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Flashback: Obama Touts Yemen As Success Story

In an address on September 10, 2014, President Obama touted Yemen as a counterterrorism success story and said it would be the model for the US’ strategy against ISIS. “This counterterrorism campaign will be waged through a steady, relentless effort

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Obama On Kayla Mueller: ‘We Did Everything We Could’

Tuesday in an interview with BuzzFeed News, President Barack Obama said the U.S. government did everything they could to rescue Kayla Mueller, the 26-year-old aid worker killed while being held by ISIS. When BuzzFeed News’ editor-in-chief Ben Smith suggested, considering

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Politico Hits Vox for ‘Nerf ball’ Obama Interview

This week, Ezra Klein’s “explainer” news site Vox scored an interview with President Obama. Given that Vox is not yet a year old, one might expect some backbiting from the more established media outlets that did not score the big interview.

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Rabbi Benjamin Blech: ‘I Feel Betrayed’ By Bibi No-Shows

Author and Professor at Yeshiva University Rabbi Benjamin Blech said he felt “betrayed” by threats to skip out on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before Congress on Tuesday’s “Your World with Neil Cavuto” on the Fox News Channel. “Congress is

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Levin: Obama ‘Re-Distributing A Shrinking Pie’

Talk radio host and author of “The Liberty Amendments,” Mark Levin argued that President Obama was “re-distributing a shrinking pie” on Monday in response to the president urging higher capital gains taxes. “If you’re taxed on something again, do you

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Jindal Criticizes Obama’s ‘Moral Equivalence’ on Radical Islam

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal (R) criticized President Obama’s “moral equivalence,” and “mush” on radical Islam on Monday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel. Jindal primarily criticized President Obama’s earlier remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast, saying “we’ll keep an eye

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Axelrod: Obama Respects Sharpton’s ‘Leadership’

Former White House Senior Advisor David Axelrod said that he believes President Obama “respects” Al Sharpton’s “leadership” on Monday’s “O’Reilly Factor” on the Fox News Channel. “You don’t decide, and I don’t decide who leaders in a community are. Al

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Rush: Left Loves Diversity, Just Not In Media

Talk radio host Rush Limbaugh criticized President Obama for his comments on the “balkanization” of the media on Monday. “I thought these people all loved diversity.  They preach diversity all the time” he declared, pointing to the Grammys touting diversity. Rush

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CNN’s Bergen: Netanyahu Speech ‘Interrupted’ Other Business

CNN National Security Analyst Peter Bergen argued that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before Congress was “interrupting” other foreign policy business and “there’s a sound reason why Congress doesn’t just get to call the foreign policy shots on Monday’s

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O’Donnell Criticizes Obama Prayer Breakfast Speech

MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell criticized President Obama’s speech at the National Prayer Breakfast on Saturday’s “Up with Steve Kornacki.” “The only comparable event in terms of religious war you can come up with is 800 years ago, and it is

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Pirro: ‘Obama Is Comfortable With Extremism’

On Saturday, Judge Jeanine Pirro, host of the Fox News Channel’s “Justice with Judge Jeanine” criticized President Obama’s comments at the National Prayer Breakfast, declaring “Barack Obama is comfortable with extremism.” “Barack Obama is comfortable with extremism…it’s part of what

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Zuckerman: Debt Will Cause ‘Real Crisis’

Mort Zuckerman, Editor-in-Chief and publisher of the New York Daily News and US News and World Report Chairman, declared that the US national debt would create “a real crisis” on Friday’s “McLaughlin Group.” Zuckerman started by saying there was “some truth” to

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Obama: ‘Stop Refighting Old Battles’

President Obama touted “middle class economics” and urged members of Congress to “stop refighting old battles” during debates on economics during his Weekly Address on Saturday. Transcript as Follows: “Hi everybody. I’m talking with you today from Ivy Tech Community

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Maher: Obama Right on Christianity, Wrong on Islam

HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher said that while President Obama’s remarks on Christianity at the National Prayer Breakfast were factual, he was incorrect to not point out the travesties of radical Islam on Friday. Maher said that President Obama’s