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Did you hear the one about Barbara Comstock and Mark Corallo opening their own consulting firm to spin and manipulate public opinion on behalf of Republicans potentially facing indictment and having to deal with all those pesky subpoenas? Quoth Mr. Corallo:
Corallo and Comstock are forming the crisis management firm Corallo Comstock, Inc. They aim to open shop on Jan. 1, just before the new Democratic chairmen will start banging their gavels and demanding information from the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue.“Just in time for subpoena season,” Corallo told HOH. (H/T to The Muck.)
Look kids, it's the market forces at work, Republican Beltway style.
(What? You don't like vultures?)
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i can’t possibly be first.
this is a good sign. i am concerned about raising expectations about how many scandals will be deeply investigated, and yet here are repub apparatchik who clearly think it’s going to be open season.
dmg @
1
you’re number 1
For those unfamiliar with Barbara Comstock (Scooter’s spokesperson, among other things) and Mark Corallo (Rove’s spokesperson, among other things), the links I’ve provided in the post above ought to give you a good introduction to them. And by “good” intro, I mean a glimpse into the heart of manipulation and spin…
They could be on the leading edge of one of the big growth industries.
Rodriguez!
Love the title of Marcy’s post, from which you pulled Mr. Corallo’s comments: “Gooper Scoopers, Unite!” That about says it all.
Have you ever been back stage at a big circus? You’d be amazed at how much there is to scoop when a bunch of elephants are around . . .
I recommend buying stock in a legal paper producer.
Nothing like an incestuous circle jerk among cannibals.
-GSD
Bustednuckles @ 8
and shredders.
Gooper Scoopers is a great name for them, let’s use it in the future.
It’s a great time to be in litigation support software.
RevDeb @ 9
OT - From one rev to another, I loved your comments yesterday on the I Still Love Nancy thread.
How do you know when someone is lying through their teeth?
When they hire Comstock and Corallo.
btw, congrats to several of our readers whose questions for Amb. Wilson were featured in RollCall. That was such a fantastic discussion — and we’re hoping to do more of that sort of thing in the future with a number of other folks (we’re negotiating, so more details on that as we firm them up…).
Peterr @ 12
Thanks Peter. I think we are the only two that hang out here but I could be wrong. Digby has a great one up today that really captures it for me.
Christy Hardin Smith @ 14
WooooHooo!
I made it!
(blushes)
Christy, vultures are found here in AZ as a part of nature. They are also used as a search tip for people who are looking for the lost. They start circling waiting to make sure that the target is dead.
Here are some websites:
http://www.azfo.org/journal/blvu.html
http://www.arizonahighways.com.....amp;id=180
Actually, since I think of vultures as natures clean up crew, I think of the Corallo Comstock, Inc as opportunistic blood sucking parasites.
katymine at 17 — I tried to find a good photo of a leech…but they were all really icky. And, frankly, it’s too early for me to deal with something that slimy. *g* So the poor vulture got the call instead.
What about FDL???
Best Liberal Blog
Tim Grieve’s Salon War Room on Harry Reid’s farewell hug for Bill Frist in the Senate yesterday:
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/
I agree with katymine. You do a disservice to vultures with the reference to these creatures.
twolf1 at 19 — I’m not even certain when they did nominations for those this year. But there are some great blogs listed in the various categories — should be fun to see who wins.
RevDeb,
Digby rocks. (What more need be said?)
How will the Dem. Congress force the administration to cooperate? I think the WH will fight every request for any information. The Justice Dept., at least at the higher levels, is just as dirty as the WH so who works for Waxman et al.
OT Digby’s take on NARAL is really good..I just got caught up.
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/ “Holding the Line”
Christy Hardin Smith @ 22
Well, my vote goes to FDL anyway :)
Do we dare start something about “Comstock Load?”
