Crisis: Authenticity Alert!

Turns out that President Obama’s threat against Syria on chemical weapons being a “red line” in the civil war there was a rare unscripted moment – one that has brought the U.S. to the brink of a rare war it doesn’t want.

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  • exkiodexian
    May 13, 2013 1:54 PM

    Foreign policy is foreign policy. If anything, this just proves that the president doesn’t create foreign policy.

  • alex_the_tired
    May 14, 2013 6:39 AM

    Ted,

    The office of president was specifically invented so that the people would have a single entity to whom they could look in time of crisis — one voice taking charge in the burning theater. Part of the way to defuse the potential for scripting is by having a press corps that really puts the screws to the president during a press conference.

    When was the last time that happened? Seriously, can anyone recall the last time a group of hard-nosed, humorless reporters with facts and figures at the ready started grilling the president? They sure as hell didn’t do that on 9/11 when Dubya finally sobered up enough to be pushed in front of a podium. They sure aren’t doing it now.

    How many press conferences has Obama had by the way? Two? Three?

  • Reporters stopped doing their jobs not long after Connie Chung and Dan Rather lost their for going after politicians who had the clout to have them fired. 🙁

  • Reporters stopped doing their jobs not long after Connie Chung and Dan Rather lost theirs for going after politicians who had the clout to have them fired. 🙁

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