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CNN's Chetry did not challenge McCain's false claim that Biden "said that Iraq had to be broken up into three different countries"
On the October 2 edition of CNN's American Morning, co-host Kiran Chetry didnot challenge Sen. John McCain's false claim that Sen. Joe Biden"said that Iraqhad to be broken up into three different countries." In fact, as Media Matters for America has previously noted, Biden introduced a "five-point plan" to"[m]aintain a unified Iraqby decentralizing it and giving Kurds, Shiites and Sunnis breathing room intheir own regions." Biden's plan also stated that "[t]he Iraqiconstitution already provides for federalism" and that "[t]he centralgovernment would be responsible for common interests, like border security andthe distribution of oil revenues."
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Posted by peebs755
Posted Thursday October 2, 2008 1:18:27 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by jeter2 in reply to peebs755
I think the media is too...
Posted Thursday October 2, 2008 1:51:59 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by wzwriter in reply to peebs755
I think Grampy is in the first stages of dementia.
I think he's in the advanced stages - he actually thinks he can win...
Posted Thursday October 2, 2008 3:10:52 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by DorisRussell
Posted Thursday October 2, 2008 1:20:22 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by wolf kotenberg in reply to DorisRussell
Posted Thursday October 2, 2008 2:22:06 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by Kyle_Broflovski
Posted Thursday October 2, 2008 1:21:20 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by wolf kotenberg in reply to Kyle_Broflovski
Surges work when you realise all a surge is adding more guys with big guns in the area. the chinese did it at tieneman square, the north Vietnamese did it at TET offensive, the north koreans did it to the french in 1950 and so on. It is a tactic used for temporary results, temporary only as long as the tropps remain. If i was speeding down the freeway and seventeen cops stopped me, i would say that surge worked.Doesn't mean someday down the road will not I would do it again.
Posted Thursday October 2, 2008 2:27:35 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by Kyle_Broflovski in reply to wolf kotenberg
Because you did not explicitly state the the Surge in Iraq is WORKING, I will have to assume that you are AGAINST America and FOR the terrorists.
Posted Thursday October 2, 2008 4:35:43 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by SouthTexScott in reply to Kyle_Broflovski
Yeah, and now we will have to fight them here, because they hate us for our freedom.
Posted Thursday October 2, 2008 4:54:21 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by Col. Harlan Sanders
McCAIN: Actually, Joe Biden said that Iraq had to be broken up into three different countries, one of the more cockamamie ideas that I've heard in a long, long time
It's hard to challenge somebody when they're in full-tilt Grandpa Simpson mode, using words like "cockamamie". I was expecting a "By Gum" or "Yer darn tootin' '" to drive his point home.
And while it was mentioned that Sarah Palin is "comfortable in her own skin", it should be noted that she's just as comfortable in the freshly liberated skin of a bull elephant seal, or that of a recalcitrant member of the liberal elite media.
Posted Thursday October 2, 2008 1:21:58 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by worrierking in reply to Col. Harlan Sanders
Why you whippersnapper, get off my lawn!
Skinner&Abe
Posted Thursday October 2, 2008 1:51:02 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by Col. Harlan Sanders in reply to worrierking
There you go again with your hateful ageism. I'm sure you guffawed derisively when you watched This video. I only shook my head in disapproval.
Posted Thursday October 2, 2008 2:01:51 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by JLyons
Posted Thursday October 2, 2008 2:07:07 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by pete592
Ginning Up The Base 101.
This is how you appeal to the emotions of your base. Lie by taking whatever a your opponent is proposing and distort it into something outrageous.
Biden's plan to give the ethnic groups breating room in Iraq becomes "breaking Iraq into three different countries."
Obama's desire to have kindergartners taught how to avoid sexual predators becomes "teaching sex education to kindergartners."
The list goes on and on.
Posted Thursday October 2, 2008 2:20:16 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by wzwriter
McCAIN: Actually, Joe Biden said that Iraq had to be broken up into three different countries, one of the more cockamamie ideas that I've heard in a long, long time...
Voting for Gramps McCain is the most cockamamie idea of them all. (BTW - I haven't heard that word in years - my father used to use it all the time, and he died in 1991.)
Posted Thursday October 2, 2008 2:25:04 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by shaggles
Posted Thursday October 2, 2008 2:30:27 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by JLyons in reply to shaggles
Because McCain is a liar
Posted Thursday October 2, 2008 2:49:33 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by princeofwheels
I did not know that there was a Grampa Clampett. But I guess Grampa wants to bring the rest of the family to the White House and the C..ment Pond.
McCain is coming apart at the seams. He'll soon be using such harsh words as Dagnabit and Golly Gee while he tries to get his good buddy Joey Lieberman to run as an Assistant VP. Really, do the McCain followers see him as presidential? If so, how? Talking about WAR? Baloney.
Posted Thursday October 2, 2008 2:34:19 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by JLyons in reply to princeofwheels
McCain is coming apart at the seams. He'll soon be using such harsh words as Dagnabit and Golly Gee while he tries to get his good buddy Joey Lieberman to run as an Assistant VP. Really, do the McCain followers see him as presidential? If so, how? Talking about WAR? Baloney.
This was all obvious when he picked Palin.
Posted Thursday October 2, 2008 4:21:42 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by sambo
Posted Thursday October 2, 2008 3:17:31 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by Max Dharma
Biden's plan also stated that "[t]he Iraqi constitution already provides for federalism" and that "[t]he central government would be responsible for common interests, like border security and the distribution of oil revenues."
Gee sorry, our bad; federalisms complete with border security.
Yeah, that makes all the difference.
Good Plan Biden!
Posted Thursday October 2, 2008 5:16:08 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by foghornleghorn in reply to Max Dharma
What's "federalisms"?
Posted Thursday October 2, 2008 6:11:06 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by Col. Harlan Sanders in reply to foghornleghorn
What "are" federalisms, Fog. I think there am more than one of them. I'm not sure, the public education system in the Grand Duchy Amalgamated Federalism of California didn't teach me everything
Posted Thursday October 2, 2008 6:42:39 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by peebs755 in reply to Max Dharma
One of these days we'll all be able to figure out what Max is talking about. Sadly, that day has not arrived.
Posted Thursday October 2, 2008 6:13:05 PM EDT / Flag this comment