GOP Senator, Conservative Pundits Claim Obama's Cairo Speech Anti-American (VIDEO)

Conservative pundits have launched into President Barack Obama's speech in Cairo, calling it "sympathetic" to 9/11 and critical of the U.S. military. Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe joined in, calling Obama's speech "un-American" and said he couldn't tell "whose side he's on."

On his Fox News show, Sean Hannity edited a clip of the speech to make it sound as if Obama "decided to give 9-11 sympathizers a voice on the world stage." Media Matters explains: "In fact, the context of Obama's words makes clear that Obama was condemning those who would 'justify the events of 9-11.'"

Former Bush speechwriter Marc Theissen claimed that Obama's speech was critical of the U.S. military.

"President Bush would never have criticized our military or our intelligence community on foreign soil," he said. "He basically threw our military under the bus in front of a Muslim audience."

Oklahoma Sen. Inhofe joined the squawkers, calling the speech "un-American" because Obama described the war in Iraq as a "war of choice."

Inhofe, R-Tulsa, also criticized the president for suggesting that torture was conducted at the military prison in Guantanamo, saying, "There has never been a documented case of torture at Guantanamo."

"I just don't know whose side he's on,'' Inhofe said of the president.

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Comments

[Bfoots57]

Wow! The right-winged nuts extremists and the militant muslim extremists are strange bed-fellows.

Obama is really making them sweat. Ha! Ha! Ha! This is better than any soap opera or reality tv show.

Can't wait to see what happens next.

[TSAQ]

(AMERICA) is (NOT) in the (HOLY BIBLE), so how could anything be (American or un-America­n)?-------­-(THE RED MAN'S HOMELAND) is the only accurate record that (THE GOD OF HEAVEN) has recorded.

[omobob]

15 watt dim bulbs in a 150 mega watt world.

[omobob]

What else can they say? They have no ideas of what they want, they just know what they don’t like_a President who gets things done. They have nothing on their minds but the utter failure of the United States. They would bring down the Administration just to say I told you so. Irrelevant and infantile.

[GenXer]

Shameful, "Fair and Balanced" my a**. Conservatives really have a problem with truthiness. Of course W wouldn't admit to military and policy mistakes, He lied about his cocaine use to save face with children. The conservatives are really trying to elicite selective memory on the consciousnece of the US. If we never admit to torture, it never happened. Well, time to wake up and smell the endictments, some one is going to pay. After all, what ever happened to acountable government?

[NeoLiberal]

I'm going to misspell his name from now on. My own sort of editing...

[heartsick]

Whose name, Sean Hannut's? Did he finish high school? If so, which one? Parents' need to know now that they should should move to another district before it's too late.

[NeoLiberal]

Although technically Hanitty's segments are labeled as commentary, therefore excluded from rigorous fact-checking and other 'truth' requirements as outlined by FCC guidelines, I'm sure he did not personally edit the video and audio--some technician did.

Is that technician taking orders from an editorialist or someone else?

Another blatant example that Faux News is tredding on thin ice when it comes to journalistic intergrity.

A few more false moves, and the FCC may want to peep a little closer into its operations.

It can't broadcast without a license, you know.

[jnutlfam2]

It is un-American to torture, it is un-American to lie your country into war, it is un-American, call the Constitution of the United States just a piece of paper, it is un-American to wish our government for and by the people, were a dictatorship. The list of un-American activities performed by the bush administration and today's republicans is just.....too un-American

[MacGregor57]

Fox, translated into Russian, is Pravda.

[bubbuh]

трахает новости = baise des nouvelles = jode noticias = f**ks news

[justanotherbushhater]

Sean Hannity: education? Bartending school.

[Plus15]

Inhofe - Are the people of Oklahoma really this stupid and anti-America?

[bubbuh]

Remember the smart ones left during the Dustbowl years in the 1930's. Also, they built a lot of fallout shelters in Oklahoma in the 1950's and they are still upset that they did not get value for their money. Their cops still enjoy beating up Indians and, based on news reports last week, ambulance attendants, while the latter are on duty.

[SheamusK]

Hannity and his fellow travellers have always shown themselves to be nothing more or less than the heirs of Goebbels whose axiom for advancing his philosophy was to continue to lie until people believe it to be the truth. And as proof of that I point to Hannity's friend in Teheran Mr. Amedinejad another racist/liar idealogue.

[Smaiyna]

They are frustrated President Obama is one step ahead of them. He is not giving them much to criticize, so they are making things up. They criticize him for things that make them look foolish, and out of touch with most Americans. What a bunch of egomaniacs.

[dillydawg]

Fox and Fools. I had no idea that the Republican Party could be so stupid.

[Plus15]

I'm afraid Obama's far more then one step ahead of the Republicans. Can you imagine Palin or McCain out there on the world stage? Imagine the world wide response. They don't work for America they work for the GOP which is much different.

[fictioneer]

Conservatives don't even understand English anymore.

[cindygump]

What does anyone expect form Faux news? That is just typical of them to distort the facts and when you consider the number of people who watch them over the other cable news stations it is scary to think that people will believe them. I

[Lasnoe]

what was distorted.­....?????? The words were from Obama's own mouth... why don't you explain what the undistorted facts are?????

[dillydawg]

Silly.

[jamesreid]

WRONG Lasnoe!

You watched Sean Hannity's clipped version of Obama's speech. Listen to it for yourself in the original.

Where would Repubs be except extolling greed and creating fear?

[LiberTLover]

When you edit a clip and string words together to make it sound like someone said the exact opposite of what they said, that is more that a distortion. The right is so pathetically desperate that they are outright fabricating videos to try and discredit the President of the United States of America. So much for Country first, their motto is "keep my audience and my $10 million a year paycheck" first, and apparently by any means necessary, however scumlike they may be.

[DMSmith]

Read or watch the ACTUAL speech.

[4KixAfter6]

but look, look, the words came out of his mouth ......m0r0n