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You Wanna Talk Softball Questions??

By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on August 31, 2009 at 2:01 PM in ABC News, Andrew Sullivan, Bush/Cheney, Campaign Gaffes, Current Affairs, Dick Cheney, Fox News, George Stephanopoulos, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Keith Olbermann, Media Bias, Muslim, NBC, Obamedia, President Barack Obama, Republicans

This was a recent blurb at memeorandum.com regarding the big Cheney interview on Sunday by Chris Wallace of Fox News: Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish: Chris Wallace, A Teenage Girl Interviewing The Jonas Brothers — Here are the tough and penetrating questions asked by Chris Wallace of a man whose critics accuse of war crimes, and whose administration presided over the death of over a hundred prisoners in interrogation …

Now, you know I can’t abide Andrew Sullivan for a bunch of reasons. Hence my unwillingness to give him any traffic at all by even going to his site and re-posting his article here. But when I saw this blurb, and Sullivan’s arrogant, and sexist, title, I just couldn’t resist. I almost cracked up laughing that he, of all people, is getting his nose out of joint about the questions Cheney was asked in this interview. Apparently, he has forgotten just about every interview Obama has had since he began his campaign, and he was running for the highest office in the land! Cheney is not running for anything (and I hasten to add, I have absolutely NO love lost for Dick Cheney. I appreciate that he supports his daughter, her partner, and their child, but that’s about it).

Perhaps Sullivan forgot this interview by Charlie Gibson of ABC News, an outlet that uses OUR airwaves for FREE, of Obama during the campaign:

How does it feel to break a glass ceiling?
How does it feel to “win”?
How does your family feel about your “winning” breaking a glass ceiling?
Who will be your VP?
Should you choose Hillary Clinton as VP?
Will you accept public finance?
What issues is your campaign about?
Will you visit Iraq?
Will you debate McCain at a town hall?
What did you think of your competitor’s [Clinton] speech?

Oooooohhhhh – how di Obama withstand those WITHERING questions?

Or more recently, how about Brian Williams and his day at the White House, one that culminated in THIS moment:

Seriously?? He really wants to go down this road of how political interviewees are handled? How about this clip with George Stephanapoulous:

Heck, George even supplies the correct verbiage to Obama! And may I just say one more time – HOW was this man portrayed as being ELOQUENT??? Holy smokes.

Okay, one more to prove the point, if you can stomach watching Keith Olberman:

Oh, yes – that is some HARD-HITTING “journalism” there for Mr. Sullivan. Get one of the two most biased for Obama show hosts (I refuse to call Olberman a “journalist”) to lob softballs for Obama to trash the Republicans.

By the way, remember Obama’s appearance with McCain at Ground Zero? Yeah, so dignified:

I digress. Back to the whole hard-hitting journalism thing: At least Steve Kroft pointed out Obama’s inappropriate laughter here:

But he did so with a smile, and accepted that lame-ass excuse from Obama as to why he was laughing while indicating how he was going to use our money to bail out the UAW even though Americans were STRONGLY opposed to that idea.

Sullivan complains about the questions asked Cheney? Maybe he should have been so worried about the questions asked of Obama…

  • carolhaka

    Sickening!

    OT – Huff Post has an article about “Sarah Palin’s Obsession with Obama”.

    Ahhhhhh, Ugggh, AAAAAAhhhhhhhh, did I miss something …………….. ????????

    Go Sarah, Go.

    Run Sarah, Run ……..

    CAROL HAKA :evil:

    • http://www.rabblerouserruminations.blogspot.com/ Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy

      Oh, please. Who’s obsessed with whom? Seems to me that Obama focused on her more than she has on him…

      Just for comparison sake, these are the questions Charlie Gibson asked Palin: Do you have enough qualifications for the job you’re seeking? Specifically have you visited foreign countries and met foreign leaders?
      Aren’t you conceited to be seeking this high level job?
      Questions about foreign policy
      -territorial integrity of Georgia
      -allowing Georgia and Ukraine to be members of NATO
      -NATO treaty
      -Iranian nuclear threat
      -what to do if Israel attacks Iran
      -Al Qaeda motivations
      -the Bush Doctrine
      -attacking terrorists harbored by Pakistan
      Is America fighting a holy war? [misquoted Palin]
      (http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09…with-abc-news/)

    • tzada

      Did you see where Sarah Palin has well over 1000 invitations to speak? She has over 800,000 friends on Face book too. I was in Jacksonville Florida for one of her stops. Only about 8,000 of us got in and there were at least There were thousands who were in line and didn’t make it in. I only saw 1 line, there was another coming in out of my sight. I imagine close to 15,000 didn’t get in.

