MSNBC's Brzezinski: Bush Speech a 'Stinging Criticism' of Obama


Over a graphic which read “Pres. Bush Invokes Nazis While Criticizing Obama’s Foreign Policy,” MSNBC sought to hype Democratic reaction to President Bush’s speech in Israel.

During the 9a.m. hour of Thursday’s “MSNBC News Live,” host Mika Brzezinski reported: “President Bush issued a stinging criticism of Barack Obama today suggesting that his plans to hold talks with Iran is the same as trying to appease the Nazis on the eve of World War II.”

Brzezinski began the broadcast with “breaking news” of President Bush’s comments and repeatedly came back to it, making for a total of six references to the “controversy” in the hour-long broadcast. The host also quoted the reaction from the Obama campaign three times and continually referred to the President’s remarks as a “swipe at Obama.”

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Early in the hour, NBC’s John Yang, traveling with President Bush in Jerusalem, reported, “You know, all along Mr. Bush, President Bush has been saying he’s not gonna get drawn into the 2008 campaign, he didn’t want to be the pundit-in-chief, but I think you can agree that he’s jumped in with both feet today.”

Later, reporter Lee Cowan, who covers the Obama campaign and has said that covering Obama makes his knees “quake,” phoned in and briefly mentioned that the White House has said that Bush’s statements were not a direct swipe at Obama. This was the only time the White House’s response was mentioned in the hour broadcast.

During her conversation with Cowan, Brzezinski injected her own opinion: “My personal reaction was I am surprised that he [President Bush] made these statements where he made them let alone the fact that he made them.”

At the end of the hour, guest Mark Simone, a conservative WABC radio host, said, “This is not a shot at Obama, he [Bush] said the same thing a year ago, five years ago, eight years ago, he’s always said this. It’s just don’t negotiate with a terrorist or somebody who got themselves a weapon as a way to get to the bargaining table.” Brzezinski didn’t buy it: “I’m more just concerned about the location and the timing of this swipe. I question it.”


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Brezinski's overload on Bush bashing

All right already Mika, get over it!!!   How many times are you going to obsess over Bush

telling the truth.   If the glove fits, you must

acquit!!   Shut up already.  

DNC talking points

Ever wonder how the MSM picks up the same talking points and repeats them until the are believed to be the truth? It's almost like kids who share the same term paper but rewrite it in their own words. There is truth to the appeasement issue that President Bush brought up. The MSM wants to change the subject just like they have time and time again over the last 7 years.

 

"Methinks thou doth protest too much!"

Mika Mika Mika..get over

Mika Mika Mika..get over yourself...you empty-headed bimbo...we all know you are nothing but a Obamakin supporter...playing a journalist/commentator on television.

I have got to the point that I don't watch much of the show because of her...she drives me nuts....interrupting sound affects is all she is good for. 

"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill

wimpish

Obama needs to grow a pair.  If this empty suit gets upset when someone tells the truth about him...what is he going to do when someone is really mean to him? 

Mika...buy a clue.

Even if it was a "stinging

Even if it was a "stinging criticism," wouldn't this news report serve as ample evidence that Obama is still pretty much locked into the "crybaby bitch" position of not wanting to answer for anything?

 

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Grizzly Bear '08

Libs squirm like salted

Libs squirm like salted leeches when the truth is told about them. 

Brzenzinski baby is

very pro Obama, is quite familiar with his appeasement agenda, so she should know if it was he Bush was going after.

She is shameless. She says she is "just concerned about the location and the timing of this swipe. I question it." (excited utterance)

President Bush simply reiterated the importance of NOT talking to Iranian thugs or Hamas murderers! Where better to speak out against kissing up to Hitler like SOBs?

The Jews of this world will never forget and Jimmy Carter and B.H. Obama need to learn.

She is an A$$

 

Mika Brzezinski is biased. She's totally in the tank.

It's just very interesting to see the one person on MSNBC who is supposed to be a fair and objective news person be so blatently biased. We already know that Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, Dan Abrams, and pretty much all of MSNBC's guests are biased. But Mika Brzezinski is responsible for giving the news. And even she is biased. I think there's something wrong with that.

My my, aren't they a little

My my, aren't they a little touchy on this subject, as well they should be ,with Durbin having called our troops nazis, Kerry calling them stupid, Murtha calling them murderers, to name but a few, and on and on: the Democrat Party sated with so many petty , treasonous little cowards.

