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Awesomely Random Fox and Friends Panel Decides President Obama Can Keep Nobel Peace Prize

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As the snarling strains of “Another One Bites The Dust” echo on the world stage that is now rid of Muammar Gaddafi, and some Republicans rush to diminish any role that President Obama might have had in his demise, the producers of Fox and Friends know just where to turn to sort it all out. Host Brian Kilmeade assembled a panel made up of BreitbartTV editor Larry O’Connor, singer Judy Collins, and former SNL actor Joe Piscopo to debate former Rep. Pete Hoekstra‘s suggestion that the President give back his Nobel Peace Prize.

Kilmeade started out by reading a portion of Hoekstra’s Newsmax column calling on the President to return the prize, then tossed to Breitbart’s Larry O’Connor, who just couldn’t resist a few zingers, saying that Obama should “return the presidency,” and that he deserved to be in thesame league as Yasser Arafat and Al Gore as Peace Prize winners. You could almost hear the ink on Larry’s check to Bruce Vilanch drying.

What was a bit surprising was Kilmeade’s near-gushing praise of the President. “He has to respect what he has done with the drone strikes in Pakistan, taking out al-Awlaki, taking out bin Laden, and participating with the Libya. As of right now he looks good.”

Piscopo agreed, and correctly admonished Republicans to “stop with the petty nagging,” adding, “I’m a life-long Democrat, but I understand you guys sometimes. Why with the pettiness?”

Things got a little sidetracked, though, when Judy Collins suggested that “Music can change the world,” prompting Piscopo to throw on his dead-perfect Frank Sinatra impression, and Larry O’Connor to do a chair-dancing number from Fiddler On The Roof..

Just when things got fun, though, O’Connor stuck in another buzz-killing conservative credit grab, saying,  ”Let’s point out this happened because President bush neutralized the weapons program that Libya had. if Gaddafi had those kind of horrible weapons, it would not have gone so smoothly.”

O’Connor is right, of course, that President Bush’s diplomacy with Libya was a success, and, like President Obama’s Libya policy, avoided a costly, deadly preemptive war. More recently, though, this happened despite near-unanimous Republican opposition, so there’s that.

Here’s the clip, from Fox and Friends:


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  • TruDat

    Reminds me of when Chris Matthews has on Ron Reagan Jr. and  Joan Walsh to give a comprehensive analysis of the Republican presidential nominees.  Laughable at best.

  • Exgoper

    Hey, I wonder what Victoria Jackson thinks!

  • Anonymous

    I support everything Obama is doing on Foreign Policy. But I have to admit… don’t any of you on the left find him being a Nobel Peace Prize winner a little at odds with his foreign policy? I’m honestly asking?

  • Guyoxim

    Victoria Jackson thinks? Now that’s funny!

  • Guyoxim

    I saw that last night. They were spot on. The Republican field isn’t exactly star studded, is it? That last debate was very telling. A bunch of whiney D-students pretending their degrees make them smart. 

  • Anonymous

    Monday , on the F&F panel , Pete Seeger , Jason Mattera and Rob Schneider will discuss Joe Biden ” That’s just Joe !”

    “As you know, the current vice president says dumb things, funny things, weird things. He talks like the sort of guy who sits right next to you on the bus even though there are plenty of empty seats — just so he can explain how squirrels aren’t mammals. 
    Indeed, in many respects, he’s as close as American politics gets to a wacky sitcom character who’s a couple fries short of a Happy Meal.
    Joe Biden is Barack Obama’s loyal pet, and like even the most loyal dog, he sometimes has an accident on the carpet. But he still does his master’s bidding when asked. 
    And that is the one way Biden matters. He is a reflection of his boss, and an accurate one at that.”

    http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/280847/biden-sticks-playbook-jonah-goldberg

  • Norbit

    “and some Republicans rush to diminish any role that President Obama might have had in his demise…”
    ———————————-

    Read:

    “as the Democratic-advocacy, mainstream media attempts to bolster Obama’s leadership persona with false claims of his role in the killing of Gaddafi” -  when it was BUSH’s drone initiative that enabled it!

    Similar to Obama – and HIS MEDIA – claiming credit for bin Laden, when it was BUSH’s policy of rendition and waterboarding responsible for the intel that allowed that to happen.

