M-BS-NBC: Fineman Falsely Claims Gingrich Never Says 'President Obama' - 'It's Usually Just Obama'
The levels America's media will go to protect Barack Obama often stagger the mind.
On MSNBC's Hardball Tuesday, the Huffington Post's Howard Fineman not only complained about how the former Speaker of the House refers to the current White House resident - "I've never heard Newt Gingrich call President Obama 'President Obama.' It's usually just 'Obama'" - his assertion was totally false (video follows with transcript and commentary):
HOWARD FINEMAN: You and I have just spent the last month immersed in, listening to, and covering some of the most divisive rhetoric that I've heard on the campaign trail in years, and I've been out there for many, many years. They don't accept the President's legitimacy in many ways. I've never heard Newt Gingrich call President Obama 'President Obama.' It's usually just 'Obama.'
Really?
The transcript of Thursday's debate in South Carolina identified nine times that Gingrich referred to the current White House resident. He said "Barack Obama" seven times, "President Obama" once, and "Obama" once.
The transcript of Tuesday's debate in South Carolina identified five times that Gingrich referred to the current White House resident always as "Barack Obama."
The transcript of Saturday's debate in Florida didn't identify any times that Gingrich referred to the current White House resident by any name.
As such, in the three debates this past week, Gingrich referred to the current White House resident twelve times as "Barack Obama," once as "President Obama," and only once as just "Obama."
I guess this is another instance of why Chris Matthews recently referred to his network as "M-BS-NBC."
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How
Submitted by grammajane on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 8:07pm.
many times did these lame brains refer to Pres. Bush as Pres? It was very often just Bush or Mr. Bush. Not many Pres. Bush but numerous other names unfit for printing here. Fineman and tingles go do your whinning elsewhere..please
Really?
Submitted by Newsbubba on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 8:09pm.
I think that Gingrich and all other conservatives show a great deal of restraint and control by not calling the RBFSPB what he really is.
I agree
Submitted by Dave the mailman on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 8:13pm.
My first thought was: "thats better than what I call him".
LOL Dave
Submitted by bobsmom on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 8:21pm.
that's what popped into my head as well. They don't really want to know what us bitter clingers out here in flyover country call him. But I gotta say, we're pretty damn creative.
The MSM will stop at nothing,
Submitted by Soldat44 on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 8:25pm.
The MSM will stop at nothing, and I mean nothing to keep Obama in office.
It's as if Satan is the Pied Piper and these idiots are hypnotized by the tune he is playing. They want no rules, no boundaries and definitely no moral limitations. They are dancing to Hell's music.
Look at Fineman's hair! I
Submitted by Soldat44 on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 8:29pm.
Look at Fineman's hair! I think he yearns for the 70's and Jimmy Carter!
What a coinkidink...
Submitted by bigdaddy on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 8:30pm.
...I don't call him that either. I do call him:
Brack Insane Oblamer
Barry Hussein Soetero
Teleprompter In Chief
Jugg Eared Jackass
Baracko from Morocco
POSPOTUS
Just talked to a friend of mine
Submitted by KornKing on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 8:44pm.
Who's brother always interacts with A certain U S Senator when he's in town. The Senator, after Obama's election, confided to his acquaintance "get ready for a real strange ride, this guy's a real dipshit"
I call him what he is
Submitted by Dave. on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 8:53pm.
The Comrade Dear Ruler.
And should the unthinkable happen next November and the American people have another brain-fart as in '08, shortly after the former commoonity pi$$er-offer will very quickly morph into the 1st Premier of the USSA.
And yes, I have an acute case of BDS - probably the worst one here.
But that doesn't mean I am wrong.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Here's Obama calling President Bush "Bush" & "unpatritriotic"
Submitted by OxyCon on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 8:56pm.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyLmru6no4U
Here's video of Dingy Harry Reid calling President Bush a "liar" and a "loser":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMhhEZ_okc0
two year or just last year
Submitted by Tjexcite on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 8:59pm.
You lie (BOY). Did Newt tossed a boy in there when he said Obama boy.
