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		<title>President Obama: Where Are Your Manners?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2014 05:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A PR disaster in China. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/2135_1415715416.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245268" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/2135_1415715416-374x350.jpg" alt="2135_1415715416" width="262" height="245" /></a>President Barack Obama has continually made terrible decisions – domestically and internationally – and has left America in a worse place than when he started.  In China, Obama chewed gum and outraged Chinese citizens with his behavior.  This has been a constant throughout his administration.  Some meaningful quotes on the absolute failures of Obama when it has come to diplomacy:</p>
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<li><span style="color: #232323;">“As far as is known, Obama became the first President, the first Commander-in-Chief, not to salute the living recipient of the Medal of Honor after presenting the medal.” &#8212; Rees Lloyd</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #232323;">“Obama is inexperienced and lacks a proper understanding of how he should handle himself as President.” &#8212; Casey Carmical</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #232323;">“Who can forget the moment last year when Obama took a selfie during a memorial service for anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela?” &#8212; Amie Parnes</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #232323;">“However one feels politically, it is questionable to salute Marines while holding a coffee cup – Could not someone have held it for him?” &#8212; Eric Vainer </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #232323;">The GOP is taking the public outrage over Obama&#8217;s salute to Marines while holding a coffee cup and running with it.” &#8212; Lisa Fine</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #232323;">“In an unprecedented breach of diplomatic etiquette, President Obama once again sandbagged Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.” &#8212; Isi Leibler</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #232323;"> “President Obama was the most liberal and most incompetent president in my lifetime ever since Jimmy Carter.” &#8212; Bobby Jindal</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #232323;">“It was seen as a slap in the face when Obama got out of his U.S. supplied transportation chewing gum.” &#8212; Roz Zurko</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #232323;">“To see a leader like Bibi Netanyahu treated so shabbily by someone [Obama] who treats us the same way was too much to bear.” &#8212; William A. Jacobson</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #232323;">“Obama&#8217;s awkward encounter with Akihito – bows are not meant to accompany physical contact – is not the first time the president has been criticized for his greeting of a foreign leader: Critics accused him of genuflecting to Saudi King Abdullah at a world economic summit this year.” &#8212; Foster Klug</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #232323;"> “Yes, President Obama has just gifted the queen an iPod.” &#8212; Chris Matyszczyk</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #232323;">“Obama presented former Prime Minister Gordon Brown with DVDs of American films that couldn&#8217;t be played on British machines. Our classy president gave the queen an iPod loaded with his speeches.” &#8212; Robert Hanusa</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #232323;">“Instead of rendering the traditional salute, after fumbling as if all-thumbs in trying to affix the blue-ribboned Medal of Honor, Obama, equally awkwardly, tried to &#8216;hug&#8217; the Sergeant. Yes, a &#8216;hug&#8217; for the soldier who remained at attention with eyes front in military bearing.” &#8212; Rees Lloyd</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #232323;">“Mr. Obama’s manners at the event were on a par with those of Clark Griswold&#8217;s cousin Eddie from the 1989 movie Christmas Vacation.” &#8212; Larry Clifton</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #232323;"> “Barack Obama makes us look patronizing, rude, and condescending.” &#8212; Doug Wead</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #232323;">“Gordon Brown has been snubbed repeatedly by Barack Obama during his trip to the United States, as the fall-out from the release of the Lockerbie bomber appeared to have left &#8216;the special relationship&#8217; at its lowest ebb for nearly 20 years.” &#8212; Andrew Porter</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #232323;">“What is also more consistent with the Limbaugh and D’Souza thesis are such personal quirks as Obama’s gross rudeness to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House and his otherwise inexplicable public debasement of himself and the United States by bowing low to other foreign leaders.” &#8212; Thomas Sowell</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #232323;">“One of the important considerations for the leader of the free world has to be inter-personnel relations.” &#8212; Jonah Engler </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #232323;">“We made this meeting so luxurious, with singing and dancing, but see Obama, stepping out of his car chewing gum like an idler.” &#8212; Yin Hong</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #232323;">“He [Obama] made the mistake of both shaking hands and bowing at the same time, a big breach of etiquette. The truth was that he was supposed to choose one or the other.” &#8212; David E. Sanger</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #232323;">“President Obama has very poor personal relations with most world leaders.” &#8212; Ed Lasky</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #232323;">“But the quintessential dissing of our mother country had to be Obama&#8217;s return of a bust of Winston Churchill bestowed on the U.S. by former Prime Minister Tony Blair after 9/11.” &#8212; Robert Hanusa</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #232323;">“Benjamin Netanyahu was left to stew in a White House meeting room for over an hour after President Barack Obama abruptly walked out of tense talks to have supper with his family.” &#8212; Adrian Blomfield</span></li>
