It Begins… Irate Lib Media Host Soledad O’Brien Ambushes Anti-Obama Book Author (Video)

She couldn’t help it.
CNN host Soledad O’Brien ambushed The Obamas author Jodi Kantor todoy. O’Brien lost it. She couldn’t stand it that Kantor revealed such intimate details on Michelle Obama.

Mediaite reported:

Soledad O’Brien welcomed The Obamas author Jodi Kantor on Starting Point Friday morning, and things got a little heated as O’Brien continuously tried to ask Kantor to defend her methodology in reporting the book.

O’Brien’s main point against Kantor was that she hasn’t interviewed the Obamas since 2009, but still wrote a book about details of their marriage (culled mostly from aides to the First Lady). Kantor defended her research by saying she had credible sources, sharing anecdotes that only these cooperative aides would have known.

“First Lady-hood is a really hard job,” Kantor told O’Brien, in the statement that set off the argument. “If you read the Laura Bush memoir, for example, she talks about feeling very misunderstood as First Lady, she talks about the isolation of living in the residence. You know, the house is practically–”

“But in a way, isn’t that the point?” O’Brien interrupted. “That’s her memoir. So after she leaves the White House as the First Lady — who often people leave their hands off the woman who isn’t elected to the office but is in the White House job to watch the kids… they write a memoir. And it’s her take on her experience in the White House.”

“But Soledad, your argument is that the First Lady shouldn’t be covered in a serious way by journalists? I look forward to reading her memoirs. But a reported book by an outside fair observer is a totally different project.”

“You have not interviewed her. You haven’t interviewed her! You haven’t inter–I don’t even know the First Lady. I interviewed her once, many years ago. Four years ago. You haven’t interviewed her since 2009,” O’Brien countered. “And there are many moments in the book where you talk about things that are internal to her relationship with her husband the President. I’m just saying — I do think you should cover her as a journalist — I’m just saying you can understand how someone would feel having their relationship taken apart in a book, deconstructed in a book, from someone who hasn’t done an interview with the two parties involved.”

#1 January 13, 2012 at 6:36 pm
Gus commented:

This is what American Jounalism has come to. Soledad O’Brien defending her own personal LORD and SAVIOR.

Bubbled headed bitch.
#2 January 13, 2012 at 6:37 pm
Meme commented:

You’ve been saying “It Begins” for quite while now.

Shouldn’t it be “It’s Ongoing” at this point, or is that not
a dramatic enough opener for you?
#3 January 13, 2012 at 6:41 pm
Remco Kimber commented:

The left just freak out when the truth of Romans 3:23 is brought front and center.

(It’s the one that reads, “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.”)
#4 January 13, 2012 at 6:47 pm
john b commented:

Hey soley….. where was your indignation when they (you) were doing this to Sarah Palin?????

Hey soley…. remember when you hosted some sort of after-the-vp-debate and asked the studio audience “how many of you thought Biden won?” …. the results were split, but you stated for the home audience: overwhelmingly Biden. Soley: You are a LIAR.
#5 January 13, 2012 at 6:49 pm
ar05075 commented:

Hey Sloedad, were these your thoughts toward Sarah Palin and family.???
#6 January 13, 2012 at 6:52 pm
Texas_Treeroach commented:

Really Jim!
How can a worm ambush anyone?
#7 January 13, 2012 at 6:52 pm
Restless Legs commented:

Anyone remember Kitty Kelley who wrote trashy books about George W. Bush, and the media couldn’t seem to get enough of her? (For example, The Today Show interviewed her on three consecutive days!)
#8 January 13, 2012 at 6:52 pm
Sole's Dad commented:

Jodi Kantor should know better than to bother with a CNN interview. Her book has had lots of publicity, isn’t it a best seller already? Maybe Jodi thought her NYT creds would get her some slack. Ha, not after writing some truths about the messiah and his angry black woman.
#9 January 13, 2012 at 6:56 pm
Pink Lady commented:

Go Aunt Esther!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#10 January 13, 2012 at 7:11 pm
Opaobie commented:

Hey, Soledad, how do you think an 85 year old Nun feels being sexually assaulted by a Homeland Security Brunhilda as a condition of being able to get on an airplane? How many of our private records are being oogled by government bureaucrats without our consent just for kicks? How many more outrages committed by the Obama regime do I need to list to get it into your thick numbskull that what goes around, comes around?
#11 January 13, 2012 at 7:11 pm
Sasja commented:

I think “Once Again” would be appropriate.

