Fleischer: How Dare You Say 9/11 Happened On Our Watch

[deminks]

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[Botany]

1. "after sept. 11th how could we take a chance Saddam would strike again"

the truth means nothing to those people

[LisaM]

4. You beat me to it!

I can't believe he said that, it just shows he was talking out of his ass the whole time.

[Renew Deal]

5. I caught that.

What fucking lyers. Matthews indirectly caught him on it (thank God you're gone).

[Rhiannon12866]

19. I heard that too! (Yelled "WHAT!" at the TV...) Why didn't Tweety catch that?

On the other hand, he argued with him about plenty of his other statements. Like Cheney, this guy just can't seem to tell the truth even though the American public has to know by now that he's lying... x(

[gristy]

41. Damn, it's a shame that tweety missed that.

Fleischer is an evil, evil man.

[Rhiannon12866]

46. Yeah, but Tweety went after him on just about everything else he said.

Talked about the folly of the Iraq war based on "mistaken intelligence," as Ari claimed. But he still insisted that Saddam was attempting to acquire nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. Seems he totally missed the whole Joe Wilson debacle... :eyes:

And Ari also said that Obama should "thank George Bush* everyday" because we didn't experience another terrorist attack after 9/11. Tweety pointed out that 9/11 happened on Bush*'s watch and that the last two elections proved that the American people didn't agree with him. :-)

And KO brought up Ari's remarks on his show... Let's hope that his disproved claims are covered by all the news outlets. :D

[WhoIsNumberNone]

52. I have to believe...

...that he let it pass- Either Tweety had something else he wanted to nail him on and didn't want to get sidetracked, or just chose to ignore it.

I was only half listening and even I didn't miss when that 800 pound gorilla dropped out of Fleisher's mouth.

[margotb822]

88. Yea, I don't know how he let that stand!

That was bigger than the "how dare you" by far!

[FailureToCommunicate]

51. Wow, did I miss something? Saddam attacked us on Sept 11?? I had heard it was

Saudi nationals under the direction of some guy named Bin Laden, who had warned the US obliquely and specifically about attacks, detailed in reports given to Condi Rice months before 9/11...
But I could be wrong

[bjobotts]

69. You are wrong.It was a set up and the only way to not know is to not want to know

[bjobotts]

70. 9/11 was an inside job with Cheney taking our defenses down and Bush caught in the headlights with P

Pet Goat. the evidence is clear but quickly hushed, covered up and moved to China. Pull it was the order on building 7, explosive materials found in the debris, so many hearing multiple blasts...they count on you saying...that's just some stupid conspiracy theory...It was Bin Lauden...right.

[bjobotts]

71. Ari is a propaganda maggot.

[FailureToCommunicate]

78. Now THERE is something we can agree on...

[FailureToCommunicate]

77. So...America doesn't actually have any Outside enemies? It's all inside con jobs

by Cheney and company? That might make me feel better if there were any way it could be true. Couple of problems with it: the
Trade towers had been attacked before. Was that Cheney's boys too? All the video of terrorist training camps? Faked? We can argue about
Bldg 7 but it hardly matters cause of Towers 1 and 2, you know, the jets actually crashing into them. I lost two friends that day, one in the plane,
and one in the Tower. There is not much you can try to tell me that will convince me that it was all done on purpose to help Bush's political fortunes.
But you're entitled to your opinion no matter how discredited by reality. Don't get me wrong. I HATE Cheney/Bush for NOT acting on the intelligence briefings
given to Condi and them by the Clinton intel folks. It's just that even if our foreign policy has caused it, we have real enemies out there, not just 'inside the
Beltway'

[nichomachus]

87. It's not either/or -- they often work together

[Farzan]

59. Amen!

Amen!

[Renew Deal]

2. Ari looks bad

I don't know if it's his makeup or the lighting, but he doesn't look good.

[BlackX-068]

20. I was saying....

the same thing. That's technology for you. His face looks like the Arizona Dessert; full of craters. Guess that's what lying does to you.

