Networks: ‘Tough’ Obama ‘Wasted No Time’ Issuing ‘Fighting Words’ Against ISIS

Networks: 'Tough' Obama 'Wasted No Time' Issuing 'Fighting Words' Against ISIS (NewsBusters)

After President Obama admitted on Thursday that he had "no strategy" for dealing with the ISIS terrorist network, on Wednesday, the network morning shows rushed to portray the aimless commander-in-chief as a tough-talking leader ready to "destroy" the radical killers.

At the top of ABC's Good Morning America, co-host George Stephanopoulos hyped: "President Obama's tough words to the ISIS terrorists who executed American journalist Steven Sotloff." In the report that followed, correspondent Brian Ross proclaimed: "President Obama vowed that ISIS will pay the price for the murder of a second American journalist. The President delivered fighting words this morning..."