{"id":11612,"date":"2007-07-27T14:45:39","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T18:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/11612.html"},"modified":"2007-07-27T14:45:39","modified_gmt":"2007-07-27T18:45:39","slug":"helen-thomas-to-tony-snow-youre-not-speaking-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/helen-thomas-to-tony-snow-youre-not-speaking-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen Thomas to Tony Snow: You’re not speaking English"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s White House press briefing was a hoot. A few pesky reporters continued to push<\/a> Tony Snow to rationalize what appears to be a fairly obvious lie from Alberto Gonzales.<\/p>\n

Q: Are you saying it was not about the wire-tapping that had already been acknowledged?<\/p>\n

Snow: I’m saying that acknowledged program, the program the president disclosed to the American people, was not something that was legally controversial.<\/p>\n

Q: And you also said that whatever controversy there was was resolved. Can you say which it is?<\/p>\n

Snow: Well, because, well, all I’m saying, what I’m saying is there was the discussion of the controversy, the controversy did not hinge upon this program.<\/p>\n

Q: Controversy over what?<\/p>\n

Snow: I thought I was pretty clear but maybe I’m–<\/p>\n

Q: You’re not speaking English, really.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We’re well past the point in which Snow should be considered credible on any subject, but sometimes, I feel for the guy. Gonzales lied, so Snow has to lie to justify Gonzales’ lying. I suppose the honorable thing to do would be to resign and tell Rove, “There are some things that just can’t be spun.”<\/p>\n

Snow wants the nation to believe the surveillance program “the president disclosed to the American people,” wasn’t “legally controversial”? Really?
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\nMaybe he missed FBI Director Robert Mueller’s testimony yesterday on the “Terrorist Surveillance Program” that was at issue during the Card\/Gonzales visit to Ashcroft’s hospital bed.<\/p>\n

REP. SHEILA JACKSON LEE (D), TEXAS: . . . have an understanding that the discussion was on TSP?<\/p>\n

“ROBERT MUELLER, FBI DIRECTOR: I had a understanding that the discussion was on an NSA Program, yes.<\/p>\n

“LEE: I guess we use TSP, we use warrantless wiretapping, so would I be comfortable in saying that those were the items that were part of the discussion?<\/p>\n

“MUELLER: It was — the discussion was on a national — an NSA program that has been much discussed, yes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The amusing part is that Snow has a trump card he’s willing to abuse — when push comes to shove, the truth, he says, is classified. Sure, it looks<\/i> like Gonzales was lying. And sure, it appears<\/i> that Snow is foolishly talking nonsense, but that’s only because Snow and Gonzales claim to know things we don’t know.<\/p>\n

Like what? They can’t say. Rest assured, what seems like obvious falsehoods are absolutely true, for reasons they, and only they, are aware of.<\/p>\n

We’re just supposed to trust them and discount our lying eyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s White House press briefing was a hoot. A few pesky reporters continued to push Tony Snow to rationalize what appears to be a fairly obvious lie from Alberto Gonzales. Q: Are you saying it was not about the wire-tapping that had already been acknowledged? Snow: I’m saying that acknowledged program, the program the president […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}