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Obama Scolds Major Garrett For 'Nonsense' Question
Huffington Post ^ | 15 Jul 2015 | Paige Lavender

Posted on 07/15/2015 11:45:43 AM PDT by mandaladon

President Barack Obama publicly scolded CBS News' Major Garrett during a gathering of the press corps at the White House on Wednesday, chastising the reporter for asking if the president is "content" to celebrate the Iran nuclear deal while four American hostages remain in Iran.

"That's nonsense. And you should know better," Obama replied.

Obama answered questions about the Iran nuclear deal during the gathering, saying it's "our best means of assuring that Iran does not get a nuclear weapon."

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: stillfree?

Major Garrett hasn’t been with Fox for a couple of years now.


21 posted on 07/15/2015 11:56:52 AM PDT by EDINVA
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To: mandaladon

“That’s nonsense.”

I imagine the families of the four hostages don’t think so.


22 posted on 07/15/2015 11:57:45 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (NSA: The only government agency that really listens.)
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To: mandaladon

23 posted on 07/15/2015 11:58:57 AM PDT by twister881
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To: mandaladon

First, Odumbo should thank Garrett for the question.
Next, Odumbo should repeat the question to make sure everyone heard it.
Finally, Odumbo should answer the question.


24 posted on 07/15/2015 12:05:31 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Puppage

Thanks for the clarification. My bad.


25 posted on 07/15/2015 12:05:40 PM PDT by stillfree?
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To: onyx

The last record was 444 days.
Wonder if Barkey’s going for it ?


26 posted on 07/15/2015 12:05:51 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks ("If he were working for the other side, what would he be doing differently ?")
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To: Jim 0216

If there is one thing I am clear on Obama, he cares not how many people he gets killed or abandoned. Illegal immigration has gotten thousands of people killed and tens of thousands victimized.

Obama’s policies in the Middle East have gotten hundreds of thousands killed and butchered.

Now his legacy is giving Iran nukes and a $50 billion signing cash bonus to distribute to Iran’s various terrorist organizations.

Of course the Congress is also very complicit in pushing this Iran deal through by making it impossible to override a veto. What is happening to us?

He certainly is not going to bother with 4 Americans who have been maimed, tortured and perhaps killed.

One can only hope that what comes around goes around.

Obama is truly an evil man.


27 posted on 07/15/2015 12:16:43 PM PDT by GilGil
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To: Jim 0216

Didn’t Trump ask that question earlier in the Day?


28 posted on 07/15/2015 12:17:34 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: GilGil

Good answer.

Why doesn’t somebody in the press confront this guy? Need to clone a few Trumps into the press corps.


29 posted on 07/15/2015 12:22:55 PM PDT by Jim W N
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To: CaptainK

I don’t think these reporters care as long as they get a fat, juicy, paycheck.


30 posted on 07/15/2015 12:25:34 PM PDT by Catsrus (WWWW)
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To: stillfree?

Major Garrett left Fox News in 2010 to join the National Journal. He has been the chief White House Correspondent for CBS News since 2012.


31 posted on 07/15/2015 12:26:37 PM PDT by HotHunt
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To: mandaladon

32 posted on 07/15/2015 12:27:03 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Jim 0216

Actually, there is more. You cannot build a nuclear power plant today in the US. You would have the country burning down.

At the same time, Obama wants to facilitate nukes all over the Middle East. You know if Iran gets them, that will set off a nuclear arms race all over the Middle East.

So how does that work. No nukes in the US but nukes all over the Middle East. How does this policy work?

If you have ever read the book “1984” there is a scene where the hero is imprisoned and tortured. His torturer brings his hand up every so often and shows 4 fingers on his hand. He asks the hero how many fingers is he holding up. The hero says 4.

The torturer beats him senseless. This goes on for days. Finally, he asks him again how many fingers while holding up 4 fingers. Finally, the hero says 5. The torturer smiles and lets him go.

The point is to answer your question why doesn’t someone ask Obama these obvious questions. The answer is that like a Stalinist leftist, the game is the make everyone agree that there are 5 fingers when everyone sees 4. Obama simply will not answer any other way.

Translated to Obamaworld, there are no deaths with illegal immigrants even though there are thousands. There have not been hundreds of thousands of people killed in the Middle East because Obama’s meddling in other country’s affaires is a blessing not to be questioned. There is no danger of nuclear proliferation, because this is a nuclear peace treaty even though Iran has American hostages and is the biggest state sponsored terrorist organization.

Remember for example that in North Korea people are told they have the best standard of living even though they are starving to death and the leader there regularly executes people for no reason at all. Just the other day he visited a fish farm and was angered the fish farm had no lobsters. He had the farmer killed.

The whole point is that everyone knows that if you see 4 fingers, when the leader says 5 or 10, or 30 fingers everyone knows it is not right but that is what you say.

I read yesterday an article where the gaystapo was now coining the phrase regarding Christins that “ there are far too many Christians and not enough lions” meaning that Christians should be sacrificed to lions as entertainment the way they were in ancient Rome. Can you imagine if someone said that there are too many black people and not enough lynchings?

We see how Obama gives no thought to how many people he gets killed. You have to wonder at what point it will become ok for leftists to openly kill in the USA those not willing to see 5 fingers when there are really 4.

That is what the game is all about.


33 posted on 07/15/2015 12:54:00 PM PDT by GilGil
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To: stillfree?

Garrett WAS with FOX....left about a year ago.


34 posted on 07/15/2015 12:56:06 PM PDT by Churchillspirit (9/11/2001 and 9/11/2012: NEVER FORGET.)
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To: mandaladon
F U B O

If what I'm saying doesn't make any sense
That's because sense cannot be made
It's something that must be sensed
And I, for one, am incensed by all this complacency

35 posted on 07/15/2015 12:56:40 PM PDT by ßuddaßudd (>> F U B O << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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To: mandaladon

New catch phrase

President Nonsense!


36 posted on 07/15/2015 1:08:52 PM PDT by Ranger Warrior
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To: Churchillspirit

Got it, thanks!


37 posted on 07/15/2015 1:14:43 PM PDT by stillfree?
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To: Soul of the South
Likely a setup question Garrett put on the table so Obama could slap it down and end any discussion of the issue.

Easily the stupidest statement of the day...maybe the week, (year??)

38 posted on 07/15/2015 1:18:14 PM PDT by Cuttnhorse
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To: Slicksadick
His response was to concise, It reeks of a setup question...

I was thinking along the same lines.

Obama can sidestep the question of American hostages in Iran by feinting outrage at Garrett's question.

"How dare you say that I'm not concerned about Americans".

Meanwhile the real question of why Obama didn't negotiate the release of Americans held hostage by Iran goes unanswered.
39 posted on 07/15/2015 1:24:53 PM PDT by Ticonderoga34
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To: mandaladon

The HuffPo crowd is very unhappy with Major Garrett. He dare he question their god.


40 posted on 07/15/2015 1:26:09 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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