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The Five Asks If President Obama Has An ‘Enemies List’

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Does President Obama have an “enemies list”? That’s the provocative allegation put forth by Ted Olson in the Wall Street Journal. Olson is a former member of the Bush Administration as well as representative of the Koch Brothers who just so happen to be the only real people Olson thinks is on this supposed list. So, does the list exist? That’s what The Five asked in the top segment today. What was the answer? Well, since the Koch Brothers were mentioned, I’m going to take a wild guess that the conversation will be instantly derailed and we’ll never get an answer. Lets see what happens.

  • Andrea Tantaros brings up Olson’s column and asks Bob Beckel if he thinks there’s a list.
  • Beckel just says that Obama should have a list and begins talking about unrelated allegations that the Koch Brothers did deals with Iran.
  • At the very mention of these allegations, the panel explodes and Eric Bolling begins listing other allegations about the heretofore-mentioned-by-no-one George Soros for some reason.
  • Everyone begins comparing Soros and the Koch Brothers.
  • Dana Perino argues that President Bush would totally never have attacked Media Matters the way Obama attacks the KochBrothers.
  • Tantaros agrees and complains that Obama has a bad “you’re either with me or against me” attitude which is obviously very different from Bush.

At the five and a half minute point, Greg Gutfeld finally pointed out that, no, Obama probably doesn’t have an enemies list.

Man, everyone always complains that billionaires like the Koch’s and Soros corrupt conversations with their money and influence, but no one ever talks about how they corrupt conversations by just getting mentioned.

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  • Anonymous

    Andrea Tantaros is only there so that FOX News’ senior men audience can make sure their Viagra prescription works. Legs, legs….. oh and her “knowledge”. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ERDSZOOPOITNDF3GS45TPSRZP4 Jeff

    Thin skinned Obama strikes again!

  • Anonymous

    Of course he has an enemy list, the Constitution is at the top of it!! Fox News and anyone opposed to Socialism are a close second!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-culture-Reasoned-America/100001284363960 Politics-culture Reasoned Amer

    He’s a Marxist Junta Leader wanna-be!
    Why would anyone thing he DOESN’T have an enemies list?

    The problem is that list includes all the Republicans and Independents that have evolved past the neanderthal thinking of today’s Democratic Party, and der Leader!

    An even bigger problem for Democrats is the verity that “You can’t fool EVOLUTION!”

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-culture-Reasoned-America/100001284363960 Politics-culture Reasoned Amer

    “I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine!”

  • Anonymous

    Can I Be Third ??

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_C7RM2CCQUO4VVC56BAXMWCYYKQ Samsohn

    The demonization of the Koch’s is ALL Fox’s fault…they throw mud at Soros for 2 years, and then the natural reaction is that the other side finds the worst representatives of the right, which is the Kock’s and then Fox complains about their tactics being thrown right back at them?!?!?! TYPICAL Right wing victim syndrom!! Hilarious

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Obama does not have a list, but here are the top 5 trying to get him:

    1. Fox News

    2. Mitch McConnell

    3. John Boehner

    4. Republican Presidential nominees

    5. The Tea Party

  • http://twitter.com/Socoral Tom Green

    What an absolute dud of an article.  I was expect that out of Coast to Coast A.M., not a supposedly respected news paper.

    Obama has an ememies list, it included names such as Osama Bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki.

  • Anonymous

    Right.  The first year or so under the inept Anita Dunn Fox News was an official enemy of the White House.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-culture-Reasoned-America/100001284363960 Politics-culture Reasoned Amer

    Soros is a convicted felon for massive FINANCIAL FRAUD!

    He’s hurt the working class by devaluing currencies, and implementing a Marxist-like vitiation of thriving economies.

    The Koch brothers are nothing, character-wise, like the Left’s Sugar Daddy is!

  • Anonymous

    Coast to Coast rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Gloves Tweed Donahue

    The Enemies List Czar keeps it in his office and it’s wheeled in on a dolly every day for Obama to update.
    Between video games and golf and the List, Obama puts in a full day !

  • Anonymous

    I totally endorse your list.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08S4poMGvwA George Clueless Clooney

    Fox News was at the top of Obama’s Enemies List before he even took office.
    That was common knowledge.

