Politics, TV
On Meet the Press yesterday, GOP former House Speaker Newt Gingrich emitted one of the Republicans’ mustiest lies about the war in Iraq:
– Newt Gingrich, May 2006
NEWT GINGRICH: It was, it was a war of choice in the sense that we believed that sooner or later he was going to hit us, and therefore I would argue that the only question was timing. But I believe it’s much harder to make the case that the United States would be safer today with Saddam Hussein in power.
MR. RUSSERT: Because…
MR. GINGRICH: But, by the way, remember Saddam was paying $25,000 dollars to the family of every suicide bomber. Saddam had a direct relationship with al-Qaeda, and if you read the recent joint forces command report, which is declassified and has been published, which goes through all the information we’ve learned from the Iraqi generals, it’s very compelling that this was a dangerous dictatorship and that we had a very good reason to be worried about it.
And what was moderator Tim Russert’s response to this blatant falsehood?
MR. RUSSERT: Has our involvement and presence in Iraq and the difficulties in that war, and the costs of that war, limited our options with Iran?
While we all know that Russert softballs RW guests I don’t usually expect that from Bill Maher. It’s surprised me that I haven’t seen one word on any blog that Maher allowed Gibson (from Fox) tell every RW lie about Joe Wilson without any comment or question. I expect more out of him then that and frankly, I’m pissed at him.
I caught that too, Susan. Conversely, no less than Wolf Blitzer stopped and corrected Bob Dole during an invterview when Dole tried to make the Saddam-al Qaeda connection.
Yes, Wolf surprises me sometimes. I’m sorry I missed him go at Dole but I don’t watch him all the time.
I get a kick out of Jack Cafferty though. But then I just love curmudgeons. That’s what happens when you get old LOL.