Libby Liberated. Paris Punished.

46. 1st - LIbby never should have been prosecuted. This should have never gone to trail. He was the fall guy. This guy was railroaded.

Posted at 5:58PM on Jul 3rd 2007 by Finally

47. OH PLEASE!! Don't insult Libby. You cannot even compare these two. He deserved the commutation of his jail sentence and he deserves to be pardoned.

Posted at 5:54PM on Jul 3rd 2007 by Because I Said So

48. i knew ya'll woudn't be able to resist this one...so predictable.. :|

Posted at 5:53PM on Jul 3rd 2007 by nailontheheader

49. TMZ -- get your facts straight! Who's writing your stuff -- a 12-year old or a member of HIlton's PR team?

#40 was absolutely correct.

Also, Paris was NOT sentenced for, as you put it, "a glorified traffic accident."

Here's what happened:

On November 21, Hilton’s license was suspended for reckless driving with a high blood alcohol level. That suspension was to last until March 29, 2007. On January 15th, 2007 she was stopped by the California Highway Patrol who advised/reminded her both verbally and in writing that she was driving under a suspended license; her passenger had to drive the vehicle. On January 22, 2007, Hilton plead “no contest” to alcohol-related reckless driving and was placed on probation. On February 27th, she was again caught driving on the suspended license, and in violation of her probation, driving 70 mph without the car lights on in a 35 mph zone.

As part of her probation, Hilton was to begin a 12-hour program of alcohol education, which was to begin by February 2007. She failed to comply with this stipulation of her probation as well.

Hilton tried to lie her way out of it to the judge...it's no wonder he sentenced her. Someone in this much denial is bound to kill someone some day.

Posted at 6:00PM on Jul 3rd 2007 by Genna

50. This Administration has shown the rest of the world that an American democratic government is just as bad as the governments we condemn. It's disappointing that this incident is how George Bush chose to celebrate this country's birth.

Posted at 6:23PM on Jul 3rd 2007 by Herbert

51. CLINTON PARDONED MARK RICH Does Havrey Levin and TMZ tilt LEFT???? We think it does and sadly so. We want news, not TMZ's seduction. I'M GETTING SICK OF TMZ. I am glad Paris didn't kill anyone as she drove drunk MORE thank once, and again with her head and tail lights off going over 70 MPH. She was using a lethal weapon. Forget LIBBY, WHY NOT REMEMBER MARK RICH AND EXPLAIN THAT AS I AM LISTENING TO HILLARY BASH BUSH WHEN HER HUSBAND THAT PASSED OUT PARDONS LIKE LOLLIPOPS. What a joke these president hopefuls are .. Hillary and Billy ... oh, yah .. pardon me. UGH

Posted at 6:05PM on Jul 3rd 2007 by VAL

52. #3 Libby is part of the network that leaked Plames identity.

#6 I agree with you. When Paris got out after 3 days many were outrage. Rev Sharpton even burst out she got special treatent because she's rich/celebrity and white. He even had a meeting with the sheriff. Rev Sharpton where are you? Protest infront of white house and schedule a meeting with Bush.

#8 (Kate) put yourself in Plames position and I bet your heart will be racing. Plames is a covert agent she doesn't have protection/immunity anybody can take her kill her. She's on a secret mission and all of a sudden they(Bush/Cheney aministration) blew her cover.

Paris was convicted for driving on a suspended license.

#15 I agree. Why shouldn't he spend time in jail. And there's a Pardon to come when Bush leaves the white house. Bush doesn't have a word of honor. Libby is a coward coward coward.

Scooter Libby convicted lying/perjury sentence 2 1/2 years plus $250,000 fine. Endangering the life of a covert CIA agent --- leaking her name to the media. ---> Will not spend anytime in jail. Jail sentence was just commuted by Bush and Presidential Pardon is in the air, too.

Paris Hilton convicted for driving on a suspended driver's licensedue to DUI. Convicted spent 23 days in jail plus 2 years probation.

Posted at 6:09PM on Jul 3rd 2007 by noname

53. Marc Rich had Scooter for a lawyer. He's the guy that brokered the pardon.

Funny.

Scooter was covering for his boss, the vice president.

Not so funny.

Posted at 6:19PM on Jul 3rd 2007 by rickedmonds

54. Okay, which of you lame-os wrote that crap?

Libby was not convicted of outing an agent. He was not charged with that. Everybody knew she was an agent, that's why no one has been charged.

Libby was convicted of perjury, like Martha Stewart, as someone noted.

I'm so disappointed when I read a supposed news or media site writing outright lies.

Dumb.

And do you ever read any of the posts correcting your errors? And when you find you are wrong, do you ever retract or correct your own errors? Is there any honor among TMZ staffers?

I know Harvey said he never reads the posts, and shame on him for being so closed-minded and lazy.

Posted at 6:23PM on Jul 3rd 2007 by Who writes this TMZ junk?

