President Barack Obama publicly scolded CBS News' Major Garrett during a gathering of the press corps at the White House on Wednesday, chastising the reporter for asking if the president is "content" to celebrate the Iran nuclear deal while four American hostages remain in Iran.
"That's nonsense. And you should know better," Obama replied.
I watched much of this press conference, and enjoyed how determined the President was to answer every question posed by the reporters in the room. The guy was clearly having the time of his life answering questions about the new deal with Iran.
However when Garrett stood up and asked this insulting and disrespectful question I thought it might anger the President so much that he would end the press conference.
Instead he gave his answer, though clearly with some irritation, and went right back to taking any and all questions from the pool of reporters.
Correction: My earlier post said that Garrett was reporting for Fox News, however he is actually now reporting for CBS. My bad.
Update: Here are some of the folks who are applauding Major Garrett's question:
God bless you, Major Garrett
— toddstarnes (@toddstarnes) July 15, 2015
.@MajorCBS hits a second homer.
— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) July 15, 2015
How dare @MajorCBS make Lord Obama uncomfortable! Off with his head!
— S.E. Cupp (@secupp) July 15, 2015
So you can understand why I briefly forgot that Garrett no longer worked for Fox News.
Yawn
ReplyDeleteBristool's latest blog post makes me sick. That ignorant bitch repulses me. She honestly believes that the President doesn't give a shit above those prisoners. What a gutter dwelling puke she is. Smug little trollop.
ReplyDeleteGive me a break, Bristol can't even figure out who the father of her child is and I am suppose to believe she is concerned about prisoners in EyeRan.
DeleteShe is just a hateful piece of trash that is striking out against the world because none of her fuc_ buddies are claiming Cletus the Fetus.
Delete"Cletus the Fetus" (!) is a riot!
DeleteFuck the Palins! No one is paying attention to them anymore! Bristol and Sarah keep 'trying' to gain some bite of reaction, but fewer and fewer respond!
Especially when whoring around has been Bristol's mantra w/o using protection! She and her Mom are retarded idiots!
She couldn't find Iran on a map if she were guaranteed a ring on her finger and a father for her latest illegitimate spawn.
DeleteBristol and her asshole excuse for a mother are a disgrace to the entire human race. Both of them are so desperate for attention they would say or do anything. Haven't they proven that?
She's just parroting what she's heard. She couldn't find Iran on a map.
DeleteBoth preggers and her geriatric methed out mom are frantically doing the "palin poledance" for Anyone that will notice. Sad and pathetic.
DeleteThis is O/T, but great news.
ReplyDelete"Alaska will become the 30th state to accept Obamacare’s optional Medicaid expansion, after Gov. Bill Walker (I) announced on Thursday that he will use his executive power to bypass the GOP-controlled legislature and implement the policy on his own."
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/07/16/3681554/alaska-medicaid-expansion/
You can take Garrett out of Fox News, but you can't take the Fox News out of Garrett.
ReplyDeleteEd Henry is another one.
It's the old 'when did you stop beating your wife' kind of approach and this asshat uses an important national press conference to grandstand for attention and then smugly says he meant to be provocative. If it were me, he's never ever get another chance to ask a question of PBO. Ever. He's be damn well frozen out for his shocking level of disrespect and innuendo.
Here's another smackdown by our President.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QunK-36aELw
He's too stupid to know that there is a difference between being "provocative" and a "damn fool."
DeleteCBS News’ Major Garrett has come under fire for his contentious questioning of President Barack Obama on Wednesday — with the first volleys having been lobbed by the president himself.
ReplyDelete“As you well know, there are four Americans in Iran, three held on trumped-up charges according to your administration and one, whereabouts unknown,” Garrett asked the president. “Can you tell the country, sir, 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?”
“I’ve got to give you credit, Major, for how you craft those questions,” Obama replied. “The notion that I’m content as I celebrate with American citizens languishing in Iranian jails — Major, that’s nonsense, and you should know better.”
“Nobody is content, and our diplomats and our teams are working diligently to try to get them out,” he added. “Now, if the question is why we did not tie the negotiations to their release, think about the logic that that creates. Suddenly Iran realizes, ‘You know what? Maybe we can get additional concessions out of the Americans by holding these individuals.”
He concluded by noting that the Iranian deal was entirely unconnected from the administration’s efforts to secure the release of these prisoners. “If we had walked away from the nuclear deal, we’d still be pushing them just as hard to get these folks out,” he said. “That’s why those issues are not connected.”
