The White House: Then and Now
Or, Karl and Dick told me - along with God - to move the goalposts.
This is the kind of baseball-bat-to-the-head hypocrisy that leaves a non-partisan stunned. An excerpt from Ari Fleischer's WH Press Briefing of 26 Sept. 2001
...This is now. It is now okay to obfuscate, tell all tales, and out CIA agents while working in the freakin' White House with this same president as long as you are not found guilty of a crime. If anything, given the state of war that exists with Iraq, anyone even suspected in the White House of malfeasance should be terminated immediately, and then allowed to clear their name(s).
The only high profile government official to lose their job indirectly due to - 9/11, up until now is - I. Lewis Libby.
Bill Maher lost his job - for essentially doing his job - shortly after making the above referenced statement that the WH has gotten essentially correct.
What Maher actually said was this:
The White House should not move the goalposts over the outing of CIA operatives on a whim either.
This is the kind of baseball-bat-to-the-head hypocrisy that leaves a non-partisan stunned. An excerpt from Ari Fleischer's WH Press Briefing of 26 Sept. 2001
Q As Commander-In-Chief, what was the President's reaction to television's Bill Maher, in his announcement that members of our Armed Forces who deal with missiles are cowards, while the armed terrorists who killed 6,000 unarmed are not cowards, for which Maher was briefly moved off a Washington television station?So, Bill Maher, a person known for irreverent commentary makes a statement about 9/11 and is berated by the WH, and most everyone else...That was then.
MR. FLEISCHER: I have not discussed it with the President, one. I have --
Q Surely, as a --
MR. FLEISCHER: I'm getting there.
Q Surely as Commander, he was enraged at that, wasn't he?
MR. FLEISCHER: I'm getting there, Les.
Q Okay.
MR. FLEISCHER: I'm aware of the press reports about what he said. I have not seen the actual transcript of the show itself. But assuming the press reports are right, it's a terrible thing to say, and it unfortunate. And that's why -- there was an earlier question about has the President said anything to people in his own party -- they're reminders to all Americans that they need to watch what they say, watch what they do. This is not a time for remarks like that; there never is.
...This is now. It is now okay to obfuscate, tell all tales, and out CIA agents while working in the freakin' White House with this same president as long as you are not found guilty of a crime. If anything, given the state of war that exists with Iraq, anyone even suspected in the White House of malfeasance should be terminated immediately, and then allowed to clear their name(s).
The only high profile government official to lose their job indirectly due to - 9/11, up until now is - I. Lewis Libby.
Bill Maher lost his job - for essentially doing his job - shortly after making the above referenced statement that the WH has gotten essentially correct.
What Maher actually said was this:
"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly."His show, Politically Incorrect wasn't given that title on a whim.
The White House should not move the goalposts over the outing of CIA operatives on a whim either.
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