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Bernie Goldberg On CNN Reporter’s ‘Multiple Choice’ Waterboarding Query: I Thought It Was An SNL Sketch

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On Monday night’s edition of The Factor, host Bill O’Reilly spoke with guest Bernie Goldberg tackled President Obama’s reaction when asked about GOP hopefuls’ supportive take on waterboarding, a practice that Obama banned in January of 2009. “Let me just say this,” Obama had responded. “They’re wrong.”

Was CNN’s Dan Lothian, the reporter who had posed that question, essentially and unfairly “baiting” Obama by asking him whether GOP candidates who disagreed with his take on waterboarding as either “uninformed, out of touch, or irresponsible”?

Goldberg’s reaction: Wait, is this a comedy sketch?

RELATED: President Obama Responds To GOP Candidates’ Support For Waterboarding: ‘They’re Wrong’

Well, look. When I first saw this, I thought it was a Saturday Night Live comedy routine. Are you kidding? I mean, a reporter from a major news organization asking if Republicans are “uninformed, out of touch, or irresponsible”? President Obama even looked embarrassed by the question. During that pause, I thought he was going to say, “Hey, man, listen. I know you guys love me — and for good reason you love me — but this is embarrassing.

Goldberg added that he’s yet to see a question as “unvarnished” in its bias as the one Lothian posed to the President, calling it “jaw-droppingly blatant” and “ridiculous.”

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  • Anonymous

    This is what you get when you recruit at the Sharpton-Capehart School of Journalism.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    For once, I agree with Bernie. The question was superfluous.  Demonstrably, Teapublicans are “uninformed, out of touch, AND irresponsible”. Hasn’t the entire purpose of the debates been to show us that?

  • Anonymous

    Robert would be a better reporter that this CNN nitwit.

    Robert to Obama:
         Mr. President, do you realize how wonderful you are?
         Mr. President, how do you get your eyes to sparkle like that in the sun?
         Your Honour, Republicans are full of krap, don’t you agree?

  • yungchii

    Yeah I agree; That was lazy journalism from Dan Lothian. Moreover, Waterboarding has been banned by the Obama admin. Why bring it up again? Nobody cares about the GOP candidates answer to waterboarding. It’s the economy, stupid.

  • Gloves loves Arsehley

    There is no “Robert” you moron.

    This insane rumor about “Robert” or sumthing like that originated after Asshely the Hermaphrodite came to defend his boyfriend Jeff Merrill.

    In a few words, thanks for showing your imbecility for all the world and gNOpigs to see.

  • Anonymous

    u mad bro?

  • Anonymous

    Water-boarding was used extensively by the Nazi thugs known as the Gestapo. This is documented in many 2nd WW books and films and no one who has any level of empathy with the victims could condone this as anything but torture. Republicans who agree with it are birds of a feather with Heinrich Himmler!

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Is Ashley still hanging out at the Koldys’ PHOX Phan Klub, and, if so, under what moniker?

    Jeff Merrill has, of course, taken some breaks from molesting ponies to “grace” us from time-to-time with his patented broken English grunts, but Ashley, I haven’t noticed.

  • Briguy Brn

    The Gestapo also used uniforms, so we should quit using those too.  And cars.  And roads.  And desks, offices, books, films, etc.  Let’s get rid of all those things too!  Anyone who uses those things are the same as Hitler!

  • Anonymous

    Robert replying to himself. Not crazy at all. Totally sane.

  • bd

    I don’t see the problem here, the question is based on Obama’s position.

    The question could have been easily asked in an opposite situation, say, to Dick Cheney being FOR waterboarding and being asked if Democrats are ”uninformed, out of touch, or irresponsible?”.

    It’s based on who is being questioned, not an affirmation of the position of the person being questioned.  Of all the things that could be arguably pointed out as liberal media bias this doesn’t hold up to me.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Robert-Stephenson/663097237 Robert Stephenson

    LOL

  • Anonymous

    Thats brilliant.

    sarcasm

  • Anonymous

    Bernie is a modern day Will Rogers.

  • Anonymous

    These two were better when they sat in the balcony on “The Muppet Show”

  • Gordonbloyershow

    Waterboarding is not torture. Write that down 1,000 times. The people that say it is are idiots and that includes John McCain.

  • Anonymous

    Bernie.  Look sharp.  Feel sharp.  BE sharp!

  • http://brianomalley1776.blogspot.com/ Brian O’Malley

    Few debacles beat the spectacle of the 2003 pre-Iraq invasion press conference in which President George W. Bush took softball questions.  

  • http://brianomalley1776.blogspot.com/ Brian O’Malley

    No, it is pretty easy to distinguish between the things that Japanese and the Germans did that were evil and despicable, and those things which are fairly routine.  One criterion you could use is, did we prosecute the Japanese for wearing uniforms, or did we prosecute them for decapitating prisoners?  Did we prosecute them for using false confessions?  For instance, Captain Chase Jay Nielsen described the techniques one defendant used to get confessions to make false charges.  

    Nielsen testified, “Well, I was put on my back on the floor with my arms and legs stretched out, one guard holding each limb.  The towel was wrapped around my face and water poured on.”

    Testimony of CPT Chase Jay Nielsen, Trial Record, note 1, at 55, United States v. Sawada, 5 Law Reports of Trials of War Criminals 1 (1948), as quoted in Evan Wallach, “Drop by Drop: Forgetting the History of Water Torture in U.S. Courts,” Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, Volume 45 (2007), page 476.

  • http://twitter.com/gadfly666 gadfly666

    Republican propaganda machine of Fox News telling its low IQ Conservative/Republican/Tea Bagger viewers that all media except Fox News is biased.

    *drink*

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeff-Weiss/100000817744695 Jeff Weiss

    Thanks Dr. Himmler. How are those experiments with the Jews coming along?

  • bvicente

    I disagree.  The question was based on the emotion of a presupposed ideology, and thus long since left the arena of objectivity.  

    Journalists stop being journalists when they stop focusing on principles bigger than the people they interview and their ideologies.  This was an ideological chat between two like-minded people.  So would have been your hypothetical chat with Dick Cheney.  

    That you think it’s OK is kind of scary, IMO.

  • Anonymous

    So we hung dozens of Japanese soldiers after WW2, for water boarding American troops, in error?
    Seems some idiots considered it torture back in the good old days.

  • derechista

    Robert  , Dan whatever point well made Donahue…..now let’s put on the gloves

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