After my testimony before the Select Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Federal Government yesterday, I found myself the subject of a segment on MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell where criticized me for a bizarre exchange with freshman Democrat Dan Goldman. O’Donnell did not actually show the full exchange, but the claim is patently false and I wanted to briefly respond.
I appeared before the Committee to discuss the constitutional limits on the government supporting or directing censorship. I have written about the concerns over “censorship by surrogate.”
Rather than address that testimony, Rep. Goldman asked the following question: “have you ever worked for the federal government?”
I answered “yes.”
Goldman then proceeded to ask me to explain how I worked for the federal government. I have actually worked in all three branches in various capacities through the years and started by noting that I started with internships. Goldman then interrupted and pressed me on the internships. Obviously, despite O’Donnell’s claim, I was not claiming a single internship as a credential to discuss the Twitter Files.
O’Donnell scoffed at the fact that I mentioned that I worked for Congress as counsel and said that this is not working in Congress. However, the question was whether and then how I worked for the federal government. When I then tried to discuss other work for the government, Goldman cut me off.
The tactic of reclaiming time to prevent such explanations is common in such attacks. I have previously objected to the tactic used against other witnesses, but it remains a favorite of members.
(Rep. Goldman also cut off my fellow witness when he asked the former FBI agent if he had ever investigated extremist groups. When he also answered “yes” and tried to explain, Goldman also cut him off).
This is much like complaining about the weather in Washington. I understood that I would be attacked for raising these questions. (On MSNBC, member of Congress who also testified yesterday were denounced as “Putin apologists” and Putin lovers.). However, I felt that some brief response was warranted.
What’s wrong with this picture? What’s wrong with America?
The invading conquerors like the “free stuff” but they don’t like the Constitution.
“…to OURSELVES and OUR posterity,…”
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1: the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation
2: all future generations
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“We the People of the United States,…secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity,….”
– Preamble to the Constitution of the United States
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Naturalization Acts of 1790, 1795, 1798 and 1802 (four iterations – they meant it)
United States Congress, “An act to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization,” March 26, 1790
“Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That any Alien being a free white person, who shall have resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for the term of two years, may be admitted to become a citizen thereof…”
You’re part of what’s wrong with the picture.
Translation: Amedica ben bedy bedy goood to me but (and that’s a big but) I need more and evermore “free stuff” from the American treasury, oh, and matriculation affirmative action, grade-inflation affirmative action, employment affirmative action, quotas, welfare, food stamps, minimum wage, rent control, social services, forced busing, public housing, utility subsidies, WIC, SNAP, TANF, HAMP, HARP, TARP, HHS, HUD, EPA, Agriculture, Commerce, Education, Labor, Energy, Obamacare, Social Security, Social Security Disability, Social Security Supplemental Income, Medicare, Medicaid, “Fair Housing” laws, “Non-Discrimination” laws, etc., too.
– CEO, CIO, Headquarters, Global Dependents and Parasites Union
Lawrence O’Donnell is a self-avowed socialist. He hates America and anyone who doesn’t follow his own line.
Who is Lawrence O’Donnell?
Answer: Propagandist, indoctrinationist and brainwasher for the communist (liberal, progressive, socialist, demopublican, RINO, AINO) party in America, and antithetical, direct and mortal enemy of the Constitution, Americans and America.
What is MSNBC?
Answer: Propaganda, indoctrination and brainwashing headquarters of the communist (liberal, progressive, socialist, demopublican, RINO, AINO) party in America, and antithetical, direct and mortal enemy of the Constitution, Americans and America.
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“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
– Sun Tzu, The Art of War
I note that JT shared his credentials/resume on pages1 and 2 (including 5 footnotes) of his written testimony (link in yesterday’s post), He briefly mentions this blog at the beginning of footnote 2. Not sure I would have mentioned the blog and would have at least made clear that the comments on the blog do not represent or speak for me (like he clarified in footnote 1 for GW and media).
Enough. The Fat Lady sang a long time ago.
