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Re: I don't care if Roger Clemens is lying (Scripting News)

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:22:29 -0000

I agree. Although, I believe Clemens. I couldn't care less who is right and who is wrong, everyone will still know that Roger Clemens is one of te greatest pitchers ever. Case Closed.

Re: I don't care if Roger Clemens is lying (Scripting News)

Kevin — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:46:45 -0000

What a joke Congress is, and the worst part is....they don't even care. They are fiddling with trivia while the economy is a mess, the war is a horror, and torture is the Bush legacy (and their legacy also, since they did nothing to stop him).

And the world has thousands of other problems, and they wasted all this on nothing.

Disgusting.

Re: I don't care if Roger Clemens is lying (Scripting News)

Dan Kennedy — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:57:42 -0000

A landmark cultural moment. Sorry you can't see it.

Re: I don't care if Roger Clemens is lying (Scripting News)

justcorbly — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:16:51 -0000

That's one of the reasons I don't watch, or pay for, cable news. We make a mockery of the noun "news" when we apply it to the vast majority of cable "news" shows.

The talking heads are on cable because, like their talk radio counterparts, it's the cheapest and most profitable content to manufacture.

At least when i was listening, NPR wasn't leading or obsessing about the Clemens story.

Re: I don't care if Roger Clemens is lying (Scripting News)

rvanderblom — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:42:45 -0000

CNN Europe was even going live to this and to be honest, hardly anybody over here has a clue who Roger Clemens is, must have been a slow news day..

Re: I don't care if Roger Clemens is lying (Scripting News)

Jeff Wartman — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:30:23 -0000

Even if he is lying, it's none of Congress' business.

http://www.jeffwartman.com/2008/02/roger-clemen...

Re: I don't care if Roger Clemens is lying (Scripting News)

Tim Coyne — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:10:45 -0000

I can't argue with you not caring but something being "important" is up for debate. While I find most of what you talk or post about important, one could argue that most of what you talk about is totally NOT important.

What I'm saying is that "important" is very hard to define.

Bottom line. People are interested in Brittany Spears and Barack Obama . . . and Roger Clemens.

It's very hard to determine what is IMPORTANT and what is not.

I find them all to be very interesting. Good enough for me.

Re: I don't care if Roger Clemens is lying (Scripting News)

Ryan Sholin — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:07:32 -0000

Clearly a Mets fan.

Re: I don't care if Roger Clemens is lying (Scripting News)

Tony k — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:20:58 -0000

Exactly. The MLB commissioner should be having these meetings and dealing with it, not the US government. What a waste of taxpayer dollars.

Re: I don't care if Roger Clemens is lying (Scripting News)

PaulDing — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 03:17:50 -0000

Possibly *they* deserve to be basted, but do *we* need to have Congress wasting its time on this while the economy is driving over a cliff, and our kids are dying in Iraq?

The questions they were asking Roger Clemens were not investigatory, but accusatory. And it really got absurd when they talked about the nanny.

If they asked me about someone who worked for my wife a decade ago, someone I always addressed by her first name, I probably wouldn't be able to come up with a surname, and I certainly wouldn't be able to come up with an address (although I might be able to drive there.) So this was on a Friday afternoon, and I ask my wife that evening, and I call my attorney that night. He leaves a note for his secretary to phone the information to the congresscritter's office. His secretary isn't going to be working on Saturday or Sunday, nor is there going to be anyone at the congresscritter's office over the weekend. So they get the information on Monday. Yet, they wanted to make a big deal about it, as if it's his fault for not having an eidetic memory.

Then he invites this sweet lady, as he described her, over to his house. For one thing, I'd want to warn her that they were going to browbeat her, and I'd want to apologize to her for that. I'd sure be curious about what she was going to say, because if she remembered something I hadn't, I'd want to show up first with that information, rather than let them pound on her about it being a different story. And he told her to tell the truth. Oh, geesh, what a rotten apple, telling a sweet lady that it's OK to tell the truth, that she needn't feel obligated to lie about anything out of a sense of loyalty.

I really hungered for Roger Clemens to quote Joseph Welch, "At long last, sir, have you no shame?"

I'm not a Roger Clemens fan. I saw one minor league game about 15 years ago - Derek Jeter was playing for the Columbus Clippers - but I really haven't paid much attention to baseball much since the days of Bird Fidrych, Dennie McLane, and Rocky Colavito.

And the next thing, we'll hear Arlen Specter quizzing the NFL over videotapes.

