President Obama Doesn’t Appreciate Being Challenged By Bold Reporter At Today’s Press Conference
[guest post by Dana]
This morning, President Obama took questions from reporters at a press conference about the Iran deal. Given that that four Americans remain imprisoned in Iran and their secured release was not part of the deal, CBS’s Major Garrett confronted the president:
“Why you are content with all the fanfare around this deal to leave the conscience of this nation, the strength of this nation unaccounted for in relation to these four Americans?”
An offended President Obama shot back:
“That’s nonsense, and you should know better.”
After Garrett defended himself for his provocative question, CNN’s own resident scold, Dana Bash, took him to task:
“There’s a fine line between asking a tough question and maybe crossing that line a little bit and being disrespectful, and I think that happened here.”
On a side note, a quick perusal of the text from the president’s press conference looks to be about what you would expect. Self-congratulatory: the deal is a powerful display of American leadership and diplomacy and meets the national security interests of the United States and our allies; yes, Israel has been nervous about Iran, so it’s a good thing they will now be safer because of this deal; the next president will sure be in good shape as our top-secret plan to defeat ISIS has them on the run (Hey, how about those 60 Syrian soldiers we’ve been training!); we made concessions to Iran because they are our new friends… Stuff sort of like that.
And this:
And ultimately, it’s not the job of the president of the United States to solve every problem in the Middle East.
The people in the Middle East are going to have to solve some of these problems themselves. But I think we can provide that next president at least a foundation for continued progress in these various areas.
The last thing I would say, and this is a longer-term issue, is we have to address the youth in the region with jobs and opportunity and a better vision for the future so that they are not tempted by the nihilistic, violent, dead-end that organizations like ISIL offer. Again, we can’t do that entirely by ourselves, but we can partner with well-intentioned organizations, states, NGOs, religious leaders in the region. We have to do a better job of that than we’ve been doing so far.
(Between providing jobs and job training for the youths of the ME as well as teaching Iran how to thwart and detect threats to its nuclear program, you know, because Israel, America sure has a full plate of … other nation’s business.)
–Dana
Hello.
Dana (86e864) — 7/15/2015 @ 3:50 pmI liked the side bar at Ace on this,
Gazzer (ee3742) — 7/15/2015 @ 3:56 pmObama Wanted to Be All Like Jennifer Grey But Then Mean Major Garrett Was All Like Jerry Orbach
If you follow the link in the Freabeacon article you’ll find the actual traitorous text in Annex III – Civil Nuclear Cooperation (beginning page 135) section D. Nuclear Safety, Safeguards and Security, subsection 10., Nuclear Security (page 142):
In other words, Mean Girl wants to make sure Israel can’t pull off another STUXNET. Which his administration was only able to compromise by exposing the program because the last time they did in cooperation with us.
The suckers. They didn’t know the left would elect their worst enemy. And America’s.
Steve57 (4c9797) — 7/15/2015 @ 4:02 pmTom Donohue’s not gonna have any trouble putting them young persian boys to work
happyfeet (831175) — 7/15/2015 @ 4:03 pmIowahawk sums up our preezy:
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog
Steve57 (4c9797) — 7/15/2015 @ 4:05 pmThis president is very unused to be confronted and challenged by reporters on any level. When it happens that once in a blue moon, he is shocked and fully disrupted in his being because, doesn’t this person realize who he is talking to?!
Why didn’t they walk away from the deal then? His answer makes no sense, it just attempts to justify the deal. We made concessions out the wazoo, and we still didn’t get the prisoners.
