"Oh wow, so you can sign the machine?"
"Oh wow, so you can sign the machine?"
The WaWa debacle instantly comes to mind. Shows the media’s double standard again. The prezzy is a boob
The WaWa debacle instantly comes to mind. Shows the media’s double standard again. The prezzy is a boob
It takes a village idiot!
Next press conference should ask Obama how a store scanner works....ROFLMAO (I’ll bet he makes Bush I look like a genius)
This story may be true, but consider how good he is with computers and setting up websites!
He is the Lord our God. He can get away with anything. Now bow down to your God.
Unless...
You're not talking about Barbara Walters and "selfie" are you?
Such a stupid, stupid person. If we had any capacity for embarrassment anymore, we’d be embarrassed. But I think he’s worn us out.
The disgusting sycophant media will give him a free pass on this like they did for everything else.
That’s nothing. Obama wouldn’t know how to use any common hand tool, if you handed it to him. You just know the Community Organizer has never done a lick of real work like real Americans. The only muscle he has ever really used is his tongue.
What’s a WaWa machine?
Is Wawa a place or a machine?
http://www.mrc.org/articles/great-george-bush-sr-grocery-scanner-urban-legend-lives
The Great George Bush Sr. “Grocery Scanner” Urban Legend Lives On
Reporter Garry Shih in a story on bar codes writes: “They even played a role in the 1992 presidential race, when then-President George H. W. Bush, at a campaign stop, seemed surprised by what had already become a technological staple of everyday life.” Um, not exactly.
Published: 6/26/2009 1:23 PM ET
By Clay Waters
The urban legend of President George H.W. Bush staring in marvel at a grocery store scanner during his 1992 re-election campaign, which became a liberal media symbol of his inability to sympathize with the day-to-day lives of average Americans, still endures at the Times. The latest entry came on the front page of Friday Businesssection, ina story by Gerry Shih celebrating bar codes, “Game Changer In Retailing, Bar Code Is 35.”
The design was straightforward - 59 black and white bars. And the inventors’ objectives were simple enough, too - to speed up the grocery checkout line and give supermarkets a new tool to track their stock.
But the bar code has become much more than that since it was first used to read the price on a 10-pack of Juicy Fruit gum (67 cents) on the morning of June 26, 1974. Now they are used to board airplanes and track packages. Bar codes help people with diabetes calibrate glucose meters and researchers study the pollination habits of bees. They inspired a hand-held video game,BarcodeBattler, in 1991.
They even played a role in the 1992 presidential race, when then-PresidentGeorge H. W. Bush, at a campaign stop, seemed surprised by what had already become a technological staple of everyday life.
Sigh. Even the liberal-leaning myth-busters at Snopes.com debunkedthe incident as a gross exaggeration, writing:
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.
Yet the Times continues repeating the bogus Bush story(which, as stated by Snopes, originated in a February 1992 Times story) as fact. The last instance before Friday was reporter Mark Leibovich in an August 2008 story mocking John McCain.
Remember the number the press did on George H.W. Bush when he said something similar about the Bar Code scanner in a supermarket?
Barrycades’ grocery store moment.
What a Luddite.
Isn’t that why unemployment is so high? And those darn ATMs.
Of course Obamessiah does not seen the link between driving up labor costs and the implementation of labor saving devices.
C’mon. Give the guy some rspect.