Greta Van Susteren To Gloria Allred: You’re “Blackmailing” Meg Whitman

by Glynnis MacNicol | 11:14 am, October 3rd, 2010

» 105 comments

I don’t think it’s overstating matters to say that Greta Van Susteren tore celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred to pieces on her show yesterday. First some backstory: Allred, a California lawyer who has made a name for herself representing high profile cases, is currently representing Meg Whitman‘s former housekeeper Nicky Diaz who says Whitman knew she was an illegal alien during the nine years she was in her employment. Whitman is denying this, and has provided documents to prove she was under the impression Diaz was a legally allowed to work and asserts Diaz was fired as soon as her status was revealed (in 2009). Moreover, Whitman says “I believe Nicky is being manipulated by Gloria Allred for political and financial purposes during the last few weeks of a hotly contested election.” Caught up?

Suffice to say, Greta does not approve of Allred’s behavior. She introduced Allred yesterday by declaring that she was doing the “unthinkable” for “getting your client deported” not to mention the Social Security document Allred is using as evidence will get her “barbecued” if she takes it to court, moreover, Greta thinks that Allred is using this case to ‘subvert the electoral process.’ It’s all “rotten,” says Susteren. And that was just the first minute of the interview. Perhaps needless to say, it went downhill from there.

At one point Greta called Allred “delusional” for arguing that the SS document in question, which Whitman denies ever receiving, is evidence because it has her address and her husband’s hand-writing on it: “it shows her husband was confused by it.”

Later, after Allred admited this case will never go to court, Greta responded “that’s just another horrible thing to do, why put it out in the press, why do this to her, why smear her, why even call her a liar.” Allred, whose response throughout is that Whitman denied knowledge of the S.S. document to the press so therefore must be lying, finally aggravates Greta enough that she declares Allred is essentially “blackmailing” Meg Whitman.

“It’s not class warfare. That’s blackmail. That’s the problem, Gloria, is you’re blackmailing her because she’s looks like the creep because she’s the rich person against the person who’s here illegally.”

Says Allred: “That’s defamatory.” Also, Nicky Diaz is the new Rosa Parks, according to Allred. Van Susteren does not agree…to put it mildly. You can watch the full exchange below.

Gloria Allred, Greta Van Susteren, Meg Whitman

ImRubberYoureGlue

Allred is disgusting garbage. Seriously. WTF is wrong with this woman?
ImJustThatDamnGood

Maybe as Governor Meg Whitman can outsource more jobs without all that red tape.
writer

Her maid’s video reminds me ot that Hispanic maid on Family Guy. “No….no.”
right-is-wrong

writer said:
Her maid’s video reminds me ot that Hispanic maid on Family Guy. “No….no.”

No Superman no home
no, no, no
Calvin

Does anybody else see Ed Scultz and Glenn Beck compared on the power grid thing on the main page? That’s hilarious.

writer said:
Her maid’s video reminds me ot that Hispanic maid on Family Guy. “No….no.”

LOL.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDWGk8-Twd8
Azarkhan

Gloria Allred is a Democratic Party hack with zero credibility. She even makes scummy ambulance chaser lawyers look good by comparison.

PS: Shout out to Arkansas Steve!
kwadd123

Boy is this ever proof that Fox is carrying the water for the GOP? Greta is too partisan to be called anything close to a journalist – just another Fox political hack at best
Calvin

Azarkhan said:
PS: Shout out to Arkansas Steve!

Ditto.
http://politicsofdestruction.com/ Bobomatic

This is typical logic by a typical liberal. This is why we need to stop liberals from destroying this country.
Azarkhan

Whether or not Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman received a letter from the Social Security Administration saying her former housekeeper’s false documents did not match its records, Whitman did not act unlawfully by keeping the housekeeper employed, immigration lawyers said Thursday.

In fact, had she gone ahead and fired Nicandra Diaz Santillan based on such a letter, she would have exposed herself to potential anti-discrimination violations, lawyers said….

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/09/30/MN931FME32.DTL#ixzz11JM9iJTS
http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

Allred should be disbarred. Did she seriously advise her client to come forward to admit to being an illegal immigrant and committing perjury?
LibsFailAtLife

allred is a pig with lipstick
Jelperman

Van Susteren is being a dishonest concern troll. She gives less than half a shit over whether Whitman’s ex-maid gets deported. She’s just whining because this might just cost Whitman the race, and like the other hacks at Faux News, she’s a fluffer for the GOP.