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<p style="color: #232323;">This <a href="http://www.5wpr.com">NY PR firm owner</a> has said it before and shall say it again – Obama’s legacy is one of <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/ronn-torossian/obamas-legacy-of-disaster/">disaster</a>.</p>
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		<title>PR Agency Proclaims: Israel Is Controversial, Muslim Brotherhood Is Not</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2014 04:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The bigotry and double standards of one of the nation's leading PR firms. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/eg_mbrhd.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241753" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/eg_mbrhd.jpg" alt="eg_mbrhd" width="258" height="179" /></a>The world of public relations is filled with constant pressures and moving parts. As <a href="http://everything-pr.com/ronn-torossian-of-5wpr/229441/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">CEO of one of the largest US PR firms</span></a>, I know and understand the intricacies of spin.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Last week, the<b> </b>Emirate of Qatar hired one of the world’s largest PR agencies, Portland Communications, “for a communications/political push targeted at Congress and federal agencies to improve ties with the United States.” Qatar follows sharia law and has numerous human rights issues. On the heels of that partnership comes the revelation that <a href="http://www.fara.gov/docs/6227-Exhibit-AB-20140918-5.pdf"><span style="color: #1255cc;">recently released federal government filings</span></a><span style="color: #29303b;"> indicate that </span>Burson-Marsteller, one of the world’s leading PR firms has been hired to improve the foreign image of Tunisia’s Ennahda Party, a Muslim Brotherhood-inspired organization. The Ennahda Party has good reasons to have close American ties given the upheaval Islamist-backed governments have caused in the Middle East.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">While paying homage to Middle Eastern money isn’t an anomaly to only the PR industry, the shock is that the same firm taking money from the Muslim Brotherhood refused to work for Israel, calling the Jewish State “highly controversial.” Sigurd Grytten, Managing Director of Burson-Marsteller, refused Israel’s request for a meeting, explaining, “We will not deliver tender to such a project … we are running a commercial venture. If we accept this project, this will create a great amount of negative reactions … Israel is a particularly controversial project.”</p>
<p style="color: #1255cc;"><a href="http://www.jpost.com/Features/In-Thespotlight/Tunisias-Islamist-party-A-wolf-in-sheeps-clothing">As a Jerusalem Post editorial on the Ennahda Party described,</a></p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">[T]he movement’s members have been implicated in both incitement and violent actions against Tunisian and foreign targets. The party supported the 1979 embassy takeover in Iran, and evidence suggests it was responsible for bombing four tourist hotels in the 1980s.</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">A party leader “called for attacks on US interests in the Middle East in response to America’s invasion of Iraq in the Gulf War,” and more recently, the organization spoke of &#8220;victory&#8221; of the Palestinian resistance in Gaza, and opposes relations with Israel.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In the eyes of my peers in the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ronn-Torossian/e/B005DOQIPO"><span style="color: #1255cc;">PR industry</span></a><span style="color: #323333;">, </span>a party inspired by the Muslim Brotherhood is mainstream – and Israel is “a particularly controversial project.” Fascinating times we live in.</p>
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		<title>Why Israel Is Losing the Information War</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2014 04:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Glick]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[... And how the Jewish State can turn the tide. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/140715-israel-gaza-mn-1320_4ba1ac462baa0652825d71dafe7823a4.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239111" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/140715-israel-gaza-mn-1320_4ba1ac462baa0652825d71dafe7823a4-424x350.jpg" alt="140715-israel-gaza-mn-1320_4ba1ac462baa0652825d71dafe7823a4" width="298" height="246" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Column-One-Why-Israel-is-losing-the-information-war-371615">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">For most Israelis, the international discourse on Gaza is unintelligible.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Here we were going along, minding our own business.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Then on a clear night in June, apropos of nothing, Palestinian terrorists stole, murdered and hid the bodies of three of our children as they made their way home from school.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Before we could catch our breath from that atrocity, they began shelling our major population centers with thousands of rockets, missiles and mortars, and infiltrated our communities along the border with Gaza through underground tunnels to kidnap and murder us.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And as the Palestinians did all of these things, they used their civilian population and the foreign press corps as human sandbags. They ordered their own people not to evacuate their homes from which Hamas, Fatah and Islamic Jihad terrorists launched their missiles, rockets and mortars at Israel. And they launched missiles at Israeli cities from outside the hotel where the foreign reporters were staying.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">It doesn’t take a PhD to understand what the game is. And Israelis – even many with PhDs – understand what is happening.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This is why so many Israelis are up in arms about our government’s failure to impact the wall of lies that comprises the discourse on Israel in the Western world.