Rove Tries To Link Obama To Blagojevich Scandal Despite Previously Arguing There Is No Link
Monday night on Fox News, former Bush political operative Karl Rove tried desperately to link President-elect Obama to the scandal surrounding Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D-IL). When co-host Alan Colmes noted that conservatives are “looking for anything they can to try to drag him into this,” Rove obliged, saying that Obama is “parsing words” and “making it look like there was no contact” between Obama’s team and the Illinois governor.
Monday night on Fox News, former Bush political operative Karl Rove tried desperately to link President-elect Obama to the scandal surrounding Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D-IL). When co-host Alan Colmes noted that conservatives are “looking for anything they can to try to drag him into this,” Rove obliged, saying that Obama is “parsing words” and “making it look like there was no contact” between Obama’s team and the Illinois governor.
Rove also said that Obama should ignore U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald’s request to not discuss the case, saying “the president-elect ought to decide what is in his best interest.” Further suggesting that Obama has something to hide, Rove — who knows a little bit about hiding information — claimed that he doesn’t “buy” that Obama’s team “is resisting giving out this information only because they’re being held back by the prosecutor’s office,” later adding that the whole affair is “troubling.”
But just last week on Fox, Rove stated with absolute certainty that Obama “is not involved” in any way with the Blegojevich scandal and said he would not try to link Obama to Blagojevich:
COLMES: [I]s there going to be — are you — are there going to be an attempt to link Obama to this?
ROVE: No, no, look. I think, I think we’ve got to be careful about this because, look, I think Fitzgerald went out of his way today to basically say none of this touches President-elect Obama. None of these actions that Blagojevich was involved in were — you know were made to President-elect Obama and President-elect Obama is not involved in these specifically actions.
Perino: We’re not occupiers in Iraq; we’re guests.
During Monday’s White House press briefing, spokesperson Dana Perino echoed President Bush’s claim that Iraqi journalist Muntader al-Zaidi’s frustrations are not representative of the Iraqi public’s sentiments. She pointed out that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki apologized for the mistreatment of his guest. When reporter Helen Thomas pointed out that U.S. forces are actually “occupiers,” Perino bristled:
QUESTION: Why not worry about it? Does it reflect the feelings of the people?
PERINO: I don’t think that you can take one guy throwing his shoe as representative of the people of Iraq.
Perino: We’re not occupiers in Iraq; we’re guests.
During Monday’s White House press briefing, spokesperson Dana Perino echoed President Bush’s claim that Iraqi journalist Muntader al-Zaidi’s frustrations are not representative of the Iraqi public’s sentiments. She pointed out that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki apologized for the mistreatment of his guest. When reporter Helen Thomas pointed out that U.S. forces are actually “occupiers,” Perino bristled:
QUESTION: Why not worry about it? Does it reflect the feelings of the people?
PERINO: I don’t think that you can take one guy throwing his shoe as representative of the people of Iraq.
And I will tell you that Prime Minister Maliki and the journalists who were there in the room, who apologized on behalf of the Iraqis, saying this is not how they would treat a guest. […]
QUESTION: But he wasn’t a guest. We’re occupiers.
PERINO: No, we’re not. We are absolutely a guest.
QUESTION: But he wasn’t a guest. We’re occupiers.
PERINO: No, we’re not. We are absolutely a guest.
Juan Williams Calls the Iraqi Protesters Ingrates
On The O'Reilly Factor after a bit of bloviating by Bill-O about just what he would have done to the journalist who threw the shoe at Bush and using comments from the DailyKOS to prove that the "far left loons" out there have an unfounded hatred of Bush, Williams adds this:
On The O'Reilly Factor after a bit of bloviating by Bill-O about just what he would have done to the journalist who threw the shoe at Bush and using comments from the DailyKOS to prove that the "far left loons" out there have an unfounded hatred of Bush, Williams adds this:
But on a serious level, how many American lives have been sacrificed to the cause of liberating Iraq? How much money has been spent while they’re not spending their own profits from their oil? American money. So I just think it’s absolutely the act of an ingrate for them to behave in this way. Just unbelievable to me.
Think Progress has more.
Think Progress has more.
Rice: No ‘American Money’ In Iraq Was Lost To Corruption»
In an AP interview yesterday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke highly of U.S. reconstruction efforts in Iraq, stating, “We’ve done a lot of work to get these [reconstruction] structures right, and I think they finally are” — a day after a scathing government report detailed massive waste and poor planning in U.S. reconstruction efforts. When asked about the abuse, Rice claimed that U.S. dollars have emerged unscathed:
Q: But the cost in terms of lives and in terms of the money and the abuse of money – (inaudible) was money wasted, there was money that was siphoned off, corruption and that kind of thing, you’re —
RICE: Not of American money. Not American money. I don’t think that you will find that anybody is arguing that there was corruption in the American programs.
In an AP interview yesterday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke highly of U.S. reconstruction efforts in Iraq, stating, “We’ve done a lot of work to get these [reconstruction] structures right, and I think they finally are” — a day after a scathing government report detailed massive waste and poor planning in U.S. reconstruction efforts. When asked about the abuse, Rice claimed that U.S. dollars have emerged unscathed:
Q: But the cost in terms of lives and in terms of the money and the abuse of money – (inaudible) was money wasted, there was money that was siphoned off, corruption and that kind of thing, you’re —
RICE: Not of American money. Not American money. I don’t think that you will find that anybody is arguing that there was corruption in the American programs.
2 comments:
Rove needs to stop with his Lee Atwater tactics.
Rove needs the money for his legal fees so he's go any where and say any thing to get paid.
Juan Williams's isn't even an American he's an immigrant but he's used as the color for Fox News.
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