Media Throw a Fit Over 'Rude' Netanyahu 'Lecturing' Obama
For many in the media Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu's reaction to Barack Obama insistence that his country return to the 1967 borders was out of bounds. ABC's Christiane Amanpour declared she was "stunned" by his "public lecture" of the President and NBC's Andrea Mitchell hissed, "it was really rude," and charged he treated Obama "like a school boy." Mitchell didn't reserve her criticism to Netanyahu as she even went after Republicans who dared to take his side, accusing them of "piling on the President."
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The following is a collection of some of the media's most outrageous outbursts over the Israeli prime minister's response to Obama, over the last couple of days:
First up, on Friday Mitchell offered this condemnation of Republicans on her MSNBC show, Andrea Mitchell Reports:
MITCHELL: The political pitfalls of wading into the Israeli-Palestinian stalemate was on display today, with Republican presidential contenders piling on the president. 2012 hopefuls slamming Mr. Obama for saying that Israel should give up lands occupied since 1967, even as some Senate Republicans offer a more measured reception – those not running for office, not running for president.
John Heilemann is National Affairs editor for New York Magazine and joins us from New York. So first of all, the angry reception that the President got, was that predictable? Whatever happened to politics ending at the water's edge?
Then, on the May 22 edition of Meet the Press, Mitchell expressed offense "in the fashion" Netanyahu "lectured" the President, "treating him like a school boy."
DAVID GREGORY: At the same time, what's happening today, we want to take you live here in Washington, D.C., to the scene of AIPAC. This is the pro-Israel lobby, very powerful in the United States. The President will be speaking here, Andrea Mitchell, and this is on the heels of a rupture with Israel. The President said this week that any peace plan, a Palestinian state would have to go back to the borders of prior to the 1967 war. This was significant.
MITCHELL: He did have language that said there would be land swaps to protect Israel's security, but it was taken as a red flag by Netanyahu. And what happened then was that even if this was implicit in things that previous presidents had said, Netanyahu seized on it. Even before he got on the plane, he criticized the President, and in such a fashion! He lectured him in the Oval Office. And if you look at that picture that you have up there right now, it was a stone-faced Barack Obama and Netanyahu basically treating him like a school boy. People even who work for Netanyahu, some Israeli officials, told him later that he went too far. That it was, it was really rude and that there would be blowback to this.
Also on Sunday, on ABC's This Week, Amanpour joined Jake Tapper in being flabbergasted by what they saw as Netanyahu exacerbating an already "frosty relationship" with Obama.
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: So you talked about no relationship. I mean, they have a frosty relationship at best, right, Jake?
JAKE TAPPER: It's - there's no love lost, I think it's fair to say. And I also think it's fair to say that when Bibi in the Oval Office did something I've never seen happen-
AMANPOUR: I was going to ask you-
TAPPER: -which is, which is this little history lesson on the Jewish people and suffering, that did not endear him further to the White House.
AMANPOUR: Were you, were you stunned by that? I mean, it did look like a public lecture.
AARON MILLER, FORMER STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL: Yeah, I mean, it was - it was pretty unprecedented. I mean, [Menachem] Begin used to lecture Carter, but it was done privately. Begin was too polite to do it publicly. Netanyahu saw an opportunity. He was clearly upset. I mean, he feels that he was set up. So this was payback.
And it was payback at a time when the prime minister feels pretty self-confident that the peace process is going nowhere. And he has a number of cards to play. I'm not sure, however, for an American audience, you want to be in a position of lecturing your only reliable ally.
AMANPOUR: Even Jeffrey Goldberg, who is one of the most reliable friends of Israel in print and in all sorts of way, said that he was offended to see - to see the Israeli prime minister basically lecturing the President of the United States and that Netanyahu had, quote, "gone out of his way" to alienate this president.
Over on CBS's Face the Nation Bob Schieffer took exception to Newt Gingrich calling Obama's demand for Israel to return to pre-1967 borders "dangerous."
BOB SCHIEFFER: And we're back with the Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich. Mister Gingrich, the President made a big speech on the Middle East last week. What did you think of it?
NEWT GINGRICH: I think it is a disaster. I think it is extraordinarily dangerous. I think that it--defining the 1967 border would be an act of suicide for Israel. They are totally non-defensible. Ithink for the United States, you know-- we don't have moral equivalence here. You have Hamas which is a terrorist organization whose stated goal is the destruction of Israel. You have a democracy. Now the idea that somehow we're supposed to be neutral between Hamas and Israel is fundamentally flawed. And I do not believe that we should have any pressure on Israel as long as Hamas's policy is the destruction of Israel. And as long as missiles are being fired into Israel and terrorists are preparing to try to kill Israelis. And I think it is-- a President who can't control his own border probably shouldn't lecture Israel about their border.
SCHIEFFER: I have to ask you though you're using words like dangerous. I mean, the President was calling for peace. How- why - why can you characterize that as dangerous?
GINGRICH: Because how do you have peace with a Hamas organization whose stated goal is the destruction of Israel and driving every Israeli out of the country? I mean, read what Hamas says. This idea, that somehow - these people are firing missiles virtually every day intoIsrael. These people are constantly preparing for terrorism. They're recruiting children to be suicide bombers. How - how can you - the President talks about peace when he ought to be insisting that we cut off all aid to Hamas and isolate Hamas as long as it is a terrorist organization trying to destroy an entire people. I mean, I really think we've got to get over this moral equivalence.
Then on Monday's edition of CNN's In the Arena, it was Eliot Spitzer's turn to offer his spin as he spouted: "Did Netanyahu blow it?" and depicted Obama as the "best friend" staging an intervention for the good of the Israeli PM.
SPITZER: Did Netanyahu blow it? Israel's prime minister draws a line in the sand and Obama walks over it. If your best friend can't tell you you're wrong, who can?...For the President to have said out loud what every secretary of state would, every prime minister would, every negotiation for a decade, what everybody in the public who cares about this has known to be the case, that is not new and it is certainly not worth the prime minister picking a very public dispute with the president when the president has gone out of his way to make so many important statements about other elements of the policy. That is why I think Prime Minister Netanyahu made a mistake about this. It was not new. And therefore, this fight was not worth it.
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Comments
Netanyahu knows better when
Submitted by Beukeboom on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 3:55pm.
Netanyahu knows better when it comes to Israel and Obama shows his ignorance while stabbing Israel in the back (metaphorically speaking). IMHO Obama has one of the most bass-ackwards foreign policies of any POTUS in my lifetime and it's hurting the United States.
Obama is not only backwards and in every direction but
Submitted by gmaniac1 on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 4:16pm.
the right direction, he is just downright arrogant in every decision that he makes. He makes Carter look like he has a backbone. 2012 can't come soon enough and he makes me ashamed to be a mixed breed as well.
When are black and Jewish people going to learn that this guy does not represent their interests? He is nothing more than a tool of elitist liberal whites who created slavery in the first place.
This time it sticks. The
Submitted by Gat New York on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 4:52pm.
This time it sticks.
The majority of Jews will not vote for Obama. More importantly the typical Jewish donations to his campaign will not be there. Now, I am only speaking for the real Jews - people with the Jewish last name and have not forgotten their religion and heritage. I cannot speak for the people who may still have a Jewish last name but have long since abandoned any responsible support for Israel. It is worth noting that the day after the Obama speech 3 very liberal Jewish New York congressmen immediately distanced themselves from Obama: Weiner, Israel, and Engle.
The media push back is clearly coordinated from the White House and that is not going to work this time. People like Amanpour have always been anti-Israel in their reporting so her credibility is zero. People like Andrea Mitchell are part of the far left useful idiots that the White House uses on a daily basis and have long since abandoned any degree of journalistic integrity.
What is transparent about their argument is that this was TOO public. The world saw Obama back stab Netanyahu as the Prime Minister was about to board a plane coming to the USA. Obama was clearly making an attempt to undercut the Prime Minister before his speech to AEPAC and Congress. Obama had never cleared or even told Netanyahu those passages in his speech that caused this furor.
So who exactly disrespected who? And what happened behind closed doors is anyone's guess, but in public I saw Netanyahu as a seasoned diplomat, statesman, and a leader. What I saw in Obama was an exposed weasel.
In other words, unlike the
Submitted by dscott on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 5:16pm.
In other words, unlike the GOP and SCOTUS who had to sit there and take it, Bibi talked back to the lecturer in chief. It's a confirmation that liberalism only succeeds when no one objects. Liberalism always fails when there is a second opinion. The MSM doesn't like it when the blogs out their thin assertions and no less when someone stands up to the absurd idiotic blathering of Obama.
"The majority of Jews will
Submitted by MightyMouth on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 5:28pm.
