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CNN’s Crowley Learns That Secretary Rumsfeld Is Also A Myth Buster

By: Lori Ziganto (Diary)  |  February 24th, 2011 at 10:00 AM  | 

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The Discovery Channel would do well to hire Secretary Rumsfeld for a very special episode of Mythbusters, as Candy Crowley of CNN recently learned the hard way. Secretary Rumsfeld is busting tail to promote his book, Known and Unknown, A Memoir and Sunday’s stop on the whirlwind tour of interviews and media appearances was an interview with Crowley. By the way, Donald Rumsfeld is busting tail so hard because, being the evil Republican that he is, all proceeds will go to aid military families. Unlike the proceeds of then Senator Obama’s books; like most Lefties, Obama believes that charity begins at home, only in your home. Not in my backyard and not in my wallet! Plus, have you seen the price of arugala? Sheesh!

Anyway, during the interview (video after the jump) Ms. Crowley trotted out the tired, lame trope about how the entire world totally hearts us now. Because, Obama. As Andrew Malcolm of the LA Times reported, Ms. Crowley then seemed utterly flabbergasted that Secretary Rumsfeld called her on the idiocy, and falsity, of such claims. How can this be? He is historic and The One and all. Here is part of an exchange, in which Candy Crowley kept trying to persist in her delusion that President Obama’s awesomeness wipes out, you know, actual fact:

She stated: “Well, he seems to be quite popular overseas in a way that President Bush was not. The streets aren’t full of people burning him in effigy.”

She continued: “There does seem to be a new — a chance to look at America in a different way than it did during the Bush administration. You don’t think that’s true?”

Rumsfeld replied: “I don’t think that’s true and I don’t think that there’s data that would support that.”

Crowley didn’t need any data. She persisted: “Even though the streets look differently?”

As you might expect from some stubborn Republican, Rumsfeld stuck to his guns: “I just don’t think it’s correct.”

Andrew Malcolm also helpfully provided some photographic evidence, since reading is hard – and for Ms. Crowley, so is reality.

Huh. Those look like effigies to me, but I’m no fancy pants journalist, I suppose. Not only were Crowley’s claims utterly false, the notion that foreign policy success is based on school girl crush type popularity is absolutely absurd. It’s actually frightening that allegedly esteemed journalists believe that to be true. I asked Secretary Rumsfeld’s office for a comment regarding that inane theory proffered and received the following statement from Keith Urbahn, Secretary Rumsfeld’s chief of staff:

The equation of Middle East policy with a popularity contest is ludicrous. And in any event, a cursory look at statistics indicates that President Obama, even as a Nobel Laureate, has not changed global opinions about America.

Exactly. The seas didn’t part and the effigies and American flag burnings did not stop. The upheaval and turmoil in the middle east did not cease; in fact it has arguably gotten worse. President Obama has not helped our image globally, but rather he has harmed it by embarking on endless apology tours, by bowing in subservience to foreign leaders, by offering foreign policy that amounts to nothing more than “Hey, man, unclench your fists. I can haz cookie now?”, and by allowing a foreign leader to disparage our country and demonize the state of Arizona from our House floor.

He has done all he possibly could to try to squander good will and to destroy the special relationships that we have with both Israel and Great Britain. He has made this nation weaker, not stronger. Those who hate America and seek to harm it, still feel the same way. Only now they likely see that as a more easily obtainable goal. This is clear to absolutely anyone who pays attention and doesn’t allow themselves to be blinded by the childish belief “they like him! They really like him!” They don’t. He couldn’t even score the Olympics for his own home town, for cripes sake.

During the interview, Rumsfeld also laid waste to the notion that President Obama deserved to win the Nobel Peace Prize:

“He had not accomplished a thing when he got the Nobel Prize, it was given to him on hope — had to have been, because there wasn’t anything that he’d done. He’d been in office 15 minutes,” Rumsfeld told CNN’s Candy Crowley in an interview.

