AP Reporters Fabricate Scurrilous 'Possible' Reason Why Walesa Wouldn't Meet With Obama
I've seen Associated Press reporters make absurd assertions before, but a statement written by Julie Pace and Vanessa Gera, who covered President Barack Obama's trip to Poland yesterday, has to be at or near the top of the list of all-time humdingers.
Polish Solidarity hero and Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Walesa did not meet with Obama yesterday. Wait until you see the sheer speculation as to why there was no meeting in the bolded sentence in the fourth paragraph of the following excerpt from the AP pair's Friday evening report:
Hours before Obama arrived, Polish headlines were dominated by news that he was being snubbed by legendary Solidarity founder Lech Walesa, who said he was refusing to meet with Obama.
Solidarity was a national freedom movement under Walesa's leadership in the 1980s that helped bring down communism. His courage in defying communist authorities at the time earned him a Nobel peace prize. Walesa said in televised remarks that President Bronislaw Komorowski and the U.S. ambassador to Poland had called him hoping to persuade him to meet Obama. Walesa insisted, however, that he had no interest in a meeting that would amount to little more than a photo-op.
"This time a meeting does not suit me," the 67-year-old former president said in comments on news station TVN24. His office said he planned instead to attend a biblical festival in Italy.
Walesa refused to divulge more, but it seemed possible he was offended at not being offered a one-on-one meeting with Obama early on. Walesa had been invited to meet with Obama along with other former leaders of the anti-communist movement and current party leaders."
"It seemed possible"? Are you kidding me?
Translation: We're totally making this up, but we thought we'd throw it out there anyway just to make the guy who more than anyone else on earth is responsible for the early stages of bringing about the fall of the Iron Curtain look like a petty, egomaniacal old man.
There was absolutely no call for the AP pair's unsupported speculation.
In a Friday editorial ("Walesa Stands Up"), Investors Business Daily opined on Walesa's "seemingly more possible" motivations (it's an editorial, Julie and Vanessa, so they're allowed):
Someone who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for actually doing something just snubbed someone who won it for nothing. But Lech Walesa's refusal to meet President Obama is also a cry to save Poland.
Lech Walesa, the former Polish president and heroic leader of the Solidarity trade union that helped liberate the entire Eastern European Soviet bloc from communist rule, has his moral courage indelibly engraved in the history books.
... on Friday, Walesa once again answered the call to duty and announced he would not accept fellow Nobel Peace laureate President Obama's invitation to meet with him in Poland after the G-8 Summit in France.
... Close observers of this president for the two-plus years of his rule know he isn't interested in listening to the likes of Walesa, any more than he wants to hear the leaders of former Soviet satellite states explain how the low, flat tax rates they adopted in recent years led their nations to double-digit GDP growth.
For the sake of preserving Poland's hard-fought freedom, Komorowski and Tusk should be joining Walesa in giving Obama the cold shoulder.
The president hadn't even had a chance to redecorate the Oval Office before he felt the need, in fall of 2009, to appease Moscow by scrapping plans to build a missile defense shield protecting Poland and the Czech Republic from attack by Russia, Iran or any other aggressor.
At the time, the Polish minister of defense said, "This is catastrophic for Poland."
The message, once again, delivered loud and clear to America's friends, allies and enemies alike, is that the U.S. can't be relied on.
... The message Poland's leaders should deliver to our self-satisfied president is the one Walesa is delivering by his absence: Neither your Nobel nor bin Laden's head, Mr. President, is a substitute for U.S. help in keeping a liberated Eastern Europe liberated.
IBD's explanation "seems more possible" to me, and anyone else with both a sense of history and an understanding of how Obama so quickly turned his back on Eastern Europe's security needs once he had a chance.
Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com.
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"It seemed possible."
Submitted by Red Jeep on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 10:24am.
Have to add this to Herbster's List that he wrote on 5-24 here: "Journalism 101 as taught in J schools today. Rule #1. Always use the following phrases: Everyone is saying....The polls show...The experts all agree...Everyone knows...The American people agree - are concerned - understand - want the government to - need relief - want something done, etc. "*
( This sentence I found interesting: "Close observers of this president for the two-plus years of his rule know he isn't interested in listening to the likes of Walesa, any more than he wants to hear the leaders of former Soviet satellite states explain how the low, flat tax rates they adopted in recent years led their nations to double-digit GDP growth." I like to know more about this unreported news.)
*Read more: http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2011/05/24/diane-sawyer-tor...
Also ...
Submitted by Tom Blumer on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 10:31am.
... "(unnnamed) others believe" = "in my opinion"
incompetent rookies or
Submitted by jessieH on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 10:30am.
incompetent rookies or shameless liars? Both, looks like.
The man also respected Mr. Reagan, and Mrs. Thatcher..
Submitted by Mark81150 on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 10:39am.
The only trade unionist, with the stones to denounce the slavery of communism, back when it mattered the most. He risked death for his people, so I'd think he doesn't traffic in the frivilous very much when it comes to allowing himself to be used as a PR prop. He's still a giant,..
and the AP's staff are still petulant children with a love for Obama, and no knowledge of history.
