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05/02/2004 Entry: "That's gonna leave a bruise."
Joe Wilson's slapdown of Timmeh's transparent baiting (bonus points for slamming CrashCart), from this morning's Meet The Press:
MR. RUSSERT: A supporter of the president will point out that in The Daily Iowan in December of '03 you called Dick Cheney "a lying SOB" to an audience, and that you are an active participant in the campaign of John Kerry, and that that's your political agenda:Attack the vice president by calling him those names, talk about Karl Rove in handcuffs; that you're a partisan Democrat supporting Kerry.
AMB. WILSON: Well, with respect to the vice president, that may be the gentlest and kindest thing I've had to say to him, about him, in recent months. And I think the record is clear, and you can go back to his speech in August. You can go back to his many statements about the reconstruction of nuclear weapons, again, well after he was told by his own CIA that there was nothing to this. There was a pattern of deception and lying to the Congress of the United States that got us into this terrible war. Again, with respect to my partisan activities or the fact that I support John Kerry, I am an American. This is a democracy. I am perfectly entitled to hold my political opinions and I'm perfectly entitled to share them. This president said on this show that he wanted this election to be a referendum on his first term. And well it should be. And I intend to enrich that political debate with what I know to the fullest extent possible.
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An interesting exchange, but I think his accusation that Condi Rice is a liar ("Well, I knew that she had fundamentally misstated the facts. In fact, she had lied about it.") was more significant. Calling the Veep an SOB is all well and good, and I'm all for it, but asserting that the NSA lied is the most serious accusation one can make.
Posted by Josh @ 05/02/2004 06:22 PM NY
can't wait to see MTP on the reruns late tonight.
Posted by renato @ 05/02/2004 06:54 PM NY
You know, these type of Republicans, like Wilson and Richard Clark, make me consider remotely some Republican values.
Why have they hit this administration harder than the Dems ? I think it is because they took what Bush and his people did to them personally.
Democrats need to take it personally also.
Posted by gammarock @ 05/03/2004 07:47 AM NY
