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Anderson Cooper 360 covering Barack Obama's first interview with the Muslim world on Al-Arabiya television. David Gergen and Reza Aslan weigh in.
OBAMA AL-ARABIYA INTERVIEW: FULL TEXT
huffingtonpost.com 1/27/2009 — Here is the full text of President Obama's interview with Al-Arabiya Arab TV Network:
INTERVIEW OF THE PRESIDENT BY HISHAM MELHEM, AL ARABIYA
Map Room
5:46 P.M. EST
Q Mr. President, thank you for this opportunity, we really appreciate ...
More on President Obama's Al-Arabiya Interview
blogs.abcnews.com 1/27/2009 — Yesterday evening in the Map Room, President Obama sat for his first formal TV interview, with Al-Arabiya's Hisham Melhem. Some excerpts: On his advice to George Mitchell, the special envoy to the Middle East who just left the U.S. for...
Obama Power and the Al-Arabiya Interview
thewashingtonnote.com 1/27/2009 —
Barack Obama's decision to give his first sit down, formal presidential interview with Al-Arabiya is really inspired. He is "Mr. Engagement." And this is a darned impressive move.
He is opening the door to new possibilities. I am going to ...
Obama on a Nuclear Iran: Yes They Can?
weeklystandard.com 1/27/2009 — From Obama's interview with Al-Arabiya :
Q Will the United States ever live with a nuclear Iran? And if not, how far are you going in the direction of preventing it?
THE PRESIDENT: You know, I said during the campaign that it is very important ...
Re: Talking to the Muslim World
democracyarsenal.org 1/28/2009 — Commenting on Obama's Al-Arabiya interview , Heather writes that "a speech should follow some substantive initiatives, not precede them." I'm of the "show-not-tell" public diplomacy school of thought too, but I also think ...
What Barack Hussein Obama told the Muslim world -- full text
latimesblogs.latimes.com 1/29/2009 — Here's the transcript of President Obama's first White House TV interview since his inauguration nine days ago.
It's with Hisham Melhem, the Washington bureau chief of Al Arabiya television , the Dubai-based, Saudi-owned international news ...
FP Jan 29 —
Abu Aardvark
Catching up on a few days worth of posts for email subscribers:
Obama: what you'll see is someone who's listening , in which I consider the significance of his al-Arabiya interview
Falllout from Obama's interview , in which I look back at the al-Arabiya chat
Gallup: Iraq matters most (if ...
How al-Arabiya Got the First Interview —
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
Time goes behind-the-scenes to find out how President Obama granted his first television interview as president to Hisham Melhem, the Washington bureau chief for al-Arabiya, a Saudi-backed news channel headquartered in Dubai.
"Whether it was because of the chemistry between the men or Obama's ...
The Obama Interview —
The Corner on National Review Online
The problem with Obama's Al Arabiya interview (which I wrote about at length elsewhere):
1) It is never wise to contrast negatively American efforts in the region ("dictating") with those of a Saudi monarch ("courageous")--one could in theory draw the conclusion that the unelected head of a ...
Obama and the War War —
The Corner on National Review Online
One more word about Obama's interview with Al Arabiya. The president has promised to escalate the war in Afghanistan. He has promised a very aggressive stance toward Pakistan. And yet in his interview, some of which focused on America's relations with the Muslim world, Obama uttered the words ...
The Obama Interview —
JustOneMinute
Here is a transcript of Obama's interview with Al-Arabiya Arab TV Network.Jim Geraghty notes that Osama bin Laden never promised health care that would always be there.Michael Goldfarb observes that on the question of a nuclear Iran, Obama has a...
Obama's First TV Interview —
The Latest on Air America
In his first formal interview since taking office, President Barack Obama sat down with Al-Arabiya TV's reporter Hisham Melhem in Washington to discuss conflicts in the Middle East, Bin Laden, and the possibility of nukes in Iran and Afghanistan.
Transcript after the jump. read more
Obama's al-Interview —
Confederate Yankee
I see that Drudge is linking Jake Tapper's post on Barack Obama granting his first television interview to al-Arabiya, a Dubai-based cable news channel that Tapper says estimates their reach at 23 million. That he would now attempt to woo...
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