Quick, call Whine-1-1!
writer

Yeah, Jelp. Like your far, far left wing buddies at MSNBC don’t slobber over the Dems.
BR

kwadd123 said:
Boy is this ever proof that Fox is carrying the water for the GOP? Greta is too partisan to be called anything close to a journalist – just another Fox political hack at best

What YOU just proved is that you dont watch her show and have no idea what your talking about.
gar

Glynnis, congrats for bringing up this story without any or your left hand spin. I’m not a big fan of yours but when you present it fair and balanced it should be acknowledged.
felixw

Welcome to the election of 2010. One party is running on the issues. The other party is running on smears, character attacks, and now blackmail. Wonder how the voters will respond?
notsofast

Next, Gloria Allred will get her client’s 3 year prison sentence reduced to 30 days in the electric chair!

Great work Gloria!
Scott_in_MI

Any lawyer knows that its their job to protect their client. In an attempt to get her face on TV, Allred put her client in jepardy by showing the authorities that the maid was illegally in America. Greta (and every level headed lawyer) should be jumping on Allred. She’s a disgrace to her profession (which tell you how low she is.) Anyone jumping on Greta is an idiot.
Big_F-ing_Deal

Allred swift-boated the shit out of Whitman.
She got Whitman to falsely accuse the maid of stealing her mail and also got her to offer to take a lie detector test like a common criminal.
The election will turn on this swift-boating just like it did for Kerry. Too bad Righty’s, you got beat at your own game. lol
And Allred doesnt give a crap about her reputation, she is already known as an opportunist and an ambulance chaser anyway. She has lost nothing and Greta did no damage to her.

Check and mate.
Scott_in_MI

By the way Glynnis, I’ve critisized your work plenty of times so I feel I should issue a compliment when warranted:

Good job on this story.
http://www.libertarianism.com/ Burnnotice

I listened to Gloria Allred talk to Mark Levin Friday. She is totality disingenuous and evasive. Which makes for a good Lawyer, but a piece of crap as a person, but did I mentions she is a Lawyer…
notsofast

Gloria will need to see a Proctologist to repair all the assholes she has been torn this week.

Here is the “Great One”, Mark Levine, tearing her a new one also for exposing her client to danger.

Great Gloria! Get your client deported so she can collect “car” money and some alleged back wages.

http://www.marklevinshow.com/Article.asp?id=1970739&spid=32364
ChiliPeppersFan

totally agree with allred being a self-serving, opportunistic hack (along with all those other prick lawyers you see on commercials begging to join their class action suits) but how many altruistic, honest lawyers would get her this much attention?

whitman deserves to be called out on this. first she lied, saying that the maid stole the letter before she could read it. then she said her husband signed it but didn’t know what he was doing? what is he, an idiot?

it shows just how out of touch she is with people who work for her. i wonder how many of those hewlitt-packer people she got to know before she sent them overseas.
Patrick Henry

gar said:
Glynnis, congrats for bringing up this story without any or your left hand spin.

Ditto!
DEFENDER-90

Gloria Allred+Nicky Diaz=useful idiots.
Big_F-ing_Deal

What’s hilarious is Righty’s pretending they are concerned about an illegal immigrant being deported.

That’s more disingenuous than Allred herself!

Don’t worry teaturds, long after Meg has lost this election Gloria will still be on TV protecting mistresses as “Mother Teresa’s”. lolol
notsofast

ChiliPeppersFan said:
it. then she said her husband signed it but didn’t know what he was doing? what is he, an idiot?

it shows just how out of touch she is with people who work for her. i wonder how many of those hewlitt-packer people she got to know before she sent them overseas.

Yes, most neurosurgeons are well versed in employment law. Sorry, pal, it’s the employment agency’s responsibility to assure that the the people they send out have been vetted.; that’s why people use agencies.

They lied about the letter? Again, you lose; show they KNOWINGLY made a false statement about something 7 years old.

And as far as her outsourcing HP jobs, please tell me how she did that when she never worked for HP?

Your own words; “What are you, an idiot?

Come on, I need a big laugh today!
Big_F-ing_Deal

notsofast said:
show they KNOWINGLY made a false statement

Knowingly or not Meg a false statement which her husband’s handwriting proved. Latinos won’t like this rush to judgment against one of their own.

