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Allen Raymond on "A" Daily Show with Jon Stewart

by: Douglas E. Lindner

Fri Jan 18, 2008 at 00:03:17 AM EST
Allen Raymond, notorious executor of the 2002 New Hampshire phone jamming scandal, was on "A" Daily Show with Jon Stewart tonight, promoting his new book, How to Rig an Election.  It's actually a good interview, and will be re-played tomorrow (Friday) in the 8:00-8:30 PM rerun of tonight's episode.

We all know he did a terrible thing, but he's hard to hate, considering how willing he is to condemn the things for which he was so rightly punished.  I know he's peddling a book that he wants to make money on, and probably trying to start a career as a talking head (and perhaps settle the score with some former co-workers who threw him under the bus), but he does seem worth listening to at this point.

PS: in case you didn't know, "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" has re-branded itself "A Daily Show with Jon Stewart" for the remainder of the WGA strike; my understanding is that Stewart and Colbert, having shown support for the WGA, were forced to come back on the air without their writers or risk having their staff and crew members laid off.  Many people are unwilling to appear on their shows (making money for Comedy Central and AMPTP member Viacom), but the WGA has essentially said it doesn't fault them for crossing the picket lines, since they were basically blackmailed.  If anybody can explain the situation better in the comments, please feel free.
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Allen Raymond on "A" Daily Show with Jon Stewart | 10 comments
I like Allen Raymond (4.00 / 3)
and think people should listen to him and read his book. Of all the people involved with the phone jamming, he is the only one who has consistently accepted responsibility and told the truth.

  He also has interesting insight into the Republican political apparatus and there is much that can be learned from listening to him.  

"But, in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope." Si se puede. Yes we can.  

Also on Hardball - "How to Rig an Election" (4.00 / 4)
was the topic of last night's segment.

Chris Matthews asked Raymond, as an "expert of the dark arts," about whether his actions cost Jeanne Shaheen the Senate race, the return of anti-McCain dirty tricks in SC and Clinton campaign surrogates attacking Sen. Obama's acknowledged teenage drug use.

Here's the link to the video:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21...

Intriguing interview. Matthews was a little too effusive in his gratitude for Raymond "paying for other people's sins" imho, but Paul is correct that we should respect Raymond for serving his time and coming clean about what he did. There are valuable lessons to be learned here.

The lesson of the interview - presidential campaigns of both parties are despicably attacking the character of good candidates through rumor and innuendo. It has to stop.

I may be new to BH, but I hope that some of its notable bloggers condemn not only Raymond for what he did, but those campaigns and their surrogates engaging in "the dark arts." They should pay for their own sins.

Alderman-elect, City of Manchester (Ward Six)


President, NH Young Democrats

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Republicans for Voldemort (4.00 / 1)
The "dark arts" comments remind me of a bumper sticker I always see in the physician parking lot of the CMC in Manchester.

I love it!

Feeling hopeful since 2004...

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i want one! (4.00 / 1)


"But, in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope." Si se puede. Yes we can.  
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"Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does." Allen Ginsberg
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Thanks! (0.00 / 0)


"But, in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope." Si se puede. Yes we can.  
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who knows what evil lurks (0.00 / 0)
in the hearts of men ?


"Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does." Allen Ginsberg
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I thought of that a few months ago, Googled it, and found out I wasn't the first. (4.00 / 1)
Voldemort-Cheney '08!
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Another example of crappy logic. (0.00 / 0)
The only argument I heard Raymond present is "that since everyone does it, it is okay for me to do it, as long as a lawyer approves, and any way it gives you permission to do it next time as a way to get even." This is just plain  WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG. Clinton (Bill) did some good stuff as well as some crappy stuff. The good stuff does not make up for the bad stuff.
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