I know I’m piling on here, but this still aggravates me.
The White House is already backpedaling on the John Kerry statement.
Now we already know the drill. Make up an issue, then retracted (kind of) but let it continue to fester in the MSM and fan the flames with your cronies. So now it doesn’t matter if it was a lie, you already retracted the statement.
As noted on the AP, Tony Snow on The Early Show this morning (emphasis mine):
“He may have botched the line but what he said was insulting to the troops, what he ought to say is, ‘Look, I botched the line, but I’m sorry for giving offense.'”
Now after attacking John Kerry yesterday, this morning the White House says that he really didn’t insult the troops. Now the argument is that because of the botched line he should apologize for something he didn’t say but could be misconstrued as an insult if taken out of context.
What?
Speaking of the second part of the quote from Tony Snow, John Kerry did say the following on the same day as the White House attack.
My statement yesterday — and the White House knows this full well — was a botched joke about the president and the president’s people, not about the troops.
Tony, so he didn’t say it was a botched joke?
But our favorite stuffed shirt mouthpiece Tony Snow went on to say that Kerry “put gasoline on the fire”.
Excuse me? What John Kerry did is take the lies and attacks thrown at him and responded back. Tony Snow was the one who put out his well rehearsed line in front of the press corps to start this in the first place. Then they trotted out George Bush who is too busy to go to funerals for solders we lost in Afghanistan and Iraq but had no problem freeing up his schedule to make a false political attack.
I got a good quote for you.
What our troops deserve is a winning strategy, and what they deserve is leadership that is up to the sacrifice that they’re making. Sadly, this is the best that this administration can do in a month when we have lost 100 young men and women who have given their lives for a failed policy. Over half the names on the Vietnam wall were put there after our leaders knew that our policy was wrong, and it was wrong that leaders were quiet then, and I’m not going to be quiet now. This is a textbook Republican campaign strategy: try to change the topic, try to make someone else the issue, try to make something else said the issue, not the policy, not their responsibility. — John Kerry
What do you think George, Tony? Great job guys! Keep up the great work!!
