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Title: GOP Congressman Blows Up At CNN Host: ‘I Don’t Care What Fact Check Says,’ Obama Apologizes For America!
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Published: Sep 23, 2012
Author: http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/0
Post Date: 2012-09-23 09:31:52 by tom007
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GOP Congressman Blows Up At CNN Host: ‘I Don’t Care What Fact Check Says,’ Obama Apologizes For America! By Igor Volsky on Sep 17, 2012 at 9:13 am During an appearance on CNN’s Starting Point on Monday, Rep. Peter King (R-NY) could not explain when President Obama “apologized” for the United States, despite repeatedly claiming that he went on an “apology tour” across the Middle East shortly after becoming president. Since violence broke out across the region, Republicans have charged that Obama’s “defeatist” policies have caused the unrest and contributed to the death of Libyan ambassador Christopher Stevens. But pressed to detail where Obama has apologized for America by CNN host Soledad O’Brien, King came up short: O’BRIEN: Never once in that speech, as you know, which I have the speech right here. that was — he never once used the word “apology.” He never once said “I’m sorry.” KING: Didn’t have to. The logical — any logical reading of that speech or the speech he gave in France where he basically said that the United States can be too aggressive. [...] O’BRIEN: Everybody keeps talking about this apology tour and apologies from the President. I’m trying to find the words ‘I’m sorry, I apologize’ in any of those speeches. Which I have the text of all those speeches in front of me. None of those speeches at all, if you go to factcheck.org which we check in a lot, they all say the same thing. They fact check this and they say this whole theory of apologies… KING: I don’t care what fact check says. O’BRIEN: There are fact checks. You may not care, but they’re a fact checker. KING: No. Soledad. Any commonsense interpretation of those speeches, the president’s apologizing for the American position. That’s the apology tour. That’s the way it’s interpreted in the Middle East. If I go over and say that the U.S. has violated its principles, that the United States has not shown respect for islam, that’s an apology. How else can it be interpreted? O’BRIEN: I think plenty of people are interpreting it as a nuanced approach to diplomacy is how some people are interpreting it. So I don’t think that everybody agrees it’s apology. Watch it: As the Washington Post put it, “the apology tour never happened.” Rather, shortly after becoming president, Obama traveled to the world introducing himself and differentiating his foreign policy from that of President Bush. “This is typical of many new presidents,” including Bush himself, who “quickly broke with Clinton administration policy on dealings with North Korea, the Kyoto climate change treaty and the international criminal court.” The manufactured attack, which Republicans kicked off in 2009, “feeds into a subterranean narrative that Obama, with his exotic, mixed-race background, is not really American in the first place.” Tags: Middle East Peter King
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King is the perfect face of the republican party. A lothesome slug. “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
Yes, he said that at Strasbourg, France, in May 2009. SFW? Do you suppose the audience didn't already know the mistakes of previous US administrations? Obama is making clear that he is embarking on a new policy of close cooperation with the European Union, a very important statement in improving relations. No "Apology Tour" but a declaration that the US is under new management that is aware of the mistakes of its predecessors. The real apology tour is being taken by Mitt the Shitt, who has had to backtrack and excuse his comments about Latinos, the 47%, his failure to make his tax returns public (after he demanded that Ryan show him his last ten years of returns), his unwillingness to take credit for Romneycare in Massachusetts (and most folks in Mass. are very pleased with it), his lying about his career at Bain, etc. Same Mitt, Different Day.
I find it ironic that King has become such a star within the Republican party. It seems they forget that he was on TV every night defending Clinton during the impeachment hearings.
Calling Ron Paul an isolationist is like calling your neighbor a hermit because he doesn't come over and break your window - unknown I WITHDRAW MY CONSENT! amerika's memory rivals that of a turnip.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
What a laugh. Robama's whole administration has been one giant extension of his predecessors. Calling Ron Paul an isolationist is like calling your neighbor a hermit because he doesn't come over and break your window - unknown I WITHDRAW MY CONSENT! What a laugh. Robama's whole administration has been one giant extension of his predecessors. Obama has surpassed his predecessors in death by drones, implementation of Orwellian police state tactics, lack of transparency, and ability to blow smoke up the butts of the masses. " If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11 "Life's tough, and even tougher if you're stupid." --John Wayne
You are correct. I should have stated, "What a laugh. Robama's whole administration has been one giant extension and expansion of his predecessors. Calling Ron Paul an isolationist is like calling your neighbor a hermit because he doesn't come over and break your window - unknown I WITHDRAW MY CONSENT! He's Working for the Same One World Planners. So, The Beat Goes On! "If we don’t adhere to the Constitution on matters as significant as presidential eligibility, then the Constitution ceases to be a meaningful document for guiding our nation."
KING: I don’t care what fact check says.
"Satan / Cheney in "08" 
#2. To: tom007, 4 (#0)
always use the 'tube to fact-check anything -
#3. To: Lod (#2)
#4. To: tom007 (#0)
Any perceived compliance with unconstitutional “laws” or orders put forth by government employees is NOT recognition of their authority; it is simply the result of carefully calculated submission to an entity exhibiting superior firepower.
#5. To: F.A. Hayek Fan (#4)
#6. To: Shoonra (#3)
a declaration that the US is under new management that is aware of the mistakes of its predecessors.
Any perceived compliance with unconstitutional “laws” or orders put forth by government employees is NOT recognition of their authority; it is simply the result of carefully calculated submission to an entity exhibiting superior firepower.
#7. To: F.A. Hayek, Shoonra (#6)
a declaration that the US is under new management that is aware of the mistakes of its predecessors.
#8. To: abraxas (#7)
Obama has surpassed his predecessors in death by drones, implementation of Orwellian police state tactics, lack of transparency, and ability to blow smoke up the butts of the masses.
Any perceived compliance with unconstitutional “laws” or orders put forth by government employees is NOT recognition of their authority; it is simply the result of carefully calculated submission to an entity exhibiting superior firepower.
#9. To: F.A. Hayek Fan (#8)
"What a laugh. Robama's whole administration has been one giant extension and expansion of his predecessors."
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