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The knee-jerk reaction of many Israelis to the sight of UN officials, CNN anchors and </span><em style="color: #000000;">New York Times</em><span style="color: #000000;"> reporters accusing us of committing war crimes is to blame ourselves.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Our hasbara (public diplomacy) is a catastrophe, our defenders are incompetent idiots, we moan and scream.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But the truth is not so simple. Our speakers have gotten much better over the past several years. Some, like ambassadors Ron Dermer and Ron Prosor and IDF Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, are excellent.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Israel’s public diplomacy efforts have been unsuccessful in penetrating, let alone dismantling the edifice of lies that constitutes the Western narrative about the Palestinian war against us because our underlying strategy for contending with it is directed at the wrong goal.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Our PR gurus defined our hasbara goal as getting our story out effectively. To do so, Israel has operated on two parallel tracks. First, we have tried to adjust our policies to adhere to what we perceive as the West’s demands.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">We have employed measures unprecedented in military history to protect the Palestinians from their elected leaders who use them as fodder in their propaganda war against Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">There is no precedent in the history of warfare to Israel’s practice of warning Palestinians when it is about to attack civilian installations that Hamas has unlawfully used to attack Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Moreover, Israel has accepted interpretations of the laws of war – such as the specious assertion that Israel is required to provide free electricity to Gaza – that have no relationship whatsoever to international law.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The second component of getting out our story has been developing the sort of glitzy, media-friendly PR apparatus that everybody who is everybody says is the be all and end all of a successful media strategy. There is no foreign press corps more coddled than the foreign press corps in Israel. No government is more active on social media sites than Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And yet, for all of our efforts, the UN Human Rights Committee appointed an open hater of Israel who doesn’t have a problem with Hamas to run a phony investigation of the IDF’s imaginary war crimes.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">For all our efforts, </span><em style="color: #000000;">The New York Times</em><span style="color: #000000;">, MSNBC, the European media, CNN and all the rest demonize our soldiers and leaders. They ignore the fact that everything Hamas and its allies in Fatah and Islamic Jihad do is a war crime – from calling for the annihilation of Israel to shooting rockets at civilian population centers, to shooting rockets at civilian population centers from hospitals and from outside the hotel where their reporters are staying in Gaza.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">So desperate are we for any truth in reporting that we seize as a major victory the fact that a Wall Street Journal reporter was nice enough to Tweet the fact that he interviewed a Hamas leader in Shifa hospital.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">A casual glance at the mountain of distorted and simply false stories reported about Israel and its enemies makes clear that at a minimum, most of the Western media don’t care about the truth. The fact that they sent reporters to Israel and Gaza doesn’t mean they wanted those reporters to publish what is going on.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The reporters knew what they were supposed to say before they even got on a plane to Israel. True, Hamas has openly acknowledged that it prohibited the foreign press from filming its terrorists and their war crimes. But with rare exceptions, the media had no problem with Hamas’s rules.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">So too, the UN Human Rights Council didn’t decide to form a commission of inquiry to criminalize Israel because we weren’t good enough at showing the lengths we go to protect Gazans from their elected leaders. And the UNHRC didn’t appoint William Schabas, who has called for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to be tried for war crimes, to lead its star chamber because it didn’t get the press release proving that Israel acts in compliance with international law.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The media, the US State Department and the UN attack Israel for crimes that Hamas commits because they are wedded to a narrative in which Israel is to blame for its enemies’ desire to destroy it.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As the UN, </span><em style="color: #000000;">The </em><em style="color: #000000;">New York Times</em><span style="color: #000000;"> and President Barack Obama see it, Israel is to blame because it is inherently guilty by its nature.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The White House and State Department can accuse Israel of conducting a “totally indefensible” and “disgraceful” strike against an UNRWA school, when no such strike occurred, and if it had occurred it would have been totally defensible, because as far as they are concerned, as Martin Indyk claimed in May, Israel’s right to exist is conditional on our willingness to accept their belief that we are inherently morally deformed and in need of direction by our betters.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Netanyahu is Schabas’s “favorite [to be placed] in the dock of the International Criminal Court,” because Netanyahu is the elected leader of the morally deformed Jewish state.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Given this situation, it is clear that Israel’s public diplomacy efforts are directed toward the wrong goal.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The goal of hasbara cannot be to educate the likes of </span><em style="color: #000000;">The </em><em style="color: #000000;">New York Times</em><span style="color: #000000;">’ bureau chief Jodi Rudoren about the truth because the problem isn’t one of ignorance. The problem is that they consider the truth an impediment to their goal of reporting the narrative of Israeli criminality.