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Friday, July 15, 2005

 
I realize that Paul Begala is a has-been and Karl Rove is still a power in the land. But remember the extreme brouhaha when Rove ridiculed the liberals' response to 9/11? You'd think that Rove had accused liberals of wanting to kill Americans from the reaction he got for saying that liberals wanted to offer therapy to the terrorists. For example, Chuck Schumer, ever-ready with a quote said,
"In New York, where everyone unified after 9/11, the last thing we need is somebody who seeks to divide us for political purposes."
Well, how about Paul Begala, a Democratic operative for both Bill Clinton and John Kerry and a CNN talking head accusing Republicans of actually wanting to kill Americans?
Begala's presence on the panel created a stir when he declared that Republicans had "done a p***-poor job of defending" the U.S.

Republicans, he said, "want to kill us.

"I was driving past the Pentagon when that plane hit" on Sept. 11, 2001. "I had friends on that plane; this is deadly serious to me," Begala said.

"They want to kill me and my children if they can. But if they just kill me and not my children, they want my children to be comforted -- that while they didn't protect me because they cut my taxes, my children won't have to pay any money on the money they inherit," Begala said. "That is bulls*** national defense, and we should say that."
Accusing Republicans of wanting to kill Americans including their children is beyond over-the-top rhetoric. It is despicable and should be condemned. In fact, we should pressure CNN to drop him. This is way past heated partisan rhetoric. This is even past comparing us to Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot as Durbin did. Using Republicans as the subject of a sentence with the verb "kill" and the object "us" is inexcusable. That implies that he actually believes and wants young Democratic activists to believe that the goal of the Bush administration is the death of Americans. Of course, other than CNS, it doesn't seem that any other media outlet has picked up on this speech. It's up to bloggers to raise a stink and get this story out there. Does CNN really want to have in their employ a man who accuses the President of wanting to kill Americans? What about when he next works for a Democratic candidate as he did for Bill Clinton and John Kerry? Do they want to have to defend their aide's accusation. He's got to go. Like Marvin K. Mooney, he needs to go now.

I'll await Chuck Schumer's deploring Begala's words dividing us about 9/11.

UPDATE: Check out this post for an update. Hugh Hewitt thinks that Begala is mixing up his pronouns but is still gone loopy.

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I realize that Paul Begala is a has-been and Karl Rove is still a power in the land. But remember the extreme brouhaha when Rove ridiculed the liberals' response to 9/11? You'd think that Rove had accused liberals of wanting to kill Americans from the reaction he got for saying that liberals wanted to offer therapy to the terrorists. For example, Chuck Schumer, ever-ready with a quote said,
"In New York, where everyone unified after 9/11, the last thing we need is somebody who seeks to divide us for political purposes."
Well, how about Paul Begala, a Democratic operative for both Bill Clinton and John Kerry and a CNN talking head accusing Republicans of actually wanting to kill Americans?
Begala's presence on the panel created a stir when he declared that Republicans had "done a p***-poor job of defending" the U.S.

Republicans, he said, "want to kill us.

"I was driving past the Pentagon when that plane hit" on Sept. 11, 2001. "I had friends on that plane; this is deadly serious to me," Begala said.

"They want to kill me and my children if they can. But if they just kill me and not my children, they want my children to be comforted -- that while they didn't protect me because they cut my taxes, my children won't have to pay any money on the money they inherit," Begala said. "That is bulls*** national defense, and we should say that."
Accusing Republicans of wanting to kill Americans including their children is beyond over-the-top rhetoric. It is despicable and should be condemned. In fact, we should pressure CNN to drop him. This is way past heated partisan rhetoric. This is even past comparing us to Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot as Durbin did. Using Republicans as the subject of a sentence with the verb "kill" and the object "us" is inexcusable. That implies that he actually believes and wants young Democratic activists to believe that the goal of the Bush administration is the death of Americans. Of course, other than CNS, it doesn't seem that any other media outlet has picked up on this speech. It's up to bloggers to raise a stink and get this story out there. Does CNN really want to have in their employ a man who accuses the President of wanting to kill Americans? What about when he next works for a Democratic candidate as he did for Bill Clinton and John Kerry? Do they want to have to defend their aide's accusation. He's got to go. Like Marvin K. Mooney, he needs to go now.

I'll await Chuck Schumer's deploring Begala's words dividing us about 9/11.

UPDATE: Check out this post for an update. Hugh Hewitt thinks that Begala is mixing up his pronouns but is still gone loopy.

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