55. BY JAMES TARANTO
Tuesday, July 3, 2007 3:23 p.m. EDT

Clemency for Terrorists
In August 1999 President Clinton granted executive clemency to 16 members of FALN, the Puerto Rican terror group behind some 130 bombings, including one that killed four people at New York's Fraunces Tavern in 1975. Even the ultraliberal New York Times looked askance:

To be sure, an American President has an absolute power to pardon. But that does not relieve him of the obligation to defend any and every decision to intervene in the criminal justice system. Indeed, this President's rare use of the pardoning power makes it all the more important for him to reveal his reasoning. Of more than 3,000 applications for clemency filed since 1993, he has granted only 3. The suspicion is rampant that his motivation was a political effort to please the Puerto Rican community that is crucial to Mrs. Clinton's hopes in the coming Senate race from New York.

The House voted 311-41 for a nonbinding resolution "expressing the sense of Congress that the President should not have granted clemency to terrorists." All 41 of those voting "no" were Democrats, as were 71 of the 72 members who voted "present" (the other was a self-styled socialist who abjured formal membership in the party).

Nancy Pelosi, now speaker of the House, did not vote. But the Congressional Record reveals that was only because she showed up late;

Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Chairman, on the last vote, H. Con. Res. 180, I was detained in traffic while returning to the Capitol. Had I been present, I would have voted "no."

Pelosi was unwilling to criticize a president of her own party when he turned loose terrorists convicted of such crimes as seditious conspiracy, possession of unregistered firearms and interstate transportation of a stolen vehicle. Keep that in mind as you read her statement yesterday:

The President's commutation of Scooter Libby's prison sentence does not serve justice, condones criminal conduct, and is a betrayal of trust of the American people.

The President said he would hold accountable anyone involved in the Valerie Plame leak [sic] case. By his action today, the President shows his word is not to be believed. He has abandoned all sense of fairness when it comes to justice, he has failed to uphold the rule of law, and he has failed to hold his Administration accountable.

For our part, we're just happy that a good and patriotic man won't have to go to prison as a sacrifice to the Angry Left. Plame kerfuffle personage Matt Cooper makes a good point:

Why not just pardon the guy? Why leave him with the stigmata of a convicted felon and a $250,000 fine to add to his legal bills--even if they are taken care of by the generosity of so many of his friends. (By the way, can the Scooter defense fund now release the names of donors?) If Bush had the courage of his convictions, he would have been like Jack Nicholson in a A Few Good Men and admitted that he thought [Plame's blowhard husband, Joe] Wilson was a jerk and that he believed what happened afterwards was right. Instead, Bush vowed to take action against the leakers.

By the way, what about the real "leaker" of Plame's "identity," Richard Armitage? Is he ever going to face "justice"?

The Hobgoblin of Little Minds

"Nonviolent offenders should not be serving hard time in our prisons. They need to be diverted from our prison system."--Sen. Hillary Clinton, Democratic debate, June 28


"Today's decision is yet another example that this Administration simply considers itself above the law. . . . This commutation sends the clear signal that in this Administration, cronyism and ideology trump competence and justice."--Sen. Hillary Clinton, press release, July 2
(Hat tip: blogger "Maryland Conservatarian." )

Posted at 6:29PM on Jul 3rd 2007 by Golatha

56. Just, possibly, The Hiltons were right at the end of the day....

Counting down the number of days until this bastardly President and Vice President are out of office. They have brought disgrace to the citizens of the United States and sorrow at home and abroad. Don't know what kind of prenatal vitamins the mothers of these two took while pregnant but they each gave birth to evil offspring.

The British should equally be ashamed of Tony Blair who now wants to serve as a peacemaker around the world after supporting such a savage war.

Posted at 6:31PM on Jul 3rd 2007 by Soleil.

57. nice try at liberal propaganda tmz. you know better than posting things that are'nt true. mr.libby was not "busted for leaking a cia agent's idenity". obstruction of justice is what he was convicted of. lets keep it straight.

Posted at 6:31PM on Jul 3rd 2007 by badlands

58. IM SORRY BUT HILTON COULD HAVE KILLED SOMEONE WITH HER RECKLESSNESS...LIBBY DID NOT.......GO LIBBY, GO PRES. BUSH!!!! LETS PUT PRES. BUSH'S PARDONS UP AGAINST THE ORAL SEXER CLINTON AND SEE HOW MANY DRUG ADDICTS CLINTON LET GO........GIVE ME A BREAK WITH THIS BS

Posted at 6:50PM on Jul 3rd 2007 by JENA

59. Whether or not anyone's life was in danger or not, what Libby did was an act of treason. Men have been hung for treason.

The commute of sentence by Bush was just to hush Libby up. Had Bush not commuted the sentence (or in the future not pardoned him), Libby would have sung like a bird to get his sentence reduced or wiped out altogether. And I am sure he would have a lot to say.

Treason is a crime against a country. Anybody that thinks the commute of his sentence was justified is an idiot. More honorable men have been hung for treason and Libby does not fall under the "honorable" category.

Posted at 7:14PM on Jul 3rd 2007 by with an open mind

60. By reading peoples comments it reveals one thing, and that is how little knowledge people have of the facts of both cases. Sad, it shows how effective the print media and local news have been at telling what they want people to know. Here we are on the internet and people still wont research for themselves to find out the truth. Guess if a lie is repeated long enough, it is believed. The more scary thought is that these folks vote.
Oh well... in time we all will suffer because of the ignorance of the many.

Posted at 7:51PM on Jul 3rd 2007 by Ken