Posted on 06/20/2009 4:05:09 PM PDT by kristinn
CBS News reporter Mark Knoller issued a sharp retort to people on Twitter responding with derision to critics of Barack Obama's decision to go out for ice cream today while Iran is in the midst of a citizens revolt:
"Surprised by the outrage at the ice cream outing. What is it you expect or want the US to do about Iran? Attack? War?"
Knoller's liberal defense of Obama is not surprising. Four years ago he was Cindy Sheehan's head cheerleader when she arrived in Crawford, Texas to launch a protest against President Bush and the was in Iraq. Knoller failed to report that Sheehan was a supporter of the terrorists in Iraq who described them as "freedom fighters" to Knoller in an exclusive interview she gave him.
One could envision the drool hanging from Knoller's crusty beard as the portly liberal reporter Twittered about Obama's ice cream purchases:
You're gonna laff: Obama & the girls actually bought Frozen Puppy pops for Bo: flavors: pumpkin, peanut butter and yogurt
More Knoller Tweets today:
Covering the White House spans the mundane to the ground-breaking. Frozen custard one minute, war the next. Nature of the beast. about 1 hour ago from web
@nhagerwtop dairy godmother in alexandria. about 2 hours ago from web in reply to nhagerwtop
Reports on the Obama's treats from Liz Davis, owner of The Dairy Godmother in Alexandria, Va, in business for 8 yrs. about 2 hours ago from web
Malia had vanilla frozen custart in a waffle cone. about 2 hours ago from web
Sasha had a Brownie sundae: vanilla frozen yogurt, hot fudge, cherry, sprinkles and whipped cream (which she asked Dad to scrape off) about 2 hours ago from web
Obama had vanilla frozen custard in a cup with hot fudge and toasted almonds. The girls went more elaborate. (more) about 2 hours ago from web
You're gonna laff: Obama & the girls actually bought Frozen Puppy pops for Bo: flavors: pumpkin, peanut butter and yogurt about 2 hours ago from web
Surprised by the outrage at the ice cream outing. What is it you expect or want the US to do about Iran? Attack? War? about 2 hours ago from web
The Obama outing last 54 minutes. The Secret Service used the SUV instead of the limo for the pres and daughters. about 2 hours ago from web
Obama and the girls are back at the WH after their quick outing for frozen custard. about 2 hours ago from web
Obama's statement on Iran was written. Not on-camera. Remember what he said yesterday to CBS' Harry Smith abt not being "a foil." about 2 hours ago from web
@gpollowitz Obama was seen with a cup, but a waffle cone sounds great. about 2 hours ago from web in reply to gpollowitz
It's the 1st ever presidential run for ice cream from the WH I can recall. Tho Clinton did it a few times with Chelsea on Martha's Vineyard. about 3 hours ago from web
Obama & the girls have now left "Dairy Godmother" where they got frozen custard, They carried a pkg as they left. Maybe for FLOTUS? Or Bo? about 3 hours ago from web
O says US now bearing witness to the Iranian peoples belief in MLK's truth and "we will continue to bear witness." about 3 hours ago from web
re: Iran, Obama quotes MLK: The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. O says "I believe that." about 3 hours ago from web
Obama cautions Iran govt: "it must respect the dignity of its own people and govern through consent, not coercion." about 3 hours ago from web
More Obama on Iran: The universal rights to assembly and free speech must be respected.." and US stands with all exercising those rights. about 3 hours ago from web
About 230p, Obama issued a written statement calling on Iranian govt "to stop all violent and unjust actions against its own people." about 3 hours ago from web
Obama just took his daughters for ice cream at a place in Alexandria. Obama seen with cup of frozen custard. about 3 hours ago from web
Well said. Especially when it comes to issues around freedom...
Am sure; Obama at least smart enough to go eat ice cream after his statement was issued from the White House. This from a man; who cannot RESIST preening at a podium - in front of a camera - for the most inane of reasons. . .but chooses NOT to personally issue his statement of support - from the Free World'- to Iran.
Obama is a frickin LOSER! He is a COWARD! He is afraid to be seen. . .too close to his own words (so ascribed. . .)no doubt; lest he be misunderstood by 'others' in the Muslim World.
PATHETIC LOSER! He shames all of America with this half-hearted gesture. Supposedly strong words; just no one behind them, for the world to see.
Michael Moore makes up a lie about comments made while playing golf during Iraq...but that’s OK.
Impossible. DU still holds that distinction.
You’ve nailed it. The CBS guy needs to realize that there are many other options available besides just war and ice cream. How about... being serious while occupying the oval office? Maybe put your stupid cone down and issue a statement that a government cannot be allowed to massacre its people in the streets without worldwide condemnation.
Stupid CBS is as clueless as stupid 0bama.
Here’s the parallel. Every time a clintoon bimbo scandal erupted in the media clintoon ordered bombing a country. He bombed an average of 7 countries in the 8 years he was in office. Naturally, the bimbo eruption receded or disappeared from front page headlines. Now zip forward 8 years with obozo. Every time there’s a national crisis, obozo is found to be doing something insignificant like going to New York on a “date” with his wife, having a pizza party, golfing, eating ice cream with his kids, and mainstream media is eating it up and wondering what the h**l is wrong with the rest of the world. It’s beyond ridiculous.
This guy sounds like a damned 14 year old reading TigerBeat magazine.
This is what the pressholes are reduced to. Journalism is dead.
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Well said.
I personally could care less if Obama goes out for ice cream. Whatever happens will be his responsibility and I suspect that whether he remains in the WH or whether he goes out for ice cream, the outcome will remain the same. Maybe the kids asked him to go, who knows?
The Tiger Beat journalists would do well to go back to real journalism. The underlying anger at all the coverage over fashion and jaunts is, IMO, really about not getting proper information from these court jesters more than anything else. Who CARES about the Obamas’ lives this much? Nobody I know. What Obama is doing to the country is another matter entirely.
What happened to all that ‘eat healthy’ crappola.
And notice the O kids didn’t take part in eating veggies out of the kitchen garden.
Why would he be surprised? The now state run media spent the last eight years teaching the public to be constantly outraged at the President.
Remember that he doesn’t work on weekends or after 5 o’clock. Wonder what time he shows up in the morning. Our RAT Governor in OK didn’t schedule meetings before noon because he slept in so much. He didn’t work weekends either.
Exactly Iranians are looking west for the lighthouse beacon to light the way to safe harbors and ........
Obama turned the light off...
Never mentions Liberty or Freedom, maybe the media if they believed in the 1st ammendment would ask our Mullah why?
I’d rather he be out buying ice cream than thinking of more ways to spend our $$$$.
I didn’t realize that the White House Kitchen is all out of Ice Cream. Guess they forgot to add it to the Shopping List.
Did President Bush took it all with him when he left?
I didnt realize that the White House Kitchen is all out of Ice Cream. Guess they forgot to add it to the Shopping List.
Did President Bush TAKE it all with him when he left?
Oops...
Mere blocks from my house, and good ice cream. But his timing was sort of odd.
All it took for the Leftwingtards to start their campaign to bring America to its knees was two minutes of “My Pet Goat”. Here we’ve got hours and hours of narcissistic BS, but luckily we are not intent on bringing down America ~ still, we have to figure out a way for this putz to go back to Chicago and continue setting fire to abandoned homes.
The overwhelming majority of them are former military personnel, or were with Savak or other state agencies.
They're actually dangerous people ~
They conveniently didn't mention that GWB never played golf after we went to war. He said that it wasn't right for him to play golf while our service members were in harms way. I guess this would make our child-president look bad so they just left it out.
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