Fox Catches McConnell Hypocrisy Over Testimony Of White House Officials Under Oath
Fox Catches McConnell Hypocrisy Over Testimony Of White House Officials Under Oath
This morning on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace aired archived video of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) calling on the Clinton White House to testify before Congress under oath. Here’s what McConnell said on June 16, 1996:
I think the testimony obviously ought to be sworn testimony. And we ought to go all the way into this and take as much time as we can to reassure the American people that this sort of thing’s not going to happen again in the future.
Challenged with this quote today, McConnell said, “With regard to White House officials, it will be up to the President to decide frankly whether and when and under what circumstances members of his [own White House staff] testify.”
Wallace questioned why the same rules McConnell applied to the Clinton White House shouldn’t apply to the Bush White House. McConnell offered that he was merely a Senator in 1996 and that the President made the ultimate decision. Wallace said, “But you’re still a Senator so the question is: do you call on this President to do the same thing?” McConnell responded, “I’m calling on this President to do what he thinks is appropriate.” Watch it:
Transcript:
WALLACE: Senator McConnell — and let me bring in Senator McConnell here, because I have a little history for you, as well.
Back in 1996, you maybe remember there was a controversy in the Clinton White House about the fact that they had obtained FBI documents on hundreds of former officials from the Reagan years and the Bush, H.R. Bush, Bush-41 years.
Here on FOX NEWS SUNDAY back in 1996, you demanded full Congressional hearings. Let’s take a look.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
MCCONNELL: I think the testimony, obviously, ought to be sworn testimony and we ought to go all the way into this and take as much time as we can to reassure the American people that this sort of thing is not going to happen in the future.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
WALLACE: Given that same reasoning, Senator McConnell, shouldn’t Karl Rove, shouldn’t other White House officials be called before Congress, testify in public and under oath?
MCCONNELL: Well, first of all, with regard to Justice Department, there are going to be hearings. The attorney general’s coming up. There was a hearing Thursday.
With regard to White House officials, it’ll be up to the president to decide, frankly, whether and when and under what circumstances members of his own administration testify.
Sometimes — of his own White House staff. Sometimes White House staff has testified, sometimes not. When presidents have dug in their heels, it’s gone to court.
This kind of tug of war has gone under administrations of both parties for a long time.
WALLACE: Senator McConnell, my point is that back in 1996, you were saying those White House aides should testify in open hearing. These were White House aides of Bill Clinton, in open hearing under oath.
Why shouldn’t the same rules apply for the Bush White House and people like Karl Rove?
MCCONNELL: And what I’m telling you is the president’s going to make that decision. I was a senator. I was talking about an administration. The president made the decision in 1996, President Clinton, as to how that would be done, and this president’s going to make the same decision and we’ll see how it all works out.
WALLACE: Well, you’re still a senator. So the question is do you call on this president to do the same thing?
MCCONNELL: I’m calling on this president to do what he thinks is appropriate with regard to his aides testifying. What Fred Fielding, the White House counsel, has offered is, I gather, still under discussion as to how and when and under what conditions the White House aides will testify.
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Holy crap! Fox commits news!
April 1st, 2007 at 10:49 amAnother marshmallow faced liar for the Bush Regime.
-GSD
April 1st, 2007 at 10:51 amFlip Flop.
April 1st, 2007 at 10:51 amKeep talking McConnell, it all makes sense to me.
April 1st, 2007 at 10:51 amCoward.
April 1st, 2007 at 10:52 amI can, occasionally, tip my hat to a rare example of journalism at FOX Noise. Wallace, for all his doucebaggary, is the closest to a real journalist that they have.
April 1st, 2007 at 10:52 amHuh?
April 1st, 2007 at 10:52 am“Senator, do you agree that you’re an oily jackass, that you have no standards that you are willing to apply to your own party, and that youwould sell your country out for personal profit like all the rest of the G.O.P.?”
It’s about time Chris (Wallace). I’m enjoying watching the GOP stooge machine eat itself.
