Charles Krauthammer Scolds Margaret Carlson for Saying Tea Party 'Strapped Explosives to the Capitol'
Bloomberg's Margaret Carlson on Friday accused the Tea Party of wanting "to burn the place down" and having figuratively "strapped explosives to the Capitol" during debt ceiling negotiations.
Sitting beside her on PBS's "Inside Washington" was Charles Krauthammer who smartly replied, "I thought post-Tucson we weren’t supposed to accuse our political opponents of being terrorists" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
MARGARET CARLSON, BLOOMBERG NEWS: I have to downgrade Charles here. You initially said why don’t Republicans, you know, take the victory. And it’s because there’s a nihilist caucus which is, “Listen, we want to burn the place down." I mean, they’re not, they’ve strapped explosives to the Capitol and they think they are immune from it. The Tea Party caucus wants this crisis, and do we want to do this again six months from now? This whole two-step process is another thing which is they like the drama. They want to do it again.
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: I thought that post-Tucson we weren’t supposed to accuse our political opponents of being terrorists.
CARLSON: Nihilists.
KRAUTHMAMMER: Strapping a bomb is a terrorist.
No, actually Charles, that rule was never intended for liberals.
Only conservatives are expected to show their political opponents a modicum of respect.
Sadly, liberals can say whatever they want about their enemies with total impunity.
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Then nobody should object to me calling the Obama administration
Submitted by lsudolemite on Fri, 07/29/2011 - 6:39pm.
economic terrorists by definition. They continually use the fear of government shutdowns and defaults to subdue their opponents.
Shutting the government down
Submitted by jkwtrading on Fri, 07/29/2011 - 6:56pm.
Shutting the government down isn't so bad...it is the only thing liberals have going for themselves. they don't work or produce anything but hot air and crazy reasons, at least with the government shut down, they'd shut up.Their only point of existence is to scream the sky is falling, then we can all fall into line with a healthy dose of " woe on them" or how to agree a liberal is pitiful, ..or trying to steal our money..
liberal ugly
Submitted by LarryG on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 10:53am.
Indeed, liberals never fail to flaunt their baseness. They have all the dignity of a grave robber.
→ Tucker Carlson
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Fri, 07/29/2011 - 6:39pm.
Tucker better sleep with one eye open. I'm just sayin'
Marcie's looking a little hateful these days. She needs some time with Peppermint Patty.
BTW, what is Cindy Sheehan up to these days?
cool I am past all the talk,
Submitted by jkwtrading on Fri, 07/29/2011 - 6:50pm.
cool
I am past all the talk, talk...I just want to go Liberal hunting.
I am having a hard time deciding whether...
Submitted by drsamherman on Fri, 07/29/2011 - 6:58pm.
...Margaret Carlson looks more like Cousin Oliver from "Brady Bunch" or Marcie (Peppermint Patti's friend) from "Peanuts". Either way, she is an outlandish character who serves as comic relief and cannot be taken any more seriously than Daffy Duck.
Looks like
Submitted by Bodini on Fri, 07/29/2011 - 10:38pm.
Looks like she has first hand experience with an explosive charge to the FACE! Ugly and brain damaged!
Wrath
Submitted by Jerry Mack on Fri, 07/29/2011 - 7:07pm.
There is no wrath like a scorned liberal.
The more extreme their
Submitted by amyshulk on Fri, 07/29/2011 - 7:22pm.
The more extreme their rhetoric, the more desperate they are!!!
Ronald Reagan
No Margaret...
Submitted by GregE on Fri, 07/29/2011 - 7:27pm.
Bill Ayers is not a TEA partier.
Ba-ZINGA!
Submitted by Tom1969ca on Fri, 07/29/2011 - 9:42pm.
Ba-ZINGA!
Ok, that's enough Sheldon.
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 12:14pm.
Ok, that's enough Sheldon.
True, BUT..............
Submitted by djwolf12 on Sun, 07/31/2011 - 12:52am.
He did bomb the Capitol. FACT (I guess Maggie didn't know that Bill Ayers was, and is, an unrepentent terrorist). But since he is friends with Obama, he is a friend of hers too.
So, the Dems are trying to
Submitted by robert108 on Fri, 07/29/2011 - 7:49pm.
