Wolf Blitzer Challenges Flustered Sen. Barbara Boxer On Tax Cut Claim

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by Glenn Davis | 9:34 am, October 15th, 2010

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Yesterday, Wolf Blitzer had Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) on CNN for a response to accusations from her opponent, Carly Fiorina, that she “has no experience in the real world creating jobs” and instead has spent her time “voting for more taxes.” Boxer disputed this, saying she’s voted for huge numbers of tax cuts throughout her career, but some of her numbers seemed off – and Blitzer, both rightly and wrongly, called her on it.

The trouble began when Boxer said she’d voted for over $2 trillion worth of tax cuts over the course of her career, with the largest of those being in the stimulus bill. Blitzer, though, mistakenly interpreted this as her saying she supported $2 trillion in tax cuts fro the stimulus alone. This, of course, would be impossible, seeing as how it would be well over twice the value of the entire bill.

However, this seemed to throw Boxer off in a big way – she started stumbling over words and numbers, and began saying things she didn’t mean to, like that she supported $1.2 trillion in tax cuts for the stimulus (still more than the value of the entire bill). Blitzer actually slipped up a bit himself when he said that if a third of the stimulus were tax cuts, it would add up to “$200 or $300 million” (actually billion), but it took an uncomfortable while for Boxer to realize what she’d meant all along (to her credit, when she did, she corrected herself in full).

Video of the segment below. However lost Boxer might have been at one point, we do enjoy hearing the stimulus bill referred to as “the stim.”

Barbara Boxer, Carly Fiorina, stimulus bill, The Stim, Wolf Blitzer

Big Eddie

Just don’t ma’am her , Wolfgang .
TfT

Why didn’t he wave his pointer finger in her face and demand she be specific, like he did when he was debating Christine O’Donnel during the debate that was supposed to be between her and Coons, not her and Wolf???
JimBob

Ah, you beat me to that one, Eddie!
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Z_man723

Wow this article is eerily empty, too bad this wasn’t about a Tea Party member because this would be rocking.
felixw

Call in the Guinness Book of World Records. Someone at CNN asked a tough question of a leading Democrat politician. This is truly a record-breaking moment.

In all seriousness, this is a sign of how bad off the Democrats are. Even their supporters in the media realize that they can’t give a free ride to the Dems in the face of the incompetence, deception and abuse of trust going down in D.C. Wolf Blitzer has figured out that he would look like a fool if he kept on cheerleading for the Democrats in the current environment — so he is forced (despite his personal political allegiances) to ask some tough questions that, a year ago, would never have left his lips.

This tells you that Boxer is going down to defeat, although most of “progressives” haven’t figured that out yet.
J Baustian

Felix: Wolf is not that bright. He will keep on cheerleading to the bitter end. (The more bitter, the better.)
Arkansas Steve

I’m a conservative & honestly love FOX news & business channels.
However, I am probably going to spend a good deal of time on election night watching MSNBC.
My desire to watch Rachel Maddow announce the AP has just announced that the Republicans have taken control of the House of Representatives is overwhelming. (I can still remember when she HAD to announce that Scott Brown had won her own Massachusetts Senate seat last January. It was great theatre.)

Watching Rachel, Ed, Keith, & Chris make these announcements will be great stuff. They’ll probably spend 30 minutes announcing each race that the Democrats salvaged, but that tactic will be humiliating for them also.

So Steve Krakauer, if MSNBC gets better ratings than expected, remember it will probably come from conservatives & Republicans who are only watching to see them cringe!
sasha

I’m so tired of idealogue’s throwing insults at each other….folks this country has some really big economic problems and so far no one is addressing all the issues honestly…….the republicans are as bad as the democrats….it’s time for a pragmatist ‘s party…it’s time for good independents that are willing to address our problems without special interests or religion involved. We need public financing to remove all the special interest folks and set a limit to what they can spend on campaigns. We’ll never get smart, honest politicians as long as they need so much money for advertising to get their message out. Today, everyone has to sell their soul to get elected which automatically makes them worthless. Airwaves, newspapers should be free..
afterall we all own them.
ladyruth54

Me too, Arkansas Steve, I want to see their heads explode!
Nahu Tuk

sasha said:
afterall we all own them.

Yes, and NOT the other way around. You make a lot of good points.
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sasha said:
afterall we all own them.

Agreed. The fact is, both those loyal to the Dems and Pubs are being played by the puppet masters who control both sides. I wonder if the majority of people in this country will realize it before we all wake up one morning to find we’re enslaved.