Rep. Peter King thinks the Obama administration's failure to have either the president himself or one of his officials give a press conference on the attempted Delta airline bombing is somehow the same as Bush not showing up in New Orleans right away after Katrina. I guess King wasn't satisfied that Rep. Pete Hoekstra was the only one going out there making a fool of himself immediately politicizing this thing.
Sorry pal but President Obama not rushing out to do a press conference about this attempted bombing that they probably don't even have a lot of answers on yet is not even remotely the same thing as Bush completely ignoring Hurricane Katrina and what was going on in New Orleans to the point where his aides finally had to put together footage on a DVD days later and get him to watch it for him to even have any idea what was happening down there. Unbelievable. And CNN's Drew Griffin was more than happy to help King along with this history revisionism.
For a reminder of how Bush reacted to Hurricane Katrina, here's a timeline put together by Think Progress.
Griffin also pointed out right after King got off the air with him that Janet Napolitano was going to be on State of the Union on CNN Sunday morning. I guess that's not soon enough to suit King and of course Griffin didn't bring that up while he still had him on the air either.
The Political Carnival pointed out another problem with King's hackery here--Pete King's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Memory:
Just now on CNN, Petey said that the ObamAdministration banned the word "terrorism", which is, of course, why Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab managed to smuggle explosives on board a jetliner.
Lose a word, gain a terrorist. See the logic?
Me neither.
No, Obama never eliminated the word "terrorism" from the government lexicon. It was the phrase "war on terror", one of the stupidest phrases ever concocted by any administration ever. That's why this administration is using different words. President Obama, rightfully, wouldn't want any association whatsoever with BushCoSpeak.
See? Some there is some change we can believe in.
So hey, Bogus Petey, check this out. It may jog your "memory".
Full transcript via CNN below the fold.
GRIFFIN: Let's turn to politics now, because two of these stories are beginning to collide. The White House is calling this an attempted act of terrorism but the president is on vacation. Some lawmakers say they want answers from the commander-in-chief, not just press releases.
One of the critics is joining us now, Congressman Peter King, Republican from New York, the ranking minority member on the House Homeland Security Committee.
Congressman, you know what you're talking about when you're talking about security issues. Why is it important for us to see or hear from the administration?
REP. PETER KING (R), NEW YORK (via telephone): Drew, this came close to being one of the greatest tragedies in the history of our country. If we had lost much 300 people on Christmas Day, this would have been remembered forevermore as the Christmas Day massacre. We avoided by luck and because of a number of very courageous passengers.
This was an assault on the United State and it is important at a time like this that the president of the United States or someone in the administration with stature step forward, whether it would be the vice president or the secretary of homeland security. But basically, there is no face of the administration on this issue.
And me, I just think of health care and global warming and some of the other issues where there's always somebody from the administration out there talking. And I'm not saying to grandstand it, I'm saying to be out there and just be a calm and reassuring voice for the country and for the world.
Whether it was President Bush or President Clinton or President Reagan, at times like this, the country looks for a leader. And I just feel that this administration is much more comfortable in talking about issues other than terrorism.
GRIFFIN: Congressman, we've heard from Ed Henry, who got a response from the administration, saying, you know, this just not is -- not the president's style. He'd rather let the investigators do the investigating and tell this story.
You seem to say it goes beyond just a terror investigation here.
KING: Yes, it does. Let me make it clear, from what I know, I agree with what the administration is doing as far as their policies, as far increasing the security, and as far as doing all they can to find out who was behind it and know what the facts are.
I'm saying, now, there's more to being a president and more to being an administration than just getting -- just having the technical work done. It's important to reassure the country, to show leadership, to show -- you know, to give a sense of confidence to the country. This is an attack on the country. And as commander-in-chief, I believe the president should be there or the secretary of homeland security or his homeland security adviser in the White House. And again, just to -- as a sign of strength for the country, especially, since in virtually every other issue, there's almost a race to the microphone.
GRIFFIN: I can almost hear the critics coming after you, saying you're trying to turn this into a political issue. But let me read what you wrote earlier today. You said, "They," meaning, the administration, "don't feel as comfortable talking about terror as they do global warming and health care." You are almost saying -- if I'm reading this correctly -- that this is a deliberate political move by the administration not to talk about terror.
KING: Yes. I -- first of all, they started off the first several months of the Obama administration refusing to use the word terrorism. Janet Napolitano said it would no longer be in the vocabulary of the Department of Homeland Security because they thought that it connoted fear. And Secretary Clinton is saying that the policy of the administration was not to talk about terrorism. Even when the president gave his speech at West Point about the troops going to Afghanistan, he didn't use the word terrorism. He spoke of extremism.