Are there any Americans left in America?
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“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
– Declaration of Independence, 1776
You can bet your bottom dollar that as I write this post the Democrats are plotting how they can discredit the FBI whistleblowers. They lady who is an FBI whistleblower was in tears because of her loss in faith in a law enforcement agency that she had worked at for years. She praised the rank and file of the FBI but she broke down when she testified about the corruption of the leadership at the FBI. There will be no compassion for this women who has come forward because she loves her country by the Democrats on the commission. Even though she has given up a career that she loved the Svelaz and Anonymous attack dogs on this blog will show no mercy. They will only damn her because she cares and refuses to be a political tool of the left. The Senate is in play in 2024.
There’s really only one appropriate response to Larry O’Dumbsh*t. Anything else elevates him to being worthy of dignified response, which he definitely is NOT:
He gets paid $4,000,000 ($11,000 a day) year to be a talking head and, if in the course of his job he has to hear a few bangs from a hammer, all he can say is “it f—ing suck, it f—-ing sucks” to be in his position?
$11,000 a day, but it’s really only about $3.05 per expletive.
When you watch the scum in politics try and demean JT you have to laugh . Most could’t carry his brief case but are great at dividing our nation .
BTW, Goldman is a card carrying multimillionaire representing Wall Street corporate interests as designated DNC window washer for the UniParty national security state.
Melvin Belli, the “King of Torts” once said that being kicked out of the American Bar Association was the equivalent of being kicked out of the Book of the Month Club. I think an analogous statement could be made about being “questioned” by Goldman, attacked by Schulz or criticized by Lawrence O’Donnell. They have proven time and again that they are silly, nasty children in grown up bodies with limited mental capacities and no integrity.
I stopped being a due paying member of the American Medical Association years ago, as did two-thirds of America’s licensed physicians (due to Obamacare being supported by the AMA). Most physicians I know have contempt for them. So the religious devotion and apparent obsequiousness to the ABA is baffling to me.
As a first year lawyer in 1987 I had my membership in the ABA paid for by my new law firm. Nearly every missive I received from the ABA made it clear–even in 1987–that it was a political organization, not a legal organization. I never renewed my membership, and I think overall membership has dropped every year since. Moreover, the only time I ever heard of the ABA while practicing law was in connection with law school accreditation or vetting Supreme Ct justices. I don’t consider the ABA qualified to do either job.
100% agree. Exactly what I did as well.
I have a similar view of the ABA. I will probably cancel my membership this year.
You need to go back further when the AMA made a deal with the government and Medicare to create the code numbers. As compensation they were provided with the rights for such information and have since sold it to the publishers of the books you use as a reference. AMA members knew nothing about this agreement for a long time.
My understanding is that such information is supposed to have been published for free so that no royalties had to be paid, but the AMA got the royalty.
S. Meyer, would you please cite the Constitution wherein any power to provide, tax for, or regulate elderly healthcare exists.
S. Meyer, would you please cite the Constitution wherein any power to provide, tax for, or regulate elderly retirement funding exists.
George, I never found that either, did you?
Social Security and Medicare are irrefutably unconstitutional.
Retirement planning and healthcare are free enterprise activities conducted efficiently in the free markets of the private sector and are available for purchase by any and all citizens who enjoy the freedom to discriminate, choose and avail themselves of those retail products.
Justices of the Supreme Court are sworn to support the Constitution and possess no power to amend the Constitution, legislate, modify legislation or modify legislation by “interpretation.”
Justices of the Supreme Court who fail to strike down Social Security and Medicare must be impeached and convicted immediately and with extreme prejudice for their dereliction, abuse of power, usurpation of power, subversion et al.
The Supreme Court recently acted retroactively by 50 years to strike down the egregiously unconstitutional Roe v. Wade.
The Supreme Court must now act retroactively by up to 150 years to strike down every unconstitutional act, from its failure to support fully constitutional secession, the gross dereliction of the executive branch to enforce extant immigration law in 1863, through the imposition of the unconstitutional Federal Reserve Act, Social Security, Medicare, the Great Society Programs, Obamacare, etc.