April 1st, 2007 at 10:53 amI can, occasionally, tip my hat to a rare example of journalism from FOX Noise. Wallace is the closest thing to an actual journalist they have over there.
April 1st, 2007 at 10:53 amWallace must have gotten a new dealer. I bet he’ll be switching again soon, this is far too much news for Faux to handle.
April 1st, 2007 at 10:54 amwhat the hell is wallace’s problem? does he think he’s a real journalist or something?
April 1st, 2007 at 10:54 amSo you CAN suck and blow at the same time.
April 1st, 2007 at 10:55 amThe proper and honest answer he should have given to Wallace:”Because one is Republican and the other is not”…
But since honesty in politics does not exist..selling the unsellable is demonstrated here….
These people think the audience can’t see or spot their B.S.
April 1st, 2007 at 10:57 amMeanwhile, back at the “whack a mole”
BAGHDAD - An Iraqi military spokesman said Sunday that militants fleeing a security crackdown in Baghdad have made areas outside the capital “breeding grounds for violence,” spreading deadly bombings and sectarian attacks to areas once relatively untouched. … More than 600 Iraqis were killed in sectarian violence last week alone…two suicide vests were found unexploded Saturday in the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad…”
April 1st, 2007 at 10:57 amdoesn’t matter…
even schumer is talking compromise…
oh, transcripts are a MUST, but he seems to think an OATH is redundant…
and privacy, of course… he’d go along with that…
i hope i heard wrong…
April 1st, 2007 at 10:58 amThey don’t call him Itch McCornhole for nothing.
-GSD
April 1st, 2007 at 10:59 amwhat’s wallace’s problem? does he think he’s a real journalist or something?
April 1st, 2007 at 11:01 amYou call on the President to do what is appropriate?
(last line)
Don’t hold your breath.
Thy name is hypocrite and you have just been OWNED.
April 1st, 2007 at 11:01 amWhats good for the Goose is Gross to the Gander.
April 1st, 2007 at 11:02 amSo Fox actually tried to interject some truth into the news? This is an April Fools joke, right?
April 1st, 2007 at 11:03 amExecutive privelege has not, does not, and will not pertain to communications between WH staff. Send the damn subpeonas.
April 1st, 2007 at 11:05 amApril 1st, 2007 at 11:06 am
Get ready for a lot of GOP dancing as they try to waltz clear of the disasterous Bush neocon policies they have so willingly enabled since 2000. It’s going to be impossible for Republicans to convince America that they are the right ones to put in place to fix the mess they made as the 2008 elections fast approach.
April 1st, 2007 at 11:06 amBut let’s not be partisan about this, shall we?
You KNOW things are going bad for Republicans when even Fox News is critical!
April 1st, 2007 at 11:07 am#1 Yachts and Lattes said it all. I’m speechless.
I still afraid that, any minute now TP is going to come out and yell “April Fool - we made the whole thing up”.
April 1st, 2007 at 11:08 amRemember this is a guy who voted for Bush’s Military Commissions Act. If Bush thinks doing away with the Constitution and the rule of law is appropriate, McConnell is on board with that.
April 1st, 2007 at 11:13 amPLEASE, don’t ever tell us us anything that Fox does that sounds like they are actually reporting fair and balanced news, it’s just another set-up for someone’s personal agenda. Roger Ailes probably doesn’t like Mitch, who knows? But when Fox starts actually reporting real news like this, watch out, there’s a big lie waiting in their wings.
April 1st, 2007 at 11:13 amDid someone spike Chris Wallace’s Kool-Aid?
April 1st, 2007 at 11:14 amI’m sure an intellectual heavy-weight like Gonzales will be able to clear up this minor US Attorney “misunderstanding” by explaining how “mistakes were made” at his April 17th hearing. I still don’t understand how after 3 full months of having every opportunity to have the truth emerge Gonzales has fumbled and bumbled his way. Is thaat man really that out of it? He’s our Attorney General?