So, the Dems are trying to sell the idea that fiscal responsibility is "terrorism", or "extreme"? I guess it is....for them.
hideous
Submitted by grammajane on Fri, 07/29/2011 - 8:20pm.
Hideous is a polite name for these libs sitting in front of cameras and daily calling The Tea Party, terroists. There are numerous other names for libs but, why waste time name-calling such useless, mean-spirited, uneducated, arrogant, elites who don't have a clue about much of anything. Maybe it is time for Barry to come out and call for civility..........again. Doesn't appear any of his followers are obeying him
I'm disappointed that people
Submitted by okie-pastor on Fri, 07/29/2011 - 8:24pm.
I'm disappointed that people on our own side are going after the tea party freshmen who are holding the line. Like Laura Ingram, Bill orielly, Bill kristol etc
Who says we all have to march in lock step? I'm always...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Sun, 07/31/2011 - 2:57am.
willing to listen to what Laura Ingraham has to say. If anyone disagrees with her in her support of John Boehner she is always willing and able to debate all comers on her radio show. I put my money on her.
Boehner did his job. Now let's see what happens next. Most likely, the Senate version when it comes back to Congress will be, as "Dingy" Harry Reid says, "dead on arrival".
Maggie Carlson
Submitted by FC DOBBS on Fri, 07/29/2011 - 8:29pm.
All I can say of her is that she looks as aged as she did 20 years ago and
that she truly puts the B in the word Witch!
" Nobody puts one over on Fred C Dobbs "
Our precious bodily fluids
Submitted by SaguaroJack on Fri, 07/29/2011 - 8:32pm.
"they’ve strapped explosives to the Capitol"
Carlson is poisoning the water supply.
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Oh Why, Oh Why?
Submitted by albermarle1963 on Fri, 07/29/2011 - 8:52pm.
Why is it that the democrats fall in line behind their leader with hardly EVER a peep of opposition to their leader? On the republican side there is ALWAYS members who oppose their leader and aren't afraid to express their displeasure! This is one reason why I still respect republicans. Until the Tea Party gets enough members in government to evolve into their own party, I'll vote republican!
Now for Carlson. She and her comrades on the left are dispicable scumbags, to use such strong,hate filled,vitriolic language! They should just stick with "the sky is falling,the sky is falling!"
nasty libs
Submitted by LarryG on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 10:47am.
They're drones and lemmings with the gift of rotten-speak installed.
The MO - D's calling R's terrorists (and any number of other . .
Submitted by Gary Hall on Fri, 07/29/2011 - 10:02pm.
Ah, the Hammer, hammered it, but good.
I'm re-posting this comment, because I listened to a most discerning on-line Town Hall chat last night with my Congresswoman - Karen Bass, D (for dumb). This woman is so ill-informed that she is actually insisting to her constituents that the deficits have nothing to do with the debt.
OK, ready. To drive her point home, she holds up a monthly Treasury budget (bar graph; bills and revenue) which would indicate that the monthly deficit is around $130 billion (not a problem, in her view) and how that adds to the Debt -- of course, there's no connection there? I know, I don't even know how to repeat how nuts this is. Watch that here, Virtual Town Hall on Debt Negotiations - It's a lie a minute. Oh, and racism is in the air.
Back onto how responsible folks are terrorists:
Oh, I probably can't make the case that Karen Bass, D., CA is the originator in what has become the easy and free use of the horribly misused word, "terrorist," in describing those on the other side who support a different view; however, perhaps I can provide a good example of how our national media has enabled such vitriolic rhetoric to become mainstream -- certainly within the liberal media and the Democratic Party:
Back in June, 2009, then California Assembly Speaker, Karen Bass, D., now a US Congresswoman from LA's 33rd District, offered this up in an Los Angeles Times full page feature interview - See NB coverage here:
A few days later, Karen Bass, was back in the same paper, in Speaker boycotts California budget session:
Assembly Speaker Karen Bass (D-Los Angeles), who had left closed-door talks Sunday night "very discouraged," boycotted a morning negotiating session . .
Naw -- I guess that's not what the R's could call "terrorism." Well, my goodness, what the MSM would have done if a Republican had called her a terrorist. The Democrats controlled both houses of the CA state legislature; she's the Speaker, and she walks out and boycotts the future of the State's budget. Hmm.
