Beautiful stuff on the Larry King show last night!
The subject of the missing explosives came up. Governor Racicot(R) tried to repeat the Bush talking-point claim that the explosives probably weren't even in the bunker at the time of the Iraq invasion.
Apparently he didn't get the message that that lame excuse is no longer operative. Larry King and Al Sharpton had seen the KSTP tape. Rather than adjusting his lie, Racicot kept on trying to spin the same lie, in a hilarious TV exchange.
KING: Governor, do you agree mistakes were made.
RACICOT: I think what the reverend is talking about is patent nonsense. He doesn't get it. What I'm telling is this, that the facts have not been established. And the facts militate the other direction and suggest it wasn't there to begin with, Reverend Sharpton.
SHARPTON: So, where did they come from?
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SHARPTON: So, where did they come from?
RACICOT: No. No. Just a minute. You just hang on just a second here.
SHARPTON: I'm asking, where did it come from? RACICOT: I'm telling you it wasn't there at that time. That's exactly what Dennis pointed out too. That's what the evidence suggests. The troops on the ground say when they got there, it wasn't there. And consider the motive surrounding this. You have a disenfranchised representative of the United Nations who apparently knows about this for 18 months and doesn't say anything about it until eight days before the election.
KING: Governor how about the report on KSTP though that the guy who was with them showed the weapons when he was with this American servicemen.
RACICOT: You have servicemen on the ground, commanders on the ground, Larry, who said it wasn't there. Secondly you tell me...
KING: But we saw the film.
RACICOT: You tell me how possible is this?
SHARPTON: Are you saying, governor, the film is wrong?
Do you have any evidence to say there's something wrong with the film?
RACICOT: Just listen to me. Just listen to me for a minute. The bottom line is, when did you learn this fact? Today is the first time you learned this fact. Now, this has been up in TV advertisements since Monday.
And secondly, when they talk about removal, virtually everyone there on the ground has said, how do you move, without notice, 350 tons? It would have taken 70 or 80 dump trucks. The roads were literally occupied by American forces with traffic moving in one direction. So, what I'm telling is, these are unsubstantiated facts and yet John Kerry snaps it up and uses it in his campaign.
SHARPTON: But Governor are you denying -- are you denying the tape there. I mean, I think you've got to deal with the tape. I mean, you've had commanders that said that the...
RACICOT: There are photographs. There are photographs.
SHARPTON: You said the prison scandal didn't happen, and it only got worse.
Why would the American people...
RACICOT: There are satellite photographs -- there are satellite photographs showing movement around those. That was reported yesterday. Satellite photographs showing movement before American troops ever got there.
KING: Let me get a break guys. Then Governor Richards and Dennis Prager will respond. You're watching LARRY KING LIVE. We'll be right back.