Media Matters Complains About…..Context?
By 186 on May 14, 2008
Oh the Irony. Media Matters complains about accurate reporting of Barack Obama calling Israel a “Constant Sore”.
Summary: The Washington Post’s Jonathan Weisman and Michael D. Shear wrote that “Republican surrogates” trying to portray Sen. Barack Obama as “anti-Israel … pluck[ed] one sentence out of an extended interview with the Atlantic Monthly to accuse him of calling Israel ‘a constant sore’ that infects U.S. foreign policy.” However, Weisman and Shear did not provide the context of Obama’s “constant sore” remark to show that the GOP’s attack is false.
Sorry MediaMatters, WRONG as usual. Obama’s own words;
From The Atlantic / Jeff Goldberg - Obama Interview
Goldberg:“Do you think that Israel is a drag on America’s reputation overseas?”
Obama:“No, no, no. But what I think is that this constant wound, that this constant sore, does infect all of our foreign policy. The lack of a resolution to this problem provides an excuse for anti-American militant jihadists to engage in inexcusable actions, and so we have a national-security interest in solving this, and I also believe that Israel has a security interest in solving this, because I believe that the status quo is unsustainable.”
More better stuff…..
American Thinker Blog: Obama: Israel a ‘constant sore’ that ‘infects…foreign policy’
Obama: Israel is a ‘constant sore’
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Posted in 2008, Featured, Left, democrats, middle east
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