Big Three Networks Ignore Obama's Medal of Honor Screw-Up
Barack Obama's confusing one living American war hero with a fallen one he honored in 2009, has been completely ignored by the Big Three Networks shows, including the same NBC Nightly News that threw a fit over Sarah Palin's recent recounting of an event over 200 years ago, Paul Revere's ride.
On Thursday, at Fort Drum, New York, as reported by the Military Times, Obama told the 10th Mountain Division he had the privilege of meeting "a comrade of yours, Jared Monti" adding it was "the first person who I was able to award the Medal of Honor to who actually came back and wasn't receiving it posthumously." Turns out Monti did receive it posthumously, as Obama presented the award to his parents at a White House ceremony in 2009. After CBN inquired about the gaffe, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney clarified that the President had confused Monti with "Salvatore Giunta, who was the first living recipient of the Medal who served in Afghanistan."
This insensitive blunder by the President was not covered the Big Three Network evening news shows on Wednesday and received zero stories on Thursday's morning shows.
NBC Nightly News, which spent three straight nights mocking Palin on her Revere account, as reported by the MRC's Rich Noyes, ignored Obama's mistake, even as Jim Miklaszewski played clips from the very Fort Drum speech in which Obama made his screw-up. While CBS Evening News also covered Obama's event with the troops they too failed to report Obama's error. On ABC's World News with Diane Sawyer there wasn't even a story on Obama at Fort Drum, but they did air bits of a David Muir interview with First Lady Michelle Obama which Sawyer teased this way: "And still ahead, right here on World News, the First Lady talks to David Muir, what she wants for her daughters when they fall in love."
The following are the relevant excerpts from the June 23 editions of the CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News and ABC World News:
NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams
BRIAN WILLIAMS: Last night President Obama spelled out his plan for withdrawing 33,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan, bringing them home by next summer. Today the President wasted on time. He hit the road to sell this plan, while back in Washington some of America's military brass weighed in on what they think of it. More tonight from our Pentagon correspondent Jim Miklaszewski.
BARACK OBAMA ENTERING ROOM: At ease everybody.
JIM MIKLASZEWSKI: President Obama took his new strategy today to the Army's 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum, New York.
OBAMA: Thank you everybody.
MIKLASZEWSKI: The division which led the surge of 33,000 additional forces into Afghanistan. The President tried to assure these soldiers that his plan to now begin withdrawing U.S. troops would not put them or the gains they fought for, at additional risk.
OBAMA: To all of you who are potentially gonna be redeployed, just know that your commander-in-chief has your back.
CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley
SCOTT PELLEY: President Obama said today the withdrawal from Afghanistan will not mean giving up the gains that America has fought for. He was speaking to some of the men and women who have fought the most at Fort Drum. Combat brigades from the 10th Mountain Division had deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan 16 times in the 10 years. At this historic turning point in the war we asked Mandy Clark what the troops in Afghanistan are saying and she found them at the hospital at the Bagram Airbase - the first stop for wounded warriors on a long trip home.
ABC World News With Diane Sawyer
DIANE SAWYER: And still ahead, right here on World News, the First Lady talks to David Muir, what she wants for her daughters when they fall in love.
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DAVID MUIR: All of the children here, when you walk into a room their faces light up and back home we see the same thing, all of your work with children. And I'm curious, politics aside, if I could ask you personally if you would like another four years to continue your work as First Lady?
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Never fear.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 3:18pm.
They'll run with it as soon as they figure out why it's Bush's fault.
If the MSM keeps this up
Submitted by MightyMouth on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 3:20pm.
If the MSM keeps this up Obama may actually become the smartest guy in the room by election day.
They are Pravda.
Submitted by Benjamin on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 3:51pm.
Never report anything that possibly puts Dear Leader in a negative light.
bravo!
Submitted by merly1 on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 9:20pm.
well said.
Am I....
Submitted by BBallleaper on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 3:58pm.
the only one in America who thinks Brian Williams has an empty cerebral compartment? I swear he has the vacant stare of a dunce and his reading off a teleprompter each evening seems to bear it out.
Williams just has that type
Submitted by Diesel on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 4:32pm.
Williams just has that type of a face that screams to be slapped!
If I ever watched the evening
Submitted by gopsteve on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 9:31pm.
If I ever watched the evening Obama Propaganda Network News, I might know what you mean.
I've always thought the same thing..
Submitted by Jnoble on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 11:19am.
...about Merideth Viera: empty zombie-like stare into the camera while reading her lines.
OMG
Submitted by stunned on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 4:04pm.
Could you imagine the fit they would have had if Bush had screwed up the name of a great war hero he had honored and had spoken personally with his parents in the Oval Office? Obama is a moron when off the teleprompter. The MSM is getting worse every day.
tired of liberal lies
I can see where he can
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 4:15pm.