Garrett later explained that he was merely “trying to strike a nerve” and “be provocative” with the president — an explanation that “Real Time” host Bill Maher found so inadequate he took to Twitter well after midnight to dispute it:
http://www.salon.com/2015/07/16/bill_maher_takes_sshole_major_garrett_down_a_peg_if_you_want_to_get_a_rise_out_of_obama_why_not_just_shout_the_n_word/
"Garrett later explained that he was merely “trying to strike a nerve” and “be provocative” with the president"
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And a reasonable followup is to ask Garrett why? To what end?
A true journalist would ask a question about the state of the hostage negotiations, and add the bit about the Pentagon. But not judgmentally, as Garrett did. That's not what reporting is about -- you want facts from the President, not a chance to sling your own views into it.
DeleteCBS - what used to be called "the Tiffany network," is in a race to the bottom, I see. I'll get my news elsewhere.
Listen to this fuckwad try to weasel out of this. Mischaracterized? I listened to it and I heard it for EXACTLY what he was trying to do, and there's no dancing around that. He INTENTIONALLY phrased his 'question' as such and Obama BUSTED his ass on it. Now he's whining about being 'mischaracterized'. BULL.
ReplyDeleteGarrett to Charlie Rose: No Second Thoughts on My Iran Question
CBS News’ Major Garrett told CBS This Morning he had no second thoughts about the question he asked President Barack Obama on American hostages in Iran, which earned him a presidential rebuke.
The question has divided Garrett’s colleagues, and co-host Charlie Rose gave Garrett an opening by saying all reporters occasionally ask questions they wish they could retract, hint hint nudge nudge.
But Garrett said Obama mischaracterized his query.
“What I wanted to drive at, aggressively, was why, in a context when the president conceded many times in that press conference that choices had to be made and priorities had to be established, these four Americans were not prioritized in the context of the Iran deal,” Garret said. “This administration has struggled with [this issue] and personally, and I’ve done soul searching about whether I’ve been aggressive enough on behalf of hostages overseas.”
Garrett conceded he may not be “an imperfect articulator,” but that it was important to pursue the line of questioning. “I asked the question I asked, and I can’t take it back,” he said.
Watch below, via CBS News:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/garrett-to-charlie-rose-no-second-thoughts-on-my-iran-question/
Pelosi: American Hostages’ Release Shouldn’t Have Been Part of Iran Deal
In comments made during her weekly press conference, Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said the release of American prisoners in Iran should not have been a precondition during the nuclear negotiations.
“Do you think the four American hostages being held in Iran should have been released as a precondition to any deal made about Iran’s nuclear program,” a reporter asked.
“No, no,” Pelosi responded. “It would have been good, but no.”
“This is a nuclear deal, this is a nuclear agreement,” Pelosi said. “I appreciate the fact that since we had a nuclear negotiation and we have a nuclear agreement, that a much brighter light is being shone on the prisoners of conscience in Iran.”
Watch, via C-SPAN.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/pelosi-american-hostages-release-shouldnt-have-been-part-of-iran-deal/
It's also not a bilateral agreement. The US is one of at least five parties to this agreement. That's something the GOP will never understand.
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Major Garrett works for CBS and National Journal not Fox, but shame on him anyway !!!
ReplyDeleteHe worked for FOX for years, and he clearly is using the same tactics of accusation and innuendo.
DeleteServes CBS right for hiring a no talent, conceited talking head instead of a real, actual journalist.
DeleteThis should have old Sarah crapping in her panties!
ReplyDeleteMeghan McCain to Join Fox News Channel as Contributor (Exclusive)
http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/meghan-mccain-fox-news-channel-contributor-1201541625/
Out with the old and haggard (Sarah Palin) and in with the...oh, you folks the rest.
DeleteLMAO!!!
DeleteSomewhere there is a refrigerator getting assaulted.
lol!
DeleteI know Major Garrett is kind of a sleazy bastard and all...
ReplyDeletebut I wonder - after all the back-slapping and high-fiving from his fellow lizards at Fox news - if, maybe late at night when he's alone...
he thinks about what the President of the United States said to him, "...that's nonsense and you should know better."
Staring at the ceiling, alone, in the dark, in his mind, echoes of the President of the United States saying, "...you should know better."
"YOU should know better."
"You SHOULD know better."
"You should KNOW better."
"You should know better"
"Instead he gave his answer, though clearly with some irritation,"
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Not just irritation. He didn't even try to hide his contempt for Garrett and his asinine little speech.
Good for the President. I hope these grandstanding damn fools keep right on getting their asses handed to them by the President.
While Garrett was rambling on with his talking points extravaganza, all I could think of was every courthouse TV drama when a lawyer asks "Was there a question in there?"
So much respect for our President. He always conducts himself with dignity. Something the republicunts know nothing about.
ReplyDeleteGood, President Obama has been far too nice for far too long.