Christy Hardin Smith @ 4
Hearts of darkness, that is.
twolf1 @ 19
I think we ought to be in the “Best Online Community” category. They blew it.
twolf1 @ 19
Poor Pammy got overlooked too in the Best Conservative blog list. First Bolton leaves, and now this . . . how will she go on?
time we armed ourselves with the arsenal neccessary to succeed with the oversight sorely missed
we also need a marketing campaign that will not only counter the claims made by the “consulting firm”, we also need to VILLAINIZE the very firm for SUPPORTING CRIMINALS WHO BETRAYED OUR COUNTRY
that’s the way we have to frame the attack against oversite that is sure to come…we MUST villainize the attack
once we stary using their own tactics against them it makes their tactics work in our favor
Latest FaBlog: Charles Bukowski Rolls Over in His Grave
Could it also be the start of Presidential Pardon season?
RevDeb @ 28
Best Damn Blog. Period
building on perris,
Since there will be so many dems doing Gooper Scooper detail in the next congress, perhaps we need to break up into squads to try to follow individual investigations. THere is no way that Jane and Christy can do it alone. We’d probably need several legal beagles alone just to follow what Waxman is going to be doing. Then there’s Levin, Conyers, Markey, et al.
This is the kind of stuff where this community excels.
So much to do. So little time.
Interesting idea, buying shredder stocks.
Fellowes - privately held
GBC - subsidiary of Acco Brands, which owns Swingline Staples, listed under ABD on NYSE. Chart is fair, not heavily covered.
Staples - office supplies firm that carries both Fellowes & GBC brands, listed on NASDAQ as SPLS. Nice chart.
Iron Mountain - data storage firm (also does data destruction…), listed on NYSE under IRM. Very nice chart.
Stephen Parrish, you out there? See anything in these firms that should give us pause?
Bustednuckles @ 33
C&L up in the ‘best video blog’ category
Let the vultures eat. As long as there are subpoenas, it’s all good.
Mornin All,
shoulda seen the Comstock/Corral thingy comin’ - let’s start some trouble so’s our friends can swoop in to make bank - hmmm where have we seen that MO ???
twolf1 - doncha worry about Weblogs - come Koufax season, it’s gonna be all FDL, all the time - and soon enough . . .
“this year’s Hamsher/Smith Prize goes to. . .”*g*
Rayne @ 35
Staples (or at least the CEO) gave lots of bucks to the Mitt for Gov. campaign and will probably do so again when he runs for pres.
this is the republican version of the perpetual motion machine: republicans abuse power and engage is pervasive corruption until they get thrown out creating a republican cottage industry to defend republicans from their illegal activities until republicans can return to power to ramp up the corruption again.
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Shark Parasites are a better choice…
Shark = Repugs
Parasites = Corallo Comstock, Inc
http://www.elasmo-research.org.....niosus.htm
Jeanne Kirkpatrick, former ambassador to UN and Reagan acolyte dies at age 80.
Rayne: don’t forget Office Max and Office Depot, both of which carry shredders.
Bustednuckles @ 8
And shredders…..
OT
Jeane Kirkpatrick has died.
Joyce @ 32
The best time to catch the tastiest pardons is on the Friday afternoon between Christmas and New Years, especially in the lamest December of a president’s term (i.e., next December).
Of course, every Friday is Take Out The Trash Friday, and who knows what will get tossed out today. Any guesses?
Also worth noting that one of the more insidious crisis management firms out there is CRC4PR, of SwiftBoating fame, related to the same nasty network that includes GOPUSA (Jeff Gannon), Media Research and Parents Television Council (Brent Bozell), TownHall.com (Malkin and Coulter) and the granddaddy, Heritage Foundation.
Why do Corallo and Comstock think there’s room in the market when this fine, outstanding specimen, CRC4PR, has had the damage control-crisis management market sewn up for years?
Larger than average volume? Or…?
Speculation that the Foley report will be released today!
http://www.washtimes.com/natio.....-8933r.htm
Surprised? Na… its Friday isn’t it?
Peterr @ 46
The Republican Majority.
I wonder if Barbara & Mike will have one of the bakery number machines in their new offices?
OT - Rummy’s LAST Pentagon town hall meeting live on CNN
RevDeb @ 49
Majorities!
((Snoopy dances))
Okay, you guys have tempted me to add a bunch of good books and music to my Amazon wish list. Poor Mr. ReddHedd is going to have a heart attack if he checks it. LOL
CNN - Rummy blasting the media
Christy Hardin Smith @ 53
You might want to add a new tag for “Books” for threads like that last one. It’s the kind of thread folks will want to come back to. What was that book that so-and-so mentioned? . . .
twolf1 @ 54
Get yer licks in while you can, Chump.
