Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Zach Wamp vs. Rachel Maddow: Round II

Posted by Jeff Woods on Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 7:08 AM

Zach Wamp made the mistake of complaining to the Rachel Maddow Show about its segment on the Family, the weird secret Christian society which owns the C Street house where the congressman has lived in Washington for a dozen years. He denies he ever said C Street residents are sworn to secrecy about what goes on inside, as Maddow said he said on her show last week. Maddow was actually quoting the Knoxville News Sentinel's Michael Collins who paraphrased Wamp as saying there's a secrecy "pact." Whatever. Maddow wasn't exactly apologetic about it all last night. In response to his complaint, she gave Wamp another sock in the nose on national TV:
"Until we reason to believe Mr. Wamp was lying when he said C Street residents have all agreed to not speak about C Street or that his homestate paper was lying when they attributed that quote to him, I'm going to have to stand by what I said. If I have said something untrue on this program, I am quite literally, not kidding, more than happy to correct it it. But congressman Wamp, if you say something to your hometown paper that sounds bad when it's repeated on national television, don't blame the person reading the quote back to you for how creepy that quote makes you sound. I'm tempted here to add something about bearing false witness but I shall refrain. Barely."

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Zach Wamp looks like the freaky closeted gay CIA character, Scott Pritchard, in the Kevin Costner movie 'No Way Out.'

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Posted by Richard Flatts on July 16, 2009 at 7:56 AM

Perhaps it's time to someone on a national scale dug into Zach Wamp's college day cocaine use and sale. There's plenty of people from his hometown who have first hand knowledge of it. Ask around.

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Posted by Tennessee resident on July 19, 2009 at 8:57 AM

"Maddow wasn't exactly apologetic about it all last night."
Nashville Scene - can you explain why Maddow needed to be apologetic about quoting a newspaper?

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Posted by Ashley on July 25, 2009 at 3:34 PM

So now we have Sen Birch Bayh saying that we need more ways for our elected officials to interact OUTSIDE of congress. This is exactly what C Street is designed for. So you have a respected Democratic Senator basically agreeing that Wamp being a resident of C Street is what is needed more. Guess Zach was rignt all along.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/opinion/21bayh.html?hp

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Posted by jr carlton on February 21, 2010 at 8:56 AM
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