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Date: September 17, 2007 12:20:50 AM PDT
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Subject: Chickenhawk Republican Dismisses 3700+ Dead Americans as
"Small Price to Pay"
Since life is cheap, apparently, and corporate lawyers AKA
"legislators" only care about the bottom line, let me point out a
way to get better results for an even cheaper price. Let's see,
there are 49 Republicans in the Senate and about 200 in the House,
say 250 total -- an entirely negligible loss ...
Finally! CNN Does Solid 2-Minute Segment
on Boehner's "Small Price" Comment
Wolf Blitzer: "The loss in blood -- the Americans killed every
month -- how much more do you think this military commitment is
going to require?"
GOP majority leader Rep. John Boehner: "[It's] a small price to pay
if we're able to stop al Qaeda here, if we're able to stabilize the
Middle East ... Not only a small price for the near future, but
think about the future for our kids and their kids."
September 14, 2007 -- 6:25 PM EST
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/horsesmouth/2007/09/
finally_cnn_doe.php
Okay, this counts as real movement.
Two days ago CNN aired the now-infamous "small price" comment from
John Boehner. The network didn't really understand what it had, and
so, even though the Dems raised holy heck yesterday and attacked
Boehner's remark, CNN didn't air any follow-up on it at all -- in
stark contrast to the tons of attention it gave John Kerry's
botched troop joke last October.
Now the yelling about this has grown too loud for CNN to ignore.
And to the network's credit it has done a solid two-minute segment
hitting Boehner for the comment. It's really worth a watch:
The report did a very good job of making it ultra clear that
Boehner was responding to a question about troop deaths, and not
just money, as the Boehner camp is spinning it.
And the network gave credit to bloggers for highlighting the
importance of the story that CNN broke without initially
appreciating its import.
Most fun of all, the report kept the words "small price" on the
screen for the entire segment.
I'm still sticking to my prediction that this will end up getting
nowhere near the attention that John Kerry's botched troop joke
got. But this is good.
-- Greg Sargent
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