Piers Morgan Shocks the World With Sweeping Tell-All About His Feelings on Obama IJ ReviewFormer CNN host Piers Morgan, who now works for Britain’s Daily Mail, went after President Obama over his handling of ISIS in a MailOnline op-ed.
Referring to Obama as “shameless,” Morgan said that not only has he thrown U.S. intelligence agencies under the bus by blaming them for underestimating the terrorist organization, but that he’s also put America at risk with his complacency.
He even quoted Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to make his point:
As Governor Chris Christie pointed out, by saying ‘they’ rather than ‘we’, Obama tried to distance himself from any personal responsibility or accountability for what has been a catastrophic failure to act over the greatest terror threat facing the world since Osama Bin Laden.
As many journalists and political figures (from both parties) in the U.S. have done, Morgan placed the blame squarely on the President:
The truth is that Obama is the one who underestimated ISIS, plunging his head ostrich-like into the sand and hoping they would go away without having to do anything to actually make them go away.
There were clear, unambiguous public warnings made nearly a year ago in front of the Foreign Affairs Committee that ISIS was on the march in Syria and Iraq.
But perhaps Obama missed them.
Hardly surprising when we discover yesterday that he has only attended 42.1 percent of his Presidential Daily intelligence briefings.
The often-snarky Morgan couldn’t resist offering a suggestion as to why Obama has missed so many briefings:
Imagine how emboldened they must have felt when Obama made his ‘heartfelt’ speech about journalist James Foley’s execution, and was then seen laughing and joking on the golf course SEVEN MINUTES later.
Obama has so far played golf 192 times since becoming President.
Even (Irish pro-golfer) Rory McIlroy would struggle to match such enthusiasm for the game.
Morgan’s advice? “It’s time he got off the damn golf course, got up to speed with his intelligence briefings and focused on wiping out ISIS” – before they wipe out more Americans. Piers Morgan. Who knew?
