Fox just reporting. This is a turnaround. He may take action in House.

-- Anonymous, August 24, 2001

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St. Louis Dispatch

Gephardt calls Condit's statments "disturbing and wrong" By Jo Mannies Post-Dispatch Political Correspondent 08/24/2001 10:58 AM

Calling Rep. Gary Condit's televised statements "disturbing and wrong," House Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt said Friday that he will talk to House colleagues about possible action.

Such action might include asking Condit, a Democrat from California, to give up his choice seat on the House Intelligence Committee, Gephardt said.

"I do not believe he was candid and forward," Gephardt said in an interview with Post-Dispatch writers. "He stayed in this zone of being evasive."

"I didn't hear candor, I didn't hear an apology," Gephardt added.

"As to his future, that rests with him and political constituents," Gephardt said. But he added with emphasis, "I need to talk to my colleagues.... We're going to have to deal with the issues."

Until Friday, Gephardt has been a careful defender of Condit, who has been under fire for months over his apparent relationship with missing intern Chandra Levy.

"I've served with Gary Condit for 12 years, and he's never lied to me," explained Gephardt. "In the early stages, it was a matter of finding this young woman...I assumed, first of all, that he was cooperating with police."

As late as last weekend, Gephardt said on national television that it was important for the public and fellow politicians to hear what Condit had to say Thursday night in his ABC interview with Connie Chung.

"This was a moment, obviously built up hugely, for him to say his piece," Gephardt said.

Gephardt and his wife, Jane, watched the interview at the St. Louis home of Ted Koplar, a friend and supporter. Before it began, "my hope would have been that he was straightforward, candid, and apologize," Gephardt said. But that isn't what he heard Condit say, he added.

"What he said last night was disturbing and wrong," Gephardt said. "I think it fell way short. It all adds to the general perception that politics are no-good and politicians are a bunch of bums."

-- Anonymous, August 24, 2001

He's on the intelligence committee and that was the best he could do?

yeah, let's see them take some action to get him off that committee, and any others he is on. Maybe get him out of politics completely.

-- Anonymous, August 24, 2001

Some delish comments from Lucianne readers:

His eyes slid around like olives on a plate.

A textbook case of a sociopath spewing forth the things that sociopaths do best.......Everyone else is a liar........I'm a victim........Can't you stupid people see that I'm right & you're all wrong............Straight out of psychology 101 ! ! !.................What is so interesting to me is to watch the RATS in the RAT party try to tell America & it's people that this guy is not screwed up..........Tells me a lot about the philosophy of the RAT party ! !

One of the callers on O'Reilly said he should change his name from Gary Condit to Scary Conduct. I thought that was a classic.

Before the interview , I was convinced Condit was merely a scoundrel: a serial adulterer who made a sport of betraying his wife and children. Now, I think he may have actually have been involved in Ms. Levy's disappearance. His behavior and comportment revealed a self absorbtion that borders on the psychotic: everyone else is a liar; the police tore his rug; he gave up his precious civil liberties. His scarcely contained anger has revealed a temper. His extraordinary selfishness suggests he would be perfectly capable of eliminating anyone who was a threat to his happiness. He really should be a prime suspect in what I now think was almost certainly a murder.
The appalling behavir of Condit's shyster lawyer on the Koppel show confirms my suspicions. The lawyer suggested thar Condit did the right thing in not volunteering anything to the cops other than what they specifically questioned him about. This is what a guilty suspect--an OJ--does.
It's simply despicable that the partisan House Democrats and cowardly House Republicans do not disavow this guy. Why should any of us obey laws created by an institution so thoroughly corrupted and discredited?

The Condit-On-TV was a robot, a replicant, a soulless clone. No real human could lie like that or have eyes that cold. Or have real hair like that either. It's a brave new world - expect many more like him.

The part that made me wonder: who gets "horrified" when he hears that someone has been missing for a mere few days? Chandra had been missing for a couple days, and he reports that, when he heard about it, he was "horrified." I think the reaction most people would have is "gee, I hope she turns up soon." For example, if I heard that, say, the daughter of a neighbor hadn't been heard from for a few days, I'd think that she had been careless about calling home. Only someone who knows that "missing" is the same as "dead" would say that they were horrified.

Find out who is wearing the watch now and you will find the person directly involved in her abduction. Why else go to all that trouble to get rid of an empty box?

Like Mark Furman says: ''He sounds like a man who knows the body will never be found.''
If I were the Levy's, I would hire one Mark Furman to finger this guy. He is a cold-hearted sociopath and it's my opinion that he knows what happened to this unfortunate girl.
He has got to go ASAP! I intend to express this opinion to my congressman.

Gephardt called this man honorable, Daschle defended this man being on the House Select Intelligence committee, and Feinstein only got upset with this man when he lied to HER, not when he lied to the Levys, to the police, or to us. This is the height of arrongance and only proves that the best and the brightest are not serving in Congress.

[OG Note: A surprisingly large number of the posters echoed the sentiments of the following, that they now believe Condit had a hand in Chandra's disappearance.]

He had cold, unemotional, shifty eyes. Total lack of feeling, humanness or remorse. I couldn't believe he or his lawyers really thought that interview would help him. Like others on this thread I now firmly believe that he was up to his eyeballs in involvment in Chandra's disappearance.

-- Anonymous, August 24, 2001

Ed Dames has a lot riding on his announcement that Chandra is in the Potomac near a certain bridge.

-- Anonymous, August 24, 2001

Damn, I missed that bit. Have been out and will be watching COPS in a bit but will look around for that story.

-- Anonymous, August 24, 2001

Maybe he's just another oxymoron and they haven't discovered it yet?

-- Anonymous, August 25, 2001