Father of Tainted Lobbyist Scolds Clooney

[AmyStrange]

Father of Tainted Lobbyist Scolds Clooney
Friday January 20 10:15 PM ET

FROM: http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/ap/20060120/113782410000.html
The father of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff says George Clooney's off-color joke about his son's name during the Golden Globe Awards left the lobbyist's 12-year-old daughter weeping.

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"Your words were deeply hurtful to many innocent and decent people," Abramoff wrote. "One day the truth about my son will come out and there will be a lot of people in your industry and others lined up to apologize for their efforts to destroy him and our family."

He said the lobbyist's daughter, who was watching the show, was in "a fit of tears" after hearing Cooney's remarks.

"Are you proud of that?" Abramoff wrote. "Shame on you."

Clooney took a jab at the tainted lobbyist after accepting a supporting actor trophy for the thriller "Syriana."

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[Adenoid_Hynkel]

1. i guess he's proud of a son who advocated for forced prostitution

yeah all that fraud and scandal was just a lil' bit of messing around, but that big bad cloony took it too far!

[BlueJazz]

2. Dear Abraoff's Daughter.....

"Sometimes, in life, when people do horrible and deceitful things, they are open to punishment and ridicule"

[hyphenate]

13. Yep

Welcome to reality, kiddo. :)

[rfranklin]

16. It is our Christian duty to stone him to death....

cause the Bible tells me so....

[MichiganVote]

3. Ok, well at least now we know how to raise a sociopath

[Vanje]

4. What did Clooney say?

[rpannier]

11. Something to the effect of...

Why anybody with "Off" at the end of their last name would name their kid Jack.

[Vanje]

19. That? THAT made a 12 year old cry?????

Thats all?

[goclark]

22. That would mean that 12 year old had way too much

information for that age level.

Maybe they need to take her to a Counselor!

I didn't catch that one right away myself. :)


Did she do a Mrs. Lielto Cry or what....

[MagickMuffin]

17. something along the line of

who would name their son jack where the last part of your name ends in off....

[patrice]

5. All of this well timed weeping looks pretty suspicious.

[rodeodance]

6. and yesterday the headline was -Dems scold..what is it with that word.

[patrice]

15. And of course a crying rich girl is so much more important than

the tears of frustration and discouragement of generations of the Working Poor enslaved by the excesses of our economic system.

[smirkymonkey]

7. Clooney's remarks aren't responsible for the girl's tears.

Her father's actions are. These people make me sick - bringing on the tears of the women and children to distract from their sins. Revolting. :puke:

Shall we show the tears of all the women and children around the world and here at home who have suffered from Republican greed and warmongering?

[Surya Gayatri]

8. Well, Dad, maybe first

you should castigate your own son. He's the one responsible for turning your whole family into sordid bit actors in this sorry spectacle. What was missing from his upbringing--did he learn politics and ethics at your knee?
Bwaaaahahahaha...SG

[wookie294]

9. Yo, pops, your son already pleaded guilty

"One day the truth about my son will come out"

Yeah, the truth has already come out. The tears of wives and daughters shouldn't prevent this man from being pummeled repeately in the media for the PIG that he is.

[acmavm]

10. I know parents protect their kids, even love them through thick and thin.

But this guy has gone over the deep end. Bad is bad, crooked is crooked, and a sticky fingered liar is a sticky fingered liar. And this guy's son is all that and worse.

My kid doesn't fool me. I'm pretty hip to the crap he can pull and he's only 13. This old duffer better get with the program. Or maybe this is why his 'kid' is the bastard that he is. Daddy never taught him right from wrong.

And as for his kid crying, maybe he shouldn't have screwed up. That's no one's fault but Jack Abramoff's.

What's he trying to do, take away Martha Alito's 'Sarah Bernhardt Award for Bad Acting'.

[hyphenate]

12. I suggest Abramoff's father

rethink his position about how he named his son. :)

As for the 12 year old daughter, perhaps it's time she was let in on the family secret that her father is a fucker.

[rpannier]

14. One day when the truth comes out....

I see.
He's confessed to the crimes. They have his e-mails referring to the Tribes as monkeys. And other things.

Ummmm....exactly what truth is he referring to?

[wookie294]

18. Abramoff will do 10 years, then get paid as Fox News consultant

The guy actually has a bright future -- after he gets out of prison.

[MagickMuffin]

20. A Word for Daddy

Why don't you go help Jack off his high horse?

Then maybe we'll talk about your son!!!:evilgrin:

[DinahMoeHum]

21. This, my friends, is known as C-H-U-T-Z-P-A-H. . .

Jack Abramoff and his dad are the types who would kill their parents and then plead for mercy because they're now orphans.

:evilfrown:

[lynne]

23. Jack has dirty hands -

- no doubt about it. BUT, I thought Clooney's remark sounded juvenile. It sounded like something written on a middle-school boys bathroom wall.

When someone has an opportunity to make a statement to a nationwide audience, they shouldn't waste it with school-yard taunts. Clooney blew it.