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Fox News Issues Rare Criticism of Netanyahu Over Congress Speech
Arutz Sheva ^ | 1/25/2015 | Elad Benari

Posted on 01/25/2015 7:26:51 AM PST by dontreadthis

Fox News on Friday aired a rare criticism of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, over his decision to accept an invitation from House speaker John Boehner to address Congress.

Fox News hosts Chris Wallace and Shepard Smith criticized the move, saying it would cause backlash in Israel and damage the relationship between the United States and Israel.

“I happened to be the White House on Wednesday when Boehner announced he invited and Netanyahu accepted this, and a top White House official was flabbergasted. Said, ‘We got no advance warning. We found out about it,’ them in the White House, ‘when Boehner announced it to the press,’” Wallace said.

“To make you get a sense of really how, forgive me, wicked this whole thing is: Secretary of State John Kerry met with the Israeli Ambassador to the United States for two hours on Tuesday, and Ron Dermer, the ambassador, according to the State Department, never mentioned the fact that Netanyahu was in negotiations, and finally agreed, to come to Washington, not to see the president but to go to Capitol Hill, speak to a joint session of Congress and criticize the president’s policies,” he continued.

“I have to say, I’m shocked,” Wallace added.

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 114th; agitprop; chriswallace; foxnews; netanyahucongress; netanyahuvisit; obamanetanyahu; shepardsmith
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To: dontreadthis

Fox is treating conservatives like the GOPe treats conservatives. As Fox moves to the left, there will be market consequences and the rise of a new venue for people who want real news and patriotic commentary.


21 posted on 01/25/2015 7:47:07 AM PST by Truth29
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To: dontreadthis
Wallace made the point of what would we think if Pelosi invited one of Bush's enemies to speak.

Pretty much said to me that he acknowledges that Netanyahu is one of Obama's enemies! I really don't think Bush would've minded if Pelosi had invited one of our allies to speak!

22 posted on 01/25/2015 7:47:56 AM PST by CAluvdubya (<------- has now left CA for NV, where God and guns have not been outlawed! "The Miracle of America")
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To: normbal
Amazing what that “minority” percentage ownership of
Fox News by the house of Saud can control, isn’t it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_Holding_Company

Kingdom Holding Company holds a significant amount of
News Corp. Stock, the Parent Company to Fox News

23 posted on 01/25/2015 7:47:58 AM PST by HangnJudge
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To: dontreadthis

Finally got a new tv...and now I know the old one wasn’t broken. Shep Smith wears orange makeup and purple lipstick. I know everyone on TV gets “made-up” to give them color and definition...but I think he is really going overboard.


24 posted on 01/25/2015 7:47:59 AM PST by icwhatudo (Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
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To: dontreadthis

This is only Shephard Smith and Chris Wallace - they are the liberals of Fox News - This is how the liberals will strive to mischaracterize Fox News. Shepard and wlaace are not the true representation of Fox so take what both have to say with a grain of salt.


25 posted on 01/25/2015 7:55:05 AM PST by hondact200 (Candor dat viribos alas (sincerity gives wings to strength) and Nil desperandum (never despair))
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To: CAluvdubya

Columbia U invited Achmadinejad to speak and the left just gushed all over him. Even after he insisted there are no homos in Iran.


26 posted on 01/25/2015 7:58:46 AM PST by txhurl (They claim conservatives aren't electable yet they disguise themselves as conservatives to win.)
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To: dontreadthis

When Obama went to war in Libya he didn’t bother to consult with Congress - and that is a constitutional duty and a much more serious action.

When Pelosi went to see Assad in Syria during the Bush administration she did so without consulting the president.

And there are many more similar examples.

The dens have elevated dissing the repubs into an art form.


27 posted on 01/25/2015 8:01:06 AM PST by aquila48
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To: hondact200
This is only Shephard Smith and Chris Wallace - they are the liberals of Fox News - This is how the liberals will strive to mischaracterize Fox News. Shepard and wlaace are not the true representation of Fox so take what both have to say with a grain of salt.

My thoughts too.

