NYT: Walpin an "embarrassment" to DOJ for "mishandling" Roy Cohn case

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Tuesday June 23, 2009 · 1:42 PM PDT

2009/06/23 · 13:42

We've been hearing the wingnut rallying cry that Gerald Walpin, the recently fired Inspector General, had a "sterling reputation." In fact, he likes to brag that he was a federal prosecutor who once "prosecuted Roy Cohn."

But was his reputation as a federal prosecutor really that "sterling"? Or did he have a reputation as a loose cannon even then?

Well, according to the New York Times archives, Walpin nearly derailed the Roy Cohn prosecution he brags about. And his conduct in that case was so unscrupulous that the Times described the Justice Department as being "embarrassed," saying he "mishandled" the case; the judge castigated his conduct as "shocking" and "terrible."

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Friday October 24, 2008 · 12:24 PM PDT

2008/10/24 · 12:24

I've volunteered to do voter protection work with the Obama campaign in Ohio. I can't tell you how thrilled I am to be part of such an important effort in protecting our democratic rights.

Yesterday, I got this e-mail from the campaign. They are still in dire need of people with legal skills to volunteer to help.

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Tuesday September 23, 2008 · 3:27 PM PDT

2008/09/23 · 15:27

Jim Geraghty over at NRO selectively cuts and pastes from Alaska legislative history on HB 270, the 2000 bill that prohibited victims of sexual assaults or their insurance companies from being billed for exams.

Typically, he either hasn't actually read the full history, or bothered to do the related research, or ... he's blowing smoke out of his, uh hat.

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Sunday July 13, 2008 · 3:38 PM PDT

2008/07/13 · 15:38

Mark Hyman, the Sinclair Broadcasting hack, Sleaze Boater apologist, and on-air pimp for Tom Lipscomb's Pulitzer scam, has outdone himself this time.

His American Spectator "special report" (cue the ticker!) is so full of outdated lies, distortions, and just plain bad information, he makes Lipscomb's latest sleazefest look like real journalism by comparison.

Let's have a good laugh at what this blowhard managed to come up with.

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Sunday June 29, 2008 · 11:39 PM PDT

2008/06/29 · 23:39

Thomas Lipscomb works himself into a cut and paste frenzy with his latest screechfest over at Huffington Post:

Why "Running on the Record" is Harder Than You Think

Lipscomb long ago lost any semblance of credibility he might ever - in the far far past - have had. Now, too lazy to even make up new lies, he simply cuts and pastes old lies that have been debunked for years. You’d think he’d read some of those sarcastic comments at the old pieces he links to.

Where to start on such a breathtakingly dishonest display? Well, how about some of the more obvious lies?

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Wednesday June 25, 2008 · 10:09 PM PDT

2008/06/25 · 22:09

It seems Chicken Pickens has reneged AGAIN on his offer of $1 million to anyone who could prove anything the SBVTers said in 2004 was false.

Yep. He's just responded to Kerry's crewmembers that, despite the fact that his original unrestricted challenge was issued in front of a few hundred people, including two wingnut bloggers (one of whom separately confirmed it), he really meant it was restricted to uhm, well, just the ads. Yeah, the ads, that's the ticket !

Pickens, you deserve to be ridiculed in every way for your dishonesty and cowardice. I hope you are.

On the other hand, I can easily prove a couple of blatant lies in at least one of the SBVT ads.

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Friday January 25, 2008 · 6:48 PM PST

2008/01/25 · 18:48

Given the wingnut genuflections in Goldberg's general direction these days, you just knew this had to happen.

Kathryn Lopez puts this out on NRO's The Corner:

In other news: Guess who has been nominated for a Pulitzer? Yes...the P word. Can I even say that around here?

Tribune Media Services (his syndicate) has nominated our Jonah for a Pulitzer in opinion journalism.

Now, if they only know what’s good for them ...

For now, it is an honor to be nominated — we’re all delighted here for our friend and colleague and know so many of you are just as excited for all his success. Liberal Fascism has been a long-time in coming and the degree to which it is being talked about and purchased is great news and a testament to a job well done. The Corner 1/24

Which was breathlessly picked up by such wingnut notables as Hog on Ice.

Which makes you wonder...how dishonest and/or gullible is the blognutosphere?

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Thursday November 22, 2007 · 8:48 PM PST

2007/11/22 · 20:48

Ed O'Reilly, self-described challenger to John Kerry in the 2008 Senate primaries, has evidently hitched his wagon to the Swift Boat Liars' star.

See AllDemsOnBoard's diary on his recent comments about Kerry's military record. For instance:

"It goes to his credibility," said Ed O'Reilly, a Gloucester lawyer mounting a challenge to Kerry in the Democratic primary. "It needs to be cleared up."

Then there's this "response" to ADOB.

Well, Mr. O'Reilly, I suspect this choice will not turn out well for you.

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Saturday November 17, 2007 · 2:00 PM PST

2007/11/17 · 14:00

As we know from JLFinch's excellent diary, T. Boone "Chicken" Pickens has reneged on his offer of $1 million to ANYONE who could prove ANYTHING the Swift Boat Liars claimed was wrong.

Looks like Boone Pickens just got proven a liar. He had to CHANGE THE TERMS of his deal, because he knows he just lost the bet!

Among the frantic backpeddling, Pickens inserted this brand new "challenge":

I now challenge you to make this commitment: If you cannot prove anything in the Swift Boat ads to be untrue, that you will make a $1 million gift to the charity I am choosing -- the Medal of Honor Foundation.

This group is probably a reputable charity. But why did Chicken Pickens choose this one over others?

Well, for one thing, at least one director is a virulent anti-Kerry wingnut. Just a guess.

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Thursday November 08, 2007 · 5:58 PM PST

2007/11/08 · 17:58

So Swiftboater John O’Neill is in a twist about the Regnery authors’ lawsuit. He writes a letter to the New York Times criticizing its coverage of the lawsuit, and concluding that the claims are "totally meritless."

O'Neill letter

Interestingly, he describes himself as the "lead author" of that sad little bundle of lies called "Unfit for Command," and claims that his "coauthor," Jerome Corsi, became a millionaire off its sales.

Hold on...

Remember back in 2004, when some of Jerry’s bigoted chatroom posts were made public? Didn’t O’Neill insist that Corsi WASN’T the coauthor?

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Friday October 12, 2007 · 11:38 AM PDT

2007/10/12 · 11:38

Michelle Malkin, enthusiastic stalker of families with injured children, posits this question in her latest rant on the topic of SCHIP coverage for medically indigent families:

"Who deserves government-subsidized health insurance?"

Well, evidently the Slime Queen herself thinks she deserves it.

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Thursday October 04, 2007 · 3:36 PM PDT

2007/10/04 · 15:36

Jim Broussard, a self-proclaimed "veteran" and possible member of a ZZ Top tribute band, pulled up to a Reno, Nevada bar and cut down an American flag flown below the Mexican flag in violation of display guidelines contained in the federal Flag Code. Said Mr. B. as he wadded up the flag like a beach towel and brandished a knife at the camera, "If they want it back, they can fight me!" The bewildered bar owner, an American citizen, retrieved the Mexican flag from the sidewalk.

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