Matthews Makes O’Beirne’s Head Spin

Via C&L:

The NRO wankers want Scooter free so it’s no surprise to hear Kate O’Beirne say that she thinks everyone that is guilty of a crime by a jury, but says they are innocent should be pardoned

Digby also has a great take on this episode of Hardball over at Hullabaloo:

I just heard a juror on Hardball say that Libby is a very nice guy who just got caught in a lie and it snowballed and that she hopes he gets a pardon, preferably soon. She agrees that the case was trivial and wishes she had been on a jury for the real crime.

Kate O’Beirne agrees, naturally. She is also sitting right next to the juror saying that Libby didn’t lie and wasn’t really guilty. The juror says nothing. How much do people want to bet that this woman is going to end up being the poster girl for the Free Scooter campaign?

But it’s what happened next that really got my attention. I’m not a big fan of Tweety, as far as I’m concerned he’s a tool. But he really seemed to get indignant and confrontational about O’Beirne’s idiotic assertions. She’s sitting there saying that Clinton should have been impeached and removed from office, but that Libby should be pardoned because the whole prosecution was a far-left plot. He seemed genuinely angry at the nonsense that O’Bierne was spouting. By the end of it ‘Ole 60 Grit looks cross-eyed, and the juror is just sitting there, stunned.

I get the feeling that Matthews is angry about this case and that he resents having been used by the Bushies. And having said that I have to add that until he turned on ‘Ole 60 Grit, the whole show seemed to be a cheerleading session for a pardon, and it’s obvious to me that he’s beating the pardon drum now to keep the story going.

Garuda B-737 Runway Overrun

This footage was taken by an Austrailan cameraman who was on the Boeing 737-300 when it went off the runway after a flight from Jakarta to Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The chilling footage was shot by the cameraman, who managed to escape the wreckage and start filming.

From The Jury Room

Denis Collins, Libby Juror #9, has a fascinating blog up at HuffPo which gives a blow-by-blow description of the deliberations of the libby jury.

Here are some highlights:

I. Deliberation Day

“This is a case about memory, about recollections and about words.” We’ve heard from the fighting Irishman and weeping Wells, a gaggle of Pulitzer Prize winners, and some of the best and brightest from the CIA, State Department, FBI and office of the Vice President. The Honorable Reggie Walton has just provided us final instructions.

Deliberations in the case of the United States vs. I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby in District Court for the District of Columbia are ready to commence, when one of the jurors offers an unsolicited statement regarding the solemn task before us.

“I think they’re lying. Every one of them.”

Does This Sound Like A Moonbat To You?

Photo: Win McNamee/Getty

Something is rotten in the heart of Washington; and it lies in the vice-president’s office. The salience of this case is obvious. What it is really about – what it has always been about – is whether this administration deliberately misled the American people about WMD intelligence before the war. The risks Cheney took to attack Wilson, the insane over-reaction that otherwise very smart men in this administration engaged in to rebut a relatively trivial issue: all this strongly implies the fact they were terrified that the full details of their pre-war WMD knowledge would come out. Fitzgerald could smell this. He was right to pursue it, and to prove that a brilliant, intelligent, sane man like Libby would risk jail to protect his bosses. What was he really trying to hide? We now need a Congressional investigation to find out more, to subpoena Cheney and, if he won’t cooperate, consider impeaching him.

Hmmm…who could have said that?