Will Media Report Obama Seeing Dead People in Memorial Day Audience?

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The gaffes continued this holiday weekend for the media's presidential candidate.

Having mispronounced the name of the Florida city he was speaking in on Friday, as well as erred about what president was in the White House when Hugo Chavez took over Venezuela, Barack Obama talked about seeing dead people in the audience during a Memorial Day speech in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Of course, you're not likely to hear about this, because it seems a metaphysical certitude Obama-loving meda won't consider this newsworthy.

As such, consider yourself fortunate that Gateway Pundit found another delicious campaign mistake for us (video embedded right):

On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes -- and I see many of them in the audience here today -- our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.

This guy's seeing dead people, and folks are worried about McCain developing Alzheimer's?

To be sure, none of this will harm Obama's campaign, because outside of the rightosphere, conservative talk radio, and Fox News, nobody will report this.

It must be nice for a presidential candidate to be able to say whatever he wants with complete protection from the media, so much so that dead Soviet premiers must be rolling over in their graves wondering why they didn't have it this good.

Of course, in his next campaign stop, Obama might claim to see a few of them in the audience; stay tuned.


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What is your point Noel...

it worked for Bruce Willis, lol.

Each and everytime I see the media let him slide on his gaffes I am amazed. Then I see what passes for "reporting" and I guess I am just saddened.

BTW,

since I just corrected my own spelling mistake...does NB ever consider having spell check for people like me...:)

I wish they had it too

I constantly notice typos and things after I post.

If you use firefox you can hit "disable rich-text" at the bottom and the firefox one will work. I forget to do that a lot and it goofs up your paragraphs and adds extra lines and things.

I have considered

writing my comment in Word and then copying it to this site.

I do use Word, or my

I do use Word, or my e-mail program Outlook Express.

 

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

Well,

that sounds better than misspelling or typos. :)

unbroken line?

  Yea. Because we have been at war for 232 years now.

  Oh wait, at war with the HIPPIES!

  Ok, I'll stop, this is the day for honoring us excons with PTSD you know!

Obama's visions

dead Soviet premiers must be rolling over in their graves wondering why they didn't have it this good.

Noel, you can verify this phenomenon if you'll just ask Barack.  Surely he sees them too.

And Lenin thought he'd finally found some privacy when they did away with the display case.

How much is that Commie in the window.  What the heck, Obama probably saw Doris Day too.

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Cool

Cool,

How much is that Commie in the window?

:-) ns

Commie in the window

That glass coffin always scared me when I was a kid.

Here I was a good Catholic boy and I'd leafed through my mom's book "The Incorruptibles" with all the "perfectly preserved" saints, and I always wondered how Lenin slipped in under the radar.

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Maybe those spirits of the fallen heroes...

realize how much damage Obama will do to this nation and they are going to follow him around as a reminder that "We are watching you". 

Sort of like an afterlife Patriot Guard.  Or maybe something between the Patriot Guard and Ghost Rider.

if he sees them in new mexico

maybe it's the highwaymen, for you know they'll always be around and around and around and around and around........

if he sees dead people, is

if he sees dead people, is this a none-too-subtle foreshadowing that he's selected John Edwards for Veep?

or does this mean he's hoping for the troubled souls that walk the earth will be, ahem, crossing over in support for a change they can believe in?

OF COURSE he sees dead

OF COURSE he sees dead people being from Chicago........those are potential votes for him

 

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
 -Gerald Ford

duh

I'm just glad the comment was in the first few seconds of the clip. I was going to yell at you for not telling us the time on the clip, noel, because I dang sure didn't want to have to listen to his crap until he uttered the subject words of your post. lol

The man is a moron.

 

It is not just him.

  He has a team of people coming up with some of this stuff.

 

This ain't teamwork. I'd

This ain't teamwork. I'd be willing to bet this is more of his "off the cuff" eloquence.

 

unbroken line

    I think that was scripted. Him seeing dead peoples, yea that was off the script.

Must be an experiment

This is like The Twilight Zone. I'm beginning to feel like the test subject in a grand psychological experiment, where unseen scientists in lab coats, working behind the scenes, present us with increasingly improbable situations, just to measure how we react.

