Posted on 03/17/2012 11:13:28 AM PDT by smoothsailing
March 15, 2012
Zombie
By now you’ve probably already heard about RutherfordGate — in which President Obama thoughtlessly repeated a bogus quote falsely attributed to President Rutherford B. Hayes in order to slander his opponents and (almost as an afterthought) Hayes himself:
“One of my predecessors, President Rutherford B. Hayes, reportedly said about the telephone: ‘It’s a great invention but who would ever want to use one?’” Obama said. “That’s why he’s not on Mt. Rushmore.”
A quick bit of fact-checking uncovered that the quote — as has been long known to anyone with a passing knowledge of history — is just an urban legend.
But this is not the first time Obama has done this. In recent months, he’s been citing all sorts of fabricated quotes attributed to his presidential predecessors, and then mocking their obvious inferiority to his visionary self. Here are just a few examples overlooked by the media:
January 13, Toledo, Ohio:
“When Bill Clinton first surfed the Internet, he said, ‘Golly, this’ll never be good for anything but porn and cyber-stalking,’” Obama announced. “That’s why he’s now nothing but a disgraced, impeached sex addict in a sham marriage to the worst Secretary of State in history.”
January 24, Panama City, Florida:
“When Harry Truman first learned about the atom bomb, he thought it was a ‘senseless waste of uranium’ and tried to ship a couple to the Emperor of Japan as novelty gifts,” Obama said. “If they hadn’t fallen out of the plane, Japan would still be our ally today.”
February 3, Burbank, California:
“When FDR was shown his first television, he deemed it ‘The Devil’s Toolbox’ and smashed it up with a sledgehammer, accidentally injuring his leg in the process,” Obama said. “He was confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life, and is now known as an elitist 1%er who bankrupted America with a Ponzi Scheme known as Social Security.”
February 17, Baltimore, Maryland:
“When Abraham Lincoln was shown the Gatling Gun, he laughed and said ‘Why would anyone want to shoot more than one bullet at a time?’” Obama scoffed. “That’s why he isn’t on Mount Rushmore.” [Aide hurriedly whispers in Obama's ear.] “Oh, he is? Well, then, that’s why we’re going to replace his ugly face with my classic profile.”
February 28, San Antonio, Texas:
“When Thomas Jefferson first learned of the steam-powered locomotive, he insisted that ‘Nothing will ever replace the horse as mankind’s primary mode of transportation,’” Obama claimed. “That’s because he was a slave-owning rapist who declared an imperialist war on our Muslim brothers. More than any single person he is responsible for developing the supremacist philosophy underpinning this racist Amerikkka, and I have ordered all his portraits removed from the White House.”
Nice ones. Obama and his butt-lick media naturally lend themselves to satire.
Obama is living proof of why the old question keeps being asked about why are there more horses a$$es in this world than horses.
That would be due to the Law of Equine Asymmetry.
Something abou this doesn’t quite smell right.
He’s proof that the problem with political jokes is they get elected to high office.
lol, funny stuff, smooth.
I found it interesting that Oboze pronounced Rutherford as if it were spelled Reuther- as in Walter Reuther, a former president of the UAW, and Ford as in Ford Motor Company.
It is interesting. It’s a window into the shallowness of his knowledge and the narrow scope of his perspective.
How is it that obozo is able to spew such nonsense and yet these utterances are not reported? If a Republican said anything like this it would be front page news and the NYT would be in high dungeon outrage about this distortion of history.
...Or to put it another way, it’s the sort of response I would expect from an android with low budget programming.
He also pronounces “Koran” with an Arabic inflection, and always calls it the “Holy Koran”, not simply the “Koran”.
He also pronounces Pakistan as “Pock-i-stan” instead of “Pack-i-stan” as most of us do. Not sure why he does that, but he consistently does that.
Intersting how he uses a long dead president from the 19th century as a foil for his joke.
And what’s with the Mt. Rushmore joke? Is he hinting that he himself will be on Mt. Rushmore someday????
The media will bury stuff like this. Heck, 90% of them voted for him, in many ways he’s their creation. They’re invested in him and will protect him. The old media is hopelessly compromised and the sooner it dies off completely, the better.
Is this satire? Surely he did not say these things.
Haven’t the slightest on the Mt. Rushmore thing but am reasonably sure he feels he should be up there.
Glad you liked it , Girl!!! ;-)
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