This whole thing reminds me of Parkinson's Law, where the board of directors spends 5 minutes OKing a $30 billion factory, but argues for 3 hours over a $250 shed for the night watchman's bicycle.

Re: I don't care if Roger Clemens is lying (Scripting News)

Elisa Camahort — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:09:04 -0000

Oh God, I so agree. I heard some of it on NPR this afternoon and couldn't believe our Congresspeople were taking so much time on this issue (let alone the media.) Honestly, why is this of national importance? Let them clean up their games, and let the market determine whether or not people even care that much.

And I'm a sports fan, so I'm not saying this as someone who doesn't follow this.

Re: I don't care if Roger Clemens is lying (Scripting News)

Jeff — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:44:05 -0000

I have to admit that i did watch some of the hearings today merely for entertainment purposes.
However, the hearings did do some good. It showed the inner workings
of congress and showed that some of the people in congress are in fact idiots.

The commitee was split among party lines with most republicans being pro-Clemens. One
Republican went as far as saying that Roger Clemens is going to
heaven. WTF?
And many of the congressmen were more concerned about showing up for the
cameras then asking any questions. How do these people get elected?!
These are some of the same people who will be voting on the important issues.

Re: I don't care if Roger Clemens is lying (Scripting News)

Perry — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:41:11 -0000

I would agree with you if we, the adoring public and our children didn't idolize these guys and put them above others because they play a kids game. I personally love baseball for all its intricacies and strategies. So what this boils down to is supposed superstars who are fakes, that bathed in the public adoration and now deserve to be basted in it.

Re: I don't care if Roger Clemens is lying (Scripting News)

Mike — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:46:31 -0000

OK, so how much are we spending in tax dollars to determine if Roger used steroids, what 10 years ago? Come on Congress. Find something useful to do. Now, of course, they want to charge him with Purjury. In other words, they can't prove steroids, but just need to prosecute him for something. What next, are they going to impeach him? A lot of good that waste of money did last time. Find something to work on that is useful guys. How about major oil companies fixing gas prices? How about doctors intentionally misrepresenting medical chart diagnosis codes to collect more money from the insurance codes. How about Hiliary's illegal real estate deals which suddenly just dropped from the radar when the records she had so diligently kept all those years, just dissappeared? Look at the number of high power politicians and law makers sitting there all day listening to the evidence about wether Roger got a needle in his ass or not. I'm embarrassed.

Re: I don't care if Roger Clemens is lying (Scripting News)

dave — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:09:07 -0000

What's wrong with getting links to MSNBC and AP articles on Twitter?

Re: I don't care if Roger Clemens is lying (Scripting News)

dave — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:08:22 -0000

Well, I for one, care. And that's not the only news that happened while they were covering Clemens and McNamee.

Re: I don't care if Roger Clemens is lying (Scripting News)

dave — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:07:34 -0000

No.

Re: I don't care if Roger Clemens is lying (Scripting News)

patrick — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:57:50 -0000

Shlock news predates electronic media by a long shot.

Re: I don't care if Roger Clemens is lying (Scripting News)

Bill — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:57:17 -0000

You know there's news going on because you're subscribed to a Twitter feed?

Is it just me, or is Twitter how the Matrix is going to begin?

Re: I don't care if Roger Clemens is lying (Scripting News)

Mariva — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:51:01 -0000

You just noticed this about the MSM?

Re: I don't care if Roger Clemens is lying (Scripting News)

FeedUs — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:26:24 -0000

War, terrorism, recession looming, social security and health care crisises...

And our congressmen and women are trying to determine whether or not Roger Clemens lied.

Terrific.

Re: I don't care if Roger Clemens is lying (Scripting News)

Ontario Emperor — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:56:27 -0000

Alternative view - why is it so important to know what Obama and McCain are saying? Frankly, the actions taken by our local governments are MUCH more important than things that are done thousands of miles away. Yes, Obama or Bush could do something that affects your withholdings on your income tax return, but if the city doesn't pick up the trash, it's gonna stink outside your house.

Re: I don't care if Roger Clemens is lying (Scripting News)

dave — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:50:45 -0000

A little hostility there, eh Randy?

It's good to vent. :-)

BTW, I didn't say "I don't care if some random anonymous person named Randy's son takes steroids to make the NHL" because I do care.

Re: I don't care if Roger Clemens is lying (Scripting News)

Randy — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:36:33 -0000

Thanks! When my son starts taking steriods because it'll help him make the NHL, I'll look at your picture.