Thursday, February 01, 2007

Fox News All Stars   [NRO Staff]

From last night's Special Report with Brit Hume :

—On Senator Biden's Remarks—

MORT KONDRACKE: Biden's problem, as everybody knows, is that he talks too much and he couldn't stop and he got himself into this mock . . . with Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton and then has to apologize for it. If your opening day announcement is — has to be corrected with an apology, you didn't begin well.

BILL KRISTOL:  I think it's a very clever move by Senator Biden. . . . if he had just announced his candidacy, he'd be like the ninth Democrat in the race, who would care? He'd be on page A-7 in the papers, we would not be discussing him here . . .

SAMMON: I know that, but he used the word, you know, he's the first African-American who is "clean," . . . and it caused all this anguishing today over whether he was being racially insensitive or if he was trying to say some kind of racial thing.

KRISTOL: I have two messages for Senator Biden. First of all apologize to Alan Keyes and secondly, please stay in the race.

—On Senate Questioning of the Iran Agenda— 

HUME:So, it is a good idea to either get or seek assurances from the White House publicly that there'll be no military attack on Iraq?

KRISTOL: Only if you think that Iran should be a safe haven for people who are shipping IEDs, and be training terrorists to come to a kill us — our soldiers in Iraq. Only if you think it's acceptable for Iran to get nuclear weapons. Only if you think it's acceptable for Iran to otherwise sponsor terrorism around the Middle East and, indeed, around the world.

[The Bush Administration] has to its credit toughened up in the last two, three, four months — sent an aircraft carrier to the Mediterranean, has threatened reprisals in Iraq, good financial sanctions, which have had some bite now, in Iran. So the Bush administration's gotten a little tougher, but it's Iran that's provoking this and the Democrats' and Chuck Hagel's position seems to be with all these provocations from Iran — we should reassure them that there'll never pay a price for doing it.

02/01 10:18 AMShare