A brilliant piece of swift-boating made out of whole cloth. That’s what makes it so funny!
ChiliPeppersFan

funny bfd…
i think these right-wing nuts are upset because their ‘family values’ reps in washington are so prolific in cheating on their wives that they are afraid alldred will make one of their mistresses look like a mother teresa.
Mr B

Remember when these politcal smear tactics done by Allred and the Democrats used to work?

It’s particularly enjoyable watching the demise of identity and smear politics instead of just reading about it.
notsofast

Big_F-ing_Deal said:
Knowingly or not Meg a false statement which her husband’s handwriting proved

Prove they knew she was an illegal.

You can’t.

Check and mate.
Big_F-ing_Deal

notsofast said:
Prove they knew she was an illegal.

You can’t.

Check and mate.

Miss the point much?
notsofast

ChiliPeppersFan said:
i think these right-wing nuts are upset because their ‘family values’ reps in washington are so prolific in cheating on their wives

Like these dems?

You forgot for Dem pals, King!!
FDR,
JFK,
LBJ,
Clinton,
RFK,
EMK,
Crane,
Edwards,
Frank
Inouye,
Fred Richmond,
Wayne Hays,
Gerry Studds,
Mel Reynolds,
James McGreevey,
Jesse Jackson,
Gary Condit,
Eliot Spitzer,
Neil Goldschmidt,
Allan Turner Howe,
Joseph Waggonner Jr.,
Jerry Springer
notsofast

Big_F-ing_Deal said:
Miss the point much?

LOL!
Yeah, like McCain was going to get the black vote!
Big_F-ing_Deal

notsofast said:
LOL!
Yeah, like McCain was going to get the black vote!

Don’t tell me that, tell Whitman. She was the one spending millions courting the Latino vote.
She can kiss those votes goodbye now and the funny part is Meg didn’t do anything wrong. By all appearances she did everything right.

Just like a Vietnam vet with a medal did everything right but that didn’t protect him either. lol
sarainitaly

kwadd123 said:
Boy is this ever proof that Fox is carrying the water for the GOP? Greta is too partisan to be called anything close to a journalist – just another Fox political hack at best

She’s a democrat. her husbands a democrat. she was a hillary supporter.
Hardrada

So what is is that the ‘rats are all upset about, that Whitman employed an illegal….or that she employed an illegal?

This should be bringing the libs out in massive support of Whitman, she gave a job to one of the poor downtrodden who are just looking to make a better life.
writer

Besides, asking to see any documentation is unfair.
ChiliPeppersFan

nots
please help me because you obviously know so much, it wasn’t her that left her job after outsourcing jobs overseas?
i thought they kicked her out of hp for doing a terrible job. who am i thinking about?

oh, and i know the old joke “it doesn’t take a brain surgeon” but i didn’t realize it could be that complicated to read a letter.
Pablo

Big_F-ing_Deal said:
Don’t tell me that, tell Whitman. She was the one spending millions courting the Latino vote.

I think a lot of Latinos are going to be wondering how they can get a $23/hr housekeeping gig. Why, exactly, are Hispanics supposed to be pissed at Whitman because of this? Because she should have fired Nikki sooner? Is that really the sale you’re trying to make?
Pablo

ChiliPeppersFan said:
nots
please help me because you obviously know so much, it wasn’t her that left her job after outsourcing jobs overseas?
i thought they kicked her out of hp for doing a terrible job. who am i thinking about?

oh, and i know the old joke “it doesn’t take a brain surgeon” but i didn’t realize it could be that complicated to read a letter.

Carly Fiorina, and you’re screwing that up too. Whitman was the CEO that took Ebay from tiny to the monster it is today. You know, the one that’s responsible for many thousands of new small businesses.
Pablo

Big_F-ing_Deal said:
Just like a Vietnam vet with a medal did everything right but that didn’t protect him either.

Not according to a lot of other Vietnam vets with medals, including the one who’s the most decorated vet since MacArthur. Plus that “reporting for duty” bit was just dumb as a stump.
ImRubberYoureGlue

Jelperman said:
She [Greta] gives less than half a shit over whether Whitman’s ex-maid gets deported.

