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Obama Calls Out Faux News & Tea Baggers




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At his 100th-day town hall meeting in St. Louis Wednesday, President Barack Obama took direct aim at the anti-tax “tea party” demonstrations that have cropped up over the last month and took a veiled shot at the Fox News Channel, the cable news network closely associated with the protests.

Asked about fiscal discipline and entitlements reform, Obama seemed to be repressing a smile as he jabbed critics of his spending plans.

"Those of you who are watching certain news channels on which I'm not very popular, and you see folks waving tea bags around, Obama said, “let me just remind them that I am happy to have a serious conversation about how we are going to cut our health care costs down over the long term, how we are going to stabilize Social Security.”

“But,” Obama continued, “let's not play games and pretend that the reason [for the deficit] is because of the Recovery Act."

It’s the president’s most direct response so far to the protests that flared up in some locations around tax day, on April 15.

In his briefing that day, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters: “I don't know if there's a specific response to protests..I think you saw the president today talk about as candidate Obama promising to bring a tax cut to 95 percent of working families in America, and as president delivering that tax cut.”

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Reply #1 posted 04/29/09 10:49am

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the tea-bagging was utter nonsense

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Reply #2 posted 04/29/09 11:04am

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cborgman said:

the tea-bagging was utter nonsense


Yeah, did it already come and go? I missed it lol

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Reply #3 posted 04/29/09 11:27am

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The only ppl that accomplished anything with that useless brigade was Tetley and Lipton.

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Reply #4 posted 04/29/09 11:34am

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shanti0608 said:

The only ppl that accomplished anything with that useless brigade was Tetley and Lipton.



Snapple should have grabbed a piece of the action! lol

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Reply #5 posted 04/29/09 11:58am

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shanti0608 said:

The only ppl that accomplished anything with that useless brigade was Tetley and Lipton.



Snapple should have grabbed a piece of the action! lol


If only they had bagged it instead of using glass and cans.
doh!

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Reply #6 posted 04/29/09 4:08pm

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cborgman said:

the tea-bagging was utter nonsense


...and one doesn't often say that of tea-bagging, do they? lol

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Reply #7 posted 04/29/09 4:11pm

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so what do people think was uniting, or valid, about what barack is saying here?

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Reply #8 posted 04/29/09 4:42pm

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HiinEnkelte said:

so what do people think was uniting, or valid, about what barack is saying here?


Well, the majority certainly seems to agree that they were just playing games. wink

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Reply #9 posted 04/29/09 5:40pm

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cborgman said:

the tea-bagging was utter nonsense


Like I have been screaming from the mountaintops, REPUBLICANS ARE NOT CONSERVATIVE. AND ESPECIALLY NOT FISCALLY CONSERVATIVE.

THEY are the party that said, "Deficits don't matter". THEY are the party that took a budget surplus to an immediate deficit, and then expanded it exponentially - all while they controlled every facet of federal government.

Those of you that think the GOP needs to "get back to its conservative roots" have been PLAYED.

How can you not see that?

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Reply #10 posted 04/29/09 5:57pm

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HiinEnkelte said:

so what do people think was uniting, or valid, about what barack is saying here?

Valid? Everything.

Uniting? He was the target of some pretty petty and low accusations in those protests. I was at the location of one for the better part of an hour that day; that he responded this way can only be characterized as taking the high road.

But, knowing how extensive the threats and slurs against him were during his campaign, I guess I should just expect him to be classy about the protests, too.

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Reply #11 posted 04/29/09 6:17pm

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HiinEnkelte said:

so what do people think was uniting, or valid, about what barack is saying here?


What's uniting, or valid, about what you say in your signature?

You're part of the problem, pal.

And by the way - what were you trying to say with that "Adolph Hitler smiley face" avatar?

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Reply #12 posted 04/29/09 7:44pm

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I am glad that president Obama took a shot at Faux News and the Tea Bag party crowd.

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Reply #13 posted 04/29/09 7:46pm

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I am glad that president Obama took a shot at Faux News and the Tea Bag party crowd.


There's not a one of them that would stand a chance against Obama in a debate.

And you know what? I don't seem to have heard that cowardly piece of crap Sean Hannity take up Olbermann on his offer to waterboard Hannity.

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Reply #14 posted 04/29/09 10:35pm

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Let's put all these tea baggers in a space ship, make Alex Jones their leader, and ship them right on off to planet "Whatever" - like the one woman said in The Crucible, "what else are fools for?"

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