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Rather than striving to educate, we must work to manipulate the Rudorens of the world into covering the truth.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">For instance, there is no reason to provide reporters clearly dedicated to hiding the truth with access to national leaders and military commanders. Let them find their own sources. Israel is a free country. There is no reason for </span><em style="color: #000000;">The </em><em style="color: #000000;">New York Times</em><span style="color: #000000;"> to be invited to a press briefing by IDF commanders.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Another critical element of a strategy for forcing hostile media and international agencies to contend with the truth is to create events that they can’t ignore.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">For instance, the chief military prosecutor together with the state prosecution should indict Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Fatah leaders on war crimes charges and the relevant Israeli courts should begin adjudicating the cases.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The Knesset should begin deliberations on a bill to strip UNRWA of its legal immunity as a first step towards bringing its personnel up on charges of providing material support for terrorism.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">True, such actions will be met with howls of condemnation and hysterical reproaches from all the usual suspects.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But at least they will be talking about Palestinian war crimes. At least they will be forced to acknowledge that UNRWA is a force of destabilization and radicalization, not of stabilization and moderation in the Arab conflict with Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Our leaders and spokespeople cannot win the information war by devoting themselves to pointing out the West’s hypocrisy and double standards, or the rank mendaciousness and bigotry that stands at the core of their approach to Israel. No one ever won a war by only playing defense. And we won’t win this one by explaining why we aren’t war criminals.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">We will only begin to make progress when we define the goal of our hasbara as forcing an unwilling media and international community to discuss the truth by taking deliberate actions that will make it impossible for them to ignore it.</span></p>
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		<title>America Weaker in the Eyes of the World</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2013 04:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Obama-US-Syria_Horo1-e1378883233657-635x357.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-204036" alt="Obama-US-Syria_Horo1-e1378883233657-635x357" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Obama-US-Syria_Horo1-e1378883233657-635x357-450x321.jpg" width="315" height="225" /></a>I commend Russia’s <a href="http://www.5wpr.com/about5wpr/index.cfm">PR firm</a>, Ketchum for its brilliant <i>New York Times </i>op-ed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, entitled “A Plea for Caution from Russia.” As an American, but also as <a href="http://www.ronntorossian.com/">CEO of 5WPR</a>, I wonder about the implications of allowing a foreign government to use our own media to influence our citizens – and our elected leaders &#8211; on sensitive political issues.</p>
<p>An American President who is currently in the White House largely because of his great ability to talk, who talked a big game when he boldly stated that the United States drew its “red-line” on the use of chemical weapons and then stumbled all over himself, then lied to cover up his poor judgment, has been out charmed (and out smarted) by Russian President Vladimir Putin.  Putin used Obama’s usually loyal media allies to oppose Obama’s threat of military force.</p>
<p>It is not unusual for uber-liberals in the media to oppose use of the military, but to help a foreign leader – whom the liberal media tend to dislike &#8212;  outmaneuver Obama like Putin just did was a bit surprising.</p>
<p>Our being embarrassed by Russia began a few months ago when the Putin government used the Edward Snowden affair as a way to achieve world power and attention. As a Russian political analyst then said, “What happens now doesn’t matter because public opinion in Russia has already been shaped – America is lying, dishonest and has double standard.” Unfortunately, this image has been further propagated as Obama failed yet again in showing America’s valor.  Putin used Obama to make our country look foolish.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/opinion/putin-plea-for-caution-from-russia-on-syria.html?pagewanted=all">Putin’s op-ed</a>, coming after President Obama’s prime-time televised speech in which he called for a diplomatic pause, allowed Putin to make the case that it is essential for the United States to not bypass the United Nations Security Council.</p>
<p>Amateur hour in the White House. Putin can protect Assad while simultaneously taking advantage of America’s freedom of the press to slam Obama.  Didn’t Obama just believe he “punished” Putin by refusing to meet with him? Don’t know whether to cry or to laugh. It’s a bad joke.</p>
<p>While John Boehner, the top Republican in the US House of Representatives, rejected a request to meet a Russian delegation to discuss Syria, the media and White House fawn all over themselves to claim Obama is some brilliant strategist. Samantha Power, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, tweeted Thursday: &#8220;Three days ago there seemed no diplomatic way to hold Assad accountable. Threat of U.S. action finally brought Russia to the table.&#8221; If anyone believes that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn for sale. It’s a foolish, absurd claim. “Accountable”?  Hardly.  Assad gets a pass and he and Putin sit and laugh at America’s insignificance. America is not respected or feared.</p>
