. We were told that even if they weren't real, they depicted an accurate assessment of the time.
Now, in the indictment of Tom DeLay by Hollywood wannabe Ron Earle, we learn:
AUSTIN - Travis County prosecutors admitted Friday they lack physical proof of a list of Republican candidates that is at the heart of money-laundering indictments against U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay and two of his associates.
They have a list, but it isn't the "real" list.
But prosecutors said Friday in court that they only had a "similar" list and not the one allegedly received by then-RNC Deputy Director Terry Nelson. Late in the day, they released a list of 17 Republican candidates, but only seven are alleged to have received money in the scheme.
So in other words, they really have nothing. They are fishing. What they are saying is that they have one of those "fake, but accurate" lists.
Another point. Earle is part of a well financed documentary whose sole focus is to show Republican corruption. If he doesn't get indictments, that movie is probably worth less that Ronnie Earle's parent's old home movies of little Ronnie's 3rd birthday party. There is a lot of money at stake over this and it ain't DeLay's.
One of the lawyers in the case brings up a valid point concerning Earle:
"I'll tell you what I think about this list. In the 1950s, a man named McCarthy claimed to have a list of 200 communists in the State Department, and he didn't," said J.D. Pauerstein, a lawyer for Jim Ellis, the director of DeLay's Americans for a Republican Majority. "They (prosecutors) don't know what list they're talking about, even though they specify it in their indictment."
Is this the new McCarthyism? I'm sure that many on the left probably think Republican equals corruption. Their blind hatred so taints what they see.
All of you Democrats who think Americans are losing their rights and that Bush is turning us into some sort of police state might want to rethink who is actually trying to take away your rights. If this is how the Democrats protect my rights, then someone PLEASE! Protect me from the Democrats!
Earle is making a joke out of due process. Tom Delay has the resources to fight malicious prosecution. You and I probably don't.
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