Couric: "Isn't Arnold losing credibility by failing to deliver on his promise of an on-time budget?"LOL!Hewitt: "No, he's delivered on many promises - repealing car tax, reforming workers' comp, etc. Now he's telling Dems they must pay attention to spending, can't bankrupt state."
I actually watched the TodayShow this morning (gag) - I'll admit - I sometimes watch Katie to see if she's got her lipstick on crooked, up over her lip - then you know she's having a bad rat day.
You could tell Katie lost the Arnie bashing segment, she was so miserable she couldn't get the Democrat to scream and she was so outmatched by Hewitt.
It was fun to watch. - SunnyUSA
Thank you for your report, SunnyUSA!See also, from www.hughhewitt.com:
July 20, 2004.Posted at 5:25 AM, Pacific
Up early to talk about Arnold with Katie on Today. My key talking point: Hanz and Franz aren't homphobic. Sacramento Dems seem to have realized that they are looking foolish and humor-challenged --again.
The segment before mine featured David Gergen defending Sandy Berger. Gergen is one of D.C.'s good guys, genuinely liked by just about everyone, and he's doing what a friend should do in coming to the defense of his pal Sandy by downplaying the seriousness of the investigation. He also tried to blow a little smoke by suggesting that the leak of the news was timed to divert attention from the 9/11 Commission report due out Thursday.
A number of points.
First, there wasn't anyone available this morning to the Today Show bookers to point out that Berger's actions in tampering with documents undermines the reliability of the Commission's report? Garbage in, garbage out, right? Even if the Commission was a genuine non-partisan effort instead of a show trial designed to keep the eye off of Clinton's indifference to al Qaeda throughout the '90s, it would still have needed all the records, and in an untampered form. How can anyone think it was a good idea to let a potentially responsible party review the evidence against him and his collegues? No one wanted to make these simple points opposite Gergen?
Second, keep applying the Condi Rice test. If Dr. Rice had been caught stuffing her blouse with highly classified handwritten notes from the days after 9/11, what would be going on in D.C. right now? Do you think The Today Show could have found someone to criticize Rice on air?
Gergen pointed to the placement of the Berger story inside the Washington Post as evidence that it isn't that significant. Huh? It is on page 2, hardly a burial ground for minor flare-ups. The story hit too late for most of the papers to get more than the AP report into print, but it should be boiling by tomorrow, and the blogosphere is already on full storm watch, and no doubt details will develop throughout the day.
First question: Does John Kerry condone this? Berger is a senior advisor to Kerry, so watch if the Dems want this scandal to follow their already struggling nominee to Boston.
The biggest question of all: If you can't trust Democrats with classified documents, how can you trust them with the national security? Answer: You can't, not if you are prudent. The recklessness and fecklessness of the Clinton years on all sorts of matters of highest importance --from the al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan, to getting duped by the North Koreans and worked by Arafat-- came home to roost with a deadly vengeance on 9/11. Are we going to give the same crowd another run at the controls, for that's what a vote for the Kerry-Moore Democrats means?
This isn't just the possibly criminal action of one man, it is the conduct of the senior White House foreign policy official from the Clinton era, and the action of a confidant and advisor to John Kerry. Had Rice been the one caught tampering with the records of the Bush Adminsitration relating to terrorism, Rice would already have been forced by a baying press to resign, and Bush would be threatened with a Watergate-style meltdown. But it is a pro-Kerry media, so watch for Berger's attempted cover-up to get its own cover-up.
Two other stories: John Kerry is going to use campaign contributions to repay himself for the loan he took out on his house last year, effectively tricking 2004 donors into paying for 2003 expenses. Deaniacs, Lieberman supporters etc who gave money to Kerry after he secured the nomination to help beat Bush now see their funds going into John Kerry's bank account. Very nice. It also tells you how very little has invested in this race. Hard to figure this out given Mrs. Kerry's billions.
And the vice president fired what should turn out to be the first of many salvos targeting the tight relationship between ambulance-chasing plaintiffs' lawyers and Kerry-Edwards. The medical system in America is staggering under the huge costs placed on it by greedy lawyers, and the Dems have nominated a plaintiffs' lawyer to be vice president. Yeah, that'll help reform health care.
Now to a taping of the Dennis Miller Show for this evening. Book tours don't allow for much free time.
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