Even if this was true, she still cares a WHOLE lot more than Gloria Allred and Jerry Brown-lovin democrats do.
Big_F-ing_Deal

Pablo said:
Why, exactly, are Hispanics supposed to be pissed at Whitman because of this? Because she should have fired Nikki sooner? Is that really the sale you’re trying to make?

No. I already answered why. Read the fucking thread.
ImRubberYoureGlue

sarainitaly said:
She’s a democrat. her husbands a democrat. she was a hillary supporter.

Worth repeating because the neolibs want to pretend we Hill supporters do not exist.
Big_F-ing_Deal

Pablo said:
Not according to a lot of other Vietnam vets with medals, including the one who’s the most decorated vet since MacArthur. Plus that “reporting for duty” bit was just dumb as a stump.

I’m not going to rehash that. Swift-boating is already in the vernacular with a negative connotation.

That ship has sailed.
possumdearie

Big_F-ing_Deal said:
She can kiss those votes goodbye now and the funny part is Meg didn’t do anything wrong.

If I were a Latino voter, I would appreciate that Whitman spent considerable money courting the Latino community, offered people opportunities to make money and find bargains on Ebay, and paid her immigrant maid $23 an hour to clean her home. Whitman’s husband even gave Nikki the benefit of the doubt by following the law and asking her to “settle this matter” (a potential clerical error) instead of jumping to a hasty conclusion. That shows compassion to a loyal employee who worked in their home for seven years. Sorry, this looks bad on Allred and her ungrateful client. If I were a Latino voter, I would worry that jobs would be harder to come by when I pose such a threat to employers.
possumdearie

Big_F-ing_Deal said:
No. I already answered why. Read the fucking thread.

I read the fucking thread. You have no leg to stand on. You bitches lost this round.
roxsteady

Whittman is toast!

http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/74699
Big_F-ing_Deal

possumdearie said:
You have no leg to stand on.

Yeah, I know that. I already said that. Quite a few times. The accusations were baseless. But that didn’t stop Meg from making a fool of herself by implying her maid stole her mail (“that’s not the Nicky I know” lol) and it didn’t stop her from idiotically offering to take a lie detector test (I AM NOT A CROOK!)

It also put her on the defensive last night as the main topic of the debate.
Pretty effective swift boating if you ask me.
The Real Royal King

I have to say, last night’s debate rather put O’Van Susteren’s “defense” into the correct perspective. Whitman ambushed herself.
michiganruth

so you mean to tell me that savvy Meg Whitman would sink millions of her own money into this race and then let it all fall apart because she had knowingly hired an illegal alien? I highly doubt that. and yeah–$23/hr is almost $50K a year at full time. not a bad wage for someone with no education. I know a lot of college grads who don’t get paid that much working in offices.

but more importantly: when did hiring an illegal alien become a worse crime than not paying your taxes, having affairs, letting your boyfriend run an escort service out of your house, or taking money from questionable sources?
Big_F-ing_Deal

michiganruth said:
–$23/hr is almost $50K a year at full time. not a bad wage for someone with no education.

*facepalm*

She got paid for 15 hours a week.

How much you wanna bet she worked more than that?
TeaPartyPatriot

Just when you think the lunatic-left d-crat socialists and their stooges in the lamestream socialist media cannot possibly get any lower – they do, and descent to a massively lower level. They are now THE SLIME BENEATH THE SLIME – in fact, they’re now so low, they’ve reached the gloria allred level! EEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWW!

On the other hand, if Whitman LIES and says she INTENTIONALLY hired an ILLEGAL criminal, then she’d get the overwhelming majority of d-crat socialist votes and easily defeat moonbeam brown.

So why isn’t this ILLEGAL criminal being deported??????
Anybody wanna bet that allred will personally escort this ILLEGAL to the voting booth so she can cast her ILLEGAL vote for allred’s pal, moonbeam?
Pablo

Big_F-ing_Deal said:
Swift-boating is already in the vernacular with a negative connotation.

Only with you moonbats, BFD. Swiftboating is the new Inconvenient Truth, now that the other one is all busted. But I agree, that stuff all in the past, and Kerry got thumped. By George W. Bush. What’s really cool is that we avoided having a Vice President Edwards, because man, would we look silly. Even sillier than we look now.
SnowballDidIt

Here’s another scenario:

“Ok Nicky. You swear that you are an American citizen or at least legally entitled to work here. You signed a document swearing under penalty of perjury that this is YOUR social security number … Hmm, your skin is brown and your last name is Diaz. Sorry, I just don’t think I should take the risk of hiring you. It could come back and bite me in the A$$.”

