Major Garrett condemns ‘ham-handed’ way White House told OBL mission story

Daily Caller ^ | 5/6/2011 | Jeff Poor

[jagusafr]

“It should be told once with precision and clarity for everyone. And they didn’t do that and it’s their fault.”

Precisely. I blame it not just on this WH, but on the FB/IM/Twitter ethos that lets people spout off, rather than putting together a considered product that goes from soup to nuts.

Colonel, USAFR

[MinuteGal]

Major Garrett left Fox News - and TV entirely. He now works for the National Journal, a print and on-line media operation.

Garrett said he wanted to "return to my roots as a print journalist". His wife still works for Fox.

Major will obviously now be demoted to Corporal in his occasional White House press room beat.

Leni

[oh8eleven]

Another show conservatives need to boycott.
I surf the news programs w/ my morning coffee and most shows are predictable, mundane and boring:
* The FOX news trio - a gabfest of trivial nothings;
* HLN w/ Robin Meade who's out sick more than in; and even when she's there the news is always slanted toward the 13 y/o "American Idol" crowd;
* CNN - climate change killing us or Dr. Sanjay Gupta telling us that if we eat ANYTHING, we'll all die;
* Morning Joe ... stacked with experts like jets circling JFK at rush hour, forever preaching to us about the omniscient, "gutsy" Great One.

All of them have become pretty much unwatchable.

[Night Hides Not]

All of them have become pretty much unwatchable.

A thumbs up to your entire post...spot on!

The poor quality of all the morning offerings played a role in my decision to change my work schedule, to a start time of 7:30 (from 8:15).

[Oldpuppymax]

“Not a partisan statement!!” OH NO, Major. We wouldn’t want THAT, now WOULD we. You should be like the “journalists” at MSNBC and CNN-—non-biased, non-partisan and ALWAYS truthful!!!! WHY is it that conservatives—even half-assed conservatives—always feel they have to APOLOGIZE for themselves when stating facts!!!

[Reagan Man]

Its the old adage.

If you can't dazzle’m them with brilliance, baffle’m with bs.

[Senator_Blutarski]

How could a President shoot so quickly from the hip?

The only conclusion I can come up with is “politics”.

Obama and his crowd don't understand the concept of governance. This is all a game about being clever and gaining advantage over your opponents. Responsibility, truth and doing what's right for America are not relevant. The only goal is scoring political points and retaining power.

Being President is an adult job.

[oh8eleven]

WHY is it that conservatives—even half-assed conservatives—always feel they have to APOLOGIZE for themselves when stating facts!!!
No guts. Even if The Donald is a closet Lib, look at the postive reaction he got for standing up and getting in the Zero's face over the BC.
The only Conservative who understands this is Sarah Palin. The Left is a lie and when confronted with the truth, they melt like the Wicked Witch.

[70th Division]

Sir! Critical thinking is dead. Especially in this WH. Obama had a gold mine and could have gotten a big bump. He screwed it up like a 3rd grader driving the bus.

All he had to do is get the facts STRAIGHT and then tell the truth. He did neither. He was so worried about ratings that he screwed it up. Not to mention the fact that he can NOT make a decision. Would it have taken Bush/Cheney 14 hours to make that call? I think not. They would have said, “Show me the plan, kill him, clean him up, send me the pictures and then we will go with the story once we have ALL the facts straight. And that is exactly what Bush did with Saddam's kids

[Vaduz]

White House caution children at play.

[tom h]

"This is the most serious military operation this administration has engaged in in a decade."

"Ummmmmmmmm ... hello?"

I acknowledge your skepticism of Major Garrett's hyperbole, and had he said "the most successful intelligence operation / assassination operation of the decade" we all would have agreed.

But no one will want to use the word "assassination"; also, there have no doubt been some very successful intelligence operations that have never been made public.

So we need to excuse Major Garrett here. "Military operation" is probably the optimum description.

[ClearCase_guy]

Actually, I was making a different point about Major Garrett's use of language.

What administration are we living under? The Obama Administration.
When did the administration begin? January 20 2009.
Has this administration been involved in anything at all for a decade? No.

"This is the most serious military operation this administration has engaged in in a decade."

"Ummmmmmmmm ... hello?"

Garrett is falling into a very bad Statist trap. Louis XIV said "I am the state". That's fine for an absolute monarch. But this country is the same as this administration. Most serious military operation this country has done in a decade? Fine.

But he's saying that the Obama Administration IS this country.

What happened to We The People?

[ClearCase_guy]

I dropped a "not" --

"But this country is NOT the same as this administration"