DISQUS

Butch1 · 9 months ago

He got shut down by a pro and he doesn't like it or doesn't know when to let it go. He's a typical dense republican who was trying to score some "got ya" points and didn't know he was out of his league with Obama. Isn't it amazing how brazen he can be with Obama and could never find his cojones when Bush was in power. Never a peep out of him or the others except the scratching on their steno pads.

Jim Olson · 9 months ago

So let me get this right. 40 million people saw President Obama kick Ed Henry's ass all over the east room, and he's trying to spin it? What a tool.

An_American_Karol · 9 months ago

It's funny how Henry needed to point out the Democrats didn't like his question while the Republicans supported it.
I wonder if he knows that's the wrong response for someone trying to be impartial. He is NO journalist.

High Crimes & Misdemeanors · 9 months ago

Yeah right, and does anyone see anything wrong at this "journalist's" sentence??
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"What do I think? I've got no hard feelings toward the president and I assume he feels the same, but I can't worry about that."

An_American_Karol · 9 months ago

Sounds like he has his agenda, and it doesn't include objectivity.

Mark217 · 9 months ago

Ed's agenda does not include good grammar.

shell · 9 months ago

This reminds me of about 15 years ago. The MSM were all (and I do mean ALL) saying, "The Left AND the Right get mad at us so I guess we are being fair!"

I remember thinking, "Are they really THAT stupid?" And had to come to the conclusion that they were.

Apphouse50 · 9 months ago

Ed got pwned. And then, to put icing on the cake, he tries to declare victory.

Obama drinks Ed's milkshake. What fun!

Draaaaaainage.

shell · 9 months ago

"After frantic preparation for the prime-time newser with several colleagues, especially lead CNN White House producer Tim McCaughan, I had several provocative questions in my pocket."

FRANTIC preparation? And "several" colleagues helped you? And THIS is what you came up with? Provocative? hahahahaha

qi6588 · 9 months ago

Read the viewer comments on the CNN web page. They are hysterical. They are hammering him.

A.Political · 9 months ago

The beautiful thing was how he knew they would ask questions like that one, never actually addressing the issues and thereby robbing the public of understanding the issues --- so he did the unusually illustrative closing statement and lead in.

He really is running circles around the villagers.

aliasalias · 9 months ago

as Groucho said.."who ya' gonna believe, me or your lyin' eyes?"

el rojo · 9 months ago

The quote is actually Chico's, and is "who you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?" (Following Mrs. Teasdale's "But I saw you with my own eyes.")

TheAngryFag · 9 months ago

He got owned and he knows it. Now he's trying to play it down.

Steve_in_CNJ · 9 months ago

he has "no hard feelings" towards the president.

barkleyg · 9 months ago

Hell Yes. He is as soft a puddy!

barkleyg · 9 months ago

Or: Don't worry honey. I haven't taken the blue pill yet!

TheAngryFag · 9 months ago

Of course not. He does not want to be banished to "Siberia" like the bloggers were under Bush.

Indigo · 9 months ago

The nation doesn't need another clown. We've got Rush Limbaugh. That's enough.

Steve_in_CNJ · 9 months ago

self indulgent thumbsucker.

cosanostradamus · 9 months ago

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He's just trying to place himself in the center of the narrative. The news isn't about the news, it's about the newsies, today. They run the country, or they're supposed to, if by "they," you mean their corporate masters.

Please, folks, STOP WATCHING THAT SH*T!!!

If we all tuned them out, only those over 80 or under 80 IQ would be drooling along with them. F**k them. Watch Obama & Co. on CSPAN or YOUTUBE if you must. Turn off the media formerly known as mainstream. It's poisonous.
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shell · 9 months ago

I don't know how old you are, but it does no good to beg this. I have been doing so for longer than I care to remember. Everyone thinks you are exaggerating. Then when they see you are correct, a newer, younger batch shows up, again saying you are exaggerating.

Sigh. Just sit back and watch. Or try persuasion for as long as you can stand it.

cosanostradamus · 9 months ago

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The ratings bear me out.

What bothers me is that the remaining audience is bleating sheep who are p*ssing themselves in media-generated fear and dragging the whole economy down. I am personally hurting as a direct result of the deliberate sabotage by the corporate media, heaped upon the ruin that they helped lead us into. They should not only be ignored. They should be arrested.