  • Anonymous

    I agree.
    Nobody hates our Constitution more than Obama. His hatred of America comes through more and more each day. I heard he goes through the Constitution every day and decides what part of this sacred document he’s going to try to overturn. Good luck, though. Republicans and other great Americans would have none of that. Just wait until 2012.

  • Anonymous

    Well…at least they said enemies list instead of ‘blacklist’.

    http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m70/hugh_jardohn/Heimlich0bama.jpg

  • WiddleBabyDanielson
  • Anonymous

    Gotta’ Love The Leg Chairs !!!

    MSNBC can’t have leg chairs…who would sit in them ?  Maddow ?  Andrea Mitchell ?

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    The Koch Brothers should be tried for treason!!

    The profits from dealing with the Koch Brothers is probably used for weapons by Iran to kill our soldiers!!

  • Anonymous

    these people and the kochs a giant pile of dog doo!

  • Anonymous

    The utter garbage coming from the steaming pile of hate that is Rupert Murdoch’s vast media empire never fails to astound and disgust. To make the connection between the horrible activities bankrolled by the billionaire Kochs and insinuate that they must be on some sort of fabricated ”enemies list” of President Obama’s is offensive and the very height of anti-American poison. It is conservative terrorists like the Kochs that are destroying this country, enabled by media allies like Faux News.  www.sunstateactivist.org

  • Anonymous

    For the love of God take Gutfeld to his appropriate audience in a Sesame Street segment and get him out of this panel and out of my news TV daily watching experience

  • http://twitter.com/SwampTroll Elias Schewel

    I have heard the same thing, and I think that you are abolutely right.  He even has a special pen with a picture of Karl Marx, and when he goes through the Constitution every morning deciding which part he wants to destroy he outlines that in red ink.  You who else liked red ink?  Jeffrey Dahmer.  Two points make a line.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Linky-dink?

  • http://twitter.com/SwampTroll Elias Schewel

    I think you’re making an excellent argument for a third party here.  If Democrats can’t fool evolution, and so their stupidity will wipe them out, and Republicans don’t even believe in evolution, doesn’t that mean we need a third party?

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, that’s absolutely TRUE – I even heard he has a permanent marker with a picture of  Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and does the same thing with the BIBLE! 
    Just wait until 2012 … oh wait…what?

  • Anonymous

     NewsCorp has what it wanted, a partisan attack paper engaging in partisan hit pieces.

    Faux self promotion of sister media is nothing more than save the companies bacon work, I remember that garbage a little over a year ago when one of their on air CONTRIBUTORS tried to plant the Idea that the Post and the Journal were two great UN-related papers who were both working to expose Obama for what he was and how sad it was other papers were not doing their job and supporting the work of those papers by refusing to investigate and report on the evils of democrats and the Obama administration.

    You know what? I really think that it would be a very good Idea for the government to investigate BOTH Soros and the Koch Brothers, just to be fair and balanced, and see what they turn up that can be prosecuted. That way conservaligious rethuglicans cant complain it was a witch hunt targeting only the brothers. That way when the brothers are being hauled off to jail (with a considerable number of their elected minions wailing about the unfairness of it all) it can be clearly and honestly said we investigated your boogie man and our boogie man and only two of the three were found to be guilty and that is what justice is all about….punishing the corrupt and the guilty.

  • Anonymous

    But EVOLUTION did fool you! Sorry pal.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

     Don’t hold your breath.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

     To who?

  • Hout Bosques

    “demonization of the Koch’s is ALL Fox’s fault” 
    Bull shit. The Kochies are megalomaniacs all on their own. Check out their family history – it DERIVES from Dear Old Dad being a winger propagandist.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-culture-Reasoned-America/100001284363960 Politics-culture Reasoned Amer

    This is satire, right?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-culture-Reasoned-America/100001284363960 Politics-culture Reasoned Amer

    The Infinity Party.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-culture-Reasoned-America/100001284363960 Politics-culture Reasoned Amer

    Google?

  • Anonymous

     NOW you think evolution is valid???? Well your going on Pat Robertsons list and the entire conservative establishment is going to light their torches and sharpen the pitch forks AND YOU WILL RUE THE DAY DAY YOU DARED TO SAY THE WORD EVOLUTION. Prince Charmings mother Phyllis Schlafly is going to loose her squadrons of eagles to carry you off to the wicked witch of the west’s Orly Taitz’s castle for execution.

