Posted on 08/01/2014 6:41:06 AM PDT by nikos1121
On Fox News Friday, Geraldo Rivera got into it with former CIA official Michael Scheuer over newly surfaced recordings of former president Bill Clinton, in which he claims the day before 9/11 that he could have killed Osama bin Laden.
In the tapes, Clinton says the reason he didn’t go in for the kill is that he would have had to “destroy a little town called Kandahar in Afghanistan and kill 300 innocent women and children, and then I would have been no better than him (bin Laden).”
Scheuer, identified as head of CIA’s bin Laden unit 1995-1999, disputed Clinton’s recollection. He said the attack on bin Laden “would have occurred in the middle of the night” and “it would have killed no one but Taliban people and Osama bin Laden and his crew.”
Scheuer took a shot at Clinton, saying, “if you looked up the word ‘lie’ his face (Clinton’s) would be right next to it.” He also claimed that he was fired from CBS after he bad mouthed Clinton.
Rivera was then brought in to discuss. He said Scheuer is “mixing and conflating intelligence with his own ideological spin.”
“So, what you have here with this gentleman who was dismissed by CBS by his own admission,” Rivera said, “is an analysis on the military action. And then No. 2, he is spinning it for his own purposes.”
What followed was a series of insults from Scheuer, who disparagingly called Rivera “a magazine guy,” “a dummy” and a “clown.”
Geraldo comes on and bascially dismisses the messinger.
Geraldo Rivera = Monica Lewinsky.
What followed was a series of insults from Scheuer, who disparagingly called Rivera “a magazine guy,” “a dummy” and a “clown.”
Sounds like he’s got Rivera’s number.
“destroy a little town called Kandahar in Afghanistan and kill 300 innocent women and children..”
???
What the hell were we going to be using? A B-17, and 20,000 pounds of bombs?
We had more than enough advanced gear that you would not have to carpet bomb the whole damn place.
> “Anyone hear Geraldo Rivera this AM on Fox Morning Show?”
No.
10 X minimum wage with a full annual contract is not enough to have me listen to anything this imbecile says.
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Bill Clinton a liar. I’m shocked!!
The Clinton’s either lie or embellish for their own gain!
Whoraldo is a Marxist apologist. He calls out Rivera when he claimed to be in Sudan when Clinton tried to bomb Osama. The guy calls him a clown since Osama was in Afghanistan then.
Listening to it now on Brian Kilmie.
I think it was interesting that Clinton was speaking about this one day before 9/11.
Fox News is really blowing it. You can buy a dozen Carvilles at the bait store.
Roger Ailes is a fool for paying mental midgets such as Whoraldo, Juan Williams And Shep Smith. When they come on, we change channels.
Whore-aldo = Early to work Fridays
Kandahar has about a half a million people. XXX-42 either had no idea what he was talking about, was lying or (most likely) both.
Whorealdo is no more than a cheap rendition of Clyde Barnum. Any credibility he ever had he threw away with the Al Capon Grand Flop years ago and his career has been on a down hill slide ever since.
Obviously he has goat pictures for Ailes to keep him on FNC.
Why would anyone think he would go after bin Laden? What's in it for Bill?
Nope. Not interested in what he has to say.
I’ve always thought it was a mistake, even suspect, for FOX to put him on the payroll. He’s more pompous than BOR, and is as racist as the day is long.
I heard most of it, unprofessional on both of their parts. But we see that a lot when Whoraldo gets airtime.
I usually turn it off when Jerry Rivers comes on FOX. Today I listened. Jerry thinks he knows more than an expert.
Whatta weasel.
I think old Roger and his boss have been threatened with the loss of their license by the FCC, that is shorthand for Obama.
They are under the gun and have been told they must provide balance by bringing in Communist fools. That is what I think.
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