NOW THAT DELAY HAS STEPPED DOWN AS MAJORITY LEADER HE CAN SPEND ALL HIS TIME AND ENERGY ON WHAT HE DOES BEST-- LYING

This morning I woke up and turned on CNN. I listen to it for a couple minutes between opening my eyes and urinating. Their was a talking (air) head on the screen, babbling pleasantly that now that "Scooter" Libby was going to be named as Judith Miller's source, Karl Rove was in the clear. Could Fox be any more effective in getting out the Regime's talking points? Well, Fox needs help because they're working 24/7 on getting out indicted former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's talking points. DeLay and his spokesmen and spinning up yarn after yarn and when Fox's own propagandists aren't the ones doing the spinning, they're just spewing the lies out for DeLay day and night. My pal Jim, who lives in DeLay's district, sent me a great press clip today that something tells me Fox "News" won't bother to run (nor, regrettably, will CNN nor anyone else in corporate mass media). In DeLay Lie #384 (on Chris Matthews' pathetic MSNBC GOP infomercial last Wednesday) he claimed that Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle never talked to him or asked him to testify. "Never asking me to testify, never doing anything for two years," DeLay said in the interview. "And then, on the last day of his fourth or sixth grand jury, he indicts me. Why? Because his goal was to make me step down as majority leader." He told the AP that "I have not testified before the grand jury to present my side of the case, and they indicted me."

However, DeLay's own attorney, Dick DeGuerin, corrected his truth-impaired client's claim on Thursday, admitting that DeLay actually was invited to appear before the grand jury, where he would have been under oath. ("under oath" and "DeLay," of course, is something they have every intention of avoiding, just like DeLay's pals in the Mafia do.) DeGuerin says The Hammer didn't appear in front of the Grand Jury, not because he wasn't invited or because he was afraid of being "under oath" but because he was afraid of being "brow-beaten." (I'm not making this up. DeGuerin said if DeLay had appeared before the grand jury, he could not have been accompanied by his lawyer inside the hearing and there would have been "no judge to prevent prosecutors from brow-beating" him. "The prosecutor has all of the advantages in a grand jury setting. The prosecutor controls the information a grand jury gets. The defense has no right to call witnesses, to cross-examine or to be present to be sure that the rules are followed.") And here I always thought DeLay was a law-and-order man! I guess he meant law-and-order for poor people, not for the rich and powerful.

Meanwhile the Grand Jury foreman, William Gibson, Jr., also contradicted DeLay's lie. Gibson, a retired state insurance investigator, said the Travis County grand jury waited until Wednesday, the final day of its term, to indict him because it was hoping he would accept jurors' invitation to testify.
Gibson also said that District Attorney Earle did not pressure the panel to vote to indict: "He wanted us to listen to the facts presented. If we needed additional information they presented it. But he did not in any way say, 'We want this done.'"

But if you want to hear more DeLay lies and how the vast right-wing propaganda machine is spinning this, just turn on Limbaugh or O'Liely or anyone on Fox-- or most anywhere on corporate mass media.