Posted on 07/15/2015 9:42:27 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
During Wednesday’s national press conference about his Iran deal, President Obama played the media like a fiddle. It was a situation where the media was so compliant the questioners were hand-picked by the White House beforehand, the president filibustered throughout, and Obama ended the event by asking himself the questions he wanted to answer.
Only Major Garrett of CBS News asked a truly tough question, a question that was obviously framed in a way to cut through the president’s rigorously-rehearsed talking points. For daring to question the Lightbringer in the same way the media questioned President George W. Bush for 8 years, CNN went hard after Garrett over two news hours (thus far).
Before Don Lemon was brought on later to beclown himself, CNN’s congressional correspondent, Dana Bash, attacked Garrett as “disrespectful.”
BASH: I’ve been a White House reporter, you’ve been a White House report… You know what it’s like to stand up and ask the president a question — and you do want to be tough. But there’s a fine line, especially standing in the East Room — a fine line between asking a tough question and maybe crossing that line a little bit, and maybe being disrespectful. So I think that that happened there.
But that wasn’t enough. In the following hour, CNN hauled out Don Lemon and Gloria Borger to attack Garrett. . .
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Yup. Welcome to the “Liberal Media and Friends Cult of Obama.”
Not a ‘tough question’
A real question
Wth was the question? Nobody said it.
Garrett will be unemployed by Friday.
That’s my prediction.
Obama was given the question in advance. That’s the protocol for our community organizer punk president.
Garrett wanted to know why the hostages were not par of the deal
Given CBS, you’d think the question was, “Boxers or briefs ?”
Must have been too disrespectful to repeat on TV!
ring..ring: “Hello, this is Major......
caller: “Hello Mr. Garrett, this is John from the auditing division of the IRS....can we talk to you for a few minutes.....?
You know the rest of the story!
funny...thats what i tell people what this guy is...a punk
MAJOR GARRETT: Thank you, Mr. President. As you well know, there are four Americans in Iran, three held on trumped-up charges that, according to your administration, one whereabouts unknown.
Can you tell the country, sir, why you are content, with all the fanfare around this deal, to leave the conscience of this nation, the strength of this nation, unaccounted for in relation to these four Americans?
And last week, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said under no circumstances should there be any relief for Iran in terms of ballistic missiles or conventional weapons. It is perceived that was a last-minute capitulation in these negotiations.
Many in the Pentagon feel you’ve left the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff high out to dry. Could you comment?
Every time I see Zero standing in front of that gold arab shower curtain with the American flag clashing against it, I feel like he’s sending a message to his muzzie buddies and it just infuriates me. Classless traitor.
Barry left four people stranded. Déjà vu all over again.
You should look at the video and ask yourselves: why doesn’t Obama have purple lips? Why are his ears shaped differently than in 2007?
Garrett asked a good question. That subject, the one about American hostages, was brought up by Trump when he was interviewed by the Chicago Tribune’s editorial board.
Donald Trump used the lack of a demand by our negotiators to the Iranians to relinquish American hostages as incompetence by BHO2. Trump is a very, VERY competent negotiator.
Kudos to Major Garrett and NY cheers to all his critics.
Brian Williams will replace him.
Doesn’t sound any worse than the average questions they’d ask Bush about anything.
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