  • Anonymous

     UHHHHH maybe you didnt get that you are in the close second group.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Considering the vast number of folks who consider our President an enemy (predating even his elevation to the post) and who are willing to commit every type of fraud and broad harm in the hopes of causing him collateral harm it would be the height of negligence to not 1: list those dedicated to inflicting damage 2: categorize and rank those folks so as to prioritize an effective response. That having been said, President Obama is no Nixon.

  • Hout Bosques

    “Soros is a convicted felon for massive FINANCIAL FRAUD!”

    That’s crap. Soros went to each of the heads of the finance ministries of the U.K. & France & explained to each in the plainest of terms what they were doing wrong in terms of fixing an environment for perfectly legal currency manipulation, and both of them blew him off. He then proceeded to prove his point – & then he told the world what he’d done. The French government went nuts over their stupidity being exposed & proceeded to activate their “guilty of something until proven innocent of everything” system, to which Soros was under no legal or moral obligation to submit. So the French government did what it always does when shown up – with nothing stopping them in their own delusionary little world, they proceeded to draw false & nonsensical inferences to justify convicting Soros of something we here would regard as a regulatory offense (itself not justified on the known facts). It was typical snottiness by a franco-centric top-to-bottom cradle-to-grave elitist-propping corrupt regime & it’s completely deserving of Soros’ – and our own – contempt.  

    Soros has written about this bull shit extensively & multiple times, and the French government has NEVER refuted his version, or even acted to take even a single step to enforce its petulant “conviction”. 

  • Anonymous

     Well that explains why your face is always swollen and bruised looking.

  • Hout Bosques

    “I heard” 
    Yeah, and I heard about a bunch of pink unicorns being driven to slaughter in Nebraska or Oklahoma or somewhere. 

    “I heard” 

    Get out of middle school, you idiot – 15 years is more than long enough.

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  • Anonymous

    Nope it is the only way that the sane republicans will accept the fact that one of the three is a patriotic citizen and the others will be costing tax payers some money in the prison budget, which we will gratefully pay if it is to keep those toads and their supporters behind bars and out of politics, then conservatives will wish they hadn’t destroyed campaign finance reform.

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

    No but conservatives will fall over each other to position themselves as “enemies” so they can whine about an ‘enemies list’.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    If I were to charge you, Norbit, with a crime… Let us say involentary manslaughter… And you were to request the evidence in support of my charge… And I were to respond with “investigation” then you would/ should laugh and consider me either a fool or a scoundrel.

    Let’s try again. Link?

  • Pablo
  • Pablo

    You’re comparing Ted Olson to Art Bell or George Nouri? Wow.

  • Pablo

     Derangement.

  • Anonymous

     Oh great as if we didnt have a party already caught in an endless loop of crazy as the extremist wing of the republican party you want to add another to that Gordian Knot  of endless stupidity? more of the cannibals feeding on their own.

    Do it please and we can film it and make a fortune off of the cannibal republicans vs crazy republican zombies vs rabid conservative herd animals movie.

  • http://evilbloggerlady.blogspot.com/ Evi L. Bloggerlady
  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Your link is not evidence that Soros is a “convicted felon for massive FINANCIAL FRAUD”.  He was fined for investment in a privatization scheme after being found innocent of wrongdoing by French exchange regulators.  

  • Anonymous

     Good satire post. Love it!

  • Anonymous

    Bush didn’t have a list because the entire country would have been on it. Everyone hated the guy!

  • Anonymous

    I thought he was a great president. At least he was an honorable man.

  • Anonymous

    The Koch brothers are being vilified by the leftist nut jobs to distract the country from the truly evil George Soros!

  • Anonymous

    To anyone who listened to his speeches. You probably didn’t hear what he said, because you fainted.

  • Anonymous

    You must travel in democrat circles.

  • Anonymous

    For MSNBC’s audience, it would probably be Ed Schultz, in short shorts.

  • Anonymous

    so honorable he lied us into war and lied to the f.b.i. about wiretapping American citizens.

