{"article":{"id":182199,"heading":"Rove's top dog resigns after ties to corrupt sleazebag Abramoff revealed","author":"Democracy Now","created":"2006-10-10 17:56:37","modified":"2013-11-11 00:45:22","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 08:45:22","article":"

Rove’s Top Aide Resigns Over Ties To Abramoff

In political news, Karl Rove’s top aide has resigned after it was revealed she helped Jack Abramoff lobby the White House. The aide, Susan Ralston, served as Karl Rove’s executive assistant. She formerly worked for Abramoff and got her White House job on Abramoff’s recommendation. Ralston’s resignation came just a week after the House Government Reform Committee documented 485 lobbying contacts between White House officials and Abramoff and his associates. Democratic Congressman Henry Waxman accused the White House of trying to make Ralston a scapegoat. Waxman said the links between the White House’s former political director Ken Mehlman and Abramoff deserve more scrutiny. Mehlman is now chairman of the Republican National Committee. Last week’s report indicated Mehlman was offered tickets to a rock concert and helped an Indian tribe represented by Abramoff secure $16 million for a jail despite resistance from Justice Department officials.

http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/article.pl?sid=06\/10\/09\/1358249<\/a><\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Rove's top dog resigns after ties to corrupt sleazebag Abramoff revealed","numcomment":22,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2006\/10\/182199.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":182219,"heading":"Classic anti-semitism","article":"extrapolating the behavior of a group from the behavior of an individual","author":"how 1950's!","parent_id":182199,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-10-10 18:35:49","modified":"2006-10-10 18:35:49","fileurl":""},{"id":182220,"heading":"sure thing","article":"If we can hate nazis, we can hate zionists. What is the problem?","author":"Yupster","parent_id":182199,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-10-10 18:35:51","modified":"2006-10-10 18:35:51","fileurl":""},{"id":182230,"heading":"So what?","article":"If we can hate nazis, we can hate palestinians. What is the problem?\r\n","author":"Yuppie","parent_id":182199,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-10-10 19:32:32","modified":"2006-10-10 19:32:32","fileurl":""},{"id":182231,"heading":"SchtarkerYid","article":"Isn't there a bridge that your'e supposed to be hiding under or something? Doesn't Indybay editing keep you occupied and to busy to bother normal people?","author":"Sounds like Toady","parent_id":182199,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-10-10 19:54:38","modified":"2006-10-10 19:54:38","fileurl":""},{"id":182239,"heading":"Extrapolating from an individual to a group","article":"Hilter was a Vegetarian\r\nHilter was a nazi\r\nTherefore all vegetarians are Nazis\r\n\r\nAbramoff is a Jew\r\nAbramoff is a thief\r\nTherefore all Jews are thieves\r\n\r\nDo you see the logical falacy yet?\r\n\r\n","author":"shoulda learned this in high school, Toady","parent_id":182199,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-10-10 20:47:05","modified":"2006-10-10 20:47:05","fileurl":""},{"id":182278,"heading":"re: Extrapolating...","article":"WTF does this have to do with anything anybody SAID? Getting a little *virulent* with your little mind-cop thang, perchance?","author":"TW","parent_id":182199,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-10-11 03:24:59","modified":"2006-10-11 03:24:59","fileurl":""},{"id":182279,"heading":"Icepick stabber,","article":"ram a bloody pacifier into your mouth. \r\n\r\n\r\n","author":"SJ","parent_id":182199,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-10-11 03:54:24","modified":"2006-10-11 03:54:24","fileurl":""},{"id":182286,"heading":"The link between Abramoff and AIPAC should be thoroughly investigated","article":"I think more corruption will be found there as well.","author":"The New World Order Resistance","parent_id":182199,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2006-10-11 06:24:45","modified":"2006-10-11 06:24:45","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2006\/10\/abramoff.jpg","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2006\/10\/abramoff.jpg"}},{"id":182288,"heading":"Look outside the box","article":"WTF does this have to do with anything anybody SAID? Getting a little *virulent* with your little mind-cop thang, perchance?\r\n\r\nFrom this now hidden comment:\r\n\r\n "by Abramoff is zionist, right? \u2022 Monday, Oct. 09, 2006 at 1:57 PM\r\nNot saying that hypocrisy and zionism go hand in hand"\r\n\r\nGetting a little *paranoid* with your little mind-cop thang, perchance?","author":"mind cop","parent_id":182199,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-10-11 07:21:30","modified":"2013-11-11 00:45:23","fileurl":""},{"id":182292,"heading":"Yeah, I saw that post","article":"He portrayed Abramoff as a typical ZIONIST hypocrite\r\n\r\nThere's absolutely no question that Abramoff is a zionist fanatic\r\n\r\nMeanwhile, 'zionist' and 'Jew' do not mean the same thing. You desperate scrabbling-rat liars just keep pretending they do and trying to slip this under everybody's radar because then you get to play your next little game of portraying your critics as cackling Hitlers driving Panzers over piles of little Jew babies. Doesn't it ever make you want to puke, watching your own incredibly tawdry games? Have you no