"The majority of Jews will not vote for Obama."
Yes they will, once a Liberal always a Liberal.
Besides, most of them are not "Jews", they may be Jewish, but real Jews live in Israel not Manhattan. The Jews are actually surrounded by dogs and Jackels who would kill them given the chance.
Unfortunately, MM....
Submitted by almostacowboy on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 5:46pm.
I agree with you, at least, about the voting.
Not this time . . .
Submitted by Gat New York on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 10:30pm.
I have spoken to too many who did vote for Obama then and there is no way they will vote for him again - and that was before the blow up over Israel. This was the final nail. Obama might have gotten past the perception of incompentence but that speech completed the narrative that began with his 20 years in an anti-Israel church with Jeremiah Wright.
American Jews will still vote for their liberals - just not this one.
sorry, I disagree..
Submitted by OldJoe on Thu, 05/26/2011 - 10:41am.
You guys will vote for him again and again... just like the Jews in Germany said, Hitler does not REALLY mean what he wrote in Mein Kampf.
Jews will continue to support and vote Democrat. Barack Obama
Submitted by Rush Fan on Fri, 05/27/2011 - 1:52am.
received 78% of the Jewish vote. In 2009 the WSJ carried excerpts from Norman Podhoretz's book "Why Are Jews Liberals?" Podhoretz wrote: "Since 1928, the average Jewish vote for the Democrat in presidential elections has been an amazing 75%—far higher than that of any other ethno-religious group."
Conservative talk radio host, author and Jew Dennis Prager wrote an article titled Explaining Jews, Part V: Why Are Jews Liberal? Prager writes:
A Jewish caller on Rush Limbaugh's program the other day also felt liberal jews were not really "Jewish":
CALLER: Way back, Rush, way back, Rush. Okay. The point I wanted to make, as a Jewish person, is to sort of answer your question which you asked at the beginning of your show, why are so many Jews liberal? And I think the short answer to that is because most Jews are not religious.
RUSH: Hmm. Now, you have to throw that in as a factor. You certainly do. What he's saying is here, if you're an irreligious Jew, then the tie to Israel wouldn't be anything more than a foreign policy issue, wouldn't matter to you nearly as much. You may have a point.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: Hey, look, there's another reason why people are liberal, not just Jewish people. And it's probably one of the simplest reasons why people are liberal. They're simply misinformed. It's no more complicated than that. It is amazing how simple sometimes the truthful answer to a complex question, is. They're just misinformed or uninformed, which is why God created radio, which is why we are here, to correct and deal with the misinformed and the uninformed.
"Slaves Expected to Sing"
Submitted by Annie Ashe Fields on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 3:58pm.
Frederick Douglass wrote that slaves were expected to SING while they worked. Is that was Bibi was supposed to do while Obama was LITERALLY throwing his nation under an exploding bus?
Israel is SURROUNDED on ALL SIDES by nations full of MILLIONS of people trained since BIRTH that the only thing Jews are good for is KILLING. These nations have oil and other natural resources they could have exploited to avoid becoming sh*tholes but they've not done it. The only thing they can organize around, evidently, is base, animal, un-enlighted RAGE. Nothing of a higher order. Therefore. they make Israel, a sandbox with NOTHING in the way of natural resources the repository of all their rage. Israel possesses NOTHING that once conquered, they could SELL. NOTHING. They just WANT IT. To expand their sh*thole empire.
I'm sure Mr. Netanyahu is sorry he didn't have his presidential kneepads. I hear TSA took 'em.
http://www.anniefields.com/blog
With as many times as Obama
Submitted by Beukeboom on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 4:06pm.
With as many times as Obama has bowed to other countries' leaders (and thus making the U.S. look weak and subservient) I wonder if he was expecting Netanyahu to bow to him?
He should have punched obama
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 4:05pm.
He should have punched obama in the face and then said "listen up punk". The Kenyan needs to be reoved from office and holder needs jail time.
Hmmm...could it be that.....
Submitted by BEGRUNT on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 4:03pm.
Zero is completely ignorant of the middle east situation?? That was why Netanyahu lectured him like..........."he treated Obama "like a school boy." Or.....he is in the bag for the Islamists. One or the other seems to be the answer.
"A nation can suffer it's fool's, but cannot survive the traitor"
Cicero
Tsk, tsk
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 4:10pm.
"School boy"? Isn't that both racist and sexist?