    LOL FOXNEWS

  • Anonymous

    He bankrupted this country with 2 wars. At least Obama’s rampant spending was on America.

  • AliveStillKickin

    Sex for Checks?

  • http://www.facebook.com/ecoggeshall Ethan Coggeshall

    Yeah, Ol’ Soros is a real saint isn’t he?

  • Jardino

    The pentagram is used in Satanic rituals. It has FIVE sides. There are FIVE texts in the Book of Revelation. The number FIVE is often associated with death in the Bible.

    http://dentonpbc.org/Number5.htm

  • Anonymous

    A bunch of cretinoid imbeciles. Who would watch this raw sewage?

  • Anonymous

     A few of those are in my enemies list also

  • AMP2020

    Conservatives with brains will have to come to realize this is an epic fail of a label on oBama. The guy just doesn’t lend his natural disposition to come across as thin-skinned. In fact, nearly everyone at Fox and MSNBC come across as INSANELY thin skinned. Pot calling the kettle…

  • Anonymous

    There is no evidence that he lied about Iraq. Certainly no evidence like e-mails that prove Eric holder lied to congress. Bush doesn’t even have to use the excuse of intent, like Holder.

  • Anonymous

    What about the WMDs that were no where to be found or the links to AL-Qeada that were non-existent as well?

    I remember watching W. speak to the American people stating/promising us that Iraq had in fact WMDs, which were never found and that Iraq had links to Al-Qaeda that was proven false. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, the real cause for the invasion of Iraq. Instead it was just a unjustified war, costing thousands of American lives.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_34VQ3NDNOFFUF6R7ALXY6O33S4 Cal

    He was a horrible president and far from honorable.

  • bsorin1

    No, the President does not have an enemies list. That is a Republican invention with credit going to Richard Nixon and Lee Atwater.

  • Pablo

     No, he was convicted by the French of insider trading. English much?

    The European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that French courts
    didn’t breach European law when they convicted billionaire investor
    George Soros for insider trading in the late 1980s.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Only after the formal body charged with market regulation determined that he committed no wrongdoing. Again, this is different than Norbits assertion.

  • http://twitter.com/NovElection2012 GTFOBigGovernment

    Obama 10/25/20: “If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, ‘We’re gonna punish our enemies and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us,’

  • bob ross

    Word on the street is a lot of you guys got on the list just this morning.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    Who is the only President with a known enemies list?

    Answer, the one who used to employ Roger Alies. 

  • Anonymous

    the remote – a wonderful invention.  

  • Anonymous

    because you don’t like someone’s politics – you want to throw them in jail?  lol
    Hmmm, me thinks you might have a wee problem – you’re living in the wrong Country.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

     Its not just the legs or the short skirt, its the 10 inch platform stripper heels she wears. 

  • Anonymous

    really – you’re trying to defend Soros?  lol
    There is absolutely no defense for Soros.  A pathetic excuse who sold out his fellow Jews and to this day, sees absolutely nothing wrong with it.  He has stated if he didn’t do it, someone else would have.  
    A fine character.  Ruins governments economy – makes billions on it and you have no problem with an amoral, horrific human.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    Wow! The rich and powerful control politics! I am shocked, SHOCKED I say. 

  • Anonymous

    holder lied, people died.

  • Anonymous

    And what did he have in common with the current administration?   An official policy of making certain media outlets enemies.  The Obama administration failed miserably but had the official policy for the first year or so of the administration.  At one point the (liberal) press corps was so fed up with it they got together and called them on it.

  • Anonymous

    There’s this funny thing, called facts.  You seem to be conveniently starting at his statement and ending at the result, and ignoring what was before and after his statements.  Not to mention the non-partisan reviews of those facts.

  • Pablo

    We’ve spent less on Iraq than ONE of Obama’s deficits. Fail.

  • Anonymous

    Ted Olson was married to that………

  • Anonymous

    Nope. Try again.

  • Anonymous

    Huh?   Ted Olson’s wife was on the plane that crashed in to the Pentagon on 9/11, she’d been speaking to him during the flight after it had been hijacked.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=725338690 Laura York Olson

    So Obama uses the IRs to harass people who use their constitutional freedoms to express their views. God Bless America!

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