April 1st, 2007 at 11:14 amDid anyone see Orrin Hatch (another right wing Mormon) on Meet the Press?
He got so mad defending his little buddy Gonzales, that he actually blew up at Pat Leahey and said Goddamn on the air. (or some kind of Mormon Goddamn)
Leahey, good man that he is though was not on his game.
Hatch falsely claimed Carol Lam was fired for failure to prosecute immigration cases. Leahey didn’t say anything.
He should have known, and pointed out, that court records show that during her tenure, Carol Lams district prosecuted more immigration cases than any other kind.
Why didn’t Leahey tell him that? Why didn’t he challenge Hatch’s “false witness” (does he kiss his bishop with that mouth?) against this federal prosecutor? Why didn’the point out that immigration cases were the number one cases tried by Lam?
We can’t afford for these guys like Leahey to be off their game right now.
April 1st, 2007 at 11:15 amSo- foKKKs “news” is actually doing something _fair_, or _balanced_?
April 1st, 2007 at 11:17 amWhat-a-bout them mouth-breathers? Are they being relegated to limp-bough?
OOPS, ignore that email!
April 1st, 2007 at 11:19 amFox noise like any conserv666ative entity is maifestly concerned with serving it’s own interests, to that end I’ll bet you see more of this while they try to develop some legitimacy going into our next political cycle.
April 1st, 2007 at 11:19 amAnother area Leahey dropped the ball on was when Hatch got indignant, and demaned evidence of a crime having been committed.
Leahey stonewalled the question, when he should have answered “YES, there IS the appearance that Lam may have been fired because she was “too successful” in prosecuting Duke Cunningham, not to mention she was subpeonaing high ranking officials to investigate Dusty Foggo.
So Leahey should have answered a resounding “YES”. There is evidence that a crime may have been committed”.
He should have shut that Orrin Snatch up.
April 1st, 2007 at 11:25 amI think Leahy is taking the “let them dig their own hole” approach to this, Hatch has never looked so partisan or perturbed, so Leahy is playing it right, he doesn’t need to add any fuel to this already burning fire, the R’s like Hatch are just digging themselves deeper into the manure pile with this “heckuvajob” approach to Gonzales.
I would also wager Hatch is seriously regretting the Hatch Act right now. Unless I am mistaken, wasn’t it written to prevent Gore from politickin’ on federal property in the first place? Now it is going to come back to bite them all in the butt when the whole truth and nothing but the truth comes out about the extent and influence Rove’s pernicious powerpoint presentations had on every branch of our government.
April 1st, 2007 at 11:26 amWORFEUS - i watched the same show… missed the hatch “profanity”…
but, am i mistaken about what i perceived schumer was saying???
i should add that it pertains to the rove and meir testimonies… i think…
April 1st, 2007 at 11:28 am…
See Marshmallow Mitch.
Watch Marshmallow Mitch dodge.
Dodge, Marshmallow Mitch, dodge.
April 1st, 2007 at 11:30 amNo lips Mitch,
April 1st, 2007 at 11:38 amReminds of the toy,Mr. Potatohead of the early sixties. A styrofoam head, with replaceable facial parts ie; nose, ears, mouth, eyes etc. He’s a spitting image of Mr. Potatohead on the cover of the box.
#
Remember this is a guy who voted for Bush’s Military Commissions Act. If Bush thinks doing away with the Constitution and the rule of law is appropriate, McConnell is on board with that.
Comment by Briseadh_na_faire — April 1, 2007 @ 11:13 am
There were 65 votes in favor of that horrible bill, 12 of which were Democrats. Only one Republican voted against it…Lincoln Chaffee. Which doesn’t, of course, excuse McConnell. But our problem isn’t just with Republicans…it’s also with Democrats who continue to need a spine. As far as I’m concerned, there should be NO compromise with this criminal adminstration. NO private hearings, no lack of transcripts..and oh, yeah. Cut the damn funds NOW for the war and bring our troops home.
http://www.senate.gov/ legislative/ LIS/ roll_call_lists/ roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00259#position
April 1st, 2007 at 11:39 ami think this relates to Glenn Greenwald’s post today…they are trying to get McConnell out of the way coz they consider him ‘weak”.
