Chris Wallace responds to Mike Pence's defense of Trump: 'Isn't the sarcastic excuse getting old?'

[kpete]

Transcript via Fox News Sunday:

WALLACE: You and he spent a day defending his remarks, saying that they were serious. Now, Trump says that he was being sarcastic.

So, Governor, which is it?

PENCE: Well, I think he was being very serious, and he was making a point that needs to be made, that there is no question that the failed policies of President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in the wider Middle East, created a vacuum within Iraq in which ISIS was able to arise. There’s essentially no question —

WALLACE: So then why is he saying he was sarcastic?

PENCE: Well, he was making a very serious point, and look —

WALLACE: Forgive me, why did he say he was being sarcastic?

PENCE: Well, he was making a very serious point. Donald Trump has a way of talking to get people’s attention, and it’s drawn attention to a very important issue.

There was a time when any Democrat president knew where the buck stopped in the White House. And the responsibility for the failed policies in the Middle East that created the environment where ISIS developed belongs to President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and the American people know that.

WALLACE: Governor, those are all perfectly legitimate points to make, but that isn’t what Trump said. He said that Obama and Clinton were the most valuable players of ISIS, that they were the co-founders of ISIS. Then he said, well, I was just being sarcastic about that, just as he said he was just being sarcastic about inviting Russia to come in and release e-mails of Hillary Clinton’s. Isn’t the sarcastic excuse getting a bit old?

PENCE: Well, no, I don’t think it’s getting old at all, Chris. Donald Trump made his way through a very competitive primary because he spoke not like your typical politician, but just plainly like an every day American. And speaking plainly is exactly what the American people will anticipate in the course of this election, but more importantly, they’re going to have a president who tells them exactly what’s on his mind, and the American people are going to hear and hear him loudly.


http://www.politicususa.com/2016/08/14/mike-pence-falls-fox-news-turns-donald-trump-obama-isis-comments.html

[spanone]

1. a man who lies for a liar is lower than the liar he is lying for.

[PatrickforO]

4. OK...say that fast ten times!

A man who lies for a liar...uh...liar...uh...lies like a liar...Trump. Yes. That's it. That's it, exactly. Pence = Liar, Trump = Pathetic Liar.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

11. For trump, tis "Now I lie me down to sleep."

[gratuitous]

2. "But that isn't what Trump said"

Of course it's not what he said, Chris. I can't possibly defend that out-of-control maniac's every word spew. So I just made up something that's easier to defend. Bad on you for noticing!

[immoderate]

3. I perceive a difference between 'speaking plainly' and 'sarcasm' that has eluded Pence.

--imm

[63splitwindow]

5. Pence = Dunce

[neeksgeek]

6. Trump speaks "like an every day American." Really?

So Governor, essentially you're saying that the typical American has the rhetorical skills of a pre-teen bully?

[chillfactor]

7. Pence is no better than t-rump...

He lies just as badly as his master.

[Motley13]

8. It was just sarcasm, then he repeated it the next day on Hugh Hewitt

when HH was trying to give him a way out. The maggot just doubled down.

[independentpiney]

9. It's like sarcastaball!

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[randome]

10. How does one "hear loudly"?

Trump-speak rubs off on them all. It's like an infection.
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[3catwoman3]

12. I wonder if Pence...

...has buyer's remorse yet?