Three cheers for Mark Hannah. He didn’t just go on Fox's Kelly File and argue a defense of President Obama, he called out Repubiican toxicity for hindering American interests.
Hannah appeared on the Kelly File Monday night and followed Bush administrative operative Marc Thiessen and Obama-hater Lt. Col. Ralph Peters. Rather than argue host Megyn Kelly’s critical questioning of President Obama’s foreign policy, Hannah replied, “Look, I think it’s pretty rich to have somebody from the Bush administration come on here and lecture the Obama administration on its foreign policy blunders.”
Bingo!
Of course, Kelly immediately interrupted. She said scornfully, “Really? Plenty of blame to go around.”
Hannah agreed. However, he said that while he doesn’t want to “play the blame game,” he also noted that a Republican senator once said, “’Politics should stop at the waters’ edge.’ When it comes to facing our adversaries and sending a message to the rest of the world, there should be some unity that we project as a country. And so…”
Kelly interrupted again with more scorn: “Did you say that to your side during the Iraq war?” Which is also rich because Fox News certainly did. Despite Kelly using this “question” to shut down Hannah’s critique now.
However, Hannah ran an end run around her, saying that a lot of the Iraq war critics turned out to be “pretty prophetic.” Even better, Hannah called out Lt. Col. Ralph Peters by name for “calling his Commander-in-Chief ‘timid’ on national television." Hannah added, "You didn’t get that under Eisenhower, you didn’t get that under Ronald Reagan, you didn’t get that when Republicans were supporting President Truman back in the 1950s. This is a crisis of, I think, unity.”
Kelly again interrupted. Unlike her displays of thoughtful listening to her conservative guests, she seemed to have a rule not to let Hannah say too much without challenge. “But they would say it’s caused by a crisis in leadership,” Kelly said emphatically.
“They are going to say that because they are going to score political points and they’re gonna jump on Obama’s approval ratings and kind of stomp him down as much as they can because they’re operating in this partisan, political environment,” Hannah continued. Too bad he didn't note how Fox is in lockstep with them. But that's a quibble.
Hannah pointed out some of the Obama administration foreign-policy successes: getting rid of chemical weapons in Syria and Iran nuclear talks. “The seeming inability for any Republican to give the Obama administration any credit…” he tried to say.
Kelly interrupted again, this time to point out reasons why “the critics have some issues with this professed success and leadership.”
“It’s not unpatriotic to criticize or to question the policy of your president,” Hannah said. “What I do get concerned about, though, is when we have an incident like in Ukraine right now where that knee-jerk criticism sort of inhibits people from thinking strategically. …Marc Thiessen doesn’t know, Ralph Peters doesn’t know – I don’t’ know, Megyn – whether the president is on the phone right now with President Hollande (or) Prime Minister Cameron …he could be in the Situation Room right now…”
Kelly interrupted to make an anti-Obama quip: “Or he could be at a fundraiser!”
Because on Fox, no good words about President Obama can remain unquestioned.
Watch Hannah do what every Democrat and liberal should do when they appear on Fox, below, from the July 21st Kelly File. We need more like this, please!
Let’s educate this dumb broad with this video of Ronald Reagan press conference http://youtu.be/eabCY0E4ZBY
Sadly Hulk, no, it isn’t.
You see, things changed when the Scary Black Guy with The Funny Name got into THEIR White House, and the old rules no longer apply:
- It used to be, getting bin Laden is “our #1 priority” . . . now, when it happens, its “no big deal.”
- It used to be, criticizing the CinC while our troops were fighting overseas was “treasonous” . . . now, its “our patriotic duty.”
- It used to be, the mere MENTION of impeachment of the President was tantamount to treason, regardless of whether he had committed specific crimes that actually warranted impeachment — such as outing a covert CIA agent, wiretapping US citizens without warrants, or starting two preemptive wars based on fake intel . . . now, not only do rightwingnut talking heads desire to impeach President Obama for any offense imaginable (such as the use of AF1, signing Executive Orders, and making recess appointments), the GOP-led Congress takes a break from doing nothing long enough to file a lawsuit against POTUS . . .
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Suh — NAP!!!
If Newshounds is still doing the “Best In Show” thing, Mark Hannah has got it, IMHO . . .
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Almost amusing to watch this evil blond do her best to shut down any rational debate with her “liberal guests”. Yes…..sedition comes to mind when I listen to these hencemen from the reichtag. Propaganda works both ways; but this unabated, 2/47 smearing of the President is dividing the country and displaying to the enemies of this country that we, the people, have NO trust or faith in this President or our government. Isn’t that seditious behavior? Is that no longer a crime??? When it adversely affects the safety and well being of the nation? I mean, really?