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To: marcusmaximus

One more thing. This is similar to when GHWB was surprised at the scanners at a grocery store, which the MSM loved because they could make him look out of touch with the little man, unlike BJ Clinton, who was and still is more out of touch.


18 posted on 02/17/2024 4:01:15 AM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: chajin

It was an ugly story but fake.

During a photo opportunity at a 1992 grocers’ convention, President George Bush was “amazed” at encountering supermarket scanners for the first time.
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“Then the details of the story started to dribble out. 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.”
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bush-scanner-demonstration/


30 posted on 02/17/2024 4:32:42 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: chajin

I think the rich need to stop going to stores with journalists. The three biggest idiots to do this were GHW Bush, Dr. Oz and now Tucker. Two lost their elections for being out of touch and I don’t think this gains Tucker many more supporters. Stop doing things to impress when it doesn’t work. Or at least learn about shopping needs of working families before going to the store and how they navigate it.


86 posted on 02/17/2024 5:57:40 AM PST by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: chajin

“One more thing. This is similar to when GHWB was surprised at the scanners at a grocery store, which the MSM loved because they could make him look out of touch with the little man, unlike BJ Clinton, who was and still is more out of touch.”

That was a fake story about Bush.

https://apnews.com/article/61f29d10e27140b0b108d8e12b64b839


93 posted on 02/17/2024 6:04:09 AM PST by suthener ( )
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