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Open Mic Allegedly Catches Nicolas Sarkozy Calling Netanyahu A Liar, Obama Commiserating

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An open mic left on at the G20 conference last week allegedly seems to have caught some angry remarks from French President Nicolas Sarkozy about Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu, the French website Arrêt Sur Images reported today. After speaking, the leaders did not notice reporters could still hear them in headphones, a time during which Sarkozy turned to President Barack Obama and lamented of Netanyahu, “I cannot stand him. He is a liar.”

While the original Arrêt Sur Images report in French is here, YNet News translates the most damning complaints from the French premier:

The conversation apparently began with President Obama criticizing Sarkozy for not having warned him that France would be voting in favor of the Palestinian membership bid in UNESCO despite Washington’s strong objection to the move.

The conversation then drifted to Netanyahu, at which time Sarkozy declared: “I cannot stand him. He is a liar.” According to the report, Obama replied: “You’re fed up with him, but I have to deal with him every day!”

The remark was naturally meant to be said in confidence, but the two leaders’ microphones were accidently [sic] left on, making the would-be private comment embarrassingly public.

YNet notes journalists were apparently told they were not permitted to report on comments said while the world leaders didn’t know they were being listened to and were forced to sign non-disclosure agreements– which would explain why the audio isn’t available, though not necessarily why the only publication to have the story would be Arrêt Sur Images. The lack of coverage comes despite, apparently, reporters being able to hear the conversations because they were “still in possession of headsets provided by the Elysée for the sake of simultaneous translation.” Many are reported not to have even noticed the mics were still on themselves.

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_M5V6VTQAVLARF7XXO47Z5OCZWM TangledThorns

    I’m ashamed of Obama not standing up for one of our closest allies.

  • http://www.storminsmorningjava.blogspot.com/ stormin1961

    hmmm … now how can we use this against Herman Cain?

  • Anonymous

    Prediction for this thread –

    Anti-Semitic remarks followed by ObamaGasms !!

  • Anonymous

    He can’t stand dealing with the leader of Israel everyday. Clearly using MSNBC standards he hates Jewish people. Sorry… those are not my standards. I’m just playing by the rulebook made out by others.

  • Anonymous

    There goes Florida for Obama! Keep it up “President Zero” show Americans your real face! since somehow they missed the sign of your old hateful church and your buddy the cop hating bomber.

  • Anonymous

    He didn’t stand up for Canada?

  • Anon

    netanyahu is an opportunist
    and maybe a liar

  • http://twitter.com/cmbhot celeb hound

    oh man , herman cain  is going to get it for this one!

  • MIKE

    How does that POS greasy Axelrod spin this one.

  • Tklemis

    For the record, ‘accidently’ is correct, technically.  It is just a variation of ‘accidentally’. Although i don’t use the ‘accidently’ variation because it just simply looks wrong to me, many dictionaries list it as an acceptable form of the word ‘accidentally’.   

  • Guest

    This is the most incredibly awkward thing I’ve heard in ages.  Ouch.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LDO6LIQBI2JQ4Q5MWLWBKGKSJY bensanity

    Awesome.

  • americanjew

    Everyone around the world, including the Isrealis agree that Bibi’s full of total crap…except the far right wing in America and Israel

  • Mo Fokker

    No need to. 

  • Mo Fokker

    France is one of our closest allies and conservatives in this country were gushing when the conservative Sarkozy was elected.

  • Anonymous

    Netenyahoo is the most dangerous non muslim leader in the world. 

  • Anonymous

    Why do you attribute the words of one Jew to all Jews?  That’s exactly the kind of thing Hitler did, don’t you know?

  • Anonymous

    In case anybody was wondering where our President stands on Israel,there’s your answer.Despite repeated comments promising support,obviously there is trouble in paradise.

  • AA

    axelrod is jewish
    dont be antisemitic

  • Anonymous

    Godwin was right.

  • Anonymous

    I’ve seen you use this line before. Maybe you should find out what Godwin’s law is before you reference it anymore. Just a suggestion.

  • gwgm

    The most interesting part of that story is how compliant the reporters (including the WH press) were in going along with the gag request. It’s amazing how the fierce, Cain-eating pitbulls become lapdogs when the cause is protecting Obama.
    On another topic, how many times does Obama have to empty his bowels on Israel before American Jews stop voting for him?