BUSH TO DEMS...."BITE ME !"

TOE... Hear!

TOE...

Hear! Hear!

"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill

Not now Sweetie...

I suspect all this is just to cover Obama's ass for having called a reporter "sweetie".

Obama calls in a favor and they fall all over themselves trying to comply.

---

 

Ask yourself: Do I want a good paying job, or do I want a government hand out. Its that simple!

Truth hurts, dont it? These

Truth hurts, dont it? These morons dont even know what they have said. They refuse to recognize how dumb they are. How stupid they sound.

Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!

Once again the media has it wrong.

Honestly, how does one determine that the speech was directed towards Obama, rather than Carter and his ilk?

Carter, the peanut farming knuckle head, just returned from just such a fantasy tour of Terroristaville. 

 

Mika the Twit....

Isn't the only one with her knickers in a twist.

Apparently Popeye Pelosi and Rahm Emmanuel are also having heart attacks...as far as I can tell, President Bush didn't mention anyone by name.

http://www.politico....

Pot calling kettle.

Sorry for the clumsy link, my Rich Text menu isn't working today.

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

 

Hey Blonde

Naturally, you are here with profound thought.

I did like the simple "Bush to Dems Bite Me!"

Bush is doing what he should

Bush is doing what he should have done years ago, and what McCain should begin doing now. Fancy Nancy Pelosi, Obama and the rest of the spineless "let's have some tea with the people who have vowed to kill us all" are living in a fairy tale world. They are going to get us all killed with their stupidity.

Reagan not only negotiated

Reagan not only negotiated with Iran, but sold them weapons!

RedBar

The Shaw of Iran was a very different ruler than the animals Jimmy Carter allowed to take over when HE/WE abandoned the Shaw.

You have not a cluee.

Poor guy.

To bad history isn't taught anymore

"Poor guy" is the right term for this clueless individual! How soon they forget, or how poorly they learn, recent history.

Yeah.  Too bad you never

Yeah.  Too bad you never learned any recent history. The Shah's monarchy was already out of power when Reagan was elected in 1980.  Now go learn some history.

Instead of Cobra learning

Instead of Cobra learning history, maybe you should learn reading comprehension.  Nowhere in his post does he assert that Regan and the Shah of Iran were contemporary heads of state.  Nor did Delsa.

Learn it? I lived it!

Learn it? I lived it! Do you REALLY believe that Reagan was "selling arms to Iran?" If so, then you REALLY need to learn some history.

"The Iran-Contra affair was a political scandal which was revealed in 1986 as a result of earlier events during the Reagan administration. It began as an operation to increase U.S.-Iranian relations, wherein Israel would ship weapons to a moderate, politically influential group of Iranians opposed to the Ayatollah Khomeni; the U.S. would reimburse Israel with those weapons and receive payment from Israel. The moderate Iranians agreed to do everything in their power to achieve the release of six U.S. hostages, who were being held by the terrorist group Hezbollah. The plan eventually deteriorated into an arms-for-hostages scheme, in which members of the executive branch sold weapons to Iran in exchange for the release of the American hostages, without the authorization of President Ronald Reagan.
"

Source

Two words.  October

Two words.  October Surprise.  The next thing you'll try to tell me is that Oliver North was exonerated by the ACLU!

October

October Suplize!

http://www.danielpip...

October Surprise?  Well you

October Surprise?  Well you obviously couldn't care less about your own credibility.  Too funny. 

Lyndon LaRouche acolyte.

Lyndon LaRouche acolyte.

Here's a clue for you.

Here's a clue for you.

photoshop

Get real

If conservatives are RIGHT, then liberals must be WRONG.

Another dose of reality, 

Another dose of reality,  I'm sure you won't like.

And what lesson do we draw

And what lesson do we draw from this?  Easy - if he had remained the willing vassal of the United States, he would have remained in power.  Do you have another point you would like to make?

Saddam/Rumsfield

Too bad Carter..

1. Gave Saddam a green light to invade Iran (through Saudi intermediaries)

2.Lifted THE BAN HE HAD IMPOSED on arms exports to Iran. (Show of goodwill)

BTW-All Rumsfield was doing on that trip was delivering a letter to Saddam that said the US and Iraq shared interests in preventing Iranian expansion.