     

  • TruDat

    Probably the opposite of left-wing loon janeane garofalo

  • Anonymous

    The whole right wing “lets credit Bush for everything Obama does good” thing is really annoying and got to stop.Do you people actually believe that most Americans are crediting Bush for Obama’s successes,if so wake up and get a life.

  • Pablo

    O’Connor is right, of course, that President Bush’s diplomacy with Libya
    was a success, and, like President Obama’s Libya policy, avoided a
    costly, deadly preemptive war.

    So, you’re raising the “Mission Accomplished” banner, Tommy?

    Sure, everything is just fine in Libya now.

    Libyan resistance leader quits

    Jibril suggested to Time that as the war dragged on, he had found governing the country was increasingly difficult.

    He warned the longer the fighting lasted, the possibility increased for Libya turning “from a national struggle to chaos,” and becoming a battleground for “all the foreign powers which have their own agendas towards Libya.”

    “We have moved into a political struggle with no boundaries,” said Jibril.

    “The political struggle requires finances, organization, arms and ideologies.”

    “I am afraid I don’t have any of this.”

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XEFRKNJR6WJ5WQ6KNPH2OEY2LU Antonio

    Pablo, just because President Bush f-ed it up when he did it doesn’t mean that the banner can never be raised again.

    Do you guys realize how petty you appear every time you side with other countries and private companies against the President at every opportunity?

  • Exgoper

    I don’t love Janeane, but compared to Jackson she’s practically a rocket scientist. 

  • Exgoper

    Liberal media jab!

    DRINK!!!

  • Exgoper

    “Do you guys realize how petty you appear every time you side with other countries and private companies against the President at every opportunity?”

    Clearly not. 

  • Rufus Danegro

    Aw tiny eddie putz trying to change the subject again! Typical conservative tactic when they are feelin sad and lonely!

  • Anonymous

    “ More recently, though, this happened despite near-unanimous Republican opposition, so there’s that.”

    Really, TC?

    You are making it up gain. The Republican criticism was that he waited too long to get into it.

  • Rufus Danegro

     Conservative logic is based on a combination of pettiness and hypocrisy.

    Yesterday they were praising the French. When was the last time that happened?

    LOL

  • Anonymous

    And what countries have conservatives sided with again the president?

    You mean like when Senator Harry Reid said “The war is lost?”

  • Rufus Danegro

    You are on a roll this morning!

    LOL

  • Anonymous

    Compared to you, Jackson is Einstein!

  • Anonymous

    So did barry as he commended Britain, too!

    What’s wrong- you can’t share credit? You hate our NATO allies, libby boy?

  • Anonymous

    And you are on crack this morning!

    LOL

  • Pablo

    Libya is not settled, is my point. Thanks for missing it. I thought it was abundantly evident in the Prime Minister giving up in helplessness.

    You know how Iraq wasn’t over when we got Saddam? That.

  • Black and Gold brad

    It’s edifying to know that Middle East Regime Change, by force, is now ok.

    Of course, knocking off the existing crackpot dictator is the easy part.  Putting the “Pottery Barn” dish back together is where things get sticky…

  • Rufus Danegro

    plop plop sploosh

  • Rufus Danegro

    plop plop plop

  • Anonymous

    Still got nothing do ya?

    Didn’t think so.You can’t really talk with that Obama drool cup on skippy!

    Smile, so I can see ya!

    Gulp!

  • Pablo

    When was the last time America lined up behind them?

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, I saw all the lib “democracy” break out in Libya already.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, I saw all the lib “democracy” break out in Libya already.

  • Rufus Danegro

    plop plop sploosh plop

  • Pablo

    I’d have to find the Nobel Peace Prize to be something other than a joke. Which, of course, spawns more great jokes.

  • Rufus Danegro

     Yeah, you’re almost as brilliant as “notsofast.”

    Almost.

  • Anonymous

    I’m so happy that I have showed what a brain dead lib you are.

    Thanks for playing!

  • Norbit

    See above.
    Obama merely continued the Bush drones, and bin laden was killed through intelligence directly linked to information gathered via waterboarding.

    This is a blip in the Obama Meltdown, it will be forgotten in a few days.

    Now, let’s get back to talking about the ECONOMY!
    heh-heh-heh

  • Rufus Danegro

    plop plop plop sploosh plop

  • Anonymous

    BTW libs- unemployment is still 9.1 %.

    back on your heads!

