Rep. Gowdy Vents over Rep. McCarthy’s Benghazi Gaffe

‘Kevin screwed up’

FORD: "Chairman Gowdy, Harold Ford, good morning. I know you distanced yourself from Mr. McCarthy’s comments. But I have a question, where on the earth do you think he could have come up with that appraisal of what your committee has done or is doing? Where did he -- what was this motivated by, his comments?" 
GOWDY: "Representative Ford, if I knew the answer to that question, I would probably be in a different line of work. Kevin has apologized as profusely as a human being can apologize. I went back and watched the interview. And what I tell folks back home is I don’t care how many times you put an ear piece in your ear and looked into a camera, you still screw up, and Kevin screwed up. I don't know if it was Hannity pressing him, I don’t know if he got thrown off by asking – to give Speaker Boehner a grade. I can’t unlock the mysteries of that. I could just tell you, if you look at what the members of our committee have done, we were pretty reluctantly brought into the Secretary Clinton aspect of it. I mean, we worked in virtual anonymity for the first eight months. In fact, I got more criticism from the right than I did from the left. It’s because The New York Times and AP and others broke this story that folks’ interest in Secretary Clinton picked up in this regard. Our interest in her is because she was secretary of state at the time.”

 

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