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The Five Hosts Wonder How A Nobel Peace Prize-Winning President Ended Up Killing So Many With Drones

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Today on The Five, Eric Bolling (taking a page from one of Drudge’s more inspired headlines) asked Greg Gutfeld if he was surprised that a Nobel Peace Prize-winning president had killed so many people with Predator drones. A debate over President Obama and President Bush’s dictator-toppling tactics and the reactions to them followed.

While it wasn’t the United States or one of our missiles that took out the Libyan dictator, Fox News had discovered that a drone was sent into the nation some time before his capture. Bolling had a problem with how the media was responding to Obama’s foreign policy.

“Does no one else find the hypocrisy here?…You have Gitmo and [terrorists] go through the military trial and, if found guilty, then you process accordingly. But that’s not ok. That’s just too harsh, it’s terrible because of the water boarding and whatnot. But here it’s swift justice. It’s ‘drone, baby, drone.’ It’s 09 mm in the streets of Tripoli but somehow that seems to be ok.”

On the other hand, though, Gutfeld (who, by the way, was really on his game with the funny here) claimed we had to give Obama credit for his record with taking these people out, saying it was “a flip flop but a good flip flop” from his campaign image.

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  • Exgoper

    Let the Obama derangement start in three … two … one …

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Remember when Democrats used to lambast Bush ordering drone strikes?

    Good times. Good times.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    His derangement started a long time ago.

    :-)

  • Cain

    Conservatives don’t know what do to or say because Obama has been taking out the bad guys more effectively than Bush. So their best argument is… “well he won the Noble Peace Prize so he shouldn’t be doing this.”  

    um… people need to go back and read the speech he gave when he won the prize. He talked about using force when it was justified.  

  • Michelle

    Obama is a socialist.

  • Anonymous

    This quite strangely is a very coherent discussion about Gaddafi and the Arab Spring. Not necessary any real agreement, but interesting questions raised.

    Gaddifi is gone and the country moves on with its future.

    Libya will be grateful to the countries that aided their release from Gaddafi. In the coming days and months they will also be very vocal about this period of their history.

  • Anonymous

    I know what to say – congrats on killing bad people, now please step aside so we can stop killing the economy.

  • Michelle

    Identity theft is so yesterday.

  • Michelle

    Greg is right, they should be thanking Bush for putting in place the polices Barry continued, but the Narcicist in Chief could never bring himself to do that. 

  • PrezOworst

    Coming weeks will be death and chaos.  nothing is resolved.

  • Mrprogreso

    Breaking headline:  War-hating left pretty psyched about killing people, so long as they can claim this somehow means they’ve scored a goal against consertatives.

  • Mrprogreso

    pretty clever. did you just make that up?

  • Bob

    and remember when Republicans said criticism of the president stops at the water’s edge, and that if you disagree with the White House on foreign policy, you hate America?

  • Tim Tebow

    Get yourself a dictionary.

  • Michelle

    And the commie media is covering it up.

  • Anonymous

    Do you ever shut the hell up?

  • Anonymous

    This guy right here makes the best PB&J sandwiches.  Hands down!

  • Anonymous

    Finally!  Cons admit that they are purposely ruining the economy!

  • Anonymous

    You’ve got us.  Sorry, game is up.  Libs kill terrorists just to upset the hayseeds sitting at home on their computers.  The game is up…let’s pack it in. :(

  • Anonymous

    turk281 likes you Good Lt.  That should make you feel better.

    Obama kills another terrorist.  A very sad day for conservatives. :(

  • Tim Tebow

    China’s economy is generally considered good right now, despite some slowing.

    Do you also agree that China’s state-owned industries and involvement in the economy as a whole is “killing their economy?” Perhaps you endorse 16-hour days and 14- yr old workers?

    Your facile remarks betray little wit and less discernment.

    I recommend you stop typing. It’s better for everybody, son.

  • Ricci Dats Me

    LOVE IT..lets SHARE the good, and forget THE BAD.. because, unless you are somewhere between 6 and 16, everything we are dealing with today from an economic standpoint, can be traced BACK through BUSH, CLINTON, and Big Bush.. but good old Obie wont share that blame.. but you feel he should share the good stuff. Very very very one sided and narrow minded of you. BUT, I’m thinking, you rep your “side” well.
    GO ??? 2012!

  • MIKE

    It’s disturbing how much the press want’s Obama to get some love over Gaddafi’s death. Let’s be realistic, it was like shooting fish in a barrel. Dropping bombs with no anti-air defense from Gaddafi.Troops on the ground being the Libyans themselves.
    The only bombs I’ve seen from Obama are the one’s he drops on Republican heads every single day as he’s out there trying to save his day job.

