Pic Of The Moment: And Another Right-Wing Meme Bites The Dust

[EarlG]

"Disconnected Obama" Meme An Example of the Lying Corporate Media

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[Helen Borg]

1. Republican Presidents are freeloading bums, it seems :)

[underpants]

2. No no no it's about how much golf he plays

Oh, that doesn't work either.


http://m.theweek.com/bullpen/column/235844/deconstructing-the-5-most-ridiculous-myths-about-barack-obama

At the link - if you count his fake ranch AND Camp David W averaged four months off each year.

[VA_Jill]

46. That's part of it

Black guys aren't supposed to play golf. It just ain't RIGHT, ya know?

[underpants]

47. So you are saying there may just be a racial element

Interesting

[VA_Jill]

50. Gee, ya think? n/t

[Stellar]

52. hmmm...playing golf while black.

Will he never learn?

[KansDem]

3. So, out of eight years in the White House...

...W was on vacation for one and one-third years?

Nice work if you can get it...

[Gidney N Cloyd]

5. I don't see it here but I believe that's just for 6 years.

Someone on Stephanie Miller's show said Dubya spent the equivalent of over 2 years on vacation over the course of his 8 years in office.

[NewJeffCT]

7. 879 days total over 8 years

So, basically just about 2.5 years.

[link:http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/08/09/watch-which-u-s-president-took-the-most-vacation-time/|

[mazzarro]

14. Which comes to roughly 3.5 months per year for vacations - hmmmmm! n/t

[Spitfire of ATJ]

21. We can't get voting day off though.

[ReRe]

4. K&R

The brain dead will swear it's a lie.

[NewJeffCT]

9. Bush and Reagan really worked on their vacations

while Obama is a shiftless black man who did nothing on his except relax.

[ReRe]

36. Exactly...

[narnian60]

30. Sorry to say...

that's my mom.

[ReRe]

35. Sorry about that...

I have a couple in my family (not my Mom) like that too.

[NewJeffCT]

6. I think Bush Sr also took a good amount of vacation

and would be somewhere near Clinton's total, despite only serving one term.

[Enthusiast]

8. There you go, playing the Facts Card, again.

Way to go, EarlG. Kicked and recommended!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

10. Where's the asterisk after Bush Jr.? NT

[ffr]

11. Bush was able to. He inherited a $2T surplus and turned it into a $10T deficit

He was asleep at the wheel of our economic train.

We all know how that turned out.



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[The Wizard]

15. Young voters must be told

of the Republican stance on net neutrality and that they will have limited access to downloading and texting if Republicans rule.
In brief, they must be told their sex lives will be limited because they won't be able to send that next text message that will lead to unbridled sex. It's always about sex.

[SoapBox]

12. ...sigh.

Fuks News will simply switch the pictures of Prez O and Chimpy.

[The Wizard]

13. Republicans: What are they good for?

Absolutely nothing, but for a bad example.

[samsingh]

16. rightwing media still lies about facts

[FiveGoodMen]

23. And that's what will kill us if we can't fix it

Only verifiable facts should be reported as facts.

Lying about any facts in a news-cast should be a felony with mandatory jail time (including for anyone who authorized the lie).

Opinions don't really need to be reported at all. We can talk to each other and form our own opinions.

If we don't solve this problem, nothing else we do will ever matter.

[Dragonfli]

39. As I recall, the courts ruled that FOX may lie as often as they like

Something about their "news" programs being entertainment or some such nonsense.

[FiveGoodMen]

49. Yes. An act of treason against the US, if you ask me.

Surely they knew they were authorizing propaganda.

[C Moon]

17. 490! That's over 60 days per year! I guess Cheney was able to hold the fort down. :D

[wandy]

18. Another example of the right wing propaganda machine in action........

Report the news they want to hear.
Obama is disconnected.
Make it fit on a bumper sticker.
"The Putter in Chief"
When a lie is told enough times it becomes the truth.


"A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest"

[LynneSin]

19. Cheney probably encouraged Bush to take vacation

Bush just got in the way of Cheney actually running the country. Probably the same thing for Reagan.

[mazzarro]

22. You are probably right about Cheney doing such a thing

And it must have started somewhere, so it most likely was something he learned or started while he was working for the Reagan administration with Bush Sr. being the one pulling Reagan's strings.

[Abbraxus]

20. Vaca days

As much as this picture tells the real truth, when a sitting President is on vacation, it's not like they are unreachable in case of a crisis or even not thinking about the problems facing the country or the world. There are other people in the government taking care of the day to day things (or at least I hope so).

Even in my little insignificant job, I think about work when I am on vacation.

[LittleGirl]

24. I just spoke to my 82 yr old mother

and we laughed about this. She said that Eisenhower liked to golf and it was a big deal when he was on vacation too. ha, some things never change.

[malthaussen]

25. Fox News Headline: "Obama works hard at tyranny."

"President doesn't even take a vacation from violating our rights!"

-- Mal

[Kali]

26. I can't believe they even tried after dumya.

idiots.

[rhett o rick]

27. k&r. Thanks for posting. nm

[bleedinglib]

28. President cheney

Didn't want w stinking up the white house, so he sent him too Disney land!!!!

[santamargarita]

29. Republicans aren't there to govern, only to steal and year down!

[Cha]

31. The gopropaganda machine just loves to accuse Democrats of republicon transgressions.

Mahalo EarlG!

[pipoman]

32. How many days did Cheney take off to shoot people in the face?

[LiberalElite]

33. The truth doesn't matter -

the right wing has been making it up as they go along for decades and getting away with it - sometimes even being rewarded for it.

[muntrv]

34. But...but Raygun and Boosh owned the properties they vacationed in,

so no taxpayer money was spent! Fixed Noise says so!

[niyad]

37. of course, my thought is always how much worse we could have had it had those useless

bums actually worked some.

[littlemissmartypants]

38. I love science. nt

[Tanelorn]

40. But would you want Bush on the job full time anyway?

[blkmusclmachine]

41. George W. Bush, empty suit, vacationed the whole 8 years, and on 9/11 too

[davidpdx]

42. K & R

Plus shared on Facebook

[brp1939]

43. Its remarkable

Its remarkable how the red and the blue obelisks varies very well knowing that all four are loaded with something most people call "lies". And, if I misspelled a word please don't reply. I'm a poor speller but I try to catchum!.

[gopiscrap]

45. Welcome to DU

[bluesbassman]

48. Welcome to DU, and thanks for the observation.

Care to elaborate on the "lies" contained in those statistics? Seems like fairly accurate accounting of those President's vacation days, but perhaps you have access to information that will illuminate us to the real numbers.

[bl968]

44. new meme

Here is a new meme for you to make. Contrast the number vacation days taken by congress vs obama during his term....

[Gothmog]

51. This is great