The media is going to fry your ass later.
Rummy on CNN - “I wish i could say that everything we’ve done here has gone perfectly”
-history will judge bushco’s decisions favorably (gak)
Hi all!
Rummy’s swan song on msnbc.
(yay)
Christy– loved the picture on the last thread– any information on it would be greatly appreciated.
Peterr at 55 — I saw your note at the bottom of the last thread. Your wish has been granted. :)
P J Evans — good point about Office Depot and Officemax.
Officemax - listed on NYSE as OMX. Chart is not as strong as SPLS, analysts are less enthusiastic. Not bad, but not great.
Office Depot - listed on NYSE as ODP. Nice chart, but analysts aren’t as happy with this one.
I think if you have the money, you buy a spread of these. And yes, even SPLS — that’s how we get some of our money back from Republicans (picture your stock value going up as they frantically buy shredders), and how we get control. As a shareholder one gets access they don’t have as a citizen-consumer.
(NOTE: I am not a broker, only an individual investor. Talk to your own broker, do your own homework. Your mileage may vary.)
Rummy on CNN - shorter rummy - we won the cold war so we will win iraq war.
-as i leave, at the end of my second term, and hopefully the last (amen). I leave believing americans are wise and decent. let it be noted we have successfully prevented attacks in the US since 9/11 (no attacks since the last one… duh).
Christy Hardin Smith @ 59
From my lips to Redd’s ear . . .
Rummy on CNN - about to take questions with gen pace
RevDeb @ 5
“Growth”? You okay Deb? I think the correct term is “metasticize.”
Rummy on CNN - (rummy a little sniffley)
Rummy on CNN - asked about what books he reads - books about WW2.
- quoting churchill now
- soldier saying thank you to rummy - CNN cutting off coverage
scarecrow @ 64
Again, your precision with words far exceeds mine.
Oh, just go home to Mount Misery and take your sniffles with you.
angie - did you happen to catch Scamtorum’s farewell speech on c-span yesterday?
There was a place in Long Island called Mount Misery…ghosts and such.
No, I did not twolf1– I thought he did it the night before! You mean he spoke some more?
angie @ 72
yes, it was as overly dramatic as he was 2 days ago. when he was done, there wasn’t a sound.
I think our government has been taken over by a terrorist group led by the moron son of a former one term president.
Ladies and gentlemen, the domestic terrorist group is known as Al Fredo.
-GSD
Comstock and Burial Customs: Eerie parallels, or divine Justice? Curious minds are invited to speculate.
twolf1 @ 62
My 18-year-old daughter and I were watching KO on MSNBC last night.
Clip of Bush: “We’re winning in Iraq.”
Clip of Gates: “We’re not winning in Iraq.”
My daughter: “What does the US win in Iraq, daddy?”
Of course I had no definitive answer for her.
OT - Leahy blasting “republican rubber stamp congress” on cspan2
twolf1 @ 62
Yes, and my cocker spaniels have kept swarms of rampaging elephants out of our backyard the last six years, too. ’cause it’s their job.
not even a bark, eh?
ccmask– don’t know about the one in LI, but for those who may not know this about the soon to be subpoenaed Rummy, here:
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1122-21.htm
Ooh, I love Leahy all the time, but especially when he hollers! thanks twolf1!
Good morning I just got online so sorry if this is in the thead but.. Is Senator Leahey on cspan upset because the Thugs are trying to push Haynes the torturer nomination through in the last minute?
OT - Leahy laying out the heavy snark
twolf1 @ 76
Boy, he’s smokin’ today.
He ate his wheeties this morning!
How can we ever defeat Al Qaeda when they are a band of supernatural shape-shifters that can convert themselves to turn into women and children at the drop of a bomb.
Deciders Decimaters.
-GSD
Question:
If this admin believes in a unitary government,
how can they be bipartisan?
Jack
angie @ 79
Re Rumsfeld, is justice coming?
