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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Tue Aug 13, 2013, 09:49 PM Aug 2013

This is sad. This is pathetic.

By Jay Bookman
This is sad. This is pathetic.


You are so starved for ways to criticize a president that his wince at missing a putt becomes an indictment of his leadership style, a consciously plotted attempt to "shove it down the throats of the American people" and an inspiration for conspiracy theory? Seriously?


I thought Fox could never outdo that infamous "terrorist fist jab" moment. I stand corrected.
Here's the moment in real time:



Upon review of the footage, I think Greta missed a few obvious opportunities.

Note how Obama's failure to anticipate the exact degree of break in the putt reveals the same lack of foresight that led to ObamaCare. Note how the bent wrist in the opening chip shot betrays his lack of American masculinity. And that leg lift is clearly an African dance step, proof positive that he was born in Kenya. And is that Saul Alinsky lurking in the background? You know, right next to Bill Ayres and ... omg, Karl Marx? (If you put it in question form, you can "just ask" anything, right?)

C'mon, Greta. Step up your game, girl. Uncle Rupert expects better of you than this.
http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/jay-bookman/2013/aug/13/how-obama-shoves-it-down-throats-americans/
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Taitertots

(7,745 posts)
1. After seeing this clip, I'll never refer to a TV entertainment show as "news"
Tue Aug 13, 2013, 09:58 PM
Aug 2013

I will now refer to them only as "Corporate propaganda". I encourage you to join me because calling it "news" creates the illusion that objective information about important topics is being disseminated.

 

bravenak

(34,648 posts)
4. I almost choked on my snickers bar when she said " shoving it down the throat ".
Tue Aug 13, 2013, 10:03 PM
Aug 2013

How do Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert even still have jobs? I guess the jokes write themselves. This is pure comedy.

pacalo

(24,721 posts)
5. We don't expect tv news readers to feel pressured to get nose & eye jobs to do their jobs.
Tue Aug 13, 2013, 10:10 PM
Aug 2013

Of course, Greta, if you're going to be a sell-out, you might as well go for the entire superficial package.

lumpy

(13,704 posts)
7. Greta has always been a lame 'newscaster'. Fox will grovel around finding anything that might
Tue Aug 13, 2013, 11:21 PM
Aug 2013

be demeaning to the Prez and she is a royal suck-up to go along with it.

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