PBS: 'Obama Is Our First Truly American President'

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Did you know that Barack Obama is our first truly American president?

You didn't?

Well, according to Emmy Award winning commentator John Ridley he is.

The following insulting segment was aired January 22 on Los Angeles's PBS station KCET (video embedded below the fold, h/t Hot Air via NB reader Thomas Stewart):

Every president to hold office has espoused some version of Americanism; the truths that we hold self-evident, even when those truths are not always in evidence. But for all their grand rhetoric and mostly good deeds, none was able to seal the deal on the trifecta of equality, plurality and socioeconomic ascendancy. Obama has. Obama is the more perfect union. He is a house united. Obama is the New Generation and the hot light of a dawn that goes way beyond clever phraseology of "Morning in America."

Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Obama is America, and the first true American to lead our nation.

Wow. I guess the previous 43 weren't really Americans.

Who'd a thunk it?


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Kenya, or Indonesia, how would we know.

But one thing for sure, he is not American. nor is he President of the 57, er, uh, ah, I think there are two more states. And what American doesn't know there are 50 States?

My thoughts too. I am not

My thoughts too. I am not convinced that he is a natural born American.

Ricky Joe the Plumber 

Can we question their

Can we question their patriotism now? 

NOLI PUGNARE ME OCCIDERE

It's amazing...

...how racist this black a$$hat is.  Oh, I forgot, only white people can be racist, bigoted homophobes.

On a serious note:  Where's the birth certificate? 

Jarhead

That was my first thought...for years the failing media has been telling us only whites can be racist since we were in power...now that we have a "black" president it must be reversed, yes?

Excuse me for thinking

Excuse me for thinking George Washington was a "true" American President.  Or Jackson, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Reagan, etc.  I'm sure what the esteemed commentator meant was obama is the first truly -black- American President.  But, alas, he's not even truly black.  He does get marks for having the best P.R. team.  Other than that, he's not worth much else.  There's going to be an awful lot of people that are greatly disappointed when their savior turns out to be less than mediocre at best.

George and Abe didn't even

George and Abe didn't even have their own logos or design department - what a bunch of dopes.

If being half black makes

If being half black makes you black, then doesnt being half white make you white? He's not the first black president.

Half and Half

Actually, he's Halfrican-American

Bolton/KEYES 2012 

O.K, this TRULY ticked me off

Hey, PBS and John Ridley, you are truly making me livid. I truly think that your little comment was truly out of line. If you insist of delivering MORE accolades, is is truly necessary for you to slam both W and Reagan? Both of you can truly go screw yourselves. Does anyone have a contact number or email for this station? I truly want to express my feelings.

 

Bringing the government in to run Wall Street is like saying, "Dad burned the dinner, let's get the dog to cook." PJ O'Rourke

Go Here There is an email

Go Here

There is an email link on the right.

Thanks, MB

I'm sending them one, I hope everyone else, will too. Let them get a taste of how some people might just find this offensive. Whose idea was it, anyway, that NPR and PBS come about, with government funding?

 

Bringing the government in to run Wall Street is like saying, "Dad burned the dinner, let's get the dog to cook." PJ O'Rourke

PBS

The only thing PBS is good for is showing British sitcoms.  Then when you really begin to enjoy them, they pull them for three weeks and do fund raising.  (They learned well from the government: find something people enjoy and ruin it).

britcoms...

... and those helicopter-flying-over-Italy things. I like those.

Panorama Shows

Oh yes, I love those too.

I also like

Antiques Roadshow but when I try to watch History Detectives my head explodes because the premise of the show is good and can be very interesting but there is a very very strong liberal slant to some of their detecting including some Bush bashing by Les Cowan the token white male. If you looked up liberal in the dictionary a picture of that crew would be displayed prominently

Change: When the winds of change blow hard enough, the most trivial of things can become deadly projectiles. From a Poster

Goth

They have these nifty DVD things now so you can watch PBS programming without having to listen to the whining.

I bought Six Wives of Henry VIII and Elizabeth R for Christmas....There are other vintage British productions which originally ran on PBS on my wish list too, The Forsythe Saga, The Pallisers, Duchess of Duke Street, etc.

 

I'm not nearly as

I'm not nearly as classy....I have the full set of Fawlty Towers! LOL

You started it! No, we

You started it!

