The Daily Howler - 08/23/05

CONTEMPT AND DISDAIN! Harris describes the press corps’ disdain for Clinton, going where career liberals won’t: // link // print // previous // next //

TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 2005

LET’S PLAY FREEFALL: Norah O’Donnell’s freefall continued as she guest-hosted last night’s Hardball. During one segment, she spoke with Colleen Rowley, the former FBI analyst who is now running for Congress as a Democrat. Rowley had recently gone to Crawford to show support for Cindy Sheehan. Try to believe O’Donnell’s questions and the fractured logic they describe:

O`DONNELL: You`re a Democrat running for Congress. It was reported that Republican leaders in your state were just thrilled that you had decided to align yourself with anti-war extremists. Do you think that this could affect your race for Congress?

ROWLEY: Well, I will quickly correct the record, that they are not anti-war extremists. The majority of the people I saw down in Crawford were actually veterans groups. There were military families and—

O`DONNELL: But, Colleen, they do oppose the war in Iraq, do they not?

By O’Donnell’s apparent logic, if you “oppose the war in Iraq,” that makes you an “anti-war extremist.”