Fox News now ADORES Vladimir Putin and suggests that he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. No, I'm NOT making that up!. Update!

"Okay so this time I'm bad cop and you're good cop. Deal."

Courtesy of Fox News:  

The fact is Obama seemed headed for an attack on Syria that no one wanted and few thought would succeed. Most thought it would only end in disaster, either with the U.S. drawn into an attack/retaliation cycle of escalation that could go on for years and spread into a regional war, or result in the overthrow of President Assad by an Al Qaeda affiliated rebels. 

While the Russians may have toyed with the idea of letting American get bogged down in yet another losing Middle East war, they didn’t want to risk a war that might pull them in, or lose control of the Assad government to radical Sunni jihadists. 

So Putin stepped in and threw Obama a lifeline. 

For a few hours it seemed Obama might not grab at it. 

But he has, and will no doubt claim full credit for it being his idea all along. 

The Washington press corps will no doubt believe him, as usual, and lavish their usual praise. 

But the world knows that Vladimir Putin is the one who really deserves that Nobel Peace Prize. 

It turns out that leading from behind left a big opening up front. Putin stepped right in. And Obama still hasn't figured it out. 

Okay the "fact" is that anybody who believes that is is REALLY how things went down is a retard. Or a Fox News pundit. Assuming there is a difference.

Here is how the Daily Banter summed up the attempts to give ANYBODY but the President credit for this  Syria/Russia solution:

Of course the truth about how the Obama administration’s national security team has handled the Syrian chemical weapons crisis was almost entirely obscured in the press when it was reported that Russian president Vladimir Putin, via his foreign minister Sergey Larov, had, at least on paper, convinced Bashar al-Assad to permit the dismantling and seizing of his military’s chemical weapons arsenal. In keeping with nearly every accomplishment of this president, whether center-right or center-left, liberal or conservative, the news was treated as somehow a loss for the administration — that Pooty-Poot had reared his head into the airspace over Syria and fulfilled the conservative fantasy of Putin The Peacemaker, not to mention Putin The Obama Disser. 

This scenario entirely overlooked two things: 1) the Friday G20 meeting between Putin and the president, and 2) Secretary Kerry’s remarks on Sunday, which offered Syria a way out. 

Naturally any enemy, much less one with a gun to its head, isn’t going to directly accept the demands of an aggressor while under duress. The enemy, of course, wants to be able to save face. So it’s entirely likely that Putin served as a facilitator, knowing that he and his mighty pectorals would carry some heft with the Syrian government without any direct linkage to the U.S.

Here was Forbes take on what actually took place behind the scenes: 

And if you think that it was only a “discussion” President Barack Obama had with Russian President Vladimir Putin on September 6, you’ve missed one of the greatest “stealth negotiations” ever conducted.

You know it no longer seems that the President is playing chess while everybody else plays checkers. It now seems like he is playing chess while everybody else adds to their booger collection.

By the way Fox News is also the "news" outlet that recently suggested that the war in Syria might be the fulfillment of Biblical prophesy.

Yeah, I am certainly going to accept THEIR interpretation of what is happening over everybody else's.

Idiots!

Update: I think it is appropriate to  provide this link to Putin's New York Times op-ed.

Let's see Fox News talk about giving him the Nobel Peace Prize now!