April 1st, 2007 at 11:40 am
Unbelievable. That actually came from Faux Noise? Wow. I’m totally shocked. You gotta love the fact that he never did answer the question. Wallace should have made it one of Faux Noise channel’s “yes or no answer” questions. All the Republics are a bunch of hypocrites. Even Jake. His justifications for what Bush does is that “Clinton did it”. Even if it was true that Clinton did it, that doesn’t make it right what the Bush Administration is doing. Nuances like that are beyond Jake’s understanding. If it isn’t a soundbite he doesn’t understand it. He’s not what you would call a “deep thinker”.
April 1st, 2007 at 11:41 amWho else is going to accuse Fox of not being “fair and balanced”?
Visit: http://OsiSpeaks.com or http://Osispeaks.org
April 1st, 2007 at 11:42 amhere is the link to Glenn Greenwald
they dont think McConnell is “tough” enough
April 1st, 2007 at 11:45 amChris Wallace must want a future in broadcasting. . . my bet is that he’s looking out for himself . . . and realizes that no amount of fancy dancin’ will ever explain how wrong faux noise has been about bush and Iraq.
April 1st, 2007 at 11:49 amGood job Chris Wallace.
As for the senator, thanks for your non-answer.
April 1st, 2007 at 11:53 amAnother area Leahey dropped the ball on was when Hatch got indignant, and demaned evidence of a crime having been committed.
If there was hard evidence, these guys wouldn’t just be testifying before Congress…they’d be testifying in a court of law.
April 1st, 2007 at 11:54 amThis is obviously a blatant APRIL FOOLS JOKE… they would never run this story
April 1st, 2007 at 11:54 am[…] UPDATE: Senate Minority Leader seemingly now makes it official: principles can be abandoned — depending on who the President is. Consistency conschmistency? […]
April 1st, 2007 at 11:56 amThe unremitting hypocrisy of this cretin is enough to make me heave my breakfast. He gives new definition to the term ‘low-life’. A republic before he is an American. We need another ‘French Revolution’ in this country which would treat the likes of McConnell as they deserve to be treated.
April 1st, 2007 at 11:59 amKudos to Wallace. As for faux news in general, “even a stopped watch is right twice a day.”
April 1st, 2007 at 12:03 pm(praising with feint damn)
Hey–In case you haven’t heard, the good people of Kentucky will get rid of “McBush,” our sad excuse for a Senator. Please contact anyone you know in Kentucky and tell them about this website:
http://www.ditchmitchky.com
We will Ditch Mitch McConnell in Nov. 2008 and we won’t have to hear from him again. Thanks.
April 1st, 2007 at 12:08 pmWho else is going to accuse Fox of not being “fair and balanced�
Comment by KYJurisDoctor
Wallace getting it right and diong his job one time, doesn’t make Fox “fair and balanced.”
“Fair and balanced” is not good journalism. People who are not sheep do not need their news “pre-digested.”
April 1st, 2007 at 12:10 pmFox will probably use this story for the next decade to show how fair and balanced they are. Hopefully we’ll get to keep track of the mileage they get out of it.
April 1st, 2007 at 12:11 pmBushCo really has to be in the bunker at this point if even a lightweight among lightweights like Wallace is busting Republicans over their unshamefaced lying….
April 1st, 2007 at 12:13 pmWho else is going to accuse Fox of not being “fair and balanced�
Comment by KYJurisDoctor — April 1, 2007 @ 11:42 am
LOL.
It takes a comment like this to show exactly how soft Fox has always been to guests with the same ideology.
