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Smith Suggests NKorea Launch: ‘Just A Goofy Stunt’
FinkelBlog ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 04/06/2009 5:30:41 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

Imagine you’re a member of the MSM wanting to minimize the, uh, fallout for Pres. Obama from the North Korean missile launch made in defiance of his explicit warnings. What better way than to trivialize the event’s significance? That’s exactly what happened on today’s Early Show, as Harry Smith suggested the launch was nothing but a “goofy stunt.”

Smith made his risible suggestion while speaking with UN Ambassador and Obama confidante Susan Rice.

View video here.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: barackobama; harrysmith; northkorea; susanrice
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1 posted on 04/06/2009 5:30:41 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; netmilsmom; Diogenesis; MEG33; PGalt; ...

Harry Smith tries to laugh off missile launch ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 04/06/2009 5:32:22 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Conservative criticism of the liberal media: www.finkelblog.com)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
I don't think Smith's ‘Just A Goofy Stunt’ comment will go over too well here in Japan.
3 posted on 04/06/2009 5:34:54 AM PDT by WesternPacific (I am tired of voting for the lesser of two evils!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Harry Smith’s cunning stunt.


4 posted on 04/06/2009 5:35:29 AM PDT by maggief
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

this angle must have been added to today’s instructions to the press being issued via early morning phone chats from the WH

“spin it as a whacky stunt and failed satellite launch by those harmless North Koreans ...”


5 posted on 04/06/2009 5:35:38 AM PDT by silverleaf (We live in interesting times: now the entire IRS works for a tax evader)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Yeah, tell that to the Japanese.

If a rocket was flying over Harry Smith’s head, it wouldn’t be a ‘goofy stunt’.

I hate the media.


6 posted on 04/06/2009 5:35:39 AM PDT by autumnraine (Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose- Kris Kristoferrson VIVA LA REVOLUTION!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Liberals with Head in the Sand syndrome, who woulda thunk it?


7 posted on 04/06/2009 5:35:53 AM PDT by eaglestar
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To: WesternPacific

Did the Japanese attempt to shoot it down? I was without internet access all weekend and haven’t got caught up yet.


8 posted on 04/06/2009 5:38:00 AM PDT by Jaxter (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

"Five American cities were just nuked by al Qaeda for Islam.
It was just a 'goofy stunt'. Nothing to see here."

9 posted on 04/06/2009 5:39:35 AM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Those silly North Koreans trying to upstage dear leader,
Zero the Messiah....Tut, tut !!!!


10 posted on 04/06/2009 5:40:13 AM PDT by IrishMike (Be prepared: Ammo, cash, gold, canned food. ...And more ammo.)
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To: Jaxter

No, they monitored the trajectory and let it pass over.


11 posted on 04/06/2009 5:41:16 AM PDT by WesternPacific (I am tired of voting for the lesser of two evils!)
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To: WesternPacific

We’ve known what side harry is on for quite a while.


12 posted on 04/06/2009 5:41:35 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

We’ll see if it’s a goofy stunt after obama disarms us and west coast citizens become sitting ducks. This guy works fast Harry......


13 posted on 04/06/2009 5:43:15 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Harry Smith suggested the launch was nothing but a “goofy stunt.”

Harry Smith’s “Goofy Stunt” list:

1) 9/11
2) WTC bombings 1993
3) Madrid Bombings
4) Bali Bombings
5) London Subway Bombings
6) USS Cole
7) 1998 United States embassy bombings
8) Mumbia 2008


14 posted on 04/06/2009 5:43:31 AM PDT by Le Chien Rouge
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I suspect that the doctor who delivered Harry Smith into this world not quite 58 years ago thought his mother was pulling quite the goofy stunt herself.


15 posted on 04/06/2009 5:46:47 AM PDT by mkjessup (You're either with our Constitution, or you are with TKU ("The Kenyan Usurper"). CHOOSE!!!)
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To: Le Chien Rouge
The Goofy Stunt was Obama thinking the UN would condemn North Korea.
16 posted on 04/06/2009 5:46:50 AM PDT by scooby321
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Now, now, we all know that because Obama figuratively shook his Presidential finger at North Korea and put the fear of God into their heads, NK rethought their original plan to fire a rocket that could launch a nuclear warhead and replaced it with a sparkler so everyone could have a good laugh over their “goofy stunt.”


17 posted on 04/06/2009 5:50:22 AM PDT by 3catsanadog (I plan to give the new President the same respect and dignity the other side gave Bush.)
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To: Jaxter
No, all that was a bluff. The NKs called it and Oblammy folded (those cruisers in the SoJ).
18 posted on 04/06/2009 5:51:25 AM PDT by chimera
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Smith probably said the same thing about Sputnik in ‘57. He will still be laughing it off when the NKs put nukes in orbit. Big joke, that. Anyone with half a brain can see where this is going.
19 posted on 04/06/2009 5:54:19 AM PDT by chimera
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Harry Smith is a full partner in the evil and corrupt MSM.


20 posted on 04/06/2009 5:55:08 AM PDT by Obadiah (Party - my house - on December 22, 2012!)
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