Russert Missing in Action during Florida Republican Debate
By John Amato Friday Jan 25, 2008 5:30pm
The untruths that were told by the some of the Republican candidates during the Florida debate was astounding to me. McCain might have been the worst offender, but I'd like to know where the heck Tim Russert was? Oh, that's right---it was a Republican debate. Never mind, He can't be bothered with follow ups. He's only confrontational in Democratic debates.
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McCain: “I know of no military leader, including General Petraeus, who says we can’t sustain our effort in Iraq.”
Well, maybe Senator McCain was taking a nap last month, but Army Chief of Staff, General Casey disagrees. The Christian Science Monitor’s Gordon Lubold reported the following last Christmas Eve:
“We’re deploying at unsustainable rates,” General Casey said three weeks ago during remarks to an audience at the Brookings Institution in Washington. The Army agreed to a buildup of troops a year ago with the understanding that it was temporary, he said. “We can’t sustain that. We have to come off of that, and we’re working that very hard.
During the debate, moderator Tim Russert quoted McCain claiming not to be an expert on the economy and McCain responded, “I don’t know where you got that quote from.” Today, McCain explained that he was actually speaking in general terms.
And we believe you Sen. McCain. Keith Olberman and our pal, Sam Seder try to dissect some of this...Here's a transcript of the debate...
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what lie did ron paul tell? Exactly! None, zero.
Well these fools have one thing right and that is the Dems,only have one goal and that is to get them out.
Yes, unlike their stupid asses, the Dems, do have the mandate exactly right and exactly the way 90% of the American people want and demand it to be.
Unlike these right wing lunatics, that just don't believe that shit stinks, and are going to do exactly what they have been doing for the last seven years.
You would think they would catch on when they clearly see they have NO support from the American people.
Some people never learn.
StCyrlyMe2 @ 2:
Unfortunatedly, if some polls are to be believed, around 40% of Americans would vote for any GOP candidate over any Dem candidate. It seems that these people vote blindly and purely on principle. Which is a scary thought... and which if, as I said, those poll numbers are to be taken at face value, the country... actually scratch that, this society is truly fucked beyond repair.
And that is where Pelosi and their ilk don't seem to get it. They chose to roll over and continue enable these criminals, in order to not offend a sector of the public who would never ever consider voting for Dems ever. So basically they are compromising the interests of their electorate in order to placate the ire of voters which despise them. The psychology of the Dem leadership would fill several research journals alone...
Well, hasn't that become a chronic problem with the media? They're not about telling the truth or informing the public. They're about profit, which translates to infotainment or whatever they think will sell or boost their ratings. They constantly let lies go unchallenged, particularly when the lies come from republicans. Overall, I'm disillusioned with the state of democracy in this country. Here in Virginia, in the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre, 68% of people are in favor of requiring background checks for guns bought at shows. The rethuglicans wouldn't even let it out of committee. As always, the ever powerful NRA wins the day. It's the same thing with the tobacco lobby. A majority of people would like to see smoking banned from restaurants, but once again the will of the people is completely ignored. A majority of people would like to see Bush out of office, but Congress ignores the will of the people. How come countries like Great Britian and Italy can get rid of a president with one little old no-confidence vote? How many people in this country, on either side of the aisle, actually have confidence in Shrub? Reminds me of one of the three stooges-"this is one fine mess you've got us into". America being held up as some shining example of democracy is just no longer true.
Ron Paul is the olny canidate that has a proven record fighting the neocons can any dems produce a canidate that can turn this ship around and from sinking at the same time if crooks and liars were honest why is the clinton connection video avalible?shows her and bill involved in some drug trafficing that would make her a crook and a liar would it not?
clinton connection video not shown or spoken out about?
