I wonder if Sean "All Talk" Hannity will treat Mr. Russert a little more brusquely after seeing this moonbat lunacy this week when Mr. Russert was on the Today Show. I doubt it. Despite talking a good game, Sean never walks the walk when he has guests on. He kowtows to John McCain allowing him to duck questions, and he treats Russert like he's Mr. Objective. This snippet reveals that Mr. Russert is a barking moonbat, albeit one who conceals himself well, with that whole family values bookwriting meme.From our friends at Newsbusters.org:
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."
RUSSERT: Nor has any Democrat that we can find suggested cutting off funding for the war in Iraq, something the president floated the other day. Matt, this is 68 days before a midterm election. The Republicans know that in 2002 --
Uh....excuse me....I guess you all really don't hear what Murtha is saying, you just filter it for the public. Or Pelosi, or Kucinich, or Durbin. Here is Dennis Kookinich, of Ohio, A democrat, who said we should stop funding. But I guess even you lib media types know he is a kook. And remember John Kerry's gaffeola? I voted for the war before I VOTED AGAINST IT? You people really are that desperate that you would seek to rewrite something that happened less than 3 years ago. Good God, these people are living in the cone of silence from GetSmart, all they hear is themselves!
Let the awesome Newsbusters continue the assault on this stupidity:
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.
The libs are in a tizzy because this administration has had it. The President has called the enemy by its name, "Islamofascism", Don Rumsfeld has called out both the foreign and domestic (read the media) enemies of the US, and they aren't going to take it anymore. This drives libs like Russert and Lauer nuts. They had the audacity to defend media coverage later in their screed:
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."
Excuse me, Mr. Russert. The media told the truth about all the rapes and pillaging and cannibalism in the Superdome, in the convention center? They told the truth about the number of casualties? I don't think so. Organizations like Newsbusters and Accuracy in the Media and others exist because you schleps can't get it right, and in fact you enjoy lying about what really happened. The media has been honest about Iraq? About Gitmo? Come on now. They have been honest about PlameGate? They knew months ago that Armitage was the leak, but they perpetuated the Rove angle. Why is that? Come on, Tim. Wake up.
More and more people are getting wise to you. Admit what you and Matt Lauer are. You are both propagandists for the Democrats, you are bought and paid for just like the rest of the 527 media. We have statements from these cut and run types, as well as votes in the Senate and the House, and still you claim to not be able to find one democrat who advocates an immediate withdrawal, not one democrat who demands we not fund the war? Maybe if you did some reporting and investigating instead of waiting for your DNC fax machine to go off, you would actually find these things. It's called a google search. Not that hard, really. And you are a shame of this nation, a shame of the freedom of press, and a shame to those who value honesty and intregity.
