Giuliani and Hannity Spin Palin’s Ignorance By Falsely Claiming She Understood The Bush Doctrine

[ccharles000]

Sarah Palin made a huge gaffe during her first network interview yesterday. She was clueless about the Bush Doctrine. Interviewer Charles Gibson had to correct her after she misstated it. When Alan Colmes brought up Palin’s mistake on last night's (9/11/08) Hannity & Colmes, guest Rudy Giuliani and Sean Hannity falsely insisted Palin got it right. Giuliani suggested that Palin should be excused because Wikipedia got it wrong, too (which it didn't). Hannity, of course, blamed the left and then said Palin had answered "perfectly." With video.

In Part 2 of a two-part interview with Giuliani, Colmes said, “In an interview tonight with Charlie Gibson, (Palin) was asked about Bush – George Bush’s doctrine, which she didn’t know about, anything about. Had to be told by Charlie Gibson that the Bush doctrine is pre-emptive strike.”

“Not on Wikipedia,” Giuliani answered. “Wikipedia says that the Bush Doctrine is ‘irresponsible,’ some kind of irresponsible war monger.”

Fact check: I found nothing of the sort in the Wikipedia entry.

“She didn’t know what the Bush Doctrine was,” Colmes continued. “Doesn’t that concern you? That a possible president could feel that way?”

No, it didn’t. Giuliani said, “If you look at that answer, I think she had a pretty good understanding of what President Bush is trying to do, what President Bush is trying to accomplish.”

http://www.newshounds.us/2008/09/12/giuliani_and_hannity_spin_palins_ignorance_by_falsely_claiming_she_understood_the_bush_doctrine.php

[krkaufman]

1. Note that Palin *never* grasped what the Bush Doctrine is, even after Gibson explained it.

see http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7040075

[Frank Cannon]

2. Well, who are we going to believe?

Sean and Rudi, or our own lying eyes?

[JustAnotherGen]

3. Someone needs to get a screen shot

From Wikipedia and date/time stamp it . . . before it gets changed.

[GoesTo11]

4. Repubs: Knowledge is overrated. Trust your gut. and display unshakable confidence

Real world: Uh, no.

This last 8 years, we have just run an experiment to see whether lacking knowledge and trusting your gut leads to good decisions and successful implementation of them. It's one thing to have great knowledge and then trust your gut; because of your knowledge, you should be confident and display that, and the people should pick up on that and be confident in your decisions. It's another to have no knowledge, and still project that confidence in your gut - then the confidence you project is meant to gain the unjustified confidence of your audience. That's where we get the word con-game. That's what Palin's bluster is.

[StrongBad]

5. Giuliani called Bush a war mongerer!!!

I had to kick this thread just for that. LOL!

:rofl: