Ronnie Earl ..... facts not Limbaugh fiction

[docmercer--banned]

The Tom DeLay Cheerleading Squad

Of course, you won't be surprised to learn that there are plenty of Republicans out there who, now that DeLay has been indicted, are perfectly willing to "close our eyes to the potential lawbreaking, forgive and forget, move on and tear an unfixable hole in our legal system."

First up is - oddly enough - Tom DeLay himself, who immediately launched into a personal attack on the prosecutor who brought the indictments, District Attorney Ronnie Earle. DeLay called Earle a "partisan fanatic" and an "unabashed partisan zealot," which was a meme that the conservative media were all too happy to bandy about. DeLay's lawyer subsequently popped up on every television news program he could find to trash Ronnie Earle as a left-wing agitator who had no case whatsoever.

The charge of Earle's liberal zealotry was repeated on all three cable news networks and unsurprisingly by every single right-wing media shill out there, from Rush Limbaugh to Sean Hannity to Ann Coulter and all their little buddies in between. Waaah! Ronnie Earle makes Noam Chomsky look like Benito Mussolini! This is clearly a partisan power-grab designed to blah blah blah, he has a long history of prosecuting Republicans yada yada yada...

The truth is that Ronnie Earle is - yes - a Democrat (which these days is a crime immediately punishable by brutal swift-boating). But guess what? Of the fifteen elected officials he has prosecuted during his career, only three were Republicans.

Of course, if you're a conservative media shill it's never a good idea to let the facts get in the way of your rhetoric.

 

[gns61]

at risk of suffering through the name-calling
of doc mercer, i still think, and i have told you that,
i know ronnie personally, and i can tell you
that he is very left wing. this indictment
will probably not even get to court.
i am sure doc mercer will keep everyone on
the board abreast of what is going on, until
it gets kicked out.
doc mercer wont tell you, but the democrats
that earle indicted, were very conservative dems, who
in this day are republicans. His extreme left
wing beliefs had very few democratic allies.

 

[BASEHEAD]

Is it true he needed to go through two other grand juries before getting this indictment? LOL, seems like a airtight case...

Wait until they start asking questions about Hillary's campaign finances....that should be interesting and much more relevent.

 

[gns61]

i am sure doc listened to the interview of the grand jury foreman,

mr. gibson. it was on KLBJ, gibson claims that he already
had his mind made up before being seated on the jury.
he claims his mind was made up by posters and tv spots
made by texas association of business.
He looked at none of the evidence.

the second indictment came from another grand jury that
reviewed the evidence of money laudering for less than 5 hours.

the first jury had rejected that same evidence.

now come on doc, arguing with you is like arguing with a 6 year old

 

[JudgeWapner]

My understanding is, he has prosecuted many more Dems than Reps.

 

[cutacrossshorty]

I don't need a grand juries findings to tell me that Tom Delay is a corrupt piece of garbage. I'd personally like to see him run for re-election (and get beat).