Dana (86e864) — 7/15/2015 @ 4:06 pmMajor needs to reach out to Catherine Engelbrecht to find out what Hell he’s in for from the Apparat.
askeptic (efcf22) — 7/15/2015 @ 4:25 pmhe should’ve asked food stamp if the ayatollah made him stick a dildo up his butt and bark like a dog to seal the deal
before these details are lost to history
happyfeet (831175) — 7/15/2015 @ 4:30 pm8- I’m sure that was with JfK, probably borrowed the dildo from Ms. Heinz-Kerry.
askeptic (efcf22) — 7/15/2015 @ 4:35 pmDemocrats have a history of getting a lot of adulation for their foreign policy screwups. Wilson blundered us into WWI (which was none of our goddamned business) and is a Progressive Saint. FDR’s racism lead him to expect the thoroughly provoked Japanese to attack us in the Philippines, and his hubris made him think he was outsmarting Joseph Stalin, and he gets big marks for his conduct of War Policy. Truman didn’t really do too badly, considering the mess he was left with, but JFK should have either backed the Bay of Pigs OR ash canned it, and he gets big press for his “courage” (read, back rooms capitulation to the Russians) in the Cuban Crisis.
Considering how thoroughly and widely Obama has screwed the pooch on Foreign Policy (has he done ANYTHING right?) he’ll probably be deified.
*sigh*
Maybe one of the third-world nutballs he’s always meeting will suicide bomb him.
C. S. P. Schofield (a196fd) — 7/15/2015 @ 4:35 pmJeez! Doesn’t Major Garret watch the news? Doesn’t he know such questions are a career-limiting move at CBS News. (rf. Sharyl Atkinson) He’ll find himself back at Fox News.
in_awe (704346) — 7/15/2015 @ 4:44 pmOf course, Obama is shocked whenever anyone declines to lick his boots!
David (099e1f) — 7/15/2015 @ 4:53 pmDoesn’t sound like anybody crossed any lines. A reporter asked a variant on the “When are you going to stop beating your wife” loaded question, and the president called him an idiot for that. That’s about how you’d expect that exchange to go.
nbf (4aae12) — 7/15/2015 @ 4:58 pmthat’s nonsense and you should know better mr. nbf
happyfeet (831175) — 7/15/2015 @ 5:15 pmIn Obama’s case the question would be, “Has your wife stopped beating you?”
nk (dbc370) — 7/15/2015 @ 5:21 pmEmperor obama owes no explanation, he is allahahaha.
mg (31009b) — 7/15/2015 @ 5:27 pmAyatollah Khameini may be in danger now, though, in his own country, for what he did to Obama. Iran has very strict sodomy laws.
nk (dbc370) — 7/15/2015 @ 5:31 pmImdw is precious.
JD (3b5483) — 7/15/2015 @ 6:02 pm“In Obama’s case the question would be, “Has your wife stopped beating you?””
Why?
nbf (4aae12) — 7/15/2015 @ 6:11 pmIt’s all NASA’s fault. Obola expected the agency to be orbiting hundreds (if not thousands) of muslims by now, shia and sunni munching on bacon together while gazing down on our little green and blue home. But instead NASA ended up exploring the solar system. What an opportunity squandered!
bobathome (f50725) — 7/15/2015 @ 6:11 pmwe have to address the youth in the region with jobs and opportunity and a better vision for the future so that they are not tempted by the nihilistic, violent, dead-end that organizations like ISIL
Nihilism? Violence? Dead-end? That sure does sound like urban America, you jug-eared nitwit, and where people of your leftist ilk should be exiled to for the rest of their life.
Mark (996f69) — 7/15/2015 @ 6:17 pmAt the very least Obama could have detailed his negotiator’s efforts to free the Americans held hostage in Iran. He could have explained why the Administration’s efforts so far have been unsuccessful. He could have described his disappointment and expressed his personal commitment to reunite the grieving families. He could have been presidential.
Or, did the Administration too cowardly even to bring up the topic?
ropelight (d89cd1) — 7/15/2015 @ 6:20 pmBecause Obama is a pansy who has had his butt kicked from every international bully who bothered to try — from Putin to Khameini to Castro and everybody else in-between.
nk (dbc370) — 7/15/2015 @ 6:21 pmIranians are notorious for yelling “death to America! death to America!”
I’m sure their leadership is laughing its collective head off at the fool occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue—and if their murderous chants at least focused on no more than that small spot in the US, well, wake me up when it’s over.
Mark (996f69) — 7/15/2015 @ 6:22 pmwould’ve been a wonderful time for some brave soul to throw a wing-tip at the thin-skinned nancyboy.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/15/2015 @ 6:25 pmbonk
happyfeet (831175) — 7/15/2015 @ 6:27 pmShould have asked JEF to name one.