Ex Detainees suing Rumsfeld, others re torture
Bush is a bi-polar unitary executive.
-GSD
If this is about Haynes, the torturer, what an appropriate end to this particular reign of congress.
Misery aint just a mountain in Maryland.
just planning a quick look-see fdl visit.. but saw the cspan-2 heads up (many thanks for that).
pat leahy - “if i was at all cynical”
dear pat, please listen to professor foland when he tells you to “release your inner cynic”…
I certainly hope so, scarecrow @ 85. He is so guilty.
Eureka, I think he is just pointing out the rancid hypocrisy of the thugs and gearing up for January.
I’m getting pissed off just thinking
about Bush’s talk to the nation speech…
will he roll out the WMD’s and tell us
than Iran will nuke us?
Jack
In celebration of the end of Congress, Doonesbury has featured a character who just came out of a long drug/alchohol stupor, only to find things have changed:
Doonesbury
angie oakley *s*, Oh thank goodness, I am breathing again.
Watch for falling monkey.
JAR for Weepy Jr.
-GSD
my wish for the 110 congress, in addition to congressional oversight, is that i would like to see an end to the iraq war/occupation.
but, i read this interview with dennis kucinch that the dem leadership is planning to pass a very large funding bill ( $160billion !?! ) to pay for the war/occupation through 2008.
please tell me i have it wrong.. this won’t happen.
Leahy’s no Lieberman. It’ll be tough for the velociraptors on his committee.
scarecrow - Good Doonesbury, thanks.
May Rummy spend the rest of his life in trial or prison. God speed to the nine folks and their efforts to hold him accountable.
Lurking…………….
GSD @ 92
He’s gettin right down to the core of his base, finally.Good thing for him he doesn’t “do” polls.
Eureka Springs, AR @ 95
Let him call the Gooper Scooper team and see what they can do to polish his image! Lipstick on a pig, indeed.
I want to see him spend the rest of his days with is lawyers and then fellow prisoners.
selise - I don’t see why the Dems should not limit war funding to a monthly or quarterly managed budget. The constant change along with abuse of funds demands this type of action. No matter what side of the pro/anti war members may be sitting on. Micro manage the pursestrings at least until some oversite is in place. *sigh*
Judd Gregg on Span-2 trying to sound like a Democrat.
Does he see writing on wall?
cnn says at 2PM, house ‘ethics’ cmte. will have presser on Foley case - oh what timing!
Judd Gregg R-NH raising holy hell on cspan re earmarks. Says stuff going on here would lead to prison time for the perpetrators if done in the private sector.
Eureka Springs, AR @ 100
that’s an excellent point. my position it to bring the troops home as fast as may be done. but, there is NO excuse for a blank check… i like your “micro manage the pursestrings”.
out of the blue:
twolf1 @ 101
Sounds like it could be some trash being taken out. We may have a winner . . .
Hey, and Fitz will be talking soon (according to MSNBC) about the new domestic terrorist arrest in Illinois today. Happy Friday.
MSNBC warning: Rita Cosby watching will cause eyestrain, headaches and a throat-clearing tic.
no thread on sell-out politicians would be complete without my daily affirmation:
“my contempt for Joe Lieberman will never subside”
kristinejoy at 108 — which is why I am grateful pretty much every day at some point for the mute button…
perhaps Bolton was trying to follow in her “blunt and acerbic” footsteps
selise - I am with you and TSF.
Troops
Home
Now
Funny as I typed my last comment I thought “this managed pursestring idea sounds about as middle of the road as a blue dog should” - Ha!
punaise @ 111
Bolton was a little choked up while talking to the press about her.
On Topic:
Comstock and Corrollo are marketing geniuses I tell you.
This is going to be a real growth industry for them.
kristinejoy @ 107
I wonder if it is related to the huge gang arrestes they did there in the last couple days?
looseheadprop @ 115
i think it is about a 22 year old they arrested who was going to set off grenades in garbage cans at shopping malls.
twolf1 @ 116
Damn! That would have been bad
if comstock and corrollo were the mouthpieces of scooter and rove, respectively, then they’re already masters of slinging shit, so they’ll be well prepared for their new businesss. entrepreneurship at work. or backwards cronyism?