Wallace and Smith don't speak for all of the opinion makers at Fox.

The headline is misleading.

People shouldn't fall for it.

28 posted on 01/25/2015 8:03:21 AM PST by FreeReign
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Nope, Chris Wallace and Shepard Smith did it.

29 posted on 01/25/2015 8:07:21 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: aquila48

The back-door counter negotiations Kerry and the rest of the Dems carried on with the Sandinistas during the Reagan administration were a much more severe attack on the Executive’s foreign policy powers.

Still cracks me up remembering how Ortega went to Moscow right after the House blocked Reagan... and the Dems then had to reverse themselves.


30 posted on 01/25/2015 8:10:31 AM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: mrsmith

Obama is very afraid of not being able to control the message. Bibi will come here with facts, photographs, and evidence that we are being lied to by our president.


31 posted on 01/25/2015 8:18:31 AM PST by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: dontreadthis

Oh hogwash!

THE HOUSE DOES NOT NEED PERMISSION FROM OBAMA TO INVITE ANYBODY TO SPEAK BEFORE A JOINT SESSION.

Please check the Constitution .. we have 3 units of equal power. That means the Congress does not need to ask the WH if it can invite somebody to speak before it.

If some leftist people at FOX are upset about it .. oh well. They are entitled to their opinion .. but to say their ill-advised comments will “sink FOX” is just plain ignorance.


32 posted on 01/25/2015 8:22:00 AM PST by CyberAnt ("The hope and changey stuff did not work, even a smidgen.")
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To: dontreadthis

Chris Wallace and Shepard Smith yellow streak is showing.


33 posted on 01/25/2015 8:24:31 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: FreeReign

But they will fall for it. Libs HATE FoxNews and will trumpet any news that disparages FoxNews.


34 posted on 01/25/2015 8:24:42 AM PST by originalbuckeye (Moderation in temper is always a virtue; moderation in principle is always a vice. Paine)
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To: Logical me

I have read that, when Netanyahu addresses Congress for the third time, he will share that distinction with only one other head of state, Winston Churchill.

I hope Bibi is aware of this & delivers a Churchillian warning to the U.S. and Western nations; that we are menaced by something even worse than communism, which is Islam in all its murderous manifestations throughout the world.

I also hope he tells Obama to go back to his sandbox and let the adults run the show.


35 posted on 01/25/2015 8:32:56 AM PST by elcid1970 ("I: am a radicalized infidel.")
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To: Gaffer

If the Prime Minister of Israel was from the Labor Party who was coming to announce a withdrawal to the 1967 borders, turning the IDF into a small constabulary force armed with only small weapons,placing any Israelis past the 1967 borders under Palestinian authority, and of course allowing unrestricted “right of return” for so called Arab refugees right before the Israeli election then I’m sure there would be no problem. Since it’s a Likud Prime Minister who won’t go for the failed policy of land for peace then everyone is upset by such a controversy. Israel is always required to make concessions right off the bat before negotiations with no guarantees as confidence building measures yet the Palestinians are never asked to refrain from the national sport of Jew murder.


36 posted on 01/25/2015 8:52:37 AM PST by bonehead4freedom
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To: dontreadthis

Who cares what these two little girls think? Token liberals.


37 posted on 01/25/2015 8:59:51 AM PST by MagnoliaB
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To: Awgie
All Push-Back will be immediately met with shrillness and caterwauling from rabid and closet commies.

Not to mention racism. Boner's push-back is a pleasant surprise to me too.

38 posted on 01/25/2015 9:07:52 AM PST by shove_it (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen -- Dennis Prager)
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To: CAluvdubya

“Wallace made the point of what would we think if Pelosi invited one of Bush’s enemies to speak.”

So he views the leader of Israel as an enemy? I guess that the way The Carp views the world, anyone that Obola doesn’t “like.” is an enemy of our country.


39 posted on 01/25/2015 9:13:09 AM PST by vette6387
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To: dontreadthis

Chris Wallace and especially Shep Smith are hardly “Fox News”......


40 posted on 01/25/2015 9:15:33 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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