I’m a Fox News junkie. If you walk into my home at any given point of the day, coffee’s brewing, talk radio is on and Fox News is playing in the background. (I swear, I’m not an old lady.)
I’ve always liked Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer. He rarely– if ever– injects his personal opinion. However, Fox sent him over to cover President Obama’s G20 summit speech, and he was so disappointed, he actually let loose.
“If you were waiting to hear a U.S. president say ‘I feel your pain,’ or if you were waiting to hear a U.S. president say ‘It’s them or us,’ that is not what you just heard,” Hemmer said. “President Obama called the attacks here in Paris a setback at one point. He was asked, ‘Is it time for you to change your strategy?’ More or less, he said no. ‘Have you underestimated the abilities of ISIS?’ More or less, he said no. ‘Do you understand how to defeat ISIS?” His response: This is a variation of the same question.’
“President Obama has made it quite clear in that Q-and-A that lasted more than 45 minutes that he has accepted there are evils in this world and evils in places like Paris, France, and this is something that we all must face today,” he continued. “It’s a reality in the world we live. If you’re at home wondering, with your own set of anger and your own set of fears about what could happen next, you are not alone, because that’s precisely what you feel here in Paris, France. And if you were waiting for clarification on your feelings through that Q-and-A, you weren’t going to get it. The president’s strategy, as stated over the weekend, continues.”
The Paris attacks? A setback. ISIS? We have them contained. Our strategy? We have one. It just takes time.
The President of the United States, everybody.