Fred Barnes re: Gonzales testimony: "If they're lies, they're not significant lies."

[sabra]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,291414,00.html

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BARNES: Well, look, he'll never have another prosecutor. Might ask for the resignation, though I doubt that.

And look, I'm not sure that the FBI chief Mueller actually was talking about the same thing that Gonzales had talked about when he said there was no dissent inside the administration or something. It's very confusing. The discrepancies are minor. They're not significant. If they're lies, they're not significant lies. I don't even think they're lies. It's a very fuzzy area.

There — Some places, it's just the semantics of what I think you mean by dissent which I admit is a little like what the definition of the word "is" is.

KONDRACKE: There was dissent in the Justice Department.

BARNES: OK. There might have been some. But for Schumer and Democrats to score - to start screaming perjury and demanding a special prosecutor at this moment is, I think, terribly revealing. Because it shows what they're really after in subpoenaing White House aides.

...

KONDRACKE: Yeah. Republicans used to do it too when they were in charge. Bill Clinton, impeachment.

BARNES: Mort, the guy lied to the American public. You endorsed the investigation that was going on.

KONDRACKE: Lying about sex is not a high crime and misdemeanor.

BARNES: All right. We'll debate that later.

:wow:

[napi21]

1. Well, Gonzo did a triple play then!

He lied to Congres

He lied to the Senate

He lied to the American people in his MANY press conferences!

[tularetom]

2. Somebody once published a comparison of predictions

made by fred barnes with those made at random by a (real) chimp. The chimp was correct like 48% of the time. Barnes - 36% or so.

He's worse than fucking Novak or Pat Buchanan when it comes to the accuracy of his predictions.

[Golden Raisin]

3. Foolish me. I'm naive enough

to expect that the CHIEF LAW OFFICIAL of the Republic not lie at all, let alone to a Congressional Committee. You can bet your last dollar that if Gonzales were a Democrat in a Democratic administration, Fred Barnes' head would be exploding live on national TV because he would be incapable of restraining his supercilious, indignant, pompous, hypocritical outrage.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

4. Apparently for Barnes, criminal behavior by the A.G. is all a game

"...But for Schumer and Democrats to score - to start screaming perjury..."

[BlooInBloo]

5. Oh, well - there you go.

[librechik]

6. At least, not as significant as a blow job.

[spanone]

7. i'm sure fred said the same of President Bill Clinton....

:sarcasm:

[Hubert Flottz]

8. Fred reminds me of...

A Nazi...?

[Enrique]

9. Barnes is lying

he knows Gonzales is lying and he's pretending he might not be. He says it's "confusing" but he knows that the Bushies' are deliberately trying to confuse people as their only defense of Gonzales. He says they're insignificant lies but he knows that the Attorney General repeatedly and baldly lying about a highly illegal action by the president is of the utmost importance.

[orleans]

10. isn't barnes tired of all the rimming he does for the gop? n/t