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Orrin Hatch Apologizes. Kind Of.

By Rachel Maddow

Apparently this open letter thing works!

Senator Hatch has now issued a letter climbing down from the pile of lies he told about Carol Lam on Meet the Press this weekend.

He now says thought he was talking about a person named "Alan Bersin" when the name "Carol Lam" accidentally escaped his lips instead.

Given the massive media attention and debate about "Alan Bersin" recently, I can understand his mistake.

For more on this weird controversy, tune into my next show, titled, as always, "Yet Another Two Hours of Talk Radio All About Alan Bersin".

Click on the letter to enlarge it...

Hatch apology letter
 

Rachel

PS -- Click here to see my podthing about Orrin.

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Sweeeet!

Good Job Dr. Maddow!!! :-)

Why?

Why would Senator Hatch's Phoneboy tell me that Senator Hatch sent that correction to Timmeh as soon as he was off the show when the letter is dated today, April 5, four days after the turd was floated, on April 1st? Why?

You can phone Sen. Hatch's office at 202.224.5251. I phoned back and suggested they issue a copy of the letter to The Drudge Report and ask for top billing for 24 hours to counteract the Limbaugh lie amplification.

Nice

This is almost as embarrassing as the apology by Newt Gingrich in Spanish for saying that: "We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpZcRDSruNI

Newt's attempt at Spanish is probably adding insult to injury.  

 

Honest enough mistake

After all, Ms Lam is of the same gender/sex and ethnicity as Mr  Bersin, and their names look soooooo much alike.

 

:long:

 

 

"It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality."--Virginia Woolf

hatch source

    Over at www.talkingpointsmemo.com, they've been discussing Hatch's "mistake" -- and an anonymous reader found a Byron York article in National Review  with all the info on Bersin.

Another reader, a lawyer, argues that Hatch is not a doofus or a dumbass -- but a very clever lawyer who knows how to muddy the water.

Remember that little book "On Bullshit"?  Well, this is one better.  It's not just bullshit because it's a set of lies targeted to obscure the truth and obstruct justice.

And this from someone Pat Leahy says is "running" to take Gonzales' place.  

Arghh!! 

Making Orrin fess up (sorta')

I think our esteemed Dr. Maddow has wrested Henry Waxman's "pit bull" moniker.  Way to go, Rachel--

catapult

guess he didn't want your loyal listeners to start calling and playing with the voice mail system too . . .

:coolsmirk:

 

Right facts but wrong name?

Kind of like when I mention that Orrin Hatch was e-mailing sexually suggestive comments to young boys?  Kind of like when I say that Orrin Hatch had a "price list" for bribes in return for policital favors?

i love rachel

but for her mind.
i swear.

Just back from the pub - did you thank me?

Because, seriously, I posted links to the Podthing and this blog for two days before I finally got people to pay attention by posting a link on Atrios' blog.

AC
More liberal media at The Sideshow.

Pakistani Terrorists

Yesterday you indicated there is a link to the ABC story on the Pakistani JINTILLA? terrorists.

Can you please post it again?

 

A million thanks, 

Mike G

http://www.quadkite.com

Hatch's comments about Lam's record was "inaccurate?"

He said Lam had no prosecutorial experience, and she DOES. He said she'd been a law professor and a Clinton campaign manager, and she WASN'T. That makes EVERYTHING he said about her inaccurate. And if his excuse is that he thought he was talking about someone else, well, that puts his competence into question! >:(

About Hatch...

I absolutely love that he ATE CROW...What a wonderful feeling...

I'm not satisfied, yet.

So, let's see. First things first: I saw you on Countdown last night, Rachel, and, as is customary for me whenever you appear, I watched again, later. The "new" jacket is swell, and I felt so, well, happy for a few more moments being a lesbian trapped in a man's body. Is your mom single?

I did email Elder Orrin after hearing your story (Have you noticed Moron missionaries all have the same first name? I wonder if he still has his missionarying name tag?).

But, I'm not yet satisfied with his response and want a clearer explanation; actually, I want some rather specific disclosures and apologies. I wonder if on-line hearings (under oath of course) might be a useful next step and opportunity for further experimenting using the internet to move us toward a more direct democracy? Any thoughts about how I/we can lead the self-righteous Senator to put his face closer to "in it"?

Thanks for helping me pay attention to details I'd no doubt otherwise miss. 

Soggydog

Langley, Whidbey Island, Washington

It's not what I just did that counts, but what I do next.

"Sort of" Apology

Old Orrin is sure afraid of admitting a  mistake.  For him to say that he "accidentally used her name, instead of her predecessor," he is saying that he was talking about her predecessor on "Meet the Press," which he clearly was not. I'd call that another lie, rather than an apology about a lie.

I don't think this was the first time I heard him say those things about Carol Lam.  If I'm not mistaken, he made similar statements at Kyle Sampson's testimony, though it's possible it was on a news program.

Hatch's "apology"

It will be interesting to see if Tim Russert reads Hatch's letter and if he has any comment!

What to go Rachel!!!  Love ya, gal!

LoveAirAmerica!

Same Diff

Alan Bersin/Carol Lam..same diff right?;)
LOVED the open letter, and yes it does seem to work!

Oral Hatch

I saw Tim Russert 'sort-of' respond to the Oral Hatch 'apology' today on Meet the Press. It was dismal if anything. He may have spent 10 seconds on the subject. Whereas he should have spent 10 minutes apologizing to his viewers why he didn't take him to task last week. It was an utter failure on Russerts part not to explain or even acknowledge that NBC didn't do their homework on that one. It was a total sham!

Russert's "response"

Gives new meaning to the word "lame," doesn't it? Yell at him about it, if you have time. Or yell with a LTTE. Or yell to your friends.

Please see this thread on Democratic Underground:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&fo...

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