Fox's Bolling Attacks Obama For Using Air Force One
January 26, 2012 12:08 pm ET
From the January 26 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:
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With all due respect, people should not inject race where race has not been mentioned... this is what opens the door for people like o'reilly and beck to claim that any criticism of the President is answered with the charge of racism... no, the charge of racism is leveled at those who unnecessarily and gratuitously inject race into a matter that does not involve race and where race has not even been mentioned... and so please and with all due respect, stop mentioning race where race doesn't belong and hasn't even been mentioned, let others like o'reilly and beck be the ones to kick-off that ball, don't kick it off for them.
It may be worse now because of added racism, but after the Clinton years it's hard to look at most of these criticisms and assume that they wouldn't have been used against him as well.
Im thinking their attacks have a lot more to do with the fact that President Obama exists and is a person.
The Pubbies believe that ONLY their guys are fit for prez. It's like they believe they're The Ruling Class - who should be allowed to call all the shots, whether they win or lose elections. (When Dems win, they accuse fraud)
Have you watched them on any talk shows, lately? They filibuster and use up as much time as they can - sometimes repeating the same talking points 3, 4, 5 or more times. Then, when it's the Dem/lib's turn to talk, they get about a half sentence out when the RWer interrupts, talks over, shouts down, etc, the Dem - and even the host!
They think they're entitled to lead - and that's the way they act...
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this is why the newtron will win the GOP nod, hes the embodiment of the white obese hateful t-bagger. archie bunker redux.
and if the progressives dont make it their issue, the right will....
call em out....
Bolling is a racist and has made racist comments concerning the President previously. It's obvious race is a factor in that light.
Veiled racism is still racism, and there are still a lot of people of voting age that remember America when segregation was cool, or they are the products of extremely racist parents that remember that era as the 'golden age' of America.
In my opinion, what is causing the increased criticism is the fact that the Republican Party has gotten worse. They have increased their financial dependence on industries and special interests. As a result they have to lie and dissemble more to get more money but hide the ugly truth that keeps getting uglier. And they have to attack Democrats with more and more fury and hypocrisy. They have also become more dependent on votes from social conservatives, racists, gun-nuts and other just plain idiots. So they have to lie more, and attack more, deny more science etc, to get the idiot vote. Obama happens to be black, so they run with that too; it's just a bonus.
I ask myself; would the attacks be just as bad and dishonest if John Kerry was President? I say yes, because all these attacks are just a ploy to hide the ugly truth and divert attention from what the Republicans are really up to.
Great post, I couldn't have said it better myself, and if I had tried it would have taken seven more paragraphs and included a few superfluous analogies and sarcasm.
You outlined and crystallized what I've been observing over the course of my adult lifetime from the right. It is this steady, downward, negative spiral of hypocrisy and lies - brought on by greed and their loyalty to big donors over citizens - fueled by a need to appeal to the worst instincts of man and the most ignorant segments of the population - which requires them to dig ever deeper into the well of hypocrisy and lies and begin the process all over...
Brilliant, wizbang, +A post! You need to coin a term for this.
A key part of this downward spiral, as I keep saying, is that the mainstream media have abdicated their role as guardians of the truth, and are now just standing aside and using the fray as a kind of morbid entertainment.
Now to coin a term, how about "Republicans are a bunch of corrupt, hypocritical, as*h***s!" Is that catchy? No, I need to work on it.
It's the secret service that takes care of all the transportation needs of the President. They've been doing it for many years now and I don't envy them that job. Especially since we live in a free society and a world full of nut-jobs and hate mongers with brains fried from endless hours of AM radio and Fox news driving their irrational hate.
So there you go Eric Bolling. Not only is Air Force One and the President's travel security in the hands of capable secret service professionals, but you and your hate fueled rhetoric and divisive lies makes it even more necessary!