April 1st, 2007 at 12:14 pmWORFEUS - i watched the same show… missed the hatch “profanityâ€â€¦
but, am i mistaken about what i perceived schumer was saying???
i should add that it pertains to the rove and meir testimonies… i think…
…
Comment by katy — April 1, 2007 @ 11:28 am
Schummer was on Face the Nation. Leahey was on Meet the Press.
What was the thing though that you thought Schummer or Leahey was sayng?
April 1st, 2007 at 12:37 pmWho else is going to accuse Fox of not being “fair and balanced�
Comment by KYJurisDoctor — April 1, 2007 @ 11:42 am
How exactly did this show Fox being fair and balanced?
April 1st, 2007 at 12:40 pmworfeus… i just realized - i confused the 2 shows…
April 1st, 2007 at 12:40 pmi saw parts of MTP (with leahy and hatch)…
schumer was on face the nation…
so, never mind…
heh…
I think Leahy is taking the “let them dig their own hole†approach to this, Hatch has never looked so partisan or perturbed, so Leahy is playing it right, he doesn’t need to add any fuel to this already burning fire, the R’s like Hatch are just digging themselves deeper into the manure pile with this “heckuvajob†approach to Gonzales.
Comment by JEP — April 1, 2007 @ 11:26 am
You may be right there, but I still think he should have poined out Hatch’s LIE about Carol Lam.
How can Hatch call himself a Mormon?
Did you guys know that in order to have a mormon “temple recommend”, which is a document that lets them go into their sacred temples, that one of the pre-requisites is that they are “HONEST IN ALL THEIR DEALINGS”.
How can Hatch call himself a Mormon? How can he go into their temple and do stuff when he comes on national television, and SLANDERS and LIES about a Federal Prosecutor who he’s never met?
He is a disgrace to his church, he is a disgrace to his state and he is a disgrace to his country.
April 1st, 2007 at 12:42 pmWhat was the thing though that you thought Schummer or Leahey was sayng?
Comment by I WORFEUS — April 1, 2007 @ 12:37 pm
see #9…schumer sounds like he’s thinking of caving to WH demands…
April 1st, 2007 at 12:42 pmNo problem Katy, just curious, did I miss something on Face the Nation though?
April 1st, 2007 at 12:42 pmI WORFEUS,
How can the multitude of conserv666atives call themselves Christian?
April 1st, 2007 at 12:48 pm# 30. PEE WEE:
I can’t speak for anyone else here,but my MR. POTATO HEAD head was a REAL potato.
April 1st, 2007 at 12:50 pmApparently blind fealty to Bush and the GOP is the way you show your love for Jesus.” Digby
Someone check and see if Chris Wallace has a job tomorrow.
Fox-is not-News will have none of this.
RIP
SGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq
Or as the POTUS and Fox-is not-News calls him,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,comma # 1462
April 1st, 2007 at 12:55 pmThat whuppin he got from Bubba must’ve knocked something loose in corrupt little brain.
April 1st, 2007 at 12:56 pmI see Katy.
Yes. I have noticed likewise.
But Leahey was not wavering this morning at least. I was angry he didn’t point out the fallacy of Orrin Hatch’s argument, but I was happy that he stuck to his guns.
He didn’t give Hatch an inch. Gonzales WILL testify he said, and he will do it on the date they set, April 17th of this month.
That impressed me, and I think Leahey can be the spearhead here if he keeps talking like this.
April 1st, 2007 at 1:02 pmI WORFEUS,
How can the multitude of conserv666atives call themselves Christian?
Comment by Rocks911 — April 1, 2007 @ 12:48 pm
I have no clue. They are as far from the actual teachings of Christ as anyone I have ever seen.
And they are that way as POLICY!
Their policy says “if thy neighbor smite thee on the right cheek, blow the shit out of them, or anybody that LOOKS like them”.
I must’ve missed that one in the Beattitudes.
April 1st, 2007 at 1:04 pmI can’t speak for anyone else here,but my MR. POTATO HEAD head was a REAL potato.
