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Ed Henry Responds To Obama’s ‘Didn’t Know You Were Spokesperson For Romney’ Joke

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At a joint press conference with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, Fox News’ Ed Henry asked the President to respond to a quote from Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney over recent actions by Iran, to which President Obama replied, “I didn’t know you were the spokesperson for Mitt Romney.”

Minutes later, Megyn Kelly asked Henry for his reaction, and he defended the question, and said the President “decided not to engage with Mitt Romney, instead decided to kind of go after me a little bit.”

Kelly and Henry framed the question as standard procedure at press conferences. Kelly asked, “What do you make of that, Ed? Because, obviously, that happens all the time in these White House q&as, where you quote somebody else, whether it’s a Republican like Boehner or somebody, to the President.”

Henry repeated the theme a bit later, saying to Kelly, “As you noted, in these news conferences it’s pretty typical to quote political opponents, whether it’s John Boehner, whether it’s Mitt Romney. Here’s what they’re saying, what’s your response?”

In the President’s defense, however, it is somewhat unusual for a reporter to quote a political opponent on an unrelated matter. Romney’s quote came froma speech that the candidate made before news of the Iranian plot broke, so the President could be forgiven for thinking there was some editorializing going on, even if that wasn’t the intent.

Henry seems to recognize that distinction, as he explains, “I was trying to put it in the broader context of not just Mitt Romney, but there are a lot of Republicans who charge this president leads from behind. This was an opportunity for him to push back on those critics in the context of Iran.”

Henry’s motives may be pure, but as he’s probably learning, working for Fox makes a big difference in how this White House hears Henry’s questions, if not on how he asks them.

Here’s the clip, from Fox News:


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  • Anonymous

    Fox doesn’t knuckle under to Obama or cover up for him . They treat him fairly , so to Obama , they’re the “enemy”.

    They are not on the Obama team like the others .

  • Anyonomous 1

    Yeah, Obama is used to being addressed as “Dear Leader” before each question from his disciples in the press. Henry should have known better. Hes from Fox, he actually asks tough questions and in the Cult of Obama that is heresy. 

  • Exgoper

    Yeah, right. Just google “Fox attacks Obama” and you’ll get 51 million results.

    Did you have a second hit of Kool-Aid® this morning?

  • Michelle

    Tommy,
    I think these 4 words from your piece pretty much describe you to a T:

    In the President’s defense

  • NDanielson

    Imagine that? Just google “0bama attacks Fox” and get 40,800,000. Wow, one Barry, so many sheep. Drink deep, fool.

  • Anonymous

    It’s not just FNC, or even it’s viewers. He clearly told us that half the country are his enemies.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_A4OJ2F7ADXSD7OMEUUEQDQDZ2Y Dustin Baker

    At least for Ed Henry it must be nice to feel relevant.  He is actually able to challenge the administration at Fox News and people are actually watching and paying attention (unlike at CNN).

  • Exgoper

    Ed Henry could have picked a thousand other people to quote about policy towards Korea. As they like to say on Faux News, isn’t it interesting that he chose Mitt Romney?

  • NDanielson

    Did someone tinkle in your cocoa-puffs this morning?

  • van

    Good lord, this SCOAMF is a touchy little child.  How dare a reporter question his majesty.  What a tool.

  • Roger_Fails

    Finish the quote, Michelle. His point was a good one, which is why you cherry-picked the part that you thought was ominous.

    Just like they do at Faux News!

  • Concerned Citizen

    “Henry’s motives may be pure, but as he’s probably learning, working for Fox makes a big difference in how this White House hears Henry’s questions, if not on how he asks them.” WTF and that is the entire problem right there. This administration is the most partisan, far left that we have ever seen. They all need to go.

  • Limpbaals

    Your boy got told good; deal with it, champ.

  • Exgoper

    Not to quibble with a moron, but if you look at the first couple of pages of each of those searches, you’ll find that the “Obama attacks Fox” search actually picks up quite a few of the “Fox Attacks Obama” entries. The opposite is not true of the other search.