So, no, I don't think they are comfortable. And having said, let me make it clear, I think they are doing the right thing as far as their policies. Since this attack occurred, the FBI and, as far as I can tell, Homeland Security and all the agencies of the United States government are doing the right job.
But the president above all, who is a great communicator, should realize what President Reagan always did. The country looks for a voice of strength and reassurance, especially with the president being in Hawaii at a time like this.
Listen, think of all the criticism President Bush took because it took him several days to get down to New Orleans after Katrina. So, people do look for leadership in their president.
GRIFFIN: All right. Congressman King -- Representative Peter King out of New York, we'll see if they take up your advice. Thank you, sir, for joining us tonight.
KING: Thank you very much. Appreciate it.
GRIFFIN: You bet.
Stay with CNN around the clock for the latest on the terror investigation.
Coming up tomorrow morning on CNN's "STATE OF THE UNION," one of those administration officials, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, she will be on at 9:00 a.m. with Candy Crowley.
No one should be surprised what a filthy, lying gop scumbag would say.
After all if by chance we ever bring the bush/chenny cabal to justice for their war crimes, and their part in the destruction of the economy and the luting of the treasury. Guy's like king would be part of the fallout since they aided and abeted all the insanity that has been waged upon the American people and others.
Go chenny yourself mr king!
Peter King allegedly used to raise money for Irish terrorists during the 1980's for Irish Northern Aid. Money can get shifted so money he raised at rallies went to the Irish Republican Army that killed Lord Louis Mountbatten.
We should not stand for a ranking member on the homeland security committee who allegedly raised money for non Arab terrorists.
Your opinion?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_State:_A_G...
He has brass balls calling anyone else a "terrorist" or "supporter of terrorism."
Terry C - NJ
http://www.nysun.com/national/rep-king-and-th...
It was in the late 1970s that Mr. King first got involved in the Irish issue, but it struck some as an unlikely choice. His family hailed from Limerick and Galway, but apart from a great-uncle who was in the IRA in the 1920s, the Sunnyside native had no roots in revolutionary politics.
"He really didn't have a direct connection with Ireland," the longtime Nassau district attorney, Denis Dillon, said. Mr. Dillon, then a Democrat but now a Republican, was an early political ally who eventually parted company when Mr. King's advocacy of the IRA became most fervent.
In 1980, Mr. D'Amato, then the senator-elect, fulfilled a campaign pledge and went to Belfast on a fact-finding trip, taking Messrs. King and Dillon with him. It was the start of Mr. King's long entanglement with the IRA, and he took to it with the zeal of a convert.
He forged links with leaders of the IRA and Sinn Fein in Ireland, and in America he hooked up with Irish Northern Aid, known as Noraid, a New York based group that the American, British, and Irish governments often accused of funneling guns and money to the IRA. At a time when the IRA's murder of Lord Mountbatten and its fierce bombing campaign in Britain and Ireland persuaded most American politicians to shun IRA-support groups, Mr. King displayed no such inhibitions. He spoke regularly at Noraid protests and became close to the group's publicity director, the Bronx lawyer Martin Galvin, a figure reviled by the British.
Mr. King's support for the IRA was unequivocal. In 1982, for instance, he told a pro-IRA rally in Nassau County: "We must pledge ourselves to support those brave men and women who this very moment are carrying forth the struggle against British imperialism in the streets of Belfast and Derry."
By the mid-1980s, the authorities on both sides of the Atlantic were openly hostile to Mr. King. On one occasion, a judge threw him out of a Belfast courtroom during the murder trial of IRA men because, in the judge's view, "he was an obvious collaborator with the IRA." When he attended other trials, the police singled him out for thorough body searches.
During his visits to Ireland, Mr. King would often stay with well-known leaders of the IRA, and he socialized in IRA drinking haunts. At one of such clubs, the Felons, membership was limited to IRA veterans who had served time in jail. Mr. King would almost certainly have been red-flagged by British intelligence as a result, but the experience gave him plenty of material for the three novels he subsequently wrote featuring the IRA.
