Defense secretary Leon Panetta used an MSNBC slogan to describe the Israel-Palestine conflict:
Addressing an issue that is in the primary domain of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Panetta urged Israel to “lean forward” to achieve peace with the Palestinians. Peace talks have been moribund for more than a year.
“Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel’s interests to strengthen it by … continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and pursuing other avenues of cooperation,” he said.
MSNBC launched the “lean forward’ campaign in 2010 to help brand the network as a progressive alternative to Fox News.
(Source: Poiltico)
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Keep your eyes and ears open to see how this is going to boomerang back in her face. Patients. It’ll happen.
This article is silly: it latches onto 2 words that are used in an advertising campaign (not an ad campaign I particularly like) and attempts to create a link between Leon Panetta and a cable-news talking head.