<p>In reality, Obama’s vote was destined to fail. Putin’s proposal gave political cover, allowing him to back away from making a decision he was unable to make. Much as Putin showed Obama up and protected Snowden, here too Putin capitalized upon Obama’s failure. In Putin&#8217;s opinion piece, he positioned America as the aggressor.  He then described an &#8220;alarming&#8221; pattern of intervening in the internal conflicts of foreign countries. Absurd.</p>
<p>Putin won a huge diplomatic victory, and it is a terrible loss and embarrassment on the world stage for Brand America. Putin has proven himself to be a brilliant public relations tactician – at the expense of our president and his friends in the media who routinely push this president’s agenda regardless of the impact on the country. It is open season on America as Putin disrespects America because he views Obama as weak.</p>
<p>Sen. James Inhofe, a Republican from Oklahoma, said &#8220;Putin was lecturing to the United States, and I could hear [Ronald] Reagan turning over in his grave as this was going on.&#8221; <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/ronn-torossian/obamas-legacy-of-disaster/">Proud Americans should be sick at what Obama’s regime is doing to this once-great nation</a>. Has there been a time ever before when America has been less well-respected worldwide – from the man who said he was going to make us shine among nations?</p>
<p>Shame on President Obama for making this great republic appear weaker than ever before.</p>
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		<title>What Obama Can Learn from Roger Ailes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2013 04:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lessons from one of the best media moguls of all time for one of the worst presidents in modern history. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/0_61_Ailes_Roger.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-203460" alt="0_61_Ailes_Roger" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/0_61_Ailes_Roger.jpg" width="256" height="192" /></a>As <a href="http://www.ronntorossian.com/">CEO of 5WPR</a>, a leading <a href="http://www.5wpr.com/">PR agency</a>, I am well aware that personal relationships are vital. Interpersonal skills, relationships and chemistry matter tremendously in business, politics, and in life.  History demonstrates occurrences where relationships have changed the course of history, for example, how the personal bond between Roosevelt and Churchill helped end the Second World War.</p>
<p>While disagreements and even fights are inevitable, personal relationships generally can predict a better outcome. In places of power, one can often witness strange bedfellows.  President George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton are very close personal friends.  Russian President Vladimir Putin and former President George W. Bush had a mutual respect and considered one another friends, despite repeated political differences. And while the mantra of the left claims that Democrats are nicer and more accepting than Republicans, the facts are often very different. In fact, multiple studies indicate that liberals are often considerably less charitable than conservatives.</p>
<p>With the importance of inter-personnel relationships, an interesting study can be made examining the relationships of two very powerful people and organizations – President Barack Obama, representing the liberal left, and Roger Ailes on Fox News representing the conservatives.</p>
<p>One of the foremost selling points of Obama was supposedly that he would improve America’s standing in the world and improve relationships that the United States holds worldwide.  And in the midst of Obama failing to secure any worldwide support for military action in Syria after the G-12 Summit, it is telling that in addition to being a terrible leader, the man has awful interpersonal skills. Obama and Putin have the worst personal relationship between US and Russian — perhaps even US and Soviet — leaders in history.  Putin does not trust, or like Obama; he is very clear about it. Even worse, Putin does not fear Obama, as can be seen from the Snowden affair, and now many other issues as well. His disrespect would clearly not be this profound had he had any chemistry with Obama. (Compare that with Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s, whose relationship remained intact despite repeated political crises).</p>
<p>As a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/us/politics/arab-spring-proves-a-harsh-test-for-obamas-diplomatic-skill.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=3">front-page article</a> last year in The New York Times noted, President Obama fails miserably at personal relationships.  The article said: “The tensions between Mr. Obama and the Gulf states, both American and Arab diplomats say, derive from an Obama character trait: he has not built many personal relationships with foreign leaders. ‘He’s not good with personal relationships; that’s not what interests him,’ said one United States diplomat. “But in the Middle East, those relationships are essential. The lack of them deprives DC of the ability to influence leadership decisions.” Of course, Obama’s Middle East foreign policy– from Benghazi to Egypt – has failed miserably.  Both sides of the conflict in Egypt, Syria and elsewhere are against Obama.</p>
<p>Obama publicly lectured China’s President Xi Jinping (who hit back) about China’s disputes with its neighbors. The concept of speaking privately doesn’t exist for Obama (except when he whispers to Russian leaders about his ability to be more lenient in his 2<sup>nd</sup> term).</p>
<p>Obama even manages to alienate close American allies. As UK media has highlighted in the last few weeks, “The special relationship is over,” in referring to the long-term partnership between the US and the UK.  Obama has been insulting and disrespectful to Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu and critical of Afghanistan&#8217;s Hamid Karzai and many others.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/09/12/woodward_obama_does_not_like_congress_has_no_personal_relationships.html">As legendary journalist Bob Woodward noted</a>, Obama has no personal relationships with political leaders – Senators or Congressmen – in either party.  In addition to being ineffective, he is simply not likeable. There is not a single country with better relations – politically or personally – with America than when Obama took office.</p>
