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May 16, 2008
VIDEO PROOF Clintonista James Rubin Lied About Interview With McCain
Topics: Political News and commentariesAs is evidenced more and more each day, Democrats have no problem saying what they want you to hear regardless of whether or not it is even remotely true. They are strong believers of the principle (sic) that if you tell a lie enough times and to enough people, it will become thought of as fact.
Via Sister Toldjah:
This morning, the Washington Post published an opinion piece written by Bill Clinton's assistant secretary of state and chief spokesman for State James Rubin, accusing John McCain of hypocrisy on the issue of negotiating directly and unconditionally with tyrannical rules by citing an interview he did with McCain he did two years ago after Hamas' parliamentary election victories. He wrote:I asked: "Do you think that American diplomats should be operating the way they have in the past, working with the Palestinian government if Hamas is now in charge?"Numerous prominent lefty blogs posted about this story as definitive proof that McCain was a hypocrite of the highest order for taking Obama to task on the issue of unconditional negotiations, and Obama himself repeated Rubin's claims in his speech earlier today. The news mediots, as expected, went wild with it as part of their overall "in the tank for Obama" strategy. It didn't take long for intrepid bloggers like Ed Morrissey to figure out that McCain's remarks were severely distorted by Rubin.McCain answered: "They're the government; sooner or later we are going to have to deal with them, one way or another, and I understand why this administration and previous administrations had such antipathy towards Hamas because of their dedication to violence and the things that they not only espouse but practice, so . . . but it's a new reality in the Middle East. I think the lesson is people want security and a decent life and decent future, that they want democracy. Fatah was not giving them that."
For some Europeans in Davos, Switzerland, where the interview took place, that's a perfectly reasonable answer. But it is an unusual if not unique response for an American politician from either party. And it is most certainly not how the newly conservative presumptive Republican nominee would reply today.
Given that exchange, the new John McCain might say that Hamas should be rooting for the old John McCain to win the presidential election. The old John McCain, it appears, was ready to do business with a Hamas-led government, while both Clinton and Obama have said that Hamas must change its policies toward Israel and terrorism before it can have diplomatic relations with the United States.
Even if McCain had not favored doing business with Hamas two years
Tonight, we learn via video just how distorted Rubin's portrayal of the interview with McCain actually was:
The transcript and more commentary is here ...
Related: NewsBusters - CNN Lets Clintonista Denounce McCain's 'Hypocrisy' on Hamas, But CNN's Own Tape Undercuts Claim
Posted by Abdul at May 16, 2008 11:00 PM
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