Fox Reporter: Obama Basically Told Terrorists He’ll Negotiate With Hostage Takers (VIDEO)

Bill O'Reilly, Carl Cameron and James Rosen
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Here’s one way to look at President Obama’s press conference yesterday on his tax cut deal.

Fox News reporter James Rosen, one of the network’s ostensible straight news reporters, said last night on The O’Reilly Factor that Americans should be concerned about national security after Obama, Rosen said, showed he’s open to negotiating with hostage-takers.

Here’s what Obama said:

I’ve said before that I felt that the middle class tax cuts were being held hostage to the high end tax cuts. I think it’s tempting not to negotiate with hostage takers unless the hostage gets harmed. Then, people will question the wisdom of that strategy. In this case the hostage was the American people and I was not willing to see them get harmed.

Rosen said Americans should be concerned about “the implications of the President of the United States broadcasting to the world that he is willing to negotiate with hostage-takers if he believes that the hostage is being harmed.”

“And I mean that seriously,” he said, to laughter from Bill O’Reilly and reporter Carl Cameron.

O’Reilly then tried to talk him down, telling him that al Qaeda probably gets that it’s a metaphor and besides, there’s no cable TV in caves. Watch, starting at about the 1:30 mark:

[H/T Media Matters]

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