I can see where he can confuse the two. President Obama has too much on his plate and needs to make a military Czar to take care of these little things. Then he can get down to the real business of being President ... Golf. After all I am sure he makes plenty of deals on the course, mostly mulligans.
"The MSM was just protecting the Monti family"
Submitted by SickofLibs on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 4:23pm.
Wait for it.
Big deal
Submitted by Zepppo on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 4:26pm.
This might be insensitive but it is not newsworthy. People mess up names all the time. Of course, by the same token, most of the gaffes the Lame Stream Media do cover are from Republicans and are equally minor and should not be covered.
And they did not cover the 57 state gaffe which really did show Obama's ignorance. Oh they tried to explain it away as though he meant 47 but it included that he had one state left because he would not be going to Hawaii. Which means that he thinks there are 59 states so even assuming that he meant 47, he is still one off and apparently trapped in 1959.
My favorite was when they complained about Bush saying "If somone can read and write, then he can pass a literacy test." as an example of "Duh!" but in fact he was countering the complaint that certain minorities can read and write but they fail literacy tests because the tests were racial. The example being of a story of polo since this is a "white person sport". Funny I know a lot of white people but none who play or even watch polo.
Maybe
Submitted by Unsane on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 7:47pm.
Perhaps, but if Bush or his old man or Reagan had done so, the State-Controlled Mouthpieces would loop the footage of it.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Obama has just let his
Submitted by gopsteve on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 4:26pm.
Obama has just let his re-election team go to save money...
He sees that there is now no doubt that the the lamestream media will do the work for them
PS Why does he have to tell
Submitted by gopsteve on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 4:29pm.
PS
Why does he have to tell the military he has their "back?"
It is like he is trying to convince them of something they do not believe.
He has their backs all right.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 5:07pm.
The first thing I would do if Bambi assured me that he "had my back" is turn around and take him out first. Then you might have a chance against what is in front of you.
Medal of honor
Submitted by Dukehoopsfan on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 4:40pm.
I guarantee you that the troops in the 10th Mountain know the difference between Jared Monti and Sal Giunta. It's too bad obie doesn't care enough to try to get it right.
Well at least we know the admission is not from bias.
Submitted by Bhaal on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 4:42pm.
That was confirmed by Jon Stewart. No bias in the media.
lol, yep
Submitted by Jnoble on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 11:21am.
and don't question little Johnny about it or he'll throw one of his tempter tantrums and then when back in the safety of his own show claim that you somehow edited him to look bad.
Binkyprompter was in the uh, uh, uh, uh, uh shop?
Submitted by Tomorama on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 5:05pm.
They were too busy finishing the Palin papers and the Weiner building and saving "campaigns".
To those folks in the room, the families of ANY fallen, to THE FOLKS THAT ARE SERVING and have served, it MEANS EVERYTHING that he couldn't get this part right.
Sorry, if it were Booooooosh, it would be all over the place and Boooooosh would have been forced to apologize.
But it means shit to the media as NONE OF THEM volunteered and served and the closest they ever got to a UNIFORM was a McDonalds one.
Big Three Networks Ignore . . .
Submitted by rickbren on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 5:07pm.
Obama's Medal of Honor Screw-Up . No less than expected.
Roger that.
Submitted by Rousse on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 6:12pm.
Roger that.
Its not like he cared or
Submitted by BD on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 3:17pm.
Its not like he cared or anything....
heh
Submitted by ozarkian on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 5:33pm.
I'm sure the tough, experienced military men are glad to hear barry has their back. I'm sure they were worried he might not be behind them.
On a different note, although obammy is accepted as commander-in-chief material, people have been calling the talk shows laterly saying Romney's the only one who can beat BO, because "people aren't ready for a woman president"" and "the far-right turns off independents." Some people are bound and determined to give obama another term while insulting Americans, women, and conservatives (the "far-right." Puh-leeze.),
I'm getting pretty damn sick of hearing our best conservatives being slurred by people who get their opinions from mainstream tv. Seems like there might be at least a touch of embarassment for being such an a**.
Tasteless nit
Submitted by tombaker on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 6:19pm.
Tasteless nit pickers...anyone, as you all seem to be here, getting glee out of a mistake in honoring two soldiers is on the wrong side. To use military service a tool against the Obama is the stuff of low life.
A mistake was made, fine, but you all seem to be getting a thrill up you legs. You are on the level of Code Pink if you are gonna throw a tantrum that the Press should point out that a soldier was confused in honoring them.
