Kornblut: "Republican crowds are a little different. They still want to be supporting the troops"

[antiimperialist]

During the August 21 edition of MSNBC's Hardball, Washington Post staff writer Anne E. Kornblut asserted that, in contrast with Democratic crowds who applaud Democratic candidates when they say, "I'm going to start ending this war in Iraq," "Republican crowds are a little different. They still want to be supporting the troops." A Post reader flagged Kornblut's remark during an August 23 washingtonpost.com online chat, asking chat host and Post White House reporter Peter Baker: "Is this a commonly held belief amongst Washington reporters? Given that the majority of Americans favor ending the war, do you believe that they don't support the troops?" Baker defended the comment, replying that Kornblut "was saying that Republicans see the issue as supporting the troops. She wasn't saying that's her view."

In fact, during the August 21 Hardball, Kornblut said:

KORNBLUT: It remains, especially in Democratic crowds, the number one issue. There is no applause line that gets a bigger response when you've -- when you're out with Senator Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, than when they say, "The first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to start ending this war in Iraq."

Republican crowds are a little different. They still want to be supporting the troops. I saw Fred Thompson and Rudy Giuliani in recent weeks out in Iowa. The Republican crowd is a little different, but even there, Democrats know that there is a strong Republican majority of people who are not happy with this war. So, it's still playing out there. It's still, I would say, the number one issue on the table.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200708230007?f=h_latest">more from Media Matters for America.

[emulatorloo]

1. Kornblut is one of the very worst. Media Matters has quite a lot about her.

If you get a chance, do a search -- the crap she pulls will curl your hair.

[Warren Stupidity]

2. Sport Da Troops?

Why it must be time for yet another Big Showdown On Iraq In Congress. Time to get the CONFLATION SYSTEM up and running.

[Lint Head]

3. If they support the troops why do they want them to die for

the country? Why do they not support giving the troops what they need to be safe and what they need to recover from their wounds?
:dem:

[grasswire]

4. thank you -- I caught that, too

I wanted to holler "those who want to bring the troops home are supporting them!"

[msongs]

5. republicans just don't want to JOIN THE TROOPS. doh! nt

[spag68]

6. Kornblut

She should get together with ari fliescher, the mouse and the guppy.