Hours before the Nobel committee awarded its “Peace Prize” to President Barack Obama, the CBS Evening News found another “achievement” to tout: A White House-released photo of Obama blocking a basketball shot. With the picture on screen, fill-in anchor Maggie Rodriquez explained how it shows Obama impressively “blocking a shot by his aide, Reggie Love, who is younger, taller, and by the way, a former ball player at Duke.” Rodriquez added: “It now hangs in the West Wing so the President can savor the moment every time he passes by.” From Thursday night:
The White House gave us a look today at a picture of the President during his down time. We hear he's pretty proud of this picture. It shows him playing basketball recently and blocking a shot by his aide, Reggie Love, who is younger, taller, and by the way, a former ball player at Duke. Now at the President's request, Love autographed it, writing, quote: “Nice block.” It now hangs in the West Wing so the President can savor the moment every time he passes by.
This wasn't the first time the CBS Evening News has oozed over Obama's basketball prowess. The NewsBusters item, “Day 1 of Obama's Magical Media Tour: All Air from Outside the Paint!” recounted how in 2008 CBS (along with ABC and CNN) were awed by video of Obama making a basketball shot at a gym with troops in Kuwait.
Forrest Sawyer, anchoring the CBS Evening News on Saturday night July 19, highlighted how Obama “sank a shot from way outside the paint.” Sawyer announced over matching video:
Now, before Afghanistan Senator Obama stopped off in Kuwait to talk to the troops there. You remember all that grief Obama got for being a terrible bowler? Well, at a local gym someone handed him a basketball and he promptly sank a shot from way outside the paint. He made it look easy. You just have to pick the game.
—Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center
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another reason to dislike dook
October 9, 2009 - 12:06 ET by Candance Moore:p
hee hee
October 9, 2009 - 12:10 ET by BlondeI would have bet ten bucks that comment belonged to Rick.
I hope he fails, too.
arg
October 9, 2009 - 12:09 ET by katainkentyou'd think Obama was the media's first born child the way they praise every bleeping thing he does.
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The Emperor, he has no clothes
Don't forget
October 9, 2009 - 12:27 ET by apathy311http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_en398
And you will cry out in that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, and the Lord will not hear you in that day...
OH MY GOD! Is Nike paying
October 9, 2009 - 12:11 ET by QueenMumOH MY GOD! Is Nike paying attention? Move over LeBron. (sarc off) On second thought, how 'bout the Big O uses his Nobel Prize bucks to buy Nikes for all the poor kids in Chicago, Detroit, et al.
Gheesh.
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
- P.J. O'Rourke
What a narcissist
October 9, 2009 - 12:14 ET by OxyConLotta body contact between Obama and Love going on there. Just sayin. What is Love's official role, title and job description anyway?
Is Obama the first President to give his buddy a White House job so he'd have someone to pal around with?
ENOUGH ALREADY!
October 9, 2009 - 12:17 ET by jon_torlinDammit, I swear to God this is getting freaking old! Actually it got old in the first few months BEFORE the election the amount of coverage they are doing of this fake person.
Now because of this stupid peace prize thing, he'll NEVER get off the TV and this will make things even worse, he'll probably start basing his "decisions" on this.
This is beyond ridiculous. I'm absolutely disgusted, each day brings a new level of it.
-Jon
Looks more like a blocking
October 9, 2009 - 12:19 ET by dvdaughtryLooks more like a blocking FOUL to me.
(whistle, ref walks over to the scorer's table)
"Yeah, we block on Double 0. Zero-Zero with the body. Shooting two."
You trying to say Jesus Christ can't hit a curveball?
Folks...
October 9, 2009 - 12:21 ET by kengieThat's our President..and we are proud!
"Live long and prosper" ~ on the point, Obama
And if the Bamster said that
October 9, 2009 - 12:23 ET by BlondeIt would be the Royal "We".
And you are sorely mistaken. I am not proud of this President, not one iota.
I hope he fails, too.
→ Thank you Kenny G.
October 9, 2009 - 12:26 ET by Cool ArrowI've observed this present-schizo-plural tense before. Nice to see you are in agreement.
Yeah and dolts like you
October 9, 2009 - 15:11 ET by gmaniac1Yeah and dolts like you were proud when the man-child swatted a fly too. I still think the fly was a better fighter but the Secret Service aided the president on the swat. They were edited out to make the Dear Leader look more manly.
When the people fear the government it's called tyranny, when the government fears the people it's called liberty!
It now hangs in the
October 9, 2009 - 12:35 ET by MidAmericaIt now hangs in the West Wing so the President can savor the moment every time he passes by.
Like he does mirrors?
FINALLY!!!!!
October 9, 2009 - 13:12 ET by Willis_Leon_JohnsonHis FIRST MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENT IN OFFICE!!!!!
Life can go back to normal and he can pretend to be (p)resident of the White House and watch the news to find out how wonderful he really is.
http://gjresult.com
I wonder
October 9, 2009 - 13:23 ET by theduck6Did he make him wear a white doctor's coat for the game?
Ya gotta DO something to win an award...usually.
"Afganistan is my war" Barry the O
He's got a Basketball
October 9, 2009 - 14:01 ET by mattmHe's got a Basketball Jones.
I'll give him that.
In my "west wing,"
October 9, 2009 - 15:21 ET by jdhawkIn my "west wing," I've got the following pictures of me and the rest of conservative America blocking the following "shots" from obama, the first stupid liberal:
Card Check
Cap and Trade
Obamacare
Let's make it permanent and vote the dimocrats out of office in 2010 and obama, the first stupid liberal in 2012!
Gullible
October 9, 2009 - 15:22 ET by Gat New YorkObama really has the media eating out of his palm when they buy this bogus block.
Anyone who has followed college b-ball - especially Duke - knows that Reggie Love may not have been pro material or the best player on those Duke teams, but I never saw any shot of his blocked. Reggie was very athletic, had great elevation, and was also a football player so he would body you out and shoot. Clearly this was a studio set-up. What a friggin joke.
Also, those look-at-me shoot shots on Youtube are interestingly similar. Obama does have some game and anyone who plays good b-ball has their favorite shots. You will notice that all those shots are set shots and from the same place left or right with no one blocking him. Also notice he barely gets off the floor. I've seen some video of him in a game and he doesn't have as much game as he leads the press on to believe.
"It now hangs in the West
October 9, 2009 - 15:54 ET by chessplayer"It now hangs in the West Wing so the President can savor the moment every time he passes by."
Exactly what a narcissist would do.
Since that photo was
October 9, 2009 - 16:19 ET by Roger the ShrubberSince that photo was released from the White House, Robert Reich has sent a memo to the White House asking to not be invited to play basketball with the president ever again.
LMAO Rog...that was a good
October 9, 2009 - 16:21 ET by bigtimerLMAO Rog...that was a good one.
'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart
Everyone
October 10, 2009 - 10:53 ET by jessieHEveryone knows obama can jump. We all saw the way he jumped through hoops for the dictators down south.