People such as Soledad are not journalists. They are propagandists.
#12 January 13, 2012 at 7:14 pm
ben commented:

Same exact line of attack that CNN’s Piers Morgan used on the author.
Obviously coordinated.
I give the author lots of respect for keeping her cool.
#13 January 13, 2012 at 7:23 pm
Opaobie commented:

Hey, Soledad, are you up for a fun game of “role playing”?…Piers can join, too. Ok, what shall we play?….I’ve got it!!! We can act out a current news story. Hmmmm, which one? I’ve got it!! You and Piers can be dead Taliban, and I’ll be a Marine. Ready?
#14 January 13, 2012 at 7:24 pm
BarbaraS commented:

These people are insane. It is amazing they can say these things with a straight face. Add to that completely stupid by coming out of the closet so completely. Look at the anger in O’Brien over a matter that as a news person she should neutral about. The truth of the matter is that to them obama is God and should be treated accordingly. It puzzles me where Michelle fits in this meme. The media, themselves, have put Michelle front and center in the news with her toned arms, food dictator and wonderful taste in clothing. To them, she is the epitome of wonderful and no slurs against her are allowed. Also, they truly believe if someone doesn’t agree with them, they have no right to speak. Notice how O’Brien interrups her guest constantly. No manners at all. Bill O’Reilly is guilty of these bad manners also. It irritates me when host and guest constantly talk at the same time so you can’t understand either one.
#16 January 13, 2012 at 7:28 pm
Oh Noes! commented:

Hahahahaha! Two libs going at it. Hahahahahahaha
#17 January 13, 2012 at 7:29 pm
BarbaraS commented:

I went to see the doctor two days ago with a bad sinus infaction. I don’t know if this is a goverment requirement but the doctor’s office now takes a picture or impression of your palm. Is this new method of idenifying us in liur of numbers tattooed on our wrists?
#18 January 13, 2012 at 7:30 pm
BarbaraS commented:

liur=lieu
#19 January 13, 2012 at 7:33 pm
JenBee commented:

Hmmm, interesting how anonymous sources are just fine when it’s some Extremist Right Winger (R) is being lambasted, but somehow it’s not okay when it’s The Lightbearer. Yeah, funny how that works, eh?
#20 January 13, 2012 at 7:37 pm
Old One commented:

If the CNN crone had been inerviewing an author of a book on a Republican first lady that exposed negative information she would have gone orgasmic and heaped laud on the the author.
#21 January 13, 2012 at 7:46 pm
Sasja commented:

Barbara, didn’t you ask them?
#22 January 13, 2012 at 7:55 pm
patman commented:

Why bother going on CNN. Only airport tv’s with no sound and conservative bloggers watch that channel anyhow.
#23 January 13, 2012 at 7:56 pm
Alana commented:

Oh, cry me a river, Soledad.
#24 January 13, 2012 at 8:03 pm
Militant Conservative commented:

What, the books author totally nailed the angry

Black beyotch. Sounded unbiased to me.
#25 January 13, 2012 at 8:16 pm
Cobalt-Blue commented:

Soledad O’Brien is just another example of Marxist Eurotrash yellow journalist getting upset when someone interrupts her feeling good about nursing at the 0bama/Democrat lap.
#26 January 13, 2012 at 8:20 pm
Tjexcite commented:

What is worse is the book is not a full anti-Obama book. It is a love story with some less flattering chapters in it. The author works for the New York Times. Not really a bastion of where a real anti-Obama book author would work at.
#27 January 13, 2012 at 8:23 pm
Robert commented:

O’Brien is trying to discredit the book and author,
and is also revealing her extreme bias quite crudely.

