Posted on 06/16/2012 2:56:27 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The journalist who sparked a ruckus inside the Beltway and on Twitter by interrupting President Barack Obama's formal remarks on immigration wants the world to know it was all a big misunderstanding. The Daily Caller's Neil Munro implausibly claims that he never meant to cut off the president and thought he was finished speaking.
"I timed the question believing the president was closing his remarks, because naturally I have no intention of interrupting the President of the United States," Munro said in a statement on the Daily Caller's website after his Rose Garden showdown with Obama.
"A reporter's job is to ask questions and get answers," said the site's editor in chief, Tucker Carlson. "Our job is to find out what the federal government is up to. Politicians often don't want to tell us. A good reporter gets the story. We're proud of Neil Munro."
The Daily Caller's publisher, Neil Patel, also chimed in: Munro "in no way meant to heckle the President of the United States."
"We are very proud of, @NeilMunroDC for doing his job," the Daily Caller said on its official Twitter feed.
But reporters near Munro during the outburst said, well, not so much to the whole "didn't mean to interrupt" the president thing. Many took to Twitter to share their doubts."I was two people over from Neil Munro. No one thought the president was wrapping up. I give that statement a great big Cow Pie Award," Brianna Keilar of CNN said on Twitter.
"I was standing right behind Munro in the Rose Garden," said Todd Zwillich, Washington correspondent for The Takeaway from Public Radio International, on Twitter. "Idea he 'mistimed' his questions isn't credible. He purposely interrupted."
"Munro told other reporters after Obama's statement, 'I'm asking questions. Because you people won't,'" Zwillich tweeted....
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You’re right, he did it because he had to squash the truth.
I fear for this reporter. I think he’s going to get rough treatment, as others have done who question the motives and actions of this man. Like what happened to people who questioned the Clintons too.
Ugliest rug ever
"How's the weather in Kenya today?"...now THAT might be considered 'heckling'.
Folks this is a media scam to divert everyone from the fact Obama announced amnesty.
If this had been GWB, the press would have been giggling, chuckling and laughing about it for a week.
Well, that would be a gentler serfdom that what is coming to many if Congress and the people don't stop Obama's The Law is What I Sat It Is approach.
Well, that would be a gentler serfdom that what is coming to many if Congress and the people don't stop Obama's The Law is What I Sat It Is approach.
Sat = Say
It’s not about the heckling. It’s not about the timing. They are pissed off because he asked THE question that will turn voters against him.
“Ugliest rug ever”
And those “Electric Eyebrows”; Wow, you needed radar to track those things when he was angry!
Neil Munro — asking the questions that Noticiero
Telemundo won’t ask.
How many times was Pres. Bush interrupted? So the leftist aka progressives have nothing to cry about.
Wonder if the Democrats and Libs will be mum if the next Conservative president bypasses Congress and makes law.
A bad precedent.
It is dangerous. If not stopped, who knows how far Obama will go.
He is definitely scary. And this does not bode well for the country.
I like the slow and painful process of compromise and concession that is the basis of our system of government. Certainly, it will slow the process but isn’t that the idea?
Otherwise, they would run right over us.
No, you Do NOT want a civil war here. It would not be regional or even racially delineated. It would be an ideological war which is the most dangerous of all. It would be driven by whether a person was liberal, conservative, pro or anti-abortion, pro or anti-gun (that would change quickly), enviro-wacko or not, pro-SUV or not, etc. ad naseum. Who would the enemy be? Your neighbor, with whom you used to have good relations, would suddenly turn on you when (s)he discovered you believed in eating pigeons due to starvation.
A few(many) Conseervative states could form their own country and let the libs leave and take in conservatives from the socialist areas. I am good with that war or no war. Political solutions are not going to work.
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