Let’s try this experiment:
TV guy: Lots of folks don’t believe the Holocaust ever happened. But Jewish groups and Ben Netanyahu insists it did. What do you say?
MB: It’s not my place to say.
TV Guy: But what do you believe?
MB: When the PM makes a statement, his words should stand on their own.
TV Guy: He’s been clear, I’m asking if you believe it?
MB: We should take the PM at his word.
TV: You can’t just sit there and declare the Holocaust happened?
MB: I’m her to talk about planting tulips.
What would be the result of such a conversation? Exactly. And that’s why the Media read it the way they did. Not like the palinistas looking for moral equivalence.
Lets try this experiment:
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Your experiment failed. Now I’m reading you as casting Michele Bachmann in the same light as a Holocaust denier.
Really. I implore you. Put down that bullcrap bong.