Not very journalistic, i would say.
#28 January 13, 2012 at 8:23 pm
Patty commented:

Wow, Ms. Kantor was so calm under sleaze attack. Not sure what this was as Ms. Kantor couldn’t get a word in and because of Soladad flapping her mouth and Rhetoric for 5 mins. I haven’t a clue what Ms. Kantor answers are if any ask or anything really, was given a H of a chance to say, butkas.
I can’t believe the snot mouth Soledad can call this an Interview or Journalism. I don’t know what Soledad does at CNN, but she is definitely working for Obamas.

And possibly, she is having her lady days. But if this is reporting then I understand why Americans are mislead, misinformed and lied to by bias meida, this is so disturbing. Soladad needs to be fired, I won’t miss her as I do watch her anyway. Thank God.
#29 January 13, 2012 at 8:24 pm
Robert commented:

her own extreme bias …
#30 January 13, 2012 at 8:28 pm
a former dem commented:

LOL. I couldn’t stop laughing. Its so obvious!! and the author is a NYT author.

Cannot wait until CNN”s/LSM’s marxist messaih really starts losing. Are they openly going to start crying on live TV??

Thanks for posting this GP, since I no longer watch CNN, I have no clue how high the level of Obama worship goes on over there, this was HILARIOUS!
#31 January 13, 2012 at 8:29 pm
BarbaraS commented:

Has no one noticed? The light from obama’s halo shines on michelle too
#32 January 13, 2012 at 8:29 pm
Robert commented:

This shows where the media is regarding their politics. They will continue to cover for Obama, and this will be equivalent to over a $Billion during the presidential campaign.
#33 January 13, 2012 at 8:30 pm
a former dem commented:

hmmm, maybe Solelad “being black in America” O’Brien needs to read Meeechelle Anoinette’s princeton paper, talk about an “angry black woman”, but no worries, CNN will cover for the Obamas as will every establishment media outlet.
#34 January 13, 2012 at 8:33 pm
BarbaraS commented:

“Cannot wait until CNN”s/LSM’s marxist messaih really starts losing. Are they openly going to start crying on live TV??”

They did that on Fox when Bush won in 2004. A guy and a girl were sick as dogs over that loss and could barely recover enough to do their jobs. Sickmaking.
#35 January 13, 2012 at 8:38 pm
Robert commented:

“But Soledad, your argument is that the First Lady shouldn’t be covered in a serious way by journalists? ”

That is indeed the argument. Any coverage that shows fault of the liberal ideology will be condemned, any coverage that shows fault of the conservative view will be praised.

O’Brien had no such concerns while she and the liberal media were destroying Sarah Palin.
#36 January 13, 2012 at 8:41 pm
donh commented:

Michelle Obama’s strong spiritual ” circle of protection ” has been breached. …her voodoo can no longer repell the flying monkies swarming overhead .
#37 January 13, 2012 at 8:48 pm
Patty commented:

KANTOR: They knew exactly what they were getting into, Soledad.

O’BRIEN: I would have no idea. But clearly the First Lady did not cooperate with the book. And I’m not apologizing for the First Lady.

KANTOR: She did. She gave me access to her East Wing. Why did she let me talk to all of her top aides?

O’BRIEN: She did not give you an interview.

KANTOR: She hasn’t given any book interviews.

(Crosstalk)

O’BRIEN: Ultimately, you didn’t – ultimately, you didn’t interview her. We are out of time. We have covered this ground. I’m so grateful for your time.

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matt-hadro/2012/01/13/cnns-obrien-grills-obamas-author-over-controversial-portrait-first-lady#ixzz1jOf7qeeM

Sounds to me like Kantor held her own. But she really had to squeeze her answers into the conversation. Soledad seems to calling Kantor a liar. The whole thing was just incomprehensible and a “solid” 5 minutes wasted and I won’t get back.
#38 January 13, 2012 at 8:49 pm
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:

What a scumbag.