George, I won’t argue with your interpretation. I think you might have much agreement with some of what you say.
What perplexes me is why you presented that errant Lincoln entry.
I’ll make one comment. There is no right to secession, but according to Jefferson, there are times when Revolution is necessary. You can call it secession, but others might call it a power grab or something else. In any event, Lincoln kept the union whole, whether you appreciate that or not.
Secession is not prohibited by the Constitution. Please cite for that. Omission does not preclude. The Founders availed themselves of it as did West Virginia; secession is globally ubiquitous. You’re making pseudo-law up of your opinion. Slavery must have been ended legally. It’s the law.
George, there is no right of secession. Logically secession means no successful federal government can exist. The Articles of Confederation proved that, so James Madison changed his views. He desired to offer such legislation to add force to the federal government’s needs.
You act as if you love this country, and I believe you, but this country would not exist if secession were to exist. The nation would have continued to fractionate. Many in the south were expansionistic, so aside from the ability to further fractionate, a war would have broken out between the north and the south as both entities continued to expand.
Though not everything Lincoln did was Kosher, he managed to save the union. We can all thank him for that.
That you and Lincoln obtained a particular outcome, does not constitute legislation. That you like it, does not make it legal.
George, it is not the outcome that determines legality. Intentions and the meaning of the law are the determining factors.
I admit that there are other arguments, but if one calls for secession and there is no agreement, the law stands with the united nation.
If you wish for an alternative to secession, it is known as revolution.
I never found it, did you?
Estovir– In my years practicing law in Texas, the ABA has never, to my knowledge, been a factor. I do not even know anyone who is a member. I think most of us were like Murphy300 and saw it as nothing more than a political organization. As to the AMA, I read JAMA occasionally (just specific articles). As I understand it, the medical articles are peer-reviewed. Is the content reliable? I did not observe how the AMA dealt with Covid and whether JAMA allowed dissenters to publish.
I am confused apparently about the ABA versus when an attorney is “disbarred”, when an attorney is recommended by the ABA for Federal Judicial nominations, law schools being accredited by the ABA, continuing education by the ABA for licensing standards, etc. The AMA has nothing on physicians. Thankfully
What Happens If Your Attorney Gets Disbarred?
What to do if you discover that your lawyer wasn’t much of a lawyer after all.
https://www.lawyers.com/legal-info/research/what-happens-if-your-attorney-is-disbarred.html
You do well to read JAMA. Consider accessing others like “Cell”, “Nature”, “Immunology”, etc. Most medical journals require a subscription unless if you access them remotely via a university server r on campus. If you live near one, it would be time well spent to access multiple medical journals and read.
Many are going “open access” which is a great development. Here are the rankings of medical journals. Note where JAMA ranks
https://www.resurchify.com/impact/ranking
Get alternate views. The more scientific perspectives one gets on a medical topic, the better. The truth will be found somewhere in the middle. A reliable manuscript has at a minimum 100 references, better is 150, 300 is bulletproof. Below I have copied the first few references from a manuscript I am writing on the molecular mechanisms of atherosclerosis. I have over 600 which is overkill but I like swimming in data. I’ll whittle it down to 300 eventually
Science is a window to God. It is easy to get lost in the beauty of the basic medical sciences at the molecular level. Quite fascinating and humbling
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FBI Says Leaked Memo Showing They’re Monitoring ‘Radical Traditionalist Catholics’ Was Not Up to Their ‘Exacting Standards’
by Chris Menahan | Information Liberation
February 10th 2023, 6:55 am
https://www.infowars.com/posts/fbi-says-leaked-memo-showing-theyre-monitoring-radical-traditionalist-catholics-was-not-up-to-their-exacting-standards/
Yeah, as opposed to the sane grown-ups like Marge, Gaetz, Boeboe, Gym and the rest of the republican standard bearers. You must be on acid, my friend
Let’s see. I worked for the car wash and I was the guy who washed the tires. I guess I must not have worked for the car wash because I had the lowest job on the totem pole. Goldberg accused a man who served in the FBI for many years of testifying because he wanted to plug a book he had written. Sleeze ball would be a compliment for this guy. The ooze was dripping off these two guys. On the one hand Goldberg praises the FBI and on the other he accuses a man who spent his career working at the FBI of having a profit motive for giving his testimony. Stay tuned there are going to be more FBI whistle blowers who will receive the same treatment. Thank you Mr. Goldman for explaining to us what Democrats really are.