Bloggers do no one any good by obsessing on enemy propaganda, which is all that it is. It ain't just annoying any more. It's destructive. We can stop it by turning them off.
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jharp · 9 months ago

Gotta tip my hat to the commentators at the CNN article.

Ed got taken to the woodshed. So richly deserved yet even worse than one would think.

Lolis · 9 months ago

Jay Leno just repeated the exchange and the punchline was that Obama really was a change from the last eight years for wanting to understand a problem before he speaks.

The media has tried to spin this as Obama's testy moment, but the people loved it.

missime · 9 months ago

Where was Ed Henry when Bush declared "Mission Accomplished" but then waited years to confess that he was too hasty in declaring "Mission Accomplished" without an apology? Where was Ed Henry when the previous administration brainwashed us in going to war without hard evidence?

I think President Obama was telling Ed that Ed did not know what he was talking about.

tangodaddy · 9 months ago

to my mind his question captures the viewpoint as to what CNN has been saying, lately the John King interview of Cheney. Last night punditry with Bill Bennett and Castellanos today. Failure is the meme!!

benb · 9 months ago

This country gave much less scrutiny to Bush's decision to invade Iraq than to Obama's strategy to get us out of the economic hole we're in.

Oh yeah, that question about Racism---that was embarrassing; I winced when the reporter asked it.

Todd · 9 months ago

Readers: definitely do check out the CNN comments -- they are civil (probably due to a moderator) but 95% take Henry to task for making himself the story, rather than addressing real issues.

An_American_Karol · 9 months ago

I read them this afternoon. The only ones siding with Henry were Right wing nutters. You know right off the bat they are partial because they call President Obama dumb ass names like Obummer or the Messiah.

Arachnae · 9 months ago

What's funny is when the GOSSIP rags are more realistic than the political press. Here's Jossip:

Let's get right to it: CNN simpleton Ed Henry asking why the president and Tim Geithner didn't go public with their outrage immediately after hearing about the AIG bonuses. This is a good question, because it's normally very common for the leader of the free world to publicly spew vitriolic screeds at any hint of trouble. Oh where, oh where have all our hotheaded leaders gone (besides the Hague)?

Thank god Obama knows what a clown Henry is and was basically all, "You're a stupid clown. Sit down."

Jackson Thersites · 9 months ago

Obviously not one to think before he speaks Henry just keeps on pushing that foot of his deeper down his throat, perhaps in the hope it will someday meet his head stuck up the other end.

Mark217 · 9 months ago

What I cannot grasp is --with so many crises going on for our nation on so many fronts-- that a journalist from a large news organization gets face time with the president and he attempts a pathetic, nonsubstantive, gotcha-style verbal exchange. Maybe Ed Henry should have skipped the president's news conference completely. Perhaps Ed should have acompanied Eric Cantor to the Britney Spears concert. The latter gathering seems to be more in line with Mr. Henry's intellect. There are people who didn't finish high school living in tents in Bushvilles (modern-day Hoovervilles) and American 5th graders who could have asked the president more meaningful and important questions than Ed Henry. On the bright side, at least Ed Henry isn't a male prostitute (not that we know of... yet). That is, at least, one improvement from the Bush White House press corps. Still, one could assert that Ed Henry is a whore of a diferent type. Maybe, next time, CNN should send someone intelligent and more serious to the White House (Christian Amanpour, for example).

David · 9 months ago

"thanks for doing your job"????????

whatever you guys have not been doing your job for the last 8 years!

Chimpeach · 9 months ago

haha. here's a comment posted to the article at CNN

What a joke! Who cares about the backstory of your glorious question. This is truly pathetic. It reminds me of GEORGE COSTANZA in the episode where he thinks of the perfect "comeback" after the fact. Thanks for sharing. Seriously, get a grip Ed.

Karen · 9 months ago

My God these people are self-ablsorbed.

MsJoanne · 9 months ago

Ed Henry is such an uber douche.

One of our commenters wrote THE FUNNIEST and pithiest comments about old Ed. You have got to read this...it is really hysterical.

http://tpzoo.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/5thstate-...

SouthernYankee · 9 months ago

That is exactly why the President is smart to go around the MSM. They ask dumb questions. I thought the answer to Henry's question was really good.