While Jeff and his wife are off activating their new person, I thought I’d bring this up. Raw Story is one of those lefty watchdog sites whose sole purpose is to try to make political hay of whatever the MSM are talking about, and since lies are so cheap they are munificent with them. One of today’s exercises in outrage is this:
A Fox News host on Tuesday stopped short of apologizing after he “did some paraphrasing” and misquoted President Barack Obama.
During an interview last week with presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, host Steve Doocy quoted Obama as saying, “Unlike some people, I wasn’t born with a silver spoon in my mouth.”
But the president never said the words “unlike some people,” which Doocy suggested was part of an attack on Romney.
Fox News promised on Monday that Doocy would “clarify” the remarks.
“When I was interviewing Gov. Romney on this show, I asked him about it,” Doocy said during Tuesday morning’s show. “However, I did some paraphrasing that seemed to misquote the president.”
“So to be clear, the president’s exact quote was, ‘I wasn’t born with a silver spoon in my mouth.’ And I hope that clears up any confusion,” he added without noting what was incorrect about his original quote.
Liberal icon of integrity and perspicacity Stephen Colbert took it from there, mocking Doocy on his show . . . and so what? You misquote somebody, you have to expect to eat crow, right? Doocy seems like a nice enough guy, but I don’t really look to him for penetrating insights on politics. In fact, I hardly watch television at all, except when my old neighbor calls to tell me that Michelle Malkin’s going to be on Hannity or my dad calls to tell me to watch a Mitch Pacwa sermon on EWTN (the latter because I know he’s going to want to talk about it later, though I like Pacwa a lot, and also because I admire skilled exegesis).
Oddly enough, though, the media watchdogs over at Raw Story still haven’t issued any kind of a retraction or correction to their story claiming that George Zimmerman said “f*cking coon” on the phone with police prior to shooting Trayvon Martin. Even the network folks who threw that story out there doubled back on it when their sound engineers cleaned up the tape to show that what Zimmerman had said, instead, was “F*cking cold.” You know for sure that you’re dealing with unbiased speakers of truth to power when you see in a guy’s byline that he used to write for Crooks and Liars, but when you bring this up in the comments, it looks a little like this:
I suppose they did, because to return to Jeff’s intentionality discussions, they don’t really care what Zimmerman intended, and if what he actually said gets in the way of what they want to have heard, they’ll just change what he said. It’s only a bad thing when the other side does it.
Everywhere you look today, except the MSM, you hear this related story of some white dude who got drubbed into critical condition for telling some kids playing basketball to keep it down. They went home and told their parents, who were outraged enough to come after this guy and beat him within an inch of his life with a variety of purpose-manufactured instruments such as brass knuckles, as well as improvised ones, such as pipes and paint cans. On the way out, at least one of them shared aloud the opinion that that amounted to justice for Trayvon, according, at least, to the victim’s sister.
And it’s not the only such incident, as I assume you’re all aware. I could go on about ‘incendiary rhetoric’ and all the rest, but I trust you all already see where I would be going with that. I will say that assaulting random white people as a tribute to a martyr is a strange concept. The whole idea of remembering innocent victim Trayvon Martin by visiting violence on a person unconnected to that incident except by virtue of the color of his skin seems odd, and Skittles, and frankly perhaps just a little tinged with racism and that observation that goes by the name of profiling. Not that I’m saying justice shouldn’t be a mob sport . . . it’s just that sometimes when you’re having the most fun you it’s prudent to stop and reflect whether what you’re doing could have unforeseen consequences.
Hey, all extreme physical interracial violence aside, which of us is not prone to a little misquotation now and then?
In a speech today, President Obama misquoted tea-party congresswoman Virginia Foxx (R., N.C.), omitting certain words of a comment she made to give a very different impression of what she had said.
Obama did not name Foxx, referring to her as “one Republican congresswoman.”
“She said she had ‘very little tolerance for people who tell me they graduate with debt because there’s no reason for that,’” Obama told the students at UNC Chapel Hill. “I’m just quoting here, I’m just quoting.”
“She said students who rack up student loan debt are just ‘sitting on their butts having opportunity dumped in your lap,” he added. “I’m reading it here. So I didn’t make this up.”
But the full Foxx quote is very different.
“I have very little tolerance for people who tell me that they graduate with $200,000 of debt or even $80,000 of debt because there’s no reason for that,” Foxx said last week, per the Huffington Post. (Emphasis mine.)
I’m sure the mendoucheous jackwagons at Raw Story will be all over that. Oh, and Colbert, too. Like lots of liberal elitists, they are all about the common man and the middle class and that sort of thing, except that they despise your bourgeois values.
