aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Sunday, November 27, 2005

Chris Wallace has no idea

Think Progress documents how wrong Chris Wallace was when he said today that President Bush never tried to link al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein (video here):

[T]hat specific quote there where you say he couldn’t distinguish between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, he wasn’t saying that they were linked at all. He was saying one was as bad as the other, and when he said in that same answer something about that Saddam Hussein would like to use a terrorist network, he wasn’t saying that they would like to use al Qaeda. So you’re making a link there that the President never made.

Yea, right.

Which reminds me of my favorite Chris Wallace quote. During his February Booknotes appearance he was asked how long ago he had the idea for his book. He answered:

[I]t was a kind of collaborative effort. My—a fellow, an agent, Bill Adler (ph), came up—called me up and said, Have you ever thought of writing a book? And I said, yes, but I never have had an idea.

He got that right!

Via Atrios.