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2012 Did President Obama Swear?
Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, May 15, 2012 at 4:26 PM
News of Obama’s usage of the dirty “s” word [NOTE: She means "shit," but she cannot type the word "shit," perhaps because she is Mormon, or an elementary-school student.] came when Huffington Post editor Ethan Klapper tweeted “Obama hot mic just now — ‘I gotta get my sh……’” right after the president allegedly used the full-length version of the obscenity....Fox Nation has muffled audio of the utterance, although I’ve listened to it about ten times and still cannot make out any bad language. And Mary Ann LoFrumento says he never swore to begin with, having tweeted in the aftermath of Klapper’s tweet, “I was sitting close to the President on the platform and he said ‘I gotta get my gift’ referring to his medal of distinction.”
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Who cares, of course, absolutely, but really, it CAN'T have been "shit." That just makes NO sense in this context, in this setting.
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I certainly hope so. Non-swearing presidents get filed under "P" for pussy or "H" for homo, even by right-wing mouth-breathers. (Except when said RWMB are posturing for an audience.)
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Judging from the reaction of the woman he's speaking to, I gotta think its not "shit"- there isn't even a split second of shock, which I gotta think would have registered on an old ladies' face if she's heard the president swear around her.
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The Norman Conquest's linguistic effects raise their ugly head AGAIN. Here's a nice overview from (of all types), a Mormon. http://mormonmatters.org/2008/06/19/a-fe…
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If he went to a country that doesn't obsess over this, he'd be in France, and Mitt would be miffed, since Mitt lived there for years in a French Castle avoiding military service.
Just saying.
Just saying.
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The moment he thinks he's out of the eye of the camera or away from the mic, the President turns into the sort of knuckledragging gutter-mouthed street thug we all know he and people like him are, swearin' up and down the hood with their profane lingo.
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That fact that I found it necessary and satisfying to click on the "more" link to expand Urgatha's comment & read it in its entirety kinda makes me full good about myself. Hope that doesn't make me sound conceited. It was just sort of self-affirmational or something, I guess.
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Seriously?
How fucking stupid do you take the the POTUS to be, to think he would casually look a bunch of olds in the face at Barnards commencement ceremony and say "I gotta get my shit."
That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
How fucking stupid do you take the the POTUS to be, to think he would casually look a bunch of olds in the face at Barnards commencement ceremony and say "I gotta get my shit."
That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
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Just when civilization was recovering from the time a hot mike caught George W. Bush calling a New York Times reporter a "major ass hole" during a campaign rally. This could be the death blow.
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@19:
I think you're recalling the time then Vice President Dick Cheney told Senator Patrick Leahy to "go fuck yourself" - on the floor of the United States Senate. Apparently, Mr. Cheney thought his outburst made for a quite witty moment of badinage, and nobody else on the Right gave it a moment's notice...
I think you're recalling the time then Vice President Dick Cheney told Senator Patrick Leahy to "go fuck yourself" - on the floor of the United States Senate. Apparently, Mr. Cheney thought his outburst made for a quite witty moment of badinage, and nobody else on the Right gave it a moment's notice...
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I wish! I wish that, just for one day, maybe even just one hour or one minute, Obama would just let it rip like Al Swearengen.
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Wait--so suddenly nobody remembers his audio book where he says "give me my motherfuckin' fries?" I have a whole folder of Obama swearing I got off WFMU. It just makes him cool anyway.
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I'm with 2! As IF he would ever say shit in that context. He was completely serious, and surrounded by people who would not be happy if he had said something as casual as "shit" in that context. He's not an idiot. Maybe he cut off a word or something.
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Can't hear crap (or shit), but judging from the body language, the emphatic gesture with the gift box that holds the medal, and yes, the look on the faces, no fucking way in hell was that "shit".
Who starts these fucking rumors, other than Fucking Fox News and other Roger Ailes puppets?
Who starts these fucking rumors, other than Fucking Fox News and other Roger Ailes puppets?
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Beware The Bullcrap: Sgt. Doom’s Totally Irrelevant Commencement Address For Hapless Grads
Much of what you will hear, read and learn as you go through life will turn out to be bullcrap, therefore, always stay open minded, always strive to be mentally flexible.
Beware the bullcrap !
Years ago I read of the destruction of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge as detailed by a civil engineering professor, an Italian immigrant, who left out some very crucial points which dramatically altered the narrative: the original bridge design had been sound, but they brought in a second engineer named Leon, who radically altered the first design, removing important structural components to make things cheaper.