UPDATE: Police not investigating this as a ‘hate crime,’ since there’s only one person, the victim’s sister, alleging the remark about Trayvon. Beaten man’s condition upgraded to serious.
Volokh also had a long piece on the misquoting or embellishment of Steve Doocy on his blog yesterday.
It’s risable that Obama came from humble beginnings.
He was born a poor white child and grew up to be a Nubian Godhead.
linkage is always helpful.
It really chaps my hide, Abe. The grandparents were Banksters (before that was bad, m’kay?), prep school, private school, Ivy League school(s). Just shut up, Barry.
I will say that assaulting random white people as a tribute to a martyr is a strange concept.
Pretty sure that back in the day, black men got lynched because some other black man was rumored to have raped a white woman or summat.
Which, this means now we’re even, right?
sometimes when you’re having the most fun you it’s prudent to stop and reflect whether what you’re doing could have unforeseen consequences.
Oh, there aren’t going to be any consequences, unforeseen or otherwise, for those who visit “justice for Trayvon” upon the heads of random white folks. They’re sufficiently tuned in to the zeitgeist to know that no DA would toss so much as a page from the book at them.
Oh, there aren’t going to be any consequences, unforeseen or otherwise, for those who visit “justice for Trayvon” upon the heads of random white folks.
I wouldn’t be so sure. What’s the single part of our manufacturing base that Obama has managed to stimulate, again?
He’s the very definition of a white dork. His provenance is almost immaterial. Even Clinton was a more convincing with his phony black church affectations.
Clinton is a Bubba and he owns it. Trampy ma, lowlife family, payola connections to get that Rhodes scholarship, sketchy info about who his dad is/was,, horndog ways that never change. The guy is a new age Huey Long.
That depends on the white folks. Justice can be very swift.
Indeed. See: Martin, Trayvon (deceased).
The Raw Story are a bunch of liars. I sometimes go there to plant the flag. I get all sorts of emails for days and days afterwards. They especially hate Andrew Breitbart.
Good to see Collins filling in at PW. Is there a baby pool or am I too late for that?
Obama went to Punahoe, which is apparently some sort of crappy public school? Oh wait, it is not…
You’re too late. Baby Boy Tanner arrived at 8:15 or so this am by emergency c-section. Mom and tot resting well.
You know, a difference that makes no difference is no difference.
I mean, why would you utter the phrase…
…in the first place?
Either someone accused you of having been born with a silver spoon in your mouth and you are trying to set the record straight or you are attempting to show that you aren’t like that unnamed other guy who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
I guess you’d have to be pretty passive-aggressive to be the Hindmost. Or a Pierson’s Puppeteer.
The random assaults are just until the real thing comes into hand.
Once they get a taste for blood, there’s no stopping it except with their deaths.
As I said a while ago, a lot of people are going to end up dead who otherwise wouldn’t have. The Race Pimps™ will be at fault, but will never take the responsibility. The already have a few people’s blood on their hands, though no one has died yet as far as I know.
Either someone accused you of having been born with a silver spoon in your mouth and you are trying to set the record straight or you are attempting to show that you aren’t like that unnamed other guy who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
The two biggest demo-gods, FDR and Kennedy were born with silver spoons in their mouths. Since when did being wealthy or achieving wealth cease to be a goal in American life? Obama is no Kennedy or FDR, even if he tries to play one on teevee.
I stand by my conviction that Obama is a tannish Warren G. Harding.
Glad to hear mom and tot are well.
” I will say that assaulting random white people as a tribute to a martyr is a strange concept.”
Israel says “Hi!”.
A bunch of twatwaffles with whom I am acquainted are talking about forming a Twatwaffle Anti-Defamation League so they can call me up all PO’d the next time somebody refers to a Crooks and Liars contributor as a twatwaffle.
They’ve been trying to decide what such people should be called, but everything they’ve come up with so far either already has an anti-defamation league or is now threatening to form one.
It’s getting so you can’t insult anybody anymore without insulting the insult.
I think that a group of twatwaffles is technically a ‘cozen,’ McGehee, but I take your point.
All Obama means by not having been born with a silver spoon in his mouth was that his family were so dirt poor they regarded dog as a foodstuff, and not an article of luggage, so I don’t know where people get off saying he was trying to hang this on Romney.
Leigh, I too have always been amused by the constant “vilify the rich” tactics. Who do they think creates the jobs? Not to mention all the philanthropy of the wealthy, which does far more good for a lot more people than anything government does.
Also amusing is the most vocal of the lot are people such as Obama. Lots of money without having worked for or earned much, if any, of it.