<p>Compare Obama’s behavior and interpersonal skills with Roger Ailes, who created Fox News, the most influential American news station. Ailes, whom Obama once called “the most powerful man in America,” is a study in decency, success and leadership, as one can learn from multiple sources, including Zev Chafets’ unauthorized biography “Roger Ailes: Off Camera.”</p>
<p>Ailes prides himself as a “blue-blood,” a self-made man who values honesty, loyalty, who was followed by more than eighty employees when he left CNBC. Ailes works hard and demands excellence from his employees; noteworthy are the many interpersonal relationships the fierce, right-wing conservative maintains with people he doesn’t agree with.  He has had a longstanding, close personal relationship for more than 40 years with Barbara Walters, and a good friendship with uber-liberal Rachel Maddow.  He is close with the Kennedy family for many years, and Chris Cuomo says Ailes is a “brilliant teacher” and someone he considers a close friend with whom he discusses personal and professional challenges and problems.  Jesse Jackson and uber-liberal Congressman Dennis Kucinich are friends who trust and respect Ailes.</p>
<p>Tom Johnson was head of CNN when CNN &amp; Fox had bitter battles, and has been quoted as saying, “I enjoyed my personal relationship with Roger Ailes.” It has been noted that they quietly collaborated on matters of mutual importance. Something, once again, Obama could probably learn a ton about.  Another former head of CNN, Rick Kaplan, said, “The truth is in our business he is admired – I love Roger Ailes.”</p>
<p>Ailes has an employee rulebook with some simple rules that Mr. Obama could learn a lot from, including now with the Syria communications crisis: “Nothing is more important than giving your word and keeping it. Don’t blame others for your mistakes.” Simple, Ailes prizes loyalty and honesty.  More values which Obama can learn.  Perhaps Obama can also learn from Ailes on foreign policy. Ailes said, “Strength breeds peace. Nobody walks into a bar and picks a fight with the toughest looking guy in the place.”</p>
<p>Obama and Ailes had an exchange in 2008 when they met in Manhattan about Obama’s concerns over how Fox was covering him in the media. As reported in “Roger Ailes: Off Camera,”<i> </i></p>
<blockquote><p><i>Ailes told Obama he was concerned about Obama’s strength on national-security issues. The candidate assured Ailes that he had nothing to worry about. “Well, why are you going around talking about making cuts in weapons systems?” asked Ailes. “If you’re going to cut, why not at least negotiate them and get something in return?” Obama said that Ailes had been misinformed; he was not advocating unilateral cuts. “He said this looking me right in the eyes,” says Ailes. “He never dropped his gaze, which is the usual tell. It was as good a lie as anyone ever told me. I said, ‘Senator, I just watched someone say exactly that on my computer screen before coming over here. Maybe it wasn’t you, but it sure looked like you and sounded like you. I think it was you.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>While Fox News is more watched and more profitable than all the other cable networks put together, Obama has harmed America immensely with his inept conduct.  From foreign policy to economics to American honor, America has never been at a lower point politically, and it continues to be mired in the worst economic depression since the Great Depression.</p>
<p>Of course, since his election, Obama, the most powerful man in the world, has consistently portrayed himself as the underdog, whether blaming failure on President Bush or someone else. Roger Ailes has a different view on responsibility, saying “If you run into people who are negative, and always telling you that the cat got ran over, and you couldn&#8217;t get the car started and you&#8217;ve got a cold, the suits are idiots and life isn&#8217;t fair, you know, you need to get away from those people because they will suck you under and hold you down and drown you.”</p>
<p>The President is at fault for talking too much and not doing enough. He is failing miserably with people at all levels and with what needs to be done. While being  President of the United States is nothing like being a President of a media organization, it should be noted that Ailes is the most successful television executive of all-time, and Obama is arguably the worst President in modern history.  <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/ronn-torossian/obamas-legacy-of-disaster/">Obama shall leave behind a legacy of disaster</a>.</p>
<p>Obama should watch and learn more from Fox News – perhaps he can improve as President of the United States of America.</p>
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		<title>Obama &amp; Crew Were Right: Yes, We Can!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2013 04:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to inflicting misery on the country, there is nothing the president can't do. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/yeswecan1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-196239" alt="yeswecan1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/yeswecan1.jpg" width="298" height="207" /></a>As President Barack Obama and his supporters told us, &#8220;Yes, we can!&#8221;  Indeed, five years after Obama was elected to the Oval Office, there are so many firsts which this administration has laid witness to:</p>
<p>Yes, we can fail miserably on domestic and foreign initiatives, consistently, regularly and in a gross manner;</p>
<p>Yes, we can ensure America will be a laughing stock worldwide with an awful, non-consistent foreign policy;</p>
<p>Yes, we can use the IRS to target political enemies in a manner which any communist, totalitarian government would be in awe;</p>
<p>Yes, we can be aloof and arrogant anytime we get criticized;</p>
<p>Yes, we can watch an American ambassador be lynched, an embassy ransacked and have no American reaction (yes, you read that right);</p>
<p>Yes, we can endorse the overthrow of an Egyptian leader who was friendly to America, only to see the hostile, anti-American Muslim Brotherhood take power …  and thereafter get overthrown;</p>
<p>Yes, we can see a Middle East in chaos – partially thanks to Obama’s encouragement of the Arab Spring;</p>
<p>Yes, we can allow Iran to cross all red lines without taking any action whatsoever;</p>
