Lauer apparently is suffering from either a memory lapse or a case of stupid.
Hey Matt! Recall that John Kerry introduced 2 different resolutions to cut and run. Both got voted down, of course.
Also, Matt, remember this vote in the House?
Posted on 08/31/2006 5:30:40 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
August 31, 2006 - 08:06
To judge by the outraged defense of Democrats and the MSM that Matt Lauer and Tim Russert advanced on this morning's Today show, the Bush administration's arguments on fighting the war on terror are hitting home.
NBC reporter Kelly O'Donnell set the tone with this little shot at the president:
"While the president has cautioned not to politicize what he is talking about, he was greeted here in Salt Lake by 2,000 invited members of the public who carried signs, there was music playing - a campaign-style event - and we were told this was intended to counter some of the war demonstrations led by people like Cindy Sheehan."
Preliminaries over, it was on to the main event, the Lauer/Russert tag team.
Lauer: "The president has tried very hard in recent days and months to connect the two wars going on - the war with Iraq and the war on terror. He told Brian Williams that Iraq is part of the struggle against the terrorists. Is this his way of saying the Democrats who called for a time table to get out of Iraq. They are also then trying to retreat from the war on terror?"
Russert: "Absolutely. Those are the words we have been hearing all week: Retreat, defeat, appeasement. The [GOP strategy is that the] president must not debate the rationale for going into Iraq or the management of the war but rather say this is a global struggle and you are safer with Republicans."
Lauer: "Yet, however, Tim, no Democrat has ever spoken out saying we should retreat in the war on terrorism."
Does Lauer realize that in making this assertion, he is implicitly rejecting the President's argument that the war in Iraq is part of the war on terror? For surely Lauer cannot deny that the Murthas/Deans/Kerrys/Pelosis/Lamonts of the Democrat world are calling for a retreat from Iraq, a 'redeployment' as they so delicately put it? It is only if Lauer embraces the Dem view - that there is no link between Iraq and the international war on terror - that his allegation could even begin to be true.
Later, the pair defended MSM accuracy.
Lauer: "The media took a hit from Secretary Rumsfeld as well, accused them of spreading myths and distortions . . . about our troops and our countrythem . We've got 2,600 Americans dead in Iraq, 41,000 Iraqis. Is anyone still going to blame the media for the bad news coming out that country?"
Russert: "That's the question. Certainly the conservative Republican base grab on to that message. I found it particularly interesting that those words were used during the first anniversary of Katrina. One year ago there was a major debate as to what was reality. What was shown by the media on the ground in New Orleans or what was being said by official government spokesmen. We know later that the media told the truth about Katrina."
Russert closed with what amounted to a bald Dem GOTV message:
"In terms of Iraq, our reports have been accurate and the Secretary can try to distinguish himself from them or criticize them. The voters have a big decision to make."
Today Show/NewsBusters Dem-defense ping.
Kelly O'Donnell is a DNC ho bag.
Cut the cable. Don't feed the MSM.
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Sen. Reid: "We killed the Patriot Act!"
Other than opposing terrorist phone surveillance, opposing bank transfer monitoring, opposing profiling at airports, opposing the Patriot Act, the dems surely don't want to surrender in the WOT.
The same "media" that continued to spread false reports of roving armed gangs in New Orleans..thus making sending in rescue teams undoable..thus making innocent people die waiting for rescue workers who were scared off by false media reports..is it that "media"???
They obviously saw the new poll numbers and got spooked.
The media was right about Katrina? WHHHAAAAAA?!!!
Karl Rove time.
Let the games begin.
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Rummy and W have the DRats and the MSM in a hysteria.
Looking forward to W's speech today.
Hey Lauer! You little jackass! You media types use to quote the BOGUS Lancet Report and say 100,000 Iraqis were killed until you finally realized you were duped! So now you say 41,000 Iraqis killed (from Iraq Body Count).
So yes, the MSM has an ACCURACY PROBLEM! The Internet does NOT forget!
So all those media reports about helicopters being fired on and the "hundreds" of rapes and killings were true after all? I though they had all turned out to be media hype. These folks can't even keep their lies straight.
Sounds like the Dinosaurs are getting a bit anxious? Maybe November isn't in the bag quite yet?
Accuracy in media is an oxymoron, heavy on the moron!
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
Actually, I have heard some liberals even say that the dangers from terrorism are over-rated. Wasn't John Kerry one of them?
Why can't that democrats realize what their policy of APPEASEMENT is doing to our efforts? Geeeez
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