Quick note to Al Franken, who has spent so much time lying about Bill O'Reilly, how anyone could listen to the guy and see him as anything but a complete joke is amazing...Robert Novak isn't being accused of false reporting, CBS is- and numerous independent experts are attacking their claims- which means, Novak is NOT a hypocrite for demanding that CBS reveal their source, even tho in regards to Joe Wilson's wife- Novak won't reveal his sources. You cannot even begin to compare the two. One report is almost surely bogus, the other- no one is even suggesting it's bogus. Apples and oranges, but not shocking that you and your guests would portray both as apples.
A secondary note about the Novak issue- the guest Franken talked to claimed Novak outed a top secret CIA operative (she wasn't- she was a researcher)...and she (Franken's guest) claimed the White House outed her to embarass Wilson (remember- Wilson has been proved a liar...I wrote about this issue before. He claimed his trip to Africa shot down the Niger claims- but it actually bolstered the case...PLUS, Wilson claimed his wife had nothing to do with the trip, but it turns out he was only chosen for the trip because his wife said he would be good for the job- this was shown in his wife's e mails on the subject -READ MORE about the Joe Wilson lies here-)...the Franken guest (and Franken himself) claimed that Novak said the Bush admin gave him the info, but this is also untrue- they said this to bolster their unfounded claim that Bush outed the agent to embarass Wilson, but as you can see from the link above, Wilson did a perfectly good job of that himself. He killed any shred of respectability he ever had with his lies.
Next, the guest claimed that Bush is to blame for the weapon ban not being extended...claimed that in 1999 Bush needed the American people to vote for him, so he supported the ban, but flip-flopped now. BUT, she never mentioned 1. Bush has no control over such issues, being part of the executive branch...and 2. neither party in the House support extending the ban, so Bush could have done nothing even if he urged them to extend it- the votes just aren't there on EITHER SIDE of the aisle. She also claimed that come midnight, horrible guns would be on the street...but, she never mentions- that's insanely dishonest itself. You can go out and buy a legal gun that is twice as powerful and deadly as a gun on the "banned" list, so no reasonable person can claim that now there will be a mad rush to go out and buy horrible, deadly guns. Another thing that was implied, and has been implied by so many on the left, wishing to attack the President with this issue is- machine guns and similar types of guns are ALREADY banned, and the '94 ban had nothing to do with these guns. I've heard numerous people on the left claim that thanks to Bush- AK47's will be back on the streets. Too bad that is a blatant lie- considering ALL fully automatic weapons have been banned in the US since the 1930's.
Just completely debunked two issues Franken discussed on his radio show...if I had listened ten more minutes, I'm sure I could have come up with 10 more examples. I'll use a word Franken used on his show for Republicans...SHAMELESS.
UPDATE: Joe Wilson, who works for the Kerry campaign, used to have the website restorehonesty.com- and it was hosted and sponsored by the Kerry campaign. Seems that the site has been taken down, and it now just goes to johnkerry.com- guess when Wilson got caught in his many lies, the URL was just too much of a joke for even him to use. Shocking they took it down tho, because Wilson proved he has no shame.
UPDATE 2: It seems Wilson has been dumped from the Kerry campaign...and not only was his URL taken down, but there is no longer ANY mention of Joe Wilson on the John Kerry website. If you search "Wilson"- you can't find Joe Wilson anywhere. They also took the page off that contained the information Wilson claimed when he wrote his piece about honesty and how the Bush Administration lied to the American people. ALSO- I saved the page to my files (Kerry's people thought they could hide their lies, not quite)- and you will notice that every single link that is connected to the page has been removed entirely from the Kerry/Edwards site. So ironic.
Posted by Josh at September 14, 2004 02:39 AM | TrackBack