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predictions
Your Grievance For the Next Four Years: "Voter Fraud"
If the Democrats pull this off and win the presidential election, the Republican "noise machine" will not simply give up and devote themselves to charity. They will need to undermine and delegitimize President Obama as much and as loudly as possible, non-stop, for the entirety of his term. Early predecessors of this strategy include claims that John Kennedy stole the 1960 election with Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's corrupt machine and reminding everyone that Bill Clinton didn't win a majority of the vote in 1992. But the 2008 version will be even nastier and so much more toxic! Thanks, then, to Roger Stone, old-school GOP Political Operative, for giving us a sneak preview of the complaints you'll be hearing until 2012: More »
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roger stone
How To (Inaudible), By Roger Stone
Our intrepid correspondent was barred from covering political attack man Roger Stone's speech at the offices of the bumbling, lowbrow 5WPR, but we win, because the entire speech is now on YouTube! Please watch all four poorly lit, nearly inaudible parts and let us know what he said. Plus we now have this picture of an appropriately shady-looking Ronn [sic] Torossian hovering behind an equally shady Stone! [YouTube]
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ronn torossian
Gawker Operative Barred From Flackery Conclave
This morning, Republican political attack hack Roger Stone traveled to the offices of 5WPR—the firm led by legendarily inept attack flack Ronn [sic] Torossian—to give a speech entitled "The World As It Really Is." (Dirty, we presume). One brave Gawker reader, Stephen Kosloff, answered our call and agreed to go cover the event. But when our operative arrived, Ronn asked him who sent him—and he gave an honest answer. That was his downfall! We pick up his tale of woe as he enters the room where the event will take place, and prepares to start his reporting: More » -
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Crist In Closet, Off Table
Florida governor Charlie Crist is maybe gay, but now he's engaged to a woman, so that he can be John McCain's Vice President. Brilliant GOP political operative Roger Stone explains: "Politics runs on rumors and innuendo, and questions about bachelorhood persist. Getting engaged takes that off the table." See? Now no one will ever call him gay again. Roger Stone's record of political genius continues! [PalmBeachPost] -
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Mandatory Events In July
Famous dirtbag political hack Roger Stone is going to be a July 25 guest speaker at the offices of 5WPR, run by famous dirtbag flack Ronn Torrossian. Never again will you have the opportunity to see so many esteemed -acks in a single room! Click through for the RSVP information. Everyone is expected to attend. [Really, anybody want to go report on this one for us? Email me.] More »
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plagiarism?
New Yorker Accused Of Ripping Off Sleazeball Profile
Now that the rules for stealing news stories have been revealed, people are seeing stolen stories everywhere! At the National Review, they're accusing the New Yorker's Jeff Toobin of ripping off the Weekly Standard's profile last year of Nixon-loving political hit man Roger Stone. We guess that's true, if you consider it plagiarism to quote the well-rehearsed quotes of a veteran quote whore: More » -
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'Sex Tape' Will Prove McCain's Maybe Running Mate Un-Gay
Charlie Crist is the Republican governor of the great state of Florida. He is pretty popular out there. Less polarizing than Jeb Bush, certainly. And he's been named as a possible running mate for John McCain. There is just one problem. Everyone seems to think he's gay, for some crazy reason. "Some crazy reason," by the way, means "a 21-year-old Katherine Harris staffer who claimed he fucked Crist, and who went on the say that another Harris staffer was Crist's long-term partner." Crist denies everything. And now, conveniently, the heterosexual "Charlie Crist sex tape" (ugggghhhh) has surfaced. You'll never guess who's behind it! More » -
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Did Roger Stone Take Down Eliot Spitzer? (Ans: Who Knows)
Roger Stone is a self-aggrandizing imbecile whose reputation for political dirty tricks is obviously patently exaggerated. This much we know. But he maybe had something to do with the downfall of Eliot Spitzer! It's still totally unclear, which is how Stone probably likes it. It's hard to tell if he acts like a buffoon because it throws people off the scent or simply because he is a buffoon. The New Yorker sent Jeffrey Toobin to investigate, but all he really uncovered was that Stone is a gross old pervert. More »
