Video: Mainstream Media Unwittingly Collude in Republican Lies About Obama
05 January 2010
DeMINT: Again, I don't think we should try to blame -- whether it's the president or any other person right now -- but a lot of us have been concerned over the last year that the president did seem to downplay the threat of terror; he doesn't use the word anymore, he hesitates to say that there's a war on terror. In the last few days he seems to have come around to the idea that there are people, in Yemen and in other places, who are intent on hurting Americans. And I think that puts us all on the same page and, hopefully, we can take the politics out of this, focus on security, and the president seems to be in the right place now.Now, like every reporter who covers national politics, Lauer knows this is a flat-out lie. One need only recall Obama's speech at West Point, delivered a little over a month ago, in which the president said:
This is no idle danger; no hypothetical threat. In the last few months alone, we have apprehended extremists within our borders who were sent here from the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan to commit new acts of terror. [Emphasis added.]
[W]e are at war and when President Obama pretends we aren't, it makes us less safe," Cheney said in a statement to Politico. "Why doesn't he want to admit we're at war? It doesn't fit with the view of the world he brought with him to the Oval Office. It doesn't fit with what seems to be the goal of his presidency -- social transformation -- the restructuring of American society.