Time to shift focus everyone: HOUSE MAJORITY LEADER INSULTS TROOPS!

[robertpaulsen]

Tired of the media focus on a botched joke? How about demanding the media focus on a deliberate putdown of our military?

Please read and k&r this thread by wholetruth00:

"Don't blame Rumsfeld for what is happening in Iraq, blame the generals"

Boehner on CNN with Wolf. So now the Repubs want to blame the "generals?" Are the generals on the ground not part of the troops over there? Wolf didn't even blink.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2541975


I'd like to read the transcript to really nail that POS. Please spread this info and speak out against this hypocrisy!

[kestrel91316]

1. Boehner Insults Generals

Headline I want to see somewhere.................

[robertpaulsen]

30. Other than AMERICAblog and Raw Story...

it's just not happening. MSM is being very slow on the uptake, no surprise there.

[blm]

2. Can we get a video up on YouTube?

.

[robertpaulsen]

8. Great idea! And put this in DU's new Video Forum.

Anyone tech savvy enough to do this?

[radfringe]

10. Americablog has it up

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/11/republican-house-leader-blames-troops.html

[robertpaulsen]

18. Everyone CHECK THIS LINK.

Thanks radfringe.

[Lex]

25. You mean McCain hasn't demanded an apology? Bueller? Bueller?

What about Harold Ford?

:shrug:

[robertpaulsen]

28. LOL!

A bittersweet laugh, but still very appreciated!

:rofl:

[Supersedeas]

3. Of couse Leslie didn't blink--he's gotten straight after the Lady Cheny interview

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. Another boner from Boner. Way to go, you icy-eyed freak.

[Xenotime]

5. This comment is worse than Kerry's

[treestar]

6. If the media whores are not immediately demanding an apology

for this one all pretence that the media is liberal are dead.

[Straight Shooter]

7. I never heard this before. Duh. I wonder why.

Blame the generals?

Yes, this needs to get out there. K&R.

BTW, Boehner is certifiably nuts. He still gets out on the talking-head circuit, claiming there's WMD's in Iraq. I suppose because Rumsfeld said so.

[robertpaulsen]

9. Bingo. Cuz Dumsfeld said so.

"We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat."

[blm]

23. It's not the first time - it's what Bush has been doing for two years.

.

[OzarkDem]

11. Come on Dems, call a press conference!

[Dr Fate]

13. LOL! You are really asking DEMS to attack something besides another DEM?

LOL!!!!!

They are too busy agreeing with Rove & Rush Limbaugh and attacking Kerry to do any such thing.

[OzarkDem]

21. Reid is calling a presser

coming up. Check out Raw Story.

[Dr Fate]

24. LOL! Maybe he will have some tough, web-only text to show us donors too.

A Press conference?

What cave has Reid been in?

Since when does the Republican owned media show any of our press conferences?


Press conferences are EASILY ignored by the media- Reid should know this by now. He will be lucky if one single channel even shows it once. At the most they will show 20 seconds of it.

He needs to go on several of those TV interview & debate shows and make DAMN SURE he gets air time- but I'll bet he is too frightened to stick his neck out.

Hate to be cynical, but the history of the last 6 years backs me up.

[Connie_Corleone]

32. If it's on C-Span, it'll be like a tree falling in the woods with no one around

[Dr Fate]

12. Elected DEMS are too frightened to demand media apologies. Forget it.

n/t

[robertpaulsen]

14. WHOA! Check out the Raw Story headline!

Reid blasts Boehner for blaming Iraq ills on generals... Soon...

[Dr Fate]

15. Will Reid say it on TV, or is this just more web-text that no one will see?

I think I already know the answer. Hope I'm wrong.

[robertpaulsen]

17. Hope you're wrong too.

Reid has to get this televised so it can be SHOUTED FROM THE ROOFTOPS!

[radfringe]

16. and just who is the COMMANDER 'n CHIEF of the generals?

If the generals 'screwed up' as Boehner has said, then the ultimate responsibility lies with their boss...

I've been waiting for one of the repubs to blame the generals... bush has been doing it for months with his "I listen to the generals..." pile of crap canned talking point

[blm]

20. GREAT point, rad.....

.

[robertpaulsen]

22. Good point! Doesn't Bonehead know Dumbya listens to the generals?

That puts Dumbya in a very unique position of being able to either verify or nullify Bonehead's claim!

Maybe someone should ask Dumbya a question about it.

[originalpckelly]

19. I think the Majority Leader should apologize for insulting the generals...

just to excuse that sorry ass Don Rumsfeld.

[Dr Fate]

26. I have a fantasy that every DEM w/ media access says the same. Fantasy, mind you.

n/t

[OzarkDem]

27. Absolutely, where's McCain?

Boehner is sticking to the low road, trying to blame the mess in Iraq on our overworked, overstressed troops. He should be ashamed, but knowing him, he isn't.

[Dr Fate]

29. That is also a question Reid & other DEMS w/ TV media access needs to ask.

Shall we hold our breaths together?

[Disturbed]

31. Not holding my breath on this.

The RWing Corp Media will pass on anything real that may hurt their buddies in the Busholini Regime.

[Imagevision]

33. Boehner is getting ready to replace Hasteart

[progressoid]

34. k/r!!!!!

[SammyWinstonJack]

35. K & R!

[Imagevision]

36. CNN just announced news breaking about Boehener blaming generals in Iraq

to take heat off of Rumsfeld. (7:38) CNN

Dems are calling for apology from Boehner!!

[robertpaulsen]

37. That's a start.

Let's see if FAUX can be "fair and balanced" about this.

Anyone holding their breath? :sarcasm:

[krkaufman]

38. Ok, let's not become the Right. Boehner blamed the "generals" ...

... not the troops. (Though he may be going after the troops next.)