SHOW: FOX HANNITY & CO 9:00 PM EST
March 23, 2007 Friday
TRANSCRIPT: 032302cb.253
HANNITY: All right, Colonel Hunt -- Colonel Hunt, let me read from the liberal "Washington Post" today.
It says, talking about the Democrats: "They should not seek to use pork to buy a majority for an unconditional retreat that the majority does not support."
We now have a situation, if they didn't spend $24 billion of taxpayer dollars, Colonel Hunt, they wouldn't have gotten this vote today. What does that say about the state of America? This is pathetic. This is despicable. And, yet, they got away with it. And you hear people like, you know, Congressman Andrews there, trying to justify it.
HUNT: Sean, you got the wrong guy with the politics.
I think both these guys have forgotten why we're in the middle of this war. What's happening right now in this surge, which I think is still reinforcing failure, is, you have got the Iraqi units...
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Right about that.
HUNT: ... have shown up, but at 50 percent strength.
Our American guys, and Congressman Hunter's great Marine son, have never been the issue. It's been how they have been led and the politics behind them.
(CROSSTALK)
HANNITY: But, Colonel Hunt, isn't this guaranteed defeat? Does this guarantee defeat, yes or no, if they win this?
HUNT: No. No. No, that doesn't guarantee defeat.
ANDREWS: There you go, Sean.
HUNT: There is -- there is no -- this is an insurgency. This is a civil war. There's not that kind of a victory.
ANDREWS: There you go. What you have got is...
(CROSSTALK)
HANNITY: Doesn't this mean it will embolden the enemies, Colonel Hunt? This will embolden our enemies. They're waiting for us to leave.
(CROSSTALK)
HUNT: Sean, we're getting attacked...
ANDREWS: Sean, you picked the wrong witness to lead.
HUNT: Sean, we're getting attacked 150 times a day.
HANNITY: So, we're going to lose?
HUNT: Our guys are doing a great -- no.
HANNITY: You're willing to let America lose this war?
COLMES: Let him tell us what...
(CROSSTALK)
HUNT: Of course not. Of course not.
SOLTZ: Anybody who has fought in Iraq understands there is no military solution...
(CROSSTALK)
HUNT: We want them to win. I'm telling you the facts.
COLMES: All right, guys, we're just out of time.
ANDREWS: Sean, you picked the wrong witness to lead.
Hannity was referring to an editorial by War Whore Fred Hiatt. Glenn Greenwald has a good post that exposes Hiatt for the worthless piece of Beltway shit that he is and includes this very truthful remark on the House floor by Rep. David Obey:
Let me submit to you the problem we have today is not that we didn't listen enough to people like The Washington Post. It's that we listened too much. They endorsed going to war in the first place.
Talking Points Memo has the video clip of Obey. Even that hack on MSNBC realizes that the WaPo isn't liberal (via Atrios and Lexis-Nexis):
PENCE: It was -- you know, the interesting thing about this, and I -- you know, I have great respect for Charlie Rangel and worked with him on a number of issues, but if they had brought a bill to the floor, to be honest with you, that answered the desire of members of Dennis Kucinich and other members of Congress that thought we ought to cut off funding because they think this is a lost cause, I would have disagreed with that, but I could respect it because that would be in the prerogative of the Congress to control the purse strings. But this micromanaging of the war that has been roundly condemned by not just conservative thought leaders, but the left column of The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times is a bill just aching for a veto.
MATTHEWS: Well, The Washington Post is not the liberal newspaper it was, Congressman, let me tell you. I have been reading it for years and it is a neocon newspaper.
NOTE: REP. MIKE PENCE (R-IN), FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
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