Be sure to capitalize the pronouns that refer to Him
Submitted by Unsane on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 9:09pm.
I call Him His Majesty The Shahinshah to mock Him and His followers' blind worship of Him (h/t Abul Fazl).
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Holy Mackeral
Submitted by bobsmom on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 9:14pm.
I just looked at the pic that came with this thread, and I'm screaming "Make up!! Make up!!" Got a whole nasty oiled chrome dome thing goin' on here. Definitely not his best side.
Boy
Submitted by KornKing on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 9:26pm.
Wait till Howie sees what the blogosphere calls Mooch
I do remember during 1992,
Submitted by gopsteve on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 9:44pm.
I do remember during 1992, Clinton called PRESIDENT Bush MR. Bush all the time...
Calling him by his middle name was racist,
Now calling him by his last name is equally bad?
Maybe Howard is going to be a hair donor for Biden?
Submitted by UpNorth on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 9:54pm.
Either that, or he walked out of a 1960's time warp.
Howard Fineman: "If we are
Submitted by TE on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 10:22pm.
Howard Fineman: "If we are lucky, and George W. Bush is right, we are about to witness the War of the Happy Iraqis.” http://www.famousquotes.com/show/1688230/
That's the first quote that I found of Fineman referring to President Bush as merely "George W. Bush". I'm sure there are hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands and thousands, of examples of Fineman referring to either of the Presidents Bush as merely "Bush" or "George Bush". I'd be surprised if Fineman has referred to either Bush with title of "president" more than one percent of the time that he ever referred to either one of the Bush presidents.
Here is the first paragraph
Submitted by TE on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 10:31pm.
Here is the first paragraph and the first sentence of the second paragraph from a Howard Fineman piece on George W. Bush in 2005. Note how Fineman refers to Bush as "Bush" once and "George W. Bush" twice but never (NEVER) refers to him as "president" or "President Bush".
"George W. Bush wanted me to know that it’s what’s inside that counts. Early in the 2000 campaign, Sen. John McCain had unexpectedly flattened him in New Hampshire. Bush seemed somehow both combative and resigned. “Whatever happens,” he told me one day, “I want you to know that I have a good heart.” I think what he meant was: I may lose, but I’m a decent guy. Also: I may play rough and nasty, but I’m a decent guy.
"Well, now we get to see what’s really in George W. Bush’s heart ...." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8485116/ns/politics-howard_fineman/t/who-inf...
Perhaps Gingrich, like many people...
Submitted by stage9 on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 10:54pm.
...don't consider OBAMA a legitimate President.
Sheriff Joe's posse delivers promised Obama surprise
http://www.wnd.com/2011/11/362625/
Court tells Hawaii officials to explain Obama's birth record; ordered to appear in Federal Court for rejecting subpoena.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=331517
'I created Obama's certification of birth'
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=331525
Obama Birth Certificate Faked In Adobe Illustrator
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s9StxsFllY&feature=fvwrel
Obama critic coming closer to Social Security records?
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=306873#ixzz1QUvLXAao
New 'birth certificate' anomalies inexplicable
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=298101
Adobe expert doubts Obama birth certificate
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=314717
Ex-CIA: 'Forged document' released as birth certificate
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=311433
Kenya investigated Obama 'African birth'
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=297273
Obama Social Security Number to become issue in 2012 race?
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=332041
State court case launched to retrieve birth records
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=332533
"If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner." — Malcolm Muggeridge
Clinton-Gore started this
Submitted by Texndoc on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 11:32pm.
The only thing funnier would have been George Stephanopolis complaining about this. Throughout their entire campaign, Clinton or Gore NEVER used "President" Bush.
Not giving the President respect
Submitted by Edward Cropper on Wed, 01/25/2012 - 9:38am.
This is old news but just thought it may be interesting.
When George W Bush was elected I began to notice
that Juan Williams never called him President Bush when commenting
on various news programs. I then made it a point to see if that was
the case.
It was. He called him Mr. Bush almost exclusively with an occasional
The President said so and so but never President Bush said so and so.
This lasted some time when he then began to refer to him as President Bush.