Posted on 12/08/2005 7:29:40 PM PST by MikeA
Donald Rumsfeld was asked by Jim Lehrer on the News Hour on PBS just now if his low poll numbers bothered him. This was after one tiresome question after another about how the polls prove Americans hate Bush, the war in Iraq and everything else Republican-related. Rumsfeld came up with the best, in-your-face reply: "If you look where the news media is, it's down very low in the polls. If you want to get into public opinion polls, people in that business are right down near the bottom. You know that. Does it bother you?" Lehrer looked embarrassed and could only respond "I ask the questions here."
That's why I love Rumsfeld! He's not afraid to stuff it right back in the hideous faces of the media pukes unlike the rest of the administration that just plays so prissy and fearful with the leftist media.
Oh my goodness...we have to have the video of this!!!
ping
Ain't he the best!!
Thanks for the link, Rummy was on fire :-)
Real men are sexy. There ought to be a Rummy rule like the Coulter rule. Pictures Please! (of Rummy)
I hope you don't like pudding. LOL
I really like and respect Rumsfeld too. He knows how to stick it to the media fools.
This administration is on the offensive. Look at the various stories being posted. I think we are seeing the beginning of the campaign.
The Democrats (and main stream media) is so used to the Republicans in general and this administration in particular just roll over, they do not know how to respond.
I am looking forward to more of this in your face responses.
Excellent response as usual from Rummy.
Worth reading the transcript. Thanks for the link.
Rumsfeld should be president...too many skeletons?
Modern day Churchill.
This is probably why Bill Kristol doesn't like Rummy. Kristol was on Fox this morning spewing his "time for Rummy to resign" mantra.
And .. after hearing what Kristol had to say .. I'm wondering if it was Kristol who started the rumor .. just so Kristol could comment on it.
Slap 'em some more Rummy!
I know one thing.....if the President cares about his "numbers" at all....
He won't even consider replacing Rummy....especially with Lieberman~!
AGREED!
THAT is it!!! Kristol has to be the "White House" source that says that Bush is mad at Rummy and wants to replace him...
I just CANNOT even imagine that scenario...but, I can believe that Kristol would make it up!
All of this transperant crap about Lieberman being the next Secretary of State!
We've got a real man as SOD.
Why change?
Thank you!! Go Rummie! What a B***slap!
I think we need to send a message to the White House that Rummy leaving is NOT an option....
Oh, he wasn't elected? Never mind...
very, very nice Gordo. That's one of the best photo sequences I've seen. Lets put Rummy and Cheney in charge...of everything.
Jim Lehrer is red in the face
For causing himself this disgrace
Acting just like a DUmmy
He badgered Don Rummy
But wound up in very last place.
More like Rumsfeld wizzed in Jim's Cherrios.
I saw it...on PBS local channel 9 in SF Bay Area.
Rumsfeld did not back off from that communist bast**d Lehrer.
Lehrer means teacher in German. I do not know if it is Jewish. I suspect so.
In this case, the teacher was taught a lesson, both in civics and in manners.
My all-time favorite show on TV - the Rummy Press Conference. 72 years old and he not only bests them everytime, he hangs them up and changes their diapers for them.
First President Bush, then Cheney, now Rummy! Hand them their arses, guys :-D
I beg to differ. I read Lehrer's autobiography about 15 years ago. His politics are akin to the old great society Texas LBJ democrats and he drifts farther to the left every year.
The McNeil Lehrer New Hours took a hard left turn after McNeil retired. After a few months of the Lehrer News Hour, I turned the TV off. May Allah praise the Freerepublic.
Because of intelligence and toughness. If you have those qualities, you are sharp; if you do not have both of those qualities, you are not sharp and are, therefore, defined by others.
Lehrer: "What is this?"
Rummy: "It's your ass."
Rummy hands Lehrer his ass.
thanks for the heads up .... have him on now!!!
It's gonna be a sad day for me when Rummy finally steps down. Too bad he wasn't 20 years younger - he'd make a hell of a President!
Oh I wish I'd seen that! LOL!! Maybe that's a good idea for every Republican to follow when the media talking heads ask about a poll. LOL!!
And he knows who the enemy is.
I certainly glad I'm taping this!!! Priceless!!!!!
LOL...more like his whole darn leg...and Rums didn't tell him it was rainwater either.
That too funny I want see that interview too bad show only once here in SO CAL they show Lerer news hour only once
Jim Licker trying to Match Wits with Rummy doesn't have Half a Chance!
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
Hey Martin now Learer is Rummy little b***h
Man...I wish I hadn't missed that one! Good ole Rummy!
Look at the people who dont like Rumsfeld and you wil have an index of all the people who are dangerous for the country. If that includes McCain and Kristol, than so be it.
Rumsfeld is the opposite of the person who fails to truly know himself and thus is prey for the feminization machine. Intelligence and toughness is the combination that is missing and results in feminization. Kristol is not tough and he has an visceral reaction to Rumsfeld because of that. McCain is a more complicated story. I would never say he was not tough, but he is much more towards pandering to the press types and the left, and that is probably due to an intelligence and morality deficit. Witness his campaign-finance bill, his fear of the "Nuclear Option" and his undermining of conservatives.
That is a good question. However, Rumsfeld is a very smart guy. But more than that he is a very practical, reasonable man with just the perfect touch of common sense. He also is 70 plus years old and just does not give a schit about being politically correct and it works to his advantage.
I always love his press conferences. He always has his facts and figures and he knows what he wants to say and controls the discussion. He is initially very patient with the incessant whiny questions. But then he reaches his limit and the next stupid question he gets he stops, gives the reporter this scrunched up look, as if to say WTF is wrong with you, and then he just slams him/her with an obvious answer. He does it all the time. And then he smiles. I love it.
Hey, the other people in the administration should take notes. Remember when he told the press France and Germany were old Europe. I thought I was going to have an aneurysm.
Oh thank you ping!!!!!
How I Love that man too!!
If he leaves his post on his terms he could go out and speak for the admin. If he looks forced out he will become quiet. What a loss for all of us.
OH MAN if I know that Rummy be on I would have tape it LOL!
I want see Rummy make Lerer his b***h
That's a good description!
Rumsfeld is the b-slap master. There's nobody sharper. And he'll still be kicking their simpleton butts when he's ninety.
Wouldn't that be sweeeeeet!
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