  • Ricci Dats Me

    AND? Last time I checked there are SEVERAL nations who run forms of socialism and they are A) MUCH older than the baby USA, and B) not suffering the way we are and sadly IF they are suffering, its because they are invested in US.
    You PROBABLY think you live in a DEMOCRACY.. ROFL.. I LOVE the stupidity.

  • Ricci Dats Me

    YES, yes they are because thats what the media does in a commie-town.. they cover stuff up. Kinda like you being unable to post your rants on the internet. Totally commie-town up in HERE!

  • Ricci Dats Me

    Nobel Peace Prize.. I wonder, SERIOUSLY WONDER how many people know who the prize is named after and the MILLIONS he was responsible for killing.. LOL classic US education at work.

  • Anonymous

    I shed no tears for Quaddafi….But as with all of the other people toppled in the Arab Spring, my biggest concern is who in the hell is going to take their place and what are the implications of that for the rest of the world?

    I don’t know the answer to that question in any of these countries, but we might end up with more of the same, just with different players.  I hope that is not the case, but no one knows how that is going to shake out, no matter what side of the aisle you hail from.

  • Anonymous

    China went from a failing 3rd world poverty stricken country to an economic superpower because of wide scale privatization.  Almost all Maoist state enterprises were dismantled and liquidated.  Thanks to free markets.

    China is also a communist country, so free markets without free people is awful.

    I’m ok with children working in sweatshops. 

  • kromecom

    Shut up Michelle. You NEVER offer anything intelligent. LMAO

  • Anonymous

    Typical lib.  I paid you guys a complement and you still want MORE!

    Pull yourself up by the bootstraps and make your own damn complements!

  • kromecom

    Shut up Michelle. You’re a doofus of the first order. And you NEVER offer anything intelligent. Do you have Tourettes?

  • kromecom

    She doesn’t Buck! She’s got some type of Tourettes disorder.

  • noneofyourbusiness

    I think you mean compliments. 

  • Anonymous

    Ooops.

  • david r

    Obama has taken the drive-by approach.  I like it.  I like those drones, too. Let ‘em laugh that off.

  • Darladoon

    almost all state enterprises were dismantled?!

    “The remaining state-owned firms, however, are among the largest in China and include more than half the country’s industrial assets, according to a 2005 report by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank titled, China’s Ownership Transformation.”

  • Anonymous

    Remaining from what Darla, where is that quote from?

    BTW, as opposed to EVERYTHING being state owned. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VYUK3HIJFCPFBZUHRHN6HCR5AA MarkfromSavannah

    I love how the liberals here are tripping over themselves trying to offer the credit to Obama for Bin Laden and Qaddafi’s deaths.  Strikes me odd that they ignore the simple fact that he had nothing more to do with either one of these events other than sitting on his ass in the Oval Office.  Before I’m accused of not giving him credit for anything regarding the American war on terror, I’ll concede this: he IS an accessory to the murder of a US citizen living in another country who was not indicted, tried, or convicted of ANY crime against the laws of this country.

  • Sean68

    Just a minor correction: Alfred Nobel was not “responsible” for killing millions. Damn internet! Carry on.

  • Sean68

    You could hear them shouting “allah akbhar” right before they executed them, which is not an encouraging sign.

  • Anonymous

    Wondering what the conservative’s view of Qaddafi’s death would be, BHorizons checks in with Mediate, reads this article, and with predictable disgust, says, “Oh, that’s how they reacted.”

  • Anonymous

    Have you ever read a history book in your life? Don’t you know leaders get credit for successful and unsuccessful military action? Are you from America? Did you graduate from elementary school? If your answer is no to everyone of those questions, your comment is excused. Your comment is otherwise, a sad reflection of a poor education which would have probably been better spent on an illegal immigrant.

  • Anonymous

    Michelle says these stupid things just to get some attention (like the way that all airheads do). Just think sarah palin and michele blecchman. Mediaite’s michelle is in the same league.

  • Anonymous

    Like totally dude…

  • Anonymous

    Well, at least you’re admitting ****you’re**** killing the economy! LOL

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Might not have been criticized if he’d hit anything valuable.  But then, Goober W. holds the record for invading the wrong nation.

  • Tim Tebow

    My point in my post was that China’s economy is doing quite well despite–because of?–the goverment’s involvement in the economy. Your clarion calls for the end to “Big Government” are ridiculously simple and reductive. Obama’s actions are actually parallel with China’s actions: the Chinese government began a massive stimulus in 2008 that was comparable to the US–despite their smaller economy.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_economic_stimulus_program

    And your suggestion that China is doing well because of privatization is just wrong–the Chinese BIG GOVERNMENT is alive and well–with state owned enterprises sprinkled throughout the economy.

