Posted on 05/25/2015 3:49:46 PM PDT by Sontagged
"Bush is mesmerized by a common grocery store checkout scanner in 1992. This was LONG after scanners were introduced in 1980. "Some say" this is an "urban legend," but you decide. Sorry, source file was only 160x120, not too sharp."
What piqued my interest was a dialogue blurb in an old "House of Cards" episode. The Constance Zimmer journalist character (Janine Skorsky) is somehow teaching a class on political reporting and she defends HW's scanner problem as an "urban legend".
Clearly, this video shows it was not an urban myth.
Why this lib-produced show would take so much screentime to defend HW is as strange as when HBO produced a loving documentary on HW Bush just two months after they premiered GAME CHANGE.
25 years old. Why does it matter and what is your intent in posting?
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He wants the Clinton campaign back, most likely.
Actually it was typical selective editing. Bush was discussing his amazement at a new technology generation of scanners that had the ability to “fix” scuffed or torn bar codes and accurately scan them.
The media edited that part out to show him as an elitist snob.
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.
http://www.mrc.org/articles/great-george-bush-sr-grocery-scanner-urban-legend-lives
Did the clip show that it was recorded at an industry trade show where they were demonstrating the latest advances in scanner technology?
Well, I spent a lot of time pushing a cart through the commissary on Aberdeen Proving Ground in the 1980s. We had the old, manual NCR cash registers.
After you’ve solved this mystery, could you send me the location of the Lost Dutchman Mine.
Tool.
Bush was marveling at an advanced generation scanner. Did you report Hillary doesn’t drive?
Strange post, even if it was about Clinton.
That’s petty.
The Hollywood Libs who produced HOUSE OF CARDS seemed to care so much about HW Bush, that 21 years later, they wasted a minute of screentime on this so called “urban legend”.
When I recall how HBO produced a loving HW Bush documentary two months after they tried to destroy Palin in “GAME CHANGE”, the HOUSE OF CARDS mention of the Bush scanner myth seemed...
... weird.
Thank God we finally have a SMART GUY, Barack H Obama to really really screw things up
Thanks for that.
The first time I ever saw a scanner in actual use in a grocery store was in a Wegmans supermarket in Liverpool, NY. That would have to have been before or during 1978, because that's the year I left central New York for my first job in North Carolina.
It didn't really come as too much of a surprise because IBM had been running commercials on the Sunday-morning news magazine shows demonstrating the technology
The Wikipedia article on the Universal Product Code contains this statement:
"The first UPC marked item ever scanned at a retail checkout was at the Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio at 8:01 a.m. on June 26, 1974, and was a 10-pack (50 sticks) of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit chewing gum"
Let me know when Hitlery learns to pump her own gas.
Yes, I read that defense of Bush as well in my two minutes of research on this so-called myth.
But that is not what is recorded in the video. The milk carton isn’t torn, and Bush waves his hand over the glass scanner in amazement at the technology, not at its ability to read torn labels.
Any trip to the self checkout lane will show many people still mesmerized by scanners.
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