Franken-Lies-And-the-Lying-Liars-Who-Tell

Gingrich was more supportive in 1998, when Clinton struck targets in Sudan and Afghanistan
with Tomahawk missiles in retaliation for terrorist strikes against our embassies in
Kenya and Tanzania. "The President did exactly the right thing," said Gingrich. "By doing
this we're sending the signal there are no sanctuaries for terrorists." See? He's not so bad.
And that's why I just know there must be some good explanation for why, on September
13, 2001, Newt said on Fox, "The lesson has to be that firing a few Tomahawks, dropping
a few bombs is totally inadequate," and implored Bush to "recognize that the Clinton policy
failed." On the surface this might seem to be a spitefully worded direct contradiction to his
earlier position. But I think maybe Newt was having some trouble at home with his new wife,
the former staffer he started porking while he was still married to his second wife. I mean,
when good people say hurtful things, there's always something going on inside that none of
us can truly know.
Immediately after the embassy bombings, Clinton issued a presidential directive
authorizing the assassination of Osama bin Laden. Assassinate bin Laden? Amen, I say. Sean
Hannity, though, has devoted a substantial amount of time, both on the air and in his book, to
pretending this never happened and criticizing Clinton for not having the balls to do it. On his
show, he yammers a lot about Reagan's Executive Order 12333, which prohibits the assassination
of foreign heads of state. Watch Hannity on TV, or listen to him on radio. He'll bring it
up. It's one of the eleven things he knows. 1
The fact that Osama isn't actually a foreign head of state and that Clinton issued his
presidential directive to assassinate him didn't stop Hannity from writing in his book about a
February 2001 episode of Hannity and Colmes on the topic. Guest racist David Horowitz is
quoted as saying: "We can protect ourselves from terrorist threats like Osama bin Laden. It
would be nice if the CIA were able to assassinate him."
Hannity writes about his own reaction: "Amen, I thought."
What is his deal, anyway?
1 The other ten are: 1) Cutting taxes doubles revenues. 2) Democrats who oppose tax cuts for the rich are
waging class warfare.' 3) Reagan won the Cold War by putting the Pershing II Missies into Europe. 4) Democrats
are on the wrong side of history. 5) Democrats, not Republicans, are the party of ‘race baiting,’ because Democrats
accuse racists of racism. 6) A higher percentage of Republican than of Democratic senators voted for the
1964 Civil Rights Act, which means that the Republicans are the party of civil rights. 7) All education problems
will be solved by vouchers. 8) Clinton gutted the military 9) He's not going to sit here and listen to your talking
points. 10) Clinton had a chance to get Osama bin Laden from the Sudan in 1996, but blew it. (See box.)