CBS’s Smith to ‘Father-in-Chief’ Obama: ‘Where Did You Learn to Love?’

Newsbusters ^ | 6/22/09 | Kyle Drennan

[pissant]

In an interview with President Obama on Friday, CBS’s Harry Smith asked the "father-in-chief" about growing up without his own father: "In this fatherless world, where did you learn to love?" [audio available here]

The first part of the interview, which aired on Father’s Day on CBS’s Sunday Morning, focused on Obama’s role as "First Dad" as Smith declared: "Maybe it was on election night when we first realized not only would there be a new president but also a new first family. A family with young children...Along with the role of commander-in-chief and leader of the free world, Barack Obama would be First Dad. So, yes, there would be a swing set and, yes, there would be a dog." Sappy piano music was played in the background as a montage of Obama family photos scrolled across the screen.

[pissant]

He learned to love practicing with Frank Marshall Davis and Larry Sinclair.

[freekitty]

Yep, two role models there. Not

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

I think I’m going to be sick.

[Tijeras_Slim]

The mirror.

[SpinnerWebb]

In a madrassa in Indonesia.

[blueyon]

where’s the BARF ALERT tag????

[Tax Government]

Damn. Get a room.

[NCBraveheart]

I think I am going to barf!

[AngelesCrestHighway]

“In this fatherless world, where did you learn to love?”...

Holy crap!...what a pantywaist question!...Good grief!

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Arguably none needed - by the time you read the title the damage has already been done.

[truthandlife]

The "fatherly" example:

[PhiKapMom]

I haven’t had lunch yet which is probably a good thing! :(

Smith is an idiot and that is being nice to what I really think of him.

[NeoCaveman]

where did you learn to love?

A Motel 6 right outside of town, doesn't everybody?

[shibumi]

Or was it the goat pen out behind the Madrassa?

[Big_Monkey]

Is there a male news-anchor that doesn't want to make sweet, sweet love to the Barry?

What passes for hard-hitting questions coming out of these guy's mouths, could just as easily be heard at the gay bar's happy hour.

[Kakaze]

Harry Smith, for years he should have worn a skirt.....as he “heads” that cbs hen party

[subterfuge]

Barry Sotero has admitted sleeping with Brian Williams.

[divine_moment_of_facts]

Satan took him under his wing.

[DManA]

Lets think about this question a minute. The premise of the question is in an ideal family you learn to love from the father.

Not a bad premise.

[CholeraJoe]

Back seat of a 1966 Ford Fairlane.

[DManA]

Although I’m sure Smith would turn beet red and stammer if he realized that was his premise.

[central_va]

Where is the /satire tag?

[BlueAngel]

Just gross.

[Cicero]

Well, it depends on what you mean by “learn to love.”

What he learned from his drunken, family-abandoning father—and from his self-centered child-abandonoing mother—was narcissim.

He learned to turn away from everyone else and love himself.

[jazminerose]

Yup, right here:

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/12176

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Harry's one sensitive guy!....It appears he has more than a tingly feeling in his leg for Obama!...

[GnuHere]

My thoughts exactly. If I were a cynical person, I would say a person like him only decides to have a “normal” family to further his political ambitions.

[moose2004]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRn5-LQCg2s

[AngelesCrestHighway]

If Obama were normal he would be running a used car dealership in Chicago and not subjecting America to this crap of his!....

[curth]

Hence, the answer given in reply #1.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Yes.. he had "parents."

Obama had a plethora of parents among the 1960s Marxist-Alinsky street rabble some of whom he has praised profusely.

I agree with one Obama observer that, unlike a real father, no one has ever, ever said no to Obama; 'splains a lot.

[NeoCaveman]

They just don’t make cars like that anymore.

[Mac from Cleveland]

Could have been worse.

Bill Clinton grew up without a father, also.

I'd hate to hear his answer to the question........

[Slimey]

are you sure this was harry smith and not perez hilton??

[NeoCaveman]

I'd hate to hear his answer to the question........

In a late model El Camino?

[AngelesCrestHighway]

“Bill Clinton grew up without a father, also.”....

Hmmmm!...I see a pattern here! Did Jimmah Carter have a pops who kept him in line?

[Enterprise]

Harry Smith:

[Enterprise]

All these male homo erotic liberal news people are coming out of their closets.

[SharpRightTurn]

This is a whole new arena, way beyond mega-barf alert.

The media coverage is so patently, overly saccharin sweet that it will turn off all but the most hypnotized true-believers.

[CholeraJoe]

Nope. Same color even:

[snarks_when_bored]

CBS’s Smith to ‘Father-in-Chief’ Obama: ‘Where Did You Learn to Love?’

Who expects more from Harry Smith? He's the John Tesh of network news.

[workerbee]

THE REAL OBAMA effect on world affairs relates to the US media's unprecedented willingness to abandon the basic responsibilities of a free press in favor of acting as propagandists for the president. From Cooper - who pretends that Obama's unreciprocated open hand to the mullahs is what empowered the protesters - to Newsweek editor Evan Thomas who referred to Obama earlier this month as a "sort of God," without a hint of irony, the US media have mobilized to serve the needs of the president.

By genuflecting to tyrants, the president made the US a laughingstock

[Retired Greyhound]

Silly question.

Obama IS love.

[GnuHere]

I think he’d be a drug dealer or pimp or con man. Oh, wait...

[alecqss]

Unfortunately for us, love (learned or not) is not all he needs...

[TheCipher]

How long should I assume the position ?

[fish hawk]

When he was in bed with Brian Williams?

[tillacum]

These newsmen sound a bit queer, to me.

[fish hawk]

That depends of what “is” is.

[facedown]

Gag me with a spoon.