McCain to Hannity: Fox 'wrong about Libya'

[JRLeft]

Source: Politico

Sen. John McCain on Thursday night clashed with Sean Hannity, telling the Fox News host that he and others on the network “were wrong about Libya.”

McCain's remarks came after Hannity claimed he had accurately predicted that the Muslim Brotherhood would take control of Egypt, and pressed the Arizona Republican on why the Obama administration was not able to foresee this week's attacks on U.S. diplomats in North Africa.

“How is it that Sean Hannity and a few others of us out here predicted with pinpoint accuracy that the Muslim Brotherhood would be in charge in Egypt? Their first task when they took over the Parliament was to declare Israel, our closest ally, an enemy. First, their number one enemy,” Hannity said. “How is it that the administration with all their intelligence and all the money we spend to help them and the CIA — how is it that they didn’t see this coming? And they kept telling the American people, this is democracy. Democracy. I don’t view the Muslim Brotherhood as democracy. They want Sharia law implemented now in Egypt.”

McCain pushed back, telling Hannity that “that’s not clear that that’s true” and that he and Fox News were wrong with their take on the elections in Libya.

“But also it was you and people on Fox that said in Libya, ‘we didn’t know who they were and let’s not help these people.’ They had an election and they elected moderates. They rejected Islamists,” McCain said. “And yes, there are Al Qaeda factors and there are extremists in Libya today, but the Libyan people are friends of ours, and they support us, and they support democracy. So you were wrong about Libya.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/09/mccain-to-hannity-you-and-fox-news-were-wrong-about-135607.html

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Video at the link

[nolabear]

1. Saw this on Bashir. I thought McCain was going to blow a gasket.

Hannity can do that to a guy. I think it just might be occurring to McCain what they have wrought.

[JRLeft]

2. Sean hannity is going to cause a domestic terrorist attack.

[SecularMotion]

5. Sean Hannity IS a domestic terrorist attack.

[Ilsa]

26. If the movie Game Change was accurate,

then Senator McCain warned Palin not to team up with or indulge the right-wing wackos like Rush and Hannity. But Palin listens like a teenager, thinking she knows everything.

[Major Nikon]

3. MSNBC showed the exchange

It was pretty funny because naturally Hannity got all huffy puffy about being called out as a liar. Since he only has people on his show he thinks will agree with him, I'm sure this was a big shock.

[busterbrown]

4. See Hannity get the shit kicked out of him.....Big time!

Lets hope McCain sticks to his guns on this one.
Thank you Sir!

[JRLeft]

6. McCain stated a while back that he would not run again.

[DonViejo]

10. A statement that caused me to wonder

if the Queen of the Wasilla hillbillies would be running, now that she owns a home in AZ

[bamacrat]

7. McCain on his own was never on the crazy side diplomatically.

He was just convinced crazy gave him a chance to win.

[cosmicone]

8. It will be funny if McCain became a democrat after the elections

like Arlen Specter.

[karynnj]

23. Unlikely - Specter was a moderate/liberal Republican

and though McCain was willing to disagree with his party on some issues - especially immigration and campaign financing in the 1990s, he always was a small government conservative.

If he was politically where Specter was, he might have switched to Democrat in 2003/2004 when one of his staff pushed the idea that Kerry could unite the country by taking the unusual step of making McCain VP. Kerry thought it possible only if McCain became a Democrat - and it went nowhere. Politically it did not make sense - in spite of the areas like veterans benefits that they worked on together.

[cosmicone]

24. I agree with you but

politics always makes strange bedfellows. The republican party has gone so far off the cliff, people like McCain can't possibly feel like they belong in there.

[Bucky]

9. I love those moments when the old John McCain peers thru the void.

[cynatnite]

11. He didn't take the race-baiting route that Rmoney/Lyin' Ryan are doing...

He stood up to the bat crazy crowd and he was very gracious when he conceded the election to President Obama.

He continues to do the right thing and we should acknowledge that even though he politically, he's on the other side.

[fugop]

25. Once ...

He stood up ONCE! But he let lil Sarah sow hate and racism day after day without putting a stop to it, so he's still on my shit list. That being said, I appreciate this moment of sanity from him. It serves as a reminder of what he might have been had he not sold out for his chance at the presidency.

[cynatnite]

27. He did give a great concession speech as well...

He is responsible for mainstreaming Palin and her ilk. He did refuse to go down the race-baiting route that Rmoney/Ryan are doing.

I know a lot of folks don't like him for very valid reasons and I don't fault you or anyone else for that. For me, though, he ended his run with honor.

[cloudbase]

12. He may be having his

very own Barry Goldwater moment.

[PA Democrat]

13. Is utter stupidity a prerequisite for employment at FOX?

[Jamaal510]

21. Hannity isn't stupid; he's just purposely incorrect with the facts

and wants to mislead his viewers.

[DJ13]

14. "I don’t view the Muslim Brotherhood as democracy. They want Sharia law implemented now in Egypt"

I don’t view the GOP as democracy. They want Christian law implemented now in the US.

[WinkyDink]

15. If ONLY. They'd be feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, ....etc.

[JRLeft]

16. He will be back to attacking Obama tomorrow.

[Digital Puppy]

17. Did pigs just fly??? n/t

[Betsy Ross]

18. So he didn't sell his soul.

I respected him before his most recent attempt at the Presidency. Maybe is coming back.

[JRLeft]

19. No he goes off script every now and then. He knows his place.

[Canuckistanian]

20. Man, that's gotta be pretty pathetic

When a GOP Senator has to tell Fox that they're wrong....

[David__77]

22. McCain is complete lunatic and couldn't be more wrong.

The intervention in Libya did help al Qaeda absolutely. They were in prison before - now they're running whole cities.