No, we didn't!

Yes you did, you invaded Poland!

(best bit of dialogue in TV history, imho)

He's from Barcelona, you

He's from Barcelona, you know....

"on...those..trays" "uno..

"on...those..trays"

"uno...dos...tres!"

gotta love "Manuel Labor" :) especially here in CA. :)

 

"to call an illegal immigrant an "undocumented alien" is the same as calling a streetcorner drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist".

"You spend your money anyway you want and respect other's rights to do the same"

PBS DVD

Don't forget I Claudius... it has become quite the timely piece about how absolout power corrupts absoloutly...(see BHO) Also...remember to pick up Pocket Obama...it says on the inner title page "all good Americans MUST own this book"

Barack Obama= Half Honkey...ALL Donkey

Oh No

No, no, no.  I spent hundreds of dollars buying the entire series of "Upstairs/Downstairs" on VHS.  Then they released the entire series on DVD which was cheaper and takes up less room in the video cabinet.  I'm not falling for that again. :)

I have Elizabeth R as well. Great series.

All good stuff!

I'd forgotten Fawlty Towers...I Claudius was great, as was Upstairs/Downstairs.

Not a British series, but Centennial is great too!

 

ridley's remarks

Does this "emmy award winner" know that it was Sgt. Schultz's white mother, not his black Kenyan deadbeat father, that provided him with the only basis for him to be elected POTUS? First, "truly American President" indeed!

hey, don't be insulting all

hey, don't be insulting all us german-americans, yo! Y'all can't keep us down! :P

I have that entire series on DVD too. Schultz ruled, people saw him as stupid because he was easily bribed by strudel,  but I think it was more of his loyalty to pre-Nazi germany (remember he turned out to be the son of an influential family) and his refusal to see Hogan's crew as 'the Enemy' that allowed his constant distraction. He was also had a family for whose safety he was concerned. 

When's the last time anyone made a sitcom with any comparable depth? 

The special features are excellent, including the interview with "Colonel Klink" where they ask him about the monacle that was lost after the series was completed...and present him with an exact replica commissioned by the actors for him later.  

 

"to call an illegal immigrant an "undocumented alien" is the same as calling a streetcorner drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist".

"You spend your money anyway you want and respect other's rights to do the same"

Gpc,

That is the only time PBS is on around here, except for a couple of good cooking shows I like.

One of which is BBQ U.

:-)

-Dave

“Them that’s going get on the wagon. Them that ain’t get out of the way.” -While there is still time.

Cooking

Even though I never liked Martha Stewart, her show on PBS does have some good recipes.

this homey is a masterful baiter

Obama "lifted himself up from the swamp of food stamps."

So Grandma Whitey was the first bank vice president to be on food stamps. Riiight.

So let's increase PBS' funding, cause we need more of this unifying rhetoric (or BS depending on your vantage point)!

Oh nice shot at Bush, too

"Dad's buddies buy you a baseball team".

I'll tell you what that churning in my gut is....it's a trillion dollars flying out the window, without a care nor a thought for our children's children, who will pay for this fiasco.

P.S.  I thought George Washington was our "first truly American" president.  Still the best one, too.  If you've never been to Mount Vernon, go.  Stand in the man's library, which is just how he left it.  Then tell me about tingles.

As for this man's meandering pandering....I'm throwing the BS card. 

 

Blonde

They need to get their liberal stories straight. The libs wanted to fry Bush's bacon over the fact he worked for a company and sold his stocks, IN ORDER TO BUY THE BASEBALL TEAM, and then the stock price went down shortly after.(They tried to say he was insider-trading). I didn't matter that if Bush would have held on to it, it doubled  in value, a few months later. It just sounds cute now to say, Daddy Bush bought him a team. But he went too far with the smack at the "Morning in America" comment. Reagan bashing? He wants to go there? I would love to see this racist jerkwad face-to-face. I also want to know when and why Obama's mom was on food stamps. When he was small, and they lived with his grand parents? Or when she was in India? I read both of  his books, I don't remember the food stamp story.

 

Bringing the government in to run Wall Street is like saying, "Dad burned the dinner, let's get the dog to cook." PJ O'Rourke

Food Stamps My *rse

Yeah. 

Obama lifted hisself up from the comfortable middleclass (or better existence) in Indonesia.

