On Abu Gharab:
Pat Buchanan: This is a PR reversal…
Tony Blankley: The president's political opponents have already politicized this. And he likes Lieberman.
Pat Buchanan: The whole problem is the pictures. Before the pictures, if you said prisoners are being abused, prisoners are being killed, no one would have complained.
Mort Zuckerman is so full of shit when he talks about not understanding that part of the world because he's one of the poster children for the problem. And John McLaughlin is an absolute pisser this morning. I need a transcript. His body language has him sitting twisted, with his back to apologists Blankley and Buchanan.
McLaughlin:
(on blame)- I don't see how they could stop short of Rumsfeld or someone next to Rumsfeld.
(to Buchanan)- You worked for Nixon, you know how deniability is preserved.
Buchanan:
George Bush will not be reelected if he gives up international control of the problem.
(McLaughlin asked how successful could an interim Iraqi government be if they're seen as a puppet government)- They're going to be a puppet government right up through January.
Do you think he's going to give control of American forces to a bunch of Iraqi?? [P6: emphasis transcribed]
You worked for Nixon, you know how deniability is preserved.
That was pure beauty... Buchanan had such a blank look on his face after that.
Honestly, Buchanan surprises me sometimes when he talks about the Bush Administration. Sure, he likes them better than any Democratic Admin, but he still is plenty critical of the decisions they've made. Of course, it's because he thinks they need to be more conservative, but any criticism against Bush is criticism I can get with.
McLaughlin is more surprising to me than Buchanan, but I think that's because I judged him on the quality of his chosen commentators. But I found out he has a PBS show that's a one-on-one discussion and far more rational than the McLaughlin Group.
Posted by P6 at May 9, 2004 11:54 AM