Rep. Schiff re-writes the call transcript for added drama: "I’m going to say this only seven times, so you better listen good, I want you to make up dirt on my political opponent, understand, lots of it, on this and on that, I’m going to put you in touch with people" pic.twitter.com/1rV7BpEN6o
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 26, 2019
September 26, 2019
The art of the paraphrase.
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What a disgraceful display.
I'm watching the hearing. This isn't new news, but Adam Schiff is a despicable human being.
I need to stop watching and go enjoy the sunny day at the lake.
What a piece of Schiff.
Unctuous Adam Schiff, despicable human. Now is a good time to recall the time he got linked by Ukrainian shock jocks who called him offering naked Trump pics. How did Schiff react to this foreign interference in the 2016 election? He enthusiastically accepted their fake dirt!
You can surely hear Trump say the things he's accused of if you read the transcript backwards at half speed, in a fake British accent. Meanwhile the people that believe the transcript is a smoking gun are the same folks who see no problem with Granny McCacklepants erasing subpoenaed emails, destroying mobile devices or taking Bleach-bit to her unintentional private server.
Missed it by that much.
This is the best they have? They are honestly going to try to run with this? This is only possible because of the lickspittles in the media's obeisance to the democratic party.
According to Schiff...
"If you listen closely to the President of Ukraine, he says to Trump 'I hope that their first child will be a masculine child'."
What a scumbag.
“Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field ....”
What person with and IQ over 80 would buy this guys bullshit lies?
Oh...yeah...90% of those that attend or are employed on a modern day US College campus....
I'm happy you people are not worried because if you were, us libs would have face your guns defending the deep state coup.
Judging from the panicked behavior, I'm starting to think there might actually be some indictments.
Wince, great!
Schiff is obviously paraphrasing not quoting, as AA says. But it’s a ridiculous paraphrase.
This just turned. Schiff isn't getting what he wants from Maguire so he just started attacking him for hiding the complaint (which is bullshit).
Vote impeachment or not, the Democrats will pay in November 2020. We've seen this in 2010. But Democrats don't know how to learn their mistakes.
Schitt is a disgrace. A total disgrace.
Why is he allowed to do this? He makes up a quote and the media pedal it as truth.
Howard: "I'm happy you people are not worried because if you were, us libs would have face your guns defending the deep state coup."
hmmm, do you want to try again with that?
Tags: Making shit up
Make up dirt? Joe Biden's son is a money grubbing crook. Nobody needs to make anything up.
Joe Biden used his power to enrich his family and his son in particular. Just like the Clintons.
Adam Schitt(D) is here to tell us to ignore reality. Howard is happy to suck Schitt's dick.
We get the leaders we deserve. We actually vote these slugs into office.
Oh...we do have the power to vote the slugs out.
Howard said...
I'm happy you people are not worried because if you were, us libs would have face your guns defending the deep state coup.
Howard, did you write this, or did Schiff? If you wrote it, please do a rewrite.
OM: "This just turned. Schiff isn't getting what he wants from Maguire so he just started attacking him for hiding the complaint (which is bullshit)."
Indeed. The dems cannot get what they want from Maguire so the usual dem tactic is to accuse Maguire of corruption, get him to step down, demand Trump/Barr and every Trump appointee recuse themselves, and then have a deep state holdover appoint a "independent" (LOL) person to handle this the way the dems want.
Once again, the dems have one play in their playbook and they will simply go back to it again and again....
FYI, the US just approved a $6.5 Billion sale of F-35's to Poland.
Precisely what Putin wants........LOLOLOLOLOL
I think our trolls are breaking down mentally. But Schiff obviously has nothing, so he's frantically beating that strawman.
It won't matter. Joe Biden knows he's going down, and he knows no deal will be sufficient. The best he can hope for is dying of a stroke before his national humiliation.
This is paraphrase with a purpose. Schiff wants his paraphrasing to become the transcription. In other words, he's betting that his words will make the rounds of social media as though that is exactly what the transcript says Trump said. And it's a good bet. Because that is exactly what will happen.
The left is one big lie machine.
They lie about everything.