  • Michelle

    I think the joke went over your head.  Not surprising. 

  • van

    Yeah, why didn’t Henry use some idiot fleabagger quote?  Fk you are stupid.

  • Anonymous

    first of all it was disrepectful to ask the president of the US about a second tier candidate comment, in front of another leader from another country. yet this is not the first time ed henry has put his foot in his mouth & it in up his butt

  • Concerned Citizen

    Wasn’t Iran supposed to be our friend once Obama was president. And didn’t Obama say he was going to sit down and have a chat with Ahmadinutjob. This seems like a perfect opportunity for Obama to do that and show his sheer awesomeness at persuading  Ahmadinutjob to put down his terrorist ways.

  • PrezOworst

    a liberalDan   see how many hits for MSNBC kissing O’azz…via lies of omission and distortion.

  • Jon-Balto.

    The question was fine its not like the President is even doing any kind work other then campaigning. Why make such a big deal of this Tommy? Your this websites white house correspondent and liberal columnist. Your just as biased as anyone at Fox. This just makes you look like a whining loser.

  • Anonymous

    Oh poor Ed takes himself too seriously even after having completely misunderstood the topic and the purpose of the present press conference!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_57BJSLL54M5XSKW6575EO5TNYE Pablo

    Let’s just throw the Fox News thing out the window – what’s this, the third time he’s felt slighted and gotten press on this website?  Throw the politics out, he’s just plain being flat out arrogant.  Reporters report…they aren’t the story….

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Brian-Skinner/100000598231323 Brian Skinner

    google “Obama is a big spender” and get 4 trillion hits.    Google “Obama is a weak president” and get 45 quadrillon hits.

  • Anonymous

    Respect is earned not given…obama in his quest to destroy our country has 0 respect coming.

  • NDanielson

    One Barry, so many sheeeeeeep. LOL.

  • Anonymous

    I couldn’t help from laughing when I saw obama’s face….Ed must have forgotten to kiss his ring, p ! ssed obama off….hilarious!!!

  • Exgoper

    Insult me if you like, but the question remains.

  • Roger_Fails

    You ARE the joke Michelle. Believe me, it didn’t go over my head.

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

    Yes, answering questions with jokes is a good thing for a president to do. Yep, instead of answering just use fallacious arguments to sidestep the question.

    Obama is my hero in the debate tactics of the left. He is so good at it.

    Didn’t he teach a class in these tactics? Yes, I think he did. Where was that? Oh yeah, the MSM trotted out a photo of Obama teaching and FORGOT to look at the blackboard. He was teaching Alinsky models for Rules for Radicals! What a bunch of MAROONS!

    http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/227500/alinsky-administration/jim-geraghty

  • widdlebabydanielson

    its not like the President is even doing any kind work

    oTHER THAN TAKIN OUT THE BAD GUYS

    Pakistan: Haqqani ‘Coordinator’ Jalil Reportedly Killed In Drone Strike

    step aside regressives
    let the President take out the bad guys

  • Jon-Balto.

    You really believe the President made the call on that? Your not to up on how the military works when it comes to drone strikes are you.

  • Cecelia

    “Henry’s motives may be pure, but as he’s probably learning, working for Fox makes a big difference in how this White House hears Henry’s questions, if not on how he asks them.”

    It doesn’t occur to you  that whether it’s a future administration or another network, this could well be how any White House might try to finesse a question, especially if the media is sanguine about it.

    Isn’t this the same sort of deflection that Dan Rather says that Bush, Sr. did to him after Rather asked Bush a tough question?

  • mmars

    Ed Henry must be on to something and the White House is afraid it will be exposed

  • TruDat

    He prefers it that way.

  • Funny stuff

    Tommy is the liberal columnists on this website and the White House correspondent. For him to make a big deal about this is funny stuff.

  • Tex45

    Henry is smart enough to know what he signed on for by joining Fox. It seems he opted for likely more money over journalistic integrity.

  • Norbit

    What did the Sniping, Snarky, Petulant President say now?

