Bill Kristol To Kayleigh McEnany: 'You're Embarrassed To Support Trump'
Jake Tapper opened up his show today with a powerhouse panel consisting of Van Jones, Kayleigh McEnany, and Bill Kristol. It didn't even take two minutes for the latter two panelists to start slinging whatever they could at each other on national television, while Jones and Tapper sat back and avoided the dust.
While discussing Trump's absurd remarks about ISIS for the zillionth time, McEnany once again did Trump's doublespeaking for him, but this time she got far more specific after Jake Tapper played a montage of clips where conservative media like Hugh Hewitt and Fox News were working their hardest to give him a hand off from the wall, where Trump was dangling like a hapless fool.
Enter Kayleigh, with her own particular brand of spin, once again claiming falsely that President Obama's withdrawal from Iraq -- which we all understand was actually President Bush's withdrawal -- created a vacuum out of which rose ISIS.
"Shouldn't he pick his words more carefully?" asked Tapper. "A president can move markets and start wars with his words."
McEnany was predictably inane, resorting to ridiculous brinksmanship arguments like, "McCain would have taken it back, Romney would have taken it back. They had a history of dialing things back and looking very weak on these issues."
I guess this would be a bad time to interject the idea that if you speak a blatant lie, it's a good idea to dial it back? I would tend to give small props to McCain and Romney for at least admitting when they looked like fools instead of trying to spin it, anyway.