Durbin blames media for 'Nazi' flap

UPI ^ | June 17, 2005 | UPI

[Commander Salamander]

WASHINGTON, June 17 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., says right-wing media misrepresented comments he made about abuse of terror suspects, which he compared to Nazi abuses.

Durbin late Tuesday read what he said was an e-mail message from an FBI agent regarding alleged prisoner abuse. Durbin said if it didn't identify the source of the information "you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags or some mad regime."

Several high-ranking Republicans responded Thursday. Sen. John Warner, R-Va., said, "The danger the loose comments such as that, comparison which have no basis in fact or history, could do harm to the men and women" in the U.S. military. Warner called for an apology.

Durbin did not, however, back down. Saying he wasn't criticizing service personnel, he blamed the right-wing media for taking his words out of context. He said abusive treatment of prisoners was something most likely in "repressive regimes" than the United States.

[baseballmom]

Oh, I thought is was Bush's fault...

I swear this is the truth:

Last evening, after Warner and McConnell ripped on Durbin, Harry Reid got up to speak. He said, that this whole flap was a diversion by the Bush administration because GW's popularity polls were plummetting.

Can you BELIEVE that??? The spin was absolutely unbelievable, even for the 'RATS.

[standing united]

I'll bring the baseball bat!

82nd ABN 1/508th BN Bco
"fury from the sky"

[Eighth Square]

Yeah, Democrats - the party of trash.

[Soul Seeker]

You said it Durbin. WE didn't. We don't make up quotes. That is the domain of your propaganda mouths in the MSM.

O.T.

Halliburton per Rush is apparently going to build a fence for GITMO. LOL!! Watch the Dems further lose it!

[standing united]

Can you answer something for me, maybe I just missed it, but, when a terrorist is brought to Gitmo, their heads are shaved! How do you pull out your hair, and put it in a pile, when you have none?

Just a thought!

82nd ABN 1/508th BN Bco
"fury from the sky"

[ANGGAPO]

Perhaps a recall is in order? This man is a disgrace to his party.

[Sunshine Sister]

I you had said beat the poop out of him I would comment that you better bring your lunch! Snot is another thing all together! Thanks for the laugh!

[jonno]

bump

[OXENinFLA]

I don't think you can post PDF's

You just have to link it

House Republican Leadership Sends Letter to Pelosi on Durbin Comments

[Sunshine Sister]

Oops! First word should be "If"

[TigersEye]

Perhaps a recall is in order? This man is a disgrace to his party.

A recall is definitely in order. Censure is in order. A trial is even in order. But, given what we've heard and seen from the Democrat Party in the last ten years, I don't think he's a disgrace to it. I'd say he's a paragon of the Democrat Party today.

[Laserman]

This Cook County Jail stuff needs to get to the Republicans in the Senate.

[hipaatwo]

Thank you!

[Made In The USA]

I don't think he should stop there in blaming the media. He should blame right wing Christians, Big Tobacco, Rush Limbaugh, hanging chads, the NRA, the Bush tax cuts...

Durbin just enabled the terrorists - he just doesn't get it. He put his politics ahead of soldiers lives.

[Bubba]

Little Dickie Turbin

[RSmithOpt]

You said it! Makes me puke to the depths of lows a RAT like TURDBIN (as el_texicano put it) will stoop to to dishonor our service personnel. Also, remember, such comments are made to help get the general sheeplenous mad at the Bush and his administration as to oust GOP members in the next coming 4 years.

Liberalism's insatiable desires to be in complete power are nothing short of horrific.

[colorado tanker]

The Dems are using Abu Graib and Gitmo to try to tag our soldiers with a "torturer" tag just like they tagged Vietnam vets as "baby killers." IMHO Durbin hoped to be the next John Kerry, lauded for falsely accusing our soldiers before the US Senate.

The only thing Durbin is sorry about is that unlike during Vietnam, we aren't going to let the Dems get away with it this time.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

I've always doubted their reasoning abilities, but this tops it! Downward spiral into oblivion!

[TheForceOfOne]

Yo. cut it.

Soy un perdedor
I’m a loser baby, so why don’t you kill me?

Soy un perdedor
I’m a loser baby, so why don’t you kill me?

[dfergu7477]

Bingo, colorado tanker,

That is the most gratifying thing about the 2004 election: despite the MSM being in the bag so flagrantly and loudly for Kerry, Bush still won. The bottom line: 51% of Americans simply DO NOT BELIEVE THE MSM AND THEIR MINIONS.