California Conservative

CNN’s T.J. Holmes interviewed Michele Bachmann and Patty Wetterling this morning. Here’s an important exchange between Holmes and St. Patty:

HOLMES: All right, Miss Wetterling. That part is getting a lot of attention. So, I’ll give you a chance to clear all of that up. And please, can you name for us the congressional leaders who have admitted that they covered this thing up?
PATTY WETTERLING, (D), MINN CONG. CANDIDATE: Well, what I read was that people were told, and they swept it under the rug. The rug is the cover help up. That to me is the reality. When you know something, I can tell you about child sexual abuse, they’re counting on silence. That’s the reality. If people don’t talk, then it allows it to continue. And from everything I read those pages were told stay away from Congressman Foley. That means people knew he was doing inappropriate things. So –
HOLMES: But is there an actual leader who came out and publicly admitted, I intentionally covered this up, when I knew about it?
WETTERLING: Of course not. Of course, not.
HOLMES: So why use that in a campaign ad? Is it a bit misleading?
WETTERLING: I don’t think it’s misleading, when you are told information and you do nothing. That is an attempt to not get that information out there. If this happened in a school or in a church, the principal would be fired, the church leaders would be fired. If they did nothing and a year passed, and the community found out these people would be held accountable for that. And I believe people knew and they did nothing.

This exchange is filled with liberal illogic. St. Patty says that nobody in the GOP leadership admitted to a coverup but the ad that says that “Congressional leaders have admitted covering up the predatory behavior of a congressman” isn’t misleading? That thinking is so twisted that it almost doesn’t qualify as thinking.

Here’s proof that Wetterling knows that she’s been caught: She changes the subject ASAP by saying that “if this had happened in a school or a church, church leaders would be fired.” If Ms. Wetterling wants Congress to live up to the same standards as applies to church pastors, I’m positive that a bunch of Democrats would’ve been run out of Washington, starting with Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Barney Frank, Gary Condit, Mel Reynolds, Henry Cisneros and a host of others.

Forgive me if I don’t buy St. Patty’s faux indignation.

The other portion of that exhange is when St. Patty says “what I read was that people were told, and they swept it under the rug. The rug is the cover help up. That to me is the reality.”

So Ms. Wetterling thinks reality is whatever she first reads about something, even if it’s later disproved? It’s frightening to think that she’s even a candidate for public office.

Technorati Tags: Election 2006, Wetterling, Foley

Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

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