Charlie Rose becomes Hillary’s campaign spokesman and Chris Wallace screws up

Flopping Aces ^ | 05-18-15 | DrJohn

[Starman417]

 
CBS This Morning was on the screen (I almost said "tube") this morning and I watched an exchange between Charlie Rose and John Dickerson.  Rose introduced the topic as Marco Rubio being the latest GOP candidate  to "run into trouble" this morning over his comments about the Iraq war. There clearly is a herd mentality out there among the media to play the gotcha game regarding Iraq. Rose played a video clip between Chris Wallace and Marco Rubio in which Wallace asks Rubio "Was the Iraq war a mistake?"

Rubio answered properly that it wasn't a mistake at the time. Wallace wouldn't have any of it. He insisted on Rubio admitting it was a mistake or it wasn't a mistake. Rubio wouldn't back down.

"It was not a mistake for the President to go into Iraq based on the intelligence he as provided."

Correct answer.

Then the smartass Rose then asks Dickerson "Why is this so difficult?"

Dickerson then makes a stupid argument. He argues that Iraq was a mistake because the country, having been polluted by democrats running away from their votes for the war and hypocritically raging against the war, now thinks it was a mistake. It is as though the arbiter of national security policy is current  popular opinion.

Gayle King then asked Dickerson what he thought the best answer to the question would be and to his credit Dickerson largely supported Rubio. He said that one should "go back to the moment" and that "Bush was faced with very difficult decision" and he had to chose between "two bad options" - doing nothing or allowing Saddam to coordinate with terrorists.

Again, correct, more or less. But that is pretty much what Rubio said. And he did say that GOP candidates need to "take people back in time" and consider the decision in the context of history.

Then Charlie Rose takes on the mantle of Hillary Clinton spokesman.

"I don't understand why they have a hard time saying 'if we didn't know there were no weapons of mass destruction there we wouldn't have gone in."  I think that's Hillary Clinton's position. That's Hillary Clinton's position" sputtered Rose.

There it is. Why can't the GOP candidates just be like Hillary?

Well, let's see what Hillary was like. Back before history was changed by democrats, she was in favor of the Iraq war- very much in favor of it.

“I believe the facts that have brought us to this fateful vote are not in doubt,” she said on the Senate floor. “Saddam Hussein is a tyrant who has tortured and killed his own people, even his own family members, to maintain his iron grip on power. He used chemical weapons on Iraqi Kurds and on Iranians, killing over 20,000 people.”

And she added:

Mrs. Clinton declared that Saddam, “left unchecked … will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons. Should he succeed in that endeavor, he could alter the political and security landscape of the Middle East, which as we know all too well affects American security.”

There's lots more at the link.

Two years later, she defended that vote:

[vpintheak]

If leftist love a guy, and they love Rose, you can gaurrantee he’s a lying, biased, turd-ball.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

A defective memory yet with a command of non-facts is powerful medicine for Democrats.

[Ken H]

That man is the most dull, boring person in the media.
Every plodding question is just filled with great import and wisdom... Sheesh.

[hinckley buzzard]

Charlie Rose has been licking up left wing spit for a very long time. No surprise here.

[Still Thinking]

CBS This Morning was on the screen (I almost said "tube")

If it's anything involving Hillary! or other noxious statist propaganda, "vidscreen" is preferred.

[Steve_Seattle]

"I don't understand why they have a hard time saying 'if we didn't know there were no weapons of mass destruction there we wouldn't have gone in."

Wow, that quadruple negative is sure hard to decipher after a glass of wine.

"I don't understand"
"if we didn't know"
"there were no weapons"
"we wouldn't have gone in"

[Steve_Seattle]

"Every plodding question is just filled with [imagined] great import and wisdom ... "

I edited your comment. You are correct: Charlie Rose is a pompous ass.

[Lisbon1940]

I like the way he says “nigh-knee seconds.”