Posted on 02/21/2017 11:04:01 AM PST by jazusamo
NBC reporter Katy Tur didn’t know what a Republican congressman was referring to when he said that Obama told Putin that he would have more flexibility after the conclusion of the 2012 election. Tur was asking Rep. Francis Rooney about the number of advisers within the Trump White House that she contends have a friendlier attitude towards Russia. Alex Griswold of Mediaite clipped the exchange :
NBC's Katy Tur Doesn't Remember Obama Promising Putin 'Flexibility'
Tur pressed Florida Representative Francis Rooney about the number of Donald Trump advisors with close tie to Russia. “I see a lot of folks within Donald Trump’s administration who have a friendlier view of Russia than maybe past administrations did,” she noted.“Well, I think it was Obama that leaned over to Putin and said, ‘I’ll have a little more flexibility to give you what you want after the re-election,’” Rooney responded.
Tur paused for a moment. “I’m sorry, I don’t know what you’re referring to, Congressman,” she said.
Granted, Rooney’s account is not accurate. As Griswold noted, Obama told then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he would have more flexibility after the election concerning talks over missile defense.
Yet, Obama might as well have told Vladimir Putin, who was prime minister at the time, since it’s been alleged tat he was the one pulling the strings during the Medvedev presidency. Moreover, this hot mic moment came in late March of 2012 . Earlier in the month, the Russian 2012 election ended with Putin being elected president again. Putin and Medvedev have considered their respective governing roles as the “tandem,” and The Washington Post noted that Medvedev admitted to stepping aside in the 2012 election so that Putin could become president again . Regardless, even with the names mixed up, Tur should have known this.
Obama tells Medvedev he will have "more flexibility" after election
If Tur doesn’t ring any bells, she was the reporter who was irritated that President Trump called on our own Katie Pavlich during his press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In fact, the president only called on conservative outlets during the presser, which drove the liberal media insane .
Tur stepped on the Control-LEFT secret decoder ring.
Katy is in over her head. She needs to look for a minimum wage job.
America is at war with Russia. American has always been at war with Russia. Obama never said he'd be more flexible with Russia. Obama has always opposed Russia.
"I'm sorry, I haven't been given an approved response to that factual statement, Congressman."
She only knows what’s in the daily talking points memo!
Memory Hole.
That should happen more often.
heh heh
Almost everyone in the MSM is a prostitute with a talent for reading a teleprompter. Brains are a disqualifier.
The high point of Katy’s media career was when she was doing the nasty with Keith Olberdork..... and that was a very very low low point.... it’s been downhill for her ever since.
When did she drop the ‘d’ from her last name?.............
Which is why the global state will insist on the internet being deluged with sympathetic web sites that divert search requests away from facts it finds inconvenient.
"Katy Tur with her boyfriend, Keith Olbermann (left)..."
Katy Tur is only 33—much too young for dementia.
But she was a weather reporter for much of her career:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katy_Tur
And her assignment as a campaign/political reporter was unplanned:
http://www.marieclaire.com/politics/a21997/donald-trump-katy-tur/
So she’s probably working on things that are over her head!
Besides that, she has a “transgender” father. Not so good!
Or if not sympathetic then unrelated content which will display as results to undesirable search terms
LOL
Katy is pretty clueless about everything....resume enhancer for leftist demonrats.
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