On Thursday, it was a non-story. Pressured by French officials to keep the incident quiet, we didn’t even find out that Presidents Barack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy forgot to turn off their microphones at the G20 meeting until Monday, when a French media watchdog reported they were making catty remarks about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
It was picked up by the mainstream media, which is to say they stopped keeping it a secret, on Tuesday, and by today its become a major international incident, one which the White House is desperately trying to downplay.
ADL Director Abraham Foxman loudly condemned the comments, saying it was unacceptable for US and French officials to make “disparaging remarks” about Netanyahu. Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney insisted it proved Obama didn’t respect “our special relationship with Israel.”
Romney’s comments were quickly trumped by rival Rick Perry, who suggested that the comments had something to do with Iran’s putative nuclear weapons program and that Obama needed to respond by moving against Syria and Iran.
.It would make a great skit for SNL, were it not so incendiary in the midst of the latest Iran scare….. or powder-keg…!! Yaa, Iran MAY be workin on nukes…!!! Ahhh… but NEVER MIND that another country real nearby has HUNDREDS of em… and that country is OUR No, 1 Welfare Queen…. In FACT you could say WE paid for them… Not only that, the MESS left behind from the extraction process….. It NOW belongs to America…… With a $170 Million U.S. Taxpayer down payment to clean it up… http://original.antiwar.com/smith-grant/2011/10/1…
Wow, how timely… Hava look: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/valleynewsdispatc…
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/valleynewsdispatc…
"I cannot stand him. He is a liar" Sarkozy said to which Obama replied: "You're fed up with him, but I have to deal with him every day!"
Everyday? ' Shows just how much the U.S.A. is under Israel's influence.
The pot is calling the kettle black.They "obama sarkozy,netenahu" spelled wrong on purpose are all war criminals genocidal manics, and that is complimenty
PAID ACTORS — STAR PERFORMANCE
ILLUSION
Yes of course, its the menial task of the Presidents of USA and France to turn on and off their own sound systems, of course they do not have a team of technicians making double-sure that their sound systems are not being hacked and work as desired. Yes, and my great grandmother loves to wear combat boots.
REALITY
We the people of USA, France and Israel think that we have a real government, only because media performs on their stage a most ego inflated and over sexed and paid to act stupid bunch of politicians running government. So, no, the super powerful rich who hand pick which politicians get donations are not billionaires, for they are rich nobility with family dynasties and corporate interests that achieve ownership control of trillions, as in more then one trillion.
And so, all you of the voting majority, you half of society with great jobs, terrific homes and deluxe healthcare who so love the brutal imperialism of your plundering Empire — your not fooling anyone.
Good letter by Bill Moyers — Corruption by Anti-Defamation League
“Dear Mr. Foxman:
You made several errors in your letter to me of January 13, 2009 and I am writing to correct them.
First, to call someone a racist for lamenting the slaughter of civilians by the Israeli military offensive in Gaza is a slur unworthy of the tragedy unfolding there. Your resort to such a tactic is reprehensible.
Earlier this week it was widely reported that the International Red Cross “was so outraged it broke its usual silence over an attack in which the Israeli army herded a Palestinian family into a building and then shelled it, killing 30 people and leaving the surviving children clinging to the bodies of their dead mothers. The IDF army prevented rescuers from reaching the survivors for four days.”
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/blog/2009/01/ex…
Robert Shule • "He is a liar… Shows just how much the U.S.A. is under Israel's influence."
To the contrary, for what a liar says and does establishes nothing, nothing but illusion and fiction.
For the real issue is, do people control wealth, or does wealth control people?
For the twelve rich men who rule Israel and its economy control only billions. Whereas, the corporate rich power combine that rules Empire USA control trillions upon trillions — including GE Corp. which owns NBC, which gives them the power to hide their trillions, their power and their rule.
Maybe, just maybe Sarkozy and whatshisname left the microphone open on purpose!? Don´t they have enough aids, secret service and so forth to prevent such mishaps? Perhaps they are really sick and tired of being humiliated by Israel and are letting everyone know it.
Too bad they didn't do a word-for-word reprise of the Bush / Cheney "major-league a**hole" bit, as it would have been well deserved: http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/bushcuss.asp
And could someone please inform 'John Ellis', if he's going to bomb the comments section with multiple posts, about the difference between "your" (possessive) and "you're" (contraction)?
Oh it was nothing, happens every day
Obama should have said to Sarkozy: Tell me something I don't already know.
Muuuuuuuua haaaaaaaaaaaa…
Do tell, please. What exactly did they say? And y'all know how much trouble we're all in when that dog (no offense to noble canines everywhere) Abe Foxman is defending Nutayahoo and wiping Obama's ass. This is priceless!