Posted on 02/06/2006 5:04:14 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
February 6, 2006 - 07:50
Score one for Today's Matt Lauer. Interviewing New Mexico governor and former UN ambassador Bill Richardson on the subject of the Muslim rioting in response to the Mohammed cartoons, Matt asked a question that was as unexpected as it was perspicacious. Meanwhile, Richardson offered the instinctive Democratic national security response: bring on the UN!
Richardson described the very grim situation in the Muslim world: "I've never seen the situation so dire with with the threats from Iran, the victory of Hamas, the escape of Badawi in Yemen. This is a very dangerous situation. It seems that the Muslim world is exploding."
Being the good Democrat he is, Richardson laid the blame . . . at the feet of George Bush: "Our obsession with Iraq has caused us to neglect these huge other trouble spots."
That's when Lauer unloaded a question on many minds but one you'd hardly expect to hear on the lips of an MSM host:
"Clearly it does show a huge rift between the west and the Muslim world, but if you listen over the weekend, governor, you hear a lot of people saying 'why aren't these people taking to the streets when hostages are beheaded on videotape in the name of Allah or when planes are flown into buildings in the name of Allah? How would you explain that?"
Richardson fleetingly acknowledged that "it is a bit of a double-standard." Yeah, maybe just a bit, Gov. But he quickly moved off any such criticism and onto to his call for the real solution: "I would call a summit," cautioning the President, "don't talk about the Axis of Evil."
Lauer compared our treatment of Iraq and Iran, while offering a damning indictment of the latter:
"It is striking four years ago we were talking about Iraq, saying they may have been trying to seek nuclear weapons, we thought they were sponsoring terrorism, so we went to war. Here we've got a country that's saying right to our face they are going forward with a nuclear program, we've proven that they've sponsored terrorism, and they have a president who says he wants to wipe one of our key allies off the map. And we're treating them differently, aren't we?"
Richardson gave the ultimate Dem response: "Diplomacy really is our only option."
Right on, Bill! If Kofi Annan and Vladimir Putin can't get it done, I guess we'll just have to let Iran develop nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them.
Today Show/NewsBusters ping.
Picture "Richardson '08" presindetial campaign bus jumping over shark tank.
We are directly in the middle of these "trouble spots" what's he thinking? Oh, he's not.
"I would call a summit," cautioning the President, "don't talk about the Axis of Evil."
Ignore it and it will go away. Just what Muslims have been telling us to do for 500 years. Once we put a stop to it we will once again be the aggressors because we refused to speak out about why we are fighting so that we don't accuse a whole religious cult even though it's truth.
Being the good Democrat he is, Richardson laid the blame . . . at the feet of George Bush: "Our obsession with Iraq has caused us to neglect these huge other trouble spots."
INVADE THAT DEN OF WORLD ILLS...DENMARK..a classic liberal response: IT MUST BE SOMETHING WE DID!!!
good man, good to know you liberals really have a grasp of reality...yes it truly is BUSH's fault...
i suppose he penned the jokes in crawford, handing out pens to condi and rumsfeld
Give me a friggin' break. How many times have we heard the president call Islam the "Religion of Peace"?
Who? Bill Richardson?
Wasn't he drafted as a pitcher in 1966 by the Kansas City Athletics? ;)
I think we should stop talking about the "Axis of Evil" and instead focus on the "Axis of Denial", which formerly contained much of the EU, but now largely contains the US State Dept and Democrats. We must stand up squarely to the beheaders and bombers and say "NO. We will not accept this savage behavior. We will convert you to smithereens if you continue on this path." Religious sensitivities be damned.
"Wasn't Richardson drafted as a pitcher by the 1966 KC Athletics?"
For those who don't get the reference, Richardson was recently caught in a little 'resume-enhancement':
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/11/25/politics/main1075650.shtml
He's another loser who should have the good sense to just go away.
Many of those 174 arrested spoke with Syrian and Palestinian accents.
These cartoons appeared last Fall...so it has been established that at least 5 Euro-imans are responsible for whipping up the great unwashed when they recently went to the Middle East.
It has become increasingly clear that the typical muslim rioter is a brainwashed cultist...no different than Branch Davidians or purple shrouded, Nike-wearing comet riders.
perspicacious?
Whoaaaaa.
"no different than . . . purple shrouded, Nike-wearing comet riders."
Wait a second, buster. I've paid good money for a confirmed reservation on Haley's Comet next time it rolls around ;-)
Richardson and Hillary and all their cronies want to lead this country.......where? Those abandoned 60's bomb shelters might come in handy after all.
All those years of studying the Reader's Digest "Improve Your Word Power" are finally paying off ;-)
Right on, Bill! If Kofi Annan and Vladimir Putin can't get it done........and not to forget Bill Cliton either.....
http://www.drudgereport.com/ml.htm
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Yeah...why doesn't he just say Islam is Evil....so we can have a nice civil war here in the USA ....
We've flanked Iran.
What the *HECK* does that mean?!
LOL
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