O'Brien to Giuliani: "Stop putting words in my mouth;" interviews him about U.S. Consulate..

CNN ^ | October 22, 2012

[maggief]

CNN Anchor Soledad O’Brien interviews former Mayor Rudy Giuliani about whether or not he still thinks that the administration was involved in a cover-up, regarding the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya. She then points out that ABC News Political Contributor Matthew Dowd said that it took President George W. Bush years to correct the weapons of mass destruction argument that originally justified the invasion Iraq. O’Brien asks former Mayor Rudy Giuliani if it is unfair to expect answers about what happened in Libya so soon.

Giuliani asks, “So, we’re going to blame this on Bush, too?”

O’Brien says, “You’ve got to stop putting words in my mouth, sir. Seriously, hang on. Let me finish. Because every time I ask you a question –"

Giuliani says, “Well, I want to answer the question.”

O’Brien says, “And let me finish my point. Every time I ask you a question you like to push back as if somehow the question that’s being posed to you is unfair. It’s not. I’m a journalist. You said some things. I’m trying to get some accurate responses from you. You are welcome to answer. Go ahead.”

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Full title: O'Brien to Giuliani: "Stop putting words in my mouth;" interviews him about U.S. Consulate attack in Libya

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[Steely Tom]

I don’t get it. Was Giuliani interviewing Soledad O’Brien?

[cdcdawg]

O’Brien says, “...I’m a journalist ...”

HAHAHAHAHA!!! You can’t make up comedy like that. Who lied to her and told her that?

[Nervous Tick]

>> O’Brien says, “... I’m a journalist...”

That’s the funniest thing I’ve seen on FR all day!

[maggief]

“O’Brien says, “...I’m a journalist ...””

I’m still laughing!!

[RexBeach]

Hey, Soledad, those aren’t Rudy’s words in your mouth - they’re your feet!

If she’s a “journalist,” I’m Charles Foster Kane.

[PieterCasparzen]

The Mayor is unwilling to allow her to pose loaded questions that suit her communist purposes.

Oh, and he’s smart enough to not allow this.

Poow wittew communist. Go back and ask daddy sowos what to do...

[penelopesire]

The obvious comeback to Soledad should have been to ask her why then did she and the rest of the lame stream media jump on the dem talking point of no WMDS back then with such flaming rhetoric?? She admits in her puerile rant that we still do not know about the WMDS......hmmmmm......

I am afraid we are fixing to find out where they went......Obama has let the jihadists get ahold of them.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Couldn't believe it when she was doing a series of leadership conferences with among others Tim Tebow and John Maxwell.

This woman isn't even qualified to hold a door open for Mr. Maxwell...

[bray]

There is no comparison to trying to determine if a Hussain had WMD somewhere in his country and your building getting bombed. Another example of an Affirmative American.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Plus anyone who thinks everything there is to know about Saddam's Iraq is in the public arena is just STUPID.

Heck, we are still learn little secrets from WWII.

[TigersEye]

O’Brien says, “... I’m a journalist."

Bwaaaahahahahahaaaaaa! Keep telling yourself that.

Pat Caddell called it. Do you believe it yet?

Pat Caddell slams the media: They have become an “enemy of the people” (video 26:00)

The Media will not report the truth!

[pepsi_junkie]

Well, I don't think O'Brien is really saying it's Bush's fault. She is saying "Bush got bad intelligence too, it happens. Nobody blamed him for that so why blame Obama?"

Of course, that's absurd, they skewered Bush about Iraq with implications that he lied about WMDs for years. If they conceded he had bad intel at all, it was only to say he should have known so it's still his fault. For years.

Only now that Obama needs a lifeline do they say "well hey, this stuff happens. Look at Bush, he was misled by intelligence too." So transparent.

[Milton Miteybad]

O’Brien says, “And let me finish my point. Every time I ask you a question you like to push back as if somehow the question that’s being posed to you is unfair. It’s not. I’m a journalist. You said some things. I’m trying to get some accurate responses from you. You are welcome to answer. Go ahead.”

If it is true, as you purport, that you claim to be a "journalist," then whatever point you may have thought you had is irrelevant. If you are in fact a journalist, then your purpose is not to set forth your own viewpoint, but to report events in a timely fashion with absolutely no bias whatsoever.

However, Ms. O'Brien, inasmuch as the difference between your brain and a bag of alcohol-soaked dog feces is literally the bag and nothing else, any "point" you might try to make would commensurately valueless. As difficult as it might be, you will do well to bear that in mind. With what little mind you actually have, that is.

[TigersEye]

I think Giuliani was just asking for clarification. After all those words were in Soledad's mouth for a decade.

[crosshairs]

Soledad is Charlie McCarthy to Barry’s Edgar Bergen.

[annieokie]

I am afraid we are fixing to find out where they went......Obama has let the jihadists get ahold of them."""....

You know, a retort like that should SHUT THEM UP.

[TigersEye]

It’s starting to look like Hussein is transferring Gaddafi’s old stockpile to Syria too. Is he trying to start the cold war with Russia back up?

[RatRipper]

it took President George W. Bush years to correct weapons of mass destruction argument

Personally, I don't think his weapons of mass destruction argument was ever credibly debunked. They found leftovers where it was stored. There is the problem with the images of truck convoys to the Bekaa Valley in Syria. And lately, people wring their hands when they thought the Syrian government might fall and terrorists might get their hands on weapons of mass destruction, although I know Syria had them on their own.

The media is now routinely creating and sustaining false realities. That is fraud and it is far, far different from getting a fact wrong, or inadvertently omitting a fact, from time to time. Fox needs to create some kind of afternoon game show making sport of identifying false media reports and "journalist liars". Maybe that would be one way to counteract the absurdity of falsehoods aimed at women.

[SpaceBar]

Excellent points about the suspected WMD’s. Remember when Iraq was liberated and the “Oil for Food” program run by the UN turned out to be a money laundering scheme of monstrous proportions? Now these same creeps will supposedly have poll-watchers in our election, you know, to watch out for abusive conservatives.