  • Moshejakob

    And after Israel bent over backwards to help us in our war on terror, and to help us after 9/11.  Oh wait, they didn’t help us either time.  In fact, Netyanyahu said that 9/11 was “good for Israel”.  Netanyahu is an anti-American scumbag.

  • Anonymous

    Dammit – I should have predicted Godwin’s Law in less than 10 comments !!  Foiled Again !!

    Oh by the way –

    Nazi !!!

    *drink*

  • Anonymous

    All I did was state a fact. As a Republician, you have been trained to scream “Godwin!” every time somebody points out your Nazi tendencies, but you really don’t know what Godwin’s law is.

  • Anonymous

    Come on, Netanyahu is a shady character, and Israel is an entitled country that gets more benefits than it really deserves. They’re like the snotty little brother who goes around picking fights, and then runs to the safety of big brother when the going gets rough. Time to cut the purse strings on Israel, let them sink or swim.

  • insideguy

    You mean the same allies that got caught with spies in our country?

  • Norbit

    Well, I guess spending 20 years with a rabid anti-Semite as your pastor and mentor doesn’t make you all that  keen on Jews either!

  • http://sulayman.hadithuna.com Sulayman

    The way you phrased that, you make it sound like Muslim leaders are dangerous. Do you have a problem with Sheikh Hasina, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh? What about Abdoulaye Wade, the President of Senegal?

  • Fallenchicken

    Uh oh, Mr. President, you vote the conservatives golden rule: Never say anything bad about Israel, ever! There our little angel!

  • http://sulayman.hadithuna.com Sulayman

    Really? You want to go back and repeat the 2004 election, where instead of talking about the last 4 years we talk about the 1960s again? Go find something from 2009 onwards to bash Obama about, and please try to keep up with the class.

  • http://sulayman.hadithuna.com Sulayman

    {citation needed}

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Farax-Shirwac/100001414842261 Farax Shirwac

    Wow, just wow..

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3GKFVYE4ERPTIPL3NJ3S7COQGY Doc P

    The ones that spied on us? Israel cares about Israel, period.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    The protocol arrangements with reporters are such that an irresponsible reporter could simply make up this entire story and post it without fear of professional consequences, since YNET itself is not an accredited news agency, but instead purports to be a private news aggregrator linking to a privately-owned blog about current events, which ITSELF is not an accredited news agency, which ITSELF refers to a gossip blog on Le Monde, which while Le Monde IS an accredited news agency, the gossip blog itself is not even purporting to report on what was said by the two leaders, but taking the sort of cheap shots one associates with snark blogs in this country (and not even all that smoothly, given the gossip blog attributes things said which presumably would have come from Obama to have come from “Bush”).

    In any event, the Le Monde gossip blog does not even purport to quote Sarkozy on the subject of Netanyahou, let alone Obama. Here is the ONLY mention of any exchange on that subject between the two of them:

    “ Nul ne sait s’il faut rire. Auparavant, les deux dirigeants se sont affligés à huis clos de leurs relations difficiles avec le premier ministre israélien Benyamin Nétanyahou.”

    Okay, French translation fans, go ahead and translate that to your hearts’ content, but the way I read it is a follows:

    “Before this [that is, before appearing before the press], the two leaders spoke in private about their difficult relations with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.”

    That is, there is no mention at all about any ‘open mic’; indeed, the clear implication from the passage,  even in the gossip blog – which again, is the ONLY mention of this ANYWHERE in ANY newspaper with a reporter that was present at the press conference – is totally ambivalent on the subject of the circumstances under which the conversation was had. That is, the entire conversation they had on the subject of Netanyahou could have been entirely in private and NOWHERE NEAR any open mic, such that the sole reference in the Le Monde gossip blog may have come to the reporters there as part of background briefing by an aide, such as: Are you able to inform us as to whether the leaders spoke at all about the situation with Palestine and Israel, where France voted in favor of statehood and the U.S. opposed, and if so what was discussed? Answer: I am not at liberty to pass on in any detail what was said, but yes, certainly that subject did come up in conversation between the leaders, and they commisserated on difficulties each has had in dealings directly with PM Netanyahou.” 

    And. That. Is. It.

