Posted on 07/11/2015 10:34:21 AM PDT by Starman417
Remember the fable of George HW Bush and the supermarket scanner? Here's how the NY Times described it back then:
ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 4— As President Bush travels the country in search of re-election, he seems unable to escape a central problem: This career politician, who has lived the cloistered life of a top Washington bureaucrat for decades, is having trouble presenting himself to the electorate as a man in touch with middle-class life.It was written by the incomparably hypocritical Andrew Rosenthal.Today, for instance, he emerged from 11 years in Washington's choicest executive mansions to confront the modern supermarket.
Visiting the exhibition hall of the National Grocers Association convention here, Mr. Bush lingered at the mock-up of a checkout lane. He signed his name on an electronic pad used to detect check forgeries.
"If some guy came in and spelled George Bush differently, could you catch it?" the President asked. "Yes," he was told, and he shook his head in wonder.
Then he grabbed a quart of milk, a light bulb and a bag of candy and ran them over an electronic scanner. The look of wonder flickered across his face again as he saw the item and price registered on the cash register screen.
"This is for checking out?" asked Mr. Bush. "I just took a tour through the exhibits here," he told the grocers later. "Amazed by some of the technology."
Marlin Fitzwater, the White House spokesman, assured reporters that he had seen the President in a grocery store. A year or so ago. In Kennebunkport.
Some grocery stores began using electornic scanners as early as 1976, and the devices have been in general use in American supermarkets for a decade.
Having sampled the ways of the American shopper, Mr. Bush tried to identify with the American bad mood.
Never mind that it wasn't even true:
Andrew Rosenthal of The New York Times hadn't even been present at the grocers' convention. He based his article on a two-paragraph report filed by the lone pool newspaperman allowed to cover the event, Gregg McDonald of the Houston Chronicle, who merely wrote that Bush had a "look of wonder" on his face and didn't find the event significant enough to mention in his own story. Moreover, Bush had good reason to express wonder: He wasn't being shown then-standard scanner technology, but a new type of scanner that could weigh groceries and read mangled and torn bar codes.Newly released Hillary emails indicate that she is unable to use a fax machine- 30 year old technology:
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
OTOH, she knows to have a hard drive scrubbed.
One sameness.. They both were involved in clandestine Affairs long before they ever moved into the WH.
The media exists solely to promote a leftist agenda. It does not exist to report events.
Reporting on events is a vehicle to impart their world view.
She was upset because she had to turn in an old laptop to her employer (fedgov) and she was fine with that -- she'd been given a newer, better laptop. What she expected was that the HD on her old laptop would be scrubbed. She has a TS clearance, and her laptop is not supposed to hold classified info, but she is a cautious person. She wanted her HD scrubbed. It seemed to be a reasonable expectation.
Her employer (fedgov) said that they would put it on a shelf. No need to scrub it. No one cared. It was no big deal, so why worry?
She was outraged.
But here's the best part:
I said: "Now think about Hillary Clinton's emails. They got scrubbed, right? From her computer, from the Server, from all of the backups! They sure scrubbed her stuff, huh? Kinda makes ya think that maybe she's actually just lying about the whole thing, huh?"
The very reasonable lady shot me a deadly look and walked away.
Because a lot of women refuse to consider anything bad about Hillary. She's got lady parts, so she deserves to be president.
Great example!
Human nature hasn’t changed — they just see what they want to see.
(And disregard the rest... I messed up a crossword puzzle the other day because I put in “Garfinkle” instead of “Garfunkel.”)
The days of merely noting the perfidy of journalists are drawing to a close...
Reporting on events is a vehicle to impart their world view.
The mediaJournalism is, was, and always will be propaganda.. . . a fact not unknown to the sponsors and ratifiers of the First Amendment.
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