    What’s the matter, he thought FOX turned into the rest of his fawning media advocates for the momemt?

  • Texan

    Thin skinned pos. Period.

  • Onne

    By the way, what ever happened to the bald gay guy who used to ask the GOP/FOX questions during the Bush years and was exposed as a fraud?

  • Lizton

    I’m sure Ed Henry gets an email from Roger Ailes in the morning as to the questions/talking points for the day just like all the anchors on Fox do.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Awww… poor little Ed Henry got his feelings hurt!! How sad!! Maybe if Ed acted like a professional reporter, this would have never happened!! Though, if Ed acted like a professional reporter, he would have never been hired by Fox News in the first place!! Lol!!

  • van

    The question remains who should he quote?  Some dirty fleabagger like you?  Is it ok to quote Boehner?  Anyone who might question the SCOAMF?  Only with the idiot thin-skinned SCOAMF of a president we have now is it unacceptable to question policy or ask about opposition to that policy.  

  • TruDat

    Someone likes them some exclamation points!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • TruDat

    You are d-e-e-p.

  • Texan

    You’re the joke, patsy.

  • Lizton

    You are d-u-m-b.

  • Tex45

    Another substance free post from one of the stupidest people on the internet.

  • TruDat

    Quit tooting your own horn, libby loon.

  • Anonymous

    Someone tell Ed Henry that when you choose to work for a “news” network that provides more air time to it’s one-sided conservative oPINion HEADs than to unbiased news, some of your questions will fall under that one-sided guise. 

    More importantly, quit crying Ed Henry, it was a joke/jab and pretty spot on when a question is asked about a totally different topic (taxes vs. Iran). I thought Ed Henry was used to tough Q&As??

  • TruDat

    Does you neighborhood experience brown outs when you watch the Rachel Maddow show??  Or do you have a battery operated one?

  • Anonymous

    Ed Henry’s always been a right wing hack and his question was completely out of line.. it only proves his political bias in reporting, his attempt to support magic-underwear-man Romney as if he is the candidate in waiting and the next potential president.

    phuck this prick as a reporter
    phuck flip flop lying mormon cult member Mittens
    phuck fox the fake news wholey owned and operated right wing propagandist channel

  • Tucsonense

    You have it wrong. Obama is the ENEMY to Fox. Just ask Mitch McConnell. This great LEADER in the Senate has one purpose this term. To make Obama a one term president……Thanks Mitch. Nothing like doing the job you were sent to do.

  • Anonymous

    I used to like Henry but now he seems like he is whinning all the time. Maybe he can ask Coulter for her balls.

  • http://profiles.google.com/beautysleep123 Anita Piece

    Because everyone knows it’s the media’s job to support the president in thought, word and deed.  Never, ever say anything that makes him uncomfortable, especially if his poll numbers are low.  The press’s job is to make the president look good and to attack and question his opponents…..as long as that president’s a Democrat.

    The other networks pretty much always cooperate.  Why doesn’t Fox?  It’s enough to make a president get a little snippy.  Especially President Glass Jaw.  LOL!

  • http://profiles.google.com/beautysleep123 Anita Piece

    Yeah, when we’re coming up on a presidential election, it’s just a real head-scratcher when a reporter chooses to quote the most-likely nominee of the other major party.  Sheesh.  What were they thinking.  A REAL reporter would have quoted someone like Pelosi Galore.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KSH52GTU7ATNOTCD52RAL3P6XA Jon

    Well, if we’re going to have 60s nostalgia protests around Zuchotti Park, why not have Ed and Barack do their best early 70s impersonations of the Dan Rather-Richard Nixon press conferences?

  • http://profiles.google.com/beautysleep123 Anita Piece

    F_ck yeah!  Drones are the way to go. For a Democrat.  When a Republican president does this it’s terrorism.  And when you hit the bad guys with a drone, you don’t have to deal with the niceties of interrogation and imprisonment imposed on us (and only us) by the left.  Wham, bam, thank you, ma’m.  And collateral damage is gravy.

    But if a Republican does this — well, see Bush, George W.

