LAT: Conference Call Claiming Miers Is Anti-Roe Sparks Debate

[DeepModem Mom]

Conference Call Claiming Miers Is Anti-Roe Sparks Debate
By Maura Reynolds and Edwin Chen, Times Staff Writers


WASHINGTON -- Senators weighing the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court expressed dismay today about accounts of a conference call in which two of the nominee's confidantes are alleged to have said she would vote to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe vs. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide.

White House officials continued to press Miers' nomination as they denied that aides to President Bush organized or took part in the telephone conference call with more than a dozen religious conservative leaders.

The call, which took place Oct. 3, the day President Bush announced Miers' nomination, was first reported today in an opinion article in the Wall Street Journal.

"This was not a call organized by the White House, and as far as I've been able to learn, no one at the White House was involved on that call," said White House spokesman Scott McClellan.

He also stated that no one at the White House knows how Miers would vote on the abortion issue....


http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-101705miers_lat,0,2258451.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[ClintonTyree]

1. Riiiiight, Scotty!

And no one in the White House was involved in the Plame affair either! :eyes: You can believe NOTHING that comes from the White House anymore, they're serial liars and must be removed from office.

[marbuc]

2. Scotty doesn't know what to believe anymore

"This was not a call organized by the White House, and as far as I've been able to learn, no one at the White House was involved on that call," said White House spokesman Scott McClellan.

[daleo]

3. Parse the language, lying with the truth

"not a call organized by the White House" - so, the call was organized by someone else's secretary.

"as far as I've been able to learn, no one at the White House was involved on that call" - an actual White House telephone wasn't used, or if it was, McClellan hasn't been able to "learn" about it yet.

"He also stated that no one at the White House knows how Miers would vote on the abortion issue...." - technically true, nobody can know how anyone will act in the future with 100% certainty.

They are soooo slippery.

[Toucano]

4. I remember when Scotty said no one in the White House was involved in

leaking a CIA agent's identity.

[Gman]

5. Even Ron Ziegler bald faced lied until the bitter end of Nixxon

and so will Puffy McMoonface.

He's the American Baghdad Bob.