Even President Obama had to almost admit as much. When he accepted his win of the award, he said it wasn’t really based on accomplishment to date, but was really a ‘call to action’.  It should be renamed the Potential For Super Awesomeness Prize; it would have as much meaning. Hey, I stink at singing, but I feel I have potential and am ready to take it on as a “call to action”. Grammy, please!  I have a shot at the Nobel, too, I suppose. I mean, how hard can it be to blame George W. Bush for my own failures?

The Nobel point really exemplifies the problem. The media still persists under the delusion that The One is all-powerful and omni-loved. They believe that the cult of personality that was his Presidential campaign and subsequent win is still ongoing – and that it’s all that matters. We shouldn’t really be surprised. Obama’s entire ascension to the Presidency was based on nothing tangible. He had no actual achievements, besides having the audacity to write two memoirs. Before the age of 40. Which, it turns out, he didn’t even write himself.

In this interview, Rumsfeld busted all those media myths. CNN’s Crowley, however, merely proved that the Left’s useful idiots are just idiots. Never let the facts get in the way, right, media?

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  • Common_Cents

    and laughed. How can you possibly get any more pathetic than crowley, begging Rummy to agree that Obama has restored our good name around the world. It would be pathetic even if it was true.

    It’s too bad rummy was on there promoting a book for charity because he was thinking WTF, should I rip into this idiot? He had to bite his lip a bit.

    You could tell these lame stream media outlets gave Rumsfeld a little time if we would run through their gauntlet of propaganda and smearing. I hope he goes back soon w/out a book agenda so he can really let loose on those idiots.

  • theillinoisguy

    I don’t remember where I saw it, but I had to copy it.
    ***
    While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75 year old Texas rancher, whose hand was caught in a gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man.

    Eventually the topic got around to Obama and his bid to be our President.

    The old rancher said, ‘Well, ya know, Obama is a ‘post turtle’.’

    Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a ‘post turtle’ was. The old rancher said, ‘When you’re driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that’s a ‘post turtle’.’

    The old rancher saw a puzzled look on the doctor’s face, so he continued to explain.

    ‘You know he didn’t get up there by himself, he doesn’t belong up there, he doesn’t know what to do while he is up there, and you just wonder what kind of a dumb idiot put him up there!.’

    • http://www.plumbbobblog.com Plumb_Bob

      We — the American people — are the idiots who put the turtle on the post.

      The question is, when do we start the action of removing him from there, where he obviously does not belong.

      • theillinoisguy

        Some of us tried to point out that the “emperor” had no clothes. It was hard to be heard over the media cheerleaders, leg tinglers, and the brain dead.

      • veritaseequitas

        Don’t worry, as is the case with most people, he is going to fall off the post all by his ownself. BO is so predictable and ordinary he won’t be able to help doing himself in. All he has to do is keep talking the same old dopey useless talk he has been talking all along and doing the same old dopey and useless things.
        I believe America has woken up and will not make the mistake of re-electing this fatuous schmuck.

        • grinlap

          but color me dubious. The Repub’s have a special knack for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

    • rightwingmom52
      • CJB68
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  • http://www.plumbbobblog.com Plumb_Bob

    He practically refused to criticize the Obama administration’s foreign policy, observing that he was not privy to what they do privately. He correctly notes that most diplomacy goes on out of the public eye. I don’t recall any former administration official being so cautious about criticizing their successors.

    The most useful part of the conversation was where Rumsfeld observed — correctly — that the Obama administration in practice had adopted all the tactics of the Bush administration’s anti-terrorism policy that they had criticized in theory. “It’s easier to campaign than to govern.” That says a great deal.

    I remember wondering whether the Obama administration would permit reality to adjust their foreign policy rhetoric. Rumsfeld points out that in part, it has.

    The response to Crowley’s suggestion that the world sees us differently under Obama was uncomprehending, incredulous silence. He simply couldn’t believe that she’d said that. All he could get out of his mouth was “That’s just not true.” He’s right, of course. The voices that the left insisted proved what a failure GWB was, were voices that say the same thing regardless of what we do — and would not say anything different unless we literally blew ourselves up.

