April 20, 2002

Carville on Crossfire: But the president doesn't know the difference between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean. That's just a mistake. Saying that they pulled out in response to his call just is a flat lie. Now, the real tragedy was not this. The tragedy is that we have got a White House press corps that don't know whether to wind their butts or scratch their watches. And they sit there and take this stuff down when they all know it's wrong. Everybody in America knows that Ariel Sharon flipped the president the bird, essentially, by not pulling out. The president gets up and says: "Thank you, sir. May I have another."

"Are you serious? Are you serious? Five thousand people worked at the White House. You would go to my house and there's $14,000 of damage and my kids are writing crayons on the wall, and the dog peeing on the rug."

"Sharon is doing (UNINTELLIGIBLE) so that whatever he's doing, he's doing. But the idea that he responded to President Bush's call is ludicrous on its face. And if we didn't have a bunch of nincompoops covering this White House, the American public would know what was going on. You can't trust this press corps for nothing because they are scared to death."

Bob Beckel, Dem strategist: "And I'll tell you something, Karl Rove, you know, in the darkest periods of night is very, very happy that they're building an entire strategy on 9-11. Where was this guy before 9-11? He was 48 percent in the polls. Where would he be now without 9-11? Probably 32."

"And one of the things about you Republicans, you don't mind when Ollie North tramples over the Constitution or Ronald Reagan approves selling arms to the Ayatollah, but, boy, if there's a "W" missing from the computer, damn, this world will fall apart."

" Let me tell you this. I think Bill Clinton knows probably right now in his sleep 10 times more about the Middle East than George Bush ever will."



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