NYTimes Twice Omits Obama from Headline to Embarrassing Insults of Netanyahu
On Wednesday, New York Times reporter Isabel Kershner covered an embarrassing gaffe involving President Obama – a private conversation between Obama and French President Nicholas Sarkozy, in which both men were overheard insulting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Yet somehow the paper managed to omit Obama from its headline: “In Overheard Comments, Sarkozy Calls Netanyahu a ‘Liar.’”
The president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, told President Obama that he could no longer bear Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, and went on to call Mr. Netanyahu a “liar” in a private conversation overheard by several French journalists last week at the Group of 20 summit meeting in Cannes.
“You are fed up with him, but I have to deal with him even more often than you,” Mr. Obama replied, according to reports that flooded the main Israeli news sites on Tuesday.
The Times also covered it online in a Wednesday morning post by Ashley Parker, after Mitt Romney brought it up, criticizing Obama for his “derisive remarks”: “Romney Seizes on Obama’s Netanyahu Comments," but Thursday morning's print edition again dropped Obama from the headline: "Romney on Israel, Intentionally," and did not even mention Obama until the third paragraph.
The Washington Post buried a brief item on the tussle on page A14 Wednesday, but the headline at least acknowledged Obama’s presence: “Sarkozy to Obama: Netanyahu is ‘a liar.’”
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Yeah, I read this yesterday -
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 11/10/2011 - 9:30am.
Yeah, I read this yesterday - that the White House was on 'damage control' about the fact that Sarkozy called Netenyahu a 'liar' while in a private conversation with Boy Barry.......................and that could make Barry look bad!!!! But the left-wing MSM knows that the majority of fools and tools that read their rags only pay attention to the first couple of sentences..............so that is where they write their slant and their falsehoods.
What if they don't report it at all?
Submitted by rwnewsnut on Thu, 11/10/2011 - 11:26am.
Check the transcripts.
One mention on ABC Good Morning America.
NO coverage on their nightly newscast.
NO coverage on CBS or NBC morning or night.
crickets.
Yeah, that's an
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 11/10/2011 - 1:52pm.
Yeah, that's an option.............the account I read mentions Barry's response near the end of the story, but who's to say that the MSM needs to even do that??? Their job is to keep the Kenyan Kreep from looking bad, so they've got to put some 'private conversation, no comment' spin on the Sarkozy statement, or maybe say that Bibi was lying about the taste of some French brie, or something like that!!!
Of course, if you're an anonomys friend of an anonomys accuser in the Cain psuedo-sexual-harrassment case, you'll make headlines.
Interesting parallels
Submitted by jon_torlin on Thu, 11/10/2011 - 10:19am.
There are interesting parallels between Soetoro and Sarkozy. I didn't know until real recently that Sarkozy was in fact a Hungarian even though he's identified as a Frenchman.(he was born in Paris, his parents immigrated from Hungary, don't know what the rules are about what makes him a Frenchman)
Kinda makes sense as to why he seems to aggressive compared to other Frenchmen before him, but then again, he's not a vrai Frenchman, which made it easy for him to lead the NATO assault on Libya.
-Jon
"You are fed up with him, but
Submitted by rwnewsnut on Thu, 11/10/2011 - 10:43am.
"You are fed up with him, but I have to deal with him even more often than you,”
Didn't Obama say, "I have to work with him every day."
Wasn't this the guy that was
Submitted by Immortal Fish on Thu, 11/10/2011 - 1:34pm.
Wasn't this the guy that was going to restore our honor in the eyes of the rest of the world?
A person who has no class, no
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 11/10/2011 - 1:56pm.
A person who has no class, no ethics, no honesty, no scruples, and no honor is totally unqualified to even attempt to display such traits - and Boy Barry has been proving that since Day One!!! He's an immature, petulant, snotty little punk - who hit the bigtime - and thinks that is part of the reason he got there, obviously, because he keeps exhibiting these tendancies on a daily basis..............
please, killa37
Submitted by Agnostic on Thu, 11/10/2011 - 1:58pm.
Stop repressing and tell us what you really think of Obama.
I thought I held my tongue
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 11/10/2011 - 2:08pm.
I thought I held my tongue fairly well, given what I REALLY think!!! Maybe I could use that line out of 'The Manchurian Candidate' about Barry being the 'nicest, warmest, most wonderful human being'......................etc etc etc.
And speaking of Barry - I just read some comments from that much ballyhood political expert Chris (smoking the) Rock, who can't wait for the Kenyan Kreep to be re-elected, so he can do some 'REAL gangsta sh*t) in his second term!!! If he hasn't allready been doing some SERIOUS gangsta sh*t allready, then I'm not sure what we would call it.................and I'd hate to see what REAL gangsta sh*t is - although I've got a pretty good idea.
killa, it is called EOs
Submitted by Agnostic on Thu, 11/10/2011 - 2:13pm.
President Obama has not used the Executive Order privilege very much during his first term and it is my opinion that he intends to use that to his advantage in a second term (hurts to type that) by hammering his agenda via EO while the media will continue to defend him by stating repeatedly how Obama has used the EO less than other two term Presidents.
Newt is planning the polar opposite which is to use the EO to snatch the nation back towards the 'center' from the socialist outcropping where we now reside.