Nets Concerned Over Congress' Role In Run-Up to Iraq, Now Barely Notice Obama's End-Run
The Obama administration launched its air war against Moammar Qaddafi’s Libya after a vote of the UN Security Council, but without any congressional authorization — and apparently not even very much consultation with congressional leaders. A review of the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts from Friday night through Monday night found virtually no network interest in Obama’s bypassing of Congress — an attitude in stark contrast to their approach to the Bush administration during the run-up to the Iraq war in late 2002.
With Libya, only the NBC Nightly News has even mentioned the controversy over the Obama administration’s decision to cut Congress out of the decision-making. On the March 20 Nightly News, White House correspondent Chuck Todd offered one sentence taking note of John Boehner’s objections in a laundry list of other congressional complaints:
You’ve seen a lot of members of Congress go out today and the President’s been criticized, both left and right, some because — arguing that hes taken too long. Speaker Boehner is upset that he hasn’t done enough consultation with Congress. And, of course, some of the liberal members of the president’s own party are upset that hes started yet another military campaign.
via Nets Concerned Over Congress’ Role In Run-Up to Iraq, Now Barely Notice Obama’s End-Run.