Rattling the Cage
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 4:12pm.
Obama should be looking over his shoulder.
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read “Leftism As Psychopathy” by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html
The NERVE of Netanyahu...
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 4:13pm.
Not treating Chairman O'Bozo like the god we know he is! These libs are the ones who are clueless! Benny took Barry boys lunch, and shoved it down his throat, and is ready to do more! Maybe if we had a media that did their job theyd realize the major DAMAGE O'Boner did with that "SPEECH" of his! BTW, anyone think O'teleprompter running away-to Ireland!-over the weekend was a coincidence? He hi-tailed it when he knew the bully Benny was coming to get cha! What a wuss!
Poor MSM, Seem To Forget
Submitted by Bourbeau on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 4:15pm.
How stubbornly rude President Obama was to Netanyahu when he visited him last year, and he had a hissy fit, leaving him in a White House conference room while he went upstairs to have dinner. Even worse, didn't give him a 'stand together' presser, and had him leave by the side door. Yeah, that was really, really polite.
Obama got exactly what he deserved, a publice education on the history of Israel, and moreover, maybe he'll learn a thing or two about what it feels like when he's pointing his finger and lecturing the rest of us about his view of the world, which to be fair, is usuall ass backwards.
Sorry Pravda...
Submitted by JLin on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 4:20pm.
The President is an ignorant punk who should have been treated rougher actually. He is an intellectual lightweight and has no more business being in the Oval Office than Vanna White or any other celebrity spokesmodel.
LOL!!!
Submitted by ConservaSerb on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 10:16pm.
Big thumbs up, RedDog!
A wise & frugal government, which shall leave men free 2 regulate their own pursuits of industry & improvement, & shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government. T. Jefferson
Those dang conservative bloggers
Submitted by im41 on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 4:21pm.
Attention
Obama Hired Team to Quell Anti Obama Bloggers Online
http://conservativeblogscentral.blogspot.com/2011/05/obama-hired-team-to...
Is it real?
Submitted by jon_torlin on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 4:40pm.
Is that for real?
-Jon
Jon
Submitted by Radical1979 on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 4:47pm.
Real? It's Obama. Yes. It's real.
Shutting down internet sites comes in his second term.
Dang....
Submitted by jon_torlin on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 5:01pm.
I knew he was a real POSSOB, but dang, this needs to be spread far and wide.
There are other things I could say, but that might get me banned.
-Jon
Treat him like a school boy?
Submitted by ConservaSerb on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 5:40pm.
LOL. I can just picture all the little 3rd grade girls as they were beating up the pussified 6th grade Barry "The Soe" Soetoro.
Is there anyone that CAN'T kick the little whinin', lyin', Mao-readin', Muslim-lovin', America-haters ass?
A wise & frugal government, which shall leave men free 2 regulate their own pursuits of industry & improvement, & shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government. T. Jefferson
you hit in right on the head
Submitted by jkwtrading on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 5:52pm.
you hit in right on the head only the sissies are defending Obama.
"politics stops at the water's edge!!"
Submitted by mzk1 on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 4:33pm.
Good idea. So where have they been for the past 50 years??
It's OK to attack the president for trying to defend the country. But heaven forbid they should stop him from destroying an ally!
I think what this mainly tells us is the MSM view on Israel. And meanwhile, we see in the header above an MSM attempt to rehabilitate a murderous pogrom artist (Al Sharpton). If it was up to these guys, the USSR would still be around and running much of the world.
If politics is supposed to stop at the water's edge, than why
Submitted by Rush Fan on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 5:13pm.
does President Barack Hussein O'Obama (his Irish name) travel around the world apologizing for the sins of America?
Screaming Bias
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 4:36pm.
There is no way the leftist media establishment can claim impartiality. Now there is no way they can claim they are not anti-Semitic.
Fear and loathing in Obamerica
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read “Leftism As Psychopathy” by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html
It's all very simple.......
Submitted by Herbster on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 4:46pm.
Netanyahu = Leadership.
Obama = Lack of leadership.
State run media = Enablers/defenders of Obama.
I think Netanyahu
Submitted by misterbee241 on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 4:52pm.
did a fine job of standing up to Obama. I watched his address to Congress and according to Marvin Kalb, he had them on t heir feet 56 times. He told Congress Israelis had sixty seconds warning when a rocket was coming in. He said "you would not live like that and we wont either." Bibi definitely had a backbone.
