(Smug name dropper)
Lately we’ve had to put the “Libby” filter on our news crawlers because a simple search for “Scooter” doesn’t turn up two wheeled fun anymore. We used to just have to sort out things like those little 2 wheeled Razor Scooters or news reports about how BFE Townsville is banning kid’s motorized scooters. Can we get this one buried so we can get back to the REAL scooter news? Thanks.
***UPDATE***
Just want to give my apologies to Terrance at www.republicoft.com for using his hosted “Scooter” image without even a tip of the hat. That’s what I get for rushing, eh?
29. October 2005 at 2:22 am
DO YOU REALIZE THAT WHEN YOU LINK DIRECTLY TO AN IMAGE ON MY SITE THAT YOU ARE USING MY BANDWIDTH THAT I PAY FOR?
IF YOU WANT TO USE THE IMAGE THAN KINDLY DOWNLOAD IT FROM MY SITE AND UPLOAD IT TO YOUR OWN HOST AND USE YOUR OWN BANDWIDTH.
IF YOU WANT TO LINK TO THE IMAGE THAN AT LEAST LINK TO THE POST IN WHICH THE IMAGE APPEARS.
THANKS TO YOU AND SOMEONE ELSE WHO LINKED TO IT, I’M TAKING THE IMAGE DOWN.
AND YES I REALIZE THAT BY USING ALL CAPS I’M YELLING, BUT SINCE YOU’RE LITERALLY COSTING ME MONEY, I THINK IT’S WARRANTED.
9. November 2005 at 2:41 am
Now that vice presidential adviser I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby Jr. has been indicted for obstruction of justice, how could the law possibly let him go on bail?
A guy named Scooter is going to split, right? A guy name of Scooter poses too much of a flight risk. Same deal with a man named Skip.
On Friday, Libby was indicted after a two-year investigation by special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald on charges of making a false statement and perjury in the CIA leak case.
They didn’t name this guy Scooter for nothing. How could you trust a man with a tag like that not to jump bail? You give him a chance to bolt, and he’s in Juárez before sundown.
A picture in the newspaper Friday showed Libby hobbling around on crutches. Maybe this was a sympathy ploy. If your name was Scooter and you were about to get accused of perjury and you didn’t want to go directly to the clink, wouldn’t you show up in court hobbling around?
This has been a really sorry year for the White House. First, the president’s approval rating gets down to about the size of a Democratic pep rally in Williamson County. Then the White House is all over the front page in a CIA leak story because of a guy named Scooter.
It could be worse. Dick Cheney could have hired an adviser named Gatemouth.
A couple of firsts occurred when Libby got indicted.
He became the first guy named Scooter to be accused of lying about how and when he learned about CIA agent Valerie Plame’s identity.
And he became the first Scooter in quite some time to make the news. Other than Phil “Scooter” Rizzuto of the New York Yankees, the last Scooter of any note was likable Green Bay Packer Coach Ray “Scooter” McLean, who resigned after the 1958 season, the worst in Packers history (1-10-1).
Nobody remembers Scooter McLean. I think we’ll remember Scooter Libby. He’ll be the Scooter who put the final nail in George W. Bush’s political coffin.
I have no problem with people who insist on going by names they got at the age of 3. Come to think of it, I have a 13-year-old cat named Scooter. I may be the only guy in my South Austin neighborhood who has a pet who shares a first name with a White House big shot who has been accused of outing a CIA agent. But it’s just a weird coincidence. I also have cats named Oreo and Bitsy. And I have a hard time imagining even this White House hiring a Bitsy or an Oreo. Especially Oreo.
Think about it. There are some people you just wouldn’t feel right about letting out on bail if you were a judge. I wouldn’t be real quick to release a guy named Hoss. You let a guy named Hoss out, and you know he’ll be right back at it. I also would be reluctant to release a guy known as Tiny, especially if he weighed 350 pounds. Somebody’s obviously lying about something.
Either way, I think this will turn out to be the low ebb for the Bush administration, unless they find out there’s a guy working in the bowels of the White House who everybody knows as Tricky Dick.
Wait. That’s already been done.