No limit on stupid

MakeIt-TakeIt Cat · Post by **MakeIt-TakeIt Cat** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 2:13 pm

They may need more than a Meagher defense.

stevelee · Post by **stevelee** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 2:18 pm

i77cat wrote:Well, yes, we expect politicians to lie to us. That's their job. We should expect more from newscasters.

"Tail Gunner Joe" was hardly the first politician in that regard. I don't recall enough history to sort out Tippecanoe.

In a way I think it is sad that we hold politicians to such low standards. I'm not even sure they are the "best men money can buy."

I didn't pay that much attention to the Williams deal. What I think I read was that he didn't report the hyperbole on his show, but rather was bragging on Letterman, an entertainment show on another network, unlike O'Reilly's combat in the Falklands. I didn't even realize that Williams was still doing the NBC network newscast until I saw about this.

DC69Wildcat · Post by **DC69Wildcat** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 2:21 pm

i77cat wrote:
JerseyLawyer wrote:A Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom team led by litigation partner Patrick Fitzgerald will represent the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in litigation, accreditation and regulatory matters resulting from a 2014 investigation by Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft attorneys that revealed two decades of academic fraud at the university.
What's stupid about that? I don't know the firms or people referenced. Are they poor choices?

It doesn't look like it, at least for UNC.
https://www.skadden.com/professionals/p ... fitzgerald

This is going to cost them big time. I wonder if Art Pope/Pat McCrory will let them include legal costs in the budget.

Dr. Bliss · Post by **Dr. Bliss** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 3:03 pm

They shoulda got Dewey, Cheatham and Howe.

Post by **i77cat** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 3:10 pm

The whitewash will succeed.

wildforthecats · Post by **wildforthecats** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 3:18 pm

Dr. Bliss wrote:They shoulda got Dewey, Cheatham and Howe.

Moe, Curly and Larry would be more appropriate.

JerseyLawyer · Post by **JerseyLawyer** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 5:25 pm

Fitzgerald is the former US Attorney in Chicago who put the Mayor away. Big time prosecutor. This is a representation that will cost the unions many millions - even more that they pay Roy

Waitress · Post by **Waitress** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 6:20 pm

JerseyLawyer wrote:Fitzgerald is the former US Attorney in Chicago who put the Mayor away. Big time prosecutor. This is a representation that will cost the unions many millions - even more that they pay Roy

Illinois Governor Blagojevich. Chicago mayors are untouchable.

WildCock · Post by **WildCock** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 6:45 pm

stevelee wrote:
i77cat wrote:Well, yes, we expect politicians to lie to us. That's their job. We should expect more from newscasters.
In a way I think it is sad that we hold politicians to such low standards. I'm not even sure they are the "best men money can buy."

Following one of the [many] corruption scandals in the SC legislature (an FBI sting operation), the Bureau made public their videos of the bribes being accepted. The general reaction in SC was "We're not surprised that our legislators are whores; we're just embarrassed that they're such cheap whores."

stan · Post by **stan** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 8:46 pm

stevelee wrote:
i77cat wrote:Well, yes, we expect politicians to lie to us. That's their job. We should expect more from newscasters.
"Tail Gunner Joe" was hardly the first politician in that regard. I don't recall enough history to sort out Tippecanoe.

In a way I think it is sad that we hold politicians to such low standards. I'm not even sure they are the "best men money can buy."

I didn't pay that much attention to the Williams deal. What I think I read was that he didn't report the hyperbole on his show, but rather was bragging on Letterman, an entertainment show on another network, unlike O'Reilly's combat in the Falklands. I didn't even realize that Williams was still doing the NBC network newscast until I saw about this.

Williams has a very long history of lying about all manner of things. NBC has known and ignored all the BS until it blew up in their faces.

I agree that allowing the most powerful people in the world to trample the civil rights of innocent people is disgusting. But they lie, get caught lying, break the law to cover up the previous lawbreaking, and unless the news media gets exercised, no one cares. Of course, there are a great number of political partisans who frequent this board who not only ignore the lies and crimes, but actively support those who commit them. So what are you going to do? As we saw with the short discussion of the bogus sexual assault narrative, there are many here who do not care about the truth or innocent victims if there is a political narrative to advance. Why should we expect them to care about lying politicians?

stevelee · Post by **stevelee** » Wed Feb 25, 2015 3:18 am

Then there was the senator who was reelected even after he cheated on his mistress. I don't recall which of the "family values" guys it was.

quickcat · Post by **quickcat** » Wed Feb 25, 2015 8:08 am

Waitress wrote:
JerseyLawyer wrote:Fitzgerald is the former US Attorney in Chicago who put the Mayor away. Big time prosecutor. This is a representation that will cost the unions many millions - even more that they pay Roy
Illinois Governor Blagojevich. Chicago mayors are untouchable.

Took me reading it twice to see it, but nicely done.

catnhat · Post by **catnhat** » Wed Feb 25, 2015 8:50 am

One of the whistle blowers has settled her suit against the university (Mary Willingham I believe).

Post by **i77cat** » Wed Feb 25, 2015 9:51 am

http://northcarolina.scout.com/forums/1 ... 9-roy?s=78

Dr. Bliss · Post by **Dr. Bliss** » Wed Feb 25, 2015 11:04 am

http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/201 ... s-employee