Obama lifted hisself up from the wealthiest and most prestigious school in Hawaii. 

Then he lifted hisself up to Columbia and Harvard on still unknown financing, though we do know his entrance to Harvard was greased by a hate-whitey benefactor.

The lies these SOB's tell to pump up the Messiahn't are pernicious and unecessary.  I think these public myths underscore the intrinsic weakness of the Libs - insecurity in their own positions.  Why else the puffery?

 

Watch the YouTube Video on Stanley Ann Dunham

There's a few good ones, especially the one that documents that her parents were hard-core Marxist/Atheists and raised their daughter accordingly. They wanted a son and when she was born named her Stanley Ann. When they finally had a son, they named him Stanley, too. Sheesh. Anyway, they wound up in Washington state and sent her to a Marxist public high school (the way they all are now) where she was indoctrinated into a bitter, hate-filled woman who hung out with blacks to get back at America. Lest you think they were poor, guess again. The videos show a comfortable lifestyle. Further, she was in Indonesia working for that bastion of the NWO, The Ford Foundation. That's where she met the senior Mr. Geithner (father of the tax fraud, newly appointed Secy. of Treasury). So, the O knew the guy from way back when both of their parents worked for the Ford Foundation aka The New World Order. And you're suprised that some see him as the all-American, first truly American president. Sheesh, they've worked for decades for this moment to arrive.

If you really want to know how truly American this guy is, watch the video series at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDe50Phgl6g. His code name for the Secret Service is RENEGADE. Look up the definition or watch the video. Spooky stuff.

Washington

I laughed the first time I went to London and heard that they had to import American soil for the George Washington statute because he refused to set foot on British soil.

Should have had a Barf Alert!!

Obama IS the more perfect union???? The hot light of  dawn?

Another man-crush....Chris Matthews, call your office!!

Typical fare from P B (as in B), S (as in S).

Our tax dollars at work.

\barf

 

 

PBS is now the PrezBo Broadcasting Service

PrezBo's first international phone call upon being anointed POTUS was to an Arab. His first television interview as POTUS was on an Arab TV station. And I am still not 100% convinced that he is even from here.

Yeah, real Amurrican we got going here.

I am about half ready to start referring to the man as President Ahab.

As for you, John Ridley, go fly a kite.

-Dave

“Them that’s going get on the wagon. Them that ain’t get out of the way.” -While there is still time.

I know you just didn't say

I know you just didn't say President Ahab.....

 

I nearly fell out of my chair laughing because of the Ray Stevens song "Ahab The Arab" started playing in my head.  

TT,

Great catch, and now I can't get that song out of my head. 

And he's got

And he's got Clyde in Camel-lot.

Jesus Loves You

Texasteacher,

LOL-That hilarious Ray Stevens song was exactly what I was thinking about when I wrote that.  :-)

-Dave

“Them that’s going get on the wagon. Them that ain’t get out of the way.” -While there is still time.

He's the first management

He's the first management trainee in office... god help us all.

http://politicsofdes...

Stop funding for PBS - NOW!

We've known for decades that PBS and its evil twin NPR have been house organs for the Democratic Party. Not only that, but their "educational" shows have taught gullible children their PC's instead of their ABC's. It's time to de-fund both of these nutworks, immediately!

Indeed. Defund PBS today.

I understand the country is running at something of a deficit, no?  Then why are tax dollars going to a television network that allows bigots like John to call it home?

And isn't it interesting, John, that I came to the opposite conclusion?  See, from the available evidence, we have the first President who isn't Constitutionally qualified to be President--which makes him at least a little un-American.

--Mike 

www.thebrattonreport...

Mike... Thank you. You

Mike...

Thank you.

You spoke volumes for me.

Every single word.

In the great words of the

In the great words of the Bandit, "Do the letters F O mean anything to you?"

~Chad

Cincinnati, OH

Remind me again why Obama

Remind me again why Obama has paid upwards of $2 Million  to keep his Birth Certificate hidden?

Oh well...I guess FDR,

Oh well...I guess FDR, Kennedy and all the other Dems weren't REAL AMERICANS either...

Barack Obama= Half Honkey...ALL Donkey

The only show I watch on

The only show I watch on PBS is Antique Roadshow. This crap from Riddley is the reason why I don't donate to PBS or watch anything else.  It's a disgrace.  And NPR is no better. 