pride?","author":"TW","parent_id":182199,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-10-11 07:56:07","modified":"2006-10-11 07:56:07","fileurl":""},{"id":182293,"heading":"Classic","article":"Yep. Extrapolating the deeds of an individual to a group. \r\nHow bigoted is that?","author":"biogotry","parent_id":182199,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-10-11 08:11:22","modified":"2006-10-11 08:11:22","fileurl":""},{"id":182295,"heading":"Huh?","article":"You're saying this about a portrayal of ZIONISTS collectively as nasty lying political psycho-trash? No, you don't get it: generalizing is only unfair and prejudicial when it's INACCURATE. How is it "bigoted" to say "all ants have six legs?"","author":"TW","parent_id":182199,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-10-11 08:19:07","modified":"2006-10-11 08:19:07","fileurl":""},{"id":182299,"heading":"here's the problem","article":"the problem is in your head.\r\nHere was my comment\r\n***If we can hate nazis, we can hate zionists. What is the problem?**\r\n\r\n-Then there is the mindless zionazi reconfiguration- \r\n\r\n"If we can hate nazis, we can hate palestinians. What is the problem? '\r\n\r\nWere all Germans, nazis?.....\r\nAre all Jews, zionists?.....\r\nAre all Palestinians, Palestinians?....\r\n\r\nIf you are unable to find any differences in the above statements you should STFU because you have pilot error; a short between the head set.","author":"Yupster","parent_id":182199,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-10-11 09:12:00","modified":"2006-10-11 09:12:00","fileurl":""},{"id":182312,"heading":"I see the problem and it's you","article":"If you possessed some kind of intelligence even remotely, you would've put things more like this:\r\n\r\n"Were all Germans, nazis?..... \r\nAre all Israelis, zionists?..... \r\nAre all Arabs in Palestine, Palestinians?.... "\r\n\r\nYou see, every anti-Zionist goosestepper past anti-Zionism 101 should have internalized that Germany in the 1930's included also Roma, Jewish and a few other non-Christian populations. \r\nBy the same token, there are some Christian, Druze, Circassian and Muslim Zionists in both Israel and across the globe. On the opposite end we find some non-Zionist or anti-Zionist Jews in Israel.\r\nAnd there exist also Christian and other non-Muslim Palestinians, while other Arabs -- within Israel proper -- do not consider themselves Palestinian.\r\n\r\nBut instead, you let your crypto-Nazi Master Race impulses take over and throw reason out the window, to say nothing of intelligence. So go back under the bridge you were ducking under.","author":"Yipper","parent_id":182199,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-10-11 14:25:43","modified":"2006-10-11 14:25:43","fileurl":""},{"id":182319,"heading":"I can't believe you failed the IQ test","article":"Well Mr.-crypto-Nazi Master Race-anti-Zionist goosestepper fuckwit slogan farter, before you and I get hidden, do you have anything to really say to rebut my comments\/ links\/ historical evidence and other such input?\r\nNo.","author":"it was set for 'moron'","parent_id":182199,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-10-11 14:58:07","modified":"2006-10-11 14:58:07","fileurl":""},{"id":182320,"heading":"Come again?","article":"That was hilarious!!\r\n\r\nYou're in no position to evaluate others' intelligence as you barely have any yourself. Heck, I even left out the anti-Zionist Jews outside of Israel. Boy are you dumbfucked.\r\n\r\nYou had already been refuted by the poster who asked you about vegetarians and Nazis. But thanks for showing us you didn't notice. You may want to kick the booze habit.","author":"Yuppie","parent_id":182199,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-10-11 15:07:43","modified":"2006-10-11 15:07:43","fileurl":""},{"id":182325,"heading":"reading problems too, I see","article":"For you I will repeat .\r\nWhich one of the following statements don't belong to the other two?\r\n\r\nWere all Germans, nazis?..... \r\nAre all Israelis, zionists?..... \r\nAre all Arabs in Palestine, Palestinians?\r\nAnd in answer, you went off into some demographic side issue which didn't answer the original question which was\r\nIf it's okay to hate nazis\r\nIt's okay to hate zionists\r\n\r\nwhereas you farted\r\n"So what?\r\nby Yuppie Monday, Oct. 09, 2006 at 3:32 PM \r\nIf we can hate nazis, we can hate palestinians. What is the problem?"\r\n****\r\n\r\nThe problem is:\r\nIt's not okay to hate Palestinians anymore than it is okay to hate Jews or Indians or Japanese, you lesser mindthing.\r\n","author":"try again","parent_id":182199,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-10-11 15:23:09","modified":"2006-10-11 15:23:09","fileurl":""},{"id":182326,"heading":"oh and something else","article":"you even modified my original premiss to fit your ramblings.\r\nYou slimed a change form:\r\nAre all Palestinians, Palestinians?....\r\n\r\nto\r\n\r\n"Are all Arabs in Palestine, Palestinians?.... "\r\n\r\nYou're fixated on Arabs, aren't you?\r\nWhy is that?","author":"how typical","parent_id":182199,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-10-11 15:28:07","modified":"2006-10-11 15:28:07","fileurl":""},{"id":182327,"heading":"Too funny to humor you all the way through!","article":"Now you're taking what I, *moi*, rephrased and presenting it as if you said it in the first place, huh? Oops! Dismissed, kook!\r\n\r\n","author":"Yuppie","parent_id":182199,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-10-11 15:30:07","modified":"2006-10-11 15:30:07","fileurl":""}]}