Palin attacked the lame stream media for setting her up with, when she gave her "he rode a horse with bells on, Paul Revere story. You say something is the fault of others....others will respond. Palin always the non-responsible victim with her normal cadre of apologists trying to say that Palin needs help in the playground of politics. Anything Obama does becomes a comparison to Palin....poor girl can not get a break....awww
So what would you have, the media using soldiers service as a big deal, or reporting that Obama has done nothing for the entire year to date, that he is already running for reelection instead of doing his job, that he has spent about 70 days on the Golf course, that he attorney general has no clue on how to deal with terrorist trials, that the entire argument for closing Gitmo was always a lie.
Nope you noodles what to get your jollies by pointing out mistaking two soldiers names, who were give high honors...way to go kiddies....way to drop to the lowest level.
I think you are the one who
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 6:49pm.
I think you are the one who misses the point. If this were one isolated incident then it would be a gaffe but this one and his disdain for the military, which is very obvious, is more than enough. The further point is the bias in the media for not covering it as they would President Bush for a banner he did not place on a ship.
Go home Tom.
tomparrot is back
Submitted by Unsane on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 7:55pm.
tomparrot, at least you are getting closer to being honest. You are wanting to bend over backwards for Him, thus indicating to me you love Him. You are busy making excuses for Him and attacking NB for pointing out something that the State Controlled Mouthpieces would absolutely, positively not shut up about, had the same gaffe been committed by, say, Bush.
And of course true to your parrot form you cannot go not a single post without attacking your obsessive devotion, that evil f****** g****** b**** Palin. You just won't be happy until she simply stops breathing, will you?
Real classy of you to hide behind the Medal of Honor recipients. I guarantee you His Majesty The Shahinshah, who is embarrassed and ashamed of the military and hates the military with a passion, was thoroughly disgusted with having to perform this ceremony.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
You swung and missed, Tom
Submitted by HockeyKid on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 8:17pm.
now it's time to retire. If you think anyone here is expressing glee, you need a trip to the dictionary. Disgust, yes. Glee? Hardly.
Speaking as a vet, I find your comments almost as offensive as Obysmal's ignorance of the men he is supposed to be honoring. Clearly you both know quite a bit of "the stuff of low life".
You say the two soldiers "were give high honors" [sic]. This displays your massive, grotesque ignorance. The Medal of Honor is not given. It is earned only through the most valorous of meritorious service. This is why its award is only very rarely not posthumous. You insult its recipients by saying they were "given" anything. They were the ones who gave--in most cases, the very last measure. You should be ashamed of yourself.
As for Obysmal, is it unreasonable to expect that, if someone is going to use an MoH recipient for his latest name-dropping campaign moment, he at least gets the name right? It just showcases Obysmal's lack of class, grace, and tact. He could care less about the soldiers; he just wants to polish his own image in the reflection of their greatness.
You are both beneath contempt.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Medal of Honor
Submitted by Unsane on Mon, 06/27/2011 - 8:40pm.
A decade or so ago, I had the privilege of meeting with the oldest living recipient of the Medal of Honor. After meeting him, it was pointed out to the group I was with that 70% of those who have ever received the Medal of Honor do not live to tell the tale.
I was reminded of this fact while visiting a nearby National Cemetery today to locate the gravesites of some relatives.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Yes poor little troll, it is an easy mistake.
Submitted by The Vet on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 2:48am.
It is not like President Obama has only presented a few Medal of Honor medals out and ONLY ONE to a living man. Oops. Wait. He has.
Sep 17, 2009 Monti, Jared C. Army/Afghanistan
Presented posthumously at the White House by President Barack Obama.
Sep 19, 2010 Etchberger, Richard L. Air Force/Vietnam
Presented posthumously at the White House by President Barack Obama.
Oct 6, 2010 Miller, Robert James Army/Afghanistan
Presented posthumously at the White House by President Barack Obama.
Nov 16, 2010 Giunta, Salvatore Army/Afghanistan
Presented at the White House by President Barack Obama. Salvatore Giunta is the first LIVING Recipient of the Medal of Honor for actions since the Vietnam War.
May 2, 2011 Anthony Kaho'ohanohano
Henry Svehla Army/Korea
Presented posthumously at the White House by President Barack Obama.
Ok, it ain't like it is the highest medal in the land. Oh wait...
Presented by the President in the Name of the Congress, it is the highest honor that can be bestowed upon any American
Ok. So the President gives out other medals too. Oh wait... Turns out he don't...
The Medal of Honor is by far the highest award that can be bestowed on a serviceman. Traditionally, the medal is personally presented by the President of the United States.
Tom,
Submitted by packman on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 10:32am.
You are obviously a member of the confederacy of fools that elected this fool.
"...Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread..." ~Thomas Jefferson
Yeah, no biggie.
Submitted by The Vet on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 11:43am.
