Mr. 9/11 Gets Amnesia: 'We Had No Domestic Attacks Under Bush; We've Had One Under Obama' (VIDEO)

No one reminded him of his noun, verb and 911?

Gee Rudy ... duh ... what do you call 9/11 an inside job! Well, in that case you are correct ... we were done in by our own nut jobs!

Gee Rudy ... duh ... what do you call 9/11 an inside job! Well, in that case you are correct ... we were done in by our own nut jobs!

It says a lot about our journalists that he wasn't challenged on that. Rudy has a vested political interest in all of this so it's not surprising that he would twist facts and literally lie like that, but it's the journalist's job to not let him get away with it.

I think the New York skyline can refute that statement.

Sorry Rudy, but no one is buying that bullshit.

Guliani's selective memory is appalling to say the least but what i find to be simply disgusting is George Stephanopolos's failure to correct Mr. Fooliani.

The GOP montra is tell the same lie over and over again, and eventually some people will believe it.

The plan is to tell the lies as fast as they can, and keep talking hoping the weak interviewer doesn't circle back due to the interview time.

With this one, the families of the over 3,000 people killed in the 9/11 Terrorist Attack that George W. Bush let happen, should be up in arms.

George Stephanopoulos should be fired for not checking Rudy. Sham journalism that is meant to LIE to citizens? I expect this from the paid hacks at FOX - the Teaparty PAC network - but not from a network that claims to have actual news. ABC: FIRE GEORGE!!

Here's the problem for Rudy.

If he repeats the big lie often (as Goebbels recommends) then he erases Bush's epic failure as president, thus also erasing from memory the reason the pretty haircuts on the teevee even talk to him.

What's worse; Rudy Giuliani for saying it or George Stephanopoulos for not challenging the outrageous lie?

Why is ABC paying such bucks for George S, when they could get just as much out of a stenographer?

The thing that get me is that they say there were no terror attacks during Bush, yet the biggest one in history actually occurred under his watch. (to be fair, some occasionally admit 9/11 was a terror attack under Bush, but their intelectual honesty goes out the window once the pull out the canard "He kept us safe after")

Not only was their 9/11 but, what about the Anthrax attacks?? ....(Crickets)...

Also lets not forget the infamous "Shoe-Bomber" happened under Bush's watch which is virtually an identical situation to the "Underwear Bomber". Of course when it happened under Bush's watch it was considered a victory because the bomb didn't go off, so therefor Bush himself kept us safe.

So it boils down to Obama is bad because there was Intelligence(that didn't come accross his desk) that someone was determined to attack the US and Obama didn't keep us safe. Even though the attempt failed, no one was killed and the terrorist boarded the plane in another country. (mind you that Obama took sole responsibility anyway)

But Bush was good because he ignored intelligence that came across his desk, 3000 people died two iconic buildings disappeared from the NY skyline and then (like the real Class act he is) blamed Clinton.

We now have Dana Perino and Giuliani proudly proclaiming there were no domestic attacks on this country under Bush. Do we need any more proof than this that rightwingers are pathological liars and fully disconnected from reality? I mean, we're not talking about an opinion of 4th century politics in ancient Rome. I'm not sure how much more recent recent history could become. They're already re-writing it.

Rudy is a one trick pony, and you know what comes out of the back end of one of those: horse $hit.

Why doesn't anyone point out that there were fewer attempts at striking the US because Osama Bin Laden got what he wanted after 911? The invasion of Iraq was Osama's wet dream. He wanted to be able to make the case that the west was at war with Islam and W. gave him exactly what he was looking for. George W. Bush and Dick Cheney got played like a cheap violin.

Sure, go ahead and laugh, people!

Just wait until that Florida primary when Rudy cuts your head off!

Rudy-patootie was wrong on Morning Joe, as well. He said that there was no way of predicting 9/11. Apparently he forgets the executive daily briefing that the Bush-Cheney-Rice triumvirate dismissed in August, 2001, that said that OBL was planning an attack on American soil.

Looks like the GOP has been fulfilling George Orwell's prophecy in 1984 about rewriting history. What liars. The main reason there were no major attacks after 9/11 was that OBL's "best and brightest" all died on 9/11. Look at who he has had working for him since then -- the likes of Richard Reid, Zacarias Moussawi, and Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Look also how long it took OBL to muster the forces between the first WTC attack in 1993 and 9/11. GWB and company were mostly just lucky.

Rudy's 9/11 Heroics (abridged)

"Hey, everybody. Run Uptown. Fast!"

besides Richard Reid, the Anthrax, and the DC sniper, don't forget incidents like a mass shooting in the Seattle area in 2006, or a shooting at LAX in 2002, which folks like Michelle Malkin yearn to call terrorism: http://michellemalkin.com/2006/07/28/shooting-in-seattle-muslim-revenge/

[Maklin quotes follow]

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”There’s nothing to indicate that it’s terrorism related,” according to David Gomez, who heads the FBI’s counterterrorism efforts in Seattle. Right. Never mind the eyewitness reports of him declaring himself to be a Muslim angry at Israel. Crikey.***
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But I am reminded of Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, the freelance jihadist who murdered 3 at the El Al ticket counter at Los Angeles International Airport on July 4, 2002. It took nearly a year for the feds to acknowledge that it was an act of terrorism.

Here is the email contact link for GMA

http://abcnews.go.com/Site/page?id=3271346&cat=Good%20Morning%20America

LET'S GET THE EMAILS FLOWING IN.

