It has been a common fact for years now that One Hundred Percent of the blather spoken so earnestly by current White House bobbleheads on cable “news” shows is absolute bullshit. However, this whopper—if we had a functioning media—should have stopped the presses. Try to believe you live in a country in which a White House spokesflack could spout this ducksplatter on national television and get away with it, unchallenged. White House honker Frances Fragos Townsend chats with CNN’s White House correspondent Ed Henry:
HENRY: You know, going back to September 2001, the president said, dead or alive, we’re going to get [Bin Laden]. Still don’t have him. I know you are saying there’s successes on the war on terror, and there have been. That’s a failure.
TOWNSEND: Well, I’m not sure -- it’s a success that hasn’t occurred yet. I don’t know that I view that as a failure.
(emphasis mine)
Hands down, that is the dumbest, most ridiculous statement I’ve ever heard, and considering some of wingnut sludge tossed at the wall this year, that’s really saying something.
Let’s not even get into what the Cheney Administration considers a “failure.” More U.S. soldiers are now dead than all of the people killed on 9/11. Not to mention the thousands with missing limbs, eyes, brains... and to say nothing of the hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians killed in this immoral, illegal “war.”
Glenn and Jane expound further.
h/t TPM
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