    So again: look at the genesis of this: 1. Nothing, ABSOLUTELY nothing said in the press conference about Netanyahou. 2. No, ABSOLUTELY not a single reference to any “open mic”. 3. A brief mention in passing in a newspaper gossip blog, with no quotes and no, ABSOLUTELY not a single reference to any “open mic”. 4. Suddenly out of the blue, a passage in a PRIVATE blog that itself admits there is no transcript, and relying TOTALLY on that one brief innocuous mention in the newspaper gossip blog, which does NOT support the private blog’s take on that mention. 5. A follow on mention in a private news aggregator, with a specific reference to the private blog, but nothing more to back up it’s version. 6. Mediaite.

    Appreciate this: Mediaite could have worked through all of this exactly the same way I did, yet did not. What does that tell you about Frances Martel, and about Mediaite?

  • Egyptian Traveller

    what ties are between you and Israel?

  • Egyptian Traveller

    look at the history of the JEWS and tell me the exceptions!

  • Scrub

    It’s good to see that, unlike many conservatives in this country, Obama isn’t a whipping boy for a tiny, uncompromising country on the other side of the world.

  • http://twitter.com/Pinups4RonPaul Pinups4RonPaul

    Well, this is just precious. Of course Bibi is not just a “liar” but a racist, bloodthirsty monster. Most Israeli’s know this too, though we in the US don’t hear much about it from our press. And of course, the nobel-peace-prize winning Obomber is pretty sick of hearing Bibi whine to him for more American “Aid”, and wars of aggression on innocent people who Bib feels “threaten” Israel. But Obomber is after all just a puppet. After he’s finally let go, he and his family will be protected by our tax-dollar-paid secret service men. He’s set.All he had to do was sell his soul and learn to take orders. Dick Cheney is proud. Wake up, America. Let’s leave Israel to take care of itself. Bring all the troops home. End the wars. End the Fed. Restore America. Elect Ron Paul. Oh, and if you’d like to buy a PIn-Ups for Ron Paul calendar, you can at PinUps4RonPAul dot com. IF you’re nice, I might even get it signed for you!

  • Anonymous

    If you were Barack Obama, you would have first said that France is our strongest ally. Later on, you would instead say that it’s “one of our closest allies”. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100089922/barack-obama-france-is-no-longer-america-strongest-ally/

  • Mo Fokker

    “What does that tell you about Frances Martel, and about Mediaite?”

    If it is good enough for Ben Smith of Politico to tweet about it, it is good enough for Gossip Cop’s sister blog to run with it.

  • Anonymous

    Canada’s PM certainly would have stood up for Israel.

  • Mo Fokker

    So, George Bush referred to Tony Blair and Britain as his closest ally. Do only conservatives get to pick America’s closest ally? It sure the f*ck isn’t Israel, although I will admit that we are Israel’s closest ally.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah yeah… the ally who comes to Washington and ridicules him in front of the whole world. I am fed up with Israelis using our nation to get everything they want. The so called alliance should go both ways. What do u get out of it? Are u one of those loonies who believe u will get the key of heaven by supporting the “Almighty’s” nation?

  • Anonymous

    We already made up sexual harassment and assault cases in the 90s. How? Let’s just say there are time travelers liberals.

  • Anonymous

    BAAAAM! That was right in the nuts dude! Well done!

  • Anonymous

    I believe that’s how he started to feel  after the guy made up lies about him in front of congress and they applauded. Israel doesn’t give a damn about our safety. All the care about is keeping that wasteland they call home away from Muhammed. I have serious issues with most of our Jewish senators and congressman. Where is their allegiance to this country?? Their stands on the Middle East issue has cost us many lives and has severely endangered our national security.F**K You Israel…. Yes, i said it and i am not anti semite!

  • Anonymous

    he is a liar. Did u see the way he twisted the 1967 border thing to make Obama look like a Jew hater. The guy is an asshole. We should let them handle the Arabs alone. They have money and technology. 4 billions a year is a lot of money. How many of our troops do we have to lose to realize those people don’t care about our safety at all?? 

  • Anonymous

    OMG the Jewish god is going to send another 9/11!! lmao

  • http://www.davidjkramer.co.cc// DavidKramer

    I wonder what Obama thinks about Sarkozy saying that Obama is frelling insane? Sarkozy hates the Israel leader and thinks Obama is insane.

    Kind of funny how Obama has to state his point, is it that Obama is like a little child trying to be liked by everyone and has to play the fool? Something is not right about him, besides the obvious things.

  • Texan

    It tells me you must be totally exhausted defending obama 24/7….

  • Texan

    I take it you were pissed when obama “killed” obl?