  • Think about it. A radical liberal, who's spent barely one year in the senate, declares that Washington is broken. His solution? To lead the very same.
  • He rises to the top of the political structure of the most powerful country in the world ... by merely spouting soothing bromides of unity. And yet, as every day passes, we accumulate more evidence of his associations with every element of the Unhinged Left (radical ex-hippies, black liberation separatists, etc.) that has been working to destroy the unity that the candidate speaks so fondly of. 
    • How is it that the man who wants to bring us together has spent so much time with people who've actively worked to tear us apart?
  • His political philosophy is mere emotion. As Charles Krauthammer described it, his entire foreign policy started out as a gaffe from a debate, but instead of apologizing for it, he's "doubled down" on it to make it the centerpiece of his foreign policy.
  • He insinuates his opponent must be senile because of a gaffe or two, and then talks of being in 57 states. His chief quality is his soaring oratory, which now has him seeing dead people.

In any other year, this kind of presidential candidate would have been laughed off. Yet the press is falling all over him.

It's just too improbable to believe. We have to start looking around to find the scientists in the white lab coats. We have to get out of their maze before they do any more damage. After all, some people are taking this candidate seriously.

argggghhh!

   Laugh it off monkeyboy! (my homage to Buckaroo Banzai)

  Come November, your twilight zone will be over. After that, he will still be my senator, my twilight zone continues without end!

He said he's going to

He said he's going to "cobble together a coalition of people who agree....." How's that for a unifier?

Cobble this?

You sure he didn't say "I'm joining the Kabul coalition"?

After he's elected, can we Impeach Cobbler?

Can he cobble his party platform sole?

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Cobble - what a great word

Another case of rhetoric that sounds sugary, but has no meaning. If they already agree, they don't need cobbling. And if they don't like being cobbled, what's he going to do? Ask the IRS, FBI, or local police to cobble us more firmly?

Politics isn't about people who agree with you. It's about how to live with the people who don't agree with you. Obama has been successful, so far, when he's among hard-core Democrats who secretly never liked Hillary either. He's going to be stunned, surprised, and maybe even a little annoyed once he's forced to deal with people who don't agree with him. Not knowing how to deal with that opposition, they'll accuse everyone else of whatever comes to mind, even racism, if necessary. Then they'll blame the people they're insulting for not jumping on their bandwagon. These unifiers will spend all their time insulting the people they claim to want to unify. 

Count me among the UnCobblers.

agreed KC

I agree there is something strange going on with Obama.

"In any other year, this

"In any other year, this kind of presidential candidate would have been laughed off. Yet the press is falling all over him"

 

Ok we are all adults right.........

it's because he's a BLACK MAN, and we all know the worst thing to be accused of today in the liberal mind is racism,

so in the liberal mind what the next best thing to not being a racist......kiss a black man's ass....see how not racist i am....I have a lot of black friends

and I am sorry but most blacks (91% right) are buying right into it.

ok so if Barak H-word Obama does win......THEN is racism over...then can we move on,

 

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
 -Gerald Ford

I bet he sees the same dead

I bet he sees the same dead people that will vote for him in November.

What better place than; Land of Enchantment - New Mexico

Out of all the 57-60 states, really what better place.

The state motto:

Grows As It Goes?
First A-bomb site, on this Planet.

Speaking in the Town of Los Cruces... The crossing...

he's crossed over the line
all state mottos:

runner up ; Oregon: She flies with her own wings.

Liberals62%


IranianUranium

Are you sure he meant dead?

There's more than one meaning of the word "fallen." I thought he was calling the military veterans in the audience "traitors." It would fit the pattern.

I agree.

I'm no Obama fan, but I agree. He was talking about injured Veterans.

dronteck - he said traitors not injured Vets

And he was kidding.. I don't think anyone thinks he was talking about injured Vets. That wouldn't make sense to single them out and ignore all other Vets. I never hear people referring to injured vets as fallen.

Obama is just a phony pure and simple. He was trying to make it look like he had a lot of military support there. It was all about him and not the Vets. Fallen or not. It wasn't vicious, just self centered, phony and really stupid.

Could not

agree more Dee...that so many have fallen for this horse patootie is remarkable.

"that so many have

"that so many have fallen..."

THAT must be what he meant: the vets (must be some) who have "fallen" for his line of "horse patootie!"

Yeah, yeah, that's the ticket!

He wasn't seeing dead people... just gullible people.

Case in point

Here we have typical Obama rhetoric: it sounds heroic, but different people walked away from it with different interpretations, because the language was vague enough for everyone to inject their own meaning into it.

Meaning isn't BYOB. If you have to supply your own meaning, it's because the words had none of their own.

