Rice hearts Fox News personalities

January 11, 2007

There were a variety of insightful, important exchanges during Secretary of State Condi Rice’s testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today, but one of the pre-hearing comments, overhead on an open mic, raised eyebrows.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice let slip her news media preferences Thursday, saying, “I love every single one” of Fox News network’s correspondents and also favors CBS anchor Harry Smith.

In comments overheard on an open microphone between morning television interviews, including one with Fox, the top U.S. diplomat said: “My Fox guys, I love every single one of them.”

Noted without comment.

OK I’ll comment then. Does that include the person who called Sen. Kennedy an “enemy”?

  • Why shouldn’t she love them? They give the best right-wing BJ’s on television. George loves them, too. Same reason.

  • BTW did you see the guy who yelled “Lies! More lies! Still lies! Stop the lies! Stop the war!” during Condi’s committee hearing on today? Nice….

  • Sen. Voinovich (R-OH) to Rice:

    “You’re going to have to do a much better job explaining the rationale for the war and so does the president. I’ve gone along with the president on this and I’ve bought into his dream and at this stage of the game I just don’t think its going to happen.”

    Hmmm… somebody’s up for re-election in ’08…???

  • Those Fox guys are paid to be Condi’s bitch. Certainly Armstrong Williams isn’t the only one paid to be the White House’s friend.

  • From Condi’s White House biography: “Born November 14, 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama, she earned her bachelor’s degree in political science, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Denver in 1974; her master’s from the University of Notre Dame in 1975; and her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver in 1981. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences….” It also notes her brief service Provost at Stanford University.

    Appalling that she not only watches, but claims to love, Fox “news”. I can understand your half-wit semi-husband George saying that, but you?!?

    Condi, I think some very vigorous brushing, using some very strong toothpaste, for several hours at least, just might get that shit out of your mouth. It’s so unseemly in what we call our Secretary of State.

  • Speaking of dumb things Condi has said lately, can someone explain this quote from her briefing this morning? I heard it on NPR on my way to work and I just couldn’t reason out how it wasn’t flat out self-contradictory.

    “Tariq al Hashemi, who is the leading Sunni leader, has lost two brothers and a sister — not actually to sectarianism, but to insurgents who do not want Sunnis to be a part of the process — and, yet, he remains a part of the process.”

    How is it again that not wanting Sunnis to be a part of the process doesn’t count as sectarianism?

  • BTW did you see the guy who yelled “Lies! More lies! Still lies! Stop the lies! Stop the war!” during Condi’s committee hearing on today? Nice….

    It was right at the beginning of Hagel’s testimony (he was a reall bulldog, by the way.) I’m sure c-span will have the video up, even if someone doesn’t excerpt it for youtube.

  • So Condi loves every single one of her Fox guys, huh?
    All at once? ‘Cuz I know some web sites that would pay big $$$ for video of that.

  • Which cable network will be this first to rush this into a promo campaign? I’m sure FOX sees this as a feather in it’s cap, but the others could get some significant mileage out of this.

  • All at once? ‘Cuz I know some web sites that would pay big $$$ for video of that.
    –In Like Flynt

    A pox on you, sir!

    Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go dig my brain out with a spork …

  • Wolfie Blitzer will be so disappointed to hear the news about Condi and Fox guys. He still wets his pants when he interviews her.

  • She loves them because they all have little dicks that fit perfectly between the gap in her teeth. Ditto for George & Dick.

  • Kent State, Ohioan? Get thee to the Rathskellar*—you can raise a cold one to Keith via one of their televisions.

    *It’s the bar in the basement of the Student Center. Made a perfect “Faculty Annex” during the Reagan/Bush-One years….

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