DOOCY: Congressman, it’s great that you’re worried about spending and taxes, but you know, there are a lot of people who are watching this and they see the president and he really took no leadership when it comes to cutting spending with the budget and with this latest crisis, so it seems like….
SMITH: I don’t actually agree with that. The president put on the table cuts to entitlements. He put on the table the chained CPI issue, among other issues.
DOOCY (interrupting): Wait, but that was a nonstarter for a lot of people in your party.
SMITH: [Laughs] Here is the thing, I mean you can say, ‘well, he’s not showing leadership.’ But now what you’re saying is he showed leadership, but nobody else was willing to. So it’s really hard to blame the president … As long as we’re talking about the president, let me also make the point, Speaker Boehner, the Republicans, what have they put on the table in terms of specific spending?
BRIAN KILMEADE (interrupting): Look at the Ryan plan. Look at the budget they passed.
SMITH: No. A budget is not an appropriations bill, Brian. The budget said across the board, we will cut 10%. We’re not going to tell you what, we’re not going to tell you where. We’re just going to imagine that it’s going to happen. In terms of specific spending cuts, the president had actually put more on the table during this last negotiation than the so-called fiscal conservatives leading the House.
KILMEADE: Really? Because I don’t know anything that he wanted to cut besides defense.
SMITH: I just told you! I just told you!
Now this is instructive. Notice how Doocy pretended to care what the Congressman had to say but as soon as he corrects his ignorance, Doocy starts interrupting him and then changes the subject. This is why so few Democrats appear on FOX News. Fox News is not News, nor is it a serious channel that addresses the issues intellectually or honestly. It is a propaganda machine that is designed to manipulate the facts to suit a far Right Wing agenda. But this isn't the first time a Democrat has schooled these idiots. I just loved the look on their faces when this happens. They must be sweating bullets every time they're told they have to host a Democrat who actually knows what the hell he is talking about. I mean what nerve these idiots have to sit there and act like they have the inside scoop on what's going on with these legislative negotiations. I mean Congressman Smith is the guy involved in it. Doocy does nothing but read a script prepared for him by way of the Heritage Foundation.