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CNN Blasts CBS News’s Major Garrett for Asking Obama Tough Question
Breitbart ^ | July 15, 2015 | By John Nolte

Posted on 07/15/2015 9:42:27 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee

During Wednesday’s national press conference about his Iran deal, President Obama played the media like a fiddle. It was a situation where the media was so compliant the questioners were hand-picked by the White House beforehand, the president filibustered throughout, and Obama ended the event by asking himself the questions he wanted to answer.

Only Major Garrett of CBS News asked a truly tough question, a question that was obviously framed in a way to cut through the president’s rigorously-rehearsed talking points. For daring to question the Lightbringer in the same way the media questioned President George W. Bush for 8 years, CNN went hard after Garrett over two news hours (thus far).

Before Don Lemon was brought on later to beclown himself, CNN’s congressional correspondent, Dana Bash, attacked Garrett as “disrespectful.”

BASH: I’ve been a White House reporter, you’ve been a White House report… You know what it’s like to stand up and ask the president a question — and you do want to be tough. But there’s a fine line, especially standing in the East Room — a fine line between asking a tough question and maybe crossing that line a little bit, and maybe being disrespectful. So I think that that happened there.

But that wasn’t enough. In the following hour, CNN hauled out Don Lemon and Gloria Borger to attack Garrett. . .

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bias; cnn; media; mediabias; msm; obama
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To: windsorknot

Yeah, but he got an Army deserter released. That shows what he considers to be important.


21 posted on 07/15/2015 10:16:03 PM PDT by azishot (Drive hammered. Get nailed.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Two perfectly appropriate questions? THAT’s all this is about?


22 posted on 07/15/2015 10:19:52 PM PDT by TChad
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To: Brad from Tennessee

If the four Americans were US soldiers who deserted their units and joined enemy forces, they would be home next week and obama would be feeling up their mothers in the Rose Garden.


23 posted on 07/15/2015 10:35:33 PM PDT by clintonh8r
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Obama appeared on the national scene in 2007 or a little before that. So in 8+ years he was asked one difficult question. The leftists are outraged that one time in all these years a journalist actually did his job and a real question slipped through.


24 posted on 07/15/2015 10:52:18 PM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Absolutely! Dana Bash is an untalented odd wad to miss entirely her own hypocrisy. Her ex-husband is John King who was demoted by CNN. He was intelligent, a consummate professional, dignified, but not liberal enough. He is seldom seen since they hung the brass pajamas on Anderson Cooper, who consumes all the air time CNN can give him.


25 posted on 07/15/2015 10:59:18 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

when cnn hosts the GOP presidential debates I would love to see more than one contender throw these responses back at the cnn agitator.


26 posted on 07/15/2015 11:11:54 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: sickoflibs

Good point! Those 4 American lives are real, their families are real, and any reporter who is a real American would have been chomping at the bit to ask the very same question on behalf of his countrymen.


27 posted on 07/15/2015 11:24:35 PM PDT by 2tipsea (What can I say?)
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To: windsorknot

“Barry left four people stranded. Déjà vu all over again.”

But he “brought home” than deserter Bowe Bergdahl!


28 posted on 07/15/2015 11:52:08 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: Secret Agent Man
That is what I was thinking. Maybe someone can find one of those President Bush interviews where the media treated him worse and send it to these clowns and ask them where they were when this was happening with Bush...
29 posted on 07/16/2015 12:09:17 AM PDT by martinidon
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To: martinidon

They will rationalize it away, it would be a waste of time.


30 posted on 07/16/2015 12:10:33 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Also left behind.

31 posted on 07/16/2015 1:23:13 AM PDT by nonsporting
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Sheesh. What sheep these people are. Garrett was forced to give a defense for his tough question. I remember when reporters would get into fights with Nixon - no one said a word.


32 posted on 07/16/2015 4:00:20 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Bump


33 posted on 07/16/2015 4:13:30 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: Brad from Tennessee

CNN receives tax dollars for news content. They are Obama’s hired guns.

CBS does it without pay, for they are loyal fellow travelers doing their bit for the Glorious Cause.

We see here the mercenaries carryin out their orders to take down an apostate.


34 posted on 07/16/2015 4:18:39 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
This is one small reason why big majorities are seeing the press as more a propaganda arm of the WH than news organizations. CNN is hemorrhaging ratings. If it wasn't for airports and gyms, they'd have no audience.

There is also a racial component here at play, also.They are so desperate to not have the first black president fail that the press has been willing to throw any sliver of impartiality aside to protect him

35 posted on 07/16/2015 4:25:28 AM PDT by LMAO (("Begging hands and Bleeding hearts will only cry out for more"...Anthem from Rush))
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To: Brad from Tennessee

They can do this becaause CNN never disrespected Bush ... right?


36 posted on 07/16/2015 4:33:12 AM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

“Stick up for Obama and share in some of his stash”


37 posted on 07/16/2015 4:35:23 AM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: RitaOK

Anderson Cooper is “protected class”


38 posted on 07/16/2015 4:37:48 AM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Il Douche likes his media to be obedient. He doesn’t do well in an off prompter mode.


39 posted on 07/16/2015 4:37:56 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: TChad

You’d be surprised what collectivists get their knickers in a knot over.


40 posted on 07/16/2015 4:41:03 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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