Frist Lies to Matt Lauer (from Think Progress with direct quotes)

[Pirate Smile]

Frist Lies to Matt Lauer
Majority Leader Bill Frist this morning on the Today Show:

LAUER: But when you stood on the floor and you said, She does respond, are you at all worried that you led some senators…

FRIST: I never said, She responded. I said I reviewed the court videotapes – the same ones the other doctors reviewed – and I questioned, Is her diagnosis correct?

Frist on Senate Floor, 3/17/05:

I have looked at the video footage. Based on the footage provided to me, which was part of the facts of the case, she does respond.

More from Frist, 3/17/05:

She certainly seems to respond to visual stimuli…

http://thinkprogress.org/index.php?p=1106

[underpants]

1. The Top 10 editors are going to have a hard time deciding #1 this week

Frist vs. Hannity

[damntexdem]

2. It's a miracle!

Ooh, a miracle of Biblical proportions! The blind respond to visual stimuli! The largely-brain-dead respond to their mommies! Why, instead of spinning and lying about what he was recorded to have said, Frist should be shouting from the Housetops (and of course Senatetops) that 'a miracle occurred here'!

;-)

[malmapus]

5. oh please don't get the Religious Right started on that one

lol

[uppityperson]

6. Exaclty, it's a Miracle!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dang the pope was busy. Ooo ooo oooo, maybe it was a Mr.bush miracle. Though he can't be turned into a saint until he is dead. (disclaimer-Agent Mike and Agent Bob, I would never advocate violence against anyone.)

[Tsiyu]

9. There's an agent Bob here now, too?

Hi, Bob! :hi: Welcome to DU. Sit down, have a cup of Joe and git yourself edumicated! Pretty soon, you'll be one of us!

[jojo54]

3. I saw that too

but didn't take the time to look for the evidence of his LIES! I hope the people he treated as a doctor are doing o.k.

[Pirate Smile]

10. I'm damn glad someone is doing it.

It is the Center for American Progress, a think tank on our side.

http://www.americanprogress.org/site/c.biJRJ8OVF/b.8473/

[fob]

4. Did Lauer run those quotes to bust his ass or did he just move on

and continue the media slide?

[Ripley]

7. That would require him to actually have done research.

You know, research where the exact quotes of Frist would be easily found.

But you can bet the house that he spent hours doing research into Nicole Kidman's background to ask her some obscure question about her first play.

Guessing here, cause I don't watch much TV anymore.

[Pirate Smile]

8. I don't believe so. At least that is the impression I get from the

the comments on Think Progress.

They save those kinds of grillings for people who really deserve to be held accountable -- like Michael Moore and Kitty Kelly -- not governmental officials and politicians.