Ann Coulter: Calling Sestak Job Offer ‘Business As Usual’ Is Like Telling Your Mom ‘Everybody Does It’
Pennsylvania Congressman Joe Sestak‘s allegation that the White House offered him a job in exchange for his backing down from running against Democratic Senator Arlen Specter is the kind of story that seems to never die. Keeping the flames burning are last night’s Geraldo at Large panel, where host Kimberly Guilfoyle wondered about the White House’s “sinister” intentions and Ann Coulter offered as proof of improprieties the fact that the job was not given.
On a panel with Fox News political analyst Juan Williams and former White House counsel David Rivkin, Guilfoyle made it clear that she is not buying the claim that nothing inappropriate happened, and that she suspects perhaps White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel of being the guilty party:
“I think that’s kind of a ruse, this whole thing about Bill Clinton… this is just a distraction, throw Bill Clinton across the screen here, ok? So people are chasing after Bubba gone run amok, and, in the meantime, the story is perhaps Rahm Emanuel. Because right now what they’re suggesting isn’t going to get Clinton in any trouble for offering some kind of paid position, the fact pattern doesn’t match up with what Sestak is saying, so perhaps an investigation is warranted.”
Juan Williams’ initial response is “what are you talking about?”, though he later adds that he sees inconsistencies in Sestak’s claims, but that, in the end, it’s just politics as usual. Which triggers Ann Coulter to respond: “The fact that it’s business as usual does not work with criminal prosecutors any better than it worked with your mother. ‘Oh, everybody does it, Mommy!’ That is not a defense to a crime. The other thing that has happened since the the job was offered is, the job was not given,” she continued, and Sestak did not do what he was supposedly asked to. She argued that if the job was being offered in good faith, there was no evidence it should not have been given.
Video of last night’s segment below:
