‘You Got Me All Worked Up’: President Obama Gives Fox’s Ed Henry An Earful On Foreign Policy Critics

At a joint press conference with President Benigno Aquino III of the Philippine​s earlier today, Fox News Chief White House Correspondent Ed Henry asked President Obama to “answer those critics” who say his foreign policy doctrine “is weakness.” The President delivered a sharp, lengthy rejoinder to critics of his foreign policy, while also taking shots at Fox News and the broader news media, and concluding by telling Henry “You got me all worked up” on the subject.

“As you end this trip, I don’t think I have to remind you there have been a lot of unflattering portraits of your foreign policy right now,” Henry said. “And rather than get into all the details or red lines, excedera, I’d like to give you a chance to lay out what your vision is more than five years into office, what you think the Obama doctrine is in terms of what your guiding principle is on all of these crises, and how you answer those critics who say they think the doctrine is weakness.”

“Well, Ed, I doubt that I’m going to have time to lay out my entire foreign policy doctrine,” the President responded, adding “And there are actually some complimentary pieces as well about my foreign policy, but I’m not sure you ran them.”

The President then went on to attack those criticisms, point by point, noting…READ MORE

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.