Dear Media: President Obama Actually Did Address Radical Islamic Ideology
Republicans have a new thing to blame President Obama for, and it is Donald Trump‘s racist, fascist anti-Muslim platform. The theory goes that sincce President Obama won’t acknowledge the role of a twisted interpretation of Islam in attacks like those that occurred recently in Paris and San Bernardino, people have no other choice but to embrace Trump’s plan to ban all Muslims rom entering the country (temporarily!). This is an offshoot of the long-running Republican Rumpelstiltskin theory that requires the use of the specific phrase “radical Islam” (which the President has used), but it goes even further to suggest that President Obama is completely ignoring the role of Islamic extremism in terror attacks.
It goes without saying that Republicans are going to say dumb shit, but twice this week, respected members of the liberal media have utterly failed at correcting or following up on blatantly false iterations of this particular attack. On Thursday night’s All In, host Chris Hayes tried to do a good thing by getting Republican strategist Katie Packer to explain the obsession with the secret “radical Islam” password, but here’s the explanation she gave:
“I think it’s important that people feel like he understands what the problem is. And if he’s not willing to address that the problem is a very radical ideology, it’s a religious ideology, and some folks that are willing to give their own life in order to take other people’s lives in the name of their religion, it is important to identify that that’s what the problem is. And I don’t know — by contrast I don’t see what the problem is with the president acknowledging it, ha ha ha.”
In Hayes’ defense, he did get sidetracked by Packer’s incredibly stupid subsequent assertion that people are more aware of Islamic extremism now than they were following 9/11, but Chris Hayes is…READ MORE
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By: Tommy Christopher
Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
6 responses to Dear Media: President Obama Actually Did Address Radical Islamic Ideology
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rg9rts December 11th, 2015 at 13:14
This is the Onion right?
Red Mann December 11th, 2015 at 20:25
Horribly and sadly, no. The right has abrogated Godwin’s Law by actually becoming facists and Poe’s Law by being so ridiculous that there can no longer be any effective satire of them.
rg9rts December 11th, 2015 at 21:05
Thats right…they aren’t funny anymore
Suzanne McFly December 11th, 2015 at 13:50
Well we didn’t demand bush call it radical Islam because we didn’t realize how far their ideology has been corrupted (or something along those lines). She wants to say that the attacks when bush was in office weren’t as obvious in their reasoning as the attacks happening while President Obama has been in office. They are trying to wash themselves of any of the horrible decisions and reactions that occurred the time bush was in office. I haven’t drank any of their kool-aid and most of us refuse to so they better go to plan b.
Carla Akins December 11th, 2015 at 14:23
but…but…Obama’s a Muslim Kenyan terrorist…..oh hell, you know the rest
bpollen December 12th, 2015 at 01:08
With a name like Barry? Oooooh…. scary!