<p>Yes, we can sit by and watch 100,000 people be slaughtered in Syria, hundreds of women be raped, and allow it to happen;</p>
<p>Yes, we can watch Chinese and Russian leaders mock America over the Snowden affair (and indeed, would anyone argue Obama has a better poker face than Putin?);</p>
<p>Yes, we can continue to pressure Israel to make concessions which would endanger America’s closest ally in the Middle East;</p>
<p>Yes, we can have no direction or path to improve the economy, as it continues to lag after 5 years of Obama;</p>
<p>Yes, we can see an American president say he can kill Americans anywhere in the world at his whim;</p>
<p>Yes, we can give great speeches which have no substance and no follow-through, but which still allow Obama to continue to be a great speaker with charisma;</p>
<p>Yes, we can go down in history as the worst American president in many, many years;</p>
<p>Yes, we can set America&#8217;s legacy back tremendously.</p>
<p>As <a href="http://www.twitter.com/5wpr">CEO of 5WPR</a>, I am aware of the many responsibilities of being a CEO.  There can be zero question that Obama has been a complete failure as Chief Executive Officer of America.  The man gives good speeches and is brilliant at <a href="http://www.5wpr.com/">Public Relations</a> – but an absolute and complete disaster at everything else.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 04:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/argo-still.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-188720" alt="argo-still" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/argo-still-448x350.jpg" width="269" height="210" /></a>In <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/14/world/meast/iran-argo-response">response</a> to last year’s Oscar-winning film <i>Argo</i>, based on the real-life rescue of a handful of American citizens during the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Tehran <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/13/world/meast/iran-argo-response">plans</a> to sue Hollywood filmmakers who participate in the production of such “anti-Iran” propaganda films.</p>
<p>In the movie, in which director Ben Affleck also plays the lead role, Iranian officials are shown being outwitted by an elaborate CIA plan to camouflage the U.S. diplomats fleeing the country as part of a team scouting locations for an outlandish science-fiction film.</p>
<p>Iranian authorities have labeled <i>Argo</i> a propaganda attack against their nation and humanity. The country’s state-run broadcaster Press TV complains that the film is “a far cry from a balanced narration” and is “replete with historical inaccuracies and distortions.” The film was banned from the general public – not that this accomplished anything, since an estimated “several hundred thousand copies” have been sold by DVD bootleggers who <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/outlawed-argo-dvds-are-selling-by-the-thousands-in-iran-2013-2#ixzz2S8NvZF7Z">say</a> it’s their biggest seller in years. As an additional measure, Iranian officials <a href="http://www.heavy.com/news/2013/03/iran-to-sue-argo-affleck-top-10-facts-you-need-to-know/">held</a> a private screening of <i>Argo</i> as part of a conference called “The Hoax of Hollywood” and called it a “violation of international cultural norms,” whatever those are.</p>
<p>Press TV detailed its objections to the film in an online article: “The Iranophobic American movie attempts to describe Iranians as overemotional, irrational, insane, and diabolical while at the same time, the CIA agents are represented as heroically patriotic.” At the risk of speaking for Ben Affleck, I would respond that the movie does not depict all Iranians this way, only the murderous Islamic fundamentalists who took over the country, and who already do a great job living up to the description “irrational and diabolical.”</p>
<p>Nonetheless, Press TV reports that offended Iranian officials have talked to an “internationally-renowned” French lawyer about filing a lawsuit. “I will defend Iran against the films like <i>Argo</i>, which are produced in Hollywood to distort the country’s image,” said attorney Isabelle Coutant-Peyre. In a curious, Hollywood-worthy twist, Coutant-Peyre just happens to be the wife of mega-terrorist Carlos the Jackal, currently imprisoned in France where he <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/11/10/carlos-the-jackal-carlos-the-jihadi/">converted to Islam</a>.</p>
<p>Is <i>Argo</i> faithful to every historical detail? Of course not (its deviations from reality have been <a href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/10/18/the_true_spy_story_behind_argo">documented</a> here) – no historical dramatization on film is unfailingly accurate, nor can it be, otherwise it would be a documentary (and even documentaries bear the points of view of their filmmakers, who are necessarily selective about the facts they include). Movies need to tell stories, and they tell them in ways that meet certain structural requirements of good storytelling. But of course the Iranian authorities are not interested in what Press TV called “a balanced narration” anyway; they want to sanitize their reputation with their <i>own</i> inaccuracies and distortions.</p>
<p>And it looks like they intend to do just that. To counter <i>Argo</i>, Iran plans to fund a movie entitled <i>The General Staff</i>, about twenty American hostages who were handed over to the United States by Iranian revolutionaries (Iranian screenwriter Farhad Tohidi has also <a href="http://theweek.com/article/index/238723/irans-bizarre-plan-to-remake-argo">announced</a> plans for a TV series, <i>The Broken Paw</i>, about the seizure of the U.S. Embassy). “This film,” said <i>The General Staff</i>’s director Ataollah Salmanian, “which will be a big production, should be an appropriate response to the ahistoric film <i>Argo</i>.” He said he hoped to secure funding from the Art Bureau wing of the propagandists at the Islamic Ideology Dissemination Organization.</p>
<p><i>The General Staff</i>, which will begin shooting next year, will be based on eyewitness accounts, Salmanian said. Press TV cited him as saying that his film would depict “the historical event, unlike the American version which lacks a proper view of the story.” And by “proper,” of course, he means Iran-centric. Kenneth Taylor, the Canadian ambassador portrayed in the film, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/11/world/middleeast/as-academy-snubs-affleck-for-argo-iran-plans-own-movie.html">told <i>The New York Times</i></a>, “It will be amusing to see what they take issue with.”</p>