Comment by lov’d my potato head — April 1, 2007 @ 12:50 pm
You’re showing you’re age. Mine was a real potato also. Then he must have gone to foam. Now he’s full plastic for holes to stick in the eyes etc. He’s still incredibly popular though and even talk’s in some versions. Of course when he does he’s more intelligent than McConnell.
April 1st, 2007 at 1:06 pmThe the Christian Conservatives:
April 1st, 2007 at 1:07 pm
Mitch McConnell, a farking buffoon.
April 1st, 2007 at 1:08 pmOf course when [Mr. Potatohead speaks] he’s more intelligent than McConnell.
Comment by shane
LOL
April 1st, 2007 at 1:22 pmAnd thanks for the evolutionary history of Mr. Potatohead. :-)
And thanks for the evolutionary history of Mr. Potatohead. :-)
Comment by lov’d my potato head — April 1, 2007 @ 1:22 pm
what? did you miss the STAR WARS versions? … hilarious…
April 1st, 2007 at 1:37 pmDARTH TATER and SPUD TROOPER…
i got my 26 yr old son a set for xmas - an inside joke…
I applaud Chris Wallace for pressing McConnell for an answer on a completely legitimarte news question, but unfortunately the FOX News viewership is so used to its reporters kowtowing to the right I’m sure they hardly noticed it.
However, the tactic used by Wallace - actually reminding people that these Republicans demanded testimony from White House aides during the Clinton era - works to show reasonable minded people that the Democrats’ current requests for similar testimony from Bush aides is completely legitimate. And if the issue ever goes to the courts, then they should play a loop of similar quotes to the judges and juries hearing those cases. I’m sure there are many instances to be found; we know how Republicans love to repeat their talking points.
That clip ought to be repeated over and over again. If even FOX News gets it, then you know we’ve stumbled onto something big.
April 1st, 2007 at 1:53 pman inside joke…
Comment by katy
Way,way too inside. LOL?? :-|
April 1st, 2007 at 1:57 pmSh*t…what a whore…
Bush’s filthy whore!
Whore!!
Shakespeare was wrong. We shouldn’t kill all the lawyers first….
April 1st, 2007 at 2:19 pmMitch Mcconnell the Republican Murderer of US Troops. He held the post of senate majority for 7 years.
He never spoke up about the NEEDS of the military. NOT ONCE.
Wait till the citizens of Kentucky vote him out in 2008.
Support Kentucky CITIZENS and please help remove Mitch the Killer from office in 2008.
April 1st, 2007 at 2:19 pmHeh heh, look at Biden. Don’t be too gleeful, Biden, you’ll be the hypocrite next time. Well, this is not half bad, for a brief shining moment. Fox still sucks though.
April 1st, 2007 at 2:39 pmI’ve occasionally caught Chris show some inklings of his dad…not too often…but I think if he ever got his head on straight, he might actually become a reporter. Might.
April 1st, 2007 at 3:22 pmMitch McConnell—-VILE repugnant-repub rightwingnut crank fudge-pachyderm CREEP and TOADY of Bushland Uber Allies—YOU LYING HYPOCRITE, YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED, McConnell—COME 2008 GEORGE CLOONEY WILL BE SITTING IN YOUR SEAT IN THE SENATE!!!! A GEAS-CURSE DO I NOW PUT UPON THEE, CRAVEN KNAVE Mitch McConnell—-SO MOTE IT BE, I NOW SAY!!!!!
April 1st, 2007 at 3:25 pmWhy haven’t any of you asked where Juan Williams was? No one on the panel discussed McConnell’s obvious discomfort with Chris Wallace’s line of questioning, so libloggers lost an opportunity to kick a Republican when he was down.
As much as I disagree with Juan, you need someone to deliver the libloggers POV’s in order to have a full discussion, which seemed lacking this week due to Juan’s absence.
April 1st, 2007 at 4:05 pmI seriously wonder if McConnell and his GOP ilk have the slightest clue how f***ing stupid they sound these days. They have become buffoons in the service of their imbecile king.