How is it that Ron Paul is the olny top teir canidate in fund raising and grassroots that is told by pundits on just about a daily basis that he does not have a chance? In my entire life I have not ever heard such disrespect for an official canidate, the blackout and debate trick stuff .If that is not a violation of the ethics and fcc rules of this whole dog and pony show.YOU FILTHY ANIMALES JUST KEEP LOOKING AWAY FROM THE TRUTH .RON PAUL is for all the people and that is the problem. it's funny im still holding out hope that you just dont know about RON PAUL but then I remember WELFARE and ABORTION MUST BE AwFUL FUN HUH?To not vote for a RON PAUL,,, IS LIKE SACRIFICING YOU OWN CHILDREN to the military industial complex !Do you consider that murder still?I never know anymore where you dems draw the line ???I thought that a women made her choice when she had sex why blame it on the baby(we dont ever talk about the exception to the rule (rape incest health)but why should my tax dollars go to something I am totally against??If you look back in history there is a man named Myron Fagan he has a very informative session of screenplays that explain how the elite set the dem party up for creating chaos in the rebulican party!myron fagan worked for one of our presidents look it up killing is not my cup off tea but but either is this bull crap 2 party system .We are all going to suffer the same if this problem that has been brewing for a while(new world order,north american union)is not rectafied soon!!!Ron Paul is hated by every talking head idiot in both parties and the media on both sides !he will free all non violent drug offenders or dont you want the perdominetly black families reunited?what about our soldiers?most of them are poor common folks like me that support DR PAUL,RP the most with donations ,our vets endorse him,remember the people the dems said they support?lol(pelosi,reed?my dog cant do that many tricks laydown rollover beg PLAYDEAD!!!)Ron Paul is the olny man I have seen stand up to these peices of garbage neocons, he has no skelitons!!!please help save america RON will lock the criminals in jail not just expose them he has not told a lie yet he should be pasted all over of what a canidate should be for further reference!REVOLUTION NOW!!!!
No mistake, its is a monsterous, ongoing, crime!
The corporate/ repiglican media should be charged, tried, and convicted for purposeful, criminal, fraud committed against the American people. They are , in fact, the 'NEW AXIS OF EVIL' ..........
Ron Paul, the invisible man...
What the hell is wrong with you, Olbermann!! DO YOUR JOB!!!!
This clip, once again, reinforces my gratitude that Ron Paul is on the stage in the Republican debate, because he is the only person willing to perform the job that Pumpkinhead Russert is too feeble and meek to do, and that is call out the warmongering GOP candidates on their lies, disinformation and propaganda.
Do you suppose the Easter Bunny will come clean on what he knows about the missing WMD's? Will harsh interrogation techniques like waterboarding or sustained stress positions loosen his tongue? Will GWB proclaim that "we don't torture" the Easter Bunny, just the English language. Will the EB be subject to extraordinary rendition? Will Huckabee be given retroactive immunity for being one stupid fuck?
Ron Paul, currently serving time in George Orwells memory hole, even truth sayers like Olbermann are happy to leave him languishing there.
Comon Olbermann, Ron paul was on that stage it's not fair to smear him as a war monger like the rest of them.
Wow! It has become comical just to hear what comes out of the mouths of the GOP candidates these days.
It's a wonder that they have anything more than single digit support at this point.....Well, maybe not!
Good post John.
"Can we pre-impeach somebody?" THE line of this political season. Nicely done Keith.
A bit of objectivity please Keith, i think Ron Paul has earned the right to be disassociated from the war mongers on stage, after all he voted AGAINST the war to begin with, unlike Hillary Clinton or John Edwards, both of whom went along with it out of fear of being branded un American.
The double standard is very frustrating.
BAC
Obama is now projected to win in SC.
Time to go home Hillary you couldn't win a swing state if your life depended on it.
Obama = AIPAC
Obama = Zbigniew Brzezinski the man who bought you the Mujahdeen
Is this "change" ?
and the paul google bombing continues
hey paulbots...we get it...he is the great white hope
prob is, hes not...the reason being, his Libertarian understanding of the economy would starve half the population
but the primaries are now all smoke and mirrors
the corporatists who control all our lives have decided on the two candidates who will allow them to continue raping the world's resources
so get ready for the great clinton/mccain debates
do you guys remember how energized we were after the 06 election? amazing what happens in a short 2 years
andy @ 20:
funny, according to polls, clinton is overwhelmingly garnering the jewish vote
not that this matters to you jew hating conspiracy nuts
to you, whoever wins the election is in the pocket of the jewish lobby
andy @ 20:
oh, forgot to add.....in regards brzezinski....WE WERE FIGHTING THE COLD WAR...GET OVER IT...ITS DONE....WE FUCKED UP....EVERYONE FUCKED UP....BUT AT LEAST WE AINT SPEAKING RUSSIAN AND DRINKING VODKA
uncle joe mccarthy @ 22:
Nothing to do with being "jew hater" mate, I have nothing but love for the large majority of jewish people, however my point stands
Obama = AIPAC
He's even had the Helicopter ride-
http://obama.senate.gov/speech/070302-aipac_policy_fo/
The omission of Ron Paul's unique record and voice against the illegal occupation, in contrast with the initiative-force candidates of either party was staggering, and doesn't seem incidental.