This describes Turley to a “T”
“An excellent video exploration of the history behind the modern anti-vaxxing movement, coined the phrase “idea laundering” for the situation where someone with credentials takes opinions from unqualified people and then parrots those opinions under the banner of “assuming these are true” and then pawning off that analysis as expertise, obscuring the fact that the underlying claims are still suspect.
Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss and the rest of the Twitter Files gang put out a slanted narrative of facts predicated on a series of incoherent legal assumptions about the Twitter data they were given. But they aren’t lawyers. So the committee hauls out Turley, who has no compunctions about issuing bad legal takes, to repeat those still wrong claims in an effort to transubstantiate them into “expert” thoughts.”
https://abovethelaw.com/2023/02/jonathan-turley-twitter-hearing-lionel-hutz/
I call BS! Johnathan Turley is a note legal scholar and Professor.
Let me guess without reading it-, this must have been written by little joe patrice, who seethes in green……
Cry more tears
“T” is for Troll, which both you and Joe Patrice, the author of the article you cite, are. Patrice’s rhetoric, which you find so persuasive, says nothing. What narrative is “slanted” ? What are the “incoherent legal assumptions about Twitter data”. If you check out his blog, you can readily see that Patrice has been targeting Turley for months. Either he has some personal animus, or he is paid, or he hopes to be rewarded by a Democratic adminstration or Democratic media outlet. None of his commentary that I have read is particulary insightful.
O’Donnell has long been a DNC attack dog. Using the preferred attack dog methods, when the message threatens, attack the messenger. How the world turns. The “Party of the People” plays love in with the FBI, CIA and NSA. Where is H L Mencken when we need him?
Lawrence O’Donnell: West Wingnut.
As for O’donnell and FoolsGoldWoman. LO is a schill for Dems and why JT needs to grow a set and be in Independant. Associating with this Dem party the last 15 years is not good. R’s were just as bad at one time but Trump got them going in right direction. Hopefully they know after watching MSM, BigTech, Mules, Big Pharma, Justice system with all the letters they are destroying America. Can you imagine if the country goes down that they will be there to put it back together again through corruption. Bad enough R’s have fools like Romney and McConnel who are destined for the wood chi””’. Trump showed the R’s the way to fight for the middle class and stay out of wars. You ever watch a MSM show that asks the questions where the world would be if JB and his Klan ( MSM I.A. DOJ BiPh Dems ) if Trump didnt have to battle corruption. One thing we know for sure millions of Ukraines would be in a much better place.
You need to stick with the meds, Monty. Your ramblings are illogical, fantastical and delusional. Trump showed the way to criminalise the WHite House and will go to jail. You are a victim but just don’t have the brains to realise it.
Goldman was not the only Democrat on the Committee who exhibited reprehensible behaviour. The other two were Rep. Wasserman-Schultz and Alred. The latter was an embarrassment to the state of Texas
Not one of the Democrats was really interested in getting answers they, like all Democrats, prefer to attack witnesses and to ask off-topic questions.
