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OPINION: ABC, CNN offer flimsy reasoning to defend Obama from Romney's 'apology tour' attack...
ABC and CNN stepped up to speak for the President. Minutes after the Boca Raton debate, ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos queried: “Any glaring misstatements by either candidate?”
Jonathan Karl zeroed in on Romney for claiming “the President went on an apology tour when he became President.” Karl told viewers “we’ve looked at all those speeches in those first foreign trips” and insisted: “The President didn’t apologize for America. He did acknowledge some mistakes that the United States had made, but there’s no way you could really call it ‘an apology tour.’”
CNN outright called the characterization “False,” plastering that on screen next to John Berman who acknowledged “when the President took office, he did travel to several countries talking about American foreign policy.” Berman cited one Obama quote which Romney had recounted, how in France Obama “said America has ‘shown arrogance’ and had ‘been dismissive, even derisive.’”
Yet Berman, who apparently doesn’t understand the concept of a metaphor, refused to acknowledge that constitutes apologizing for America, maintaining it’s false because Obama never specifically uttered “apologize.”
“In none of these speeches,” Berman asserted, “none of them in Europe or the Middle East or here at home – did President Obama use the world apology or say he’s sorry.” So, “our verdict here is it is false to call the President’s speeches ‘an apology tour’ even if he was critical of past U.S. foreign policy. He issued no apologies.”
There’s hardly a shortage, however, of examples of Obama chastising past U.S. foreign policy, so many so that just five months into Obama’s term the Heritage Foundation was able to produce a “Top 10 Apologies” list, starting with the speech in France which Berman quoted.
Among the instances cited by Heritage’s Nile Gardiner and Morgan Lorraine Roach:
- At a Summit of the Americas, Obama regretted how “at times we sought to dictate our terms.” In an op-ed about policy toward the America’s, Obama declared: “Too often, the United States has not pursued and sustained engagement with our neighbors.”
- Speaking to the Turkish parliament, Obama rationalized: “The United States is still working through some of our own darker periods in our history.”
- Addressing CIA employees about an administration report which castigated the use of enhanced interrogation techniques against terrorist suspects, the President urged: “Don’t be discouraged that we have to acknowledge potentially we’ve made some mistakes.”
- In a speech, Obama denounced the techniques used in the war on terror: “Instead of strategically applying our power and our principles, too often we set those principles aside as luxuries that we could no longer afford. And during this season of fear, too many of us – Democrats and Republicans, politicians, journalists, and citizens – fell silent.”
- In that same address at the National Archives, he went into full apology mode over Guantanamo: “There is also no question that Guantanamo set back the moral authority that is America’s strongest currency in the world. Instead of building a durable framework for the struggle against Al Qaeda that drew upon our deeply held values and traditions, our government was defending positions that undermined the rule of law.”
Obama’s got extra ammunition going into the election knowing the press corps will do their best to disarm potent attacks on topics where Obama is vulnerable amongst swing state voters.
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http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012...ter-romney-apology-tour-attack/#ixzz2ABAIbKIj
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