Sen. Patty Murray says she intended to be provocative when she told a group of high school students that terrorist leader Osama bin Laden is popular in poor countries because he helped pay for schools, roads and even day care centers.
Senator Lott said he intended to be provocative when he told a group of Thurmond supporters that the country would have been better off if Thurmond won the presidency in 1948.
Murray said in a statement Friday that Vance and other critics were twisting her words. "Having a challenging and thoughtful discussion about America's future reflects the best values of a free democracy; to sensationalize and distort in an attempt to divide is not," she said. Murray's spokesman, Todd Webster, called the senator a victim of a right-wing media machine. "This is being turned into a circus by the right-wing media outlets and fed by right-wing haters," Webster said.
Lott said in a statement Friday that critics were twisting his words. "Having a challenging and thoughtful discussion about America's future reflects the best values of a free democracy; to sensationalize and distort in an attempt to divide is not," he said. Lott's spokesman called the senator a victim of a left-wing media machine. "This is being turned into a circus by the left-wing media outlets and fed by left-wing haters," the spokesman said.
-PJ
Ah, the nitwit meant to be "provocative." In other words, she meant to provoke. And now? Now the nitwit claims her words have been twisted by a bunch of haters.
How very liberal of the brainless slug.