Posted on 08/17/2005 7:31:40 PM PDT by YaYa123
BLITZER: Do you think she's [Cindy Sheehan] going too far in politicizing her own personal tragedy?
BEGALA: No, she has a perfect right. She has absolute moral authority. She is a Gold Star mother. She gave her son's life for her country. And she is the most position, most pristine position to speak about these things.
I think the conservative activists that Bay talked about are overplaying this in a terrible way. They could be having a legitimate debate over America's role in Iraq. Some people think we should do more, some less. It's an honest debate.
Instead, they're attacking her personally. Rush Limbaugh, who is very close personally to George W. Bush and very close to the White House, has gone on his radio show and alleged that she's making this up. He said, oh, she's just like the guy who forged documents allegedly about President Bush in the National Guard. That's not true. She's not making this up. Her son actually died.
BLITZER: Making what up?
BEGALA: You've got to ask Rush. He's suggesting that she's making it up that her son died. They're attacking her personally instead of attacking her position on the war. You cannot ever win attacking a Gold Star mother personally.
BUCHANAN: I agree. You can't attack her personally, but I do think it's important to get the facts out. I mean, she came there. She's changed her position entirely since her son died. Immediately afterwards, talking and praising the president. Now she's looking for reasons to expose him and to hurt him. That's her game. I feel terribly.
When I look at her, I feel like a mother. I feel like, my gosh, there's a woman trying to fill that void and she'll having really trouble doing it....
(Excerpt) Read more at transcripts.cnn.com ...
Begala's sentence doesn't even make sense, unless he is saying Cindy is an Inca priest.
This same exact phrase showed up in a Maureen Dowd column, and the whole thing got blown out of the water by Ann Coulter this fine evening. Just a heads up. These people are so into groupthink, it's just pathetic. I'd expect nothing less from "the forehead" however.
Rush should go on Blitzer's show and debate The Forehead
You apparently beat me to it. Sorry for doubling up on it, then.
I believe he borrowed this statement from that philosophical titan of teh left - Maureen Dowd. Ann Coulter picked it up and pounded Dowd into the dirt like a tent peg, metaphorically speaking. I recommend Ann's current column, which is posted around here somewhere.
Oh! Ok, thanks!
I was notioning this today. The left could never agree to a fair debate. Rush would win in a knock-out. His previous forays into MSM have largely involved his being surrounded by three or four to refute his position. That to me is the practice of gangsters rather than debaters. Mano a mano he would triumph most or all of the time.
With all of this original thinking, is it any wonder then that Begala is given the same forum to provide the same 'content' and 'analysis' he's always provided? Is this a sign Wolf is slipping? (Do we care?)
You don't have to answer that...I know....
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HE gave his life to protect HER!
The fact that Begala's blatant lie came AFTER Rush had addressed that very lie, proves to me just how evil Begala really is. This was no case of accidental misinformation, or routine spinning. This was ugly and mean. Begala knew he was lying, for the express purpose of maligning Rush.
SuzanneC, thanks for providing the following transcript from Rush's show:
""Apparently what's out there is that I said that Cindy Sheehan is no different than Bill Burkett, that Bill Burkett lied and Cindy Sheehan lied. There are actually out there people saying that I am accusing Cindy Sheehan of making up the fact that she had a son and making up the fact that her son died in Iraq -- and, of course, I have never said this. In fact I, early on in this -- if you want to go back, and we'll post the archives on my website tonight just to illustrate this.
I'm the one that actually expressed a little compassion for her, and I said, "You know, I don't really want to talk too much about her particularly because she's lost a son here, and that can never be easy, and I don't care what... There are all kinds of different people that have all kinds of different reactions to this. But losing a child is the absolute worst thing that can happen to an adult." There's nothing that rivals it in my estimation.
So the idea that I think that she's making it all up is just another sign of the desperation of the people on the left who love to take us all out of context to try to get their side riled up. What I said was that the media looks at her the same way they look at Bill Burkett: as an opportunity. It didn't matter when Burkett was telling you the truth or not and it doesn't matter what the specifics of Cindy Sheehan's case are. She is protesting Bush. Burkett hated Bush. That's why they're attractive to the media, and that's why the media is willing to exploit her..."
I can't wait for Rush's show tomorrow. And yes, one more time, I'll watch Blitzer's show, just to see if he apologizes.
It MUST MUST MUST MUST follow the Viet Nam Anti-War template! Sometimes I feel like I'm in the way-back machine. They are hell-bent to implement the same strategery...except why hasn't Kerry's pager gone off in support of this bimbo? The high-profilers sure are distancing themselves, unless The Forehead has trotted out to carry the water.
The Forehead never stops. Guy is freaking unbelievable.
Aptly named for someone interested in creating situations.
Begala lies about any and everything. He has never told the truthin his life. Wht should he start now?
CNN/ PMSNBC. Too bad they cannot cancel a network.
He talked about it today.
I have a simple rule; Begala on, TV off.
Let me say two things, then I need to leave this thread and those like it:
-I understand death, dying, and grief: My family has endured much pain, as have I, being part of an aging family whose cherished members begin to pass on. I can understand the pain this woman continues to feel, having lost her son. We have lost young and old alike, some due to tragic circumstances, as have many FReepers I am sure.
-After the funerals, and our 3 days of (allowed and understandable) grief, we took our pain and healing process internally after that.
Now it is time for her to close this chapter in her life, and to move on. It is obvious the President has already met with her on an earlier occasion and does not want to demoralize the troops by accommodating her 'rants.'
I guess MSM will not let the story go, but I personally would like to move on now and let her fade into the sunset. Even her own husband has told her by his actions that she is quickly becoming a 'Michael Moore'.
Balderdash!
Reporters report what their bosses tell them to report, and hyping this story, turning Cindy Sheehan into an anti-war icon, perhaps even causing Bush to base decisions on the effect she's having, is what the MSM bosses want.
This is harsh, but I think we have to consider the possibility the MSM wants us to lose this war, so great is their hatred for Bush.
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