Saddam ruled Iran!

Wow! Saddam ruled Iran! And Cheney was there too! Who knew?

Nice try goldbar, but next time use REALITY when making an argument, ok?

BTW here's a real clue for you.

Yes, but of course it was

Yes, but of course it was before they vowed to kill us (via the Muslim Brotherhood). We can thank Swami Carter for that little turn of events. You can see the difference, no?

cel.. Bingo...you hit the

cel..

Bingo...you hit the nail right on the head.

"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill

Thanks. The same trick was

Thanks. The same trick was attempted during WWII when the appeasers-at-any-cost brought out photos of Hitler posing with various Western heads of state and diplomats during the 1930's--before we had a grasp of the nut job Hitler actually was. Same technique. The average person actually knew a bit about history then. Not so now, sadly.

I wonder if the Bush family

I wonder if the Bush family have ever been nazi appeasers?

 

No, they haven't

No, they haven't, but thanks for playing "let’s slander the bush family." We have a nice boobieprize waiting for you back stage.

"His business dealings,

"His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy.

The evidence has also prompted one former US Nazi war crimes prosecutor to argue that the late senator's action should have been grounds for prosecution for giving aid and comfort to the enemy."  --The Guardian

Consider the source.  In

Consider the source.  In fact, we'll start with you.

Do you even know what The

Do you even know what The Guardian is?

That would be a yes.

That would be a yes.

Here's what the guardian is NOT telling you

Here's what the Guardian is NOT telloing yuo about prescott Bush and his link to Fritz Thyssen which is the Guardian's only link for Bush and the Nazi's.

Business links with Fritz Thyssen

Harriman Bank was the main Wall Street partner for several German companies and the varied U.S. financial interests of Fritz Thyssen. Thyssen had been an early financial backer of the Nazi party, but by 1939 was bitterly denouncing Hitler and had fled Germany. He was later jailed by the Nazis for his opposition to the Nazi regime

Source

It looks like your only link to Bush and the Nazis was actually JAILED by them refusing to support them. So, tell me again, just how was Prescott Bush a Nazi sympathizer?

You're actually referencing

You're actually referencing Wikipedia!?  I promise I won't tell anyone. You really crack me up!

Should you take the moment

Should you take the moment to read a tad, you might notice that this wiki article is rather well sourced. In fact, the section mentioned is referencing... (drum roll, please)... The Guardian. "Ben Aris and Duncan Campbell. "How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power", The Guardian, September 25, 2004. Retrieved on 2006-08-06."

Quoted from said source:  "While there is no suggestion that Prescott Bush was sympathetic to the
Nazi cause
, the documents reveal that the firm he worked for, Brown
Brothers Harriman (BBH), acted as a US base for the German
industrialist, Fritz Thyssen, who helped finance Hitler in the 1930s
before falling out with him at the end of the decade.
"

The truth hurts, huh?

www.rhjunior.com Great comics with a hefty dose of Christian and anti-nutjob goodness.

"With your mind as high as Mt. Fuji you can see all things clearly. And you can see all the forces that shape events; not just the things near to you." -Miyamoto Musashi

Cortillaen,

This is priceless! While it's a different link, your source is the same exact article goldbar linked to with his original charge!

I thought that paragraph looked familiar.

ROTFLMAO!

Yep. I noticed that as I

Yep. I noticed that as I read some more of the article after posting. I wasn't going to rub it in, so thanks for noting it. Also, thanks for being one of about three people on this site to get my full name correct.

www.rhjunior.com Great comics with a hefty dose of Christian and anti-nutjob goodness.

"With your mind as high as Mt. Fuji you can see all things clearly. And you can see all the forces that shape events; not just the things near to you." -Miyamoto Musashi

About the name...

Gotta admit, I c&p'd it from your post.

;^)

RedBar

Here you are posting away.

I read you out of courtsey.

However, following your links is NOT going to happen.

If your cerebral prowess could be determined, I'd venture to your mindless links.

Your extensive postings are been less than persuasive.

Don't give up. You may have a lucid moment.

Ah...I can tell, the truth

Ah...I can tell, the truth hurts.

It sure hurts YOU

The truth sure hurts YOU, especially since all you offer for proof is supposition and innuendo and have no real evidence at all. You didn’t even come up with this yourself, did you? You’re just repeating the claims of others, aren't you? That make YOU the follower and not us.