  • Texan

    You mean like when you attribute the words of one repub to all repubs? In your face, loser! Now, go kill one of your neighbors dogs…

  • Anonymous

    Well, gee, I don’t know. Why the heck did that silly Barack Obama change his mind on that whole “France is our strongest ally” thing? It couldn’t have been that he was wrong and was just stating his opinion, could it? It couldn’t have been the umpteenth time he’s insulted Britain, could it? http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100088961/barack-obama-top-ten-insults-against-britain-2011-edition/

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_AMIHGMIKAGKTHBYX35UZFGNYTQ Cameron

    Not all Jews support the apartheid policies of Israel, and their Talibanistic orthodox right wing. Israel is not a pariah state for nothing. If we had fewer orthodox Talibans here who think God demands suppport for Israel, US position would be different.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7FHIPV7YU6IOAVHHMPLDYTXEFE Ali.T

    Obama  does not like Nataniyaho cuz he is acutely aware how much influence the leader of a small country has over his re-election.  The is the sad reality of politics in America….

  • Anonymous

    You are really dumb. You think all Israelis are happy with the policies Netanyahu? You do not agree with Obama on anything but you think all Israelis should agree with their president.Are you going to call those Israelis who disagree with Bibi anti-semetic?

  • Mo Fokker

    1.) The telegraph is a partisan conservative newspaper, so I would expect them to trash Obama in the same way Reverend Moon’s operation does in this country.

    2.) Tony Blair left office with a piss-poor approval rating similar to Bush’s.  The overwhelming majority of Britain opposed the Iraq war, with the exception being neoconservatives, who now expect the U.S to kiss their ass.

    3.) Britain owes us much more for saving their asses in World War II than we do them for standing with George Bush during his morally bankrupt incursion into Iraq.

    4.). I agree he should have said “one of our greatest allies” for the sake of diplomacy, but the fact he backed away from it doesn’t mean he believes Britain is a greater ally than France at this moment in time.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JHTJABFVHJQVODNHGRK4WRXOGU Anas

    Anyone in the right mind would not be pissed. But I
    know exactly who will be pissed. Media…now they can’t attribute anything to
    him no more, nor justifying the billions of dollars for still searching for
    him…Did we find him yet? Yup, now the media is scrambling to find another
    person, and they did for couple of months before that was ended too, Al-Awlaky.
    Lets see who’s going to be next. I hope that we can capture them before killing
    them, that would be far more lucrative intelligence wise.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Fine, but this fake story should not add to that.

    Go trace the story back. This is what anyone can see, and what Frances Martel would have seen if she’d actually done her job as a reporter rather than as a shill.

    1. There is a brief entry in a Le Monde blog about Sarkozy and Obama having discussed Netanyahou in private. No mention of any “open mic” at all. Indeed, there is no story by ANY reporter who was present or says he or she was present that even mentions any “open mic”.

    2. A private French blog, not by any reporter and not by anyone who was present at this press conference, then links to the Le Monde blog and purports to RELY on it for the “open mic” story. But of course there IS no “open mic” story, nor does any story by any reporter who was there even suggest what Martel is “reporting” here.

    3. A private French news aggregator picks up the private French blog post, thereby lending it the superficial appearance of authenticity. All the aggregator does is link to the private French blog,  which of course took the whole thing from the Le Monde blog, which said nothing at all about any “open mic” and did not purport to quote either leader.

    4. National Review ran a piece earlier this evening relying on #3, which relies on #2, which relies on #1, which does not mention any “open mic” or quote either leader.

    5. And now, here, with Frances Martel.

    Go ahead and retrace the thing for yourself, and you too will find it’s a completely made up story.

    Then ask yourself why Frances Martel is posting this, and why National Review posted it, and whether there is any difference at all in their motives.

    Next of course we can expect some hack from FNC or some other winger “news” group to ask the White House press secretary a question about this, and then there will be a denial, which many will reject on some knee jerk basis without ever having done the little bit of work necessary to see how this is a fake story. 

  • Anonymous

    True, Canada’s PM would have and shame on him for that.. and shame on Obama for unconditionally standing up for racism, land grab and out and out war crimes all constant staples of Likudnik, and some liberal, Israeli governments

  • Anonymous

    “liar” does not begin to describe Netanyahu.

