Christiane Amanpour’s Lefty Panelists Praise Obama’s “Courage” and “Leadership” In Supporting Ground Zero Victory Mosque


You’d think just once these far left cranks would disagree with one of Obama’s radical positions…
Christiane Amanpour’s lefty media panelists praised Barack Obama today for his courage and leadership in supporting the Ground Zero Victory Mosque.
NewsBusters reported:

President Barack Obama’s endorsement Friday night of building a mosque near Ground Zero has driven the establishment press corps to find nobility in pursuing conviction even in the face of public opposition, not something MSM journalists admired about the previous President, while suddenly becoming very concerned about protecting private property rights – all while hailing Obama’s “great global message.”

“I thought the speech Friday night was a model of political courage, in the sense that he said what he believed knowing that it was going to cost him,” hailed Washington Post Associate Editor David Ignatius on ABC’s This Week with Christiane Amanpour. Picking up on Matthew Dowd’s suggestion Obama was echoing George W. Bush’s “it’s my way or the highway” attitude, Chrystia Freeland, global editor-at-large for Reuters, argued:

Another way of talking about that is leadership, conviction, having your beliefs and not governing according to polls. And I think if you ask most Americans what kind of leader you want, if you ask people in the world what kind of leader do you want, you want someone who governs according to conviction….for American leaders to say in the face of, you know, some political pressure from their voters, to say actually we believe sufficiently strongly in diversity, in private property rights for our Muslim citizens, I think that’s a great global message.

More here.

It’s just too bad that Obama backtracked on his mosque comments 24 hours later.

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August 15, 2010   Posted in: Racist News |

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