Libercontrarian

Crushed between the wheels of capitalism and big government.

You might have a problem...

...if you get stumped by a Diane Sawyer "softball" question. Did you see John Kerry fumble one during the preview of the interview with Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America? Hannity and Colmes ran a short tape of the interview this evening, and Sawyer asks the Presidential Aspirant about what his response would have been in Iraq - he gives a "stump speech" answer, and, in an atypical fit of good journalism, she asks him again, apparently unconvinced by his response. He starts to repeat the same response, then catches himself - this is, after all, his first interview with a journalist since early August, and it's obvious that she smells a little blood in the water...

He bumbles out an answer that sounded a little something like this, "Knowing what we know now, I wouldn't have gone to war in Iraq."

Great, Johnny. I certainly hope that the Presidential Future Knowledge Machine is in better working order for your term than it was for President Bush, his dad, Clinton, or any other President who has had to make tough decisions on less-than-perfect knowledge. I guess it would've saved your hero, Jack Kennedy, a bunch of trouble during that "Bay of Pigs" problem, and may have prevented LBJ from getting too strung out on Vietnam.

You'll notice that when you read the "transcript" from ABC News, it conveniently does not report the Kerry fumble. Shades of CBS, anyone?

posted by: underwhelmed at September 29, 2004 18:59 | link | comments |

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