Right-wing commentator Greg Gutfeld is coming to the rescue of former vice president Dick Cheney, but stumbled on his way to the battle.
Here is what Gutfeld wrote:
So in the latest New Yorker, CIA Director Leon Panetta says Dick Cheney’s biting criticism of Obama’s enlightened approach to terrorism suggests, “he’s wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point.”
Now Mr. Panetta is absolutely right about one thing: Cheney has been highly critical of the Obama Administration’s new tact toward terror. But that’s mainly because our new President has been so critical of the previous administration’s strategy, while now pretty much copying most of its key elements.
Here is what Panetta actually said (from Reuters):
“I think he smells some blood in the water on the national security issue,” Panetta said in an interview published in The New Yorker magazine’s June 22 issue.
“It’s almost, a little bit, gallows politics. When you read behind it, it’s almost as if he’s wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point.”
Gutfeld took Panetta’s comment out of context and tried to portray him in the worst possible light. The word “suggests” helps Gutfeld a little bit (a very little bit). However, he clearly took Panetta’s comments out of context. It looks like someone else can begin to understand what U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is going through these days. Gutfeld could have made the same argument and placed Panetta’s comments in a more fair and accurate context.
Big Hollywood:
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/06/15/daily-gut-panetta-vs-cheney/
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