If Peter King helped give the IRA a respectable face in America, in Ireland and Britain the IRA's reputation as a ruthless and skilled terrorist group was solidifying. The product of street disorders in 1969 in the wake of a civil rights campaign on behalf of Northern Ireland's minority Catholic population, the IRA's violent effort to end British rule against the wishes of the majority Protestant population lasted 25 years. Despite killings by state forces and Protestant terrorist groups who favored retaining Northern Ireland's British links, the IRA emerged as the single most violent group. More than 3,600 civilians, soldiers, and policemen died in the conflict between 1969 and 1994 - the per-capita equivalent death toll in America would be nearly 700,000 - and the IRA was responsible for around half of those killings.
and that's in addition to the other crap that he is.
Some stuff you can't make up!
Isnt Obama busy clearing brush?
putting out fires left him by the prior administration.
Why should Barky spin for the CIA, let them spin their own lies.
Yeah, the guy was Al Queda! Right!
He was another brave, American-loving CIA agent doing a false-flag op and all the fool did was burn-up his balls. What an idiot. What an idiot organization.
Another reason to be embarrassed to be American. We can't even shoot ourselves in the balls, properly.
Who claims to have seen the perp escorted through passport control (sans passport) by some dude in a fancy smart suit. Supposedly this dude was also escorted off the planes in cuffs.
Detroit's Metro Live newspaper.
http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2...
"Haskell said he and his wife were sitting on the ground near their boarding gate in Amsterdam, which is when they saw Mutallab approach the gate with an unidentified man."
"While Mutallab was poorly dressed, his friend was dressed in an expensive suit, Haskell said. He says the suited man asked ticket agents whether Mutallab could board without a passport. “The guy said, 'He's from Sudan and we do this all the time.'”"
"About an hour after landing, Haskell said he saw another man being taken into custody. But a spokeswoman from the FBI in Detroit said Mutallab was the only person taken into custody. "
....He was another brave, American-loving CIA agent doing a false-flag op and all the fool did was burn-up his balls. What an idiot. What an idiot organization....
Yeah, how about it. They're using Black guys now. I guess it would have been too obvious to pick a guy from Kenya.
Somebody should contact Jessee Ventura. I think he lives in Mexico and has a new show coming out in January.
Terror is the fear card in the GOP deck they use to win elections and stay in power. Besides, there would be nothing Obama could say to calm the bedwetters.
So badly they can taste it.
They don't care if people are killed, so long as they can feel that their "side" has "won."
Terry C - NJ
Stupid fucker jumped the gun with this dog shit analogy.
Politicizing a terroristic attack...un-American bitch.
He's criticizing the president during time of war!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7wG7OjHmeI
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
you are slipping
Video for immature audiences only.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
And, yes, for immature people.
Terry C - NJ
President Palin would have been out there cameras rolling with that Downs baby in one hand and microphone in the other you betcha!
And she still holds that kid like he's a sack of potatoes.
Terry C - NJ
What would be the point of a press conference on a failed attempt except to promote fear and to grab credit?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Why hasn't Obama come to help with the search.
Peter King's district is hemorrhaging people and jobs. He's rather talk about terror than that.
President Obama hasn't stepped before a bank of microphones, I'll
have to stay in bed with the covers over my face. Or better yet,
under the bed.
King, you are such a dickwad.
I was expecting the "see, Obama didn't connect the dots either" line of attack.
Is Joe Biden in an undisclosed location?
The conservatives/repugnacans have turned into The Bedwetters Party
The GOB.
Obama uses the attempted bombing as an excuse to bomb Iran.
300 million fainting couches and a box of Depends for every man, woman and child.
Take turns at who's going to be the dumbass of the day?
Hey Pete! It's your turn today. Get out in front of the camera's and make an ass out of yourself.
OK Sawah!
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Do you know how hard it is for him not to 'oink' in between his words? Especially when he's excited....
Believe in keep the terror and fear ramped up! It is the only way they can get their cowardly followers to vote for them!
Have another ACORN cookie, you schmuck
oops that was Steve King that ate the Acorn cookie
The Obama administration and the FBI, CIA and Homeland Security had over 50 warnings that a lone terrorist was going to try to blow up an airliner originating from Yemen to the U.S. Take that you bitch, King. I bettered your bullshit analogy.
I completely expect this ruse of yours to become GOPer talking points for the next two weeks.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
I never imagined that they would ever read posts on C&L. My bad!
We can prove it's your idea.:)
But honestly. It wouldn't surprise me in the least to see them try it.
Their strategy is throw anything and everything at the wall to see if it sticks.
Hey, you could make the rounds at the con sites and plant the theory. heheheheh:)
What is your conceptual, continuity?
