The stupidity reaches new heights.

[gcomeau]

I just saw an attempt to stir outrage that Obama had given Hillary the finger by scratching his face. I'm still trying to cope with my disbelief that anyone actually tried to pull this... let alone that some people apparently swallowed it hook line and sinker.

Let's just leave aside the CBS news feed ( http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=4025010n ) that clearly shows him scratching his cheek with his middle AND INDEX finger extended at the same time, which is not under any definition of the phrase... "the finger"... even if he HAD scratched his cheek with only his middle finger, he was in a town hall meeting where Clinton was not present. Anyone is seriously going to try to argue that a man clearly rubbing his face is flipping off someone who isn't even in the building?

Grow up children.

[mcctatas]

1. I hate to break it to you...

but this little kerfluffle (finger-gate?) is a mere pit stop on the Everest of stupidity that I expect to see as Hillary's demise sinks in with her little cult...:scared:

[cliffordu]

2. YEP - absolutely correct.

An Everest of stupidity is PRECISELY what it's going to be, too.

:puke:

[Ichingcarpenter]

7. A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well

than a fool can from a mountain top.

[Johnny__Motown]

6. Remember Snub-gate? that one dumb picture at the SOTU, and Her people went nuts for days

[bhikkhu]

19. Birdie-gate, obviously.

We may as well get the terminology straight, even while facts are left by the wayside.

note - in case anyone hasn't seen the clips or is familiar with the protocols - two fingers are used, and the whole brief fiasco is little more than a humorous episode here.

[napoleon_in_rags]

3. I think we can agree that Obama would NEVER do anything that petty...

...that juvenile... That pissy and duplicitous.

[Cant trust em]

4. Does stupidity reach new heights, or sink to new lows?

Either way you slice it, your point depresses me a little bit. I can't believe that I didn't see more sarcasm smilies in any of these posts.

[Name removed]

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[MonkeyFunk]

12. only an insane person

would think this is a racist attack.

[Danger Mouse]

14. racist, no...but it sure is bullshit.

[Maddy McCall]

17. Well....considering who you're replying to...

:freak:

[JAbuchan08]

20. It may not be racist

but Hillary supporters sure love to pretend that Hillary is some kind of virginal queen above all this nastiness (when it suits them) while Obama is somekind of rampaging ogre for daring to criticize Hillary..

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

24. Only an insane person would think he gave anybody the finger.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=5561283#5561347

Whoops.

[MonkeyFunk]

28. then a bunch of Obama fans are insane

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=5554474

Start at post 7


They recognized it immediately. Then it became "an issue" and now it's taboo.


oops!

[Terran]

27. I didn't see that claim

anywhere in the post you're referring to.

Care to clarify what you're talking about?

[cliffordu]

16. Yep - I wondered when this election was going to become

a symposium on the racist nature of the United States of America.

It didn't take as long as I thought it would...but I live in denial about lots of things.

I am very very sad at the tack this is taking.

:banghead:

[butterfly77]

25. No, we should let everyone get it out now...

so that by the time we get to the republiCONS we will be fighting them and helping our nominee and not arguing amongst our party...But I don't agree with all of these silly non issues..

[TexasLady]

8. I wont even respond to the other ridiculous thread about this

because it is what it is. Nothin.

[Jed Dilligan]

9. Except for one funny thing

The same poster was debunking the Lorraine motel pics on another thread less than an hour before posting it.

[Arrowhead2k1]

11. That was the same poster?

Heh, sometimes I just can't understand peoples mentality.

[Jed Dilligan]

13. The very same.

:crazy:

[Arrowhead2k1]

10. A part of me wants to see this make it to the MSM.

Because I know they'll expose it fully for what it is. Yet another petty desperate distraction.
Americans aren't stupid enough to fall for this in numbers. I mean if they were, Hillary would have wrapped up this nomination a long time ago. :rofl:

[Zachstar]

15. I went and checked it again and again and even paused at the moment.

A good test is the FCC test.

If this was an obscene gesture several things would happen

#1 The person running the censor board would be fired.

#2 CBS and ANY network showing the speech without the censor (None censored) would be fined.

#3 The networks still have not censored any footage.



I emulated the position of his hand over and over and over and without a shadow of a doubt it was clean. There was no obscene gesture.

The clip passes the FCC test. Obama did nothing wrong.

[sharesunited]

18. Pretty sure the FCC is prohibited from censoring political candidates.

If the candidates want to F-bomb each other continuously throughout a debate, the FCC can't stop them or punish stations for broadcasting it.

[Bake]

21. I just watched the video for the first time.

You're lying, of course. His index finger never touched his face. Only the middle finger. Was it intentional? Maybe no, maybe so. I don't care. What I do find interesting is the Obots who flat-out look at one thing and see something else altogether.

It's downright amazing.

Bake

[burythehatchet]

22. A message for Hill in case Barack didn't flip her off

[proud2BlibKansan]

23. Oh good grief

[Swamp Rat]

26. McCain wants to continue the war in Iraq for 100 years.