The original engineer complained officially and members of the bridge construction crew took bets on how long the bridge would last; it wasn’t really a surprise when it collapsed!
Beware the bullcrap !
Back in the 1960s, a series of articles, and even a movie, appeared about the dolphin expert, John Lilly.
Later, in reading Lilly’s autobiography it became obvious that the movie and all the articles had been complete and total fiction! (I verified that it was indeed Lilly’s autobiography --- the truth being that he was a paranoid schizophrenic who never completed his education, he certainly never earned a degree from Cal Tech! Yes, turns out you can buy a degree from the California Institute of Technology, Harvard and MIT, and whenever Lilly wanted to dump his wife for a newer, younger model --- it wasn’t his fault --- Lilly claimed to be following the directives from the “Galactic Council of Ten.”)
Beware the bullcrap !
Reminds one of how old Joe Kennedy, who essentially flunked out of prep school, not only managed to scam his way into Harvard, but obtained an academic scholarship in the process.
Joe Kennedy would become the youngest bank president in America . . . . it figures!
Beware the bullcrap !
There was a popular column for some years written by Marilyn vos Savant, claiming to have tested positive for the world’s highest IQ; she even made it into the Guinness World Book of Records.
I saw her in several interview, and she certainly didn’t appear to be any kind of super genius (I have come in contact with at least several) so I wrote and complained to Guinness about her entry in their book.
Some years later Guinness would retract her entry; turned out she only tested at an IQ of 132!
Beware the bullcrap !
Just recently, the Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, warned of the existence of Al Qaeda anywhere. It wasn’t bad enough that there’s Al Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula (AWAP), Al Qaeda in Syria (AQS) and Al Qaeda on Wall Street (AQWS), but now there’s Al Qaeda Anywhere (AQA).
And most of all,
Beware of guys named Leon !
[Sgt. Doom is a senior fellow at the Grassy Knoll Institute, the think tank dedicated to studying and exposing think tanks.]
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Much of what you will hear, read and learn as you go through life will turn out to be bullcrap, therefore, always stay open minded, always strive to be mentally flexible.
Beware the bullcrap !
Years ago I read of the destruction of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge as detailed by a civil engineering professor, an Italian immigrant, who left out some very crucial points which dramatically altered the narrative: the original bridge design had been sound, but they brought in a second engineer named Leon, who radically altered the first design, removing important structural components to make things cheaper.
The original engineer complained officially and members of the bridge construction crew took bets on how long the bridge would last; it wasn’t really a surprise when it collapsed!
Beware the bullcrap !
Back in the 1960s, a series of articles, and even a movie, appeared about the dolphin expert, John Lilly.
Later, in reading Lilly’s autobiography it became obvious that the movie and all the articles had been complete and total fiction! (I verified that it was indeed Lilly’s autobiography --- the truth being that he was a paranoid schizophrenic who never completed his education, he certainly never earned a degree from Cal Tech! Yes, turns out you can buy a degree from the California Institute of Technology, Harvard and MIT, and whenever Lilly wanted to dump his wife for a newer, younger model --- it wasn’t his fault --- Lilly claimed to be following the directives from the “Galactic Council of Ten.”)
Beware the bullcrap !
Reminds one of how old Joe Kennedy, who essentially flunked out of prep school, not only managed to scam his way into Harvard, but obtained an academic scholarship in the process.
Joe Kennedy would become the youngest bank president in America . . . . it figures!
Beware the bullcrap !
There was a popular column for some years written by Marilyn vos Savant, claiming to have tested positive for the world’s highest IQ; she even made it into the Guinness World Book of Records.
I saw her in several interview, and she certainly didn’t appear to be any kind of super genius (I have come in contact with at least several) so I wrote and complained to Guinness about her entry in their book.
Some years later Guinness would retract her entry; turned out she only tested at an IQ of 132!
Beware the bullcrap !
Just recently, the Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, warned of the existence of Al Qaeda anywhere. It wasn’t bad enough that there’s Al Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula (AWAP), Al Qaeda in Syria (AQS) and Al Qaeda on Wall Street (AQWS), but now there’s Al Qaeda Anywhere (AQA).
And most of all,
Beware of guys named Leon !
[Sgt. Doom is a senior fellow at the Grassy Knoll Institute, the think tank dedicated to studying and exposing think tanks.]
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@sgt doom
was the incorrect info about von Savant on purpose to test your don't trust the bull thesis?
also, what does a smart person sound like so that I'll know it when I hear it?
was the incorrect info about von Savant on purpose to test your don't trust the bull thesis?
also, what does a smart person sound like so that I'll know it when I hear it?
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