your testimony was great and you exhibited supreme restraint when bullied by Goldman and others
Peter K: “Above the Law”s” Joe Patrice’s excellent analysis of Turley is spot-on. Svelaz has posted a link above. You should read it. Bottom line is, as I said yesterday, Turley has NO first-hand knowledge of any facts, and is relying on information from non-lawyers that is incomplete and probably misleading. Yet, he testifies as if it is established fact that somehow Twitter was serving as governmental surrogate and that this constitutes some violation of the Constitution by circumventing the usual First Amendment protections. Where are the facts that this is happening or has happened? Turley said it was from the “Twitter files”–are they complete and/or authentic? Most importantly, what do they actually prove? Nothing has been established, but that wasn’t the point of Turley testifying, which was red meat for the disciples who lack the skill of critical thinking and who believe whatever slop alt right media serves up Expressing opinions premised on unproven facts is speculating, which is exactly the point Rep. Wasserman-Schultz so expertly established. Turley has made a fool of himself regularly since going on the Fox payroll. Being a teacher of law is not a license to make up facts or render opinions based on unproven facts, something Turley knows, and he also knows that no court would allow such speculation under the guise of expert testimony. Turley had nothing of subtance to offer. And, Laurence O’Donnell is right–being employed as an attorney for Congress or otherwise “working for the government” when you are not an actual employee is NOT working for the federal government–it is serving as a contractor.
Gigi: Trump, Turley, red meat to disciples, Trump the fat pig, disciples, red meat, Turley, Trump, red meat disciples,Trump
Svelaz: disingenuous, Turley is being disingenuous, disingenuous, Turley is being disingenuous again, Turley
Lin: https://townsquare.media/site/341/files/2012/02/culkin_home_alone_scream.jpg?w=600&h=0&zc=1&s=0&a=t&q=89
Gigi – obviously the Twitter files are “incomplete”. There must be billions of preserved comments on Twitter. But exactly how are the tweets unearthed by Taibbi, et al, “misleading”? You next suggest that the tweets are “not authentic”. In what way? Taibbi says that he went to Twitter HQ in San Francisco and directly accessed Twitter equipment to review recorded tweets. Are you suggesting that he is lying? Are you suggesting that the tweets were forged? This is ridiculous, and Turley was fully justified in relying on Taibbi’s reporting, which has proved reliable in the past. We must rely on data from other people to form opiniions about the world.
O’Donnell has a “storied” and controversial history right? Wasn’t it he that stated Deutsche Bank had documents which showed Russian oligarchs had cosigned loans for Trump? Unsourced, completely bogus, he was forced to walk it back. And yet we still hear this lie repeated in media.
What Turley does here is, once again, expose the inanity.
Who is Lawrence O’Donnell? And what is MSNBC?
Who is Lawrence O’Donnell?
Answer: Propagandist, indoctrinationist and brainwasher for the communist (liberal, progressive, socialist, demopublican, RINO, AINO) party in America, and antithetical, direct and mortal enemy of the Constitution, Americans and America.
What is MSNBC?
Answer: Propaganda, indoctrination and brainwashing headquarters of the communist (liberal, progressive, socialist, demopublican, RINO, AINO) party in America, and antithetical, direct and mortal enemy of the Constitution, Americans and America.
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“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
– Sun Tzu, The Art of War
O’Donnell is the guy who regularly exposes fascism in the Republican party. He does it on MSNBC. Any further questions?
Everytime Goldwoman cut someone off the next R questionaire should have reasked the FBI guy the question and to finish his answer. This fool Goldwoman is Swillwell and Shifty all rolled into one. He forgot, never ask a question you dont know the answer to. What a slanderous piece of work. Hopefully one day Johnathan will come to his senses and drop Dem afilliation and sit as an Independant as Tulsi does. What a wonderful performance she made. Go girl. I would like to hear JT say. TG inspired me to now become an Independant.
That would be a waste unless the cut off question was significant.
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” – Marcus Aurelius
To identify as a Democrat is a long step toward joining the ranks of the insane.
You mean like Marge, Boeboe, Gym Jordan, pedo Gaetz and the rest of the “sane” republican party?
Yes Monty! That would be perfect.
that man is an unhinged lunatic, but, then, he is a lefty, so he is ‘normal’ in the lefty world of mental illness elevated to a virtue.