Defending the Indefensible

There is a great moment in this video where Paul Begala literally leaves Ari Fleischer speechless when he says, "We, our country executed Japanese soldiers who water-boarded American POWs. We executed them for the same crime that we are now committing ourselves. How do you defend that?" Ari eventually regains his voice and goes into his usual, tired old blah blah blah about how it isn't his buddy Duh's fault and trying to make everything political. Not everything is political, Ari. Sometimes it's just a question of right or wrong.

Ari reminds me of the joke about how everything said by Rudy Giuliani is nothing more than a noun, a verb, and 9/11. That's how Fleischer is every time I see him on TV. He refuses to admit ANY wrongdoing by the Republican party regardless of how big or small and he tries to turn everything around and point fingers at Democrats every chance he gets. It's tired, stale and a bit pathetic.