What really sucked is that Giuliani was on Morning Joe, simultaneously spewing that same garbage. I was stunned that Mika called him out on the "no attacks under Bush" by specifically pointing out 911 but, she also called him out for the same lie that Larry King and Stephanopoulos let him get away with repeatedly, which was that Obama waited 12 days before coming out to discuss the underpants bomber. See, Rudy thinks he's being clever by claiming that the things Obama is saying now are things he should have been saying when he came out after 3 days, as Mika pointed out, beating Bush's time. Now, how would Obama be able to make the statements he's now making without waiting to get the facts? Our MSM is useless. Rachel Maddow was on Letterman last night and was great, as usual. More of mainstream America needs to watch her show where the facts are valued.

The big story here is that Stephanopoulos let him get away with it. Stephanopoulos should be fired, this was a very big flap. We expect the Republicans to lie but expected much more from Stephanopoulos.

and its so nice we have media figures like snuffaluffugus to correct mr. 9/11 when he gets something so blatantly wrong. i mean, c'mon!!! if rudy said the sky was pink, would they correct him? just how WRONG do you have to be before someone says, "wait a minute, that's not factually correct"?!!!

ugh....

THE BUSH FLUNKIES REALLY MAKE A FOOL OUT OF THEIRSELVES.

AS JOHN BRENNAN STATED "IGNORANT"

What do you expect from a bozo whose vocabulary during a recent presidential election was a noun, a verb and 9-11?

I guess he forgot why we take our shoes off at airports.

I tell ya, Republicans are getting pathetic in their attacks on democrats. Come on, give us some good shots! We deserve it! Are you so stupid you have to make things up?

Yes, Rudy = dolt; George = dolt enabler.
I miss the TPM "Veracifier" brand. What happened to that? What's Ben Craw up to? These are important questions!

Talking Points Memo is equally at shame and fault here as are Good Morning America, it's producers, and George Stephanopoulis. This article's text makes no mention of Stephanopoulis failing to conduct himself. Is TPM afraid to step on Stephanopoulis's connected toes?

Truly amazing. Giuliani didn't remember running for his life in lower Manhattan on September 11, 2001? And Stephanopoulos didn't catch this whopper?

Wow, I guess 9/11 really *did* change everything.

I think it is safe to remove the word NEWS from anything related to ABC.

If this is how their reporters make sure the people they are interviewing are not spewing garbage and lies for answers, they have definitely failed as reporters.

In the same interview Giuliani said 30 years of the underwear bomber was not enough time for interrogation [before Mr. Underpants was 'lawyered up'] . .

As an attorney, Giuliani knows that lawyers permit their clients to 'cooperate with authorities' all the time. Giuliani has no clue as to whether or not Mr. Underpants is or is not still cooperating with authorities . .

Interesting to note . .

NEW YORK LAW JOURNAL (1/8/10)

AHMED KHALFAN GHAILANI faces trial in the South District Federal Court of New York for his role in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania . .

Why aren't RWers complaining this terrorist be tried by a Military Court instead of a New York Federal Court?

Its just as much the fault of George STUPIDNOPOULOS for letting this crap go right by him.
I quit watching George a long time ago.

So where's the black box, Rudy?

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2008/08/16/black-box/

George S. blogged about Giuliani's "no domestic attack" this morning, but later altered the blog post to make it seem more critical. Screen caps here

My kingdom for a network "journalist"!

It's really very simple. 9/11, the anthrax attacks, and the Richard Reid incident were all part of the Clinton legacy. The Ft. Hood shootings and the Underpants Bomber were a result of Obama's failure to continue the successful Bush administration policies against terrorists. By definition, only Republicans can protect America from terrorists, while Democrats are weak on Terror; therefore, any incidents of terrorism have to be the responsibility of Democrats, regardless of who was actually in charge at the time.

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Thanks for your time,
Justin TI, Ottawa, Canada.

I wonder how much anyone hears this stuff, absent reports on blogs such as TPM? I sometimes think that heavy reporting by blogs does more than inform. It also secondarily provides a platform for wingers to expose more people to their ravings.

They must have thought the shoe bomber was the guy who tossed his at Bush in Baghdad.

Scoop from Huffpo p- Stephanopolous apologizes!!!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/08/stephanopoulos-forgets-to_n_416190.html

Obviously, Rudy's remark was ridiculous and George Stephanaaoapeosls....whatever's lack of retort was unacceptable. But it's what we need to come to expect. The insiders, regardless of party (remember, George was a Dukakis, Gephardt, and Clinton aide/adviser) are all on the same side. We shouldn't expect interviewers to ask their subjects tough questions anymore, because they are all marching to the beat of the same statist drummer (barring a few--Joe Scarborough and Rachel Maddow have some semblance of integrity, as do Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich).

Also, I need to address the apparent meme that Tea Party folks are in the same camp as Republicans. They aren't. I have no brief for the Tea Party groups, especially now that they have chosen Sarah Palin as their apparent spokesperson, but they aren't Republicans. If they allow Palin, who is just a prettier version of George Bush, to take over their movement, then they will quickly become just like the Repubs, but they aren't to be equated with the Party.

Is no one else bored to tears with terrorism, terrorists and panty bombs ? This topic was beaten to death years ago.

I was in Europe on 26 December 2009 getting on a flight back to the USA ... was I scared ? NO. The airline people searched and asked questions ... passengers were not allowed to get out of their seats the last hour, etc etc. I felt no more safe and no less safe than usual.

The Rove theory of government was that everything and everyone must be bent to the purpose of winning elections. Rove and his agents kept tripping the public amygdala - keeping the public alarmed - until the tactic was worn out.

A person is more likely to slip in the bathtub or get fried by a toaster ... calculate the odds, it is a soothing exercise.

Colleagues : are you scared ? Why or why not ?