“I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted
against it.”
- John Kerry on funding the Iraq War -
The always entertaining John Kerry just said the following on Meet the Press:
It’s the Tea Party’s downgrade. The debt downgrade was caused by the Tea Party.
About ten seconds later he said this:
Speaker John Boehner has tried to politicize this by accusing President Obama of causing the debt downgrade.
We are accustomed to hypocrisy in our politicians, but rarely do we ever find proof of it in a twenty second soundbite.
I am sure Mr. Kerry sees no inconsistency in these statements. He is about as self-aware as Michael Scott of the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company.
Footnotes:
¹ Last week John Kerry appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and with a straight face said that the media must start censoring the right (emphasis added):
And I have to tell you, I say this to you politely. The media in America has a bigger responsibility than it’s exercising today. The media has got to begin to not give equal time or equal balance to an absolutely absurd notion just because somebody asserts it or simply because somebody says something which everybody knows is not factual.
It doesn’t deserve the same credit as a legitimate idea about what you do. And the problem is everything is put into this tit-for-tat equal battle and America is losing any sense of what’s real, of who’s accountable, of who is not accountable, of who’s real, who isn’t, who’s serious, who isn’t?
Remember this whenever you hear Mr. Kerry and his friends on the left claim to be proponents of the first amendment. These folks are hypocrites. Just ask Don Imus, Dr. Laura and conservative talk radio hosts, all of whom at various times have been the target of the left’s agenda to silence speech it doesn’t like.
By the way, the left also opposed the recent Supreme Court decision in Citizens v. United States which expanded the protection of the first amendment by applying it to corporations.
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2 responses so far ↓
1 Russell Dee // Aug 7, 2011 at 2:11 pm
So what if he says we shouldn’t politicize it? He doesn’t think we should politicize it but it was already happening because the GOP was running around blaming democrats/Obama for a day before democrats , including Kerry, began to fight back. The GOP tried to shift blame to the democrats/Obama and since you’re a hack you want the democrats to just stay silent while the GOP runs around blaming democrats for the GOP/tea-party downgrade. It aint gonna happen. S & P made it clear that it was the political process, rather than the debt itself, that caused the downgrade, and that means it was the tea-party/republicans that caused the downgrade. The GOP/tea-party has been running its’ mouth for a day trying to escape blame for causing the debt downgrade and now the democrats are starting to wake up and take the GOP/tea-party to task. The GOP/tea-party will try to shift blame but it will not work. This downgrade will end up owned by the GOP/tea-party as it should be.
2 Peter // Aug 7, 2011 at 9:37 pm
Russell,
It doesn’t matter who politicized it first. Kerry said he was opposed to politicizing it and then proceeded to politicize it, which, in my book, is the very definition of hypocrisy.