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Title: Did the Media Care When Obama Fired General Mattis?
Post by: mystery-ak on December 23, 2018, 03:04:10 pm
December 23, 2018
Did the Media Care When Obama Fired General Mattis?
By Daniel John Sobieski

Defense secretaries come and go.  President Obama had four of them in eight years, who had some unkind things to say about his leadership or lack of it.  There was no talk of chaos or of the only adult in the room leaving.

Suddenly, the media are in a meltdown after "Mad Dog" Mattis announced his departure from the Cabinet after President Trump announced our departure from Syria:

    Foreign Policy Pentagon reporter Lara Seligman wrote the press corp [sic] is contemplating suicide over Mattis' resignation, "I think I speak for all national security reporters tonight when I say I'm about ready to jump off a cliff. But at least I already wrote the "who will replace Mattis" story two months (only two months?????) ago[."]

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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/12/did_the_media_care_when_obama_fired_general_mattis.html (https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/12/did_the_media_care_when_obama_fired_general_mattis.html)