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| Matt Lauer equates U.S. founders with terrorists |
| 2004-11-12 |
| In an interview with second lady Lynne Cheney, the "Today Show's" Matt Lauer equated the Islamic radicals in Fallujah terrorizing Iraq with George Washington's Revolutionary War army. Questioning Cheney about her new children's book, "When Washington Crossed the Delaware: A Wintertime Story for Young Patriots," the NBC host asked Cheney, in light of the current offensive on Fallujah, to apply to today the lesson of a "rag-tag group" going up against a powerful, well-equipped army. Lauer was rebuffed by the vice president's wife for equating Washington's troops with the radical Muslim terrorists then clarified his line of questioning. "I'm just saying, but the insurgents believe they're fighting for a cause as well," Lauer explained. "They don't believe any less than we believe..." |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #19 Lauer: just attempting a little sociocultural deconstruction . . . nothing to see here . . . |
| Posted by: ex-lib 2004-11-12 3:28:46 PM |
| #18 Yasser Arafat, Deadbeat Dad. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2004-11-12 2:25:07 PM |
| #17 If Yasser Arafat is the Father of his country, he's the kind of neglectful father who's only real contact with the kids is to beat them. You read about him in the police blotter from time to time: Man arrested for beating girlfriend's children. |
| Posted by: eLarson 2004-11-12 2:09:37 PM |
| #16 Oh, yeah - Lauer is an IDIOT. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-11-12 12:00:41 PM |
#15 #8 James Retief:are they going to use tofu to frighten us into surrender?Have you ever tasted tofu? That would frighten me. ;-p OTOH, I think my S&W .357 would trump tofu at any distance, so I wouldn't have to let them get close enough for their smell to bother me. :-D |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-11-12 12:00:07 PM |
| #14 The moronic pretty obys and girls of network TV are not worth responding to. These idiots couldn't tell Chomsky from Comrade Tomsky. Time for the blogosphere to start creating its own radio and streaming video broadcasts. I'll take any of a dozen well-educated, articulate bloggers over Katie and Matt Bubblehead any day |
| Posted by: lex 2004-11-12 11:44:18 AM |
| #13 Don't you all remember when George Washington cut off the heads of captured English civilians yelling God is Great? Or when his troops blew up fellow Americans because they weren't providing enough support for his cause? /sarcasm |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2004-11-12 11:20:13 AM |
| #12 Lauer was much more lucid when he was coked up. |
| Posted by: JerseyMike 2004-11-12 10:24:39 AM |
| #11 One of the Arab M.E. expert guests on Fox and Friends this morning was heavily rebuffed by Juliet (Huddy?) for making the Arafat/Washington connection, he quickly withdrew that line after she jumped in his ass about it ;) Good for her, she definitely put a smile on my face for setting that moron straight. |
| Posted by: Jarhead 2004-11-12 9:55:18 AM |
| #10 Too bad Lynne Cheney could not quote the concluding paragraph of David Hackett Fischer's Washington's Crossing: "The most remarkable fact about American soldiers and civilians in the New Jersey campaign is that they ... found a way to defeat a formidable enemy, not merely once at Trenton but many times in twelve weeks of continued combat. They reversed the momentum of the war. They improvised a new way of war that grew into an American tradition. And they chose a policy of humanity that aligned the conduct of the war with the values of the Revolution. They set a high example, and we have much to learn from them. Much recent historical writing has served us ill in that respect. In the late twentieth century, too many scholars tried to make the American past into a record of crime and folly. Too many writers have told us we are captives of our darker selves and helpless victims of our history. It isn't so, and never was. The story of Washington's Crossing tells us that Americans in an earlier generation were capable of acting in a higher spirit - and so are we." |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2004-11-12 9:23:24 AM |
| #9 Carter replied, "Well, one parallel is that the Revolutionary War, more than any other war up until recently, has been the most bloody war we've fought...."Guess he forgot about that little bump in the road called the Civil War. |
| Posted by: raptor 2004-11-12 9:15:13 AM |
| #8 Hey AC, be careful there. If you let the plan slip early . . . er . . . we would NEVER do such a thing. Actually the Loons on DUh have been consistently claiming (at the same time mind you) that they are going to move to Kanada (prob Quebex as it is most French) cause GWB won and that they are going to begin 'armed resistance'. With what exactly are they going to begin 'armed resistance' as they have repeatedly stated they are scared of guns . . . are they going to use tofu to frighten us into surrender? Let them revolt . . . I need trigger time. |
| Posted by: Jame Retief 2004-11-12 7:08:40 AM |
| #7 I wonder if Matt the Liar would be willing to make the same analogy with right-wing vigilantes and terrorists who decide to take on the might of the LLL media through "direct action"? |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-11-12 6:53:46 AM |
| #6 "I’m just saying, but the insurgents believe they’re fighting for a cause as well," Lauer explained. "They don’t believe any less than we believe..." Sheesh, the same might be said for Tim McVeigh, the Manson gang, or the SS Einsatzgruppen. Does Lauer understand what "having a point" actually means? |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-11-12 6:39:16 AM |
| #5 Believing in something doesn't justify anything you do. It would neither justify Washington nor Bin Laden. WHAT you believe in makes the difference. What Washington believed in and fought for led to the Declaration of Independence, maybe the most important manifestation of mankind. Well we know where Bin Ladens beliefs went... |
| Posted by: True German Ally 2004-11-12 3:37:17 AM |
| #4 I heard 3 or 4 talking heads today compare Arafat to George Washington. Somehow I don't think the MSM learned its lesson from the election. |
| Posted by: AzCat 2004-11-12 2:04:02 AM |
| #3 Lauer, like all the college reporters I knew way back when, is a loony left-winger. In general, they learn to hide this aspect of themselves when reporting the news. But every so often, the mask slips. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2004-11-12 1:30:13 AM |
| #2 In a similar vein, this month's National Geographic has listed the Boston Tea Party as a terrorist act. Equivalent to the murders of the Israeli athletes in Munich, Timmy's boom in Oklahoma City, the attack on the Twin Towers, well, you get the picture. "We have met the enemy, and it is us." - Pogo |
| Posted by: Doc8404 2004-11-12 12:54:34 AM |
| #1 Lol! With apologies to Tony Hendra, I'll paraphrase an excerpt from The Deteriorata: "Be assured that a walk through the ocean of most souls would scarcely get your feet wet. This is especially true of MSM 'personalities'." |
| Posted by: .com 2004-11-12 12:23:23 AM |