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Related: About this forumNYT Reporter Parrots GOP Talking Points, Suggests Obama’s Middle East Policy Is ‘Naive’ And ‘Quaint’
http://thinkprogress.org/media/2012/09/16/855741/new-york-times-reporter-parrots-gop-talking-points-suggests-obamas-middle-east-policy-is-naive-and-quaint/New York Times Reporter Parrots GOP Talking Points, Suggests Obamas Middle East Policy Is Naive And Quaint
By Judd Legum on Sep 16, 2012 at 10:42 am
This morning on Fox News Sunday, New York Times reporter Jeff Zeleny suggested Obamas foreign policy in the Middle East, as articulated in his 2009 Cairo speech, was naive and quaint. He also speculated, without any substantiation, that the attacks on the U.S. embassy in Libya could be the result of a major intelligence failure. Transcript:
If it turns out a month from now that there was a major intelligence failure I think this is going to look pretty irresponsible and silly right now to say this is all because of a trailer for a video. I was at that speech in Cairo in 2009 and Im struck how much has changed and how much it almost looks some of those comments sound I dont know if naive but quaint given everything that happened with the Arab Spring and things and certainly not really relevant. I think there is time for a reset of that reset and we havent heard the president talk about his policy a lot since then.
Watch it @ link~
Zelenys comments parroted the talking points of the Romney campaign and the Republican party. Two days ago, Rudy Giuliani a prominent Romney surrogate called Obamas foreign policy in the Middle East naive on CNBC. This week, Sarah Palin and Pat Buchannan offered the exact same critique, citing the Cairo speech.
You can read Obamas 2009 Cairo speech here. Its unclear why the Arab Spring which liberated millions of people from dictatorship invalidates Obamas sentiments.
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NYT Reporter Parrots GOP Talking Points, Suggests Obama’s Middle East Policy Is ‘Naive’ And ‘Quaint’ (Original Post)
babylonsister
Sep 2012
OP
I don't know what these jagoffs are planning. But it seems to me they're trying to set the up
Guy Whitey Corngood
Sep 2012
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Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)1. I don't know what these jagoffs are planning. But it seems to me they're trying to set the up
the administration by pushing this. Watch for leaked documents a month from now.
blm
(113,061 posts)2. I knew exactly who you were talking about before I even clicked through. Zeleny is a total TOOL.
I think he took over from Judith Miller as the goto guy to push RW propaganda into the NYT.