    Sarkozy will go down in history as one of the greatest French leaders insofar as Middle Eastern politics where he managed to tip the scale slightly towards some semblance of justice and fairness

    Case in point, Libya. Simplistic Libyans like to take credit for pistol whipping Quaddafi into his death and ridding the world of one of the world’s bloodiest tyrants.

    Same simplistic attitude from liberal Americans giving all the credit to Obama where real credit goes to Sarkozy & no other world leader can lay claim to anything close. There is an aura of substance and greatness in this 5′ 5″ small-framed little man except for his odd love of talking disparagingly behind people’s backs. Though he manages to maintain accuracy in his gossips

  • WB

    Is this the same Sarkozy whose grandfather was Jewish or a different Sarkozy? 

  • Anonymous

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  • Kitty Shaw

    “Case in point, Libya. Simplistic Libyans like to take credit for pistol whipping Quaddafi into his death and ridding the world of one of the world’s bloodiest tyrants. Same simplistic attitude from liberal Americans giving all the credit to Obama where real credit goes to Sarkozy & no other world leader can lay claim to anything close.”

    Pains me to admit it but surely Cameron was just as much behind it as Sarkozy, I think he counts as a world leader.

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  • http://sulayman.hadithuna.com Sulayman

    No, OBL was a terrorist who the Muslim world didn’t mourn. I don’t see the connection, the majority of Muslims live in democracies, bin Laden was neither an elected official nor a religious leader, just a brigand.

  • Anonymous

    Not really, all Obama has to do to win Florida is send bunker busters into Iran nuclear facilities in October 2012

    There is nothing more powerful of a message to send Florida than saying: the hell with our country, viva la Israel

  • Anonymous

    Umm… I’m afraid you’re wrong. Get your facts straight, I’m pretty sure the BBC hasn’t reported on a “fake” story http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15635476

  • Anonymous
  • Iop

    Big deal. Obama was scolding Sarkozy for voting for Palestinian
    membership in UNESCO. Obama pointed out that regardless of Sarkozy’s
    opinion of Netanyahu, he still has to “deal with Netanyahu every day”
    (and therefore cannot adopt such an attitude like Sarkozy’s).

    In other words…Obama has to deal with the fallout.

    Without hearing the actually audio, you can’t assume the tone. Choosing to capital letters and
    an exclamation point is just your way of making it sound far more inflammatory than it may have been.

  • Iop

    Big deal. Obama was scolding Sarkozy for voting for Palestinian
    membership in UNESCO. Obama pointed out that regardless of Sarkozy’s
    opinion of Netanyahu, he still has to “deal with Netanyahu every day”
    (and therefore cannot adopt such an attitude like Sarkozy’s).

    In other words…Obama has to deal with the fallout.

    Without hearing the actually audio, you can’t assume the tone. Choosing to capital letters and
    an exclamation point is just your way of making it sound far more inflammatory than it may have been.

  • Pop

    I am happy somebody is telling the truth about Netanyahu.  He is a pathetic liar.  By the way, calling him a liar is not anti-semitic even though most Jews will try to make it seem that way.  GWB was also a liar and the world new it, but saying so was not racists, was it?

  • Anonymous

    I’m sure the WHPCorpse had no problem signing non-disclosure agreements; they work for Obama anyway.  Expecting truth from today’s so-called journalism?  It doesn’t happen anymore.

  • Pete

    Interesting definition of “lack of coverage.” Currently front-page on Google news, MSNBC, Fox, BBC, Reuters, AP, WSJ, Washington Post, Fox, Time, CBS…………….

  • Truthbetold

    Sarcozy just told the truth.  Netanyahu is a liar and a piece of trash.

  • Tony

    But Sarkozy is right.

  • Tony

    Sarkozy is right.

  • Pablo

    The only people doing any ethnic cleansing down there are Arabs. The only racists down there are Arabs. The people who strap bombs on their children are Arabs. The people who randomly bomb civilians are Arabs. The people who want to wipe the other side out “from the river to the sea” are Arabs.

    Shame on you. 

  • Pablo

    Obama really enjoyed hiding behind Sarkozy in Libya.

  • Pablo

    People are always ridiculing Obama by stating facts, huh?

  • Pablo

    Perhaps you should brush up on it. You’ve just done a perfect job of proving it.

  • Pablo

    What lies were those?

    F**K You Israel…. Yes, i said it and i am not anti semite!

    OK, that’s one, but it’s yours, not Bibi’s.