    It’s good to be a Democrat president – you have so many more options: and look, no anti-war rallies.  Makes you think that the peaceniks don’t care about peace so much as they say.  LOL

  • http://profiles.google.com/beautysleep123 Anita Piece

    Whiny little b-tch too.

  • http://twitter.com/runforfun54 Ilene K

    Oh of course they do .. .they lie about his plan, they don’t talk abt how every economist wants the Jobs bill, they don’t talk about the poll that shows US OVERWHELMINGLY support this Jobs Bill, how Fox has a “Judge” who continually lies and defames the president — where’s the outrage over Tea Party Darling Joe Walsh being a DEADBEAT DAD. Family Values? LMAO.  Wasn’t Fox beating the drums to out Cong. Weiner for doing something stupid, when this a-hole is engaging in illegal behavior>  Scary that you have 18 ppl “liking” your comment – but then I shouldn’t be surprised … all Faux News and its followers do is listen to what they are fed with ZERO facts to back anything up. Waaaaaaaaahhhhh. Get a ticket on the reality bus.  Still haven’t seen a story about how Cain’s 999 plan will run up over $1 trillion in debt and will unfairly tax the poor and turn a lot of what the fed govt pays for over to local governments — where will that money come from? Oh gee, increased TAXES! Wake up you idiots and stop believing Rupert and the Koch Brothers.

  • BR

    Obama is nothing but a punk

  • http://twitter.com/runforfun54 Ilene K

    He knows that Faux’ viewers would never support him anyway .. not sure where you saw that “half the country” are his “enemies.” Nor do I believe he ever used the word “enemy.” Typical Fox tactics, take whatever was said and spin it.  

    And for the record, he doesn’t need the support of ignoramuses who don’t know the difference between its and it’s. It’s = IT IS. Its = possessive.  Thanks for confirming what I’ve already known — that Tea Baggers really are low class and uneducated.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    that was pretty forward thinking by the president’s speech writers to load “didn’t know you were a spokesperson for romney” into his teleprompter…

  • http://twitter.com/runforfun54 Ilene K

    Somehow the right feels it has the right to treat our mistreat and disrespect the President of the United States (Bill O’Reilly at the White House, Judge Napolitano any day of the week), but Ed Henry can’t take a little heat? Get the f over it. wwwwaaaaah, the president’s not nice to me.

  • http://twitter.com/runforfun54 Ilene K

    Yeah, that made a lot of sense.

  • Anonymous

    you people have no respect for the office of the presidency .. yes he does derserve respect.. if if you do not like him that’s your perogative.. it sounds cute when you hiding bwehind a computer

  • Anonymous

    What a cry baby. Voice starting to crack a bit. 

  • Exgoper

    Very convincing. It’s almost like he doesn’t rely on a teleprompter as we’re constantly told he is.

  • Exgoper

    Maybe not the whole internet, but certainly here at Mediaite.

    And, BTW, Trudat doesn’t believe that “stupidest” is a word, in spite of what a standard dictionary says.  But then he has a penchant for ignoring the truth.

  • Exgoper

    “A REAL reporter would have quoted someone like Pelosi”

    You mean someone with actual authority? Yeah, kinda.

  • Exgoper

    How about someone with actual authority? How about someone who’s actually charged with foreign policy matters? How about someone who’s a specialist on Korea affairs? You’ve yet to make a case for why Romney is the go-to guy for a question on this matter. And same with Henry.

  • Roger_Fails

    Better a joke than an a–hole and a joke. 

  • Exgoper

    I’ll bet that when Fox was Bush’s lapdog, you didn’t make a peep. 

  • NeverWrong

    I’m sorry but, to a lot of us who actually voted for The oBUMbler, because we thought he’d work hard towards bringing America together have been so disappointed in this lame duck who has actually turned into a real, royal a**hole. The damn guy has spent his entire time in ‘OUR’ White House blaming everyone else for his failures and arrogantly taking credit if something went right. We need an ADULT President and not some spoiled brat. Bye-bye Mr. oBUMmer!!!