That one doesn’t play very well either, does it? I guess there is no way for Meg Whitman, to win on this one. Once again, the only winner is the stinkin’ lawyers. Why would any employer be eager to hire Hispanics after this, legal or otherwise?
http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

Big_F-ing_Deal said:
I’m not going to rehash that. Swift-boating is already in the vernacular with a negative connotation.

Only to an idiot with a phony name. I am all for Swiftboating every democrat available.

Darn you Pablo, I just wrote the above and then I looked up and see you said before I did. Great minds think alike.
Big_F-ing_Deal

gordonbloyershow said:
Only to an idiot with a phony name.

lol…you are such a retard
Hardrada

Firedoglake is referenced as “proof” that Whitman is toast? ROFL

But hey, if Californians are looking to put Moonbeam back in control, feel free, just don’t come cryin’ when the state falls apart worse than it is now.

I’m not sure what it is that ANYONE in Cali is seeing in the demorat party right now, the place is falling apart at the seams and the only idea the ‘rats have is to punish the productive people to the point that they decide to leave the state. When you’re unemployment rate is beating Detroit, you know you’re doing something wrong.
the real john t

Hardrada said:
I’m not sure what it is that ANYONE in Cali is seeing in the demorat party right now, the place is falling apart at the seams and the only idea the ‘rats have is to punish the productive people to the point that they decide to leave the state.

What party does the governor of CA belong to?
right-is-wrong

notsofast said:
Come on, I need a big laugh today!

1 word
Mirror
Azarkhan

Big_F-ing_Deal said:
How much you wanna bet she worked more than that?

If she had, Gloria Allbitch would have whined about it in her press conference.
Bill Mahwer

From one ambulance chaser to another.
Azarkhan

the real john t said:
What party does the governor of CA belong to?

Democrats have controlled the state legislature for 38 of the last 40 years. It doesn’t matter who the governor is, the power is in the legislature. When Willie Brown was speaker (for 15 years), he was considered the most powerful politician in California.

California is such a basket case I can’t figure out why any Republican would want to be governor. That liberal wet dream is going to have to declare bankruptcy within 10 years. Anyone who lives who can get out, should get out.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703447004575449813071709510.html
Yoda002

Jelperman said:
Van Susteren is being a dishonest concern troll. She gives less than half a shit over whether Whitman’s ex-maid gets deported. She’s just whining because this might just cost Whitman the race, and like the other hacks at Faux News, she’s a fluffer for the GOP.

Quick, call Whine-1-1!

Great call!!
Yoda002

felixw said:
Welcome to the election of 2010. One party is running on the issues. The other party is running on smears, character attacks, and now blackmail. Wonder how the voters will respond?

Who is running on the issues, not the Republicans thats for sure. I think your Republican leader Boehner said that American people don’t want solutions.
Nachi

And Greta, at Fox, does know the meaning of “rotten.” Yup.
the real john t

I remember back when Allred was the lawyer for Scott Peterson’s mistress. She was the darling of Fox. She was on there everyother night during the trial. Greta couldn’t get enough of her. If some of you don’t know who Scott Peterson is, he’s the one that killed his wife, Lacy Peterson so he could be with his mistress.
Azarkhan

Yoda002 said:
Who is running on the issues, not the Republicans thats for sure

The Obama-Pelosi-Reid leftist agenda is the issue. There are no other issues.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Helen-Nordo/100000884291530 Helen Nordo

If any of you get a chance to get to the library, look up “All the Kings Men” get the video or DVD, whatever, it was filmed in 1949, starred Broderick Crawford, the last of the best, won 3 oscars..I saw it on my movie channel last year. You will understand that politics will always be politics, it’s a game,, who wins & who loses.. we are merely the pawns. It will open your eyes, you will look at the political system in a new way. Good luck!
timcajun

Azarkhan, I need to make sure which side of this Whitman issue to be on. Its ok she lied, right, or at least that its Browns fault! I wait on your all knowing wisdom, because I know you will be right! Don’t let me down!
right-is-wrong

Azarkhan said:
The Obama-Pelosi-Reid leftist agenda is the issue. There are no other issues.

