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Frequent White House critic Rep. Peter King (R-NY) said today on ABC's "Good Morning America" that President Obama should use the world "terrorism" more frequently.
Host George Stephanopoulos interviewed King, who said someone should be held accountable in the wake of the failed terror attempt on Flight 253.
The host asked "one other specific recommendation the president could implement."
"One main thing would be, just himself, to use the word 'terrorism' more often," King said.
A quick search shows that Obama used the word "terrorism" at least seven times in less than a month, including during his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech and when announcing his new plan for more troops in Afghanistan.
Some Republicans have incorrectly claimed Obama doesn't use the word at all.
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CT Voter
January 6, 2010 2:09 PM
Is this the same Peter King who was such a strong supporter of the IRA that he was subjected to strip searches?
And his first suggestion to the president is to use the word "terrorist" more? This is beyond absurd at this point.
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raincntry
January 6, 2010 4:18 PM in reply to CT Voter
It's not terrorism if the perpetrators are white.
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ericf
January 6, 2010 4:24 PM in reply to CT Voter
It's not terrorism when you support the cause. My terrorists are heroes who should get due process. Your terrorists don't deserve trials.
By the way, shouldn't King be the first to realize that the IRA gained support because terrorism suspects were so badly treated by the British government?
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kenga
January 6, 2010 4:48 PM in reply to ericf
You'd think, right?
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baba2nde
January 6, 2010 5:22 PM in reply to CT Voter
The gentleman is right. Terrifying words worked for 8 years.
Trouble is, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, --- you can't be fooled again.
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Rich in NJ
January 6, 2010 2:11 PM
Colbert and Stewart are funnier, but not by much.
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Redshift
January 6, 2010 2:18 PM
I take it from the brevity of this post that Stephanopoulos didn't ask King how saying "terrorism" more would make us safer? Or why he's demanding more accountability for the response to an unsuccessful terrorist attack than he ever did for the response to the successful 9/11 attacks?
Perhaps if Obama established a new White House group of national security monks to ceaselessly chant "terrorism", and awarded Janet Napolitano the Medal of Freedom, he would be sufficiently Bush-like for King's taste.
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CT Voter
January 6, 2010 3:20 PM in reply to Redshift
didn't ask King how saying "terrorism" more would make us safer?
Good grief. You expect a Republican to be questioned?
What are you, anyway? Why do you hate the USA?
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Xantar
January 6, 2010 2:19 PM
Hey everybody, let's do our patriotic duty and keep the country safe. All we have to do is use the word "terrorism." Here we go.
terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism
Ok! Who else wants to pitch in?
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chimpale
January 6, 2010 2:29 PM in reply to Xantar
I'll bet that if enough people all said it at the same time, it could make terrorists disappear.
Seriously, has he not seen his idiocy ridiculed on several different news shows already? Read the memos from Dipshit Central, Peter.
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lapdogs
January 6, 2010 5:48 PM in reply to chimpale
When are the voters in his district going to finally get embarrassed enough with this clown and vote him out of office.
Or is his district just as stupid?
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WaitWut?
January 6, 2010 2:38 PM in reply to Xantar
Thanks. I feel safer already. In fact, I'm going to book my vacation to Yemen this afternoon!!
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lapdogs
January 6, 2010 5:57 PM in reply to WaitWut?
When you get to the airport to fly off to Yemen, don't forget to "stay safe" by saying TERROR or TERRORISTS or TERRORISM when they tell you to take your shoes off.
Tell them you're just following Peter King's wishes.
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WaitWut?
January 6, 2010 6:03 PM in reply to lapdogs
Just had the visual (and auditory) of screaming TERRORIST in the screeners face.
Um.
Got bail?
Would be friggin hilarious, though...later. Much later. After the interrogations and stuff. And as long as the screener didn't need any medical attention or anything. Long term anti-psych meds...that kinda stuff.
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ogliberal
January 6, 2010 3:00 PM in reply to Xantar
Not only will it make terrorism go away but Dorothy will get to go home, Clarence will get his wings, Rocket from "Little Einsteins" will blast off, and everybody will get a pony. If we say it enough times, Rudy will be resurrected from his political death, rise to the big Emergency Command Center in the sky (located, of course, in the spirit of the old WTC 7) and become the God of 9/11.
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lousgirl84
January 6, 2010 4:36 PM in reply to Xantar
You took the terrorism words right out of my mouth.
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lousgirl84
January 6, 2010 4:38 PM in reply to Xantar
I'm game!!
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Steve LaBonne
January 6, 2010 2:24 PM
Peter King could make the country smarter by emigrating.
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farnsworth
January 6, 2010 2:24 PM
Teresm?
Terra?
Tersssm?
Dang, if only Obama would use the word more, maybe I could spell it. :-(
Tergasm?
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WaitWut?
January 6, 2010 2:40 PM in reply to farnsworth
Tergasm? Isn't that what Repubs have when there is a terrorist attack?
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Matt Jones
January 6, 2010 6:09 PM in reply to WaitWut?
Ew.
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middlenamesareseriousbusiness
January 6, 2010 3:45 PM
I don't think saying the word "terrorist" doesn't make terrorists go away. They're not Beetlejuice.