So it’s the responsibility of the press to defend the occupants of the White House from unflattering publicity?

We’ll see what happens after Obie and his master are kicked out this upcoming November.
#39 January 13, 2012 at 8:51 pm
Patty commented:

I anything was wrong about anything, guilt is squarely on Michelle Obama’s shoulders has she OKed the whole thing. Jarrett was being truthful, for once to Kantor. Michelle is doing damage control on herself.
#40 January 13, 2012 at 8:53 pm
Patty commented:

O’BRIEN: I would have no idea. But clearly the First Lady did not cooperate with the book. And I’m not apologizing for the First Lady.

BUT SHE DID YOU STUPID HEAD.
#41 January 13, 2012 at 8:54 pm
Patty commented:

O’BRIEN: She did not give you an interview.

KANTOR: She hasn’t given any book interviews.

What sort of money does this Soledad make for this garbage.
#42 January 13, 2012 at 8:57 pm
Walt G. commented:

If Obama loses they will just turn into even worse children than they already are. Seriously, these people are NOT adults. They just keep regressing before our eyes. So expect more on-air tantrums, thrown objects, crying, ugly language, etc. These nutjobs have only started to show their ugly side. The next few months should be a real beaut.
#43 January 13, 2012 at 9:26 pm
charlie commented:

did michel moore ever interview president bush?
#44 January 13, 2012 at 9:27 pm
Buffalobob commented:

Soledad plays the angry back woman defence card for mooshell.
#45 January 13, 2012 at 9:34 pm
donh commented:

Michelle is coming off as angry in her efforts to smack down some damage control in the media . Her tone in the angry black woman interview was a bit mad….and the way she did her hair up in a heart shape pillow Michelle looked like the Rudolph Buggs bunny monster…>> http://youtu.be/WI77jhm7LIs
#46 January 13, 2012 at 9:38 pm
charlie commented:

Never heard of soledad. is she on msdnc?

they seem to have not very attractive things on their show.
#47 January 13, 2012 at 9:53 pm
donh commented:

Soledad interviewed the ground zero mosque imam …She interviewed the black serial killer known as the Atlanta Child Killer and Soledad not only shook his hand after the interview but failed to wipe her hand on her red dress after. She is a dirty little commie devil who lusts after true sociopaths. ..probably wrote love letters to Charles Manson in her younger days.
#48 January 13, 2012 at 10:23 pm
lizzy84 commented:

Soledad, God bless her little heart, is such a cretin.
#49 January 13, 2012 at 10:34 pm
OxyCon commented:

Every conservative who does and interview with her should call her Soledad Obama.
#50 January 13, 2012 at 10:36 pm
Patty commented:

do as I say and then don’t you dare tell anyone.
#51 January 13, 2012 at 10:55 pm
JustSaying commented:

That was a ridiculous interview…in order to have the upper hand, Soledad had to talk over and above Jodi…personally, not a living soul gets anything out of this kind of an interview…Soledad is a classless individual isn’t she…if she doesn’t like what you are saying, she tries to bully her opponent…waste of money and time to put this dribble on tv…
ps…what the heck kind of a name is Soledad????
#52 January 13, 2012 at 10:57 pm
Patty commented:

OT

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/michael-moore-older-generation-who-didnt-vote-for-obama-are-racist/

Michael Moore: Older generation who didn’t vote for Obama are racists.