So. In reward for this kind of hate speech, here's what the LA Times puts out the next day, in Karen Bass is a target atop the California Assembly:
She's "soothing and material? Sorry, I've still got "terrorized," "terrorist threat," and "that kind of terrorism," burning in my ears. She's "ticked off?" Shouldn't everyone else be "ticked off" at her? It continues::
Actually she termed out, and waltzed into departing radical liberal Congresswoman Diane Watson's seat; supported, naturally, by the Los Angeles Times.
The national MSM supports hate speech from the left, as long as it is directed towards the right.
And now - it's most everywhere - most any day, any hour.
(;~/ gary
Off topic
Submitted by ThatDude on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 10:13am.
When was it inserted into the liberal talking points to use the term "revenue" instead of taxes? Which of their leaders changed the terminology for them? If they were honest, they'd say "the government needs to confiscate more of your wealth and earnings in order to buy votes and spend more." Of course, they'd add an aside that it's only "the rich" who they will steal from. The only ones who support more government "revenue" are those who believe they will not be the ones to supply it.
Virtual Town Hall on Debt Negotiations
Submitted by Farley on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 11:09am.
You had such an interesting introduction to Bass' Virtual Town Hall on Debt Negotiations that I linked to it -- fool that I am. It took about 90 seconds for me to ask myself, "What the heck am I doing?" It's bad enough one has to suffer their utterances on TV but watching it on the internet is way too much for any person with a working knowledge of English to endure. Grrr...
Farley .. LOL
Submitted by Gary Hall on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 1:39pm.
. . . actually, perhaps I should apologize. As I linked it, I mused to myself, "why is it that I want others to so suffer?"
But then again, the MSM adores her - we should know.
(;~> gary
Margaret Carlson was more tolerable when . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Fri, 07/29/2011 - 11:41pm.
. . . she was known as Honey and served as the Chinese interpreter to Ambassador Duke in Doonesbury.
Snotty Margaret
Submitted by NotFondOfLibs on Fri, 07/29/2011 - 11:47pm.
Is there anyone in this country who has not noticed what a little snotnose Margaret Carlson is? Journalism would be vastly improved if this little twerp went home and baked a few pies.
Nothing Changes
Submitted by rammingspeed on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 12:31am.
Margaret Carlson is scum. Always has been, always will be.
Krauthammer always shoots straight.
Submitted by Scott Trent on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 5:15am.
This little libturd got talked down to and I bet put her panties in a wad. Speaking of terrorists. The Democrat voters in the US elected Obama to "fundamentally transform the United States..." I never once heard Sarah Palin say she wanted to fundamentally transform the country. It`s just about time we had a good ole civil war in this country to put these liberal progressives in their place... Really.
Sir Charles
Submitted by Gmann2011 on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 9:23am.
Remember, the rules of decorum are only for conservatives
Liberals, or as I like to refer to them..Libtards
want the conservatives to sit down shut up and say little
while their vile, nasty representatives, the chairperson of the DNC, or this reporter
or the completely vacant Nancy Pelosi
can say and do anything they want
And Obama supports this
and wants if possible for only there to
be one party
And the MSM looks the other way and
supports this manure!!
Inside Washington TV program. Where?
Submitted by Farley on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 10:59am.
Does anyone know where the weekly Friday night Inside Washington can be viewed in the NYC area other than on the following Sunday morning on cable via WLIW? I know the previous week is available on the internet but I need a more current Hammer fix. Thanks.
liberals' character
Submitted by LarryG on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 11:00am.
I am intrigued continually at the despicable, obstreporous, recalcitrant, and vituperative conduct of these left
wing lame-o's. I have never been able to fathom how such mean-spirited ugliness gets ingrained in them.
What else would you expect from Margaret Carlson?
Submitted by djwolf12 on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 11:18pm.
She is a staple at MSLSD. She is a compulsive liberal, and compulsive liberals just can't help themselves to use extreme vitriol against people with whom they disagree. In other words, she just cannot handle the fact that the Tea Party won the elections very handily last year. Since she does not have the guts to say so, she is essentially saying that the american people are terrorists because they will not drop trow and spread it wide for Obama, Reid, and Pelosi.