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Were CNN’s Acosta, Fox’s Hemmer Right to Go After President So Passionately on ISIS Strategy?
Mediaite
Joe Concha
11/16/2015
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If my usually-benign, mostly apolitical Facebook feed is any indication, Acosta isn’t wrong in that assumption. Many Americans are angry. They are frustrated with the president’s lack of urgency and aggressiveness in taking on the most evil entity the world has seen since Nazi Germany. A Reuters/Ipsos poll taken over the weekend reflects that, with 60 percent of those polled stating they want the United States to do more in the fight against ISIS, and 17 percent listing terrorism as their top concern, tying the economy for the top issue on voters’ minds (making the 2016 election suddenly look like 2004, at least for now).
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Was Hemmer–a former CNN anchor from 1995-2005 and an almost-30-year news veteran–playing to the crowd? Well, again, just take a look at his history, which is notably unspectacular in terms of controversy and devoid of soapbox moments. Instead, this appeared to be a human moment for Hemmer as it was for Acosta. And not to draw headlines or attention… there’s no need to be auditioning for anything at this point for either of their careers. Instead, and watch the video above before somehow coming to a conclusion, it appeared to be a genuine frustration and exasperation that these attacks by ISIS will go unpunished while fear of something similar or worse happening here in the U.S. a bigger concern. Note: another finding in the aforementioned Reuters/Ipsos poll shows that 63 percent of Americans fear a Paris-like attack could happen near them.
In cable news, there’s the news page and the editorial page. Jim Acosta and Bill Hemmer work in the former.
But for one day with emotions still running high from an act of war striking the city of lights, both went outside the job description.
Given the circumstances and feeling around the country–France, U.S., Lebanon, civilization in general–both can be forgiven for doing so.
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http://www.mediaite.com/online/were-...isis-strategy/
Mediaite
Joe Concha
11/16/2015
Excerpt:
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“I wanted to go back to something you said… earlier when you said you have not underestimated ISIS’s abilities. This is an organization that you once described as a JV team, that evolved into a now occupied territory in Iraq and Syria and is now able to use that safe haven to launch attacks in other parts of the world. How is that not underestimating their capabilities? And how is that ‘contained,’ quite frankly? And I think a lot of Americans have this frustration that they see that the United States has the greatest military in the world, it has the backing of nearly every other country in the world when it comes to taking on ISIS. I guess the question is– and if you’ll forgive the language– is why can’t we take out these bastards?”
If my usually-benign, mostly apolitical Facebook feed is any indication, Acosta isn’t wrong in that assumption. Many Americans are angry. They are frustrated with the president’s lack of urgency and aggressiveness in taking on the most evil entity the world has seen since Nazi Germany. A Reuters/Ipsos poll taken over the weekend reflects that, with 60 percent of those polled stating they want the United States to do more in the fight against ISIS, and 17 percent listing terrorism as their top concern, tying the economy for the top issue on voters’ minds (making the 2016 election suddenly look like 2004, at least for now).
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“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… If you’re at home wondering with your own set of anger and your own set of fears about what can happen next, you are not alone, because that is precisely what you feel here in Paris, France. And if you were awaiting clarification on your feelings through that Q-and-A, you weren’t gonna get it.”
Was Hemmer–a former CNN anchor from 1995-2005 and an almost-30-year news veteran–playing to the crowd? Well, again, just take a look at his history, which is notably unspectacular in terms of controversy and devoid of soapbox moments. Instead, this appeared to be a human moment for Hemmer as it was for Acosta. And not to draw headlines or attention… there’s no need to be auditioning for anything at this point for either of their careers. Instead, and watch the video above before somehow coming to a conclusion, it appeared to be a genuine frustration and exasperation that these attacks by ISIS will go unpunished while fear of something similar or worse happening here in the U.S. a bigger concern. Note: another finding in the aforementioned Reuters/Ipsos poll shows that 63 percent of Americans fear a Paris-like attack could happen near them.
In cable news, there’s the news page and the editorial page. Jim Acosta and Bill Hemmer work in the former.
But for one day with emotions still running high from an act of war striking the city of lights, both went outside the job description.
Given the circumstances and feeling around the country–France, U.S., Lebanon, civilization in general–both can be forgiven for doing so.
View the complete article, including image and videos, at:
http://www.mediaite.com/online/were-...isis-strategy/