Me: Then Rev. Wright, what is he.
#53 January 13, 2012 at 10:59 pm
Patty commented:

OT

Cheney: Obama ‘Decimating Our Military Capacity’

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/cheney-obama-decimating-our-military-capacity_616686.html?nopager=1
#54 January 13, 2012 at 11:01 pm
bigL commented:

Soledad looks in the mirror and sees and angry black woman. She is cuban/ black .
You can count on her to pour gas on the racial fires every Feb when it is black history month. She covers the bombing oif the church in ’64 and the tape plays over and ove and the missing voting guys from NY.
#55 January 13, 2012 at 11:02 pm
bigL commented:

Soledad looks in the mirror and sees and angry black woman
#56 January 13, 2012 at 11:19 pm
Rock commented:

Haven’t watched Soledad in years, damn the years have been tough on her. More on topic I imagine Hildabeast wished she had been black in the early days of the Clinton years, the media was less than kind with her on many fronts and she did not have the fall back position of playing the race card. But then the Commie News Network has never been a fan of the truth, so whats new.
#58 January 13, 2012 at 11:44 pm
ChillytheAlaskan commented:

Yep, have a hissy fit about stories from aides that the author used, but all the lies and rumors about Palin, she’s OK with that. Blaming Palin for the Giffords shooting, the left manufacturing bogus ethics charges, and then repeating lies when they have been proven false?? It’s OK to allow this on republicans, but stories from aides…….hypocrite phony unethical commie propagandist n*tlicker! Hope she has a stroke!
#59 January 14, 2012 at 12:04 am
Multitude commented:

To approximate post-colonialist post-feminist theorist Gayatri Spivak, “Brown women don’t need to be protected from white women by white women.” Those true to their post-Marxist feminism will even recognize Soledad’s behavior as racist, repugnant and intentionally diminishing the first lady as incapable.

While I certainly agree on little with Michelle Obama, I’m more than confident she can defend herself. Furthermore, the last thing a compassionate writer does is lie and fabricate to protect someone in a position of extreme privilege; to call Michelle out for her anger, her extremely elaborate lifestyle on the taxpayer’s dollar, her existence as a living hypocrisy, all are things a sincere and ethical individual does.

Do we all remember Bush’s nomination of the cronyism disaster Harriet Miers? That criticism by his own people and party was healthy, helping him realize he had gone too far in believing the Beltway sycophantic madness. He had tunnel vision, losing contact with reality with all the insiders feeding him out-of-touch nonsense.

Michelle and Barry desperately need progressives to call them out now; let them know they’re acting like Italian fascists with flair. If we all had a winter vacation like Barry and Michelle’s cost us, the government would add several hundred trillion dollars buying $4 m. packages for every U.S. household. Barry returns from a King’s vacation only to ask for what, another trillion to blow?

Don’t blame Barry and Michelle if this goes down as the last progressive administration for 50 years. Don’t blame them if America doesn’t elect another black for 100 years, concluding “No, we tried that and apparently the entitlement complex is at the core of identity. We can’t do that again.”

If you don’t control the excesses of your elites, others will with much less compassion and care.
#61 January 14, 2012 at 12:37 am
Adi commented:

She wants to pose as a professional journalist but sadly ends up as a demented hysterical non-entity media hack.

Obviously, Soledad is part of the latest WH PR campaign to prop The Wohn, like 4 years ago. Hardy-har-har, but no worries, Soledad is there to do her script.

Can’t wait for the next CNN’s “royal family of the United States” or some wonderful comparison “BHO/Clark Kent/Superman”, I’m sure Soledad will not only jump the fray but also ride the wave.

Does Soledad feels a tingles in her tonsils when talking about The Wohn?-you betcha.

Catch (im)partial churn-o-lism on CNN, ans she’ll be happy to deliver.
#62 January 14, 2012 at 2:15 am
VengefulSpatula commented:

CNN still exists? Is Obama pumping tax dollars into them, so they can stay afloat, too? (Heeheeheehee!)
#64 January 14, 2012 at 5:57 am
RedBeard commented:

In other words, O’Brien was simply following the prime directive of her faith, as follows:

Thou shalt not question nor criticize The Lightbringer nor Mrs. The Lightbringer, but rather bow down to their greatness and infinite wisdom at all times.

