Posted on 12/19/2015 12:47:54 PM PST by grundle
In an off-the-record meeting with journalists on Tuesday, Obama said that he did not watch enough cable news to fully recognize the extent of people's fears, sources with knowledge of the meeting told CNN. That characterization of Obama's remarks was included in a New York Times article, but later removed while the article was being edited for the print edition.
The president's claim has drawn fierce criticism from conservatives, who see it as evidence that Obama is out of touch with national sentiment about the threat of terrorism.
"An American president needs to consume more panel debates to properly assess public anxiety after terrorist events?" wrote Noah Rothman, an editor at the conservative magazine Commentary.
Ron Fournier, the National Journal columnist, called it "breathtaking," while the Wall Street Journal's James Taranto urged people to imagine the media outcry that would have occurred had former president George W. Bush made a similar remark.
White House spokespeople did not respond to a request for comment regarding the president's remarks.
The meeting, which took place in the White House Roosevelt Room, included journalists, columnists and editors from the Times, The Washington Post and The Atlantic, as well as digital outlets like Yahoo, Slate, Vox and Mic. Per the ground rules, attendees were not allowed to discuss the meeting or attribute any remarks to the president.
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He is a great flaming arse hole.
He merits no more than that.
He is an ass.
A dickweed.
A maggot.
I hate him with ever fiber of my being.
Bingo! It was arrogant sarcasm, nothing more.
0bozo just had no idea that large scale terrorist attacks
would make anyone feel uneasy. After all, as Lord 0bozo has
told us, we are a muslim nation now and these things
should make us happy. Aloha Snackbar and to all a good fight!
Judging from that picture, I’d say Jarrett is as blind as a bat. An old bat at that.
He watches the Showtime series “Homeland” though. Or at least he did until they took him off the opening credits.
“””I read it as him admitting that he is ill informed and living in a bubble.”””
It’s worse than that. It means he is indifferent to the security of the United States. The man is THE most worthless human ever on a position of power.
The President of the United States needs to watch tv to find out what’s going on in his nation? He can’t be serious.
Actually, he just wants people to think he’s an incompetent, out-of-touch buffoon. He’s really an enemy. When you understand that he’s an enemy, then what he does begins to make perfect sense.
Clueless, cruel, and trivializing acts of terror.
What I heard he said was that he “hadn’t been watching enough cable news to know how upset people were” about recent terror strikes, including those in Paris and San Bernadino.
I agree with you entirely about his tacit admission of living in a bubble.
But I think he was also sneering at the kind of people who would be angry or frightened in Obamerica, also at those foolish enough to follow the cable news.
Smug, murderous, gutless monster.
Obama doesn’t know jihadist mass murder of Americans upsets Americans? Yet he loves to lecture us on what “our values” are.
He doesn’t care because he and the princesses are very well protected so as long as he can fly around and vacation for free and be protected at the same time, he could care less.
There are some pretty strong suspicions that's TRUE also.
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