It was the perfect plan. As the country edged closer to the pivotal 2008 presidential election, Republican-puppet master Karl Rove concocted a scheme to throw off the Democrats’ chances at the polls: He’d direct then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to sic the Department of Justice on local Democratic officials in swing states, opening frivolous corruption investigations into the innocent politician while strategically leaking the trumped-up details to hungry right-leaning media outlets, who in turn would misreport and inflate the unproven accusations until a cloud of corruption settled around the party, an umbrage that would either keep disgusted voters home on election day or drive the undecided into the waiting hands of the honest and apple pie GOP, therefore locking in the needed electoral college votes and securing the presidency for the conservative agenda for yet another four years. Game, set, match.
At least, that’s what Jimmy said.
Opening arguments began yesterday in former-Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora’s corruption trial. No doubt, as the trial drags on, you’ll hear all the ins and outs of both the prosecution’s and defense’s arguments. If Dimora’s attorney’s opening remarks are any indication, it looks like they’re going to work to convince jurors that Dimora was only acting out of friendship when he arranged jobs and contracts. Which is a pretty sensible line of defense . . .
. . . too sensible, if you ask us. Now with all this slippery argument and legal wiggling, we’re nostalgic for the simpler days when Dimora maintained he was the innocent victim of a vast, tangled political conspiracy.
This article appears in Jan 11-17, 2012.
People play the race/ethnic card like a joker in a 26 card deck. We should get rid of the jokers and play a real game of life. If everyone you break laws with are Italian, then all the people that get arrested with you will be Italian- you can apply that idea to all situations. If Dimora doesn’t like the law picking on Italians, then he should have hung out with more non-Italians.
Just because Jimmy, Frank and company were corrupt and screwed the whole county, it does not mean that the right wing media did not use it to help to get the sitting governor and a shit load more republican politicians and big businessmen into the real money. Jimmy and Frank are chumps and anyone who sees the big picture knows that the right wing media in Ohio is a joke on the people. We have main stream media fucking with the freedom of speech everyday while padding the pockets of republican owned businesses like the Columbus Dispatch and the underwear business down there, while we pay the fucking price for a couple of Al Capone pretend gangsters pushing people around to get what? Fucking Tiki Bars and out-fucking-houses? You want to see some big money fucking the people of Ohio, look up and far above the food chain of a couple of wanna-bes, to where the fucking is going on on a much larger level. Oh yah! Blame it on the Dagos and Blacks and Hispanics…again. Blame it on the Orientals and the illigal immigrants while rich prick corporations fuck us silly. Blame it on the Arabs and the terrorists and the communisits and socialists and libtards. Blame on anyone but the fuck-heads claiming to create jobs while they fuck us senseless and stupid…again. We sure as fuck must like it cause we keep on bending over for them…kissing their ass so we can keep a lousy job kissing their kids ass and telling them how fucking smart they are. Ohio needs change more than any large state in the country. The people of Wisconsin have had the balls to tell the prick governor how they feel about being attacked by government. The fucking right wing wants small government so that it pushes everyone around and control freaks things. 011312–KJ–Friday the fucking thirteenth..
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I am happy to see that most of the people who read my comments and essays hate them. Many have said as much with replies. Many who hate what I write are conservatives with a bit of racisim mixed in. I am hated less on clevescene than on clevelandcom and yahoocom and several other larger and more main stream blogs. My studies show that between 60 – 80% of those who comment or thumbs down others are conservative, white males who hate the president of the USA, The OWS movements and pot smoking and a host of other things which all of these types have in common. This leaves a dismal 20-40% liberal minded to debate the right wing on the blogs. The censorship is far more likely to be placed upon liberal thoughts, whereas the heavily racist and name-calling right wing is less likely to be pulled for not following guide-lines and ethics. In Ohio we are currently controlled by the republican party and the right wing media machine. The PD has become a clone of the Wolfe’s Dispatch after the Jimmy and Frank show created a power vaccum up here and enabled the right wing media of Columbus to take over. Because in Ohio we can not move any further right than we already have moved or we will have Nazi style media control. As the main stream is seen more and more for its’ failure to report fairly, opportunity for thinkers and freelance writers will become tremendous. When the logic from the liberal minded is put side by side with the conservative minded the truth will once again be easily seen. Censorship is the right wings only hope to maintain negative reporting and media manipulation on a power and money basis. Money is being seen as often used against the people of the USA and the world at large by the 1%. The people are being educated via the Occupy movements and the protests around the world. Big money has over-reached and must be put into a less damaging role in society.