Fox News' Smith on McCain's misstatements: "It's not as if he misspoke three times about the exact same thing" -- but he did

I guess the big difference between the Shia/Sunni/McCain screw up and the Bosnia/Clinton mistake was one was unintentional and obviously wrong, and the other was calculated and premeditated.

McCain's obvious confusion here has to be disconcerting to US Troops and, contrary to what Gernstein thinks, this stuff matters to them and their families.

Well...they're all I-Racki turrists, aren't they?  Do we want to support the troops or not?  Do we want to win the war against the turrists or not? Kill'em all and let Allah sort'em out. <heavy sarcasm>

USA! USA! USA!...

SMITH: And I bet he wouldn't take a six-shooter into a duck blind

No...McCain would probably just bomb the poor ducks.

Did anyone else catch the heavy drawl he employed as he said "and I bet he wouldn't take a six-shooter into a duck blind."  He sounded like a good ol boy from down South.  We know you're from Mississippi, but you should stick to your anchor voice from now on.

GERSTEIN: "...John McCain -- he confused Sunni and Shia. ...I think a lot of this stuff about who misspoke about what isn't relevant to people's lives."

Threatening the lives of U.S. Troops in Iraq, who are attempting to provide some degree of Domestic Security to the new and "fledgling" democracy of Iraq, is something called an "insurgency", which is a thing that uses bombs and gunfire to create as much instability and lack of faith in that "fledgling" democracy as they can... and in doing this, of course this "insurgency" threatens the lives of U.S. Troops there, due (as I said) to their attempts to provide whatever Domestic Security they can, to this formerly(?) destabilized but now "fledgling" democracy, Iraq.

What John McCain has repeatedly demostrated is nothing so simple as merely confusing two Muslim sects, but instead he has demostrated a profound and dangerous ignorance of what it is that constitutes Iraq's "insurgency", and who it is that funds and equips and mans that "insurgency"...

And here we are not so much talking about religious sects, but about nations: Iran and saudi arabia, specifically.

It's not about confusing Shi'a and sunni, it's about being ignorant as to who it is (what nation) threatens Iraq's majority Shi'a "fledgling" democracy, and in so doing, threatens U.S. Troops in Iraq.

It's very relevant to people's lives... it's highly relavant to the lives of U.S. Troops in Iraq.

 

 

Again, McCain did not confuse anything or make a mistake.  In fact his statement is exactly the same as Hillary's in that both were straying from the truth in order to serve a personal agenda.  For Hillary it was resume puffing, but for McCain it is continuing the propaganda that Iraq is part of the "War on Terror" and we are fighting the same alQaeda there that were responsible for 9/11 and that Iran is connected to them too.

See, here's the thing.

Tommy was railing on about Hillary lying, and hey, she did. Has anyone on here tried to defend her on that piece of fluff she tossed out there about Bosnia? I don't remember seeing anyone do that, but of course, I don't read everything that gets posted on here.

Same as someone defending McCain on his "mis-speaking", ahem, lying. I know, I know, for Fox, IOKIYAR. Just drop the fair and balanced act.

McCain has "misspoken" several times about the differences between Sunnis and Shi'ites, and yet the media still lets him retain his foreign policy credibility. But when Obama made one controversial remark he is taken out of context and called an "elitist." Give me a break, it's going to be more of the same in Washington if McCain gets elected. Check out Barack's clarification of his statements, I think he does a nice job of doing so. 

 

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Isn't Shepard Smith that arrogant SOB who ran over a female reporter form another network?

The reason why MM fans do not understand that other than Fox the rest of the news is liberal is because anything to the right of Air America is "conservative" to them.

Wow, these comment threads become a bit esoteric after a while...

Bottom line: McCain either A.) knows absolutely nothing about Islam or the Middle East, B.) is indeed rapidly approaching senility, or C.) is a calculated liar, deliberately trying to muddy the waters about who "the enemy" is and why we're in Iraq, why Iran is "Evil," etc. etc.

(I mean, come on: 3 times?? Once in a Senate hearing questing the head of our military operations in IRAQ???)

If Option C, then he is quite simply Evil. Because these are lies that are causing the slaughter of innocent human beings.

Just as a simple test, some reporter needs to ask him: "Is Saudi Arabia a pre-dominantly Sunni or Shiia country?" And go from there....

(We never seem to bring up any longer the fact that probably 15 of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 were Saudis -- presumably because it's supposed to be common knowledge, but sometimes you gotta wonder.....)