"I don't apologize to ANYONE!" says Democrat Congressman who admitted lying about Iraq to win 2006 election
By Jeff Emanuel Posted in PA-11 | Paul Kanjorski | Targets — Comments (8) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Pennsylvania Congressman Paul Kanjorski (D) has made news for both accidental honesty and ill-timed, transparent duplicity in the last couple weeks.
Now, in an attempt to control that damage and prevent further gaffes (which would cause damage to his apparently Keystone State-sized ego), Kanjorski is refusing to answer any questions about the statements that previously got him into trouble with the media, the voters, and his Congressional Democrat masters.
Video below [Note: Watch the female staffer's face when she realizes what "Charlie" is about to ask her boss.]:
Kanjorski begins the conversation by immediately telling the questioner, "You're not going to put words in my mouth" -- and then proceeds, from there, to deny, deny, deny and deny some more the contents of a (rough) transcript of Kanjorski's previously-videotaped statement that:
We really in this last election, when I say we...the Democrats, I think pushed it as far as we can to the end of the fleet, didn't say it, but we implied it.
That if we won the Congressional elections, we could stop the war. Now anybody was a good student of Government would know that wasn't true. But you know, the temptation to want to win back the Congress, we sort of stretched the facts...and people ate it up."
Apparently being number two (or less) to Ex-Marine Jack Murtha can work wonders for a man's ego, as well as his self-assurance that he need never apologize to anybody for what he may have said or done.
Clearly, Mr. Kanjorski would rather we all forget his admission that Democrats used and abused the naive, trusting anti-war, Code Pink left in order to win back Congress -- as well as his braggadocios claim, after vocally and vigorously opposing the 2007 'surge' in Iraq, that he and Democrats actually forced President Bush into enacting that successful strategy.
Unfortunately for Rep. Kanjorski (D), we won't forget or ignore that.
And neither should the voters of Pennsylvania-11.
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You've got to feel sorry for that staffer. She definitely remembers what he said the first time. Given that she couldn't stop the question from being asked, I'd sure like to hear how she would have answered it. She looks like she knows the meaning of shame. I wish more congressmen did.
...their Members or Senators. There are also a lot who just think they are.
Judging by the weird positioning of Kanjorski's face, I'd assume this was something placed clandestinely on the interviewer's right shoulder (no idea how). Judging by the relatively quick reaction of the auto-focus and the fact that Kanjorski accidentally triggered night mode (which, on this camera, was an image intensifier tube; the cheaper/standard ones just turn on a spotlight and crank the exposure) makes me think the cameraman had a pretty expensive setup mounted on his shoulder (which is probably why he seems concerned enough to say "don't touch my camera"). You'd think an interview this risky would call for something smaller and less of a dent in the wallet if it was smashed; a cell phone or a little digital camera on "movie" mode.
You know, it's a really sad state of affairs in politics when I'm more surprised by the make of camera used by the interviewer than the stuff coming out of the interviewee's mouth.
I guess you can'r apologize when your going to be using the same tactics this year.
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Jindal/Palin 2012
politicians, please take a video of their exact statement with you. Shut up the deny instinct and make them really respond.
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I doubt it. These pols are what they are. It's the stupid people that keep voting for them that are the real problem.
Jindal in 2012!
This is just classic Dems when they get caught lying and because their voters are so out of touch they get away with it.
Maybe this guy won't get away wit it this time???
I can hope
Great job by interviewer and camera operator.
Obama is just another phoney Dem
my 2 cents
Admit to nothing deny everything and make counter-accusations
This used to be a cute phrase I would say in jest...apparently it is the Democratic Party's modis operandi.
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conform and celebrate diversity....or else!!!