It’s the jack-in-the-box guy again..yeah!! Tommy, you get the coolect interviews..ever! They actually pay you to meet all your superheros? neat..

Grayson is off the reservation. He’s a hate-filled nut. Anyone who respects him should have their head examined. It says something about your character if you find him tolerable. There is nobody on the right remotely as insane as this puppet. Maybe that chick that was running for CA sec. of state or whatever it was…the one that everybody at MSLSD thought had a chance to win. Other than that, no one. Like Olby, I fear Grayson has some serious mental issues that need to be addressed. Nobody can be that fully of hate. No one can be that bat shiite crazy.

Wow, Tommy got exclusives with Daily Kos and Grayson. Score!! Make sure you update your resume quickly, before they make the final decsion on who gets Helen’s seat in the press room.

dude looks like a creepy pedophile

I bet Tommy was naked when he did this.

woot woot Alan Grayson FTW!

Grayson is one of the only people in congress with the stones to tell the unvarnished truth regardless of what corporate or establishment interests it offends. That’s why he’s marginalized by Republicans and Democrats alike. Washington is a place where very ugly things happen these days because these stateless multi-national corporations that control our lawmakers are directly attacking the interests of regular people, and almost everyone is on the gravy train. They’ve gotten too big to enforce laws upon. They make up their own laws, and can always find congress people to back them up. Until we have some good old-fashioned trust busting and laws and regulations with teeth, we’re pretty much an oligarchical fascist mess.

Go Grayson!

Thanks for the interview, Tommy. I often disagree with Grayson, and I find his style a bit off-putting. However, he is an interesting politician who speaks candidly.

Griff Jenkins! FOX’s very own, in-house James O’Keefe. A huge disgrace!

Sorry for all of the angry comments from a band of perpetually miserable posters. I’m sure you’re used to it by now.

blah, blah, blah… the republican wing is horrific, blah, blah, blah… the guy is an irrelevant bomb thrower. He’s not able to find consensus with most of his colleagues much less the other side. He’s a shining example what’s wrong with politics…

I thought Shrek retired.

RL, you disappeared from the other thread after you said palin said she hates black men. Would you please either provide proof or apologize for slandering her?

Tommy Christopher asked the Congressman about his Michael Steele comments and whether it aided in his (Grayson’s) fundraising but a better question for me would have been whether the Congressman was actually serious when he stated that Steele and other proponents of offshore drilling should be prosecuted for the oil disaster. Why not challenge him on this Tommy?

Obviously, prosecutions wouldn’t be permitted under the First Amendment. And I am unaware of any statute that such advocacy violates. I would hope that even fans of the Congressman would pause to consider the implications of what he advocated.

Does the Congressman have such a limited understanding of free speech? And of criminal liability laws?

Again Tommy, why not challenge him on this? Was he actually sincere or he was just trying to be provocative?

Steve MG, if government officials are on the payroll of Big Oil, which ultimately yields a vast environmental, economic and humanitarian disaster, you don’t think prosecutions are warranted? We’re talking about a culture of corruption in league with the Mob. Those people aren’t talking up oil drilling because they like it or any other rational reason. They’re talking about it because of the hundreds of millions of dollars Big Oil pours into their coffers. The Center for Responsive Politics reported that individuals and political action committees affiliated with oil and gas companies have donated $238.7 million to candidates and parties since the 1990 election cycle, 75 percent of which has gone to Republicans. What does that tell you? And when is there going to be a RICO investigation?

Would you please either provide proof or apologize for slandering her?

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Would it stop your bleating, moaning and whining if I apologized for RL?

You ought to- you lie as much as he does.

I think Grayson is marginalizing the financial crisis to just Republicans – that’s a huge over simplification of the event.

Steve MG, if government officials are on the payroll of Big Oil, which ultimately yields a vast environmental, economic and humanitarian disaster, you don’t think prosecutions are warranted?

If government officials are bribed, yes, they should be prosecuted along with those bribing them.

But Congressman Grayson suggested that Michael Steele should be prosecuted for the oil disaster because he (Steele) simply advocated for offshore drilling. He didn’t state that Steele, who never served in Congress, was bribed by the oil industry. He stated that simply because Steele advocated drilling that advocacy was sufficent for him to be prosecuted.

Bribes and advocacy are to entirely different matters.

Nope, I want him to admit he slandered her.

Bribes and advocacy are to entirely different matters.

Oy, that would be “two”, not “to.”

We need preview. Or better posters.

Probably both.

MichelleF says:
June 10, 2010 at 2:15 pm

Nope, I want him to admit he slandered her.”

The Reasonable Lib has been nailed hard for his lies today and the king supports him.

Both are big liberal liars.

I hope Grayson is on TV spouting off every day between now and Nov..And the put D-Florida under his picture.This guy is like an early Christmas gift.

