Fox Anchor: ‘Internet Blogs’ Say I Called Kennedy A ‘Hostile Enemy,’ But ‘I Didn’t Mean It That Way’

[RedEarth]

Fox Anchor: ‘Internet Blogs’ Say I Called Kennedy A ‘Hostile Enemy,’ But ‘I Didn’t Mean It That Way’
Yesterday on Fox News, anchor Gretchen Carlson called Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) a “hostile enemy” of the United States because he has demanded that Congress vote on whether to approve funding for escalation in Iraq.

This morning, instead of apologizing for her comments, Carlson said “Internet blogs” misconstrued her statements: “Of course, I didn’t mean it that way. Trust me. I don’t think Sen. Kennedy is any enemy in any way.”
Transcript:

STEVE DOOCY: Anyway, Gretchen, you’ve got something.

GRETCHEN CARLSON: Yeah, we’ve been talking a lot about e-mails and blogs and you guys know that I don’t know much about any of those Internet blogs. I just found out about YouTube like, three months ago. But anyway, I apparently made it on some of them yesterday. I was talking to presidential counselor Dan Bartlett. I was interviewing him about this time yesterday. I was trying to compare the conflict in Iraq with the political conflict right here at home. Well, apparently, it sounded like I called Sen. Ted Kennedy an enemy on the home front. Of course, I didn’t mean it that way. Trust me. I don’t think Sen. Kennedy is any enemy in any way. All right? So hopefully we cleared that all up. Let’s go to the weather with Steve.

.........watch it here......

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/11/carlson-fox-kennedy-hostile/

[Botany]

1. Creative Response Concepts @ work

Total spin & total lies but repeat the lie often enough and it becomes a "fact."


BTW Blogs did not do it .... the Fox bimbo did,

[Missy M]

2. So she called Ted Kennedy a "hostile enemy of the US"...

but even though she called him a hostile enemy and admitted she called him a hostile enemy, according to her logic she really didn't. Those are the "guys at Fox News" Condi loves.

[Buzz Clik]

3. Here's the original bit from Carlson

She clearly infers Kennedy was a hostile enemy.

To Bartlett's credit, he distanced himself from that insane comment:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DMlReuUPGk

[tuvor]

4. "When I called her a bitch, I meant it in a GOOD way."

(Phil Hartman as the Remington Shaver president on SNL.)

[blm]

9. Wonder if she helped push "Kerry insulted the troops' lie?

Geez...she's a FOX anchor, so what are the chances?

[NewJeffCT]

16. I'll take a page from Jon Stewart's book

And use "The Cavuto"

Gretchen Carlson: Whore?

Gretchen Carlson: Fascist boot-licker or just stupid?

World's Worst Newcaster: Gretchen Carlson?

Gretchen Carlson - Still Snorting Coke?

Gretchen Carlson - Who Did She Blow to get this job?

[rox63]

5. Um, what other sort of blogs are there

other than "internet blogs"?

[gratuitous]

6. "I don't know much about any of those Internet blogs"

You could have stopped talking after the fourth word, Gretchen. How much does Rupert Murdoch pay you to be so studiously ignorant? Six figures? A car? A nice house? And you "don't know much about any of those Internet blogs." What do you know about, Cupcake?

[Arkansas Granny]

17. That statement alone is very telling. How about this explanation:

"Well, I coulda been an actor, but I wound up here
I just have to look good, I dont have to be clear
Come and whisper in my ear
Give us dirty laundry"

(Dirty Laundry Lyrics
by Don Henley)

Truly seems to fit the bill.

[NewJeffCT]

7. If Kennedy makes Hannity's "Enemy of the State" list

Will she flip-flop and think of Kennedy as the enemy again, or will she stick to her guns?

[RebelOne]

10. I think you can change "if" to "when."

You can depend on Hannity making Kennedy an enemy of the state.

[riverwalker]

8. Carlson Miss America 1989

and former Miss Minnesota, I am embarrassed to say.

[neoblues]

11. What she said...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DMlReuUPGk

[BOSSHOG]

12. Now lets go to the weather, hey lemmings just look away

No bitch, you said what you meant and you meant what you said and the fact that you work for faux proves you have no concept of right and wrong or any desire to aid and abet our country in anyway that does not give a big cut to your neocon handlers. Fuck an apology bitch, from you it would be worthless and meaningless.

[Der Blaue Engel]

13. In her own words:

"Dan, you talk about a hostile enemy obviously being Iraq, but hostile enemies right here on the homefront: yesterday, Senator Ted Kennedy proposing that any kind of a troop surge should mean that there should be Congressional approval of that."

Seems pretty fuckin' clear.

[Buzz Clik]

14. View the two links from youtube posted above.

Bartlett's first response to her comment was to state that Kennedy was not a hostile enemy. It was clear to him what a silly statement she made.

[Der Blaue Engel]

20. That's where I got the quote from

I transcribed it while watching the YouTube clip. Watch Bartlett's face while she's talking. He doesn't know how to react.

[warrens]

15. NPR here in Chicago changed format at night last week

Late at night instead of lame jazz they have English language news from countries around the world. I listened to the international version of Fox News the other night: Chinese National Radio. "Police killed 18 terrorists and wounded 12 others." No explanation of who they were and what they had done, just pure propaganda.

[WI_DEM]

18. she thinks that liberal bloggers are enemy of the state too

and we are! of this Bush government. It's clear how she was referring to Sen. Kennedy.

[Beelzebud]

19. Dan Bartlett has his own internet blog? I thought he worked for the white house?

LOL

God she is a real dumb ass...

[kevinbgoode]

21. She doesn't know much about journalism, either.

Stick a camera on her and put some makeup on - then hold the cards for her to read.