Obama Told Aides Last Year That He's 'Really Good at Killing People'

NewsBusters ^

[chessplayer]

I think we have the winner in the "If a Republican or conservative had said it" media bias category this year, if not this decade.

In the book "Double Down" by liberal journalists Mark Halperin and John Heilemann (reviewed by Peter Hamby at the Washington Post on Friday), President Barack Obama, while discussing drone strikes in 2012, reportedly told aides that he's "really good at killing people." This would have been headline news three seconds after Hamby's review, and Hamby would have headlined it himself instead of casually mentioning it in Paragraph 11. A Google News search on an obvious search string ("really good at Killing people" obama; sorted by date) at 6:45 p.m. returns only 11 items, none of which are establishment press outlets. Michael Kelley at Business Insider, which did not show up among the search items returned, had some interesting thoughts on Obama's alleged remark Saturday evening (bolds are mine throughout this post; Update: important links relating to CIA practices which can only be considered barbaric are in the original):

Furthermore, the disturbing trend of the “double tap” — bombing the same place in quick succession and often hitting first responders — has become common practice.

... a lot of innocent people have been killed along with combatants.

[chessplayer]

If Bush had said that, libs would have been storming the WH with torches and pitchforks. And that double tap thing. Looks like we are killing anyone who tries to come to the aid of anyone hurt in an attack,,,including children. And here this country hypocritically condemns Palestinians for attacking ambulances.

[JohnBrowdie]

I can think of four families who lost loved ones in libya that would agree.

[gaijin]

So they knew BEFORE the election but said nothing.

Interesting.

[gaijin]

If the prez using Hamas tactics is BLACK then its OK.

[Olog-hai]

Sounds very close to something that Che Guevara is reputed to have said . . .

Papa, I must confess: I enjoy killing!

— Letter from Che to his father in Argentina, 1960s

[GeronL]

bump

[V K Lee]

It is unfortunate that this particular confession is the only truth the half whit mulatto has ever uttered.

[LyinLibs]

[MtnMan101]