Karl Rove, adviser to former President George Bush, talks to Megyn Kelly from On The Record at Fox. At issue is Vice President Joe Biden’s recent statement about how he criticized Bush directly on his leadership style in the Oval Office. Rove Calls Biden ‘Liar’ After VP Boasts of Scolding Bush. Even though Biden is sticking to his version.
We are more safe. We’re more secure. Our interests are more secure, not just at home but around the world. We are rebuilding America’s ability to lead. I remember President Bush saying to me one time in the Oval Office — and he was a great guy, enjoyed being with him. He said to me, he said, Well, Joe, he said, I’m a leader. And I said, Mr. President, turn around and look behind you. No one’s following. People are beginning to follow the United States again as a consequence of our administration.
Rove.
Joe Biden was never alone with the president for more than a few moments. There was staff in the room at all times. He never said these kind of things.
I hate to say it, but he’s a serial exaggerator. If I was being unkind, I’d say he’s a liar. But it is a habit he ought to drop. You’ll notice every one of these incidents has the same structure. Joe Biden courageously raises the impudent question. The president befuddledly answers, and Joe Biden drives home the dramatic response. And I mean, it just — it’s his imagination. It’s a made-up, fictional world. He ought to get out of it and get back to reality.
You should not exaggerate and lie like this when you’re the Vice President of the United States.
And Rove is correct when he says Biden as VP should be held to a higher standard. The problem is that mainstream media’s lack of objective journalism fuels the double standard treatment bestowed to the Obama-Biden administration, compared to previous ones. Rove dares to set the record straight. Another former Bush adviser, Ari Fleischer concurs. So do other former Bush offficials.
“I think this could be clarified if he would only report and release the date that he said this encounter took place. All of us could go look at our notes and see if it’s so… If it wasn’t for Karl Rove, Biden would have had a total pass.“
It is such a poor reflection upon Biden as Vice President of the United States, to still be carrying on in such a melodramatic manner befitting of a man in desperate need of adulation.
It is equally a poor reflection to have the mainstream media complicity allow Biden to escape a maelstrom of public scrutiny for such behavior unbecoming of a leader of this country.
Karl Rove Slams Joe Biden On Meeting With Bush
April 09, 2009
The transcript: Rove: Biden Is a ‘Serial Exaggerator’ and ‘Blowhard’.
See:
- http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/04/09/rove-calls-biden-liar-bush-aides-challenge-vps-boasts/
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhJdTL4iV7U
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dGN7V6dCTY
- http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/04/ari-fleischer-piles-on-fires-back-at.html
- http://hotair.com/archives/2009/04/10/rove-biden-should-develop-a-habit-of-truth-telling/
- http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,513999,00.html
- http://hotairpundit.blogspot.com/2009/04/ari-fleischer-fires-back-at-media-over.html
