This story is precisely why Rush likes to use the phrase “state-controlled media.”
That's why he fled the country when he heard Netanyahu was coming.
The last thing President TelePrompTer needs is a side-by-side comparison with a true leader.
Put a stove pipe hat on a monkey and there you go...
media lap dogs. There was no misrepresenting, even the media read it the same way Bibi did, but when Obama accuse the media of misreading him, the media all fall into line in agreement
Man, that's rich. You mean straw men, Joe? Things like alligators in moats, Joe?
The real question is -
“What does Joe Klein gain by misrepresenting Obama’s Mideast Policy??”
Answer that question, and you’ve made a good start at figuring out what’s wrong with our Nation....
Obama: “Netanyahu has accused me of hating the jew-dogs! That is outrageous and he is twisting my words! In fact, some of my strongest supporters are sons of pigs and monkeys. So let it not be said that I am in any way anti-Semitic because of I have proposed a Final Solution to the problem peace in the middle east.”
What a tool!!
Oversimplified...
I love it how the media wants to always portray Obama as some sort of esoteric visionary, who sees and understands everything.
I am embarrassed for Mr. Klein. In years past, such foolishness would soon wind-up on microfiche in some dusty cabinet, referenced rarely and then only by tired university students writing yet another history or political science paper. With the existence of the internet, it is easily found. History will record Mr. Klein as one of Barry’s court fools.
Didn’t Obama in his second speech call for connecting Gaza and the West Bank?? Slicing Israel in half isn’t going to affect security at all?.
“misrepresent” means tell the truth
This is some funny stuff!
Rarely have I seen such groveling from a columnist. I think Klein’s been sharing a hot tub with Barry.
IOW, never accept O's words at face value. He is ever so nuanced as to say precisely what he does not mean. A sign of great intelligence, or bilious dyspepsia.
How does that maxim relate to Joe Klein's article?
First, the article is simply factually wrong. It was not Be Be Netanyahu who misrepresented Obama's remarks but Obama himself who misrepresented his own remarks as he walked them back. So what prompted Joe Klein to write lies?
If one recalls Joe Klein was the anonymous author of Primary Colors an account of the emerging Bill Clinton which nailed Clinton for the utter fraud that he was but forgave him all because of Clinton's poignant empathy for African-Americans which obviously profoundly impressed Joe Klein.
Joe Klein is the blatant example of left-wing American journalism that is utterly in the tank for Barack Obama because Obama is liberal and black. Klein would accept any fault in Bill Clinton because Clinton was later to be defined as the first black president. So, Klein will excuse any fault, commit any journalistic sin, to defend the first real black president.
There is nothing, repeat nothing, in Joe Klein's world that cannot be rationalized by way of racial politics.
