Roger Simon of U.S. News: "Nobody Died When Bill Clinton Lied"

MRC ^ | 11:20am EST, Monday February 16, 2004 | BrentBaker

[fight_truth_decay]

On Sunday's Face the Nation, at the start of a segment on President Bush's National Guard duty, CBS's Bob Schieffer said he was "surprised, frankly," that the Guard story "has gone on as long as it has." As if he had no control over the subject matters addressed on his own show.

But neither Schieffer, nor his guests on the topic, Time's Karen Tumulty and Boston Globe reporter Walter Robinson, went so far as Meet the Press panelist Roger Simon of U.S. News who remarked that, as opposed to Bush taking the nation to war, "nobody died when Bill Clinton lied."

Simon was responding to host Tim Russert who had pointed out how the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll found Bush is seen as "honest and trustworthy" by just 52 percent and on weapons of mass destruction, asked "Did the President exaggerate the evidence?", 54 percent responded yes, 42 percent no. Russert asked: "How much of an issue is this credibility, as Time magazine called 'a potential gap,' going to play in the 2004 race?"

Simon replied: "I think it's going to be huge. We've had Presidents who have lied to the American people. Our last President lied on a number of occasions to the American people, but nobody died when Bill Clinton lied. If, as these polls reflect, a majority of the American people think the President either lied or exaggerated about the weapons of mass destruction and sent young men and women off to war to fight and to die based on those lies and exaggerations, they're likely to be a little unforgiving, I think, in November."

Maybe, but the Washington Post/ABC News poll didn't show that. Even of those who believed Bush "exaggerated" the evidence, only a minority, 39 percent, think he lied. And when asked, "Regardless of whether or not it exaggerated the evidence, do you think the George W. Bush administration honestly believed that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, or not?," 68 percent said "honestly believed" compared to just 27 percent who answered "did not honestly believe."

For the Washington Post's rundown of this poll released on Thursday: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac3/ContentServer?pagename=polls&nex tstep=chooseQuestion&interactive=n&searchPollId=2004041&pollType=M aryland&questCategoryType=n&newsearch=&questCategory=&keyword=&pol lDateRange=&startingRow=1

[fight_truth_decay]

"The dangers of acting," Clinton said, "are far outweighed by the dangers of not acting." -TIME magazine 3/99

[The G Man]

Unless you want to count those poor shleps working in the aspirin factory.

[TADSLOS]

Our last President lied on a number of occasions to the American people, but nobody died when Bill Clinton lied

Someone should drop the "list" in his lap.

[dts32041]

or on the Cole, or kobar towers, Waco, etc etc.

[ghost of nixon]

"nobody died when Bill Clinton lied."

what about the people on the receiving end of those cruise missle strikes timed to delay the Monica vote? What about all the people killed because Clinton was too distracted to properly respond to the 1st Trade Tower, Riyahd barracks, Cole, and African Embassy bombings?

[Paul C. Jesup]

Roger Simon of U.S. News: "Nobody Died When Bill Clinton Lied"

Someone ping the Clinton Death List

[mewzilla]

Backhoe, if you get a chance could you provide one of your Toon legacy posts?

[Blood of Tyrants]

And the people of Kosovo and Iraq who died so that news of his infidelity and lying wouldn't be front page news.

[spiffy]

No, people died when they were no longer willing to lie.

[Diogenesis]

“If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old.
Through his tireless work as a legislator,
Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age.”

– Charles Pierce, January 5, Boston Globe

[Morgan in Denver]

Plus, I guess, Clinton's inaction had nothing to do with 9-11?

[CSM]

But a court decision (verdict) was directly affected.

[mewzilla]

Richard Miniter's book Losing Bin Laden addresses what Toon did and didn't do. It's obvious Simon hasn't read it.

[Wombat101]

I guess we all forgot Waco already....

[EggsAckley]

Wait a minute. Didn't they say he WASN'T lying back then? NOW they admit he WAS lying...................

[Wil H]

Roger Simon of U.S. News: "Nobody Died When Bill Clinton Lied"

OH YES THEY DID !

The Caretaker at the Sudanese Aspirin Factory for certain

Add to that Vince... Foster, Gerry Parks, and a long list of others

[upchuck]

It didn't die, but our national dignity and heritage was done irreparable damage when Clinton lied.

[Snardius]

Mary Jo Kopechne

She gave her life so the country would not have to endure another Kennedy presidency.

[Area51]

Seems to me I remember a train full of civilian passangers getting blown to bits in Kosovo by a American Bomber, and a few aid stations and hospitals also being bombed.

And then there was that little mess in Mogadishu where Bubba Clinton sent in a attack force to attempt a capture of Addid without the proper air support that cost a few Rangers their lives, but hey don't let the facts get in the way for the LIARS of the Left.

[OpusatFR]

""nobody died when Bill Clinton lied."

World Trade Center attack I

Khobar Towers

USS Cole

Kenyan Embassy

and of course, the mother of all lies which propelled us into the Kosovo debacle which BTW is a complete mess to this day.

Clinton was too caught up in his poll numbers and lies to take action when action should have been taken.