PBS = PROPAGANDA BROADCAST SYSTEM

NPR = NATIONAL PROPAGANDA RADIO

 

Moron

Go soak your head you racist jackass

"What you can not enforce, do not command" -Sophocles-

Silly me

Here I was, thinking men like George Washington and Abraham Lincoln who fought to found this country and hold it to its original Constitutional ideals, respectively, were truly American, too.

Guess I was wrong.  A quasi-socialist with no real experience is a "true" American.

Where do I report for re-education camp?

Aut viam inveniam aut faciam

You'll get the memo

When is camp? Why--summer, of course!

 

Wow.  "equality,

Wow. 

"equality, plurality and socioeconomic ascendancy"

Oh please tell me this is satire.   Are you kidding me?  

 

Thanks for the Link

Well, here's what I told PBS (Public Baloney Channel):

"I was shocked to hear John Ridley's comment that Obama is the first truly American president. It's not just insulting, it is outrageous.

"What makes him so? The fact that he was born in Kenya or the color of his skin? Is that what negates all other presidents of the US? If that's the case, lets add a few more pigeonholes to define the office. How about a black-white-Asian-native American (who came over the Bering Strait), pedophile, homosexual, or lesbian with learning disabilities, autism, and the need for a wheelchair due to paralysis? That's how stupid and insulting Mr. Ridley's comment was.

"To quote Bernie Goldberg, we don't have a black president. There's no such job in our government. We had an opening for a new president. The guy who got the job, albeit while spitting at our Constitution regarding his place of birth, happens to be 1/2 black, 1/2 white, 1/2 Muslim, 1/2 Christianized to attract voters, and full of nothing.

If you think you've dumbed us all down, you're wrong."

BTW, most of the media's antics are geared to get us all POed. Ergo, I recommend that we laugh at their machinations as much as possible because, in the end, they won't like what God does with them.

What is "Truly American"

What is "Truly American" even supposed to mean?  Does it refer to accomplishments?  Ability to speak in patriotic platitudes?  Size of lapel flag pin? 

Can we rank all 44 presidents according to True American-ness?

Is FDR more American than Garfield?  Is Polk less American than Reagan?  

I usually defend PBS, but this statement catapults clear over the line separating "edgy" from "idiotic".

Wow JasonC

We agree again.I thought agreeing with you on Stefan being in the finals and a jerk were it for this decade.I was wrong.I agree on the comparison.It is silly.I am waiting for the PBS program where he is cannonized for sainthood.

Hi Well... What can I

Hi Well...

What can I say, I'm a liberal, not a moron. 

 

Hi Jason

We all have our views.It is the folks with blinders on no matter the political slant that worry me.

That tells you how much the

That tells you how much the Media knows because he might not even be American until we see his birth certificate.True Americans don't go on muslims air waves to say we are not you enemy we are your friends. True Americans don't pick a tax cheater to run the IRS. True Americans don't put a person with money coming in from foreign country's in charge of foreign policy. True Americans don't campaign against lobbiest and then hire four your first week in office  to be in your Admin.

I am offended

I just send PBS an email informing them that what Mr. Ridley said is devisive and very un-American.

 

How dare he...........I am beside myself.

Hmmmmmmmmm....

"Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue ofhis being, Obama is America"

 

I seem to recall a similar statement from the 1930's and 40's, went something like this:

"Hitler is Germany."

This Ridley fellow has his

This Ridley fellow has his head so far up his a** that he hasn't noticed most Americans have nothing in common with Obama.  The more time passes, the more this will become apparent.

Ridley swam to the edge of the tank again?

My arms get tired typing on this stuff--but I soldier on. Truly American....Well, instead of African-American in the most literal sense, this might be true if he were a mix of 110 nationalities or however many there are here... If Ridley thinks African-Americans are truly the only real Americans, well, I can't reach him, so I am going back to work.

Retard

This chump is truly pandering to the sycophants. 

Another Obamagasm.

Another Obamagasm.

Just one more of the many to come. I thought Oprah was the Queen of Obamagasms but with this, Ridley has taken the lead.  To say that Obama is the first truly American President is just foolish, and it goes to show that anything Obama does will be hailed as wonderful.  Be prepared, this is only the beginning. 