Gazzer (ee3742) — 7/15/2015 @ 6:28 pmCNN’s palace guard couldn’t be more irrelevant if they tried.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/15/2015 @ 6:30 pmObama had no answer to Gatretts question so he attacked him personally, the hallark of a small man.
patricia (5fc097) — 7/15/2015 @ 8:16 pmObama and Lurch Carrie, were trolling for a LEGACY. Neither Carrie, nor Obama have one BALL to their credit. Anyone who MISUNDERESTIMATES …Carrie and Obama, is an AZZHAT and a FOOL.
Gus (7cc192) — 7/15/2015 @ 10:20 pmMore than HALF of US/U.S. are as stupid as a shytestain on cotton. Our society has accepted FUKWADS like Obama and John Carrie as LEADERS and INTELLIGENT.
Obama has a goal. America is BAD and must be reduced to NOTHING.
Patricia?? Is there ANYTHING….. EFFFFFFING ANYTHING…..about Barry Hussein Obama, that is ALPHA MALE or in any way MASCULINE?????
Gus (7cc192) — 7/15/2015 @ 10:22 pmDon’t Democrats ever get tired of being played for fools by this administration?
God only knows what Plugs told them in his “explanation”. Are none of these people capable of reading the deal themselves?
elissa (41da2a) — 7/15/2015 @ 10:28 pmThe rule of law has vacated d.c. It has been replaced with obama’s law.
mg (31009b) — 7/15/2015 @ 11:29 pmWhen will Americans learn to fight? Both parties have to be burned to ashes.
It’s not a hard read. It’s not the ACA; it’s only 159 pages and you don’t need to read many of them. I mean, do you really need to memorize page after page in Annex II which just lists Iranian ships by name that will be taken off the sanctions lists? You don’t need to get that down into the weeds to understand what this agreement entails.
But based on the WH talking points I’m sure whatever Sloe Joe Sheriff Biden told them is not in the agreement. Are they capable of reading it? I don’t think many of them are. Would it matter if they could read and understand it? I don’t think it will matter at all to most of them.
The agreement can’t be enforced in the real world. It isn’t designed to be enforced. And Obama doesn’t care if it works. They’ve been lying on behalf of the Iranians throughout this farce of a negotiation process precisely to cover up their violations. The interim JCPOA was sold as a “freeze” of their Nuclear program. And while Obama has been lying about some Iranian fatwa against procuring weapons (the “supreme leader” never issued such a fatwa), all the while the Iranians have been pretending to negotiate in Switzerland and Vienna they’ve been conducting industrial espionage in neighboring Germany trying to steal the technology to build nuclear weapons. This isn’t dual use; it’s just for weaponizing their nuclear program. We’re talking industrial computers, high-speed cameras, cable fiber, and pumps that would be useful both to build the warheads and develop ICBMs. And among the dirty secrets that Obama and his criminal enterprise are hiding is that ICBMs have no other use but to deliver nuclear warheads.
This is how Germany’s Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV), Germany’s domestic intelligence agency similar in function to the FBI, summed it up in their 2014 annual report, an English version of which you can download here:
http://www.verfassungsschutz.de/en/public-relations/publications/annual-reports/annual-report-2014-summary
So in a way it doesn’t matter if you are capable of reading the report. All you know is that, like border security and immigration law, Prom Queen has no intention of enforcing it. In fact, just like down at the border, he intends to help his political allies violate it.
But it’s helpful to know that it’s written so vaguely and so loosely that in many cases Obama can deny the Iranians have violated it at all. As he attempted to do when it was clear Iran intended to violate the interim JCPOA’s limit on Uranium Hexaflouride, any excess of which had to be converted into Uranium Dioxide. They busted that limit several orders of magnitude. It’s written so that they can continue to move the goalposts whenever the Iranians violate the agreement.
It’s written so that Obama, Biden, and Jarrett can continue to act as the Mullah’s domestic law firm.
