Eleanor Clift: ‘President’s Remarks on Friday Are Going to be Read by Future Generations’

NewsBusters.org ^ | July 20, 2013 | Noel Sheppard

[Kaslin]

It’s been almost sick-making watching Obama-loving media members gush and fawn over his address to the nation Friday concerning race and the George Zimmerman verdict.

One nauseating example was Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift who said on PBS’s McLaughlin Group, “The President’s remarks on Friday are going to be read by future generations. They’re beautiful, they’re eloquent”

Eleanor Clift: ‘President’s Remarks on Friday Are Going to be Read by Future Generations’

ELEANOR CLIFT, NEWSWEEK/DAILY BEAST: I want to say the President’s remarks on Friday are going to be read by future generations. They’re beautiful, they’re eloquent, they speak to the pain of a lot of people in this country. [Pointing at fellow panelist Mort Zuckerman] You’re smirking while I say that.

MORT ZUCKERMAN, US NEWS & WORLD REPORT: I’m not smirking.

CLIFT: Sure looked that way right over there.

CLARENCE PAGE, CHICAGO TRIBUNE: No smirking, Mort.

ZUCKERMAN: Get a pair of glasses.

JOHN MCLAUGHLIN, HOST: Smirking is prohibited.

ZUCKERMAN: I wasn’t smirking.

CLIFT: He addresses the pain that a lot of people feel. He does not question the jury verdict. He talks about how we can go forward. He doesn’t, he says we’ve made a lot of progress. This is not a post-racial America. But if he didn’t speak out, what kind of president would he be? This has been the elephant in the room for the last week. He has an obligation to address this.

MCLAUGHLIN: President…

CLIFT: And I think a lot of people will identify with the remarks that he made.

Let’s be clear: Barack Obama could recite the alphabet and folks such as Clift would have orgasms.

Makes you wonder how any of them sleeps at night.

[2banana]

On how the Civil War II / Race Riots started???

[BenLurkin]

He will always be known as The Great Divider.

[Feckless]

Uyghur, PLEASE!

[Feckless]

Now that Helen Thomas has gone to hell Clift is the biggest Commie C_ _t on the beat.

[snarkytart]

Puhlease. Almost every comment I see underneath this story are anti-Obama even on typical liberal news sites. People are DONE with this.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Kim Jong Obama - how lucky and blessed we truly are to have such a visionary leader.

[DeFault User]

The world will little note nor long remember what we say here....blah....blah...blah

OK on the sound check. How was it Eleanor?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Breaking News

George Zimmerman has legally changed his name to Ben Ghazi so Obama, his henchmen, Hillary and the media will ignore him in the foreseeable future.

[MeshugeMikey]

It’s been almost sick-making watching Obama-loving media members.

ALMOST? not

[liberalh8ter]

With any luck, those words will be read just before the chapter that details his arrest, conviction and imprisonment.

[BAW]

This speech could make me start drinking again.

[Baynative]

"He will always be known as The Great Divider."

The Obama/Holder agenda of racial agitation will be part of his legacy. he will be remembered for setting civility back by decades.

[BunnySlippers]

Obama will be remembered as a racist!!!

[tumblindice]

Andrea “Hatchetface” Mitchell is coming up on the inside, but EC by a nose.

[lurk]

Small presidents don’t get quoted much.

[lightman]

George Zimmerman has legally changed his name to Ben Ghazi so Obama, his henchmen, Hillary and the media will ignore him in the foreseeable future.

POST OF THE WEEK!

[Bender2]

Re: Eleanor Clift: ‘President’s Remarks on Friday Are Going to be Read by Future Generations’

Yeah, I guess so, Eleanor, just so it ain't... writ in cursive--

[Retired Chemist]

Brings back memories of Clift when Clinton was president. A joke went around that when Bill Clinton had a colonoscopy, they found Clift’s apartment.

[R0CK3T]

And Hitler claimed the 3rd Riech would go on for 1000 years. This useless drivel will last less time than that.