    • http://snarkandboobs.wordpress.com/ Lori Ziganto

      And, yep, Secretary Rumsfeld is a true gentleman. Do y’all remember that book about Reagan by Peggy Noonan: “When Character Was King” ?

      To me, Rumsfeld also exemplifies that title. My like, respect and admiration for him just get stronger each day.

    • Joe Cor

      and lament what the world could have looked like today if GWB has simply allowed Rumsfeld and Cheney to open their mouths during his administration, I think we need to get over this idea that gentlemen do not critisize their political opponents. Democracy is about persuasion, and in order to build public support for just and correct policies, you absolutely must criticize, and criticize roundly, policies which are ill-advised at best, morally reprehensible at worst. A gentleman worries about the good of the country and the good of his fellow citizens more than he worries about some false definition of “civility.” Justified criticism, leveled in a respectable manner, when silence can do great damage to the country, is the first duty of a gentleman. A true gentleman can do no less.

      • http://snarkandboobs.wordpress.com/ Lori Ziganto

        does it. He says more with a “WTF?” look than many do by endlessly prattling on.

        When I say he has character, I mean that it is the way he does things and that the man himself is of outstanding character. I think he made his criticism s quite clear in the Crowley interview and he did so in a way that I would consider gentlemanly. To me, gentlemanly does *not* imply weak or pussy footing around.

        • rightwingmom52
  • Marcus_Traianus

    When I saw this interview I actually laughed. Not because it is in content funny. I laughed at the delusional ignorance of liberal acolytes such as Ms. Crowley.

    It is simply hard to fathom, especially given the factual evidence that supporters of Mr. Obama can not see this country is in serious distress due to his amateurish, indifferent pursuit of ideological goals. Those goals have nothing in common with the goals of our nation. Nothing.

    The domestic situation is untenable due to his historically inept handling of our economy. Yet he wants to spend more and ignore fiscal discipline.

    Unemployment is historic due to his assault on business and a complete inability to understand the plight of common, everyday Americans.

    Our standing in the world has been diminished due to his apologetic, weak and untenable foreign. It has made us weaker and our enemies are circling like sharks.

    I said it the other day; Reagan torn down the Berlin Wall and in the process liberated Eastern Europe from the yoke of communism. Most of those governments remain friends of the US. The Middle East is on fire, anti-US forces are afoot, people are crying out for freedom and Obama provides his usual indifferent, ineffectual and weak, meddling and aristocratic fiddling. He doesn’t even belong in the same sentence with Reagan.

    Yeah and Mr. Rumsfeld is a patriot.

  • danimal98367

    Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Afghanistan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Iraq, and Tunisia

    Obama has a higher approval than Bush in Syria and Palestine than Bush did, too.

    Nearly every other country has a lower approval of “O” in 2010 than in 2009, so the polish is fading.

    http://www.gallup.com/poll/142631/Worldwide-Leadership-Approval.aspx

  • romeg

    The one who is unapologetic for his decisions and supports his statements with facts, regardless of how inconvenient they may prove to be to whomever he presents them.

    He is not a “deer in the headlights” kind of guy.

  • 6eorge Jetson

    That’s all I got. Crowley still wins.

  • http://applescorneroftheorchard.blogspot.com/ Pomme

    is really smirking at how Obama is helping their dream of American destruction come true.

  • CJB68

       How much longer will we have to endure the reign of these infants?  I’m no longer expecting CNN, MSNBC, or any of the traditional broadcast and print media to finally wake up and realize that they’re selling themselves a rope that will eventually strangle them all.

       It goes back to my post comment about the UCF incident where security staff escorted a man who had questioned the Hamas representative who was invited to hold court on their forum out of the building.  There is no shortage of… “people” who would give aid and comfort to our enemies.  I can no longer consider them not guilty of some sort of malice towards this country, its supporters, and those institutions which guarantee them the right to be such ignorant, arrogant, and stupid individuals.  They are as much the enemy as the ones who dive-bombed hijacked passenger planes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and possibly even aimed for the Capitol or White House on September 11th, 2001.

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