Got it.
Obama-Pelosi-Reid
Hey wait, isn’t only 1 of them running?
I can’t vote in Neveda.

timcajun said:
Azarkhan, I need to make sure which side of this Whitman issue to be on. Its ok she lied, right, or at least that its Browns fault! I wait on your all knowing wisdom, because I know you will be right! Don’t let me down!

Don’t worry.
He’s checking his sources now……..
The_Reasonable_Lib

writer said:
Her maid’s video reminds me ot that Hispanic maid on Family Guy. “No….no.”

funny that the most racist comment got so many thumbs up
The_Reasonable_Lib

gordonbloyershow said:
Only to an idiot with a phony name. I am all for Swiftboating every democrat available.

Darn you Pablo, I just wrote the above and then I looked up and see you said before I did. Great minds think alike.

……wow you’re an egotistical idiot
the real john t

The_Reasonable_Lib said:
wow you’re an egotistical idiot

You sure as hell got that right.
Mr.Papshmer

kwadd123 said:
Boy is this ever proof that Fox is carrying the water for the GOP? Greta is too partisan to be called anything close to a journalist – just another Fox political hack at best

You read it, but you didn’t comprehend it because you’re like blind. Susteren was pointing out that that Allred was willfully destroying an Hispanic woman for the purpose of upping Brown’s odds in the election, and it’s true. Liberals don’t really care about Hispanics, oh, they say they do, but that just their brand of lying politics. If a liberal thinks they have an opportunity to screw a conservative, that’s when all the caring and compassion goes out the window, and their true hateful selves come out. Congrats.
right-is-wrong

sarainitaly said:
She’s a democrat. her husbands a democrat. she was a hillary supporter.

Her husband worked for Palin and she starred in the Palin infomercial, brought to you by Fox.
right-is-wrong

Pablo said:
Only with you moonbats, BFD. Swiftboating is the new Inconvenient Truth, now that the other one is all busted. But I agree, that stuff all in the past, and Kerry got thumped. By George W. Bush. What’s really cool is that we avoided having a Vice President Edwards, because man, would we look silly. Even sillier than we look now.

Sorry
worse than Cheney?
the real john t

Pablo said:
What’s really cool is that we avoided having a Vice President Edwards, because man, would we look silly. Even sillier than we look now.

Just like avoiding a Vice President by the name of Sarah Palin and becoming the laughing stock of the world.
Rogue-Comic

right-is-wrong said:
Her husband worked for Palin and she starred in the Palin infomercial, brought to you by Fox.

O’Reilly “outed” Greta as an Obama supporter in his latest book.

Is it so hard to believe that people of differing political perspectives can work together and, gosh, act cordial to one another?
Rogue-Comic

the real john t said:
Just like avoiding a Vice President by the name of Sarah Palin and becoming the laughing stock of the world.

I thought we were the laughing stock of the world when Bush was President. I guess I just can’t keep up with the jargon anymore.
The Real Royal King

Meg Whitman is for strong employee sanctions, except ….
The Real Royal King

Rogue-Comic said:
O’Reilly “outed” Greta as an Obama supporter in his latest book. Is it so hard to believe that people of differing political perspectives can work together and, gosh, act cordial to one another?

BS. The insufferable Ms. O’Van Susteren has admitted she did not vote for President Obama.
Rogue-Comic

The Real Royal King said:
BS. The insufferable Ms. O’Van Susteren has admitted she did not vote for President Obama.

All I know is what I read but feel free to post evidence to the contrary. O’Reilly stated in his book that Shep and Greta were fans of Obama while Beck and Hannity were not.
VRWC Destruction Machine

kwadd123 said:
Boy is this ever proof that Fox is carrying the water for the GOP? Greta is too partisan to be called anything close to a journalist – just another Fox political hack at best

I assume you are either too young or to old to remember Greta’s show on CNN “The Point”. VanSusteren is center-left on the political spectrum and never goes off the deep end.
VRWC Destruction Machine

Azarkhan said:
Whether or not Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman received a letter from the Social Security Administration saying her former housekeeper’s false documents did not match its records, Whitman did not act unlawfully by keeping the housekeeper employed, immigration lawyers said Thursday.

In fact, had she gone ahead and fired Nicandra Diaz Santillan based on such a letter, she would have exposed herself to potential anti-discrimination violations, lawyers said….

