Fox News: Focus On Pelosi Changes Subject From Whether To Prosecute Bush Officials

[babylonsister]

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/probes-of-bush-administration/fox-focus-on-pelosi-changes-subject-from-whether-to-prosecute-bush-officials/

Fox News: Focus On Pelosi Changes Subject From Whether To Prosecute Bush Officials
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Check out this surprisingly candid moment on Fox, where a top network correspondent says that the GOP’s attack on Nancy Pelosi over what she knew about torture is a winner for the GOP because it changes the subject from whether Bush officials should be prosecuted:

The Fox correspondent, Jonathan Hunt, says the Pelosi focus is a distraction from a real debate about torture:

“Instead of this debate being about national security, what is and isn’t torture, what the Bush administration should and shouldn’t have allowed and whether anybody in that administration should now be prosecuted, the Republicans are now able to frame this debate as to whether Nancy Pelosi is fit to continue as Speaker. So they are not about to let their foot off the gas in any way, shape, or form.”

This mirrors what many Republicans, excited about the way this one is going, are saying privately. It’s also interesting that this level of candor is only likely to fire up the GOP base, which is hungry for a display of GOP aggressiveness and a win at all costs.

One other point: In an odd twist, you’d be unlikely to find such brazen GOP honesty about the motives at play here on any other major network.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. Ohh--Look at the bright shiny objects!

Fuck them. Fox News shouldn't be the ones writing the dialogue in this country.

I repeat--fuck them.

[babylonsister]

2. That's the truth though, and coming from them, it's startling. nt

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. Thankfully, through admissions like that, they are showing their cards.

If they want to say they are full of shit and they only do things to distract from the real issues, then I'm content with them saying that. Americans will see them as the shitheads they are.

[lapfog_1]

5. It's only the truth if we let them get away with it. - n/t

[babylonsister]

6. Huh? What's not true about them changing the subject away from

the previous admin's involvement in torture?

Get away with what? For once, they tell the truth, and you're claiming ... I don't even know what you're saying. :crazy:

[glitch]

4. They're usually not so open about their strategies.

I think they're wrong to expect this particular strategy is going to work though.

[braunfels]

7. The rest of the story

is that Cheney used the CIA to trump up justification for Iraq. Had prisoners tortured so he could lie about the Saddam 9/11 link. Waterboarding as the main issue is a distraction itself. Why are the dems aferaid to deal with this?

[spanone]

8. in his dreams