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middlenamesareseriousbusiness
January 6, 2010 3:46 PM
"Makes terrorists go away," rather. Bleh, edit function please.
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sunnysteve
January 6, 2010 3:52 PM in reply to middlenamesareseriousbusiness
What word would make Dick Cheney go away?
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CT Voter
January 6, 2010 4:03 PM in reply to sunnysteve
Green balloons?
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SS247
January 6, 2010 4:13 PM in reply to sunnysteve
Cheney doesn't listen to anyone, so I don't think words will make him go away.
Deep-fried foods might do the trick. He hasn't had a heart attack in a while. And I don't care how offensive that is. There is a special place in hell for Cheney.
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Hussein Stemper
January 6, 2010 4:16 PM in reply to sunnysteve
"Condi's having a Tupperware party"?
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lousgirl84
January 6, 2010 4:39 PM in reply to sunnysteve
Death!!!
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Matt Jones
January 6, 2010 6:01 PM in reply to sunnysteve
"War crimes indictment".
OK, technically that's not one word unless you say it reeeeally fast. :)
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WaitWut?
January 6, 2010 6:14 PM in reply to Matt Jones
K. My boss just looked at me really funny 'cause I tried.
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Leftflank
January 6, 2010 11:13 PM in reply to sunnysteve
Beetledick
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JohnW1141
January 6, 2010 4:15 PM
King is a blowhard. He babbled about Obama taking too long to speak out about this most recent attempt at terrorism, and now he's babbling that Obama wasn't forceful enough in his latest speech on ths issue.
King is as bad as his Congressional namesake from Iowa.
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monet768
January 6, 2010 4:18 PM
SICK MOFO'S......THAT'S WHY WE ARE HERE NOW. THANKS GWB AND DIRTY DICK
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we r all husseins
January 6, 2010 4:19 PM
Hm, I think this sentence needs to be edited to read: "All Republicans have incorrectly claimed (Fill in claim here)
As for Rep. King, where was his "frequent" White House criticism during the previous administration?
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monet768
January 6, 2010 4:19 PM
How about let's do our patriotic duty and pray for Dirty Dick Cheney to die
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lousgirl84
January 6, 2010 4:40 PM in reply to monet768
I do all the time. Some people shouldn't be allowed to live and he is one of them
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barnacle
January 6, 2010 4:23 PM
Perhaps Obama can tape the single word "terrorist" and create a loop tape for the good senator.
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boycottfaux
January 6, 2010 4:37 PM
Hey Forrest Gump . .
If I keep saying the word 'virgin' over and over and over again, I guess that'll make me . . .
STOOOOPID!!
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lousgirl84
January 6, 2010 4:38 PM in reply to boycottfaux
Rethugs have a monopoly on stoopid!!! and on Ugly too!!
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Sailormarlowe
January 6, 2010 4:37 PM
Peter King's face makes you think of many words. His voice evokes many more. All unprintable.
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Moloko+
January 6, 2010 4:40 PM
I still have my original "Whip Inflation Now" button.
It came with my new edition of Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman.
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sbv
January 6, 2010 4:50 PM
the good ol' gop likes to think they talked the talk; but we know they didn't walk the walk; the only people who fall for their bs are the media/pundits types and those who don't want their prejudices confused with the facts!
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lapdogs
January 6, 2010 5:04 PM
Terrorism, Terrorism, Terrorism!! There King, satisfied?
Good, now go tell Obama to bring our troops home because I have just solved the terrorism problem all around the world.
And while you're at it King, go to a hospital and get a brain transplant. You need one real bad.
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Kuyleh
January 6, 2010 5:05 PM
Wow. If saying terrorism makes the evil baddies go away, then what's the word to make the retard Rightwingers go poof?
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Weitberg
January 6, 2010 5:12 PM
If there's one thing Obama is not interested in doing, it's govern with only the power of words.
TheWeekinRebuke.com
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susanthe
January 6, 2010 5:16 PM
Perhaps for his next act, Rep. King could tell us what word will magically add 10 million+ jobs to the US economy.
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slb
January 6, 2010 5:23 PM
Some Republicans have incorrectly claimed Obama doesn't use the word at all.
And repeated the incorrect claim endlessly.
They are good little students of Goebbels.
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lapdogs
January 6, 2010 5:44 PM in reply to slb
That's what happens when they don't know how to use some new, fangled, series-of-tubes, thing-a-majig called "The Internets" with this thingy known as The Google.
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lapdogs
January 6, 2010 6:08 PM
Stephanopoulos is just as crazy in this interview with King, by not asking King how saying Terrorism in The White House will solve the terror problems around the world.
These so-called reporters have got to learn to call politicians out when they make Stupid Comments!
Instead, they keep their mouths shut and proceed onto the next question.
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Leftflank
January 6, 2010 11:25 PM
Terror Terror Does a Peter King trump a Dick Army? Terror Terror
Terror Terror Terror Terror
Terror Terror
Terror
If we say wimps, does it get rid of the GOP"
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Smokey Room
January 6, 2010 11:57 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/24/AR2009032402818.html
The above link is to the article that first ruffled Republican feathers. Just as passing along a phrase from person to person to person most often gets distorted by the time the last person says it, the same is true in this case. It is the term "war on terror" that the Obama memo shuns and not the word "terrorist"
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