'Obamas' Author Rips Soledad O'Brien: 'By Her Logic We Wouldn't Write Obituaries Because We Can't Talk to the Dead People'
As NewsBusters reported Friday, CNN's Soledad O'Brien had a completely unprofessional interview with "The Obamas" author Jodi Kantor wherein she mercilessly grilled the writer for having the nerve to criticize the first lady in her book.
Kantor struck back on Monday's Daily Show saying, "By her logic we wouldn't write obituaries because we can't talk to the dead people" (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
"The White House really cooperated with the book," Kantor told host Jon Stewart.
"Who talks to you about their relationship?" he asked.
"33 current and former White House aides," responded Kantor. "A lot of their best friends. And also, I've interviewed the Obamas a bunch of times."
After Stewart joking asked for names, Kantor replied, "There are such figures as Valerie Jarrett and David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs. Also, I fact-checked the book."
Stewart joked, "What? What kind of writer are you?"
Kantor laughed and then added, "So the White House pretty much knew what was in it before it came out."
"Who is mad at you?" asked Stewart. "The lady on CNN was angry that you had not spoken to the couple since 2009."
"Well, by her logic," Kantor replied, "we wouldn't write obituaries because we can't talk to the dead people."
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By that logic...
Submitted by GeneralAl on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 10:00am.
"we wouldn't write obituaries because we can't talk to the dead people."
By that logic, the cemetery voters in Chicago would be disenfranchised!
"Old Soldiers never die, they just fade away"!
How about we write an obituary for CNN
Submitted by ohio granny on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 10:04am.
How about we just write an obituary for CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC, New York Slimes, LA Times, etc. You would only need 1 sentence. THEY HASTENED THEIR OWN DEMISE BY BEING SHILLS FOR THE DEMOCRAT PARTY.
It is what is expected
Submitted by John21 on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 10:10am.
Soladad is a devote follower of the "Obama Cult" and CNN is a leading distributor of the "Liberal" "Obama" propaganda. How could anyone expect to have a coherent discussion with either when you are not praising their supreme being? The twisted logic involved with that media type (far left propagandist) is predictable. I am sure that they (CNN Staff) got together after the interview and bowed before a large picture of their god and begged his forgiveness for not doing a better job of BSing his defense better.
Right you are! When Michelle
Submitted by Mrs. Vito on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 7:32pm.
Right you are! When Michelle O. has her next colonoscopy, they'll probably find Soledad's head up there!
Can you say "unauthorized"
Submitted by motherbelt on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 10:13am.
Can you say "unauthorized" biography, Soledad?
Oh, I see, we are supposed just accept everything Barack Obama says about himself in his biography (he certainly wouldn't have any reason to embellish, would he?) and someone else writing about other people's experiences with him and his wife is suspect.
Gotcha.
Kitty Kelley's biographies got the same treatment. One can read them and believe or not.
His keen eye is the astrolabe of the substantive sun -
Submitted by Unsane on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 10:15am.
All of the President's biographies are to be written by authors who are graduates of the Abul Fazl Institute of Biographical Writing.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
she's on CNN?
Submitted by spepper on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 10:31am.
Soledad's on CNN? I personally have not viewed her since she was on the "old" version of MSNBC years ago, when they were a tech-only format show-- which if she had stayed there under that format, she would have enjoyed tremendously higher ratings than she does currently......
Witness the Obama Cult in action
Submitted by Galvanic on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 10:36am.
The White House has said very little about the book outside of Michelle Obama's staged interview in which she threw the Race Card. That was the signal for the Cult -- especially the MSM -- to counterattack, and Kantor is definitely feeling the heat. I don't believe that many of the attackers have read the book, but are cueing off excerpts reported in the press.
But to her credit, Kantor stands by what she wrote.
You're so right, Galvanic.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 11:23am.
The poor lady is toast. Even though she works for the King of Liberal media, she will be excommunicated from the club. Hell, I won't be surprised to read soon about "a terrible accident" befalling her.
She is, in a small way, committing the sin of saying that "the Emperor (and His Clydesdale) have no clothes."
I say that we start a drive to take her book to the top of the Best Seller list and keep it there until after the election.
The poor babe's going to need the money, and maybe other droids will see how successful she is and actually write the truth!
Any Obama bio
Submitted by Farley on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 11:27am.
I'm still waiting for interviews with Obama's fellow-students (grammar school, high school, college, law school) and women he dated along the way. Where are they?
To be fair, Farley, ...
Submitted by Newsbubba on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 11:36am.
... we have heard about at least one of the men that he "dated" along the way.
Which one?
Submitted by David Kramer on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 5:56pm.
The dead one?
Great quote from Jodi Kantor.
Submitted by KyWriter on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 11:27am.
I'm almost ready to forgive her for working for the NYT.
I'll Never Forget...
Submitted by BBallleaper on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:17pm.
the thrill that ran up my leg when I first read O'Brien's Ph.D thesis,........oh wait, she didn't write one did she. But she must be a genius. Just look at the station she works for. I mean they wouldn't hire just any two-bit mouthpiece based solely on race and gender would they????????? Or would they?????????
Ms Kantor now knows what's...
Submitted by BBallleaper on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:22pm.
in store for her when Sharia law takes over. Of course, if she agrees to switch religions, wear the full burhka and veil she might get off with just 6 months hard labor at one of Barry's re-education camps in what used to be Detroit. Good luck Ms. Kantor. You're going to need it unless a hard-core Conservative can take power and jail Barry and the Wookie for treason.
Keyboard, desk, screen...
Submitted by bigdaddy on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 4:23pm.
...coffee all over...
"...Barry and the Wookie..."
O'Brien
Submitted by driguana on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 1:36pm.
In reality, if you want to be honest about it, those people who support Obama and Mrs. Obama without being critical of them, are the dumb ones. While I can't bring myself to watch any of the obama propoganda stations anymore, I've read enough about this exchange to now think that Soledad O'Brien is lacking in any kind of intellecutal curiosity and, well, she's dumb as a brick.