THE SEAN HANNITY SHOW

Obama Downplays President Obama blames the media for over-hyping the threat of terrorism to our national security. Is terrorism a real threat to the United States? If you were to ask military and intelligence experts, they would likely say "yes." Which terrorist organization - ISIS, al Qaeda in Pakistan, AQAP in Yemen, Khorasan group, the Taliban - represents the greatest threat? It depends on who you ask. To them, it's just a matter of degree. But if you were to ask our commander-in-chief, the threat of terrorism is being sensationalized by the media in the United States. In an interview with Vox, Obama compared dealing with radical Islamic terrorists to big city mayors cutting crime rates in their cities. In fact, Obama went as far as to say that the media "absolutely" overstates the risk of terrorism and the reason they do this is because stories about things like climate change aren't "sexy." But the last time that I checked the Department of Defense did not list "climate change" among its greatest threats that it is focused on. However, terrorism - "defeating al Qaeda and its affiliates and succeeding in current conflicts" - is at the top of the list of our core national interests. America is Concerned If you think Obama being too cavalier about the threats we are facing, you're not alone! The American people seem to think so also. A recent Fox News poll found the following: "Nearly half -- 47 percent -- say he under emphasizes the threat. That's about eight times as many as say he overemphasizes it (six percent). Another 43 percent say his approach is 'about right.'" Obama's continued propensity to downplay the threat of radical Islamic terrorism isn't achieving his ideological goal of making it disappear simply because he chooses to ignore or acknowledge it. Obama is of the impression that he can simply make a speech and it will be so. That's not how the world works. Even his own former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt General Michael Flynn, says that Obama's terrorism strategy is "clearly not working." We don't have a "coherent" strategy that addresses the wider problem, according to Flynn . That's not the fault of the media. That's not sensationalism. That's the fault of a president who does not understand the enemy. That's the fault of a president who is afraid to even name the enemy. That's the fault of a president who recently labeled one of the gravest enemies we currently face (ISIS) as the "JV team." Either Obama is deliberately downplaying things publicly, which is frustrating, or he doesn't have a handle of the true nature of the enemy, which is frightening. I don't know anyone in the media who is happy or excited to cover the barbarity of terrorists throughout the world. Yet this is a reality now, thanks to the failures of this administration to adequately attack the problem. That is a tremendous failure of leadership with grave implications for our security and safety. That's not sensational. That's reality.