Something that doesn’t seem to be getting much consideration is: what about Sasha and Malia? No, not so much them in particular. More what is says about the character, or lack thereof, of Obama?
What is he saying about his own children? About their future, their potential, their capacity for growth and success? Are they to be forever denigrated for the temerity of having been born the child of a POTUS? No, given that set of particulars I don’t think he’d see it that way. More likely he’d spin it as an example of American progress.
But how will his own children interpret such statements, now and in their future? Will they see their father as denigrating the nature of their existence – that whatever they may do it will never be truly or fully earned, but instead due to his status; or will they see him as merely shallow and opportunistic in his quest to retain office?
All of which indicates just how self centered, shortsighted, and small a man Barack Obama is. He cannot even recognize the dangers that his self serving rhetoric might harm his own children or his relationship to them. Either that, or he really doesn’t give a shit about anything other than himself.
This.
ThomasD; I don’t presume to know what Obama thinks on such matters regarding his children.
I suspect however, that he feels that since his own life and future are so well set, that so are his daughters. And that such things will not be of issue to them anymore than they are to him.
Obama lies a lot he’s a very dishonest and hateful whore-type person from a very trashy family.
I didn’t vote for him.
For the record, Dan coined the EPIC phrase mendoucheous twatwaffle. I just used it. A lot.
Well, if he’s nervous about the dog thing, he could claim to be part Korean or Korean in a previous life. Kagogi, anyone?
You just keep that up, happyfeet, and Biden will go all Jigglypuff on you.
The question is not about what Obama thinks. It is about what his words tell us about what he thinks.
And that such things will not be of issue to them anymore than they are to him.
In other words, his rhetoric is as hollow and vapid as his concern for anyone not suitably privileged. It is all just a tool, to be used when functional and discarded when burdensome.
That is what his ‘silver spoon’ comment really means.
ThomasD;
Bingo.
Mr. Dan can you imagine four more years of this malevolent fiend in our little White House? So many people here in California will say to your face that it’s a foregone conclusion.
I hope they’re wrong.
I think Mr. Governor Romney needs to name a running mate sooner rather than later, cause I have very serious doubts about his ability to git r done buy his lonesome.
Chop chop Mr. Governor Romney!
That’s why someone needs to ask Obama what his words might mean to his own children’s future – put him on the spot and reveal the truth about who he is.
No, four more years of the malevolent fiend in the White House is well beyond my apprehension, feets, but when has California ever been wrong about anything?
I think Mr. Governor Romney needs to name a running mate sooner rather than later, cause I have very serious doubts about his ability to git r done buy his lonesome.
Unless Romney picks the Wrong Sort of Person, in which case you’ll just spend the next 4 years coming up with coarser and coarser descriptions of the running mate. I hope he picks Michele Bachmann, just to send you back into the full-on foaming-at-the-mouth madness we’ve grown to know and loathe.
Dan, CA is often wrong, but, unfortunately, tends to be a national trendsetter.
California is a foregone conclusion. And I opt out from bailing it out when it goes tits up.
California is possessed of a smug certainty.
Dan, does “cozen” rhyme with “dozen?” Because the Persons Related Through Common Grandparents Anti-Defamation League was asking me for your phone number and I wasn’t sure why.
I think they’re a bunch of homophones.
Or whatever the correct plural noun for homophones is.
speaking of california
Fred Karger for President
” So many people here in California will say to your face that it’s a foregone conclusion.”
They say you have funny dreams sometimes when you fall sleep under a moonbeam. Somehow y’all fell asleeep and elected a Moonbeam even though you had this nice moderate independent voter magnet like Carly Fiorina surfing on great rolling fuckloads of GOP campaign money.
People around here used to say that the south would rise again. They were wrong. It turns out that it’s more a case of the Northeast, Midwest, and Southwest collapsing. As the old song lyric goes, the south has changed by standing still.
McGhee, does that mean they engage in homophonous sex?
Fight the homonyminy! Or homonymiarchy! Or something.
Now, this sort of thing. Simply uncoonth.
California is what we offer to the Chinese when they come calling for payment of our debt. We can keep OC of course. And Death Valley, because that’s the one place LeftLibProggs haven’t completely screwed up.
Um, hello? 2012? Yeah, 1957 called. It wants its racial epithet back.
Seriously, who even says coon anymore? Aren’t good racists more subtle these days? Take ThomasD, worried about Sasha and Malia’s denigration.
DENOUNCED! DENOUNCED AND CONDEMNED!
Now, this sort of thing. Simply uncoonth.
I was thinking a library or bookstore, but job fair would probably work.