Obama Tells Ohio Bar… TURN OFF FOX NEWS!
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, July 5, 2012, 10:06 PM
Barack Obama told a bar in Ohio to turn off FOX News.
President Barack Obama talks with patrons of Ziggy’s Pub and Restaurant in Amherst, Ohio, Thursday, July 5, 2012. Obama is on a two-day bus trip through Ohio and Pennsylvania.
(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Buzzfeed reported:
At an unscheduled stop at Ziggy’s Pub and Restaurant, an Amherst, Ohio bar, President Barack Obama suggested that the channel be changed when he was made aware that televisions were showing Fox News.
Obama and Fox News have gone to war frequently during his three and a half years in office — most recently over a sharply negative teaser shown on Fox and Friends that the White House took as a Fox News-sponsored attack ad on the president.
The Obama Administration frequently used the network as a proxy punching bag for its Republican opponents in the early years of his presidency. Fox’s personalities, led by Glenn Beck, fired back with more and more incendiary comments, but a somewhat delicate balanced was reached after the 2010 election in which both sides toned down their rhetoric.
The exchange, per pooler Mark Landler:
As he thanked the group for their support, one of them, Jeff Hawks, gestured to one of the TV’s and said, “You’re in a building that has Fox news on.”
Obama suggested that Hawks ask for it to be changed. “The customer is always right,” he said.
“I’ll arm-wrestle you for your vote,” Hawks said to Obama. “No, I’ll play basketball for your vote,” he replied.
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Patty commented:
So, does Jarrett. Everyone in Obama administration wants the nation to listen to CNN and MSNB.
Fox has the highest ratings ever, so Obama, how’s that working for ya. Seems not to well.
It seems if he says it they will believe.
Can’t wait to get the gansta out of the White House.
Patty commented:
All the hate he has for Fox News by a PRESIDENT? this right here is clear evidence of a sickness for lack of a better word. A real deep penetrating hate. Evil, insane and this person could be re-elected. And the many Czars, UN, advisers, liberal media hacks, in the same boat with this person who is suppose to be in OUR corner and show respect and honor to the job he holds.
I only wish that this election brings out those who sat on the sideline and give them a push to change this Nation because Obama is literally embarrassing this great nation.
donh commented:
By the look on the faces …The little girl in yellow managed to keep her soul…The one in black did not…> http://awsimx.fathermag.com/conflict/girl_scared_326492_XS_424x283.jpg
Opaobie commented:
Did he stiff the bar for his tab?….again.
paul52 commented:
Another example of the Emperor’s respect for the first amendment!
Highlander commented:
What an arrogant POS. It sickens me to think that so many people voted for this creep.
TeachX3 commented:
““I’ll arm-wrestle you for your vote,” Hawks said to Obama. “No, I’ll play basketball for your vote,” he replied.” … THAT is how he will make his choice for President? UGH. Do people even critically think anymore?!?
in excess commented:
Why doesn’t he ask for ANY of the other news channels to be turned off???????
The answer is obviously (and sadly) loud and clear.
Muddywood commented:
I’ve got a bum knee, but this conservative former All-City Basketball player has one good game left in him. I would love to take Barry up on his offer. I would destroy him on the court.
Then I would limp off….in victory.
Towering Barbarian commented:
TeachX3,
The critical thinking involved in Jeff Hawks saying that is not mine or yours but it was present. Implicit in that challenge to armwrestle was a question of “Why should I follow anyone who is weaker than me?”. More subtly the implicit albeit whimsical message may have been “You came for this photo op to act like you’re one of us. Are you really?”. In the former case the President’s response might have been regarded as “My strength exists but in a different form.” In the latter case, the President’s response was, “No. I’m a Yuppie. You have called my bluff and now I must fold.”. Either way, I’d say that Jeff Hawks made his point. ^_^
TeachX3 commented:
#12 …
thanks, that went right over my head, I took it completely different! :/
jake commented:
@Muddywood You wouldn’t do sh*t, just get dunked on and have a pair of Presidential nuts in your face.
PoorManzMaher commented:
By all the comments till now, it’s obvious this is a GOP (Greedy Old Plutocrats) site. Why would Obama want FOX Noise on when it is not really a news channel? Its only pundit hacks so far to the right they’re looking up their own arse. They’ve crucified the man with comments such as “he makes Nixon’s Watergate look like childplay” and thats them being nice, they do everything short of shouting NIGGΣR at him. And you all, would you want a TV station on behind you shouting Honky, Kike, Gook (whatever you are) behind you in a gas station you walked in to pay for petrol? If someone wants news, they go to Link TV or the internet where its not a cheerleading section for the Left or Right, so Obama was perfectly just to want that jive off a TV set, you will all be sorry when your licking the boots of the masters like me! You morons in the middle class are gonna vote yourselves right outta existence, the sooner the better. Now if you’ll excuse me, I gotta go shut this factory down and get plane tix for the equipment and workers to be shipped to India (not Indiana)… the workers are coming back to America, right after they train their replacements. Then I will take my car elevator up to my 1935 Rolls Royce Silver Cloud, you pig ignorant bootlickers!
Connie commented:
Sure he wants Fox news turned off. They are the only ones to tell the truth. You sure won’t get it from ABC,NBC,CBS, or the late night talk show hosts.
Michael D. Harle commented:
That was not an unscheduled stop the President does have those, however his advance team did a bad job, why would you send him into a bar were Foxnews is on????
Marybel commented:
Until the Mighty Zero can bypass the 1st Amendment and banish FOX, he will discredit it one bar at a time.
WillofLa commented:
If this “pup” has Fox News on all the time, it’s obviously mostly a conservative bar. Look at the photo closely, at the people who are actually looking at the man in the room who is the President of the United States! Wouldn’t you think every eye would be on him? Wouldn’t you think that as many people who could, would be over there to either talk to him or get his autograph, or something? But even the people at the very next table has one little girl looking directly at him with a surprised look on her face, and every one else is not looking at the President of the United States.
Also look at Obama. At most of these set up situations the President would have his sleeves rolled up. Obama doesn’t want his shirt messed up so he’s wearing a “short sleeved” shirt on instead of a suit, white shirt, jacket off, sleeves rolled up. Not Obama, he’s in “casual clothes”, slacks, sports shirt, and holding onto to a bottle. Did anyone see him take a sip off of it? Was he going to be one of “the people” on this occasion?
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