@SteveMG says:
June 10, 2010 at 2:22 pm

“Oy, that would be “two”, not “to.” We need preview. Or better posters. Probably both.”
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Really?

Ination, you haven’t been paying attention to Grayson if you think he just goes after Republicans.

Steve MG, it’s a fine line. You’re saying bribery and advocacy are two separate things, but in our PR nation, confusing the public with half-truths and outright lies can be bought. Maybe it’s not bribery as in I’ll give you $5 not to tell mom I broke the window, but it’s still essentially bribery. We have between 3 and 10% of the world’s oil reserves. We use 25% of them and growing. “Drill baby drill” is total B.S. Energy independence where oil is involved is an outright lie. If it’s not bribery, what is it?

but it’s still essentially bribery. We have between 3 and 10% of the world’s oil reserves. We use 25% of them and growing. “Drill baby drill” is total B.S. Energy independence where oil is involved is an outright lie. If it’s not bribery, what is it?”

Totally poppycock.

Advocating for something is not bribery. You and your liberal phonies always try to redefine words until they are nonsense. Doublespeak is your dictionary.

You’re saying bribery and advocacy are two separate things, but in our PR nation, confusing the public with half-truths and outright lies can be bought.

One is illegal and the other is protected by the First Amendment.

Are you arguing that if I say: “We need to drill more despite the disaster and we have enough oil here in shale and deposits to be energy independent” that I should be prosecuted for “lying”?

Really?

I was directing my comment at myself.

whytee says:
June 10, 2010 at 2:36 pm
“Ination, you haven’t been paying attention to Grayson if you think he just goes after Republicans.”

I was referring to the clip – Grayson is talking like Republicans are the only ones making mistakes, which is obviously just not true. It’s not that simple.

SteveMG says:
June 10, 2010 at 2:44 pm
“I was directing my comment at myself.”

I know, I was just kidding (obviously doens’t translate well over the internet). We do need preview.

Ination, in that case, I agree. Point taken.

SteveMG, what this propaganda is doing to our country is incredibly devastating. Yes, it makes the five most profitable stateless multi-national corporations (which pay no taxes here) much, much more profitable, but that’s because we the people are bearing the costs — not only in using tax dollars to subsidize it to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars, but also in health care costs for the people that develop cancer, emphysema, etc. from fossil fuel exhaust, from the increasing devastation of global climate change, from the economic destruction of spills and pollution, etc. So, as I see it, this is an industry that is essentially committing vile acts on the people of this country while robbing us blind. They do it by being so big, so rich and so powerful that they can not only buy any politician they want, they can’t write legislation; they can dictate the national dialog about it; they can avoid any kind of criminal prosecution or, if you look at the Exxon Valdez spill, any kind of real punitive fines. When people like Michael Steele get out in front of cameras and recite the false beliefs Big Oil wants us to think so it can continue to devastate this country, yes, there’s got to be some consequences.

Freedom of speech has limitations — you can’t yell fire in a crowded movie theater. You can’t threaten to kill somebody. You shouldn’t be allowed to lie about issues that have profound consequences for the “general welfare” of the people of this country.

Freedom of speech has limitations — you can’t yell fire in a crowded movie theater.”

BS- You sure can if there is a fire!

Oh, whytee, lying is only punishable if its done under oath. If not, the BHO admin. would be guilty for lying about unemployment not exceeding 8% if the stimulus bill was passed.

Actually, one cannot lie about something which has yet to occur. There is no such thing as a preemptive sin.

Actually, one cannot lie about something which has yet to occur. There

But apparently it’s Grayson’s argument that the recklessness of the pro-drilling crowd and their advocacy for the drilling makes them culpable, in part, for the disaster. I.e., they encouraged reckless policies.

It would have been interesting if Tommy Christopher had asked the Congressman about his thinking on this matter. Was he being serious? Or just provocative?

I think that is his argument as well. Not the same thing as preemptive lying, of course, but rather foolish.

That would have been a good question, as well.

That would have been a good question, as well.

Perhaps a real hard-hitting journalist like Helen Thomas would have posed this question.

But since Grayson is Jewish I imagine she would have demanded that he leave the room.

Yeah, one more shot at Ms. Thomas but one made to emphasize that the characterization of her as some sort of tough minded reporter who spoke truth to power is a complete myth.

Wow, hyperbolic much? Do you have examples of her treating anyone Jewish that way? Also: How is that characterization a complete myth? What do you base that on?

How is that characterization a complete myth? What do you base that on?

Her news stories and columns and reporting (before she became a columnist). Did you ever read them? Awful, just awful.

In my view, asking “aggressive” questions at the White House does not equate to good journalism. No one breaks a news story asking the WH Press Secretary if the President has stopped beating his wife. In fact, from what I’ve read, almost no stories are now broken covering an Administration from the White House. Things are so tightly controlled that you have to cover policy outside the White House; that’s where the real stories are.