  • Pablo
  • Rufus Danegro

    Plop plop sploosh

  • Pablo

    You’ve got 9 posts on this thread and haven’t said a goddamned thing. You are cordially invited to cram it up your ass. Perhaps that will settle the IBS problem displayed in 5 of those posts.

  • Anonymous

    Awesomely random moment of fox and friends used by reporter to advance liberal agenda.

    That said,there’s something about a peace prize now being deserved because you killed people that seems odd.

    And he ain’t gonna be winning no economic prizes anytime soon huh?

  • Norbit

    The NEW GOP should take a page out of the Democratic playbook, and don’t give Obama an inch on any of his “Save Democratic jobs stimulus/slush-fund” Jobs Bill!

    It’s a no-risk gambit.

    The overwhelming majority of people who would benefit from Obama’s bill would be his Democratic supporters in the public unions.
    They aren’t voting GOP in any numbers anyway, so politically, the GOP has everything to gain by keeping the economy in Marxist Mode, and simply waiting for the Progressive Democrats to implode next year!

  • Josh-Portland

    Come on I’m a liberal and think its funny that a Nobel Peace Prize winner kills so many people with drone attacks. Who can’t see the comedy in that.

  • Anonymous

    I struck a nerve!

  • Anonymous

    They are in big trouble- the government’s slogan is :Hope and Change.

  • Anonymous

    You really new to add more lifts to your shoes to keep your knuckles from dragging!

  • caconservative

    I’m of the opinion that the Noble peace prise lost an enormous amount of respect when the prise was given to Obimbo for nothing that clown did!!

  • Anonymous

    I’m a conservative, but I given Obama credit for helping get Kaddafi without using our military on the the ground.

    However, Obama and his Administration break the law and I wonder if that is an impeachable offense.  This has to do with disobeying our Immigration Laws.  If they can pick and chose which laws to obey, then I guess the rest of us can too – right?

    http://cnsnews.com/news/article/union-president-testifies-ice-hq-ordered-agents-not-arrest-illegals-including-fugitives

  • caconservative

    Do you realize how empty headed you sound when you blindly fallow without ever questioning?

  • Anonymous

    His so-called Jobs Bill is nothing but Stimulus III by another name, and will get the same results…NOTHING.

    This economy needs more than a temporary kick start…it needs fundamental change.

  • noneofyourbusiness

    I’m on “the Left”, I guess, and I never understood what Obama did to deserve the Nobel in the first place.  As for his foreign policy, who cares if it’s “at odds” with being a Nobel winner?  I think he was embarassed to win it in the first place, and I would hope he doesn’t give it a thought when deciding any aspect of foreign policy, especially when going after Al Queda or the dictators who sponsor terrorism.

  • Guyoxim

    I do, but you have to remember that the whole Nobel process is now a political statement. I didn’t read their rationale, but I think they gave it to OBama more as a response to his rhetoric and his winning the election more than anything else. I agree it was kinda weird, if anythng they should have awarded it to the american people (all of us) who elected him. It was the electorate’s optimism that put him in position to do some good. I also think that to kill guys like Bin Laden, Hussein, and Ghadafi is actually a more peaceful action than leaving them alone, or teaching them better ways to kill. We’ve tried ignoring them and buying their loyalty, but the only thing that works, that truly saves lives, is killing them.

  • Anonymous

    Don’t be too sure about that Economics Prize.  Those Nobel judges are a bunch of looney tunes Liberals and Socialists who can’t abide Conservative thought…even when proved to work.  So they give their silly prizes to failures.   LOL!!!

    Both the Nobel and the  Pulitzer prizes have long lost their luster and are pretty much meaningless.

  • Anonymous

    Oh, so you speak from experience?

  • Anonymous

    Believe me, both Egypt and Libya will now fall into the hands of Al Qaida and the Muslim Brotherhood.

    Obama just announced we’re pulling out of Iraq, so that too will soon fall into the hands of AlQaida, after all our spent money and Treasurer, meaning the lives of our soldiers.  Now the Taliban only needs to sit back and wait for us to leave Afghanistan so they can move back in  without losing to us.  The dumbest war strategy of all…announce to the enemy when you will be leaving, and then do it.

  • Anonymous

    I have seen you, boy.

    Go back to slapping your own ass and screaming “Mommy”!!

