Kim Kardashian, George Clooney call for President Obama to honor Armenian Christian massacre
Another year and more silence from President Obama on the Armenian massacre of Christians. During the 100th anniversary of the Turkish Muslims murder of 1.5 million Christians, Obama has maintained his silence, breaking the promise made back in 2008.
“As president, I will recognize the Armenian genocide,” he vowed in 2008 – a stance taken by Pope Francis, actor George Clooney and even by the Kardashians in 2015. “…he held up his willingness to call it a “genocide” as an example of why he was the kind of truth-telling candidate the nation needed,” noted CNN on the importance of Obama’s pledge.
MRC points out how the media has aided the President, by not holding his feet to the fire: “Yet ABC, CBS and NBC morning and evening news shows have mentioned that failed promise only once during the Obama presidency. That occurred on April 12, 2015. Even that took the combined efforts of Pope Francis, third-generation Armenian-American celebrity Kim Kardashian and her husband, singer Kanye West – all bringing attention to the genocide.”
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“The genocide was the greatest atrocity of the Great War. It also remains that conflict’s most bitterly contested legacy, having been met by the Turkish authorities with 100 years of silence and denial,” The New York Times wrote April 16, 2015, quoted in the MRC coverage.
The filler coverage, Chuck Todd, Charlie Gibson, the dog Bo and even website coverage that never makes it to broadcast — the MRC points out the hypocrisy of the Obama administration.
Obama’s current Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power hammered U.S. policy makers in her recent book for not acknowledging or acting to stop such atrocities.
“No U.S. president has ever made genocide prevention a priority, and no U.S. president has ever suffered politically for his indifference to its occurrence. It is thus no coincidence that genocide rages on,” she wrote.
Yet there is silence.