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/09/30/MN931FME32.DTL#ixzz11JM9iJTS

The letter also stated: “This letter does not imply you or your employee intentionally
provided incorrect information about the employee’s name or SSN. It is
not a basis, in and of itself, for you to take any adverse action
against the employee, such as laying off, suspending, firing or
discriminating against the employee. Any employer that uses the
information in this letter to justify any adverse reaction against the
employee may violate state and federal law and be subject to legal
consequences.”

What Allred is trying to do is charge Whitman for not racially profiling Diaz.
antikythera

Okay, let’s see…We have an illegal alien and admitted perjurer with forged state and federal documents and a stolen identity bringing charges against someone else. And making matters worse this person is being lauded as a hero and paraded as a helpless victim. This must be either a bad joke or a bad dream.
Azarkhan

right-is-wrong said:
Got it.
Obama-Pelosi-Reid
Hey wait, isn’t only 1 of them running?
I can’t vote in Neveda.

Hey dumb ass–Pelosi is running. Can you vote in San Francisco? (LOL)
right-is-wrong

Azarkhan said:
Hey dumb ass–Pelosi is running. Can you vote in San Francisco? (LOL)

I wish

hehehehehehehe
esd2000

kwadd123 said:
Boy is this ever proof that Fox is carrying the water for the GOP? Greta is too partisan to be called anything close to a journalist – just another Fox political hack at best

Amen to that.
Robert Says

All I can say is this: Who cares about Meg Whitman? Just because you’re a billionaire does not mean you’d be a good Governor of California!

So you can buy half the State’s real estate with your pocket change! I’m soooooo impressed!

As far as Gloria Allred: she never met an ambulance she couldn’t chase.
She ONLY “represented” Amber Frey in the Scott Peterson fiasco so she could arrange a lucrative book deal for herself and Amber for pure profit! There was also a TV movie about Amber & Scott in production before the ink dried on Peterson’s guilty verdict form! Gloria Allred is clever, extremely rich………………but also an opporrtunistic, ego-maniac! Her blood-red lipstick is a joke too!
She gives celebrity lawyers a bad name…………………..as though they needed any help! LMAO

As for Nicky Diaz, Meg Whitman’s ethnic housekeeper…………………..well, she obviously is being taken for a ride on both sides of this scandal!
I don’t feel sorry for Diaz, because as with Amber Frey, Scott Peterson’s half-sister(forget her name) all three will have book deals earning them millions.
Gloria doesn’t care about justice………………….Gloria Allred cares about her bank accounts and vast real estate holdings!
Gloris (among others) gives Jews a bad name! I recall her appearance on Greta Van Susteren’s show a while back.
Greta prodded her about being in NYC for a book deal signing with Amber Frey………………..Gloria countered that she was in fact in NYC for one of her relatives Bar Mitzva! I knew then what made Ms. Allred tick! LMAO
hijinx60

I think that someone left the zoo gate open. Never have I heard so many leftwing-nuts in my life as I have in all the posts so far.
sarainitaly

right-is-wrong said:
Her husband worked for Palin and she starred in the Palin infomercial, brought to you by Fox.

John Coale, a prominent Washington lawyer, husband of Fox TV host Greta Van Susteren and a supporter of Sen. Hillary Clinton, announced today that he was supporting John McCain for president. Coale, who traveled with Sen. Clinton, President Clinton and her family through out the primary season, complained of sexism, and said the Democratic Party is “being taken over by the moveon.org types” in an exclusive interview with Newsweek.com’s Tammy Haddad.
http://www.audacityofhypocrisy.com/2008/09/01/a-leading-hillary-supporter-john-coale-defects-to-mccain/

Van Susteren may be surprised to learn just how close she is to the Democratic Party. It is true her husband, John Coale, has advised several prominent Democrats in the past, including Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton. But he also informally advised Sarah Palin.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/rupert-murdoch-says-greta-van-susteren-certainly-close-to-the-democratic-party/

John Coale: Coale, a well-known Washington lawyer and the husband of Fox News Channel’s Greta Van Susteren, drew national media attention when he endorsed Sen. John McCain’s presidential bid in protest of the way in which Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, who he backed in the primary, was treated.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/18/john-coale-greta-van-sust_n_176611.html

Other prominent former Clinton supporters in attendance included John Coale, a former Hillraiser, Washington lawyer and husband of Fox News television host Greta Van Susteren.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/14/clinton-supporters-aid-palin/

They didn’t buy into the hopey changey nonsense. I guess I should say they WERE Democrats, since millions of former Dems left the party after the Obama/Clinton primary. I don’t know if they still are. They are definitely not Obama supporters. But I would hardly call them right wing hacks.
omega919

Can’t remember the last time I saw so many Republicans angry about the possibility of an illegal immigrant being deported.

