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
Imagine if Bush went for ice cream the day of Hurricane Katrina.
Taking advice from none other than Jimmy Carter, no doubt.
I have two words about PBO: Nevile Chamberlain.
I expect obama to have ice cream, go on an expensive date with his wife or girlfriend (boyfriend?), or have TOTUS give a speech. I would expect the President of the United States (if we had a real president) or the leader of the free world (if Sarah had the power) to ... lead. Obviously, obama has no clue on how to lead, or how to use the bully pulpit to influence events with an approach somewhere in between war and swatting a fly.
Mark Knoller
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Older and wiser I cried for the young, afraid for their future through Clinton. Because he ignored the growth of it.
Obama, however, is Death Himself. Of course Obama goes out for a family Ice Cream on this day of when Basiji, Hezbullah and Hamas are set loose to slaughter in Iran. It is like a day of comfort to him.
He makes me want to puke, and not in a good way, if there was ever a good way to puke -- there is, it is a action against swallowing some poisons. But Obama's poison is not by mouth.
I want to puke because we, America, are sick and Obama stands here aside scythe in hand. I shiver from the national poisons we have taken in.
Obama enjoys his ice cream cones.
John Keats, 1820
I am one of those “morons”.
Those “morons” are also Iranians who are trying to be free from an Islamic government.
If you don’t like Twitter, that’s fine. Don’t call those who do use Twitter, morons.
Thanks
We need to come up with media kneepads.
And based on either history or legend, not only did Nero fiddle while Rome burned - HE BURNED IT.
Apparently Mr. Nero liked to destroy things, so he could rebuild them. One day, he decided to burn Rome...well, the Romans were pretty pissed, so Nero needed to find a scapegoat...he did...Christians.
So began some of the most prolific persecution of Christians known in that day, including rolling Christians in pitch, setting them in Nero's garden, and lighting them on fire...to light Nero's gardens.
I guess I know where ballerina Rahm Emmanuel got the expression "never let a crisis go to waste"...
I have refused to buy their communist socialist ice cream for years. If others want to eat it, good on them. I ain’t buying it!
I have known a lot of Iranians. I met a few when I was in the USN back in the mid-seventies, and I went to college with quite a few.
If I had to choose one country over in the Middle East to be allied with (besides Israel) it would be Iran, if only they could get out from under that thugocracy.
I have found them to be smart, practical and in possession of a good sense of humor. To this day, I revile the Carter administration for what it did to the Shah of Iran. He wasn’t perfect, but at least he was attempting to pull Iran out of the 7th Century. And he was succeeding.
President Obama made another stop on his culinary tour of the Washington region on Saturday, dropping by the Del Ray neighborhood of Alexandria for a cool afternoon treat. He walked through the doors of The Dairy Godmother with daughters Sasha and Malia in an unannounced visit that startled those inside the bustling neighborhood custard shop.
At this boutique on Mount Vernon Avenue, the sign indicates that the line forms to the right. But Mr. Obama and his small entourage went to the left, bypassing the crowd. No one seemed to mind, store employees said later, as people strained their necks to see what the Obama family was ordering.
[from the NYslimes]
I like Cheetos.
Didn't work then; won't work now.
The “timeline” was an off the cuff reference intended to make a point.
The point I was trying to make (which is clear and undeniable) was that the Shah was making every effort to bring Iran into the modern world kicking and screaming, just as Ataturk did with Turkey.
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