Comments on: Barack OBUMa Does The Booty Call

By: Blake

Blake — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:06:59 +0000

Bill Maher knows how to joke?

By: Darrel

Darrel — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:14:49 +0000

Bigd: So tell me, is he helping this woman?>>

DAR
He couldn’t even see her bum from that angle. Looks like she just dropped something on his foot. Or, is he lowering his head to listen to the short (French?) guy beside him? Need the video I guess.

Bigd: The MSM and overseas papers picked up on this as well.>>

DAR
Well of course. It’s fun and that’s okay. And it really looks like the french guy is so busted. This poodle was tracking the girl *around* people. But the french won’t care so much I don’t think. They don’t have this facade of prudishness and puritanism we seem to have.

D.
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“I think contraception is disgusting — people using each other for pleasure.”
–Joseph Scheidler, Director, Pro-Life Action League

By: Big Dog

Big Dog — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:59:00 +0000

Looks to me like he took the briefest look and then some woman reached for his hand and he helped her.

So tell me, is he helping this woman?

The MSM and overseas papers picked up on this as well.

I guess maybe he is helpful seeing as how he helped the adult woman as well…

By: Darrel

Darrel — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:46:22 +0000

BLK: “he’s married, but not dead.”>>

DAR
You make a good point and I agree. Remember that recent history shows us… presidents with a strong drive in this direction can do very well. Remember that other fellow some call the “Big Dog.” As Hillary would say:

“He’s a hard dog to keep on the porch.”

D.
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(Bill Maher joke)

By: Blake

Blake — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:15:21 +0000

Darrel, on this one I would agree with you- it does look on the video as if his eyes are not on her butt, but like ace said, he is probably not dead. I would bet he checks out the booty- he’s married, but not dead.
The MSM might have fallen down on the job, but FOX got it right by showing the video first. At least give them kudos for that.

By: Darrel

Darrel — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 05:06:05 +0000

BIGD: “ABC said that Obama was looking down to make sure he did not loose[sic] his footing on the steps. This is a blatant lie. His feet are on the step.”>>

DAR
So you really do have no shame. I thought throwing this ignorant dishonest bit of dung would be a little below you. My mistake.

The bit about losing his footing is not correct. He was helping a lady with her footing. The photo does not reveal this, the video does.

This picture started at the Free Republic and then went to Drudge. Two hours later Fox was spreading the lie. Then Jake Tapper of ABC ran with it. Four hours later Tapper admitted the photo was misleading and that the video showed him to be innocent.

So just another example of the right-wing noise machine doing it’s thing, until it gets busted.

“A non-story starts on a right-wing website and works its way into the mainstream. It usually involves Drudge, the fedora-wearing boy who cries wolf (almost daily) on the Internet, and mainstream news outlets follow his lead, offering up under-researched and factually inaccurate story lines.

Had the mainstream media done their job — you know, checking the video to get the context from which the photo was taken — they would have clearly seen that Obama was attempting to navigate high steps, while reaching back to help someone behind him do so as well. As Fox News host Greta Van Susteren said after airing video of the event, “Yes, a still picture can lie. And this one does.” –media matters

If you haven’t seen the video, then like the other hacks, you don’t know what you are talking about and can be forgiven. If you have, and still peddle this pap, then you are without excuse.