Steve57 (4c9797) — 7/16/2015 @ 12:00 amDan Rather vs Richard Nixon, 1974
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGBLAKq8xwc
Kevin M (25bbee) — 7/16/2015 @ 12:19 amObama is now Iran’s personal Marie Harf.
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That’s harsh. Funny and true, but harsh.
Virginia SoCon (8eb3c5) — 7/16/2015 @ 5:47 amWe are now in the post-serious era of public responsibility. Members of Congress just assemble in various rooms when ordered to by their overseers in “leadership” roles and learn to parrot talking points by rote and go out and vote as instructed.
Just wondering if we couldn’t save money by getting rid of Congressional staffers and replace all the elected members of Congress with minions paid the minimum wage?
in_awe (ca1efd) — 7/16/2015 @ 11:32 amThe part about our needing to help Iran dodge sabotage of its nuke program is rubbing salt in the wound and poking fingers in Netanyahu’s eyes.
If Americans are ever harmed by an Iranian nuke I hope Obama and Kerry are still alive to be tried for treason.
Just like Obama was against SSM before he was for it (not really), don’t we have video of him saying how a nuclear Iran is not permissible? Just like every other president and presidential candidate of the last 278 years?
Though I guess he is still lying about what is in the agreement.
And it seems he wants to run it through the UN for approval before Congress gets to act on it.
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 7/16/2015 @ 6:00 pmso something like stuixtnet, which has was greatly overblown in it’s impact, would be proscribed under this deal.
narciso (ee1f88) — 7/16/2015 @ 6:04 pmA question raised elsewhere, we will give them patriot missile defense system to protect their nuclear sites? That would seem to virtually demand the Israelis to strike.
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 7/16/2015 @ 6:12 pmOr, did the Administration too cowardly even to bring up the topic?
You give them too much credit. More likely, they did not even think of doing it.
Obama wanted something to prove he was worthy of that Nobel Prize. And if allowing the Mideast to fall into nuclear chaos is the price he needs to pay, so be it. Getting American citizens out of danger would only complicate things.
kishnevi (91d5c6) — 7/16/2015 @ 6:23 pmDaniel Pipes was good today on how Israel might stop Iran’s nuclear program. He suggests three possible options, with number two likely being Netanyahu’s go-to choice:
Dana (86e864) — 7/16/2015 @ 6:23 pmJust like Obama was against SSM before he was for it (not really), don’t we have video of him saying how a nuclear Iran is not permissible? Just like every other president and presidential candidate of the last 278 years?
Though I guess he is still lying about what is in the agreement
Not sure about video, but he certainly has said so to his faithful scribe, Jeffrey Goldberg, more than once.
kishnevi (294553) — 7/16/2015 @ 6:32 pmhttp://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/05/obama-interview-iran-isis-israel/393782/
Includes links to earlier interviews.
Of course Prom Queen doesn’t appreciate being challenged. Because his “deal” can’t withstand scrutiny. So he needs to bluff his way through this.
I can’t believe this abortion of a what can not be called a negotiation, as there were not two sides to this betrayal.
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2015/07/17/inspections-of-iranian-nuclear-facilities-at-any-time-are-pretty-much-bogus-n2026864
Rhetorical flourish is this administration’s new term for lie.
And that last bit about some guarantee about IAEA access to anything is a rhetorical flourish. Who wants to bet that Obama’s repeated insistence that all options were on the table was just a rhetorical flourish as well.
When he said that, it was to claim that included the military option as well.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/if-he-believes-it-it-must-be-so_783721.html?page=3
The military option was on the table, until he announced in late May of this year that it wasn’t. That there was no military solution.
How much do you want to bet that Tiger Beat, when his mouth wasn’t otherwise occupied servicing the Mullahs, assured them that bluster about all options being on the table was just a rhetorical flourish for his neanderthal domestic audience. After all, when the Mullah’s lead chants about “Death to America,” that’s how Prom Queen excuses it.
That they’re just playing to the base at home.
And I’m serious about this President telling the Iranians that he was never going to use military force.
He sold us out, and hew was planning on selling us out all along.
Steve57 (4c9797) — 7/17/2015 @ 6:55 pm