Sarah Palin should have reserved her WTF reference for this guy.
Sometimes a TV personality or politician will make a borderline statement that critics take out of context and misconstrue, projecting all kinds of insidious or just plain ignorant connotations onto it.
And then sometimes we’ll get a rare statement—usually from Sarah Palin or Bill O’Reilly, but this time from fellow Fox News talking head Eric Bolling—that’s so overtly outrageous, so sublimely stupid, that there’s no room to misconstrue anything—it’s just plain wrong.
Appearing in the time slot that replaced Glenn Beck‘s show, Bolling appeared last night with guests including former Bush spokeswoman Dana Perino and let fly this gem:
“America was certainly safe between 2000 and 2008. I don’t remember any terrorist attacks on American soil during that period of time.”
Even more shocking, no one sitting around the table, including the former Bush spokeswoman, corrects him.
I know conservatives love blaming Obama for the economic crisis, even though the massive deficit and TARP bank bailout were crafted on Bush’s watch. But to try to move the 9/11 attacks off Bush’s watch as well? It’s stupefying.
If Bolling had a more fervent following, you can bet his minions would be trying to alter the 9/11 Wikipedia page today—along with Paul Revere’s page—to slide 9/11 back to Clinton. Watch the dumbfounding exchange below.
[via Huffington Post]
July 15, 2011 at 1:40 pm, Juan8hilda said:
Obama still sucks, the one taking things out of context is you, I should have guess this was from media matters the one George Soros funds last time I open this web site link, go jump off a clifffffffff.
July 15, 2011 at 6:52 pm, Mangetout said:
Let’s see…
1) You take a random insulting potshot at Obama.
2) You apparently don’t understand the meaning of the phrase, “out of context”.
3) Random potshot at George Soros, who has nothing to do with this article.
4) You speak nastily toward the author of the article.
Congratulations! You’ve pulled off the Tea Party Quadfecta of meaningless crap.
July 15, 2011 at 2:36 pm, Chons said:
Taking things out of context? “America was certainly safe between 2000 and 2008. I don’t remember any terrorist attacks on American soil during that period of time” is a direct quote from Bolling.
Whether or not you like your current or former president makes no difference, the statement that there were no terror attacks on American soil during that time is an outright lie.
July 15, 2011 at 2:36 pm, Chons said:
Taking things out of context? “America was certainly safe between 2000 and 2008. I don’t remember any terrorist attacks on American soil during that period of time” is a direct quote from Bolling.
Whether or not you like your current or former president makes no difference, the statement that there were no terror attacks on American soil during that time is an outright lie.
July 19, 2011 at 4:36 pm, brianswilson said:
Its as fair and balanced as Faux news has ever been.
July 19, 2011 at 4:36 pm, brianswilson said:
Its as fair and balanced as Faux news has ever been.
July 19, 2011 at 7:01 pm, Bobdob said:
To be fair, he simply said that he doesn’t REMEMBER any terrorist attacks, not that there weren’t any. He’s a conservative and a faux news broadcaster. Odds are he just has brain damage.
July 15, 2011 at 3:11 pm, Herp said:
May 2002: Luke Helder injures 6 by placing pipebombs in
mailboxes in the Midwest. Motivation to protest government control over
daily lives and the illegality of marijuana and promotion of astral
projection
July 4 2002: An Egyptian gunman opens fire at an El Al ticket counter
in Los Angeles International Airport, killing two Israelis before being
killed himself.
October 2002: John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo conduct the
Beltway Sniper Attacks, killing ten people in various locations
throughout the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area from October 2
until they are arrested on October 24.
October 2005: Joel Henry Hinrichs III detonated a bomb near the
packed football stadium at the University of Oklahoma in Norman,
Oklahoma killing himself in the process.[4]
March 2006: Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, an Iranian-born graduate of
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, drives an SUV onto a
crowded part of campus, injuring nine.
August 2006: An Afghani Muslim hit 19 pedestrians, killing one, with his SUV in the San Francisco Bay area.
February 2007: A teenage gunman kills six bystanders and wounds four
more in a popular shopping center before being shot dead by police in
the Trolley Square shooting in Salt Lake City, Utah.
October 2007: A pair of improvised explosive devices are thrown at
the Mexican Consulate in New York City. The fake grenades were filled
with black powder and detonated by fuses, causing very minor damage.
Police investigate the connection between this and a similar attack
against the British Consulate in New York in 2005.
March 2008: New York. A bomb goes off outside an empty military recruiting station in Times Square.
April 2008: United States San Diego. A pipe bomb exploded inside a
Federal Express distribution facility in San Diego. The blast did little
damage to the building a second pipe bomb was found the parking lot and
was safely defused. No one was killed or injured in the blast.
July 2008: Knoxville, Tennessee. Knoxville Unitarian Universalist
church shooting, Jim David Adkisson kills 2 people and injures 7 in
Knoxville, Tennessee.
October 2008: Dalton, Georgia An explosion at a personal injury law
firm in downtown Dalton, Ga., injured four people, including at least
one lawyer, and resulted in the death of the apparent bomber in what a
federal law enforcement spokesman described as a suicide attackhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents
July 15, 2011 at 7:50 pm, gust said:
i think you left one out… somewhere in 2001….
July 15, 2011 at 7:50 pm, gust said:
i think you left one out… somewhere in 2001….
July 15, 2011 at 11:53 pm, john charles webb jr said:
The entirety of The Bush Administration (oxymoron) was a terrorist assault on our Democracy . . . . and then moved across the globe generally :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvay28lZiHU&feature=
July 19, 2011 at 4:27 pm, Anonymous said:
Why does this person even have a tv show- oh ,I forgot this is the Fox tv network where people like him shine!
July 19, 2011 at 4:27 pm, Anonymous said:
Why does this person even have a tv show- oh ,I forgot this is the Fox tv network where people like him shine!
May 02, 2012 at 7:55 pm, Jeff Schweitzer: Selective Amnesia and the Rogue Elephant | USA Press said:
[...] that we were told only Bush could keep us safe from terrorists because there “have been no terrorist attacks on U.S. soil under Bush’s watch.” That claim of course ignored the obvious that 9/11 [...]
May 02, 2012 at 8:15 pm, Jeff Schweitzer: Selective Amnesia and the Rogue Elephant | WestPenn Journal said:
[...] that we were told only Bush could keep us safe from terrorists because there “have been no terrorist attacks on U.S. soil under Bush’s watch.” That claim of course ignored the obvious that 9/11 [...]
May 02, 2012 at 8:24 pm, Dr Schweitzer’s blog on political, environmental and scientific ethics » Blog Archive » Selective Amnesia and the Rogue Elephant said:
[...] that we were told only Bush could keep us safe from terrorists because there “have been no terrorist attacks on U.S. soil under Bush’s watch.” That claim of course ignored the obvious that 9/11 [...]