Many Americans were more
Submitted by AngryInOhio on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 5:07pm.
Many Americans were more offended when the Mexican President spoke before Congress and got A STANDING OVATION dissing Arizona's immigration laws...a standing ovation people!! Where was the media then? Where was it reported? Now, just because their idol got a taste of his own medicine, they are whining about it? Please...grow up.
Nope - shoes on other foot-Congress lecturing Obama-not Bibi
Submitted by Gary Hall on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 5:13pm.
I listened to Senate majority leader Reid, and House majority leader Boehner last evening. I observed the Congress of the United States today, doing no less than cheering support for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu.
This very same congress may have sat respectively during Obama's speech last week [had it been presented in front of Congress] but it would not have so warmly embraced, and cheered, Obama on the path he laid out, as they did Netanyahu.
There's really no confusion here; it's President Obama and his State Department who are "rudely" lecturing a proud and honorable Israel and it's leader - not the other way around.
Obama is on the other side of the fence and, his shoe doesn't fit.
(;~/ gary
let me get this straight
Submitted by ron on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 5:15pm.
no one is to speak rudely to the pres but he can speak rudely to the voters by calling them bitter people who cling to their guns and religion. an unemployed obama can't get here quick enough.
Not only that ... but these phugglee bitches
Submitted by ConservaSerb on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 10:18pm.
Treat any and every conservative as if s/he was some horrific growth to avoid stepping on. What do these two America-hating hags know about "respect?" What they mean is, how DARE Netanyahu not bow down and kiss the feet of the guy who they'd kneel and beg for a chance to knob polish??!!
A wise & frugal government, which shall leave men free 2 regulate their own pursuits of industry & improvement, & shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government. T. Jefferson
Netanyahu...
Submitted by GG_NB on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 5:24pm.
Netanyahu handled the situation beautifully. There was nothing smug nor rude about what he said. He stood Israel's ground -- which was necessary -- in a classy way.
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
Fox Business host Lou Dobbs also criticized Netanyahu for the
Submitted by Rush Fan on Wed, 05/25/2011 - 4:49am.
tone Prime Minister Netanyahu used with President Obama. That lack of respect (in Dobbs opinion, NOT mine) for our President bothered Dobbs so much that he brought it up on his Fox Business show and on his radio show on multiple days.
Peter Koelliker on his blog also noticed Dobbs' frustration with Netanyahu:
Lou Dobbs reminds me of Bill O'Reilly. Both of them attempt to sit on the fence, and criticize the right as much as the left. They call it fair and balanced. I call it a lack of conviction and a lack of understanding of what the left and the right stand for.Let's see if I take away half
Submitted by rbosque on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 5:40pm.
Let's see if I take away half of Christiane Amanpour's assets and let's see whether or not SHE squeals like a pig! She just expects Israel to roll over and say "yes"???
If she &$%^#@ insane???
isn't it rude
Submitted by ohio granny on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 5:41pm.
Isn't it rude to invite someone to your house/country and attack them when they can not defend themselves? I am glad Netanyahu answered Obama the way he did. And he was NOT rude.
Of course, the MSM should know all about rude. That is the way they treat anyone who would dare disagree with the "WON".
Obama = the most despicable, unqualified, thin-skinned, arrogant president ever.
Different Tune? Nope, our bad
Submitted by sithkhan on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 5:43pm.
I don't remember these screechers when Vicente Fox was bashing Arizona - the MFMSM has no credibility because they have no consistency, no principles, and no objectivity.
Somebody's need to do it. He
Submitted by 98ZJUSMC on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 5:44pm.
Somebody's need to do it.
He sure wasn't treated like a schoolboy, in school.
Bibi was more polite than Helen Thomas was to Bush-43
Submitted by Galvanic on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 5:56pm.
Did the MSM get upset over Thomas? Not until she uttered anti-Semitic crap that they couldn't defend.
Andrea Mitchell: Obama Will Not Bow To Queen Because "It's Not P
Submitted by im41 on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 5:56pm.
Tip
http://conservativeblogscentral.blogspot.com/2011/05/andrea-mitchell-oba...
Only libs
Submitted by HockeyKid on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 6:33pm.
could characterize dignified truth as rude behavior.
My favorite photo caption from Netanyahu's visit with Obysmal was "Bibi and Bobo". Perfect.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
The MSM is upset because Bibi showed Obama the fool.