The cons can provide the fertilizer.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Nobody except anybody who knew the story of the attempted hijacking of that Federal Express 747 back in the 90s. The purpose was to crash it into the FE HQ building on that Texas airport.
they never will reach the level of propaganda that Fox puts out.
n/t
The GOP spent so much marketing the GWOT they think it should live forever.
The death of the GWOT means the terrorists won.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
golf in Hawaii and schmoozing with the military.
(from CBS)
He added that his handler from al Qaeda specifically told him if Obama used the word "terrorism" then call the whole thing off.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
There are good meds and mental health professionals that will help you with your compulsive lying and intractible paranoia. Better yet, just get out of public service altogether, there are already enough self serving liars and moral cowards in Congress.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
Big image, doing business with tons of corporate whores, then when the going gets tough run off and hide, and say . . Don't bother me, respect my privacy. Stay off my beach also.
Leave me alone!
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo...
You do realize that you are sounding just like a Fox News spokesperson.
Don't you?
see ya around Evet.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
As much if not more then Bush at this point.
Yesterday I got deleted for comparing him tp clowns.
Toilet paper?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
If I wanted to hear right wing BS, I'd listen to Rash Limpballs or watch Faux Noise.
Terry C - NJ
I really wonder about you Evert.
man you are going to have a tough miserable life ahead of you.
Mudshark is right, stop watching Fox.
you've done one thing to help one person in your life.
Your imitation of RLLNW is really getting tired,
Personally, I am getting to the end of my patience with these right-wing folks constantly dragging this nation down. When they are in power, they destroy the fiber this nation was built upon and ruin our status in the world, and when they are out of power, they constantly dog everything the president does. The people of this nation need to unite at the polls and run these GOP scoundrels out of every office in the land.
They are truly the American Taliban or AmeriNazis.
How can anyone - no matter how thick - take them with more than a grain of salt and yet they get elected to offices? Whiskey - Tango - Foxtrot!
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Dems or Cons? They are both bought and paid for and screwing over America.
Watch Goldman Sachs
Good luck people.
90 Things President Obama Accomplished - The Media Didn't Report
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
We haven't heard from Limbaugh/Hannity/Beck yet... the posturing and the accusations that Obama is soft on "terror" is only just beginning
"Obama is soft on "terror" because he is a secret Islamist.
It goes without sayin'
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Please explain.
Is King criticizing Bush for not going to NO or praising Obama for not commenting on the bomber?
* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
"Mugsy's Rap Sheet": Recording history for those who seek to rewrite it.
Repigs don't criticize the Chimptard.
Terry C - NJ
He supports the worst sort of terror, the IRA.
and only when Ireland after the Iran war turned its backs on America, like the rest of the world did he even back off.
He's a hack and a blow hard.
Hey Peter, how many murders did you get green cards for????
The ORA is a REAL terrorist group, targeting subways and shopping centers... King only is an authority on terror cause he knows and supports then first hand. end of.
They're a terrorist organization. Always was, always will be.
Terry C - NJ
and when I was in London in the early 90's was nearly hit by an IRA bomb. My wife lived in Manchester in 1996 and was nearly killed her whilst shopping.
they are terrorists. end of. you can't pick which terror you like, its one of those issues where there can be so shades of grey.
are mentaly challenged.
And THAT was Obama's fault, too!
Terry C - NJ
I wonder how many bitter Republicans are going to hop on the bandwagon? This won't help them in the 2010 or 2012 elections, it makes them look like a bunch of spiteful old men who can't accept Bush blew it, utterly and completely blew it.
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
But for want of two letters belate would become fellate.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Very astute observation, by the way.
I had beans for lunch.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Anybody surprised KLM operated the flight from Nigeria to Amsterdam? I bet our new "terrorist" was even carrying his blue flight bag AND a copy of the Amsterdam Times with a picture of a big phallus on the cover.
Obama should have flown over Detroit 3 days from now!
Does every Republican have to spend 24 hours a day trying to be stupider than every other Republican? Is it absolutely mandatory?
Couldn't they declare a moratorium? At least for a month. Please.
Your 2009 Cavalcade of A-Holes!!!
Now the Idiots and crack pots come out of the woodwork. Do these Racist ever give up. Realizing that Critical thinking and a complete thought process are not tolerated by these MORONS on the right, do they comprehend what they are saying?
This Clown tries to make such a Moronic comparison, tell him my zippers down he can come over and throw a double lip lock on my love muscle, that's what he is looking for isn't it?
that ol' G.W. was an asshole? How honest of you Mr. King!
NOBODY 2012
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