      • http://www.rabblerouserruminations.blogspot.com/ Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy

        I did – something like over 1,070. Amazing, though not surprising. Though I disagree with some of her positions, I know that I would have more rights in her state than the one in which I reside because of her, and that she talks in a way that resonates with people. I get the sense from her that even if we disagree, she is willing to DISCUSS it, not simply dismiss. That is no small thing.

  • barry bums a ciggie

    I heard that Charles Gibson wanted to ask 0zero this tough question,”if you had to choose, what is your favorite 31 Baskin Robins flavor?”. I’m sure he’s kicking himself for asking.

  • NO BRAINS

    I love that this site still brings the crazy after being shamed many times over. Godspeed.

    • http://firefox Martha Washington Collier

      And such a self-descriptive moniker! You go, No Brains.

      • Onofe’s arm

        Yes, having little hit-and-run visits from pinheads named “NO BRAINS” does bring a degree of shame to this site.

      • I’m a Linda too

        lmao

    • candymarl

      What crazy? Shamed about what? Give specifics please. These are all recorded interviews not fiction.

      Oh wait, I forgot. Anything not praising Obama, or disagreeing with his supporters is either red neck, racist, Al Queda, Nazi, or insane.

      Gee I wonder who used that kind of vilification from the Repub point of view? Why that would be GWB. Looks like they are two sides of the same coin.

      A pox on GWB and Obama. Frankly I’m sick of both of them.

      Oh yeah speaking of crazy and shame – why is the President of the US on TV advocating for a new TV comedy show? Guess America has no other pressing problems. Obama as a marketing tool. Shocked, shocked I am!

      • Ferd Berfle

        A pox on GWB and Obama. Frankly I’m sick of both of them.

        I’ll second that.

      • http://www.rabblerouserruminations.blogspot.com/ Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy

        I could not BELIEVE that commercial!! Seriously, WTH with that???

        Barry Bums, you are exactly right. That is abt the level of questions Obama got during the entire campaign. Even in the debates, except for ONE, he was asked questions after Clinton had already answered them with, “Uh, um, uh, well, look, I agree with Hillary on that.” Then everyone would proclaim their positions were basically the same, so why not go with the incredibly inexperienced, untested, very junior senator from IL. Sheesh.

    • Ferd Berfle

      I love that this site still brings the crazy after being shamed many times over.

      Wow, toodles, you’re right. You ARE one of those insipid crazy types who come here to flaunt their ignorance. Good job, troll.

    • jbjd

      Read the last two articles on my blog. (And access the links, in those articles, too, as these contain the evidence of allegations in the articles.) Then, come back here and brag. http://jbjd.wordpress.com

  • I’m a Linda too

    But you forgot, he’s an African American!

    …ugh, he’s such a loser.

    • tzada

      I am happy that more and more black conservatives are speaking out. Two videos at the same site.

      Another American Exposing This Administration

      The Plain And Simple Truth

      http://countusout.wordpress.com/

  • StPaulite

    Let me get this straight. Nothing is more important than complaining about (some of) the media’s cozy relationship to Obama, not even a former vice-president, on our public airwaves, advocating his own treachery, recklessness, sadism and illegality. Do I have that right?

    Cheney is absolutely “running for” something — his own legacy. Heck, his own freedom if the DOJ probes get anywhere near him.

    • http://www.rabblerouserruminations.blogspot.com/ Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy

      Um, no, you don’t have that right, StPaulite. A “legacy” compared to actually being the PRESIDENT is not only beyond being in the same ballpark, it’s not even in the same continent.

