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Vermont Senator Pat “Leaky” Leahy tried to spin his way out of the Democrats’ Nazi-gate scandal yesterday - after Illinois Senator Dick Durbin compared U.S. troops at Guantanamo Bay to soldiers in Hitler’s Third Reich - by saying his colleague was misquoted in the Wall Street Journal.
Asked whether he objected to Durbin’s characterization of GI’s as “Nazis,” Leahy told WVMT Vermont’s “Charlie & Ernie” radio show, “First of all, with Sen. Durbin, I’d be very careful about taking quotes off the Wall Street Journal editorial page.”
“They are notorious for taking quotes totally out of context,” he added, “even making them up.”
Durbin’s quotes, however, didn’t appear in the Wall Street Journal, but were instead first covered by its sister web site, OpinionJournal.com, which obtained the incendiary remarks from actual Senate audio broadcast by radio hosts Laura Ingraham, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.
Unfazed by his error, Leahy blasted the Bush administration’s decision to invade Iraq, suggesting that the U.S. had done just as much damage to Iraq as Saddam Hussein.
newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/6/17/95105.shtml
Asked whether he objected to Durbin’s characterization of GI’s as “Nazis,” Leahy told WVMT Vermont’s “Charlie & Ernie” radio show, “First of all, with Sen. Durbin, I’d be very careful about taking quotes off the Wall Street Journal editorial page.”
“They are notorious for taking quotes totally out of context,” he added, “even making them up.”
Durbin’s quotes, however, didn’t appear in the Wall Street Journal, but were instead first covered by its sister web site, OpinionJournal.com, which obtained the incendiary remarks from actual Senate audio broadcast by radio hosts Laura Ingraham, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.
Unfazed by his error, Leahy blasted the Bush administration’s decision to invade Iraq, suggesting that the U.S. had done just as much damage to Iraq as Saddam Hussein.
newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/6/17/95105.shtml
