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From Jeff Gannon:
Rep. John Murtha’s (D-PA) media bubble burst at the National Press Club today when I confronted him during a press conference. Murtha chose the usually friendly venue to discuss the latest iteration of his “cut and run - slow bleed - surrender at all costs” proposal.
First up, a question about the Haditha incident for which Marines are on trial for their lives:
JEFF GANNON: In May 2006, you said that Marines killed innocent Iraqis citizens in cold blood at Hatitha. A year later, some of them have been exonerated. At some point are you going to apologize to these men?
REP. MURTHA: The trial’s not over yet.
JEFF GANNON: You’ve spoken out before. You went on national television and called these men “cold blooded killers.”
REP. MURTHA: The trial’s not over yet.
After waiting for some other reporter to ask about the MoveOn.org ad that accused Gen. David Petraeus of treason, I decided to give it a shot:
JEFF GANNON: Did you think the MoveOn.org ad was inappropriate and would you distance yourself from those remarks?
REP. MURTHA: Yes.
Don’t look for this Q & A to find its way into the liberal media. Only The Hill reported the MoveOn.org comment as an aside in the last paragraph its story, but wouldn’t touch Murtha’s stonewall on the U.S. Marines who were cleared of charges in the deaths of Iraqis in the much publicized incident at Haditha.
C-SPAN has a clip: Rep. Murtha on the Petraeus Report
Hadita comments at 39:25, MoveOn.org at 47:40
After the program, fawning reporters gathered around the bloviating Murtha. We had an exchange that went something like this:
JEFF GANNON: Is the war lost?
REP. MURTHA: It’s not lost, but it’s a complicated…
JEFF GANNON: Harry Reid said the war is lost. Is he wrong?
REP. MURTHA: I don’t know what Senator Reid said…
JEFF GANNON: He said “The war is lost”, do you agree?
At this point Murtha is all red-faced and leaning forward until he is about a foot from my face and to begin angrily bellowing:
REP. MURTHA: I quit college to go to Korea, I volunteered to go to Vietnam…
Our exchange ended when another reporter chimed in with a peacenik question about Democrats’ strategy to betray our troops in the field.
The Hill’s coverage of the press conference:
Conservative writer Jeff Gannon, who was in the audience, challenged Murtha on another statement he had made, that Marines in Haditha had killed Iraqi civilians “in cold blood.” Charges have been dropped against several Marines, though others remain charged with murder. Gannon asked Murtha if he would apologize, and Murtha refused.
“The trials are not over yet,” Murtha said, reddening slightly in the face.
Also in response to Gannon, Murtha tersely deemed inappropriate the newspaper advertisement taken out by the liberal group MoveOn.org criticizing commanding Gen. David Petraeus as “General Betray Us.” Without elaborating, Murtha said “Yes” when asked if he would distance himself from the ad.
Note to Mr. Murtha: I thank you for your military service to our country. You were a Marine too, how can you accuse other Marines of murder and refuse to apologize for wrongly accusing them or even acknowledge that they’ve been vindicated?
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Hot Air has the video of Murtha being confronted by Jason Mattera. One HotAir reader responded: “It looked to me as though Mr. Murtha, under heavy questioning, redeployed to the elevator.”
September 18, 2007 - 11:34 PM on September 18th, 2007
“Conservative writer Jeff Gannon, who was in the audience, challenged Murtha on another statement he had made…”
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Er…wasn’t this Jeff Gannon guy TOTALLY discredited as a “journalist” after he was outed as a male prostitute?
What rock do some of your people crawl out under from?!
It’s becoming a problem with your team…these sex scandals.
September 19, 2007 - 12:04 AM on September 19th, 2007
Murtha is a backstabber, a traitor, a degenerate pos, a crook, and should be in prison, not in the Senate. Yet there were many idiots who voted for this pos last election! Can you believe it?
September 19, 2007 - 06:12 AM on September 19th, 2007
SFL, you regularly trot out Liar David Brock as credible, so why the double standard on Jeff Gannon?
Also, You failed on your deflection on the topic. Murtha is hereby convicted of being “Rotten to the Corps.”
SFL, why do you hate America so?
September 19, 2007 - 06:18 AM on September 19th, 2007
“Er…wasn’t this Jeff Gannon guy TOTALLY discredited as a “journalist” after he was outed as a male prostitute?”
I am wondering how that discredits anyone from being a journalist?
That said, Jack Murtha is a scoundral- competely dishonorable. The men that Gannon are referring to for an apology have been exonerated, so the trial IS over for them.
Jack Murtha owes these men an apology at the very least.
September 19, 2007 - 08:21 AM on September 19th, 2007
1- SFL he wasn’t discredited by anyone but the far left. Jeff’s gay, but a republican, so that’s a bad thing in their eyes..Jeff is a journalist that did a fine job with this question and answer session.
What do you think of the fact that Murtha had no problem publically trying and convicting these soldiers before they had even gone to trial, now that the charges are being dismissed, he won’t comment because the trial is still going on?
September 19, 2007 - 08:24 AM on September 19th, 2007
1- also, what was that scandal involving Barney Frank and sex?
September 19, 2007 - 08:27 AM on September 19th, 2007
1, SFL, what diminishes you is that you can’t admit that Murtha is slime, is corrupt, and owes these Marines more than an apology.
September 23, 2007 - 09:27 AM on September 23rd, 2007
Why should a claim of being a male prostitute discredit a journalist? Being a pedophile didn’t discredit a Democratic Congressmen from Massachusetts.(What else do you call someone who has sex with a minor?) Driving while intoxicated without a license (check the records, Teddy could not produce a license until days after the accident) and having an accident that resulted in a fatality didn’t discredit a Democratic Senator. Being on a committee that funnelled millions of dollars worth of defense construction contracts to her husband’s company didn’t discredit YOUR Democratic Senator. Being a high ranking official in the KKK didn’t discredit a Democratic Senator. A Senator who was later made Senate Majority leader. Keeping a bimbo for office sex on the payroll only discredited a Democratic Congressman enough to get him thrown out of Congress, but not enough to keep him from being elected to the Ohio House of Representatives. Getting a BJ in the Oval Office and then committing PERJURY about it didn’t discredit Bill Clinton except to the Arkansas State Bar Association. Stealing classified documents from the National Archives and destroying them didn’t discredit Sandy Berger enough to keep him from being slated to be a high ranking official in the cabinet should Hillary win.
I’m not saying that there aren’t bad Republicans, only that the percentage of corrupt politicians is MUCH higher in the Democratic party.