I am rather tolerant of opinions which differ from my own as I enjoy finding out how others think as they do. I am even a fan of Juan Williams because I believe he puts forth Liberal arguments well and does not often engage in personal attacks. This woman, Brazile, however, set my teeth on edge and I cannot understand why Fox hired her given her history. Herewith an example of her brilliance:
ZitatDonna Brazile, former Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairwoman and Fox News Channel contributor, offered a head-scratching defense on Friday of former Vice President Joe Biden badly mistelling an emotional story regarding the war in Afghanistan.
Appearing on The Five, Brazile argued Biden’s latest blunder was caused by an overload of information. “Let’s not attribute this gaffe to age. There are a lot of people who are older than Joe Biden who still got it going on,” the longtime Democrat operative said.
“Sometimes when you have a lot of information in your brain and you try to put it out your mouth, it comes across like, you are juggling the story,” she added.
Biden on Thursday defended his faulty description of a tale of military heroism and his interactions with the service members who carried it out.
The “essence” of his recollection is correct, the former vice president told a South Carolina newspaper Thursday after a Washington Post story detailed how an emotional anecdote Biden told recently while campaigning in New Hampshire contained inaccuracies.
Biden’s telling appeared to conflate multiple events, yielding a single story of the then-vice president pinning a Silver Star on a U.S. Navy captain in the Konar province of Afghanistan for his efforts trying to save another service member.
In his latest telling of a story he’s varied over several years, according to the Post, Biden got most of the details wrong: There’s no military record of that specific ceremony, and Biden’s records as a senator show he traveled to Konar when he was Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman and before he was vice president.
ZitatLater in The Five’s segment, Brazile once again downplayed Biden’s latest gaffe, claiming the former vice president appeared genuine — an important trait voters seek in a candidate.
“Most people know Joe Biden’s character. They know his value system. They know that he visited Iraq and Afghanistan over 21 times as a United States senator and vice president,” Brazile said. “But this story — the way it came across and it came out — [was] heartfelt because people know that Joe Biden is heartfelt.”
Donna,
'Appearing genuine' to you does not equal being genuine.
As to Joe Biden's character and value system, they both are quite comfortable with spewing inaccurate information.
Illegitimi non Carborundum
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.- Orwell
The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it - Orwell