Sanity search: the transcript and whistleblower complaint have been released. Has anyone seen one single person who changed his mind as a result? Who thought Trump would be impeached, this time for sure! Oh - I was so wrong!
My Congress Critter Adam Schiff a scumbag? Be still my beating heart! I never realized that before. Or at least most of the voters in my district haven't yet come to that conclusion.
I'm surprised that Adam's eyes can bug out as they do, considering the intense vacuum between his ears.
In a just world this impeachment obsession of Schiff's would turn out to hurt him big time--but then who said the world is just?
Adam Schitt(D) is a disgrace and he should be removed from office. forcibly if needed.
Adam Schitt is Hall of fame disgrace
Isn't it funny that I will always spell it schitt from now on?
The panic is real here.
They k ow they're going toose in 2020 and the courts have been changed so much in less than three years, they can't stand another 5 with Trump.
It's going to keep escalating.
So the fact that this complaint was filed, regardless of content, is going to be the basis for impeachment?
Anybody who trusts this man and his lying ass, deserves what they get. If they Impeach, God help us.
We Chose THE TRUTH over FACTS!
If the transcript doesn't fit, you must... rewrite it.
That's so childish.
What hoax are they going to throw out there and hope it sticks next???
Karen of Texas said...
This is paraphrase with a purpose. Schiff wants his paraphrasing to become the transcription. In other words, he's betting that his words will make the rounds of social media as though that is exactly what the transcript says Trump said. And it's a good bet. Because that is exactly what will happen.
I can see Russia, from my House!
‘Or, alternatively, you could look at the video where my opponent says, “If you [Ukraine] don’t fire the prosecutor [investigating the company that pays off my son], you don’t get the $billion.”’
Make believe offenses by Trump to obscure real offenses by Biden, Hillary, Clapper, Rice, FBI criminals, et al. Time for Barr to get busy starting with those Hillary stooges who got immunity. They don’t have immunity against perjury in front of a grand jury. All that needs be established is that she authorized moving the emails without adequate safeguards as already acknowledged by Comey. Whammo! Felony indictment! Watch Hillary give up the Big O!
Adam Schitt(D) is here to tell us to ignore reality. Howard is happy to suck Schitt's dick.
Well, he was a Marine, after all.
Don't worry about Howie, AllenS, when he wants to be taken seriously, he employs proper spelling and grammar. It's his Jon Stewart shtick. Clown nose on, clown nose off.
‘Or, alternatively, you could look at the video where my opponent says, “If you [Ukraine] don’t fire the prosecutor [investigating the company that pays off my son], you don’t get the $billion.”’
Make believe offenses by Trump to obscure real offenses by Biden, Hillary, Clapper, Rice, FBI criminals, et al. Time for Barr to get busy starting with those Hillary stooges who got immunity. They don’t have immunity against perjury in front of a grand jury. All that needs be established is that she authorized moving the emails without adequate safeguards as already acknowledged by Comey. Whammo! Felony indictment! Watch Hillary give up the Big O!
Schiff represents the Hollywood area. He think's he's a movie star in a Mob movie. Or a screenwriter of a Mob movie. Trust me, I'm a screenwriter and Schiff's no screenwriter.
On the left - because they lie so well, it's the seriousness of the charge. Forget the evidence.
That's why leftwing lies are so effective.
We Believe All Whistleblowers
where is the FBI investigation into Biden and his son?
So damning we can’t use the actual words!
Judging from the panicked behavior, I'm starting to think there might actually be some indictments.
We need a poll: The panicked behavior of Democrats reveals:
a) They know they're going to lose the election
b) RGB is too frail to fake it at SCOTUS.
c) The indictments are coming!
d) CNN is failing. We need something to prop up their ratings.
e) Allof the above.
This is only possible because of the lickspittles in the media's obeisance to the democratic party.
It is the other way around; the lickspittles of the Democratic Party spinelessly paying obeisance to the media lynch mob.
"Karen from Texas: This is paraphrase with a purpose. Schiff wants his paraphrasing to become the transcription. In other words, he's betting that his words will make the rounds of social media as though that is exactly what the transcript says Trump said. And it's a good bet. Because that is exactly what will happen."
