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December 8, 2005
Bob Novak Trawls For Pro-Alito Column Material
Hi everyone,I need a little help on a letter I’ve been assigned to put together by Leonard. He wants me to find as many former US attorneys as I can to sign on to the letter below. I’m sorry for the short notice, however, I was just assigned this today and I recently found out we need it by Thursday morning at the latest for Robert Novak’s Sunday column.
If you could send me the contact information for any former USAs you might know or forward this message on to them and ask them to reply back to me, I would greatly appreciate it.
The only information we need from them is their preferred prefix (Hon., Mr., Ms., etc.), name and the city and state where they now practice and/or live.
We really do need this ASAP.
Here’s the letter (there may be some cosmetic changes, but this is same letter than went out for John Roberts):
December 6, 2005Dear Mr. Chairman,
We write to you as members of the bar and former United States Attorneys who strongly support the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court.
Having served in frontline prosecutor positions with the federal government, we recognize the great importance of having Supreme Court Justices of great legal acumen, good judgment, and personal decency as well as the ability to construe and apply the law fairly and impartially.
We urge the Senate to give its consent to Judge Alito’s nomination because he embodies these qualities and has a demonstrated record of faithfulness to the fair and impartial administration of justice.
Sincerely,
(Names)
Thank you for your help,
John Kalinger
Committee for Justice
1275 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20004
(202) 481-6841
It's hard to be sure, but this sure makes it look as though Bob Novak is out generating expressions of support for Sam Alito's confirmation so that he can write about them in his column.
How else would Leonard Leo know what Bob Novak needs for an upcoming, as-yet-unwritten column?
In Iraq, we pay journalists for propaganda. Here, it's free.
Posted by Eric at December 8, 2005 1:34 PM
Comments
In Iraq, we pay journalists for propaganda. Here, it's free.
Are we sure it was done for free?
Posted by: bo at December 8, 2005 2:15 PM
the fact that anyone cares what Novakula has to say, is proof of the intellectual bankruptcy of the right wing.
It's about power and winning and nothing else.
Posted by: renato at December 8, 2005 2:16 PM
BORK ALITO!!! BORK ALITO!!! BORK ALITO!!! BORK ALITO!!! BORK ALITO!!! BORK ALITO!!! BORK ALITO!!! BORK ALITO!!!
fuck them all
Posted by: konopelli at December 8, 2005 2:32 PM
In Iraq, we pay journalists for propaganda. Here, it's free.
you know for a fact that novak isn't getting paid by the whitehouse/GOP/some republican operative?
Posted by: rope a dope at December 8, 2005 2:45 PM
In America you can always find a party. In Russia the party always finds you!
Posted by: Yakov at December 8, 2005 4:25 PM
I think that commenter konopelli has given us all something to think about.
Posted by: Lance at December 8, 2005 4:35 PM
I know nothing about this. Nothing at all.
Posted by: Ahmah Chalabi at December 8, 2005 6:34 PM
bork (v): when Democrats reject obviously unqualified nominees on their lack of merit. Usage: The man who deemed it ethical to fire the Watergate special prosecutor on the orders of the investigation's chief suspect had his Supreme Court nomination "borked" because a Supreme Court Justice should have a high ethical standard.
mier (v): see borked, but when Republicans do it. Usage: If a president's crony is nominated to an office they are unfit to hold and the crony is also not sufficiently partisan to please the party's most radical right-wingers, the nomination can get miered down.
Posted by: RepubAnon at December 8, 2005 8:10 PM
Give Novak a break. For some reason his usual sources seem to have dried up lately.
Posted by: Mojo at December 8, 2005 8:40 PM
I do not like Robert Novak
I do not like him,
Sam, I am
I do not like him here or there
I do not like him anywhere
I do not like him in a boat
I would not, could not, with a goat
I will not read him in the rain
I do not like him on a train
I do not like him in a box
I will not read him with a fox
I do not like him in a house
I would not, could not, with a mouse
I do not like Robert Novak
I do not like him
Sam, I am
Posted by: David Marshall at December 10, 2005 3:14 PM