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Is it any wonder Fox "news" is considered such a sick joke of a cable 
"news" network, when they keep this lying, serial pervert on their 
staff?
  
Gingrich: "It's not an insult[ ]" to compare Bush administration critics 
"to those who enabled Hitler"

Summary: On Hannity & Colmes, Newt Gingrich stated that Donald 
Rumsfeld's likening of Iraq war critics to Nazi appeasers was "not an 
insulting comment." Gingrich also repeated the misleading claim that the 
United States "found over 700 chemical warheads and weapons in Iraq, 
which supposedly had none, according to our friends on the left."

On the September 1 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, discussing a 
speech by Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, during which, in the 
words of an August 29 Associated Press article, Rumsfeld "likened 
critics of the U.S. war strategy to those who tried to appease the 
Nazis," Fox News political analyst and former House Speaker Newt 
Gingrich (R-GA) stated that he agreed with Rumsfeld's comments, adding 
that the comparison between Iraq war critics and Nazi appeasers was "not 
an insulting comment."

After Gingrich said he "[e]ssentially" agreed with Rumsfeld's remarks, 
co-host Alan Colmes challenged Gingrich, asking: "Calling appeasers 
people who disagree with the Bush policy administration, comparing them 
to those who enabled Hitler?" Colmes called Rumsfeld's analogy "a very 
insulting comment ... to most of the American population, which doesn't 
agree with the Iraq war." Later in the segment, when Colmes challenged 
Gingrich's characterization of war opponents as "people who want us to 
cut and run in Iraq," Gingrich responded: "It's accept defeat." Guest co-
host and National Review editor Rich Lowry added: "Yeah, that's exactly 
what it is."

Additionally, Gingrich claimed that the United States "found over 700 
chemical warheads and weapons in Iraq, which supposedly had none, 
according to our friends on the left." As Media Matters for America 
noted, these weapons were expected to be found and were known to be 
degraded and ineffective.

From the September 1 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes:

COLMES: We were just talking about [House Democratic Leader] Nancy 
Pelosi [CA] and what she wants to do in this effort to perhaps get 
Rumsfeld removed. He recently made some very controversial comments, 
basically suggesting that critics of the Iraq war are tantamount to 
Hitler's appeasers. Do you agree with him on those comments?

GINGRICH: Essentially, sure. I mean, I think you've got to say that --

COLMES: You're calling appeasers people who disagree with the Bush 
policy administration -- 

GINGRICH: Look -- 

COLMES: -- comparing them to those who enabled Hitler?

GINGRICH: Yes.

COLMES: That's an astounding comment -- 

GINGRICH: GINGRICH: What's your -- what's your -- why? Why is it 
astounding?

COLMES: -- that's a very insulting comment --

GINGRICH: It's not an insulting comment.

COLMES: -- to most of the American population, which doesn't agree with 
the Iraq war, for example.

GINGRICH: Look, look, no. First of all, the question is, if you have a 
North Korea with nuclear weapons threatening us, you have an Iran trying 
to get nuclear weapons threatening us. We've now found over 700 chemical 
warheads and weapons in Iraq, which supposedly had none, according to 
our friends on the left. You have a terrorist organization in Great 
Britain, a terrorist organization in Canada. My question, Alan, is, for 
the people who want us to cut and run in Iraq, and let's be clear --

COLMES: It's not cut and run. I don't agree with that.

GINGRICH: It's withdrawal. It's leave. It's accept defeat. I mean --

LOWRY: Yeah, that's exactly what it is. 

© 2006 Media Matters for America.

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