Ain't like the CinC constantly screws up when it comes to the military huh?
Ain't like he said platoons were split up between theaters. Or that Captains head Platoons. Or that our troops had to steal Taliban weapons because Uncle Sam is so damn cheap and only provided them with sticks and wiffle balls.
Or took a pass at visiting wounded soldiers to play basketball when he was on the campaign trail.
Or that he said we are bombing villages WWII style in Afghanistan.
Ain't like he blew off living Medal of Honor awardees during his inauguration.
Ain't like he said fallen heroes were standing in a crowd one Memorial Day.
Ain't like he completely blew off another Memorial Day.
Or mispronounced the word corps not once but twice.
Thank heavens the Vietnam War was over when he came of military age, we might have the wondergaffemachine serving as a General about now.
Williams
Submitted by grammajane on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 6:34pm.
Williams would not say a negative word about his hero obammer for fear he might turn down one of his many informative and educational interviews. Williams likes being the head honcho for great interviews with the likes of Bruce Springsten and the obama's.
Clueless lib
Submitted by Tomorama on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 6:36pm.
Sorry Tom.............. a simple disgrace to the good name.
Points of concern "genius".
ONE - are you saying if this were Booooosh, NO STORY in the LSM?
TWO - He was off the binkyprompter, thus again proving he without his binky is not even as smart as Biden.
THREE - this means everything to the family, friends and my fellow brothers and sisters he was speaking to.
FOUR - you would think he would have the sense to right it on his hand maybe, nah, he's just so FN smart and we are not worthy to even speak ill of his GAFFES.
Unlike a leftist pu&&y like you, I kust want the media TO REPORT things down the middle, nothing more and nothing less.
Back to your Obambi doll, hot night for you eh, Mommy making some popcorn and low fat soy lattes later?
Yummy eh pu&&y?
To much to ask for?
Submitted by Injest on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 7:43pm.
"NBC Nightly News, which spent three straight nights mocking Palin on her Revere account, as reported by the MRC's Rich Noyes, ignored Obama's mistake"
That should be mistakes/gaffs, as in more than one.
“First time I saw 10th Mountain Division, you guys were in southern Iraq.”
The 10th Mountain Division was never in Southern Iraq.
The 10th Mountain Division was deployed to Iraq for the first time in April 2008.
They operated in the Kirkuk area, 460 miles from Southern Iraq. (Operation Phantom Phoenix)
140 miles North of Baghdad! Google it!
“And so as I look around this room I suspect that some of you joined the military after 9/11 because you had seen fellow Americans suffer at the hands of bin Laden.”
Let me help you out here President TOTUS.
EVERY person in the military TODAY joined or has re-upped AFTER 9/11/ 2001. In fact Mr. TOTUS as of 9/11/ 2009 EVERY person in the military had joined or has re-upped AFTER 9/11/ 2001!
Mr. TOTUS, EVERY person in the military volunteered knowing full well they would be going into combat, war, kinetic whatever.
MIKLASZEWSKI: The division which led the surge of 33,000 additional forces into Afghanistan.
ERRRRRRRRRRR wrong!
First 16,000 surge troops expected in Afghanistan by spring
Stars and Stripes
Published: December 8, 2009
ARLINGTON, Va. — About 16,000 troops with the first wave of the Afghanistan surge are expected to be in country by the end of spring.
Later this month, 1,500 Marines from Camp Lejeune, N.C., will deploy to Afghanistan, leading the increase of up to 33,000 extra troops, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said on Monday.
It was the USMC that led the surge of 33,000. 7 months before the 10th arrived.
The other units are:
6,200 Marines with Regimental Combat Team 2, headquartered out of Camp Lejeune, expected to deploy in early spring.
800 Marines with I Marine Expeditionary Force Forward, out of Camp Pendleton, Calif., also deploying in spring.
About 3,400 soldiers with 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, out of Fort Drum, N.Y., deploying in spring to train Afghan security forces.
About 4,100 “enablers,” such as military police, deploying during the spring.
Granted we all know Obama uses the military for a campaign photo op but is getting the basic facts to hard?
To much to ask for?
Tom Tom clubbed.............
Submitted by Tomorama on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 8:58pm.
Obscure 80's reference #41888
Oh how nice, the little Tom Tom get's schooled and he runs to his Obama doll.
How typical.
Cowards of a feather, act like pu&&ies together.
the media
Submitted by jessieH on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 10:34am.
The media is dead. It died after the first words against this country was read on tv by the media. They have killed the printed word. They have killed cable. Eventually, they will kill the internet. Yesterday, Fox News spent 95% of airtime on the Anthony case. 95%. With everything going on in the country, the world, you would think that a little time could go to something other than this crappy trial. The media is dead. It commited suicide.