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What Has 132 Rooms and Flies? (2009 NYT Article)
NT Yimes ^ | 17 June 09 | MARK LEIBOVICH

Posted on 01/04/2017 2:40:39 PM PST by SkyPilot

The White House is bugged!

No, not like that. But actual flies are swarming the place, confounding housekeepers, irritating aides, even trying to feast on the president. During an East Room interview with John Harwood for CNBC and The New York Times on Tuesday, a giant fly orbited Mr. Obama’s head.

“I got the sucker,” the president boasted after fatally slapping the critter on the back of his hand.

That scene became an instant YouTube sensation — and resulted in a complaint from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

“Well, I guess it can’t be said that President Obama wouldn’t hurt a fly,” lamented Alisa Mullins of PETA on the organization’s blog. The animal rights group announced that it would send over one of its Katcha Bug Humane Bug Catcher contraptions to the White House in the event of “future insect incidents.”

White House staff members report that they and their boss have been routinely bothered by the bugs, and have seen the First Exterminator personally enforcing a no-fly zone in the West Wing.

“He chases them down in the Oval with his briefing papers to smack them,” reports Austan Goolsbee, a member of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


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KEYWORDS: beelzebub; flies; obama; whitehouse
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Interesting article from 2009 - shortly after Obama moved into the White House, the place became literally infested with flies.

Trump is going to need to have the place fumigated - physically and spiritually.

Good FR related thread on this from 2013:

Is Obama biblical ‘Lord of the Flies?’ Prophesy sites have field day with president’s insect moments

1 posted on 01/04/2017 2:40:39 PM PST by SkyPilot
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To: SkyPilot

Well we all know what draws flies.


2 posted on 01/04/2017 2:42:28 PM PST by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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Podesta claimed that Hillary stunk of "boiled cabbage, farts, and urine." (scourced in WikiLeaks)

Interestingly, Moochelle told interviewers what Barry Hussein smelled....bad. So much so that sometimes his daughters didn't want to go near him.

3 posted on 01/04/2017 2:44:11 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: LucianOfSamasota

Ping - I referenced one of your threads.


4 posted on 01/04/2017 2:44:58 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: SkyPilot

I’m not surprised...

many of Obama’s “guests” don’t know what soap is...


5 posted on 01/04/2017 2:46:29 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: SkyPilot

6 posted on 01/04/2017 2:47:07 PM PST by SparkyBass
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To: SkyPilot

Hillary - “old person smell.”


7 posted on 01/04/2017 2:47:42 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: SkyPilot
even trying to feast on the president

No comment 8>)

8 posted on 01/04/2017 2:47:53 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: SkyPilot

The White House should be fumigated before the new First family takes residence.

Imho of course.

5.56mm


9 posted on 01/04/2017 2:52:25 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: SkyPilot

Even frogs won’t eat those green flies,they taste like.....


10 posted on 01/04/2017 2:53:31 PM PST by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: M Kehoe

Fumigated, as in ALL types of bugs. Total electronic audit and screening. A “clean room.”

Just saying

5.56mm


11 posted on 01/04/2017 2:55:11 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: M Kehoe
The White House should be fumigated before the new First family takes residence.


Amityville Horror flies in the window

Or, perhaps, an exorcism. . .

12 posted on 01/04/2017 2:56:49 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue..)
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To: SkyPilot


13 posted on 01/04/2017 2:57:53 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: shibumi

“Yo mama wuz a jackal” ping.


14 posted on 01/04/2017 3:01:43 PM PST by Salamander (Is a dream a lie, if it don't come true? Or is it something worse?)
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To: SkyPilot

“The animal rights group announced that it would send over one of its Katcha Bug Humane Bug Catcher contraptions “

I will provide sanctuary for all they can catch, alive!

[my Chameleon loves flies]

/going off to see where I can buy one, as crickets are very pricey


15 posted on 01/04/2017 3:04:03 PM PST by Salamander (Is a dream a lie, if it don't come true? Or is it something worse?)
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To: SkyPilot
The "essence" of Hillary lingers on...


16 posted on 01/04/2017 3:09:13 PM PST by capt. norm (Capt norm)
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To: capt. norm

Beelzabubba’s “legacy”.


17 posted on 01/04/2017 3:11:04 PM PST by Salamander (Is a dream a lie, if it don't come true? Or is it something worse?)
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To: SkyPilot

Barack Hussein Soetoro 0dinga Soebarkah Whetaver 0bama is Lord of the Flies.


18 posted on 01/04/2017 3:11:05 PM PST by NorthMountain (Northmountain)
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To: SkyPilot
And it's not just flies...


19 posted on 01/04/2017 3:11:48 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: SkyPilot

From Dean Reynolds’ CBS Reporter Notebook, October 7, 2008:

“The McCain campaign plane is better than Obama’s, which is cramped, uncomfortable and smells terrible most of the time. Somehow the McCain folks manage to keep their charter clean, even where the press is seated.”

No surprise:

“Flies, like all other insects, detect odors with their antennae...containing olfactory sensory nerve cells. These nerve cells are extremely sensitive to volatile chemicals, odors that is.”


20 posted on 01/04/2017 3:13:57 PM PST by nickedknack
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