As to the asking Grayson to leave, that was a sarcastic remark. It was unfair and I withdraw it.

Well, differing opinions on her writing notwithstanding, I appreciated that there was someone in the W.H. press room who had no problem going off-script. I don’t give two &^%$ about balloon boy or “did the president get mad enough” or whatever trivial idiocy is consuming the reporters there. I do want the hard questions answered about the wars, and even if Gibbs’s response is to tap dance, the questions still need to be asked. People die over there every day. It’s costing us greatly in blood and treasure. I don’t think it should be relegated to below the fold, where the press corps seems downright eager to put it.

I appreciated that there was someone in the W.H. press room who had no problem going off-script.

Okay, but did she get answers to your questions? The measure of a journalist, it seems to me, is in their product, their copy, what new they deliver or uncover; not in their style.

Look, I wish her well and I’m sorry it ended the way it did. Truly. She really did break some barriers and show courage in doing so. Imagine how tough it was for a female reporter in that environment?

And with that, I’ll put a bow on my comments.

I will always support people like Grayson, Paul, Kucinich, Gravel, McKinney (who got my 08′ vote), DeMint and anyone else that speaks openly and believes what they say. As far as I’m concerned all the rest are just human PA systems for corporate/government interests.

“Gutsy personal” and “tub of guts”–yes, that’s synonomous, I suppose. “Die quickly?” Real class act that jerk. Just because someone “believes” a thing does not qualify them for being leadership material. People used to believe in such ridiculous things as the Earth is flat and human-caused global warming. As we now know, both were wrong.

Grayson is refreshingly blunt.

““Die quickly?” Real class act that jerk.”

If you bother to follow the link and actually LISTEN to his presentation, he was chastising the Republicants for their I-got-mine, screw-you health care “plan.”

“People used to believe in such ridiculous things as the Earth is flat and human-caused global warming. As we now know, both were wrong.”

Well, you’re batting .500. Not bad for a “rightie.”

“But apparently it’s Grayson’s argument that the recklessness of the pro-drilling crowd and their advocacy for the drilling makes them culpable, in part, for the disaster. I.e., they encouraged reckless policies.”

Probably so, and I concur. The incessant “drill-pushers” share, at the very least, a moral culpability. Obama was wrong to try to placate them by allowing more drilling. He will hopefully learn that he simply CAN’T placate the Right. No matter what he does, it will never be enough for them.

Any of you Republican fools who berate this man deserve what the history of Republican POLITICIZING government has and will do. You watch believe Fox News and fools like Limbaugh who are mouthpieces of the Republican biased garbage? Again you deserve your being unemployed, and losing your homes and living on food stamps. I don’t support the Democratic party either, the current POLITICAL system must be abolished. As for now, accept the lesser of two evils the Democrats, until you idiots wake up and institute MASSIVE governmental reform. Do you realize our government is severely broken? Name one faction of our local, state or fed government what actually works? Take your time. VOTE THEM ALL OUT OF OFFICE…LIMIT TERMS AND TAKE THE RUNNING OF THIS COUNTRY BACK FROM BIG CORPORATIONS LIKE BP AND RID OURSELVES OF THE THIEVES AND LAIRS IN OFFICE AT THIS POINT IN TIME. Grayson seems to be one of the most honest and noteworthy politicians of our time and speaks his mind and the truth, which you Republican fools can’t stomach. Why waste your time watching or listening to him, Rush and beck are spewing garbage and waiting for you to buy in.

There is NO placation for stupidity and otherwise moronic behavior. Grayson is a hate-filled buffoon and his constituents are fools.

Typical of our politicians these days. He is merely touting the “party” lines. Anyone who thinks that the president and what ever party he is in is responsible for all our misgivings or gives them credit for our triumphs is not paying any attention to the facts.

The president and/or his party may have an agenda they wish to push but for the most part it takes votes on both sides to get things done. Alan Grayson points to republicans as the reason for the financial crisis yet he left out the fact that almost 100% of the democrats were “on board” for that ride and voted in favor of most of the very things they blame republicans for. No, quite frankly there is virtually no difference between a republican congress or a democrat congress. Neither side has any really backbone or morals. Neither side has “our” interests at heart. They are only concerned with this petty rivalry between the two big parties and Grayson illustrates this once again with his comments.

So you sheeple out there that vote for a democrat because you hate republicans are part of the problem not the solution. Of course, the same is true of the sheeple that vote republican for the same reason. There are just as many republicans adding ‘pork” as democrats. There are just as many democrats trampling our rights and freedoms as republicans have been accused of. One simply cannot get elected as either a republican or a democrat without lying his ass off nor without taking corporate money and subverting the rights of us “little” people.

You want positive change? Real positive change? STOP VOTING REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT! if no one else is running don’t vote for them. Send a real clear message instead of just talking about it.