Posted on 07/24/2008 4:45:38 PM PDT by chessplayer
CNN’s chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour, reporting on Barack Obama’s speech in Berlin on Thursday’s “The Situation Room,” expressed her shock that the European crowd didn’t seem to have the same mania for the Democrat that the media has: “I did ask some people as they were leaving what they thought. Everybody said good, good. But I was surprised that there wasn't this sort of euphoria afterwards, given how many people had come to listen and how much it had been anticipated.” She later stated in the segment that one unnamed political analyst talked about how “people [in Europe] want a political redeemer --
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there were 100,00 not 200,000. The 200,000 figure is a made up number from the AP. They claim Berlin Police told them that many people were there. Der Speigel, the German newspaper of record said from the time the event started there were no more than 100,00 people. And ues, many were stoned and came to listen to the Reggae band. School was out for a holiday as well.
That was my first thought exactly! Not to fear, though, because there's plenty of other mice in the "mainstream" Democrat newsrooms who will be fawning and soiling themselves in headlines, columns, and network news broadcasts over the next few days.
By the way, what actually had Amanpour flummoxed was that the crowds were not nearly as enraptured as she hoped they’d be. She expected a Beatles concert, with adults fainting like teenage girls but that didn’t happen and so Amanpour is crestfallen.
When the Commie News Network begins the inevitable belt-tightening, may she be the first to go.
Now, I thought that one was a board game.
Is that possibility so iconoclastic that they cannot even mention it?"
Will Media Report Concert Before Obama's Berlin Speech?Remember back in May when media gushed and fawned over a huge crowd in Portland, Oregon -- supposedly gathered to hear the words of Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama -- but chose not to report the free concert given before his speech?
Well, it has been learned that before the presumptive Democrat nominee spoke to a crowd in Berlin Thursday, two popular German acts -- reggae artist Patrice and rock band Reamonn -- entertained the gathering audience.
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World wars I and II were nothing compared to [shudder] George W. Bush.
/sarc>
He’s a bore and a boob.
Pretty spot on analysis considering you didn’t hear it.
Chistine Ahmawhore doesn’t recognize one of the worst speeches ever given. He could’t squeeze one more cliche in there with a D8 Cat.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Why in the hell would Germans care about a US politician? We certainly don’t care about theirs!
I agree. I would not attend a rally for Merkel.
I'm sure the MEDIA was anticipating the appearance; obviously, for the folks who attended the speech, Obama wasn't "all that". I'm sure that just mystifies Christiane Amanpour.
ROTFL!!
Although quite a few attended a rally for Achmadinejad at Columbia. What’s with these proselytizing Muslims?
Schitzels, or cutlets, are a far more expensive crowd getter that Wurstchen (sausages), thus I suspect that they were Bratwurst, or Brats (for short...)
the infowarrior
OK, so they had a school holiday, it’s summer (and the Germans have those looonnnng vacations doncha know), there was free beer and food, plus a couple of popular bands to warm up the crowd. There was an array of identical American flags waving in the first few rows of people, too — undoubtedly passed out by the Messiah’s advance team.
So incredibly ridiculous, all of it, and then to hear him speak on top of it was just too much, really too much to bear. Oh yeah, loved the Arab ululating when he mentioned his daddy herding goats in Kenya. HAHAHAHAHA
Even Nightline’s Cynthia McFadden seemed underwhelmed when she talked about the event tonight.
What really got me was the magic one’s apologizing to this bunch of Germans for flaws he sees in the way Americans have dealt with world affairs. Who the h*ll is HE to think he can apologize on my behalf. I have nothing to apologize for and want him to STFU!!!
Nobama, not now, not ever!!!
There was a fabulous commentary given in the section comments of the news story by a Guy Arthur Thomas. Check it out: he nails it.
“Allow me to further my comments from the Matthews story:
The truth is, the speech was a DISAPPOINTMENT. It was bland,
uninspiring and WHOLLY predictable. Frankly, I think The Obamanation is going to take a hit from this.
The fact that the best MSNBC’s Chris Matthew’s could muster was that “it had its thrill factor” is the kind of faint praise that admits failure.
And this is one of the very crippling flaws of The Obamanation, his imagination. While it might fuel his rhetoric, he wrongly imagines rhetoric is sufficient and that specifically dealing with matters of both domestic and international concern can wait until he is able to be in the midst of them, so that he may see which way the wind is blowing and attempt to set sail. He is prone to the populace and not truly given to ideas and convictions. And this shows in spectacular moments as in this speech when he fails to deliver beyond his misplaced confidence in his declamations.
The Obamanation is quite unlike those he wishes to imitate; leaders who had convictions which edified their speeches and the hearers to whom they spoke. With truly great leaders there are specifics and certainties, characteristics sorely missing with Obama’s attempted
oration.
The Obamanation spoke with generalizations that any cheap
politician, left or right, could have made. When Reagan spoke and for that matter, Kennedy, at least you knew who the man was, what he believed and where he wanted to lead a nation and the world. Any child knows that talking about holding hands and that getting along is expected, Obama never went beyond such juvenile charges.
The Obamanation’s stage play expected to billow strong visions of a man in charge and ideas that merited acquiescence by its hearers. Instead, it was a flatlined speech, the course of which could have been prophesied with a yardstick. Obama was naked, and gave no sense of
political armament. His only saving grace were the eager disciples in attendance who are lead about by their naivety, those interested in the novelty and those nice enough not to walk away when they realized this was just a shadow of a true leader.
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