  • koolmoedee

    Ed Henry is a TOOL !!!

  • Cianook

    very creepy, very cultish!

    the lds has mobilized its followers to carry water for mitt the mormon and fox! in treturn fox has joined the cult of lds/romney!

    Real Christian Conservatives will NOT carry the lds/romney water.

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

    Will that be the full extent of your rebuttal?

  • Cianook

    very creepy, very cultish!

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

    You have the GOP 12 months away from facing the WORST PRESIDENT OF ALL TIME and you can’t even find anyone you are willing to run with for more than 12 minutes.

    What is your argument going to be against the President?

    He kept us unsafe? Wrong.

    He gave us the beginnigs of national health care? Great!

    He made the economy worse? No, he is making it better.

    He wasn’t born in this country? Hahahaha….

    He hates America? Right, that is only good for AM radio.

    Rev. Wright? That dog don’t hunt.

  • Obeezy

    Sorta like you guys and Sara Palin huh… Oh the irony of it all…

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

    “In Texas, we call it walking.”

  • Anonymous

    Obama should be ashamed of himself.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PD5D3ZMY7N367OWXRDTUXABEHI Paul

    I didn’t know Obama was the spokesperson for big business until I watched this
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_CTNSAc_IU

  • Anonymous

    Barry Soetoro acted like a snotty 12-year old who was spoiled rotten by his Marxist mammy and grammy.

  • Anonymous

    LoL   Leadership in foreign policy fatboy ?  If bin Laden and al Zarqawi were alive today they’d beg to differ.

  • Anonymous

    I bet bin Laden and al Zarqawi said the same thing.

  • Michelle

    Speaking of low class and uneducated, how are you today, Ilene!

  • Fudge441

    Henry is a tool and nothing more.

  • Anonymous

    Tommy celebrates Obama, again.

    Yawn.

    Do you ever criticize him for his childish behavior?  Must you always defend him no matter what?

    Obama is a manchild and you media lefties love it.

    Shameless.

  • MIKE

    More like a “Debbie Downer” When is the last time Obama has given a speech or a press conference in which he doesn’t belilttle an individual or a group of people? Whether he’s bashing Ryan, Republicans, Great Britain, middle America with his guns and religion statements or past administrations. He never goes out there and builds up confidence in this country. When he was on CNN and told Blitzer he was more worried about a domestic attack from an American versus another attack from 9/11 terrorists it finally hit me that he’s a POS and I would vote for a cockroach before I’d vote for him again  

  • http://hotair.com/ StewartIII
  • http://www.timetogobama.com/ TIMETOGObama

    Respect is earned not given. When Obama starts acting like a man worthy of the office instead of a petulant child he will be given his due.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    it’s my constitutional right to be constantly informed of obama’s teleprompter dependence…

    http://www.theonion.com/video/obamas-home-teleprompter-malfunctions-during-famil,14383/

  • Lallen422

    But George. W. Gets no glory because his approach failed.

  • Lallen422

    But George. W. Gets no glory because his approach failed.

  • Lallen422

    I am sure Obama will lose sleep over Mr. Henry and you

  • Lallen422

    Reporter can ask, but that doesn’t mean the President has to answer him. Sucks to be Ed Henry.

  • http://www.timetogobama.com/ TIMETOGObama

    I doubt he cares about me one bit since he will not be getting my vote. The fact is he only cares about you (temporarily) because he can count on yours. 

    The people he should lose sleep over are the 2.6 million more people that slipped into poverty last year. I am sure you are already doubting this statistic, so here it is from a source I am sure you trust.http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/14/us/14census.html?pagewanted=all

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KSH52GTU7ATNOTCD52RAL3P6XA Jon

    You understood it, or you wouldn’t have snarkily replied.

  • http://profiles.google.com/mastermike14 Mike Mesicek

    right, just like when the media was so critical of Bush after 9/11. Oh wait, no. Bush poured the Kool-Aid and the media drank the kool-aid. What was left of journalistic integrity died after 9/11. All those stories were heard from the media about iraq having wmds, about iraq’s terror connections, oh they were all made up! Stupid NeoCons always fail history.

