Tonight's recap.... Are we hitting every branch on the way down the looney tree?
I only caught tonight's stuff in bits and pieces. But, admittedly, there were parts that left me shaking my head:
KELOland.com, will be streaming the proceedings live.
The Argus Leader's Voices weblog at http://blogs.argusleadermedia.com/voices/.
or the Hog House blog at http://www.hoghouseblog.com.
It's time for bed. As noted yesterday - tomorrow catch things at:
“I’m not comfortable talking.” (Well, no kidding. I'm not comfortable listening to all of this).
"I did not do what Austin is claiming" was Sutton's mantra. But it took a screeching wild turn off the road as he speculated on what he thought could be Austin Wiese's motivations. I thought he would have done himself a better service if he hadn't speculated, because I thought McMahon killed him on some of it.
So Wiese supposedly 'fabricated' a story and made frantic phone calls at what time in the night? I don't think that helped the case any.
And then... Oh wait. I took some notes on the next part, but I have to go find them. I left them under a chair in the other room.
Seriously - could this hearing involve anymore weirdness? I thought the cross examination of Austin yesterday about his facebook page (not MySpace as I've been corrected multiple times) made this hearing goofy. But, then I had a dream about the hearing.....
When a legislative hearing involves testimony about a note that says "Hand on wiener"; somehow, I don't think it raises the image of the legislature in the citizen's eyes..
“I would remember if I held someone’s penis and moved my hand up and down four times,” Sutton said.
Weiner was bad enough, but can we say penis another several hundred times in this legislative hearing, please? Yo know, we could use a less clinical term. Possibly wee-wee. Or Bob. That's a novel one - they could ask "What happened to "Bob?" At least that would be a diversion.
Gay porn on a computer. But it might not belong to the person who owned the computer. Or was it child porn? Is there any freaking evidence of any of this? Or was it merely witnessed? Maybe. I'll have to check the notes under the vanity in the bathroom...
And don't forget the suppressed memories. (But then again, if you suppressed them, would you remember if you had them or not?)
KELOland.com, will be streaming the proceedings live.
The Argus Leader's Voices weblog at http://blogs.argusleadermedia.com/voices/.
or the Hog House blog at http://www.hoghouseblog.com.
Comments
How about Johnson, as in "He touched my Johnson"? That would offend only a small fraction of the state's Swedish descendants.
Does anyone else have any suggestions?
(I haven't made up my mind on innocence or guilt--both sides have credibility problems--but the whole thing is very sordid.)
Either Sutton had to resign or Dennis Weise had to with draw his letter of complaint. Either could have saved us from this soap opera. Weise apparently is a bitter guy who is out to destroy his former friend at any cost, including the public embarassment of his son and family friends. One would think he could control himself and use the normal channels of law enforcement. But NOOOO. He had to use his political muscle too. Such arrogance.
We sould be thankful he is so vengeful. We might pick up a senate seat.
Give me a break.
Isnt this Duffy the same Duffy that suxsexfully(ha) prosecuted a guy in Rapid City for sexual harrassment ?
All that guy (doug hamilton) did was buy a book with questionable pictures, leave it where his female employees saw it, or, showed it to them, and wham, Duffy made a jury believe that guy was scum and cost him like 6 million dollars ?
Now this same Duffy (I think)is defending a guy that is accused of actually fondling an employee,,, is this is the same Duffy ?
anybody know ?
Dennis sits down Austin: Well son, I hate to say it, but I lost and I am pissed, so what you're gonna do, is publicly humiliate yourself by accusing Dan of touching and shaking your penis. And you will do it because I am your parent and I said so.
Are you serious? NO parent, NOBODY, would put their kid through that. And honestly, is Austin such a pushover that he would say, OK dad, sure. Give me a break.
All the parties here are nuts at some level, there would be no conviction in a criminal court but this is obviously a Kangaroo Ct. Missing, hiden notes, dreams, porn on a computer seen by a third party. Wow.
call me crazy, I just assume your principals are reflected in your work, maybe not.
That's why attorneys are so universally loved and appreciated.
It's also why there are so many lawyer jokes out there. ;~)
A more believable 'conspiracy' for me is that people involved watched how the congressional leadership in the Foley scandal was getting chastized for sweeping that stuff under the rug, and the leaders in S.D. got nervous that they may have done the same thing with Sutton.
So then, after the fact, they are trying to cover the Senate's tail - even though in the end the Senate ends up getting a bit of a black eye.
Instead of calling refering to the male member as "Bob" maybe we can call it "PP". We have a long tradition of that. No pun intended.
Actually, It wasn't intended to be about him at all.
Henceforth, we can instead refer to a tallywhacker as "Frank."