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politics
Roger Stone Loves How His Name Springs Off The Page
Roger Stone is not some shady Republican political operative who plants items about his enemies in the press secretly. No, he's a shady political operative that ensures that he gets credit for planting things about his enemies in the press! Stone's latest shady press leak coup: he gave info to columnist Robert Novak about questionable billing practices at the PR firm Burson-Marsteller. Now that Burson CEO Mark Penn has been booted as Hillary Clinton's campaign chief, Stone is being credited as a player! If he had a dollar for every "Roger Stone" Google Alert, he would be a fairly compensated man. [via Alex Balk] -
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Roger Stone Knew Guv's Terrible Secret, According to Roger Stone
Roger Stone, GOP dirty trickster, attempts to reinsert himself into the news as often as possible. And as the man is a proud Nixonite, you can't ever actually believe a goddamn word he says. But the Miami Herald reported this weekend that Stone wrote a letter to the FBI last November informing them that former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer enjoyed the company of expensive call girls. Also: "Governor Spitzer did not remove his mid-calf length black socks during the sex act." Good to know! Who is Roger Stone, and why, exactly, was he concerned about the sexual deviancy of the governor of New York? Read on! More »
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get it?
Roger Stone Finds His Voice
Roger Stone got his start with the vindictive criminals of Nixon's CREEP. He also got involved in some nonsense with Elliot Spitzer last year that made no sense to anyone. It involved a tattoo of Richard Nixon's face. Anyhoo, he's forming some sort of anti-Clinton campaign built around the attached image and an organization called "Citizens United Not Timid." "It's not War and Peace," Stone explains to The Weekly Standard. "The truth is, we sat around for hours trying to come up with words for BITCH and just couldn't do it." [Daily Intelligencer] -
phoning it in
Roger Stone, who so totally did not make that obscenity-laden phone call to Governor Spitzer's father, reviews Frost/Nixon, the play he wasn't actually at during the time the call was made. His verdict? "I highly recommend the play to Governor Elliot Spitzer because it underlines the dangers hubris and the inexerable web a public official tangles himself in when he tells a lie. Since the play has closed I hope the Governor can catch a revival." You cannot make this stuff up. Also, watch your ass, Ben Brantley. [Room 8]
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By abalkComment by raincoaster: He didn't make that call. But he IS still looking for a buff military dude for fun times! more » | Other threads
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notes and queries
Do Straight Swingers DO Crystal Meth?
A political journalist who will remain nameless poses a query about the political consultant who allegedly left that mean message for Governor Spitzer's dad:The question everyone is asking is what was Roger Stone under the influence of when he left that crazy message? There was no slurring, so not booze. Cocaine is the obvious guess, but he also has a well-documented swinger past, so I think crystal meth has an outside chance.
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our dysfunctional government
Big swinging Republican political consultant Roger Stone has "resigned" in the wake of accusations that he left an obscene phone message on Governor Spitzer's father's answering machine. Stone still proclaims his innocence, but it's pretty clear that the state Republican party realizes the last thing they want to do is make the governor look like a victim, which is a role Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno would like to preserve for himself. [NYP] -
our dysfunctional government
Who Made Mean Calls To Governor Spitzer's Dad?
Things just keep getting weirder for Eliot Spitzer. The papers are awash this morning with the news that Bernard Spitzer, father of the beleaguered governor, received an abusive phone call from Republican political consultant (and, as the Post notes, known swinger) Roger Stone. The governor is, of course, currently embroiled in the controversy over whether or not he directed the state police to issue damaging information about Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno's use of state aircraft for political purposes, but the current fuss concerns an earlier scandal—taking money from his dad. More »
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