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NBC's Chuck Todd and ABC's Jake Tapper went into the most detail about Barack Obama's speech in Turkey. Tapper mentioned his support for Turkish membership of the European Union and his calls for progress on human rights for Turkey's Kurds. Todd cited Obama's request for Turkey's support in diplomacy towards Iran and Israel. Both reporters noted his allusion to the Ottoman Empire's genocide of Armenians in 1915 without using the G-word itself. Tapper reckoned "hundreds of thousands" of Armenians were slaughtered; Todd called them "millions."
CBS' Chip Reid used some of the same soundbites--"The United States is not and will never be at war with Islam"--before switching to the results of the latest opinion poll by his own network and The New York Times. It puts Obama's approval rating at 66%.
There was one unnerving image that all three correspondents used. The sound of a ceremonial cannon made the President jump. "Startled" was the word both Tapper and Reid used; Todd chose "visibly flinched," pointing out that "because this is a volatile region, security is tight."
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