Losing touch because of missing context

10/23/2012
Michael Brown, now on 630 KHOW because his antics weren't good enough for 850 KOA played a bunch of 5 second sound bites that repubs have used to state that Barack Obama used his first trip as President to engage in an apology tour. I call bulls#*t. Here is an example of what Obama actually said, in context (you can find the entire speech here http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-President-Obama-at-Strasbourg-Town-Hall/). The tiny part that Brownie played is in bold.....

"Such an effort is never easy. It's always harder to forge true partnerships and sturdy alliances than to act alone, or to wait for the action of somebody else. It's more difficult to break down walls of division than to simply allow our differences to build and our resentments to fester. So we must be honest with ourselves. In recent years we've allowed our Alliance to drift. I know that there have been honest disagreements over policy, but we also know that there's something more that has crept into our relationship. In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world. Instead of celebrating your dynamic union and seeking to partner with you to meet common challenges, there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive.

But in Europe, there is an anti-Americanism that is at once casual but can also be insidious. Instead of recognizing the good that America so often does in the world, there have been times where Europeans choose to blame America for much of what's bad."

If you don't read the statement preceding and paragraph following my bolded section, you lose all context. And I know that most of the people in Colorado are not shortsighted enough to take a 5 second sound bite literally, and this goes for all sides. Context Brownie, Please!