April 1st, 2007 at 4:19 pmTHANK YOU CHRIS WALLACE,
April 1st, 2007 at 4:24 pmfor persisting with your line of questioning today on the matter of White House priviledge and Senator McConnell’s inabilty to apply his moralistic rules for the Democrat President also for his own Republican President.
So it goes…
and so will McConnell be gone in 2008…
REGARDLESS of the amount of money he has raised for his campaign.
Doubts?
Ask FORMER Representative Ann Northup and THE PEOPLE of Louisville about her last campaign with McConnell’s support AND money!
Someone should check Hatch’s facts about Carol Lam. Not one thing he said is true.
She has been a highly successful federal prosecutor her entire career, excepting 3 years as a superior court judge. She has never been a “college professor”. And she is a registered independent and never worked on any political campaign including Clinton’s. These facts are all clearly in the public record, and I think in the Senate record.
Who is feeding this false information to Hatch. Why didn’t Leahy call him on it. Why are they creating a false record re Lam.
I always thought the conspiracy theorist were crazy. Maybe not this time. I hope someone in the White House sees the smearing of a dedicated public servant as beyond the limit, and spills the beans to the Washington Post ala watergate.
April 1st, 2007 at 4:27 pmMitch McConnel’s offspring should be DE-loused…
…vasectomies and hysterectomies all around the McConnel family tree…
…HELL, the STATE!
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April 1st, 2007 at 4:37 pmBeing from Kentucky, I get more of McConnel than I care to see. Mitch is about money and the people who have it. Everybody else is left to fend for themselves and he could care less about them.
April 1st, 2007 at 5:42 pmMitch is about money and the people who have it. Everybody else is left to fend for themselves and he could care less about them.
Comment by M #65
So praytell…
…WHY do they continue to “re-elect” him?
April 1st, 2007 at 5:54 pmMitch McConnell is just another double-talking, ignorant parasite who needs to be driven from office. He’s a disgrace and his integrity (whatever he had left) is not in tatters. What a hypocrite!
April 1st, 2007 at 6:42 pmmaybe fibber mcconnell looks like mr. potato head because he ate him.
peas!
April 1st, 2007 at 7:14 pmSon. Of. A. B.
April 1st, 2007 at 7:51 pmI am can rememeber WWII. Looking back on that era, I can see parallels to what has happened during the reign of our own version of Henry the Eighth (above all laws because he says so), compared to what some of Hitler’s henchmen did, specifically, Joseph Goebbels. His theory was if you tell lies a sufficient number of times, people will believe them, and blame others for failures, for political advantage as Hitler did in blaming the Jews for Germany’s failed economy at that time.
April 1st, 2007 at 8:01 pmThink about this and then remember what has happened over the last 6 1/2 years in Washington. DuH!
WTF? Fox actually questioned a Repub and aired his flip-flop? Fox is infamous for its “gotcha” of Dems, are they going to actually report news?
April 1st, 2007 at 8:22 pmOh, I get it , it was an April Fool’s thing. Back to norm for Fox in the AM.
April 1st, 2007 at 8:25 pmHold up! Hold up! Either Wallace wants to be fired, or Fox “News” really wants to become Fox News…, Nawwwwwwww.
April 1st, 2007 at 9:41 pmMitch McConnel’s offspring should be DE-loused…
…vasectomies and hysterectomies all around the McConnel family tree…
Comment by big papa
big papa,
April 1st, 2007 at 9:43 pmI recall reading somewhere that McConnell’s three daughters have been estranged from him since he divorced their mother (wife #1). If this is true, I hope you will agree to sparing them from the punishment you suggest. Mitch the Hypocrite doesn’t have any children with wife #2, Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao.
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April 2nd, 2007 at 8:21 amwhoda thunkit?!
let’s hope chris wallace continues to question ALL politictians such - not just the democrats.
=ck
April 2nd, 2007 at 8:05 pmIf this is true, I hope you will agree to sparing them from the punishment you suggest.