[Oilwellian]

56. I see...

So using your logic, all people with acne are liars? :crazy:

[uppityperson]

3. Go Tweety! We don't like that kind of thinking anymore. Very good.

fu ari

[CTyankee]

6. Good for Tweety! He's obviously had it with this gang!

Wow, did he dismiss Ari or what?

[avaistheone1]

7. Wow! Good for Tweety. He put Ari in his place.

Ari looks really old. His lies have caught up to him and have gotten the best of him.

Saddam attacked us? What a bunch of crap. lol

[zulchzulu]

8. Ari basically said it was everybody else's fault...

What an ASS.

[Tiggeroshii]

9. Sorry Ari...

[Bushknew]

10. Way to stand up to the Bush admistration, after they are GONE!

[Titonwan]

17. You ain't never lied!

Ha Ha! NOW they're all brave and shit! I noticed we still haven't prosecuted these criminals yet. Hmmmm....
When I hear Tweet tweet call for imprisoning these assholes, I'll have more respect.

[Number23]

72. +911

[The Wizard]

11. Repeating lies

after they've been exposed as lies indicates mental illness. Old Ari is crazy as a shit house rat. Someone get this guy a straightjacket and Thorazine.

[Seldona]

12. Ari is still clueless.

Mathews did his job here. He definitely didn't let the bs go unchallenged.

[spamlet2002]

13. it did, and so did the powder attacks

nt

[Dervill Crow]

14. Tweety, where were you when we needed you?! nt

[ejbr]

15. Damn Chris!

:thumbsup:

He only missed answering the questions as to whether he would say an attack that happened while Obama was in office "happened under his watch". Answer: "Well, if he were given a warning about it and did NOTHING as did Bush, yes."

[RollWithIt]

16. Wow, Tweety really dropped the Hammer on him at the end...

Brilliant.

[Politicalboi]

18. WOW! Tweety

I actually changed the channel when I saw Ari on there. Had I known Tweety was going to put Ari in his place I would have watched. Glad I got the chance to see it.

[midnight]

21. Ari Fleischer does not know how to tell time. Embarrassing.

[George II]

24. Nor the truth.

[pacalo]

22. Matthews' last comment to Fleischer was perfect. I loved the look on Fleischer's

face at the very end -- his big grin devolved into a look one might have after they've been stung by a bee.

[indepat]

Ari doesn't seem to get the fact that vast economic terror happened on junior's watch on which

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tens of trillions of dollars of damage was done to the country. Wonder how many Americans felt safer in the wake of having economic terror thrust upon him by junior, his policies, and his minions? :P

[George II]

23. Arrogant fool! ARROGANT fool...he's spinning to keep bush out of the Hague!

[George II]

25. How dare he? BECAUSE IT IS THE TRUTH!!! If not, when DID it happen?

I know, it was the fault of Clinton's penis, yeah, that's the ticket.

As an aside, Olbermann slapped Ari silly in his opening segment.

[Grinchie]

26. How can these traitors still be allowed on Televeision anymore amazes me.

Free speech is one thing, Lies are another. If I want fantasy, I'll tune in old reruns of Lost in Space, or Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

Oh yeah, this is NBC, Nationalized Broadcasting Cabal, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Military-Industrial Complex and General Electric.

Put these asshats in the asylum where they belong. How can this idiot get prime air when investigative reports on the dangers of GMO in our food are quashed and flushed down the memory hole? Something is terribly wrong in this country.

[burning rain]

27. Bush Cheney Inc. were in office over half a year before 9/11 happened!

Christ! How long did these jackasses need to get up to speed on national security??!

:eyes: :think: :mad: :wtf:

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

74. 2001 has been a fabulous year for Laura and me

"But all in all, it's been a fabulous year for Laura and me. We're so grateful to be living in this compound and I'm grateful to be working in this office. It's a joy to walk in here every morning, realizing that I'm the President of the greatest country on the face of the Earth." -- Bush during an end-of-year 2001 interview

Bush had repeatedly promised to run an overall budget surplus at least as large as the Social Security surplus, except in the event of recession, war or national emergency (this might not be true). "Lucky me," he remarked to Mitch Daniels, his budget director. "I hit the trifecta."