    • Ferd Berfle

      Frankly, StPaulite, Cheney and That One are cut from the same cloth. Either one can be determined to be lying simply by looking for visual clues such as an open mouth. That you didn’t understand this speaks volumes about your reasoning ability. Nice try, naive one, but no dice.

    • candymarl

      Hey Obama bragged about his family ties to Cheney. Guess Obama can’t be too disgusted by Cheney’s policies and behavior. After all, he’s continuing some of them. Okay, most of them. Indefinite detention, military tribunals,expanding the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Not withdrawing the troops but repositioning them to other areas. Vilifying dissent or disagreement as un-American. Come on Obama, defend your relative!

  • yttik

    I swear, Andrew Sullivan’s as put on this Earth so that my commitment to never hate anyone would be properly challenged. Argggg…….

  • Ferd Berfle

    Oooooohhhhh – how did Obama withstand those WITHERING questions?

    Nicely done, RRRA. LMAO. And I’ll just bet he was still put on the spot because old reliable TOTUS wasn’t there to do his thinking for him.

    How does it feel to break a glass ceiling?

    The notion, ah, that I would, er, resort to breaking glass, um, ceilings to, uh, win the presidency is a question that, er, sounds like it came from, uh, um, er, ah, bitter white folks.

    What a grand orator That One is.

    • http://www.rabblerouserruminations.blogspot.com/ Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy

      :-D Perfect impersonation, Ferd!!

      And thanks!

      yttik, you are too funny. I hear ya, though!

  • Lana

    USA Today says $3.1B set aside for jobless benefits has not been used because states say it costs too much to use it. Looks like Obama took some of it back to rehire his trolls.

    • http://www.rabblerouserruminations.blogspot.com/ Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy

      ROTFL – evidently, Lana! Thanks for the laugh!

      • tzada

        Amy I am reposting this here in the event you can do an article on it. It is outrageous.

        Little did we know. We, yes you and I are gonna be rich, rich i say! Because Obama declares us….

        “THE HEIRS OF BIN-LADEN”

        The striking thing to remember is that this descriptor was not posted on DU or Kos or Firedoglake or some of the other fringe sites.

        This was posted on mybarackobama.com, Obama’s very own Organizing for America website.

        These are classic Alinsky tactics that we are seeing played out before us over and over and over again.

        The best, most imaginative writers in Hollywood would not be able to make this stuff up.

        Screen shots of the information in question are below the fold, you know, just in case the pages go down the memory hole or something.

        If you are an opponent to the current health care reform proposals under consideration, this is how some on the left view you:

        http://www.floppingaces.net/2009/08/31/the-heirs-of-yes-bin-laden/#more-27047

        • tzada

          This goes directly to the SS

          http://easycaptures.com/5767158285

          • http://www.rabblerouserruminations.blogspot.com/ Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy

            tzada, I could barely read the crap on that page. WHO is writing that stuff? Whoever it is is ginning up a lot of antagonism against anyone who is not an Obot with the language used. It is really striking – and SCARY.

            I need to go take a shower now. Blech…

            • tzada

              Just click on the SS image and it enlarges. It was a Senator from IL

            • tzada

              You can click to enlarge. I would cut and paste but it down’t allow for that.

              Roland W Burris D IL

              Richard Durbin D IL

              This is/was on Obama own web page.

              They end their rant by saying that they are

              SUPER HEROES and they shall commence administering Super Hero Karate Chops beginning now.

              Who are they talking to and trying to rile up? Come on Super Heros?

        • candymarl

          Okay so now we’re racist, redneck, Nazi, un-American, Bin Ladens. Who knew?

          • carolhaka

            I checked my Passport and Long Form BC. That’s what it said.

            CAROL HAKA :evil:

  • Doc99

    Eric Holder 2002:
    Eric Holder, then a former deputy attorney general, said on CNN that the detainees being held at Guantánamo Bay were “not, in fact, people entitled to the protection of the Geneva Convention,” particularly “given the way in which they have conducted themselves.”