WAKE UP AMERICA
Posted on 06/23/2010 10:28:37 PM PDT by Justaham
Unlike Katie Couric on Monday night, on Wednesday evening NBC's Brian Williams didn't hide the bad news for President Obama in the network's latest poll, but Williams and Savannah Guthrie sure seemed to lament the public mood's swing against Obama as Williams attributed it to how Obama “had to touch” the gulf oil leak, “he had to own it and now he's getting tagged with how he's reacting to it.” As if Obama had nothing to do with it, Guthrie agreed he's “had a barrage of bad headlines on some of these very issues of leadership, handling a crisis...”
“If you're the White House looking at these numbers we're about to debut tonight, there isn't much here that's encouraging right now,” Williams warned of the NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey findings. Guthrie agreed: “There's not a lot of good news in this poll for the White House. Gushing oil, persistent unemployment the real problem.”
Online, MSNBC.com's headline also ascribed Obama's troubles to the gulf: “Spill drags the President's rating down.” The subhead, over the posting by NBC News Deputy Political director Mark Murray, emphasized a bright spot in areas Guthrie noted declines : “A silver lining for Obama is that his personal scores are still strong.”
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It was the US gov't's responsibility to At least TRY to prevent what is happening! Billy from LA really tore into Obama Anderson Cooper tonight! AC was left basically speechless.
How about that? For a change, it’s not Bush’s fault, it’s the spill’s!
Mah heart just bleeds for poor President Obama.
Oh, it’s all Bush’s fault. Wasn’t Halliburton involved?
The libtards will blame it on Bush.
yeah, it’s just soooo too bad, isn’t it?
I can’t wait to see them look like they did on the evening of November 8th, 1994 again...all the network commentators were dumstruck and so sad....and making excuses...just like someone told them their puppy had died and their 401K was worthless
For you kids here that was a Kodak Moment...
True, but for that moment, Williams accidentally forgot Bush and assigned blame to an object that is far more closely related to Obama than his predecessor.
Brian Williams is one of the chief politizizers of Hurricane Katrina.
Brain Williams is the one who brought up McCarthy during coverage of Katrina, very bizarre and twisted.
Tell me more... what happened? I know last night he had Redford on blaming Cheney,.
BJ brian doing his favorite thing again I see.
LLS
The evil oil spill forced him into a position where he had to show some kind of leadership instead of relying on touchy-feely, hope and change messages with no specific plan.
Maybe she could get another lobotomy. I chip in a couple of bucks to see that on pay per view.
His comments were more against gov't and not BP.
AC looked like a deer in the head-lights.
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