<p>Affleck too <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/jan/14/ben-affleck-argo">responded</a> to Iran’s plans:</p>
<blockquote><p>You have to understand, this is a sort of Stalinist regime in this place that is extremely repressive. It&#8217;s governing a nation full of millions of wonderful, amazing people, so to be part of this movie <i>Argo</i> that seems to have kids up and paying attention – so this Stalinist regime feels the need to sort of push back somehow, I think is a tremendous badge of honor.</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: left;">It is, and good for him for not sucking up to the Iranian regime like some other Hollywood luminaries have. Four years ago an unofficial delegation from Hollywood’s Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hs08h0N-fFTlnRAblLSMrXwXLnPg">set out to visit Iran</a> as part of a “cultural exchange” that might soothe tensions between our countries. Iranian cultural advisor Javad Shamaghdari <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.2b0b8bd405048e19f36fa896834ca058.9b1&amp;show_article=1">laid out</a> for the Hollywood representatives exactly what Iran wanted out of the meeting: “If Hollywood wants to <i>correct its behavior</i> towards Iranian people and Islamic culture then they have to <i>officially apologize</i>,” he said.</p>
<p>D. Parvaz, an Iranian journalist for Al Jazeera, recently <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/d-parvaz/why-iran-wants-hollywood-_b_3018416.html">wrote</a> a defense of Iran’s sensitivity to <i>Argo</i> (and to other less-than-flattering portrayals of Iran as in films like <i>300</i> and <i>Not Without My Daughter</i>) for the reliably pro-Islamic <i>Huffington Post</i>, in which she expressed her and her countrymen’s weariness at the treatment of her “fatherland” in the media: “It’s all <i>nuclear this, human rights that</i>” she complained. [Emphasis in original]</p>
<p>Yes, how terribly unfair that the media dwell on Iran’s stated intention to wipe Israel from the map or to bring the Great Satan America to its knees with the nuclear weapons it is acquiring in the face of international condemnation. How biased of the media to shine a light on the fact that Iran publicly hangs teenage gays from cranes, stones adulterers to death, rapes and tortures female protesters, and publicly assaults women for wearing western jeans and hairstyles.</p>
<p>If Parvaz wants her fatherland to quit producing such public relations <i>faux pas</i>, perhaps she could speak to the regime there about reining in their medieval insanity and hatred. Perhaps she could recommend to the mullahs that they disband their terrorist minions in Hezbollah, stop exporting IEDs, and enter the 21<sup>st</sup> century. That will go a long way toward rehabilitating Iran’s image problem.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/saudis23.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-132465 alignleft" title="saudis23" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/saudis23.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="280" /></a>In an interesting development, a special Saudi Arabian criminal court recently began a criminal trial where one of the defendants is charged with among other counts, providing PR support to terrorists. Among the criminal charges being faced: “utilizing media to support terrorism, publishing inflammatory statements on a number of electronic sites.” One wonders if Saudi Arabia is charging people in criminal court for providing Public Relations support for terrorists, why are terrorists allowed to continue using American technology and PR Firms to spread their message?</p>
<p>There are many great uses for Public Relations, but a justified cause is not enough to be right these days, either in politics or in business. In any battle, preparation for any war includes a PR battle plan, and the bad guys seemingly get it. Terrorists and their supporters continue to use modern day public relations tools and they are increasingly skilled at doing so.</p>
<p>Hamas, which was designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S. Department of State in April 1993, tweets regularly at <a href="http://twitter.com/hamasinfo" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/hamasinfo</a>. This, despite a 2004 U.S. Department of Justice statement that Hamas threatened the United States through covert cells on American soil.</p>
<p>One can join the over 9500 followers of The al-Qassam Brigades in their very active twitter account at <a href="http://twitter.com/AlqassamBrigade" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/AlqassamBrigade</a> &#8211; an organization which was founded in 1992 as Hamas’ military wing, and only 10 years ago was designated by the U.S. as a foreign terrorist organization.</p>
<p>In March 2010, the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions against <em>Al-Aqsa TV </em>and designated it a terrorism-financing organization which serves as a primary Hamas media outlet that airs programs &#8220;designed to recruit children to become Hamas armed fighters and suicide bombers upon reaching adulthood.&#8221; They continue to tweet at <a href="http://twitter.com/AqsaTVChannel" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/AqsaTVChannel</a>.</p>
<p>Hezbollah tweets regularly from al-Manar News account <a href="http://twitter.com/almanarnews" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/almanarnews</a>, with over 11,000 followers. A recent English-language tweet links to a story on Al-Manar News which states: &#8220;Ahmadinjead: Central Bank Strong Enough to Defeat US plans.”</p>
<p>Will Twitter allow this to continue even as Saudi Arabia prosecutes someone for providing PR support to terrorists? Is Twitter enabling terrorists to spread their word and succeed? I recently wrote about how <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/11576" target="_blank"><strong>PR firms assist in selling terror and brutality</strong></a>. From Assad’s Syrian regime to previous representation of Libyan dictator Moammar Qaddafi, terrorist organizations Hamas and Hizbullah have hired PR agencies to lobby for them in the press and on the world stage.</p>
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