Submitted by acaiguana on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 6:43pm.
And he did it with grace and self-assuredness.
I loved it.
ACA
...
Quoted from: 'Acaiguana notes from the Underground' (Soon to be at theaters near you)
ACA---
Submitted by matthewdean on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 6:56pm.
Precisely.
Exactly.
I am unsure which was more appreciated; the slap-down itself, or the resultant non-visible steam coming from the Messiahs' ears and the venomous, yet so impotent glare that he laid on Netanyahu.
One would think that with such prominent ears, the Mr. Spock Vulcan Mind Meld would have registered more strongly on Bibi.
MD
The Man Child Was Treated Like a CHILD...
Submitted by gruyere cheese on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 6:59pm.
When I hear Netanyahu speak, I am moved. When I hear BO speak, I hear a salesman trying to sell me something that is broken, but his goal is to convince me that it works. OB he is the ultimate con man that lives in a nice house (paid by the tax payers) who gets away with it, because his followers listen and believe in his BS....but I digress.
G Cheese
Submitted by desert3030 on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 7:17pm.
The reason and difference is simply. One man has had to fight for his take on freedom; and is fighting for his life 24/7 surrounded by his enemies. The other as he stated in his book, coasted through life, been a left darling who is a media creation at best.
Obama has no understanding of the middle east, other than when he worship there as a child., And maybe, just maybe that is his reason of influenece, rather than history. Bibi could teach him, many a thing.
One more time: It's about
Submitted by Slyrr on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 7:28pm.
One more time:
It's about time someone slapped the dunce cap onto Obama's head and sent him off to sit in the corner to think about what he's done. And while he and his media slaves are sitting there, blubbering and whining about 'mean ol' Netanyahu, they should think about this too:
It's Obama's mere presence in the White House that 'insults' the office of the Presidency. His policies, his actions and his words are disgraceful, and a national/international embarrassment. He makes a fool of himself as a matter of daily course.
And it's only the media's constant 24/7 protection that keeps instances like Friday's smackdown from repeating themselves every day.
Obama deserved a come uppance
Submitted by iamsaved on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 7:55pm.
Obama asked for it with his immature blathering about a subject he knows nothing about, nor cares anything about which is Israel His only agenda is to further the cause of his Muslim brotherhood. Netanyahu handed him his lunch with today's speech before Congress.
Too bad our non-journalists are too busy cheerleading for this disprectful person who is sitting in an office that he demeans with his very presence rather than pointing out his total lack of ability to lead this nation.
Anyone notice Obama playing ping pong as tornados ravaged the midwest? Forget the 3:00 AM phone call Hillary asked about. He'd rather be in Europe campaigning and garnering photos for later use in the campaign.
First it was Joe the Plummer
Submitted by deerjerkydave on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 8:01pm.
First it was Joe the Plummer who dared to stand up to Obama. Now it was Netanyahu. In every instance Obama's loyal subjects in the media quickly run to the defense of their dear leader.
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"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the Federal Government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State Governments are numerous and indefinite. -James MadisonIf you ask me, Bibi was much too kind to the aspiring boy king
Submitted by Dave. on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 8:10pm.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
MSM Obama defenders take it personally.
Submitted by Boil It Down on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 8:18pm.
If many in the MSM were not learning impaired, they might have learned something as well.
If Obama didn't have a history of actions and statements that made him look like a naive college sophomore it might have come as a surprise to many more Americans. As it is, it is only natural to lecture him like a school boy. Ever since Jimmy Carter I've been flabbergasted at our leaders who are so arrogant about the Israel/Arab conflicts.
Obama's speech the day before made it necessary for Netanyahu to do this in view of the world. I think Obama wanted to place himself in charge of Israel's policies and he didn't think Netanyahu would dare challenge his supreme authority in public. -bidn-
Real leader
Submitted by Emil on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 8:21pm.
Perhaps, as the leader of a free and Democratic country Bibi does not feel the need to bow and kowtow before the leader of another country. His duty is to the people of Israel and as such he has every right to respond in a negative manner to anyone proposing ideas that have a negative impact on Israel. Obama has created his own foreign relations and domestic uproar by making his leftists arrogant position superior to the beliefs of the vast majority of the American people. Israel is our friend and ally. How many Arabs states can we say that about?
This is rich....
Submitted by telecaster on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 8:19pm.