Just like they did to Sarah Palin when Tina Fey, playing the character said, "I can see Russia from my front porch."
Truth be damned.
LOL
Mitt Romney’s national security advisor in his 2012 campaign — a career CIA spook who rose to its top levels — sits on the board of directors of Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company that formerly paid Hunter Biden $50k a month despite his complete lack of credentials or qualifications.
And it also an odd coincidence that Mitt has as CNN puts it “been a lone Republican voice expressing concern about President Donald Trump’s July phone call with Volodymyr Zelensky in which Trump asked Ukraine’s President to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his family.”
Still more oddly coincidental is the background of Mitt’s adviser deep in the CIA, part of the intelligence community that has “six ways from Sunday” in foiling a mere president who might oppose them, according to Chuck Schumer.
Maguire getting pissed at Schiff for trying to put words in his mouth.
This guy seems like a straight arrow who is fed up with Schiff's mendacity. Welcome to the party, pal.
I'm wondering if this is really about Ginsburg being near death, and the Dems having decided that they desperately need to forestall a nomination of her replacement or make an appointment appear illegitimate.
Live by slim judicial majority; die by slim judicial majority.
Spell it out Howard. No linking.
Make your case. Connect the dots so I understand.
My Facebook crowd who had been wee-wee'ed up over muh Russia have finally perked up again after their March slump! Oh boy they really got Trump this time! Of course Barr will need to recuse himself (insert reason here)so that they can get an independent council to look into this or better still roll it into the articles of impeachment! Amazingly the people writing this have legal agency and are allowed to operate multi ton vehicles on our public streets.
The real problem with college today, and the college that I attended lo these many decades past, is that there no longer seems to be an emphasis on primary sources. Better to leave those to a priesthood of people who know what’s best for you, and you should just trust them.
It’s Gutenberg all over again with the Internet. Before him, only the priesthood could read the Bible, and the lumpenproletariat had to trust them as to what was in it. Gutenberg stated the Enlightenment, and the last thing those who imagine themselves in control would like to get back to the pre-Gutenberg days. Now they have a chance. You couldn’t round up all of the printed books, but you can simply disappear online content effectively.
One of the few things that I learned when lectured about the UCMJ is that "hearsay" is inadmissible. After reading it, my take on the whistleblower complaint is that it was carefully crafted as a piece of political propaganda by a team of lawyers who had, as they say "no direct evidence" of the matter at hand. This was no single handed effort by a concerned employee.
Hunter Biden must be ecstatic not only to have his relations with Ukraine and China exposed, but being assured that at some point his entry into, and discharge from, the Naval service scrutinized. Perhaps he and Dad, like the Clintons, just have no shame.
Plenty of people still believe that Sarah Palin said she can see Russia from her house. The same people are going to believe that Schiff quoted Trump accurately.
Blogger Mike (MJB Wolf) said...
Unctuous Adam Schiff, despicable human. Now is a good time to recall the time he got linked by Ukrainian shock jocks who called him offering naked Trump pics.
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Should be a campaign ad about "Russian collusion"
"I can see Russia from my house." Said Sarah Palin never.
But it doesn't matter, does it?
Schiff, also had ties to pinchuk who was part of the Clinton foundation, and he was represented by doug schoen,
Sadly the Dems aren’t wacko here. They and many of their Republican counterparts have spent years building a system that lets them do what Biden did. And get rich doing it. That’s what is on the line here. They aren’t crazy, they are protecting a system that has been good to them.
Where's Hunter Biden. Shouldn't he be in front of a camera loudly defending his integrity and the honor of his family?
Based on a long story about Hunter in The New Yorker, I'd guess that he's probably passed out in an alley somewhere. Dude was a drunk and a crack head, went through a half a dozen rehabs, started screwing his brother's widow before the body was cold, lived with a street whore for a while and recently married a woman he had known for less than a week. A charmer. Definitely not someone who would take a fake job for a ridiculous amount of money because of who his Father was.
Maybe he's all better now.
The Dems have some cards to play here, but they are going to overplay them and lose.
