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Funny: Obama loving local media reports on Black Friday reveal EMPTY STORES....
11/28/14 | sff

Posted on 11/28/2014 5:41:55 AM PST by SoFloFreeper

So this morning I have kicked back and perused the local south Florida stations.

Ever since their hero Obama seized power, they've done their best to set him up as the Messiah to the audience. Today was PARTICULARLY hilarious....as it has been the past several Black Fridays.

See, the stores in Miami are NOT CROWDED...local traffic reporters flying over the malls show empty lots provide the proof that Obamanomics is a failure.

Truth is, this has been going on every year since Obama took over....seriously, it is amazing to see "journalists" talk about the "frenzy" when the wide halls of the malls are like ghost towns.

I remember during the two terms of George W Bush, even in the aftermath of 9/11, the mood, confidence, and business atmosphere was soooo much more positive.

Some are trying to hype earlier hours and increased online shopping as the explanation for smaller crowds. There may be SOME of that, but it doesn't explain the shrinkage year after year. The depressed mood is palpable. People just do not have confidence in the economy--a direct result of Obama and his boss Valerie.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: bias; cult; media; obamafail
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Still, the cultists in the media keep trying to hype Team Obama.
1 posted on 11/28/2014 5:41:55 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

Mark Levin calls them the Praetorian Guard Media. And that’s exactly what they are.


2 posted on 11/28/2014 5:45:41 AM PST by samtheman
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To: SoFloFreeper

They could fly over the gun stores if they wish to see crowds. That’s the one place where his policies have created a business buzz.


3 posted on 11/28/2014 5:48:23 AM PST by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Maybe the calls for a Black Friday boycott were purely cynical, just another attempt to cover for Obama.

They can claim it “worked” while providing another reason for the empty stores that would be problematic to report under normal circumstances.


4 posted on 11/28/2014 5:48:56 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry

Strange. Driving home I saw people parking in illegal areas because everything else was full.


5 posted on 11/28/2014 5:52:40 AM PST by Crazieman (Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
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To: katana

“They could fly over the gun stores if they wish to see crowds.”

All those murderous, psychotic, adolescent, scu&bag Progressives are the greatest gun salesmen in the world.

IMHO


6 posted on 11/28/2014 5:54:54 AM PST by ripley
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To: SoFloFreeper

The onsite media can’t count all of those who are home in their pj’s ordering off the internet.


7 posted on 11/28/2014 5:58:32 AM PST by randita (Obama entrusted the transformation of the best healthcare system in the world to a scam artist.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

WalMart here is busier than normal but not sufficient to deter me should I need something there. A few years ago I would NOT go to any major store Thanksgiving wekeend and only dire need would take me to a big store between mid November and January 2.


8 posted on 11/28/2014 5:59:43 AM PST by arthurus
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To: SoFloFreeper

Who in their right mind would want to run the risk (a very likely one) of being in the middle of a store melee led by Ferguson type rioters?

The laws of unintended consequences at work.


9 posted on 11/28/2014 6:03:58 AM PST by billhilly (First eligible to vote in 1958)
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To: Crazieman
Strange. Driving home I saw people parking in illegal areas because everything else was full.

Same here. Getting home around 9pm last night the local outlet mall had light up where I've never seen them and shuttles going to remote parking lots.

On the other hand, consumerism in wealthy areas is not really indicative of the economy just as lack of consumerism in poor areas.

10 posted on 11/28/2014 6:10:32 AM PST by raybbr (Obamacare needs a death panel.)
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To: billhilly

And in the same breath, as a rat TG talking point, consumer confidence is at 94%.

Uh...yeah, sure, ok.


11 posted on 11/28/2014 6:10:41 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (You can't spell liberal without label.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I would attribute a good bit of it to a general hostility towards Black Friday in general. A lot of people (myself included) have realized that it’s not worth the hassle of dealing with the crowds, regardless of the savings involved. I went once, and it simply doesn’t add up.


12 posted on 11/28/2014 6:13:43 AM PST by arderkrag (NO ONE IS OUT TO GET YOU.)
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13 posted on 11/28/2014 6:16:39 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: SoFloFreeper
These articles seem to pop up every year at this time with the same tired theme of "stores are empty and the economy is failing."

While much of the action has moved online these days, where people point and click on merchandise that will arrive in their driveway via UPS truck (the smart way to go), the stores are still mobbed and you are going to wait a half hour in line at the Starbucks to get a $5 frappuccino.

Half the women in America are currently at or on their way to a department store as I type this.

My own house is empty of females (why couldn't they show the football games on this day?) and I'm left to rummage the refrigerator for leftovers and hang some Christmas lights. Actually a nice quiet day for me. But wish there was at least one NFL game on today which would give me an excuse to get to the Buffalo Wild Wings for a few glasses of stout.

14 posted on 11/28/2014 6:23:15 AM PST by SamAdams76
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To: SoFloFreeper

Couldn’t find any twine to finish a yard cleaning project I did yesterday to work off dinner and put a lot of branch trimmings out for the trashman today. So I went to Walgreens. About four other cars in the parking lot, but no luck with the twine. Drove over to Big Lots. Same story on the parking lot, but got my twine.


15 posted on 11/28/2014 6:40:30 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: SamAdams76

Bruins game starts at 7.


16 posted on 11/28/2014 6:40:49 AM PST by Semper911 (When you want to rob Peter to pay Paul, you'll always have the support of Paul.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I used to avoid getting out on Thanksgiving weekend just because I disliked the hassle and the crowds. But in the last few years, I’ve developed more and more of a revulsion towards Black Friday. I think it’s due to the way it has almost culturally supplanted Thanksgiving itself as the holiday.

Seeing both national and local news broadcasts ignoring the actual holiday, and going immediately to live remotes of black-coated hordes of doofuses at night waiting in line at some electronics store to buy video-games on sale the next day, or footage of packed shoppers spewing through doors like rats in a grain-elevator, it’s just made the whole thing a grotesque turn-off for me.


17 posted on 11/28/2014 6:48:38 AM PST by greene66
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To: SoFloFreeper

Black Friday reveal EMPTY STORES...
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Some enterprising doll manufacturer should come out with a Michael Brown Autopsy Doll, complete with a chest opener, scalpels and sewing kit.

It would be great fun for the whole family to enjoy AND it would help stock those empty shelves. /sarc


18 posted on 11/28/2014 6:51:40 AM PST by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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To: RetSignman

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. Would it be fitting to burn the cars and homes of the “protesting/rioting” Barack thugs”?

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19 posted on 11/28/2014 7:03:36 AM PST by devolve (- barter &/or trade items &/or services - let the IRS and DOJ get their money from illegal aliens -)
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To: billhilly

Not likely in my neck of the woods. Plus, we are armed.


20 posted on 11/28/2014 7:05:44 AM PST by ExpatGator (I hate Illinois Nazis!)
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