The problem is that, for the most part, the wingnut talkers are so carefully avoiding the more overt racially-related language that I wonder about the true motivations behind much of their vehemence and how strong it is. They've gone completely nuts since the election in 2008, even to the point of completely doing 180's on certain policies. It makes no sense.
It's not only that. I remember how Obama put his feet right up there on the President's desk, desecrating the Oval Office and the Sacred Desk, and simultaneously insulting Israel because he was on the telephone with Netanyahu while his feet rested on the Holy of Holies.
Talk about an uppity man-child.
Impeach him now!
down the hill, in the blue port-a-jon into the lake.
it ended badly as you might imagine.
Inconceivable !!! Has any other president ever outlined his proposals in the State of the Union and subsequent speeches ??
Guess what the average Fox viewer believes.
Now, mind you, when George W. Bush did it, that was just fine with me. He rode in an airplane better than any other President who served before him in this millennium.
FWIW, here's the smiley-smile "before" picture. What's she handing Barry? Her recipe for ground Mes'kins? And what the hell are paying that Secret Service guy for???
Hey Boiling, go back to the Pittsburg Pirates farm team you tore your rotary cuff on, I think they'll need you this spring.
Actually, that has a smidgen of truth.
After all, how much more damage could Dumbya do to the country as long as he was busy fighting brush on his fake ranch?
Ok maybe his cost is right, but how many other presidents used AF1 to go on re-election campaign? How else is he supposed to travel? You just don't want him going around the country HE'S RUNNING stating a case as to why he's better than other the four jack(off's)-in a-box(es)
I wish I was making this example up.. I'm not.
Ever hear of Jet Blue??? Obviously...you...have...not...
Get on it.
Yeah -- like Nixon did in December 1973.
Unfortunately, as Tricky Dick seemed to have forgotten, since AF1 must always be where the president is, AF1 flew to CA empty. So much for saving fuel . . .
See above article and clip. That is precisely what is going on here.
These people are just ridiculous.
An interesting side note, all of the entrance ramps to the expressways between O'Hare and the loop and the route to the President's house now have gates (like a railroad crossing) at the beginning of the ramp so that the secret service can very quickly and effectively close down the entire route. They started going up before his inauguration.
May I Add ! That Fox News FLYS FREE where ever the President Travels.
May I Suggest ! That News Agencies pony their air fare , based on Business class Fares of the Air Lines !
But I found this more interesting:
To put Obama's use of Air Force One into context, we also asked for travel data for his predecessor, President George W. Bush. Bush took 89 missions and 259 sorties in 2002, his second year as president, according to the airlift group. And in his first two years, Bush took 148 missions with 416 sorties, compared with 126 missions with 324 sorties for Obama over two years.
Not to mention the additional baggage fees...
Typical, IOKIYAR... every President travels across the country to get support for the proposals made during a SOTU. Bolling wouldn't be quite so full of BS if he complained about Air Force One costs during the Bush years.
Bolling is such a slug. It's President Obama, not Mr. Obama. I know it hurts your argument complaining about Air Force One and then refer to him as the President, but it's the reality, and just calling him Mr. Obama doesn't change that fact.
You'd think it impossible, but Bolling's presence on that couch makes the other three even stupider.
Fox News would then run the story while showing a photo of Nixon with a (D) after his name.
Does that mean Mitt Romney will buy out the secret service, then fire them all, then sell off whatever assets they had acquired during their tenure as executive branch security, then hire foreign nationals at pennies on the dollar to build him a hot air balloon out of magic underwear to fly around in?
Of course that was his plan before someone criticized it, now he's doing the same thing, but stating categorically he's never believed in privatizing the secret service.
"a corrupt liar, a religious zealot, a ridiculously out of touch bigot & homophobic Libertarian, and a multi-millionaire who has no conviction or vision for the country", a.k.a. The Committee to Re-Elect President Obama.
As illustrated.
Their acronym, as was the case during Tricky Dick's time, is CREEP.
Very apt.