Walesa was an influence when giants walked the world stage,. instead of the snarky aging teenagers we have now. When the Canadians,... the CANADIAN'S.... have to show the US president how to support an ally in a world less stable than ever...
The AP is worried that Obama isn't getting his usually demanded rock star treatment?
(Facepalm)........
My God, I miss when our president was a real giant with conviction, a man who was worthy of respect. It'll happen again, but not,.. not,.. with the current CIC... I served a long long time ago,.. but openly dissing the president is hard for me,.. The only one who could make me get past that was Carter,...
He now, has company,... and I still miss when our presidents were serious minded men of principle,.. like him or not, Mr. Bush at least was that. Obama,... I'll never put a Mr. in front of his name, or Carter's. They haven't earned my trust, only the opposite. Honor is a very real thing, and Obama lacks that quality in total.
The AP has only gotten worse.
Submitted by Mark81150 on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 10:44am.
They were openly hostile to Mr. Bush, and have been so shameless in their drooling devotion to Obama, even nonpolitically aware people are noticing now. When a guy I know commented the AP should just buy it's staff kneepads,.. and he never bothered voting before,... you know the public has started catching on to the propaganda.
Perhaps the reason or reasons
Submitted by MikeB on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 11:00am.
Perhaps the reason or reasons Mr. Walesa did not meet with Ear Leader is that Mr. Walesa has good taste. Or, he grew up in a Communist state and knows where Jugears is trying to take this country and he disapproves. Or, as Mark said above, he respected Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, the two world leaders most responsible for the fall of the Soviet Union, and has no respect for the Affirmative Action Peace Prize winner and pResident.
IBD has a very valid point: Obambi has no interest in listening to those who actually know how to start up a moribund economy without the Government trying to own/control every segment of industry or trying to tax/regulate out of existence any bit of the economy that isn't owned/controlled by the Party.
Commie Obammie....
Submitted by adamsmith on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 11:00am.
My mother is from there, and taught me from a young age never to trust a Russian or a Communist. For someone who claims to be a World Citizen, Obama is pretty naive in thinking that people in other countries think like Americans do. He might be surprized that much of the world is extremely racist and generally think of blacks as an inferior race. Seeing that they don't have our political correctness, they don't care what anyone thinks about it. Just think of the "Borat" character, and you have a good idea of what much of Eastern Europe and Eurasian countries really think of blacks. They just point to Detroit and say, "Prove me wrong". The rest of the world watches news reports out of the US and think we are insane to kowtow toward one racial group that doesn't seek equality but preferential treatment.
Secondly, Obama is known the world over as a Communist who got into the White House and is destroying the country from the inside out. Poland and every other satellite of the defunct Soviet Union doesn't want anything to do with an ideology that kept them slaves for some 70 years. Walesa doesn't owe anybody anything, and he sure as hell isn't into photo ops with a Commie that's never been a "worker" seeing the only job he had was using his blackness to shake down Community Banks and making them knuckle under to racial extortion.
Maybe Obama is right in we should be more like Europe. They are nowhere near as emasculated as the United States has become...
I too am from a Communist
Submitted by CrazyHungarian on Mon, 05/30/2011 - 1:07pm.
I too am from a Communist country. This person has gotten everything right. Obama is a collection of the worst ideals possible for our country: Pro-communist, Muslim supporter, racist, anti-business, narcissist, inexperienced, arrogant, isolated in academia, anti-energy production, social justice advocate.
Additionally, this person also has the correct viewpoint of the rest of the world regarding race. I have traveled through dozens of countries and can verify that the US is the least racist of all. Some countries are racist with respect to black/white, and some are racist about religion, but it is present and strong everywhere. The big difference is that in the US too may groups have realized there is political, social, media, and financial power to gain from yelling about racism and are continually stirring up racist claims so as to continue status quo.
Isn't it obvious???
Submitted by Dave81 on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 12:41pm.
Walesa is just racist. =P
Unlike the majority of the zombified sheeple in America, Walesa
Submitted by Dave. on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 1:23pm.
...knows a communist when he sees one, and thus has no interest in meeting with one.
The question is, where is our Lech Walesa?
Have we finally managed to become too wussified as a nation to produce one?
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Not quite the same, but....
Submitted by jon_torlin on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 10:32pm.
It might not be a Lech Walesa, but we know there's someone the Chairman won't meet(several really, but this was recent) and that's Governor Perry. Even when the circumstances were better to meet in Austin when he got there and Perry suggested meeting then, the Chairman declined with no reason given. He wanted the governor to fly 400 miles for a 10 minute meeting(wouldn't have been productive at all anyway) to El Paso, but when he was coming to Austin anyway, he didn't want to meet at all?
So the roles are reversed. Like Walesa, Perry's the real leader and real man in this case. There are other people as I mentioned, but this was the most recent as of a couple of weeks ago.
-Jon
Tom - on saving Obama..
Submitted by Gary Hall on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 2:20pm.
