Surprise: ABC's Raddatz Slams Obama for Mocking ISIS Threat as Guys in 'Pickup Trucks'

Curtis Houck | January 13, 2016
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ABC’s post-State of the Union coverage featured a number of predictably liberal takes on Tuesday, but some opposing viewpoints were able to break through with one criticism being chief global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz slamming the President’s characterization of many ISIS fighters as “guys in pickup trucks” because those same men “still are in charge of Mosul in Iraq” and “huge swaths in Syria.”

Discussing the speech just over five minutes after it concluded, chief anchor George Stephanopoulos posed to Raddatz questions about how the President chided the GOP-led Congress for not giving him “an authorization to use force” on ISIS and while Raddatz agreed, she made clear that the President’s foreign policy deserved plenty of blame.