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

[Mr. Mojo]

How about all the Christians in the Balkans who died as a result of a U.S. bombing campaign that Clinton ordered to keep news of his lying out of the headlines?

[dr_who_2]

Well hopefully nobody died when Roger Simon just lied.

[backhoe]

Your wish is my command ( and I really am serious by what my tagline says... )--

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[newzhawk]

is there a way to write to this rude jerk?

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Actually Clinton bombed a couple countries to distract attention from Monica and his lies. Roger Simon's editor needs some new fact checkers.

[weegee]

what about the people on the receiving end of those cruise missle strikes timed to delay the Monica vote?

BUMP

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Vince Foster and Ron Brown may want to take issue with this assertion. Anyone have a link for The Clinton Body Count handy?

[lawdude]

It seems to me that the list of suspicious and unexplained deaths in the Clinton "friend & acquaintences" circle would number nearly as many as have died by enemy fire in Iraq!

[scannell]

I disagree, when Clinton lied and said that he vowed to get the perps of all the al Queada attacks on Americans and then did nothing, 3,000 Americans died.

[Finalapproach29er]

What about the guy who took his place in Vietnam?

[GretchenEE]

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."

The correct comparison would have been in the results of each President having led America's soldiers into wars, because both have.

What an idiot.

[Political Junkie Too]

So where is Clinton's evidence of genocide in Kosovo?

-PJ

[theDentist]

Every time some news about Billy slipped out, factory workers across the mid-east called in sick.

[The Wizard]

they died because he did nothing......he killed those 300o Americans by not acting

[<1/1,000,000th%]

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."

The families of the soldiers and pilots killed in Somalia and Yugoslavia are going to be PO'd at this lie.

[Ohioan]

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

Tell that to the Serbs, against whom Clinton & Blair misused NATO to wage aggressive War. Tell that to the relatives of the people in Haiti, over whom Clinton put back a despicable Communist dictator--in tbe name of "Democracy"--who have been killed since in mob violence, or in the present civil war.

William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site

[dirtboy]

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

A couple of thousand Serb civilians would beg to differ, Roger. But at least he gave us a preview of coming attractions from the DNC. They've been suffering under the burden of Slick's lying image and would like nothing more than to portray Bush as a bigger liar than Clinton, no matter what damage it causes to foreign policy.

[Mudboy Slim]

"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."

That's a lie...78 innocent men, women, and children were slaughtered when Clinton lied about the need to storm the Waco Compound, then lied and said he had allowed the decision to send in the tanks to be made by his underlings!! Then, Kosovo was one big lie as we took sides in a Civil War, then proceeded to massacre 7,500 innocent men, women, and children, including both Serbs and ethnic Albanians.

These Lib'rals who want to minimize Clinton's rampant lying as "all about sex" are either extremely self-delusional or despicably disingenuous!!

FReegards...MUD

[adam_az]

nobody died when Bill Clinton lied.

"My lies drip with slime
They fool the Sheeple every time
All It takes is a lie in a rhyme!"

[mtbopfuyn]

Odd how during his presidency we learned a new word, "Arkancide."