44th time's the charm,

44th time's the charm, eh?

The Rocky Mountain Collegian: Illustrating Idiocy

Swing low . . .

I guess John feels free of the shackles that you to encumber him while his days on Morning Joe.  . . .  sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home.   

 

Bigots get air time on public TV

"Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Obama is America, and the first true American to lead our nation."

In other words, "I hate white people." 

Those who have not swords can still die upon them.

PBS is

is just gearing up for Hate Whitey Month er White Guilt month er I mean Black History month. Starting tonight with the probable adn usual evil white people did it drivel on POV-Traces of the Trade- A Story from the deep north.   Of course it is about the slave trade.

Change: When the winds of change blow hard enough, the most trivial of things can become deadly projectiles. From a Poster

→ Evil South

I think you're on to something there.

Like the Judge in Hartfodrd Conn.

Ask not what your country can do for you.  Ask what you can do for your country - Khalil Gibran

CA - Enjoyed the Link

I am sure this eminent jurist's background and character was scrupulously investigated before her appointment to the Connecticut Bench. She reminds me of another appointee, a judge from Philadelphia whom Clinton tried to foist on us. She was a whopper and to read about all the things she did on the bench is to strain credulity to shock. Luckily it didn't happen and we were spared a lifetime appointment to the Federal Bench. BTW did you see on the right side of the webpage of your link all those wonderful things you can see and do with Obama. Even tour his little log cabin in Illinois.  

Change: When the winds of change blow hard enough, the most trivial of things can become deadly projectiles. From a Poster

Token

Token

PBS: ProBarackSupport

Here's an idea:

Let's cut ALL FUNDING to the ProBarackSupport Channel.  These clowns are the same as AirAmerica: they would FAIL on their own if they had to fend for themselves.  They get OUR $$ and free time on the airwaves, then SELL their tapes, market and licensing, products, etc. for pure profit.

If you think Maddof was bad, let's look and see how much we have spent to prop this half-baked scheme over the last 40 years.

Please correct headline

PBS: 'Obama Is Our First Truly American President'

Should read:

John Ridley: 'Obama Is Our First Truly American President'

Or better yet:

John Ridley (someone you've never heard of and won't remember): 'Obama Is Our First Truly American President'

Unless John Ridley is working for PBS, or has some spokesperson arrangement with that network, it is ignorant at best to claim his commentary represents the official position at PBS.  Everyone attacking PBS for this needs to redirect their distaste.

Always remember ...

... there are 2 TAX-DEDUCTABLE ways of giving money to the Democratic Party: PBS and NPR

Impunitas semper ad deteriora invitat.

"Obama is the more perfect

"Obama is the more perfect union. He is a house united. Obama is the New Generation..."

Interesting...sounds reminiscent of Rudolf Hess:

"Hitler IST Deutschland! Deutschland IST Hitler!"

 

 

 

 

One of the 24% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 89% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.

Plagiarism - the Sincerest Form of Flattery

Democrats never change a good speech, they simply 'recycle' it in slightly different words.

V/R
Clyde 

"...the aspirants to tyranny are either the...men of the state, who in democracies are demagogues,... or those who hold great offices, and have a long tenure.." - Aristotle, Politics, c350BC

Our first truly un-American president

and can't even prove his American citizenship beyond a reasonable doubt. Hates America and though most people keep denying it is a muslim with no American upbringing or values. Has standards closer to Stalin than any other person who ever lived in America.

Aw, we had such a nice

Aw, we had such a nice thread going here, with an absurd topic that both sides could come together to mock equally, and someone had to go and ruin it with over-the-top, unfounded nonsense.

Too bad.

Wow Jason you're right

Obama's citizenship is unfounded and unproven. Nice to see you admit it.

Jesus Loves You

Double standard

The reason why he gets away with being racist should be obvious.

For the first time in his life...

Ridley is proud to be an American.

So...Obama is NOT like Lincoln

According to Ridley's way of thinking, Lincoln was not a truly American president.

Therefore Obama is NOT like Lincoln.

yeah right

what a crock. obama is the first president to circumvent and castrate the Constitution of the United States.  just wait, it will be found out what obama is hiding, be it his birth place; whether he received financial aid stating he was a foreign student; and or how falsified his selective service registration is (just to name a few). he is a pretender, not a president.