  • Pablo

    I don’t expect any candidates to tell us that they’re “Reporting for duty” so we should be OK.

  • Pablo

    What lies?

  • Chauncy Gardner

    Screw Bibi. Am I the only person that’s getting sick of Israel telling us what to do? Bibi is no better than the palestinians who throw rocks. He has no interest in peace. Israel gets more money from us than any other country. Enough.

  • Anonymous

    Right! And the people who build the long wall? And people who shoot kids with live round because of stones being thrown at them are? If we start, we won’t end, so stop the crap. A good ally should be able to give his friend tough love, commend him when he is right and correct him when he is wrong. 

  • Pablo

    Everyone around the world agrees that those goddamn Jews are screwing everything up too, huh?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    Well, Rex having said all that and insulting your hostess here in this thread, would you please bring your superior intellect to bear on the BBC article… It seems to make your post look like little more than a pile of poop.  

  • Anonymous

    For someone whose avatar is of that of one classless, tasteless and a would-be criminal cornbread Cain, I suppose Arabs should take your condemnation of them collectively as a nation as a badge of honor.. & Israeli’s, they already have nothing but disdain and derision towards you… having said that, I suppose they deserve you and your support… two repelling peas in a pod

  • Glhamdan

    The only people who would stand up for the occupation of Isreal would be Isreali’s themselves or ignorant biggots  who have there heads so far up their asses  they would not see injustice if it slapped them in the face. They have obviously never travelled outside the US to understand how sheltered this country has become in propaganda. I can’t wait for the wall to crumble down just like that of Berlin. We have allowed Isreal leaders to delegate US policy for far too long and Americans just can’t realize it because they leave themselves limited to what they are told on TV. The UN has been against what Isreal does and voted against it dozens of times. Isreal continues to do what they want despite it all. Ethnic cleansing by Arabs are you kidding me. That is why South America, Europe and the MiddleEast have backed away from us. I can’t wait until they unite in support of Palestine. It’s just a matter of time. Recession now, just wait Isreal backing is going to be this countries downfall.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, our leaders are required to actively love all Israeli leaders. Not just have a relationship with them, but forego critical faculties and actually love and admire them on a personal level…especially the ones who refuse to negotiate for peace, flaunt UN regulations, and make the Middle East more dangerous. 

    Bibi is NOT an ally of the US.  Israel is, although you’ll find precious few British spies in American prisons. Learn to distinguish between the leader and the nation.

  • Anonymous

    No, he criticized the Canadian PM for being a bad tipper.  It’s akin to ruining the whole national relationship

  • Anonymous

    He for some odd reason doesn’t think it applies to him. It applies to all those people he disagrees with. But not him. Oh Well….can’t account for honesty or consistence anymore.

  • Anonymous

    Why would Israelis strap bombs to their children, when they can have their children drafted and sit in 100 million dollar American war planes we gave them and kill Arabs from the sky?

    What kind of child imagines the Israeli/Palestinian problem is Good versus Evil?  Both sides perpetuate the violence and both sides are to blame. 

  • Anonymous

    Wow, first Bachman, then Perry, and now Cain?

    When you pull that trigger next year on Romney, I’m gonna be laughing so hard.  Pablo, the ultimate right douche, is gonna have to vote for Romney!

  • Anonymous

    Don’t forget freedom fries.  You’re only one of our closest allies when you are willing to break international law, threaten war with Iran, and go back on your word.

  • Anonymous

    Before it was Obama is illegally at war in Libya and now it’s “he was hiding behind Sarkozy.”  Are the goalposts heavy?

  • Anonymous

    Hey, not fair.  This is a story about the outraged American Likud and facts have no place in that debate

  • Anonymous

    Who?

  • Anonymous

    sweet racism, dude

  • karime

    Very, very well said Glhamdan, you managed to put all my thoughts in that one paragraph. I agree 100%. It just goes to show how much influence Israel really has on US policy. Its sad that even though the majority of the international community recognize the illegitimacy of Israel’s actions, it ultimately has little effect as long as Israel is backed by America. 

  • Farnsworth

    The 1400 people killed in the Gaza massacre would beg to differ if they hadn’t been brutally murdered by indiscriminate Israeli attacks

  • Mo Fokker

    UPDATE: The reporter for Le Monde, Arnaud Leparmentier, tweets to me that he didn’t hear the conversation, and declined to disclose his source.

    http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1111/On_a_hot_mic_or_not_no_love_for_Bibi.html

  • Spermin Cain

    How many pimps actually support Ron Paul?