  • Pablo

    They lost me when they gave it to Arafat. Though I did enjoy it when the 2009 recipient was hosting a state dinner for the guy who has the 2010 recipient imprisoned.

  • Rufus Danegro

    plop plop plop

  • Anonymous

    I struck another nerve in Rufus- Hey Rufus, I bet you could make keys with your grille!

    LOL

  • http://twitter.com/ZackyBeatz %Zackyatz%Music

    Yeah but excuse me how is Drone attacks that have gone 90% up since Obama came in Office a Bush strategy, am I the only one who fails to realize this notion somehow this is a Bush Policy,
    as far I can remember goes Bush invaded countries bombing them to pieces while occupying their countries for years, drone attacks are the exact opposite less ground troops more strategy more intelligence, more direct assassinations this is completely different from Bush´s war strategy.

    STOP THIS BUSH MYTH…

  • Anonymous

    Well, I think the Nobel committee, if I remember this right, gave him the award based on expectations. You can argue that the President’s actions, while violent, have led to more peace, but even if you grant that, his version of keeping the peace is decidedly un-dovelike. 

    There’s a misconception among conservatives that liberals are unanimously against war. There’s a whole spectrum of thought on that. I wasn’t opposed to the first Gulf War, for example, because we had an obligation to protect Kuwait. Many liberals supported the invasion of Afghanistan.

  • Pablo

    So how did you feel about a dozen years of no-fly zone and sanctions while Saddam continued to  slaughter and starve his people? Did we have any obligation there? 

  • PrezOworst

    Obama, Morituri te salutant.

  • Anonymous

    Isn’t it rich? 
    Isn’t it queer? 
    Losing my timing this late in my career. 
    But where are the clowns? 
    There ought to be clowns… 
    Well, maybe next year.

  • Anonymous

    Of course The Cancer in the White House can keep his Nobel.

    In 2013, when he is sent packing back to Illinois with his wife The Moocher, he is going to need something to hang on to other than Jeremiah Wright’s dick.

  • Anonymous

    “But where are the clowns?”

    Joe Biden, for one.

    Broke Insane Obummer, the Chief Cancer in the White House, for seconds.

    And everyone else in his criminal maladministration of thieves and crooks and thugs.

  • Anonymous

    The GOP is holding firm against this phony Obama “Spend More Money We Don’t Have” Bill.

    Obammy and his Doofuses Reid and Pelosi don’t have the votes to pass it. And they know it.

    So don’t worry about it passing, cause it is D-E-A-D.

    And when any liberal tells you how popular this crap may be, show them this:

    According to the AP-GfK poll, Obama’s party has lost the faith of the public on handling the economy. In the new poll, only 38 percent said they trust Democrats to do a better job than Republicans in handling the economy, the first time Democrats have fallen below 40 percent in the poll. Some 43 percent trust the Republicans more.

    http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-20123534/senate-rejects-slimmed-down-obama-jobs-bill/

    Facts, facts, facts. They always make liberals stunned into silence.

  • Anonymous

    What a disgusting and vile subhuman you are.

  • Anonymous

    LOL!!!  Looks like I got to ya.

  • Anonymous

    Tommy… I have no problem understanding that not all liberals are Code Pink psycho anti-war activist. I know many liberals (like my wife) that support the military and military actions if they feel the actions are morally justified. I further understand that the majority of opposition to the Iraq War was based on that “morally justified” position (although there was a very large faction that just hated Bush). My argument in this case is not with “liberals” but the Nobel Prize committee. I feel every action Obama has taken is more than justified. He has shown a foreign policy restraint that I can get behind.
    I just find the Peace Prize being given to a president that has 3 wars and many military actions going on at the same time an interesting juxtaposition. I remember the committees excuse for giving him the award (which was lame) was his “inspiration” he created. But in the end this is supposedly a Peace Prize… right? Do you not see the irony here? You said yourself it’s “un-dovelike”.
    I’m glad he’s doing it. And I think if Bush was doing the same thing (I’m not saying he would) he would not get the + press Obama is getting now. But if it takes a Dem being in the White House to get + press, so be it. I like the actions taken by our govt. and I like seeing the press root for us again.

  • Mia

    Well it would seem to me that if Obama is going to continue to blame Bush for everything that’s wrong – Bush should get some credit for the fortunes that have happened on Obama’s watch – namely Osama Bin Laden’s death.