ReplyDeleteRead this:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.examiner.com/article/8-reasons-why-ronald-reagan-was-the-worst-president-of-our-lifetime
The internet had its way with Garrett yesterday. Best of all was Bill Maher:
ReplyDelete#MajorGarrett is a huge asshole. If U wanna "strike a nerve" with POTUS, why not just scream the N word? That shld get his attention.
O/T Gryphen, if you missed this, it's well worth the listen.
ReplyDeleteCaitlyn Jenner Full Speech - 2015 ESPYs Awards - Arthur Ashe Courage Award
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=112W8q8XXKw&feature=share
Watch Company Under Fire for Tweet About Caitlyn Jenner’s ‘DadBod’
Delete...So, a brand made a bad joke, learned why it was a bad joke, and asked to learn how to avoid doing that again while not trying to deny it made the joke in the first place. This is how we can learn to be humans, people.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/watch-company-under-fire-for-tweet-about-caitlyn-jenners-dadbod/
Mr. ThinSkin Trump is busy with some pretty vicious smackdowns on Twitter. McCain, Perry and Rove are the current recipients.
ReplyDeleteObama is always so gracious with his 'taking it to' his detractors, Trump, not so much. He's just a schoolyard bully.
Perry ‘Should Be Forced to Take an IQ Test’ Before Debates
Donald Trump was clearly really, really bothered by what two big-name Republicans said about him today and ripped both of them for their intelligence, amongst other things, in a Twitter rant.
First, John McCain. The Arizona senator said in an interview today that he’s worried about Trump “firing up the crazies” in the GOP over immigration.
Trump called him a “dummy” and said he should apologize:
And then there was Rick Perry. Earlier this week Trump trashed Perry for failing at border security while he was the governor of Texas, and Perry responded with a blistering statement saying that Trump isn’t standing for conservatism, he’s standing for his own “toxic mix of demagoguery and nonsense.”
Well, not only did Trump respond, but he ripped Perry for his intellect:
http://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-perry-should-be-forced-to-take-an-iq-test-before-debates/
Trumpocalypse Explodes As Donald Trump Tries To Get Fox News To Fire Karl Rove
Just gonna let these tweets speak for themselves as Donald Trump works to get establishment “brain” Karl Rove fired from Fox News, and calls him a “loser” and an “irrelevant clown”:
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/07/16/karl-rove-called-loser-mocked-donald.html
Trump Leads Nevada Poll with Overwhelming Hispanic Support
DeleteHere's a real headscratcher...
Trump Has Commanding Overall Lead of 27.7% in Nevada Poll with 31.4% Support by HISPANICS???
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/trump-leads-nevada-poll-with-overwhelming-hispanic-support-300114592.html?
Among registered Democratic Hispanic voters, 73 percent said they would vote for Clinton.
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/poll-hillary-clinton-hispanic-voters-2016-120223.html
Dick Fucks and counting..
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/17/us/wisconsin-court-to-rule-on-inquiry-involving-scott-walkers-2012-campaign.html?_r=1
Not your bad G. CBS is the bad one for hiring that hack.
ReplyDeleteI think you found the perfect words to describe the sniveling little dickweed.
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen a news program, either cable or network in at least 10 years so I wouldn't even know this guy if he came up and hit me in the head! I can't believe that anyone still watches TV to get news when there is all the news at your fingertips on the internet. This kind of person, this Colonel Garret dude, they just dumb down their viewers.
ReplyDeleteYou should catch up. You are missing a lot. Just gotta' to sort it all out. Dont give up.
DeleteTwitter is a great place if you want to attach your name to someone else's. You can always count on someone giving you attention you don't merit.
ReplyDeleteHa, I thought this person was an old times military guy but his actual name is Major, that's funny.
ReplyDeleteMajor Pain in the ass?
DeleteIs Short E. Cupp still on the air?
ReplyDeleteG. Did you see where drooling Rauuul Labrador introduced a bill to fire pregnant unwed moms?
ReplyDeleteThe blow-dried CBS asshole with the loaded question got thwacked but good. He tried to ask a "manhood" question and Obama didn't take the bait. Would that more public figures would call these cretinous jackwads out.
ReplyDeleteBush/Cheney got away with slaughtering people from every country for their completely bogus "war" NEVER did any reporter treat them with the disrespect that President Obama has been treated. The ignorant, money hungry clowns running for his job are secure in the knowledge that if they make it into that job, they will NEVER be treated as disrespectufully as this President has been. Nitwit Dubya was as dumb as they come, yet look what happened to the Dixie Chicks. All they said was that they were ashamed W was from Texas..God bless President Obama and his family. They kept their dignity through this entire fiasco, held their heads high, as well they should. That is CLASS. Screeching $carah is a joke even now after all these long, miserable years of being in the public eye.
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