  • http://profiles.google.com/mastermike14 Mike Mesicek

    No you’re the joke, Texan. Hows that low education and health care standards treating you?

  • Lallen422

    Uh, okay, the last time I checked the President was trying Roget a JOBS bill passed, while the Repubs are passing the “let women die” bill. Where are their priorities?

  • Lallen422

    Uh, okay, the last time I checked the President was trying Roget a JOBS bill passed, while the Repubs are passing the “let women die” bill. Where are their priorities?

  • Anonymous

    So Mediaite thinks Obama’s response was a joke? Wow! I would call it a rather chip on the shoulder over sensitive childish response, not a joke. I guess when your purpose in writing news is promoting your Messiah, this is your typical response. Amazing.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

    how many MSNBC attacks bush?

  • cdnhawk

    Sounds like Ilene has more class and education than you do Michelle.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Obama has always feared FOX News channel!!!!!!!!! He is a wussy boy!!!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZPDZNER2Y2XSY6YLNTGVMQPXDM pattyj

    Poor Ed Henry, how far down can you go first to Faux then you ask the President about a remark that Mitt Romney made no wonder you got that response. Trust me only legitimate news organizations deserve respect and Faux is definitely not legitimate

  • http://www.timetogobama.com/ TIMETOGObama

    It appears you are not able to think for yourself and instead go around regurgitating Pelosi’s nonsensical ramblings. Do you know anything about the bill she was referring to? I’ll wait while you open up Google and search for a result that matches your ideology.

    Ask yourself this, if jobs were so important to Obama why did he wait for the campaign cycle to begin to introduce legislature? The only job he cares about is his own. Thankfully more and more people are realizing that Obama is no leader and not capable of running this country. Too bad it took them 3 years to do so.

    Learn to think (and do) for yourself instead of counting on others. You will be much happier.

  • Anonymous

    Could we actually get someone in the office that doesn’t sound like a petulant young teenager?

  • Anonymous

    I’m not trying to be cute…I would love to say this to his face. obama deserves NO RESPECT…What respect has he given to our country or her people? None, he has gone all over the world telling every foreigner how bad we are, as he promises them billions more of our taxpayer dollars!  And who exactly is “you people”? You mean those of us that have been involved for decades? patriotic Americans fearful of the future of our children & grandchildren?  You drink too much kool-aid.  “you people” that worship at his feet are the worse kind of Americans!

  • Anonymous

    I’m not trying to be cute…I would love to say this to his face. obama deserves NO RESPECT…What respect has he given to our country or her people? None, he has gone all over the world telling every foreigner how bad we are, as he promises them billions more of our taxpayer dollars!  And who exactly is “you people”? You mean those of us that have been involved for decades? patriotic Americans fearful of the future of our children & grandchildren?  You drink too much kool-aid.  “you people” that worship at his feet are the worse kind of Americans!

  • Anonymous

    i laughed at those words too.  TC could open every article on Obama that way.   That’s why she got so many ‘likes’… 

    TC doesn’t hide his bias, no need to be defensive.   

  • Anonymous

    I noticed that Pres. Obama seemed able to quickly attack the republicans, yet hold moderate words for the Iranians.

    That’s exactly why he’s lost independents. 

  • Anonymous

    “Not to quibble with a moron, but…”

    I hope you don’t mind if I borrow that one.

  • Anonymous

    Little baby Ed can’t handle a little joke, huh?  Must have hit a little too close to home.

    Crank up the outrage machine!

  • Anonymous

    Why does FOX News hate America so? Why are their reporters so unAmerican and disrespectful of the office of the President?

  • http://ifthethunderdontgetya.blogspot.com/ ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©

    What would a dittobot like yourself know about independents?
    ~

  • Anonymous

    LOL.  Yes, they TOTALLY treat him fairly by accusing him of being a terrorist when he fist-bumps his wife.

    That was so fair I had to laugh.