Actually,  I sit in a room

Actually,  I sit in a room with Nancy Pelosi, Al Gore, Noam Chomsky and George Soros and they feed all this information to me and I just type it up and post it for you guys.

leadbar... I prefer to

leadbar...

I prefer to call him leadbar. Just seems to fit. 

"Abstain from McCain"

GE did business too

Is that all you have? GE did business with Germany too. Does that mean that any of them were Nazi sympathizers too? No? I didn't think so.

Give up the lame attempts to slander the Bush family. It isn't working. It’s just showing how ignorant you really are. Prescott Bush fought AGAINST the Germans in WWI. I highly doubt he would have ANY sympathy for them after living through that nightmare, wouldn't you agree?

BTW, that boobieprize is retracted, you’re a big enough boobie as it is. You don't need a prize to prove that.

Don't forget Henry Ford(D)

Don't forget H. Ford (D)

So admired by Hitler, he had a pic of him in his office.
Inspired/plagarised some of his writings for Mein Kampf.
http://www.abelard.o...

"It is virtual certainty that Henry funded Hitler, while Hitler in turn fed Henry’s ego. Hitler had a portrait of Henry on his wall and copied much of his Jew baiting straight from Ford’s own writings. Each man, a narrow uneducated ‘success’, admired the other in mutual support. Ford had automated factory production and Adolph set in motion the automating of society, these two are soul mates under the skin. It is sobering to realise that Ford was within a very short distance of becoming a senator, and that he was suggested by silly people as a possible president; fortunately he lost interest in political office as he moved onto his next enthusiasm."

mod,

mod,

Don't forget about the really big (D) dem who was a flaming Nazi sympathizer.

 

None other than Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.

Was THAT who Bush quoted in

Was THAT who Bush quoted in his speech to the Knesset???

Holy bleep!

R D

Fortunately, it didn't rub off on his sons.

The argument over which party was more willing to accommodate Hitler in the 1930's is one I think Republicans would do well to avoid.

Jer

Jer, You are correct, as there was no shortage of Nazi

Jer,

You are correct, as there was no shortage of Nazi support in this country in those years, and most of the people I am referring to were not associated with Fritz Kuhn in any way.

Sadly, Nazi supporters/sympathizers (same thing) came from all walks of life and from every political stripe in this country.

No one party has a monopoly on that.

BTW-I was just rattling goldy's cage a little. :-)

R D

BTW-I was just rattling goldy's cage a little.

I knew that. :-)

Jer

Citations

The Guardian?!!!

The Guardian? The organ for the Uber-Socialist British Left?

The FREAKING GUARDIAN?!!

Why not Pravda or "The Worker?" Why not the New York Times?

For a citation to posess gravitas it must also posess legitimacy.

The Guardian - BWAAAAA-haaaaa-haaaaa-hoooo-wheeee!!! 

 

Don't bother. The same

Don't bother. The same article he cited contradicts him. As it notes, that Bush managed US assets of a bank that stopped doing business with the Nazis before 1940. That's as close as he gets.

www.rhjunior.com Great comics with a hefty dose of Christian and anti-nutjob goodness.

"With your mind as high as Mt. Fuji you can see all things clearly. And you can see all the forces that shape events; not just the things near to you." -Miyamoto Musashi

Do some research on Senator

Do some research on Senator Prescott Bush, W's grandaddy, and you'll find a lot of stuff that you--as a loyal follower of W--won't like. 

Follower of who?  What? LOL

Follower of whoWhat? LOL - libtards really love to project, eh?

Yea, right

Let me get this straight, you think that a google search for innuendo and supposition is PROOF of guilt, right? Yea, go ahead and try that one in a court of law. I dare you!

Do some research on Teddy,

Do some research on Teddy, Bobby and JFK's daddy, you'll find a lot of stuff that you -- as a loyal dumbass won't like.

Vote 4 change. Vote 4 anything. See Jack & Mr Shy's first campaign ad for the ONLY viable 3rd party candidate.

TOE

I am still laughing

DELTA

THAT WOULD BE JUST THE START, NO?

Dems are not Appeasers

Democrats are not appeasers. You have to be a LEADER to be an appeaser.

If conservatives are RIGHT, then liberals must be WRONG.