Debbie Wasserman Schultz is apparently unrepentant, after falsely accusing a Washington Examiner reporter of misquoting her in a story that put her at odds with the Israeli ambassador. The Washington Free Beacon’s Adam Kredo confronted the beleaguered DNC chair at the Democratic convention last night:
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D., Fla.) told the Washington Free Beacon Wednesday evening that she will not be apologizing to Washington Examiner reporter Philip Klein after she falsely accused him of “deliberately misquoting” her.
“No, I definitely will not” offer Klein an apology, Wasserman Schultz said with a slight laugh as she was exiting an event meant to honor Center For American Progress founder John Podesta.
Asked if she had a message for Klein, Wasserman Schultz bristled.
“I don’t,” she said.
Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren has publicly denied that he made the anti-GOP comment, as Wasserman Schultz claimed; and an audio recording of the Florida congresswoman’s remarks confirmed that Klein did not misquote her. She’s been caught dead to rights on this, so her refusal to apologize is all the more remarkable. It makes you wonder whether DWS would actually issue an apology for lying under any circumstances.
Klein certainly isn’t under any illusions: “If I could hold my breath long enough to wait for a Debbie Wasserman Schultz apology then I’d probably try to enter myself in the Guinness Book of World Records,” he told Kredo.
Meanwhile, DWS has reportedly been skipping out on news interviews — hardly a surprise, considering all the disasters that have plagued the DNC this week. As for her possible options after her first term as party chairwoman runs out, Politico takes a look and finds they’re few and far between.
School in the summertime — no class.
If she were a college kid and not a congressman, people would start asking questions about her mental health at this point. This is really close to pathological lying, and the inappropriate laughter is another red flag, a rather large one. n nIt is one thing if she is just making things up and hoping for the best, but she isn't even trying to wiggle out of them when she is caught. She could have gotten out of this one — upon Phil Kline releasing the audio of what she did say, she could have responded "oops, I meant to say that like this" and creatively insert two/three words that would change the entire meaning of that sentence. A skillful liar (politician) would have done this in a heartbeat. n nAnd even a loose cannon like Ann Coulter, who genuinely doesn't know that she said something sometimes, is rational enough to realize that if someone has a recording of it, she really did say it. n nNot so here. It is almost like DWS believes that Kline and Oren are conspiring against her and she honestly believes that what she is saying is the truth. It is almost like the pregnant woman who refuses to believe that she is pregnant and then discards the baby in the trash upon birth — the pathological liar almost honestly believes that what he/she/it is saying to be true. n nThe pathological liar is the exact opposite of Emmanuel Kant — the pathological liar believes truth to be whatever it needs to be at the time, and genuinely believes that it is. n nIt would be one thing if DWS *knew* that she was lying but I am not so sure she does. And if she was a college kid and doing this, I would start talking mental health issues here, it would be time for a consult with if not a referral to those folk. And the other significant thing is that there is the Anderson Cooper interview and something else in addition to this specific matter — all happening within the past few weeks. (This is another really big red flag, a lot of stuff happening all at once.) n nIt is easy enough to say that all leftist Dems are crazy and I will not go down that road — I am not addressing her political views which I find not only "crazy" but outright repulsive. That is one thing. nThe other is how well she is doing in presenting them, how rational her functioning is and such. And she is getting caught "dead to rights" on too much stuff right now. n nEvery bit of my student affairs training is saying — were she a 19-year-old coed and not a 46-year-old Congressman — that this is someone on the verge of coming apart. Completely coming apart to the point of perhaps joining her fellow Congressman Jessie Jackson Jr. in the Mayo Clinic. If she were a college kid, I have no doubt that she would be on the "watch list" of the campus Behavioral Intervention Team and not that far from where they do more than just watched her. n nAnd perhaps this explain the push a while back to remove her — yes, as Ms. Goodman pointed out a couple weeks back, the Dems don't "walk the walk" on female equity — they never have — but perhaps in this instance they might have seen enough of her in private that we are not seeing in public and perhaps that was why they wanted to replace her. n nAnd this is the ethical question — on the one hand, mental illness is really quite sad. On the other hand, it would be so nice to see a leftist dimocrat self-destruct and I do believe that is where she is headed. n nAnd it won't be someone like Phil Kline quietly posting his audio, it will be someone like Rush Limbaugh tossing in gratuitous ad hominid insults about her weight, hair, voice and the rest — the very sort of thing that inevitably exponentially raises the level of emotional vitriol which, in a situation like this, inexorably would push her over the edge in a truly spectacular fashion. n nAnd I mean "spectacular" — I've seen it happen….
DWS and Nancy Pelosi are 2 of the most vile, disgusting women in politics. I'm sure no one had any illusions that DWS would apologize for being an ignorant, partisan hack!