    Think before you type.

  • Anonymous

    Mediaite isn’t this behavior attacking someone against the rules of being on this site. I know you can’t watch every post but this attack on this one person is getting really tiresome. Seems some of you have Michelle derangement syndrome. Is she such a threat to you? Are you so very afraid of her comments? Michelle don’t quit, give them hell as it seems to upset them so. You must be having a blast.

  • Anonymous

    Obama is leading the hell out of foreign policy. But I can only fantasize how he’d lead the hell out of domestic policy if all those damn republif*cks weren’t in the way!

  • http://twitter.com/anise62 Cae

    I am a very happy conservative today. I just feel for you that you voted for Obama when he said troops out Gitmo closed and had no intentions of doing either. Everytime the President embraces a Republican Plan in practice he seems more grown up. So why doesn’t his rhetoric match his actions?

  • Darladoon

    a winner and a killer

    sounds like the ultimate republican fantasy-hero to me

  • insideguy

     Yes Obama should get no credit. Under this idea I give credit to James Buchanan for winning the civil war and Herbert Hoover for winning ww2. Also Taft should get credit for winning WW1. I blame Carter for getting 240 marines blown up in Beirut  in 1982 but however I give him credit for the successful invasion of Grenada. Now I blame the second Bush for the fiasco in Somalia and credit credit Clinton for our invasion of Iraq and Afganistan. Wow this is amazing what I can do with your ideas Mark thanks.

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

     If only he wasn’t such a leftist, aka statist, wealth redistributing, Congress over stepping, crony socialist, liar.

    He would be just perfect otherwise, snarky snark.

  • Anonymous

    The hate Obama derangement started on inaguration day.  If the clowns on the five want to know how the Nobel Peace Prize winning President ended up killing so many terrorists with drones it’s because he’s busy accomplishing what Bush could not accomplish in eight years.

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    1- Liberals (only the true lefty ones, not the Obama-bots) did in fact vociferously protest Obama’s adventures
    2- He didn’t lobby for the prize in the first place but to his credit he did stipulate caveats in his prize acceptance speech indicating he’s not going to live up to the spirit of the prize and the ideals it promotes
    3- Yes, perhaps he should have either done the honorable thing and declined to accept the prize or should have donated the proceeds

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VYUK3HIJFCPFBZUHRHN6HCR5AA MarkfromSavannah

    BHorizons – Is this the best you can do?  So typical of the leftist mentality, the shallow “read a book” retort to points made which don’t coincide with your rather simplistic views.  Sorry if I find it difficult to award Obama the Grand Strategist Award which you liberal goons feel he so richly deserves.  I’m merely pointing out that he’s still an inept buffoon when it comes to the application of military force; wholly reliant on other people who tell him what to do.

  • insideguy

    lol on what basis of facts can you make a statement like this? How has Obama showed himself to be an inept buffoon when it comes to military affairs? What president was an amazing military strategist that did not rely on his generals advice? Honestly Mark you are sounding really stupid.

  • TruDat

    So why do you support him?

  • Anonymous

    The only way to become Emperor of the World is to clear the playing field of others who want the throne.

  • Anonymous

    The “Operation Repo” Gang.

  • Anonymous

    You’re too stupid for this conversation, and are dismissed.

  • Anonymous

    We should look at where the “Five” were broadcasting from – the FOX-hole! These were just like McCain and so many who do not want president Obama to get any kudos from any source for any reason!  McCain said, Obama was leading from behind” in his underhanded way of saying he was jealous of the president’s leadership in taking out seventeen bad boys, including extremist like Osama Bin Ladin as well as authorizin­­­g assistance to the European Union to help remove Moammar Khaddafy(now deceased) while passing the great legislation in last Congress. The president authorized the number two leader of Al Qaeda, Atiyah abd al-Rahman, to be killed on August 22 in Pakistan, a senior U.S. official said. Atiyah abd al-Rahman’s son was also knocked off!  There have been 3 or 4 more high level hits authorized to cut the head off of this scourge to the Middle East! Leadership is the president’­­s! A total of seventeen by some counts! These guys were and are just as jealous as McCain!

  • Porphyry

    Hey, it’s not Obi-Wrong Baracki’s fault that the Ig-Nobel dopes awarded him the prize before he’d done anything! If they have second thoughts now, it’s not our problem.

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