In her Thursday FoxNews.com
column, Fox News contributor Kirsten Powers called President Barack
Obama’s defense of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice during Wednesday’s press
conference “silly” and “sexist.”
The president, who urged critics to go after him instead and referred
to Rice as an “easy target,” chastised Republican Sens. John McCain and
Lindsey Graham for threatening to block Rice’s potential nomination to
be the next secretary of state.
“This idea that they are going after her because she is, quote, ‘an easy
target?’” Powers said. “I don’t know what they are talking about. She
is the U.N. ambassador, who was sent out to speak to the
American people
about this issue. That’s why they’re focused on her. And it’s
interesting, Megyn, how you pointed out in the last interview,
[President Obama] sort of portrayed it as these two men beating up on a
woman. He left out Sen. [Kelly] Ayotte, who is part of this. And kind of
made it seem like he was coming to her defense. It was very
paternalistic, I thought. Like, how dare they go after her.” (Full Story)
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