O’Brien very closely resembles the North Korean weepers and wailers who demonstrate their deep love and adoration for their tin pot dictator. The difference is that she does it willingly, and the Norks do it under pain of torture or death.
#65 January 14, 2012 at 6:08 am
Aloneatlast commented:

Bravo, Multitude @ #59. Delightfully spot on.
#66 January 14, 2012 at 6:41 am
squeaky commented:

not being a moneyed person myself…..there has been this thing with new money vs old money. michelle being new money and all……
http://www.ehow.com/about_6575904_definition-money-versus-new-money.html
#67 January 14, 2012 at 7:00 am
newmike commented:

Soledad is trying to become the next chief of staff for Mooch.

It must be hell working around all those angry people in the white house. Nothing is ever good enough and everything that happens is the fault of some other white person.
#68 January 14, 2012 at 7:11 am
martin j smith commented:

I really do not understand how any Republican or Conservative can go on CNN at all and if they do not know that they will be bush whacked and handle that expertly
#69 January 14, 2012 at 7:18 am
STLHawkeye commented:

Wow the NYT and CNN going toe-to-toe. I love it. I’m thinking Soledad has a lesbian crush on Michelle Obama.
#70 January 14, 2012 at 7:23 am
Jim commented:

Yep too bad the NY Times reporter was not embedded in Hawaii with Mrs. Obama. Now that would have been interesting.
#71 January 14, 2012 at 8:01 am
Who authorized Fast & Furious? commented:

No one ever praised Ms. O’Brien for her intellect or insight. And she certainly did not get her job because of those qualities.
#72 January 14, 2012 at 8:01 am
lol commented:

the palace guards take it personal when their king and queen are exposed. it’s an election year so get ready for more of the lap dog media to go after anyone who dares to speak out against dear leader. pathetic that soledad tries to infuse the race card into the discussion with the “angry black woman” meme. whenver the media can’t win the debate on facts they play the race card.
#73 January 14, 2012 at 8:37 am
middleagedhousewife commented:

Now here’s something I didn’t know – “off the woman who isn’t elected to the office but is in the White House job to watch the kids…”

Either she’s advocating murder of the WH babysitter or that’s a typo and she thinks Michelle is an uppity mother that doesn’t know her place.

Did anybody tell Michelle this, that she should just stay in the WH nursery and look after the children? PTA, sleepovers, puppy love and first crush talks over hot chocolate? Maybe she could also be in charge of getting His Majesty a sandwich now and then and, I don’t mean to be rude, but that front porch ain’t gonna sweep itself, you know.

Wow, that Soledad woman sure is sexist!
#74 January 14, 2012 at 8:44 am
Rebecca commented:

No Soul O’Brien is clearly having strokes trying to stop the damage from the book. Funny how
the left can’t stand a taste of its own bitter medicine.

Jodi Kantor should not agree to interviews with Gutter Rats in media like No Soul O’Brian
#75 January 14, 2012 at 9:42 am
Mahdi Al-Dajjal commented:

Does anybody need any more proof than this that Leftism is a religion to these people and that the Obama is their Messiah? Seriously… anybody? On a further note, its more than a civil war that is coming, folks. It’s a religious war between the true believers on the Left and those of us who are unbelievers.
#76 January 14, 2012 at 9:51 am
Sam Stone commented:

This pinhead O’Brian did a show on CNN called “Black in America” as if she has a fricking clue what that would mean!
#77 January 14, 2012 at 10:07 am
debiesam commented:

What a creep! Soledad is such a creep. She comes off as totally unhinged, so I don’t think Jodi has anything to worry about. Jodi came off as a reasonable, very intelligent woman. You go, girl!
#78 January 14, 2012 at 10:33 am
charl commented:

Sooo, if a biography of Lincoln is launched today.. you can’t do it because you cannot interview him???

C’mon..
#80 January 15, 2012 at 9:15 am
srhoades commented:

Remember when everyone got mad at Kitty Kelly for what she wrote about the Reagans and then the Bushes? Yeah, me neither.