Yep, anytime you "hit the trifecta" so you can empty the Treasury and then drive the country into unprecedented debt -- all with the approval of a compliant MSM and a toothless Democratic Party -- you have definitely had a great year.

By the time these revisionists are done, Bush will get credit for inventing the light bulb, splitting the atom, single-handedly winning WWII, being the first man to fly and also to walk on the moon, and for raising Lazurus from the dead. As for mistakes? "If you give me some time, maybe I can think of one."

[Gman]

28. You GO Tweety!

[geckosfeet]

29. Wow. Tweety slapped that twirp up aside his lyin face.

[Enrique]

30. "are you going to say we got attacked on Obama's watch?"

I think we all know the republicans have their attacks on Obama already prepared for this contingency. They don't want to waste a second before laying into him.

[Wizard777]

31. It should be a crime for them to say Saddam was behind 9/11. It might already be. I'm thinking FRAUD

[MindMatter]

32. Did he actually say they prevented Saddam from attacking AGAIN?

That is way beyond outrageous.

Obviously Saddam never attacked THE FIRST TIME.

I couldn't believe my ears.

[NOW tense]

Look how stupid they think we are. n/t

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[Enrique]

33. Chris better watch what he says

and what he does. Like all Americans.

[cooolandrew]

73. I think the day they can control the message is dwindling, near everyone has been hit by their mess>

so who would cover for them anymore. There has been no freer time to speak the truth.

[mzmolly]

34. How dare you (tell the truth) Mr. Matthews.

:eyes:

[Jack Rabbit]

35. Slap! Slap!

By the way, Ari, when did Saddam attack us the first time?

[TankLV]

84. Will all of you FUCKING STOP IT ALREADY!!!! "SADDAM" DID NOT ATTACK US - EVER!!!!

Stop repeating the fucking stupid LIE!!!

Saddam was in no way shape or form involved in 911!!!!

[Why Syzygy]

36. We don't like that "thinking" any more in this country.

And, never did! Lunacy.

[Skip Intro]

37. Thumbs up to Matthews for that segment.Can't believe Ari would still try to fly that bs. Thanks CM.

[hyphenate]

38. Oh ya

Ari Fleischer, still lying after all these years.

Asshole--doesn't he know that at least 75% now know that Hussein had NOTHING to do with 9/11? Schmuck.

How DARE we put 9/11 on Bush's administration? Hmmmmm, perhaps because he was inaugurated as the thief on January 20, 2001, and the attacks happened in......ummmmm, SEPTEMBER, 2001? I just positively LOVE revisionist history lovers. :sarcasm:

[toymachines]

39. Ari!

Ha, he didn't like that too much. I am sure very few people have said that to his face.

[ProgrezivIndie]

40. ummm Ari dude, not only did it happen on BUSH's watch...

BUSH was told, in a PDB, that it would likely happen... and essentially did nothing about it. Declassified and released in April 2004:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0409041pdb1.html

Then, when it did happen... he sat there for some seven minutes, like a deer caught in the headlights... one can only guess what was going through his mind, but I'll bet it was: "oh shit! they told me this was coming... and to protect my buddies (the bin laden family), i told them to BACK OFF!"

Youtube of BUSH, sitting dumbfounded, after being told the U.S. was under attack:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WztB6HzXxI

[Muttocracy]

63. yeah, he called the detailed warning "vague" or something

:crazy:

[JDPriestly]

42. The Republicans are in total denial. They are rewriting history.

They are, in that respect, dangerous.

[Muttocracy]

64. yep, Ari called himself a defender of his boss - NOT of the truth or the U.S. nt

[pansypoo53219]

43. WHY didn't tweety

ask WHERE THE FUCK IS OSAMA?

[Muttocracy]

65. That would have been a great segue from one of the Saddam comments. nt

[emarch333]

44. No attacks since 9/11

The Repulsivcan claim that Bush has kept us safe from attacks since 9/11 brings to mind the classic query: "Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?"

[20score]

47. Exactly!

[FailureToCommunicate]

55. Over 4000 US soldiers dead, over 50,000 wounded (forever), up wards of 1 million

Iraqis dead, many many more wounded and vowing revenge on America... Oh yeah he's kept us REAL safe! Oh, and then there's the ruined economy, debt heaped on our children and grandchildren...