  • Anonymous

    Why are you people thinking that Googling a phrase is proof of something?  Fox News is NOT a news organization and they are the least fair or balanced among any of the cable news outlets.  Just accept it.  There’s a huge difference between being critical of the president where it’s warranted and making suggestions that he’s a terrorist, which Fox has done.  They continue to make spurious and hyperbolic claims to this day and will never stop.  So stop sticking up for them.  No sane liberal will ever make the case that the talkers on MSNBC are anything other than liberal commentary.  If you have convinced yourself that Fox is a news channel, you need psychological help and a repeat of the 7th grade.

  • Anonymous

    LOL.  Yeah, he got told, alright.

  • Anonymous

    Provide a link to Obama being called “Dear Leader” by a single press member.

  • Anonymous

    Seriously, go ahead.  We’ll wait.

  • http://www.facebook.com/SamVanZandtKBAY Sam Van Zandt

    An American President should never have to endure the kind of rude questions Obama routinely does. Never should a reporter refer to a campaign-stop slam and question the President’s ability to be a strong leader in front of a foreign leader. It’s a matter of courtesy and respect, for both leaders. And since when is it OK to “diss” a President like this? O – since Obama.

  • Mister Oh

    Leadership is a quality of UNDERSTANDING the issue first. You will NEVER get the desire/thought to LEAD someone somewhere to drink if you first don’t UNDERSTAND that they are THIRSTY.

    Fox News, Conservatives, Tea, NeoCons, etc. all talk of a lack of leadership from President Obama.
    They fail to comprehend President Obama continual identification of the issue at at hand and his ability to understand the issue in a complex way.
    The Republican Presidential candidates (like only-on-the-job-65%-of-the-time-President Bush) lack understanding of the complexity of the situation, therefore the only answers they will ever offer are simple ones. Take Cain’s “9-9-9″ plan for instance. Simple and plain solution, right? Sure! But only if the problem was simple – which it has never been.

    President Obama is one of the USA’s greatest legal minds, able to comprehend complex issues, compile and present them in a succinct manner. He’s a national treasure. Unfortunately, like corporations, those who have no national loyalty have no understanding of what value a national treasure is.     

  • jimdav2002

    A pity the name “FOX NARRATIVES” just wouldn’t sell nearly as well down-market.

    If he wants more respect, maybe Henry could try working for a media
    company with “NEWS” as part of its name that didn’t spend a fortune
    going to court to openly sue for (& win) their right to knowingly
    lie to their audience.

    Nice of them to omit any of President Obama’s actual answer in this
    segment by cutting him off, exactly like Bill O’Reilly cut mics off at
    will whenever any inconvenient reality threatened to ruin his fun back in his
    heyday.

  • Anonymous

    If he has such a brillant legal mind then why does obama and his administration constantly thwart the Constitution?  Hatred of America & Americans?

  • Anonymous

    Anyone else notice most of his gray is gone?  Must have dyed his hair for the big party with the Koreans!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QD6TWNN5M2OC3PZKSV3X2XZV5M Rueben Scott

    Ed got the response he deserved.Poor thing!

  • Anonymous

    Ilene, Ilene, Ilene. You come on here every day and repeatedly prove how ignorant you are. You could have saved yourself from looking so foolish if you had just researched the issue. Since you’re apparently too stupid to use Google, I provided a link for you:

    http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/11/01/us-usa-elections-obama-idUSTRE69929420101101

    Now, put your dunce cap on and go sit in the corner you nitwit.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Charles-Richardson/100002390594799 Charles Richardson

    “ chip on the shoulder ”

    Dog whistle alert!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Charles-Richardson/100002390594799 Charles Richardson

    You refer to him as “Barry Soetoro” and then you say HE is the 12 year old?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Charles-Richardson/100002390594799 Charles Richardson

    Delusions of grandeur.

  • Mister Oh

    The only reason you would think the Obama Administration constantly thwarts the Constitution is because YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IS STATED IN THE CONSTITUTION TO KNOW WHEN AND IF SOMEONE IS THWARTING IT. 

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