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President Obama To Jon Stewart:
Americans Getting Killed In
Libya Is ‘Not Optimal’
Mediaite, by Josh Feldman
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Posted By:KarenJ1, 10/18/2012 10:10:19 PM
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| President Obama dropped by The Daily Show earlier today for an interview scheduled to air later tonight. One of the exchanges that has been already highlighted by news reports was Jon Stewart bringing up the attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and the administration’s mixed responses to it. Obama told Stewart that “four Americans get[ting] killed… is not optimal,” and pushed back on the idea that there was any confusion over the cause of the attacks. (Snip) Stewart argued that the way the administration handled the issue was “not the optimal response.” Obama acknowledged that
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Not optimal?? That's the best he could do?? He just shocks me every day with his inappropriate behavior and lack of concern. He is appalling and disgusting. I'm sure the families of those murdered didn't think it was "optimal" either. s/o Good. Grief.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
kennedylaw, 10/18/2012 10:19:05 PM (No. 8944289)
Just more bumps in the road.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Bird, 10/18/2012 10:20:23 PM (No. 8944292)
Was it the killing of our ambassador or some other appalling occurence that he called ''a bump in the road'' -- he does have a way with words, doesn't he? s/off
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
fb2002, 10/18/2012 10:20:57 PM (No. 8944293)
Just like zero's golf score, not optimal. What a heartless thing to say. Zero is a zero.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Bla Bla, 10/18/2012 10:30:20 PM (No. 8944308)
Notice how how lumped our American Ambassador (& his Federal staff) into an insignificant number of "Americans."
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Robinsolana, 10/18/2012 10:41:06 PM (No. 8944345)
Obama is one cold callous guy.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Wetlandz, 10/18/2012 10:46:04 PM (No. 8944357)
19 more days? We still have to suffer through the holidays
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
reddfroge, 10/18/2012 10:55:31 PM (No. 8944379)
does this 'idiot' realize that he has a debate next Monday about foreign policy???
and, you just threw the death of 4 Americans under the bus....are you really this ignorant?????
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
a man over thirty, 10/18/2012 11:02:18 PM (No. 8944401)
'Not optimal' will disappear like smoke in the wind.
The media must tamp down any obstacle to Obama's re-election.
If Romney had said something so dismissive, they'd crucify him (look what they tried to do with 'binders of women')
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bighambone, 10/18/2012 11:03:04 PM (No. 8944404)
Those Americans just did not get killed, they were murdered. I guess during the Obama era it is the "new normal" to describe American casualties in such a "bump in the road" casual way as Obama did on this comedy show, but to a lot of others who will vote in the upcoming election, Obama's comment will be deemed to have been highly disrespectful to the dead and their families.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
WhatMediaBias, 10/18/2012 11:08:45 PM (No. 8944414)
Well? You know, it really caused Obama a lot of trouble. He had to scramble for a cover story, and almost caused his fund-raising trip to Las Vegas to be delayed. Not optimal at all.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
god of irony, 10/18/2012 11:09:43 PM (No. 8944416)
I serve in the military and today I took part in a DOD directed stand down to conduct suicide prevention training. The mandatory powerpoint slides were lame. Basically they were saying it was our fault for not caring enough and controlling our feelings. The interesting thing was that we kind of ditched the script and had a free discussion forum We all agreed that the lack of mission, lack of faith in senior military and civilian leadership and lack of care about PTSD are the culprits to the alarming rate of suicides as of late.
As we say, 19 days and a wakeup.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh, 10/18/2012 11:47:44 PM (No. 8944501)
BO only cares about one person; the one he sees in the mirror. The truth of BO is starkly different from the bill of goods the Country was sold in 2008. How could anyone be a "uniter" when he is so pathetically tone deaf? No real leader could be this clueless.
BO knows how to speak nice words at times but they are meaningless to him.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
mercedesops, 10/18/2012 11:47:51 PM (No. 8944503)
Yes--they were just bumps on the road.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Strongwill, 10/19/2012 12:31:34 AM (No. 8944592)
What a POS I cant be honest or I would get kicked off this great site . Goodnight folks
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Charactercounts, 10/19/2012 1:13:28 AM (No. 8944642)
Someone as cold as Obama is evil. His being our President is not optimal, either.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
6079 Smith, W, 10/19/2012 1:24:30 AM (No. 8944649)
Well, maybe 'not optimal' was the wrong phrase to use, but at least he didn't say 'binders'!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
stanley, 10/19/2012 2:33:02 AM (No. 8944718)
ask him how he would react if his wife was raped.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
danu, 10/19/2012 3:05:01 AM (No. 8944733)
'Fasten your seat belts, America; it's gonna be a bumpy road.
We hope some spook will weigh in on the evidence and tell us if this Ambassador was burned-- and abandoned by the Admin to be tortured, gang raped, and murdered...?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Kurto, 10/19/2012 4:18:32 AM (No. 8944787)
0 is stuck on stupid. How can he even begin to think this is a laughing matter? His policies cost these men their lives. Our other embassies in the region have the exact same lack of security. The next attack could occur at any time. And, this moron is trying to make jokes about the dead. Despicable!
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LOS ANGELES — Jonathan Winters, the cherub-faced comedian whose breakneck improvisations and misfit characters inspired the likes of Robin Williams and Jim Carrey, has died. He was 87. The Ohio native died Thursday evening at his Montecito, Calif., home of natural causes, said Joe Petro III, a longtime family friend. Petro said Winters died of natural causes and was surrounded by family and friends. Winters was a pioneer of improvisational standup comedy, with an exceptional gift for mimicry, a grab bag of eccentric personalities and a bottomless reservoir of creative energy.
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I’ve been writing about media coverage of abortion for many years. And so have many others. If you haven’t read David Shaw’s “Abortion Bias Seeps Into The News,” published in the Los Angeles Times back in 1990, you should. That report also explains why we cover the topic here at GetReligion.But the thing is that I’m getting kind of sick of pointing out egregious bias only to see things not just remain bad but get worse. Just think, in the last year, we saw the media drop any pretense of objectivity and bully the Susan G. Komen Foundation
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