Comment by Lora #95
I’d need further proof…
….that they’re not politically influenced…
…by their TREASONOUS father…
…do you realize how many Black people died in Kansas at the hands of…
…McConnel-likes?
April 2nd, 2007 at 8:38 pmbig papa,
April 2nd, 2007 at 9:12 pmI think I can understand your feelings; and if you wrote the same thing about Bush’s or Cheney’s daughters or Trent Lott’s children (if he has any), I would take no issue at all. But I don’t think all children of bigots and neoCONs should be blamed for the sins of their fathers. Take the case of Ronald Reagan Jr. He came out all right (though I can’t say the same about his brother via adoption, Michael).
Is it possible, just possible that all of the Mike Wallace juice did NOT merely drip away, only to be benignly absorbed by the nearest thirsty towlette?!?
Nah.
April 2nd, 2007 at 9:27 pmIs it possible that Chrissy actuall learned something from Dad?
April 2nd, 2007 at 9:42 pmNah, I think he probably gave that SOB a heads up weeks ago. That way all the kool-aiders win. Mitch gets to wiggle around a “tough” question. Chris get to look like a REAL journalist and Fox gets to say they are fairly biased, I mean fair and balanced.
Don’t trust any of those lying turds.
IMHO the real significance is that Rupert Murdoch is getting ready to switch sides and is starting the transition. He has a long history of deserting sinking ships. His problem is that fox has been so extreme that even the most gradual transition will appear abrupt.
Those who have been paying attention will be able to guess just whose side it will be (hint: record breaking money raiser).
It will be interesting to see how he manages such a massive transition.
I would guess that if the other party is foolish/desperate enough to buy his support it will be their downfall.
April 2nd, 2007 at 10:40 pm[…] Fox Catches McConnell Hypocrisy Over Testimony Of White House Officials Under Oath [O]n Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace aired archived video of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) calling on the Clinton White House to testify before Congress under oath… Wallace questioned why the same rules McConnell applied to the Clinton White House shouldn’t apply to the Bush White House. […]
April 3rd, 2007 at 7:06 am[…] Think Progress » Fox Catches McConnell Hypocrisy Over Testimony Of White House Officials Under Oath […]
April 3rd, 2007 at 7:55 amThe chance of real news on FOX is slim to none, but this just shows that every thousand hours or so, something real slips by the fascist censors, Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch.
April 3rd, 2007 at 8:30 amMcConnell is your typical conservative hypocrite who has no since of honor or ethical standards and will say and do anything to protect the criminals in the Bush Administration. Congradulations to Chris Wallace however because he is showing some standards as a journalist. But to be honest Fox is only starting to be somewhat journalistic because with only 29% of the public supporting Bush Fox needs to broaden their appeal to remain competitive.
April 3rd, 2007 at 9:34 amNice job Chris. Your fine work should enable your father, Mike to cut his antidepressant dosage in half for at least one day.
April 3rd, 2007 at 2:23 pmGood grief. The chinless wonder. Ahhhhh, Republicans just plain suck.
April 3rd, 2007 at 2:52 pmGodamm liberal media!
April 3rd, 2007 at 3:08 pmI knew Chris Wallace’s brother, Peter, at Yale. Unfortunately, he died in a mountain-climbing accident in Greece. He was truly a wonderful person, full of life and integrity.
His brother, Chris, consorts with the devils.
Father Mike Wallace must be sad to see how low this son, Chris, has stooped to conquer the Faux News.
Sad to see, Chris Wallace is such a suck-up to the right-wing, major pond-sucking scum.
April 4th, 2007 at 4:43 amP.S. Purely as a salacious tidbit, it is rumored (see articles in Down With Tyranny, Howie Klein) that Mitch McConnell is a closeted gay guy (see also Senator Lindsey Graham).
It wouldn’t surprise me that McConnell’s daughters wouldn’t be speaking to him or that Senator Graham favors torture (nothing to do with their rumored sexuality, just their Republicanism.)
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