Good night, and good luck?
uncle joe mccarthy @ 23:
So your fine with all the death and destruction that was brought upon the Afghanis ? , why would you be speaking Russian ?
It's well known that Brezinski sucked Russia into that war to bog them down in what he called "the afghan trap", he openly admits that the US provoked the invasion, go read the grand chessboard.
andy @ 24:
so he took a tour of israel
at least he didnt wait 7 years into his presidency before making that trip
in other news, the missles keep flying from gaza, and the egyptians continue to show their love for their arab brethren by rebuilding the blockade
but ya, its the jews and israel who are the real evil bastards
get a grip
uncle joe mccarthy @ 27:
Bush had the EXACT same Helicopter ride before he became president, it's just a fact that most of the candidates are in the pocket of the Israeli lobby Obama is no different, he most certainly doesn't represent "change" thats for sure.
The mountainous evidence that the Repug habit of lying with news-cycle to news-cycle talking points inevitably creates a whole mountain range of stupidity. It's starkly apparent on the 9-11, al Qaeda, WMD fight we have to "win" in Iraq. Just to pick off the latter ...
Evidence and plain logic that various WMD-sniffers (including hand-picked Bush friendly ones) eventually delivered was that Iraq had none. Squat. Diddly. The lies and rationalizations have been long and repeatedly-debunked and these GOP zombies keep getting the fuck back up and repeating them and media nincompoops allow it to continue, even when it's not possible in this physical realm for the claims to occur.
And, no, the weapons in the numbers sufficient to "justify" an illegal, war of "pre-emptive self defence" on a sovereign nation couldn't be spirited out undetected. There wasn't even a trace. A half-buried balsa wood plane isn't evidence, nor are documents about "weapons of mass destruction related activities" -- not even "miles" of them. Not your jojoba-oil beans, not your brake fluid factory, not your Rose Bush Nukes That Weren't even Nukes. Nada. Bupkis.
And even if in the wildest imaginings of the most paranoid dumbass could this happen, it would require some pretty wild Republican peppermint-flavored Acid for these candidate loons to keep pretending, too, that a Baaad Maaan cloaked thousands of acres of production and housing facilities, required transport and WMD-related command-and-control bases (or smuggled those away without detection. (Deathstar, mebbe?)
And still, no one in the media will say, "Just cut it the fuck out with the 9/11 - Iraq - WMD crap, okay? You can go on pretending that the mere prospect of legalizing same sex marriage wrecked postcard-perfect sacred man-woman unions like the Spears / Federline one but quit it with the 9/11 / WMD / al Qaeda / Iraq stuff 'kay?"
Democrats are nothing but republicans only smarter, thats all this difference is, remember when you vote that it was under the Clinton democrat administration that 500 THOUSAND Iraqis children under the age of 5 died as a result of the US led sanctions in Iraq during the 90's, sanctions which by the way strengthened Saddam.
andy @ 26:
did the cia back the pdpa???
Why are paul's repugs on this site? Go to your side and tell them already.
paul's as looney as a bed bug. No doubt about that!
uncle joe mccarthy @ 31:
No
I really like Keith Olbermann, but I really wish he would at least note the contrast between the other GOP contenders and Ron Paul. At the very least, it's just good and fair journalism.
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Sam needs a bigger platform.
great segment. thanks.
And I heard Giulani saying recently that "the Democrats" want to "raise your taxes 30%".
How do these guys stand to look at themselves in the mirror??
Paulbots, Paultards, Paulistas spamming the blogs? Has it occurred to you that there really IS vast support?
Usually Mr Amato I am very sympathetic to your point of view. In this case however, I think you err. Just because a Republican candidate (John McCain) has plead ignorance of a given situation (surge sustainability) you cannot accuse him or his inquisitor of either lying or covering up. This is a case where that Occam's Razor of politics applies: Never attribute to malice what can fully be explained by stupidity.
Here is why Russert got away with that.......which was so obvious to anyone who watched it.
The media is soooo caught up into every move that the Clintons make and must scrutinize their every lip movement that as usual they let this shit fly.
Either Obama or Clinton will win. Two great choices. We will all fall in line with the one selected even it he/she is not our first choice.
Please don't buy into the mainstream media manipulation that is trying to rip us apart.
I can't believe that anyone is still taking Insane McCain seriously!
While the electorate allows partisan politics and Rovian tricksters to obfuscate the message, no, to actually make a message secondary to smearing the opposition, the nation suffers. Great job folks, great job.
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