Posted on 09/26/2005 4:48:18 PM PDT by Rosemont
71% is pretty damned high for a blue state like NY. Now, if it were a red state, then you might have a point.
Clinton is gone, MoveOn.
more like "All the News That Fits (our agenda), We Print"
I'm sure Pete King, Hillary Clinton, and MoveOn.org would just LOVE if we "moved on" and swept all of the Clinton's criminal action's under the rug from now on. It would give Pete n' Hill a free ride in their next campaign and Red China would sure be glad no one ever learned just how many nuclear secrets they got their hands on under the Clinton regime.
Peter King's loves WHOEVER is currently in power. During the Clinton era, he defended Bubba tooth-and-nail and trashed any Republican who dared call Clinton to task. During the Bush era, he defends Dubya tooth-and-nail and trashes any Democrat who goes after Bush.
If Kerry were President right now, Pete would be on TV talking about what a great job Lurch is doing to protect America.
You gripe as though you belong to the Constitution Party.
"KING: Chris you are totally distorting reality, and that's the problem with you. You're distorting reality. You're on this story, you and MSNBC got carried away with this. You should all be ashamed of yourself. You've disgraced yourself and the media."
WTG! King. AMEN. I'd love to see a LOT MORE spine like this from the GOP.
Scarborough revealed himself as a louse. He will never be a Senator now. Frankly, I would like to see the investigation reopened into HIs missing intern (recall Joe waxs Gary Condit's best friend)
So maybe my congressman supports the office of the President. Just like the Bush family. The adoption papers have already been filed for Bill.
I can hope that all of the GOP presidential hopefuls diss chrissy during the election cycle in 2008
Scarbough is a hack for msnbc, I used to watch him nightly now I don't know who he is anymore
Whatever his motives he came out called the situation in Louisiana for what it was...incompetent local and state government. The only other Republican I have heard come close to that was Pataki. So I thank the New Yorkers...they have more political reasons to say nothing than the many others who have not said a damn thing in defense of the President.
Does anybody have the 2nd (7pm EST) segment? It was even better...
Chrissy was going on about how Bush had to be shown a DVD of media coverage of Katrina while on his way down there.
CM: Look, first of all, Peter, Congressman, let's get a couple of things straight. I have been very tough on the mayor. I've talked about the schoolbuses being left behind to be flooded. If I have said a good thing about Governor Blanco, I can't remember it. But I want to ask you about the President of the United States, because most people watching right now get to vote for president. They vote for President Bush, and he's the majority...he won most of the votes. He's president. And they want to think about how good a job he's doing in his second term. Let me ask you. Weren't you dismayed, I was, when I read that the president had to be shown a DVD, a recording of all the press coverage, television coverage, of the hell going on down there with those people stuck at the convention center, on his way down to visit New Orleans?
PK: I think it's important that he see the way the media is covering it, but the fact is the president...
CM: No, no, no. Let me ask you. Weren't you dismayed as a Republican Congressman, that the President of the United States didn't watch television for all those 48 hours? That he had to be shown a picture of what we'd all been watching? One of the reasons these people are volunteering is because of what they saw on television. I'm very proud of the media this last couple of weeks. We're not always perfect, but I've got to tell you something. The latest polling shows almost 80% of the American people say the media has done a fabulous job in handling this hurricane, because it's the pictures that people have seen on television, in their homes, that have alerted them to this tragedy. And maybe to a large extent, push the politicians to move a little faster.
PK: Now the fact is, Chris, you guys are giving yourselves too much credit. You guys dwell in self-congratulation. The fact is, the media's shots were distortive...
CM: No. It's rare that we have anything to congratulate...
PK: No. If you...most...
CM: Most of the time, people give us...let me ask you about this. Congress...let's get back to...
PK: Wait, wait. Let me...
CM: Okay.
PK: Chris, you won't give me a chance to answer the questions. Just because the president doesn't watch you on television, it doesn't mean he's not doing his job. You know, Franklin Roosevelt wasn't hired to listen to radio accounts of D-Day. You're hired to do the job, and the president can do his job without having to listen to Chris Matthews or Andrea Mitchell or Tim Russert, or any of the others. He is doing his job. Now I agree the military should have been brought in sooner, but that was primarily the fault of the local government not being more responsive, and then the president did the best he could. Could he have been there a few hours earlier? Perhaps. But nowhere near the criticism he's getting from you people.
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