[GaYellowDawg]

45. The real shame is that this didn't happen in 2002 instead of 2009.

Although I applaud Tweety for slapping that asshole down, he and the rest of the media would have done an inestimable service by asking hard questions and assigning responsibility at that time. Now that Bush is on the sidelines, they attack, and it can be fun to watch, but I sure wish it had happened 7 years earlier.

[Piewhacket]

48. well now... that was a sound spanking... time to cry Ari.

[aquart]

49. "SADDAM might strike again?????" SADDAM???

He never struck us the first time. WTF is Ari smoking?

[jeff30997]

53. I would say...

...his hairs mixed with highly concentrated bullshit-flavored kool aid.

[LynneSin]

50. Yes, if we get attacked again it would be on Barack Obama's watch..

but I'd like to think that Barack won't spend most of his first 6 months on vacation and ignoring important memos that say "Terrorists are planning to fly planes into buildings"

[EFerrari]

54. Or defunding counter-terrorism or having his AG say as Ashcroft did,

"Don't bring me anything else on this bin Laden."

[Oilwellian]

57. And during the interview...

when Tweety brought up the pdb, Ari responded by saying it didn't say when, where, or HOW they might attack. When their lips move, they are LYING. :hi:

[LynneSin]

60. If someone sent me a memo that said "Terrorists plan to break into your home"

I'm going to safeguard my house to make sure they don't especially if it's associated with one of the big name terrorist organizations.

[Muttocracy]

66. like, say, the wild idea of no knives on planes... nt

[GoddessOfGuinness]

68. And you can bet your ass it'd be a rethug talking point for at least 12 years

[LynneSin]

81. 12 years - you kidding me

we're going on 18 years of the Clenis

[BobTheSubgenius]

58. "Fleischer: How Dare You Say 9/11 Happened On Our Watch?"

Ummmmm......cause it did?

For a brief while, I actually thought AF might have a shred of integrity, and maybe even more than that. Being the bleeding heart liberal that I am, I propounded the outside chance that conscience had made him quit as Press Sec\Public Face of the Lie Machine.

Clearly, I was way wrong.

[LynnTheDem]

61. Holy fuck. Stunning. I'd love to know if Ari is truly this ignorant, or if he's just

seriously believing Americans would still believe such total bullshit that even George W. bUsh has admitted is all bullshit.

Just stunning... :wow:

[BeyondGeography]

62. Still lying through his teeth about being attacked by Saddam

Unreal.

[whathehell]

67. What the clip doesn't show you is that Fleischer actually told Chris it was "shamefull" to say that

I watched the whole thing..Couldn't believe it.

[go west young man]

85. Shamefull my ass!

It's shamefull the Bush Administration ignored the warnings and let us get attacked in the first place. Negligent pricks. Ari Fleisher is a serious douche.

[mwb970]

75. An unbelievable barrage of right-wing lies.

These people really are crazy if they think our memories are so short that they can convince us that bush "kept us safe". It is truly surreal to watch this piece of crap sit there and lie his butt off. Will they never go away?

[nyc 4 Biden]

76. Good job Tweety!

That was some nice abuse he dished out.

[DainBramaged]

79. First, this clip has made me rethink my Tweety boycott

and second, for Ari FleishLIAR to have even let dribble out of his mouth that "Saddam attacked us" (he probably speaks like a Pavlovian dog now) trying to ingrain that talking point is just bullshit. And I think that he won't be back on Tweety's show again.

[lostnfound]

80. Kudos to Mr. Matthews, I won't even call you Tweety this time

That was refreshing to hear the unsayable actually said to Ari's face.

[LynneSin]

82. UP NEXT: Fleischer claims Katrina wasn't their fault either

:grr:

[fascisthunter]

83. He Lied: "Sadam couldn't Attack us Again"

Uhmmmmm... when did Sadam ever attack "us"?

[Gamey]

86. The anthrax attacks kept us safe?

Try telling that to 5 people. Oh, you can't, because they are fucking dead! What a moron.