They need to give the appearance of being judicious, or better yet be that, if they want to prevail. Don't think that will happen. Schiff's creative paraphrasing has already backfired.
My favorite thing is watching all the people on Twitter become sudden experts on how presidential phone transcripts are supposed to be handled. Amazingly, all the new experts know that the WH did it wrong.
So, IF the democrats HAD to decide, between
Destroying President Trump?
and
Destroying America?
but, they had to pick ONE, and LOSE the other; which would they rather see Destroyed?
It's a tough call? Isn't it?
They are going to start dipping into the Valerie Plame playbook.
"Spell it out Howard. No linking.”
LOL. If he did that, it would open him up to questions. His troll manual covers all of that.
Steele Dossier / Mueller Russia lawfare impeachment failed, so replacing it with Ukraine lawfare To drive impeachment.
G. This was a Hitjob to remove a weak Presidential candidate, Biden
Schiff now saying parts of his statement were "parody".
They really think we (both left and right individuals) are stuuuuuuuupid.
Where is the FBI on Hunter Biden?
you know who would be a dream ticket for 2020?
Hillary + Hunter Biden + Adam Schitt + Peter Strozk.
Corruption soup.
Very attractive to educated sophisticates like ARM.
Adam Schitt has zero credibility. Just look at all the BS he spewed for 3 years on cable DNC fake news platforms about how he allegedly had the super secret insider knowledge of Trump's Russian collusion.
What an asshole. He needs to be prosecuted and forced out of all government. He is a disgrace.
Pelosi: We must impeach him first before we has a real reason.
Adam, people without a sense of humor shouldn't attempt comedy at serious moments, but go ahead and see how it works for you.
also from:
Suspicions Grow That "Whistleblower Complaint" Is a Put-Up Job Orchestrated by Adam Schiff
Sean Davis has similar thoughts:
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Adam Schiff was tweeting out allegations from the rumor-mongering anti-Trump leaker's complaint while claiming that he didn't have access to the complaint.
The complaint was addressed to Schiff on August 12, 2019. This tweet is from August 28, 2019.
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And which media propagandist did Schiff use as a prop to hide the true source of his allegations? One of Fusion GPS's favorite stenographers of discredited Steele-esque innuendo: Natasha Bertrand.
The whole thing has been a Fusion GPS-style info op from the very beginning.
Schiff and his allies even stovepiped information in the same manner as during the collusion hoax: they leak claims to compliant media, media runs with claims, then leakers point to the media reports they seeded as proof of their allegations. They started back in May.
And surprise! The anti-Trump leaker cited as proof of corruption in his complaint the very same articles that Schiff and his allies quite obviously seeded to form the narrative they desired.
This raises the troubling question of whether Schiff orchestrated the complaint.
This pattern of behavior from Schiff, his "whistleblower," and their media allies makes it all the more necessary for the anti-Trump complainant to publicly testify under oath and answer questions about his team's interactions w/ media and Democrat lawmakers about his complaint.
And lest anyone forget, Adam Schiff and Fusion GPS head Glenn Simpson have a long history of working together in this fashion. Recall that Schiff and Simpson, who perjured himself in congressional testimony, secretly met together in Aspen.
Pencil-necked geek Rep. Adam Schiff, his Graves Syndrome in full bloom, tried his hand at stand-up comedy during a congressional hearing today...
Jaore
I suspect that is Althouse ‘s agenda here. Schiff doing “parody” that people fact check. But just using irony or sarcasm do not make parody. Schiff wants to act on the interpretation he put forward — with legal consequences. So the parody claim doesn’t hold water.
Maybee
Great point. I hadn’t thought of that but it is really pretty devastating.
JAORE: "Schiff now saying parts of his statement were "parody"."
Schiff knows perfectly well his "parody" will become the go to sound bite for all dems/MSM/Left/LLR-left from now on.
Which was the entire purpose.
And the dems will believe it till the day they die.
Even on this blog we still have readering and Uhr and ARM who believe strongly the hoax dossier is completely verified and true even though every one of the coup ringleaders, under oath, has said otherwise.