Very good one, Tom. I saw that yesterday and said, "What? - Oh God help us."
It reminded me of a bit of journalist creationism, or is it complete fabrication (?), by the Los Angeles Times a while back, while Obama was on his South American Socialist tour, namely Brazil.
Seems that someone has noticed that our dear President Obama hasn't been making many friends out there on the world stage, so two LAT's staffers (surely, someone directed them from above) get their very needy and creative minds together and attempt to figure out how to turn this serious liability for the United States into a blessing.
Here: For Obama, it's business before friendship with world leaders No 'good buds' on the global stage for this president, though he does try to pal around with everyday people in countries he visits.
Oh, the two "reporters" "assigned" to this 906 wordy fairy-tale, did find time to report that 55% of Brazilians supported Obama's job performance. Whoopie.
(;~> gary
Gary......Apparently Lefties have an affection for the figure
Submitted by Rush Fan on Sun, 05/29/2011 - 10:24pm.
55%. See my post below.
Democrap Presidents can't be
Submitted by eaglewingz08 on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 9:13pm.
Democrap Presidents can't be relied upon by our allies, only Republican Presidents can be relied upon. I'm also sure that during the Reagan years Obama was actively and arrogantly protesting the very policies that led to freedom in Eastern Europe.
Walesa vs. HMTS
Submitted by Unsane on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 10:10pm.
I don't know if Walesa is doing speaking tours again, but if he does, GO SEE HIM SPEAK. You will be GLAD you did. He doesn't speak a word of English, but he brought along a translator, and let me assure you, the man is an absolute riot. AND as a bonus, he put a Left -wing idiot in his place before the crowd...
Let me tell you the story. Some clown got up and took the mike and asked Walesa a gobbledygook laden question that essentially proposed that the best of Communism and capitalism be combined. (That's the clown's words, not mine.) I was busy translating the clown, and when I figured out what he was saying, I and a good number of the audience began booing him. I mean, the very question he asked Walesa was an absolute slap in the face.
When Walesa answered (via translator) "You're an idealist, aren't you?" The place exploded in cheering as if the home team just scored a touchdown. When we settled down, Walesa proceeded to dissect the poor dude. Well, I shouldn't say poor, he got what he deserved, but...
ANYWAYS, off Memory Lane and back to the present. Why should Walesa, a man who got the Nobel Peace Prize for risking his life to resist Communism by doing that unspeakable act of starting an independent trade union, and earning a trip to the Communist slam as a reward, stoop to hanging out with a guy who got a Nobel Peace Prize for having a HOT, BEAUTIFUL SMILE?
I remember when His Majesty The Shahinshah got the Peace Prize, and I was probably more dumbfounded than on 9/11/01. I could at least say "yes, this is for real no-s*** happening" then. When He was named as winning the Peace Prize back in October 2009, I walked away from my TV, tuned to CNBC, thinking "Did I just hear that? Did The Onion start a news channel I accidentally tuned into? ****, I need some more coffee."
Bottom line: Walesa has stones and risked his ass for his. And he didn't have to; he could have just shut up and kept working at the Lenin Shipyard as a good little electrician the whole time. Walesa nonetheless stepped up to the plate. What the hell did His Majesty The Shahinshah do for His?
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
I don't blame Waleska
Submitted by Patriot II on Sun, 05/29/2011 - 7:10pm.
I wouldn't walk across the street to meet the lying oblahma!!!
Tom.......If you have an opportunity, can you take a look at
Submitted by Rush Fan on Sun, 05/29/2011 - 8:23pm.
this CNN/Opinion Research Poll? Shouldn't a political poll reflect how the sampling of 1,034 adults is made up as to political parties? This poll indicates that 55% of Americans say that former president George W. Bush and the Republicans are more responsible for current economic problems than Obama. I suspect the poll is weighted toward Democrats.
Candy Crowley referred to the poll on CNN Your Money. CNN Money also has an article referencing this poll.
Thanks,
rush Fan
There are no demographic breakdowns in the poll results ...
Submitted by Tom Blumer on Sun, 05/29/2011 - 9:04pm.
... so it's impossible to tell.
If they try to split indies into Dem and GOP like AP-GfK does, then indies would be only about 6% of the sample. But you can't get to a result that ties in unless the poll way oversampled GOP, which is as likely as my winning the next Boston Marathon. So that tells me that indies are about 30% or so of the sample.
The most obvious disconnect is that these supposed independents are still blaming Bush 63-20. That tells me that they didn't try to distinguish indies who lean Democrat and indies who lean GOP, and heavily sampled the former.
But they didn't leave any tracks that I could find.
Since April 29-May 1 was a Friday through Sunday, I'd say it's way high on Dems and Dem-leaning moderates.
Thank you very much Sir. By the way, although the Boston
Submitted by Rush Fan on Sun, 05/29/2011 - 10:05pm.
Marathon is out of the question, I do wish you the best of luck, if you play, in the Ohio Lottery. That's the least I can do, in addition to my thanks, for your quick response to my request.