Carville Uses Role As CNN Contributor To Fight Back At Geffen's Personal Comments

Carville Uses Role As CNN Contributor To Fight Back At Geffen's Personal Comments

From CNN's The Situation Room:

BLITZER: (quoting David Geffen from Maureen Dowd's Wednesday column in The New York Times)"Obama is inspirational, and he's not from the Bush royal family or the Clinton royal family. Americans are dying every day in Iraq, and I'm tired of hearing James Carville on television."

BRAZILE: Well, let me...

CARVILLE: Well...

BRAZILE: Let me take this...

(CROSSTALK)

BRAZILE: ... because I have known James for a long time. He is a good Democrat. He's a fighter for the party.

He stands up for working people. And I'm proud that James Carville is on television.

CARVILLE: Yes, that sentence is truly remarkable.

People would say, as annoying as I may be, you know, how are you equating me with people, like, dying in a war? I mean, it goes to -- again, it just goes to show you that this guy lives in some world that is -- how do you go tell 3,100 widows that James Carville being on TV is -- it was...

(CROSSTALK)

BRAZILE: He might be jealous, James. He's jealous.

(CROSSTALK)

BRAZILE: He's jealous.

CARVILLE: If I had -- I will tell you what, Mr. Geffen. You can have my TV time. I will take your money.

(LAUGHTER)

BLITZER: Let me -- let me just...

(LAUGHTER)

BLITZER: Let me wrap up this "Strategy Session" with a statement that David Geffen issued. We invited him to come on the program. He declined.

But this is the statement they released: "Despite reports to the contrary, I am not the campaign finance chair, and have no formal role in the Obama campaign, nor will I, other than to continue to offer my strongest possible personal support for his candidacy. My comments, which were quoted accurately by Maureen Dowd, reflect solely my personal beliefs regarding the Clintons. Thank you."

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