Schitt(D-Nazi) isn't paraphrasing. he's making shit up.
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1177232994681200644
Adam Schitt must be removed from office. NOW.
I am encouraged that with each hoax the dems/deep staters/left/MSM/LLR-left launch the mean time to Narrative Collapse grows shorter and shorter.
Sean Davis tweets:
Adam Schiff was tweeting out allegations from the rumor-mongering anti-Trump leaker's complaint while claiming that he didn't have access to the complaint.
The complaint was addressed to Schiff on August 12, 2019. This tweet is from August 28, 2019. https://twitter.com/RepAdamSchiff/status/1166867471862829056 …
Adam Schiff
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@RepAdamSchiff
"Trump is withholding vital military aid to Ukraine, while his personal lawyer seeks help from the Ukraine government to investigate his political opponent.
It doesn’t take a stable genius to see the magnitude of this conflict.
Or how destructive it is to our national security. https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1166839608811970560 … "
Smoking gun.
PATHETIC:MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough Falls for Daily Show’s Parody Ukraine Call Transcript
Paraphrase
verb
express the meaning of (the writer or speaker or something written or spoken) using different words, especially to achieve greater clarity. "you can either quote or paraphrase literary texts"
Adam Schiff was free to paraphrase a conversation that neither he nor any of his critics have heard. The only document was prepared by Trump staff which was obviously a shortened version of an entire conversation.
So if we need to criticize, perhaps we need to ask what Trump was trying to hide in not publishing the entire conversation?
Are you kidding me - straight-shooting Schiff was embellishing the truth? I am so disappointed...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDmGhethEoQ
As BB&H pointed out, Schiff repeatedly told us he had the proof that Trump colluded with Russia. Every reporter should be asking him where is that proof every time he has a press conference.
If there was any chance of finding a real reporter any more.
there is speculation about who it is, which I won't entertain but the enabler is Gordon,
Remember: It's illegal to discuss Hillary's corruption.
It's illegal to discuss any democratic's corruption.
@ Rudy
Rudy Giuliani
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@RudyGiuliani
The biggest surprise today will be that President Trump had a constitutional duty, under the Take Care Clause of the Constitution, to make certain that the laws regarding serious corruption against a former VP of the United States were properly executed.
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Some of this all goes back to "I can see Russia from my house." My ex-spouse gleefully quoted this to me numerous times. Ha ha. That it actually was a Tina Fey joke was lost on her. I count that as where she finally separated from reality.
Blogger BleachBit-and-Hammers said...
Pelosi: We must impeach him first before we has a real reason.
We have to pass it (Obamacare) to find out what’s in it.
Well i always found the huntress 10x more dynamic than fey:
https://www.scribd.com/document/427616178/Ukraine-PGO-Memo-Translation
I think from now on he should be greeted with "Hey Schiffhead".
One of zylochevskys three atty
https://www.bluestarstrategies.com/about/our-team/karen-tramontano
Perhaps we need to know more about Hunter Biden's international no-experience needed money grubbing to the tune of millions?
"So if we need to criticize, perhaps we need to ask what Trump was trying to hide in not publishing the entire conversation?"
-- Paraphrasing should keep the "gist" of the comments. For example, if I were to paraphrase that as: "If we have to criticize, it's that Trump published enough of the conversation for us to understand it and Schiff somehow didn't understand." See? It has roughly the same words, but deliberately misinterprets your point. That's not a "paraphrase" as anyone would understand it. Now, a paraphrase also doesn't get quotation marks, but that's getting a bit more technical than I think you care about.
"Schiff now saying parts of his statement were "parody"."
-- Sure, and the guy who makes a crude derogatory comment about me and then goes, "Whoa, just joking! Just joking," is also innocent of any mal-intent.
The Poor Man's LLR ***** gadfly: "Adam Schiff was free to paraphrase a conversation that neither he nor any of his critics have heard."
There is clear evidence Schiff was involved in developing this ploy in August. Schiff has had all the information for over a month.
LOL
You can always count on gadfly the chucklehead to be lightyears behind the story!
I, for one, will not be passing any judgement until PolitiFact and Snopes weigh in.
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