JS

JS,

Do yourself a Google search -- as I did before I posted this -- and find out what "fallen hero" means. ns EOM

One should not

even need to look it up...to me the meaning is a given.

DDM

DDM,

Well, the reason I did a search last evening is because I wanted to make sure the term "fallen hero" couldn't include injured. The results were very clear: fallen hero is a dead soldier. Period. ns

Yes,

the post, of course, was not meant as a criticism of you or NB's, but of those with the lack of knowledge to know what it really means. Perhaps, as Rush is just commenting, bho is truly ignorant of what Memorial Day means and who we are honoring.

As you state, our fallen heroes are deceased and we honor them on that day-as we should every day.

But that doesn't explain

But that doesn't explain why you can't take a joke.

JS

JS,

You're right. I missed the humor there. Serves me right for not reading the entire comment. Shame on me. ns

noel -- have you considered

noel -- has Newsbusters considered a permanent page on Obama gaffes, updated as they come in thick and fast, with appropriate links?

He's certainly a GAFFE GUZZLER and he keeps pumping them out.

THE GAFF-O-TRON...

THE GAFFE PUMP

THE OBAMATRON FOR INSTANT GAFFIFACTION

Vote 4 change. Vote 4 anything. See Jack & Mr Shy's first campaign ad for the ONLY viable 3rd party candidate.

How about "The Obama

How about "The Obama Gaffarama"?

Ha ha.. like it

Ha ha.. like it motherb!

Vote 4 change. Vote 4 anything. See Jack & Mr Shy's first campaign ad for the ONLY viable 3rd party candidate.

Or maybe the "Obama

Or maybe the "Obama Gaffe-ometer?"

<edit: Actually, I like mb's better!>

"When President... I shall

"When President... I shall work tirelessly to represent all 57 of these here United States... and I shall do so 25/9
Barack Millhouse Obama

Vote 4 change. Vote 4 anything. See Jack & Mr Shy's first campaign ad for the ONLY viable 3rd party candidate.

25/9

Jack, now that's funny.

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If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it is in English, thank a Soldier. - My barber

TnT -- thanx! That's the

TnT -- thanx!

That's the change we've been waiting for, twenty-five hours a day, nine days a week.

YES HE CAN increase the states and change the calendar.

He's the messiah we've been waitng for, and can do anything!

Vote 4 change. Vote 4 anything. See Jack & Mr Shy's first campaign ad for the ONLY viable 3rd party candidate.

He counts on these types of voters

These weren't dead people. Just normal voters that followed him from Chicago -- he counts on these types of voters.

On a more serious note -- I watched his speech yesterday, and watched him struggle through it. Very choppy, kinda like he was being forced to do this, yet didn't know what to say. Has anyone else noticed his choppy, uncertain style of speaking lately? I've noticed it ever since he was forced to respond to Whrite's antics. He just doesn't seem to be able to speak "off-the-cuff" very well.

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If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it is in English, thank a Soldier. - My barber

Obama voters

You're right, they're the Mayor Richard Daley contingent.

Obama isn't happy if he ain't got Dick Daley.

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Love is

 

Being able to spell potato any damn way you want. 

Channeling Balboa

Sorry, but I am going to have to channel Balboa here, this looks like much ado about nothing to me. Although you are correct that this would cause a big stink if it were a Republican 'foot in mouth', I can forgive this one.

D

Keep the ILLEGALS out, join NumbersUSA to send free faxes to your reps.

Proof is in the Potato

Was Dan Quayle's spelling of potato much to do about nothing? The MSM and Dims took that all the way to the bank, touting it as proof that Quayle was a mental midget, and that he represented all Republicans.

It's the MSM double-standards that at play here, which indeed makes this important. Because, while all politians make mistakes, only Republican mistakes are placed on the front page; used as fodder by the MSM; constantly given air time on the evening news and in editorials; and used extensively on comedy shows.

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If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it is in English, thank a Soldier. - My barber

Potatoe

And we're still hearing about it - how many years later????

Chai

“A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn’t own.” —Frank Dane

Well that's because it was

Well that's because it was SO spectacular! What a terrible thing it is to waste one's mind...

(Psst...here's your 50

(Psst...here's your 50 bucks. Thanks, bud.)

:-)

You are wrong Troll

it shows his total ignorance of the significance of Memorial Day and what "fallen" really means. The man has not an iota of an idea of what American is about.