That said, Gloria Allred generally annoys me, and it was fun watching Greta skewer her.
VRWC Destruction Machine

omega919 said:
Can’t remember the last time I saw so many Republicans angry about the possibility of an illegal immigrant being deported.

That said, Gloria Allred generally annoys me, and it was fun watching Greta skewer her.

It’s not about Diaz being deported. It’s about Allred not recognizing this is all about her client lying to the employment agency and the Whitman’s and Allred is blaming Whitman for forcing her client to lie.
Robert Says

Pablo says:
October 3, 2010 at 3:06 pm
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Big_F-ing_Deal said:
Swift-boating is already in the vernacular with a negative connotation.

Only with you moonbats, BFD. Swiftboating is the new Inconvenient Truth, now that the other one is all busted. But I agree, that stuff all in the past, and Kerry got thumped. By George W. Bush. What’s really cool is that we avoided having a Vice President Edwards, because man, would we look silly. Even sillier than we look now.
WHAT?
Pablo are you kidding with that “Vice President Edwards” comment?

Is it possible that many, many in the U.S. Congress have mistresses at some time or the other?
Barney Frank would be the exception.

But let’s face it, fairly recent events tend to indicate that some Right-Wing-God-Fearing public figures go trolling for sex in airport mens’ rooms………on Rent Boy(dot com) or get “massages” in Colorado Springs from gay male escort websites
Can we all spell H-Y-P-O-C-R-A-C-Y ????
Arnold

Robert Says said:
Can we all spell H-Y-P-O-C-R-A-C-Y ????

We can . You cannot .
Dave Richards

kwadd123 said:
Boy is this ever proof that Fox is carrying the water for the GOP? Greta is too partisan to be called anything close to a journalist – just another Fox political hack at best

Did you even watch the video? Do you even comprehend what point Van Susteren was making?
I didn’t think so. YOU’RE AN IDIOT!!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Marguerite-Gualtier/1203693221 Marguerite Gualtier

Greta was great — always fair — and so smart!
The Real Royal King

sarainitaly said:
But I would hardly call them right wing hacks.

O’Van Susteren’s current method may, indeed, have much less to do with ideology than it does carrying water for Ailes. She is and has long been the consummate brown-noser. I’m sure if Ailes told her to drop the Scientology shtick and become a Lutheran she’d make a congealed salad, put her hair in a bun and start singing “Ein Feste Burg”. If you think this interview was anything but a life-line to one of Ailes’ favorite corporatist Republicans, you know very little about Ailes or O’Van Susteren.
Pablo

Pablo are you kidding with that “Vice President Edwards” comment?

Is it possible that many, many in the U.S. Congress have mistresses at some time or the other?

Sure. But we’re not talking about Congress, we’re talking about a potential Vice-President (and President, but I digress) with a mistress, a love child, a wife with terminal cancer and a boatload of shameless lying even after having been caught red handed. It was over 2 years after the kid was born he finally admitted she was his after insisting that it wasn’t possible.

Yeah, politicians have had plenty of scandals, but Silky takes the cake for the most stupid, dishonest, vile and audacious of the bunch.
Pablo

The Real Royal King said:
If you think this interview was anything but a life-line to one of Ailes’ favorite corporatist Republicans, you know very little about Ailes or O’Van Susteren.

I know Ailes occupies 90% of what passes for your brain, rent free.
right-is-wrong

sarainitaly said:
They didn’t buy into the hopey changey nonsense. I guess I should say they WERE Democrats, since millions of former Dems left the party after the Obama/Clinton primary. I don’t know if they still are. They are definitely not Obama supporters. But I would hardly call them right wing hacks.

Got any stats on how many Hillary supporters went for McCain, versus how many Republicans (you may call them RINO’s if you like) went for Obama because they were terrified of the Vice Presidential pick?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Michael-Johns/1681497708 Michael Johns

I call this the Botox Battle du jour.