Big surprise!....Obama is a schoolboy, a rank amateur who couldn't pack Netanyahu's lunch. He proves it every time he comes out to play president. And the lapdog media are whining cause somebody tipped their golden calf over? Boo f----n Hoo The ignorant intellectual and the fawning, sycophantic press....they deserve each other.
Meanwhile back at the ranch on planet earth the Israelis continue to face an existential threat that is emboldened by wonder boy and his vacuous script readers. Talk about the end of the world.
~He should have just thrown his shoe at Obama
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 8:20pm.
The journos love that move.
For all the good it did
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 8:32pm.
The die is cast. President Obama will increasingly show himself as a sockpuppet of the Muslims.
His plea to Bashar al Asshat to seek peace after murdering his own people shows this President weighs each and every decision in light of his politics rather than any sense of moral imperative.
If he will speak soothing words to a murderous Muslim while suggesting Israel commit suicide, well, that jury's already in.
The One
Submitted by IrateNate on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 8:37pm.
But it's OK for America to lecture other rulers on how to deal with their countries? Arabs and Jews have been at each other for thousands of years. How did the world ever survive without the Great and Powerful O'Bama to finally step in and settle the issue?
Worship of the President by the Media shold be banned
Submitted by MinnRay on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 9:03pm.
It is a violation of the first amendment for the Media to worship our leader the way they do.
Church and State must be kept separate.
Speaking of "worship" of the president by the msm.
Submitted by lrgon on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 11:46pm.
this documetary proves that the wall of separation between media and government has been taken down: http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/behind-the-big-news-propaganda-and-the-cfr/
Affirmative Action at its Finest, Obama Style
Submitted by Less1leg on Wed, 05/25/2011 - 2:22am.
As a social activist blowing his horn its as good as it gets when it comes to the world stage. When Obama tried to lecture a foreign leader on borders and boundaries, the Israeli Prime Minister put Blowhard Obama in his rightful place, the cheap seats. The nerve of Obama to tell the Israeli Prime Minister he should throw back his borders to Pre-1967 areas. Mr. Obama, let it be shown to you that the Islamic countries that invaded, yes invaded did so to wipe you out. They weren't there for a group love session, the Islamic invaders were there to wipe out Israel, and remove the Jewish people from the Middle East.
Is there something missing here in the President's lack of Jewish state existence. And Mr. President, if you were to close your Afro-centric history books for a few moments. The US was a place made by expropriation from other foreign countries who were bordering the fledgeling new United States. Those countries like Mexico were pressing northward to take those areas of the south. What about the deal the US got when purchasing Alaska, or how about the Louisanna Purchase. Schrewd business deals that benefitted the United States quite handsomely, I'd say.
When it comes to the progressive liberal MSM, like NBC and others. Its no wonder nobody watches them any longer. Obama has no more right to publicly dress down a foreign government over its borders and conditions of existence. The US has as much dirt in it's storied past of how it became the United States as any other modern government. But Obama doesn't seem to recognize how the US came to be and points his annointed finger a country which is totally surrounded by those that only wish it to be erradicated and obliterated from the map.
Perhaps Netanyahu should have suggested to Obama
Submitted by RedNeckinaBlueState on Wed, 05/25/2011 - 8:15am.
that the United States should go back to its borders of August 20, 1959 when Hawaii was not a state, so then Obama would not be eligible to be president.
( Yes, I know he would have been eligible as Hawaii was a territory but it sounds good anyway :)
yeh but.....or butt!
Submitted by Patriot II on Wed, 05/25/2011 - 10:33am.
kenya wasn't a state!!! then or now.....
Isn't Kenya the 57th state?
Submitted by ForeverOnTheRight on Wed, 05/25/2011 - 4:15pm.
Isn't Kenya the 57th state?
big difference
Submitted by jessieH on Wed, 05/25/2011 - 10:04am.
between obama & Netanyahu is when Netanyahu speaks, it has passion. When obama speaks, it has Soros pulling his strings.
big difference
Submitted by jessieH on Wed, 05/25/2011 - 10:05am.
between obama & Netanyahu is when Netanyahu speaks, it has passion. When obama speaks, it has Soros pulling his strings.
More
Submitted by Utherpend on Wed, 05/25/2011 - 11:18am.
We need more officials and politicans telling the Pretender In Chief he is a no class college boy who is over his head.
If Be Be was rude...
Submitted by tvhall on Wed, 05/25/2011 - 11:50am.
It will never match how rude O has been to Anerica!