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Fox News uses Walesa to get at Obama

05.02.2010 13:07

Fox News commentator Sean Hannity has used former Poland’s President Lech Walesa’s statement to launch an attack on the US President Barack Obama.

Hannity opened his Thursday show on the conservative, Rupert Murdoch-owned Fox News channel by quoting Lech Walesa as saying: "No one has the least doubt that the United States is the economic and military leader in the world, but I have heard a lot of doubts regarding the moral and political leadership of the United States. Other nations have always rested their hopes on the United States (…) but we have lost that hope”.

Although the former Polish president and Nobel laureate did not mention Barack Obama during his speech Chicago in January,

Hannity- author of Deliver Us from Evil: Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism (2005) - interpreted his words as a veiled criticism of Barack Obama’s administration. The right-wing commentator asked his guest former Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich, if he shares the opinion that America is losing its power and authority under the rule of President Obama.

The Republican politician agreed and mentioned Lech Walesa’s role in fighting communism. (mg)

Comments: 34 Add new comment

B. Pierre

05/02/2010 13:55:54

What else is new about the extreme right wings from around the globe?
8 disastrous rule under Bush/Cheney and the GOP that started this world-wide financial and moral collapse --- and every cotton-era, slave-owner wishing minds are attempting to heap the blame on Obama because ---would you believe the impossible dream? --- that one man is supposed to be able to clean up the mess that took 8 years to accumulate. Does Obama --- or anyone else, for that matter ---walk on water?
Give us a break, you morons, and try another angle.
Your records (just like the old 78rpms) are all broken, outdated and falling apart.

B. Pierre

05/02/2010 13:58:06

(Corrections

What else is new about the extreme right wings from around the globe?
8 disastrous years of lies, conspiraces, "no-bid contracts by Cheney's Halliburton in Iraq) under Bush/Cheney and the GOP that started this world-wide financial and moral collapse --- and every cotton-era, slave-owner wishing minds are attempting to heap the blame on Obama because ---would you believe the impossible dream? --- that one man is supposed to be able to clean up the mess that took 8 years to accumulate. Does Obama --- or anyone else, for that matter ---walk on water?
Give us a break, you morons, and try another angle.
Your records (just like the old 78rpms) are all broken, outdated and falling apart.

B. Pierre

C. Blazejczyk

05/02/2010 15:13:14

In fact, Mr. Pierre, the roots of the current financial crisis go back to the Clinton administration requiring banks to increase home loans to people who otherwise were too risky to lend to. Recall that the defaults on home mortgages started the crisis. Though I would agree the Bush administration acted too late once the problem became apparent.

Regardless, the direction of US foreign policy lately has been somewhat... indefinite. I think we need to do a better job of taking a stance and sticking with it. An imperfect direction is better than going back and forth all the time (i.e. Guantanamo, European missile defence, Mid-East Peace). Generally speaking.

Art T.

05/02/2010 15:29:51

Pierre, Bush was hardly "extreme right wing". Obama didn't have a mess to cleanup, the mission in Iraq is was practically over, and the housing mess was caused by the liberals (Starting with Carter, Clinton, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd), federal regulations (Fair Housing Act), Fannie & Freddie. So check your facts, stop listening to anti American propaganda. Obama got the US in a far worst shape than it ever was under Bush. He is single handedly messing up the US economy & foreign policy with policies that never, ever worked. Read some History books god dammit!!!

Alex

05/02/2010 16:36:21

Just like Poland, America isn't dead yet.

Zack

05/02/2010 18:15:16

Sean Hannity is a Neoconservative tool who would kiss Bush's butt if he could. He hates true conservatives, like Ron Paul and others, who follow the Constitution and want real change in the system. What people don't realize, both parties are swayed by the banks with all the wealth.

All the bickering about differences in Democrats and Republicans is there to make sure Americans stay on one side, and never unite for a common cause of true change.

Joey

05/02/2010 18:58:24

Pierre you're a fool that mess has been brewing for decades. Obama isn't fixing it, he's perpetuating it.

Czarny Kot

05/02/2010 19:01:20

This is from a TV channel which has hired Sarah Palin as a pundit so who's going to take it seriously?

Also, events during last year's European election campaign showed that Mr. Walesa, for all his previous achievements, will now say whatever people want him to say.

He'll probably show up on the Daily Show next week calling George Bush a moron.

@Zack: Well said. I am no conservative but I have a lot of respect (and I agree on some topics) for REAL conservatives like Pat Buchanan.

Joey

05/02/2010 19:04:09

Pat Buchanan? Are you serious, he's not a true conservative, he's a religious nut case.

Michael

05/02/2010 19:06:59

In case anyone forgot, the US follows this funny notion of "separation of powers" where governing is divided into three separate, autonomous branches.

It is easy to blame Bush and the GOP for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, for the economic meltdown that started under their "reign", for global warming, steroids allegations in baseball, the reason football in the US is called "soccer" -- hell, blame them for whatever you want.

Last time I checked, however, Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic Party campaigned in the midterm elections of 2006 to end the war in Iraq and crack down on corruption and overspending. They won. The result?

A surge in Iraq. More wasteful spending. An increasingly belligerent Iran. Nothing has changed. At all. Bush didn't fail us. The American political system did.

Remember, kids: The number one goal of every politician is to stay in power.

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