    If prostitution was legalized (the libertarian position), hos wouldn’t need pimps and the pimps would have to sell their own sexual services to creepy old Republicans to survive.

  • Anonymous

    You can like a country and dislike the leader.

  • Holistic

    After the conversation, Obama immediately left for Mecca and his Haj!

  • Anonymous

    Oblamer is such an immature little man….what a complete embarrassment.
    Why the Jewish community votes for this idiot and thus against their best interest is a phenomenon!

  • Anonymous

    Amazing how it took the Oblamer protectors soo long to finally come out with this story!!!!

    But heavens forbid some lady makes an unsubstantiated accusation about a leading GOP candidate they will do a thousand stories about it in a matter of hrs!!

  • Anonymous

    Anyone else notice how fast this story was hidden to the bottom of the side bar?

  • caconservative

    Irregardless of Israel, I’m just plain embarrassed by this dufus. This clown has proved himself to be a two-faced lier, time and time again. I’d love to see Mr.Netanyahu bitch slap both of these little bitches into next week.

  • caconservative

    How long do you think Mexico would exist if they were doing the same to us? Why Palestine has been allowed to exist this long is a mystery. The sooner Isreal pushes these idiots out, the better.

  • caconservative

    Don’t both apply?

  • caconservative

    The alternative….is what?

  • Anonymous

    Facts like Obama is a Kenyan witch doctor who wants to suck babies out of women vaginas and kill grandma in her sleep?  Or facts that Obama hates white people and wants to take their money and give it to brown people? 

  • Anonymous

    Unfortunately yes… They are.

  • Anonymous

    If he is hiding behind the French, then we are not at war. Pablo needs to make up his mind: is Obama a macho tyrant or an effeminate socialist?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rick-Johnson/100000190455903 Rick Johnson

    I guess Skyfet are some of the type who thinks that if someone attempts to kill you that you must only use the same type weapons they use. Read the Q’ran and discover what is the means of death prescribed for acts such as adultery or homosexuality. That’s right they STONE them to death. Stoning is a very common method of death in the Muslim world.

  • ROBERT (MONTREAL)

    absolutely right!

  • ROBERT (MONTREAL)

    IDIOT WHO POSTS A NAME LIKE THT ONLY AN IDIOT G-D BLESS CANADA

  • Noname91981

    Shame on you for wanting him to do so! Shame on your allies for being terrorists and mass murderers.. Shame on whoever stands by you and your ideals!

  • Anonymous

    Obama is a hater of israel

  • Anonymous

    Alexrod = self-hating Jew

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_43HRJMPNJ5NMZ6DP4JJXO42ZQM Max

    What is WRONG with us? When
    are we going to become independent of Israel?

     

    How has such a puny,
    insignificant excuse of a country with an addiction for atrocities managed to
    hijack our foreign policy? When are we going to grow a pair? This
    parasite—and make no mistake of it, Israel is America’s tapeworm—habitually
    spies on us, has killed Americans, siphons billions of dollars from us, spits
    in our faces, has attacked our navy (remember the USS Liberty?) and its
    admirers keep harping that Israel is our friend. It wouldn’t last two minutes
    without sucking us dry.

     

    And the worst part are all
    the traitors in this country that would put that country’s benefit over ours;
    no matter what atrocities the Israelis commit, they find some justification for
    those atrocities—usually by blaming the victims. Or, when all else fails,
    they bring forth their precious Holocaust.

     

    I’m sick of it, and I’m
    ashamed of it. If you have any doubts that Israel controls our country, either
    directly, or indirectly, I challenge you to find a magazine article, a
    newspaper article, a TV news item or a Hollywood film that condemns Israel, or
    takes a compassionate view of the Palestinian victims.

     

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/F3DJH5JZSDC3V4TUMUFJSEI4OA Jamie A.

    You’re obviously mentally retarded. Arabs are the victims here!!! Being bombed, raped, harassed, and killed by Israeli’s on a daily basis!!!!! Go F*CK yourself you bastard!!

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/F3DJH5JZSDC3V4TUMUFJSEI4OA Jamie A.

    I love Obama for saying that! Netanyahu is a bastard and a liar. Obama is a good leader! He doesn’t deserve to have to put up with that as*holes bullsh*t! F*CK ISRAEL!

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