Video: “You are flogging the wrong dead horse!”
Wasserman-Schultz found it shocking that Morgan would accuse U.N. ambassador Susan Rice of being “deliberately misleading” on the nature of the attacks. Morgan followed up by asking if Rice was simply wrong. Wasserman-Schultz said that as more information came out, it became clearer that it was a terrorist attack, and U.S. officials were just going on the information they had at the time.
After Wasserman-Schultz twice tried to criticize the Republicans for politicizing the attacks, Morgan told her she was wasting time on the wrong issue entirely.
“You’re flogging the wrong dead horse! It isn’t about what Mitt Romney or Republicans did. The really… important horse that should be flogged is the behavior and the statements of those who were in positions of responsibility and, we would assume, knowledge, and it’s pretty un-American… to put out completely false statements before you know the facts, isn’t it?”
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I’d love to hear what “facts” they had to suggest it was a protest over a video. Must be bulletproof for so many people, including POTUS to assert it over and over for weeks.
Dash on October 10, 2012 at 11:11 PM
Okay, something is happening with the media.
hawkdriver on October 10, 2012 at 11:13 PM
One small problem, Deb. The “facts” were already known that this was a terrorist attack and it had nothing to do with a YouTube video BEFORE Rice went on national TV. So either someone lied to her(doubtful) or she was doing the administration’s bidding by misleading the American people(almost certainly the case).
Doughboy on October 10, 2012 at 11:15 PM
They’ve decided Romney is going to win, and so are quickly donning the “objectivity costume” for at least a month before they start laying into President-elect Romney.
Difficultas_Est_Imperium on October 10, 2012 at 11:20 PM
I’d like to spank DSW like that.
lorien1973 on October 10, 2012 at 11:22 PM
They will protect the leftist agenda at all costs. In their minds, if Obama is going to lose it will be because he failed, not the leftist agenda.
txmomof6 on October 10, 2012 at 11:23 PM
I like how she tries to scold Morgan, as if to say “Hey, whose side are you on?”
SAZMD on October 10, 2012 at 11:25 PM
It could also be that at least some members of the media are geniunely frightened that this adminstration can be so cavalier about our national security as to lie about what led to the deaths of 4 Americans. And this after doing nothing to protect them in the first place.
Remember, Iran is THIS close to having a nuke. There are probably even people in the media who are asking themselves if they honestly want this bunch running the show if/when that happens.
Doughboy on October 10, 2012 at 11:27 PM
They would have to believe he’s past the tipping point to do that, no?
That’s exactly the point TMom, they’re really appearing to abandon him. Albeit slowly and from isolated corners, but this treatment of DWS from the likes of Morgan is unheard of.
hawkdriver on October 10, 2012 at 11:28 PM
That woman is vile. And she’s the one politicizing it by brushing off serious questions about the murder of four Americans to attack the GOP.
changer1701 on October 10, 2012 at 11:32 PM
What part of the leftist agenda includes covering up the death of a good-guy ambassador and his bodyguards?
As Ace said, this is nothing more than pure party advocacy.
fossten on October 11, 2012 at 12:15 AM
Debbie WS is such an awful spokesperson for the Dems. My hope is that the Dems keep sending her out to explain the Libya incident between now and election day. Every evening would be great.
BryanS on October 11, 2012 at 12:23 AM
When you’ve spent the first 45 months of the current administration believing that the vast majority of the media will ignore and/or excuse everything you do, you have a hard time grasping that the rules have at least slightly changed. As a result, if you’re the DNC spokesperson, you think you can get away with anything.
CNN isn’t going to let go of the fact they found Ambassador Steven’s journal with its concerns about the lack of security — it’s their exclusive, and in this case, the desire to commit journalism has outweighed the desire to throw away their scoop to protect the White House. But Debbie doesn’t grasp that, and as a result, is going to beat this dead horse all the way down to the chewable dog food stage before she admits Team Obama have any culpability in the Libyan fiasco.
jon1979 on October 11, 2012 at 12:44 AM
If we win this election we owe a great big thank you to her.
NeoKong on October 11, 2012 at 12:47 AM
That totally happenin’ cocker spaniel hairdo is the best an Obama lapdog could hope for.
James on October 11, 2012 at 1:00 AM
The democrats have overplayed their hand. They became over reliant on the media being complicit in their lies. At some point, the media couldn’t comply. DWS is a pathetically stupid liar, and both Piers Morgan and Anderson Cooper have now taken her to task for it.
Stick a fork in DWS. She’s done.
blink on October 11, 2012 at 1:03 AM
I think this is true. This reminds me of when it took Bill Clinton a couple weeks to realize that the media wasn’t going to support his spin after Obama entered the scene. It was almost sad watching Clinton realize that, not only had the media decided that they wouldn’t cover for him anymore, the media had decided to treat him unfairly.
Obama, DWS, Carney, etc. are going to all start to realize their they’ve hit their BS limit with the media.
blink on October 11, 2012 at 1:06 AM
CNN and even CBS are getting…somewhat un-biased!
They see the handwriting on the wall. They crave a hot story–and the Benghazi coverup is a hot story. The angry parents of the killed Navy Seal are hot stories. Fast and Furious is a hot story (which Univision ate their lunch on).
They won’t protect this fool any longer, not when he won’t even practice for a debate.
PattyJ on October 11, 2012 at 1:25 AM
When you’ve lost Piers Morgan, you’ve lost….er….what, precisely?
cthulhu on October 11, 2012 at 1:50 AM
Piers is after Hannity’s job at FNC.
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BuckeyeSam on October 11, 2012 at 1:56 AM
Democrats would never use dead Americans to score political points. I mean, if an American soldier died fighting in Iraq, for example, democrats would never in a million years use that death as a political issue to beat their republican counterparts with in an election year because doing so would be totally unamerican, ummmmmmmm, right??
Dollayo on October 11, 2012 at 4:37 AM
Tell a lie often enough it becomes fact.
2+2=5 2+2=5 2+2=5 2+2=5
tjexcite on October 11, 2012 at 7:18 AM
This.
Still, I can’t help but root for damage when it’s Blue V Blue.
BigGator5 on October 11, 2012 at 7:35 AM
This. Blue on blue makes me happy.
Washington Nearsider on October 11, 2012 at 8:29 AM
Why is it that the meme of “Bush lied, people died”, based on faulty intelligence at the time that everybody had, was used for years by the dhimocrapts? The new meme should be “obama lied, people and an ambassador died.” Oh I know! That would not be respectful to the president and blasphemous to the minigod. It would be mean!
Old Country Boy on October 11, 2012 at 8:44 AM