CNN's Crowley and O'Brien 'Don't Buy' Clinton Not Knowing When Bush Tax Cuts Expire
NewsBusters reported Thursday that CNN's Wolf Blitzer shamefully allowed former President Bill Clinton to absurdly claim that prior to Tuesday's controversial interview with CNBC's Maria Bartiromo, he thought the Bush tax cuts expired before Election Day.
On Friday's Starting Point, CNN's chief political correspondent Candy Crowley agreed with NewsBusters saying about Clinton's preposterous statement, "I don’t buy that explanation" (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
As the segment began, host Soledad O’Brien said, “It’s like surrogates gone wild for the Obama campaign. What is going on?”
After a chuckle, Crowley replied, “You know, that’s a problem with surrogates. And honestly, if you have a surrogate who’s a former President, he pretty much gets to say what he wants, and he always draws attention”
A bit later, Crowley said, “I do know one thing: he said that he made a mistake on advising the President or saying out loud, ‘I think we ought to extend all these tax cuts,’ which the President said he’s not going to do, that he wants to cut them off for the wealthy. And President Clinton said yesterday, ‘Well, I didn’t know when the, you know, when these expired.’”
After shaking her head, Crowley continued, “I actually don’t buy that. It’s just hard for me to believe.”
“Yeah, you know, I was going to ask you that,” injected O’Brien. “I was like, really? Because I know when they expire, and I was never president.”
“Yeah,” added Crowley, “and also, like when would tax cuts expire? They’d expire before the next tax year. Right? So, I just, so I don’t buy that explanation.”
Neither did I.
But that still begs the question: why did Blitzer?
If Crowley and O'Brien both knew when the Bush tax cuts expired, how could Blitzer let Clinton get away with telling the nation that he didn't, especially as Clinton had an extensive private discussion with President Obama about the extension on December 10, 2010, and participated in a joint press conference that day to sell the program to the nation?
Maybe somebody ought to ask Blitzer.
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The old POW trick...
Submitted by c5then on Fri, 06/08/2012 - 10:44am.
If you are under duress to say something, say it in a way that any one who knows you will know it is complete BS.
This is a textbook example of that.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
Candy ain't alone with that
Submitted by joedoe on Fri, 06/08/2012 - 10:45am.
Candy ain't alone with that feeling. However, Clinton's hostage tape had a much higher production value than Corey Booker's. If that is a silver lining for the left. lol
Sometimes, but only
Submitted by texastommy on Fri, 06/08/2012 - 10:46am.
Sometimes, but only sometimes, I think Candy Crowley demonstrates that she can be a real journalist.
The Obama/MSM response to
Submitted by celator on Fri, 06/08/2012 - 11:00am.
The Obama/MSM response to Clinton's breaking cadence with the approved Obama talking points is very interesting. "Well, Bill's getting old, you know. He's getting forgetful in his elder years. Maybe it's early dementia", etc. Little drips and dabs of "Clinton's lost it", or he obviously would agree with Obama's policies.
Lucky for Bill, Obama doesn't have a Lubyanka prison where Clinton can be tortured, er, re-educated to the proper viewpoint.
Dr. Krauthammer's spectacular take on Bill's mea culpa
Submitted by Blonde on Fri, 06/08/2012 - 11:15am.
The brilliant Dr. K has done it again:
..."I mean, I write for a living and I've edited in my day and I've edited some lousy copy, but I can't make heads or tails of this."
"It's really uneditable," Krauthammer said on FOX News' "Special Report" program. "And in fact, in psychiatry there is a term if you get a raving lunatic, excuse me, psychotic who comes in the door and makes no sense, you say he is speaking in 'word salad.' This is word salad with vinaigrette on it."
Word Salad, indeed.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Donkeys fly. . .
Submitted by rickbren on Fri, 06/08/2012 - 11:27am.
Hell has frozen over. . . The liberal media believes Bubba is lying. Whod've thunk it???
Was he blinking a lot? I
Submitted by TheReal_mojo on Fri, 06/08/2012 - 12:06pm.
Was he blinking a lot?
I think Billy's going to drive these guys nuts. He's a player, and he's beyond retaliation.
Stupid to use him in the first place, except for the Johnson Rule:
"Better to have 'em in the tent pissing out than outside pissing in."
I think Billy Jeff is working to undermine...
Submitted by Dave. on Fri, 06/08/2012 - 12:09pm.
...the Dear Ruler's campaign.
Nice to see he is finally doing something good for America.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Wouldn't go that far
Submitted by jon_torlin on Fri, 06/08/2012 - 12:22pm.
I wouldn't go that far. I'd say he's in "self-preservation" mode and wants to make things better for himself in the long run, probably not liking the writing on the wall about this. In this case, it just happens to be good for America as well.
I wouldn't attribute any altruism on his part.
Same thing with Dianne Feinstein about the intelligence leaks by Obeyme, she's not doing it for the sake of the country, it's self-preservation that's making her do that.
-Jon
I'll bet Bill is highly
Submitted by NCfairandbalanced on Fri, 06/08/2012 - 1:21pm.
I'll bet Bill is highly offended that there are news people out there that think he's a liar. Surprised too. Come to think of it, I'm surprised of that as well!