I have some wingnut friends on Facebook, and I'm really seeing it there. More and more of these copy & pasted diatribes against the same imaginary President Obama that the GOPpers are fighting in their debates.
Just crazy sh*t about half the people in the country not working, legislating poor people into prosperity,taking away everything from people who do work... and these are posted, almost exclusively, by people who I know are at or just slightly above a median income.
Like this one:
Poor people deserve to be poor because they've made bad choices in life.
Poor people aren't poor at all; they're living high on the hog.
In any event, the President is going to go out campaigning at some point. Is there some prize for most inane criticism that Bolling is vying for here?
Um, no; not exactly -- unless that Piper Cub were Air Force property.
The designator "[branch of service] One" applies only to the Air Force, Marine, Army, or Navy aircraft the President flies in.
Civilian aircraft -- such as the United Air Lines commercial flight Nixon took to CA back in 1973, or the Gulfstream 500 President Obama took the First Lady to NYC on his date night -- have the designator "Executive One" . . .
I stand corrected. Thank you.
Tell you what Bolling, you convince Ailes and Uncle Rupie to close up shop on your cancerous tumor of a "news" network, then maybe our President and sane sector of our society won't have to spend so much time and treasure combatting your idiocy.
.......... A ... DipStick .. from a :
1958 Zunndapp Janus
Where to begin? As one approached this automotive abomination, the first thought that occurred was "How do I get in?," followed closely by "How will I fit in there?" Next, it was common to see mortified owners nervously checking to see if they were pointing in the right direction, since the front of the Janus looked very much like the back of the Janus. Of course, appearance is only part of what a car has to offer. The Janus' performance is what truly set the reputation of German engineering back to medieval times. Raging down the highway with 14 horsepower at a max speed of 50 mph, the driver of the Janus might expect to hear fellow motorists shout out many different variations of his car's name...minus the J.
I NEVER heard these folks bi*ch about GWB using AF1 to make 77 trips to Crawford at an average cost of around $250,000 each.
Bolling is a disgusting POS.
This bolling character's math came up with what number, about a million and a half dollars to operate Air Force One as it essentially flies around most of the country?
What a bunch of whining dishonest hypocrites these Fox hacks are, I'm sure Mitt Romney and newt and santorum combined spent many times more than that sum as they traveled around first class in Iowa alone, travel and hotels and meals and ads, millions and millions of dollars in terrible stupid ads alone, in Iowa alone!
Take note all: right now not only is blind and irrational Obama hatred at it's zenith on Fox, and not only has it never been more obvious for how non-policy related it is (like in attacking the President for the expense of operating Air Force One) and obvious for how unconstructive it is, but guess what else?
The great majority of the American people don't feel that way, they not only don't hate President Obama, but they are sick and tired of Obama hatred!
True, take note, right now Fox is engaged in a very unpopular and destructive campaign, they are losers, and while you and I and the majority of the American people know it, perhaps they (News Corp) do not...
And so it fits right into their mission of ignorance, that they should continue in their blind and irrational hatred of the President, right at the same time that all of the rest of us are completely sick of it!
The Republicans, however, have gone off the rails since Obama was elected. It's even worse than when Clinton was in office, though I never would have believed it possible.
The difference in the near universal hatred of George W. Bush by the American people (again, a universal hatred that does not exist for President Obama except among Fox employees and their fans), the difference is found in these national policies as a true and real cause...
The military invasions and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, costing thousands of lives and trillions of dollars.
The global theft of a trillion dollars or more in private capital from Wall Street banks and financial services companies, all of it going un-investigated (and therefore the thieves going unpunished) and that theft being covered out of the US Treasury, contributing to our federal deficit and practically bankrupting the national treasuries of several other nations.
The price-gouging by Exxon-Mobil et al, which drove fuel costs up to where they still haven't come down much if at all.
The crazy inflation of defense spending (the true and principal reason for our federal deficit) all of it in the name of an insane "global war on terror" that doesn't protect a single American from anything at all.
