This headline is to be published in Saturday's super- rag edition that absolutely nobody outside of the 5 or 6 most northeastern liberal states of the union even recieve much less reads:
"Passing Exchange Becomes Political Flashpoint" NYT
Passing exchange? In the well of the senate in broad daylight and flashing cameras all around her is a passing exchange? OK, then I guess the president's speech this past week was just a flippant remark by those standards.
Granted I'm a little late posting on the story, I am just mocking the NYT and their well known worldview skew.
The real funny part comes in the body of the article as they, via Boxer's quotes, attempt to pin Rice as the agressor, playing dueling interview snippets between the two from Friday as Boxer in her interviews attempts to play victim in this incident. Afterall she and all Dems for that matter think we "fly-overs" are just too damn ignorant to catch all the subleties & nuances they portend to throw our way, therefore we must have all misunderstood her remarks as she explains.
Or it's the other well worn excuse, that we all just do not understand their "complex" jokes and sense of humor. Of coarse we all remember that classic one played days before the election with the John Kerry's bad joke about Irak debacle of an excuse.
So, here's the article so you can judge for yourself what their intentions are after Boxer like many liberals gets caught saying something she really means, and then tries to wiggle out of it by having the Times explain to us we just do not understand these liberals and their "higher plane of thinking"....
New York Times WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 — A passing exchange during a senate hearing on Thursday turned into a political flashpoint overnight as Senator Barbara Boxer, the California Democrat, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice accused one another of insensitivity in comments about motherhood and the war in Iraq.
In an interview with The New York Times on Friday, Ms. Rice suggested that Ms. Boxer had set back feminism by suggesting during the hearing that the childless Ms. Rice had paid no price in the Iraq war.
“I thought it was O.K. to be single,” Ms. Rice said. “I thought it was O.K. to not have children, and I thought you could still make good decisions on behalf of the country if you were single and didn’t have children.”
During the Thursday hearing, Senator Boxer told Ms. Rice: “Who pays the price? I’m not going to pay a personal price. My kids are too old and my grandchild is too young. You’re not going to pay a particular price, as I understand it, with an immediate family. So who pays the price? The American military and their families. And I just want to bring us back to that fact.”
In an interview on Friday, Senator Boxer said her comments had been misunderstood and were now being turned against her by the White House and by Republicans. “What I was trying to do in this exchange was to find common ground with Condi Rice,” she said. “My whole point was to focus on the military families who pay the price.”
Senator Boxer added: “I’m saying, she’s like me, we do not have families who are in the military. What they are doing is a really tortured way to attack a United States senator who voted against the war.”
The exchange between Senator Boxer and Ms. Rice came during a hostile Senate hearing in which Ms. Rice, seeking to sell President Bush’s new Iraq plan to a skeptical Congress, faced an almost solid wall of opposition from both Democrats and Republicans. Senator Boxer several times repeated the question, “Who pays the price?”
Senator Boxer read excerpts from a radio interview with an American family who had lost a son in Iraq. “You can’t begin to imagine how you celebrate any holiday or birthday,” she said. “There’s an absence. It’s not like the person’s never been there. They always were there and now they’re not, and you’re looking at an empty hole.”
Ms. Rice replied, “I can never do anything to replace any of those lost men and women in uniform, or the diplomats, some of whom ——”
Senator Boxer cut her off. “Madam Secretary, please, I know you feel terrible about it. That’s not the point. I was making the case as to who pays the price for your decisions.”
As if nobody out there pays any price for the dimwitted policy decisions she and her dem comrades have made over their years in government spent so out of touch from the rest of the country, she wouldn't recognize what states she was flying over on her taxpayer paid trips unless her aids pointed them out to her.
Granted many Republicans fit that description as well, Ms. Rice, as highly educated as she is, would not be one of them.
If you wish to read the rest of the Times' attempting to explain away Mrs. Boxer's viscous, (at least for a supposed dignified senatorial female) mischaracterization of her exchange with Ms. Rice go here.
In addition, Hot Air has a treasure trove of good commenting and info on this story here .
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