I think you're looking for

I think you're looking for too much meaning in these mistakes.

Empty Suit

So, what your saying is, we're expecting too much from this Presidential Candidate?

Oh, really?

Then try this on for size. But don't get too dizzy.

By the way, does anyone really think they told Quayle, "just pick any word you want and make the kid spell it?" It was on a card or paper or something. It was spelled on the card or paper or whatever. So, whose misspelling was it, hmm? As important as it was made to be ("I think you're looking for too much meaning in these mistakes."), shouldn't someone have researched that?

So, because it was

So, because it was misspelled on a card, he can't figure that out?

And I don't think Quayle was actually dumb, just really, really bad in public.

"Father, son & holy ghost."

Why not? People of faith believe in MANY improbable aberrations and/or superstitions. 

Silly rabbit

 Obama:  our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.

No doubt he wants to "change" that as well

 

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

Voters

Maybe he meant he saw all the dead people who are going to be voting for him in the democrat controlled precincts.

Barack H. Obama

This ranks up there with the story of his parents getting together to produce little Barack Jr. after the civil rights march in Selma, Alabama...when little BJ was born in 1961, a full 4 years before that march!

I see dead people...all the time.

 In the immortal words of Bugs Bunny, "What an ultra maroon!"

Odumba is an idiot.

Odumba is an idiot.

DAN QUAYLE

DAN QUAYLE

DAN QUAYLE

DAN QUAYLE

Quayle, who many don't realize was almost personally responsible for keeping the Patriot missile system alive in the 80s, was ridiculed for his spelling abilities, yet nary a negative word dared be spoken about the Messiah, no matter what idiocy he spouts.

The MSM's partisanship is breathtaking.

 

 

Obama is a simply a sock

Obama is simply a sock puppet as far as I am concerned, the more this guy talks the more he proves it.

The msm isn't going to say one word about all of his inane rambling blunders..I just wonder if any repubs are?

...and the msm has the audicity to call Pres. Bush stupid. 

"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill

   see my other

 

 see my other post

 they don't want to be called racist, plain and simple

that's the reason McCain is being a sissy about Barak H-word Obama.

McCain doesn't want to be labled a racist

 

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
 -Gerald Ford

Obama lacks gravitas. I'd

Obama lacks gravitas.

I'd like to hear what he'd see if he was speaking from Roswell, NM.

 "Fighters are fun but bombers make policy"

Again, Balboa, misses the

Again, Balboa, misses the point. The issue's not necessarily what the person said, but how the media covers it. If Obama were Republican, these gaffes would be all over the media - whether you think they're serious or not. I know you will disgree with this, but I think the evidence compiled here over the years would convince many open-minded people.

No, I totally get what

No, I totally get what you're trying to say, and so far you've been right.

Right Chris

If the media never highlighted Bush's misstatements and gaffs then most people would never even notice them.

Especially Nuclear. People have always mispronounced that and many other words and yet everyone in the world sees that and others as some type of Bushisms now.
Balboa himself brought up one the other day to make fun of Bush - (Strategery) and someone brought up how Bush never even said it. Balboa and many people including conservatives still have the impression that Bush did because of the media.

I would have noticed

I would have noticed "nuclear" only because my mom used to go nuts when we would mispronounce it as kids. :-)

I think it would have been hard to miss the whole "Fool me once" piece.

Noticing it and defining him by it are different though

You wouldn't have noticed it in a way that defined him without the media defining him for you.

Even the "Fool me once" thing - if you saw it, you may have laughed but you wouldn't have thought him an idiot because of it.

Hey Noel, you just got

Hey Noel, you just got mentioned on Sean Hannity's radio show for your comment about Obama Seeing Dead People....

As an aside...He's also talking about all the other gaffes that Obama has made that have been mentioned here by posters and NB writers too... 

 

"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill

BT

BT,

Cool. About how many minutes before you posted. He plays here three hours delayed.  ns

Noel...under five. "Never

Noel...under five.

"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill

I can't wait to watch The Daily Show and Colbert tonight!

I'm sure both of these "equal opportunity" comedians will spend lots of time, especially everyone's hero Jon Stewart, making fun of these mistakes.

Yep, I'm sure Lefto and Lefterman will also have it in their monologues.

 Yessiree, Obama is sure going to get zinged tonight!

LATER ON.... 

 (insert sound of crickets)

Maybe, maybe not. There

Maybe, maybe not. There isn't a whole lot of comedy gold here.