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NBCs David Gregory Misquotes Obama, Falsely Claims President Said Al Qaeda Has Been Defeated
By Judd Legum on Sep 30, 2012 at 12:11 pm
This morning on Meet The Press, David Gregory twice asserted that, in May, President Obama declared that al Qaeda has been defeated. Gregory used that claim to advance a theory that Obama was simply not concerned enough about al Qaeda in advance of the attack on the American embassy in Libya. Heres the transcript:
GREGORY: The President has said as recently as May of this year that al Qaeda has not had a chance to rebuild, that al Qaeda has been defeated. There is an election on, as weve been talking about, and the Presidents challenger said plain and simple, the President failed to level with the American people and call this a terrorist attack, because you had to be concerned about another terrorist attack from al Qaeda in the Middle East after the President said that al Qaeda had been defeated.
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That is not, however, what Obama said in May. Gregory was apparently referring to an address that Obama delivered from Afghanistan in May on the one year anniversary of Osama Bin Ladens death. Here is what Obama said:
And one year ago, from a base here in Afghanistan, our troops launched the operation that killed Osama bin Laden. The goal that I set to defeat al Qaeda and deny it a chance to rebuild is now within our reach.
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http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/09/30/931421/nbcs-david-gregory-misquotes-obama-falsely-claims-president-said-al-qaeda-had-been-defeated/
TeamPooka
(24,223 posts)global1
(25,242 posts)many people that heard him will believe him. We need to contact NBC and get them to get him to retract that statement.
dmr
(28,347 posts)What a fuckin' snot, he knew exactly what he was doing.
Gregory doesn't deserve the Meet The Press spot, and he also needs to publicly apologize.
bigdarryl
(13,190 posts)You know meet the depress is horrible since Tim Russertt
The Doctor.
(17,266 posts)Better than half the DU membership would make better journalists than 95% of the 'professionals' in current time slots.