  • http://www.facebook.com/mitchell.s.gilbert Mitchell S. Gilbert

    Fox Noise is such a joke, that it’s kinda sad that we have to even pay attention to it anymore.  But out of respect for intelligent conservatives like David Brooks, George Will..etc. we should stop identifying it as the “mouthpiece” of the right or the Republican Party.  It’s the mouthpiece for less educated, less sophisticated, very common, more often than not -bigoted Americans who find facts and thinking intrusive variables to the political process.

  • http://www.facebook.com/mitchell.s.gilbert Mitchell S. Gilbert

    Gideon! So glad you have so many thoughtful, intellectual insights to share!  What would such discussion be with a dumb gumba through in his boorish, common, simple two cents?

  • Anonymous

    Let’s not pile on Gideon too hard.  He probably needs a hug or something.   What are the chances of someone who writes the hate addled posts that he does  having happy, functional relations with anyone; having an education past the middle of high school tops, or holding down a decent, moderately well paying job?    I don’t think we need to dump on him more than life probably has already.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    I have to applaud Fox News or finding a panel just as ignorant as the show’s hosts!! I’m sure that was a task that was very hard to achieve!!

  • Yukon Jack

    Not any less “star-studded” than the Democratic field was in 2008. 

    And they managed to pick the most pathetic and least qualified of them all.

  • Yukon Jack

    They lost me when the prize was awarded to Gorbachev, but not Reagan.

  • Yukon Jack

    The idiotic herring-gobblers will award the Nobel Prize to 0bama for literature for “his” autobiography, co-written by Bill Ayers and Saul Alinsky.

    That will be followed by the Nobel Prize for economy, for raising the unemployment rate to 10%. (Just wait!)

    That will be followed by the Nobel Prize for medicine for curing all the world’s ills.

     

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Adam-Hemmer/1061080208 Adam Hemmer

    This place goes way out of it’s way to coddle the numbnuts on Fox Snooze.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SIYF5565LXG7BBKTKGSSFWU7TA The Rock

    I will give Obama credit he is a hawk which I didn’t think he would be and is a terror warrior as well like Bush Obama realwise what Bush was doing fighting war on terror has worked. I give the president an B+ on war on terror still a pretty bad president overall.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4OSK3UQOHK2PPSV7K3KVM422RA Rick

    You’ve got to be kidding right?  You do realize that it’s going to take several years to repair the damage that 3 decades of destroying the middle class so the rich can make more and more cash  And that’s if repairs are even allowed to take place… all we’ve seen from day 1 of the Obama administration is obstructionism from the Right and lessening of his successes.  So real reforms and recovery are not likely gonna happen.

    And just what role did the Bush administration play in the killing of Osama other than attempting to collect data via torture that probably could have been obtained through other means?  According to former FBI Specialist on bin Laden, Ali Soufan.. no!

    “It is pathetic,” he says. “This case is the biggest proof that
    waterboarding and enhanced interrogation techniques did not work at all.
    And I saw it firsthand. It actually delayed the hunt for bin Laden. A
    name of his courier came up in 2002, before Khalid Sheik Muhammad was
    arrested. He knew everything about the guy, and he lied about it! If
    waterboarding worked, KSM would have said the guy’s real name back in
    March 2003.”

    I will give Bush credit for 1 thing when it comes to al Queda..  Bush most likely created more terrorists than all of this predecessors combined with his illegal and immoral war against Iraq.

  • Anonymous

    The neo-cons are so jealous… lol

  • Bob

    Joe Piscopo? Really? As if Victoria Jackson and Ted Nugent weren’t embarrassing enough.
    Is it a requirement that you have to be a completely washed-up has-been to be a panelist on this network?
    FOX News – the place you go when no one else will hire you. 
    Seriously, who’s next? Vanilla Ice? One of the kids from Mr. Belvedere? The New Monkees? 

  • Dflojak

    Just as soon as the left stops blaming bush for Obama’s failed policies. Tit for tat?

  • Anonymous

    I give Obama credit. He has turned out to be one murderous fellow. Here’s to Obama…’One Killer Sonuva Bitch”!

  • Alric_IV

    Actually, that last Democratic field had some pretty big names in it, Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama in particular. 

  • vodkaman

    those are the tough decisions you have to make as president

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