There are many more reasons for George W. Bush and Dick Cheney hatred, all of them real and all of them good...
But there is only one reason for this narrow but intense and malicious hatred these News Corp employees and their followers have for Obama, and it's simply because he is President of the United States.
That's it, there is no other reason.
By contrast, Obama never had anything resembling a "honeymoon". They started yapping at his heals before he was even sworn in.
These candidate's are not subsidized by US taxpayers. As has been noted, criticism of Obama using AFO is invalid - all sitting Presidents have - but you are comparing apples and oranges.
No, it's not a matter of two different kinds of fruit, it's a matter of one kind of travel expense.
Apple - Travel cost paid by US Taxpayer (Obama)
Orange - Travel cost not paid by US Taxpayer (GOP candidates)
I mentioned the increasingly nutty posts I see on Facebook, and wanted to ask sort of an open question, to anybody who uses FB or other social networking sites, if they've made the same observation I have-
It seems, almost across the board, that my more liberal friends, when they post updates about politics, generally type out their own original thoughts, what's on their minds, their interpretation of events.
Aside from little one-line rants and slogans ( not really original, but at least manually repeated), my right wing friends politics-related posts are almost all copy & pasted or "shared".
It's really a stark contrast.
It has never, not once, been in his own words. How do I know? It's always spelled correctly. He's the poorest speller I've ever seen. Almost every very word he writes is spelled close to phonetically. He's written things like "he drunked a krwart of bere."
He's also a convicted felon, with several gun related convictions who poses on Facebook with his various guns, including what looks like a Kalashnikov. I'm pretty sure his right to own assault rifles has been suspended because of his criminal activities.
I've only seen him once in thirty years but have read of his exploits in the paper many times. He's got the same name as my brother and I like to break his balls about another arrest whenever the cousin makes the news again.
I've got a guy I don't even remember from high school who added me through friends. He got a Thompson machine gun for Xmas, and has posted pictures of the two coyotes he claims he killed with one shot.
I just checked back on that "Dear Obama" post I saw this morning, and surprisingly, it wasn't just his wingnut friends agreeing, there was a long, well-written comment filled with facts, that ended with a mention that the guy was tired of seeing Obama blamed for all of Bush's problems.
Then the punch line, from the original poster- he was tired of seeing Bush saddled with Clinton's problems. I'm pretty sure republicans have been trying to take credit for Clinton's "problems" for years.
You got me good on that one, neighbor.
Bolling is rare form today. "I can't believe President Obama lives in this giant White Mansion when the ecomony is still struggling." What a dope...
Why not, Bush lived there when he destroyed the economy!
This ginned up BS gets old. Ooooh the President flies on aircraft specifically designated for his use.
No other President in the history of air travel has ever done that. Though I'm sure W would love to have ridden a horse, if his fake ranch had any.
Please -- he wouldn't have made it five feet before the horse threw him . . .
The President of the United States might want to use it.
WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush is using Air Force One for re-election travel more heavily than any predecessor, wringing maximum political mileage from a perk of office paid for by taxpayers.
While Democratic rival John Kerry charters a plane to roam the country, Bush often travels at no cost to his campaign simply by declaring a trip "official" travel rather than "political."
Bush has logged more than 68,000 miles this year on Air Force One. With rare exceptions he confines his travels to the more than a dozen states he and Kerry are fighting hardest for and to places where he is raising campaign money.
An Associated Press tally shows Bush has made at least 114 trips in the 17 months since January 2003. Clinton flew Air Force One on 123 domestic trips between January 1995 and mid-October 1996, a period of 22 months. It was a record for re-election-related travel aboard the aircraft, according to the Center for Public Integrity.
Know what we really need to do to balance the budget? Send FUX News commentators on assignment of the poor. Take away their jobs, donate their income to the deficit and have them stand in soup lines and sleep in allies. Maybe then they would actually get it and be really earning their money when they returned.