TOO ILLEGIT TO QUIT!
Put your hands together ladies and gentleman...its hammer and sickle time
Posted on 03/12/2014 10:23:22 AM PDT by Red Badger
If it weren't for double standards, the media wouldn't have any standards at all.
“Oh wow, so you can sign the machine?” I just steal money from the tax payers for anything I want and even better I don’t have to put my name on it so I can say I am not aware of anything.
http://www.mrc.org/articles/great-george-bush-sr-grocery-scanner-urban-legend-lives
The Great George Bush Sr. “Grocery Scanner” Urban Legend Lives On
Reporter Garry Shih in a story on bar codes writes: “They even played a role in the 1992 presidential race, when then-President George H. W. Bush, at a campaign stop, seemed surprised by what had already become a technological staple of everyday life.” Um, not exactly.
Published: 6/26/2009 1:23 PM ET
By Clay Waters
The urban legend of President George H.W. Bush staring in marvel at a grocery store scanner during his 1992 re-election campaign, which became a liberal media symbol of his inability to sympathize with the day-to-day lives of average Americans, still endures at the Times. The latest entry came on the front page of Friday Businesssection, ina story by Gerry Shih celebrating bar codes, “Game Changer In Retailing, Bar Code Is 35.”
The design was straightforward - 59 black and white bars. And the inventors’ objectives were simple enough, too - to speed up the grocery checkout line and give supermarkets a new tool to track their stock.
But the bar code has become much more than that since it was first used to read the price on a 10-pack of Juicy Fruit gum (67 cents) on the morning of June 26, 1974. Now they are used to board airplanes and track packages. Bar codes help people with diabetes calibrate glucose meters and researchers study the pollination habits of bees. They inspired a hand-held video game,BarcodeBattler, in 1991.
They even played a role in the 1992 presidential race, when then-PresidentGeorge H. W. Bush, at a campaign stop, seemed surprised by what had already become a technological staple of everyday life.
Sigh. Even the liberal-leaning myth-busters at Snopes.com debunkedthe incident as a gross exaggeration, writing:
Andrew Rosenthal of The New York Times hadn’t even been present at the grocers’ convention. He based his article on a two-paragraph report filed by the lone pool newspaperman allowed to cover the event, Gregg McDonald of the Houston Chronicle, who merely wrote that Bush had a “look of wonder” on his face and didn’t find the event significant enough to mention in his own story.Moreover, Bush had good reason to express wonder: He wasn’t being shown then-standard scanner technology, but a new type of scanner that could weigh groceries and read mangled and torn bar codes.
Yet the Times continues repeating the bogus Bush story(which, as stated by Snopes, originated in a February 1992 Times story) as fact. The last instance before Friday was reporter Mark Leibovich in an August 2008 story mocking John McCain.
He’s not an idiot.......he’s a fidiot (f’ing idiot)
Remember the number the press did on George H.W. Bush when he said something similar about the Bar Code scanner in a supermarket?
Barrycades’ grocery store moment.
What a Luddite.
Isn’t that why unemployment is so high? And those darn ATMs.
Of course Obamessiah does not seen the link between driving up labor costs and the implementation of labor saving devices.
C’mon. Give the guy some rspect.
Just like Sarah Palin NEVER said, “I can see Russia from my house.”................Millions of idiots believe she actually said it because the MSM endlessly played the clip of some stupid actor portraying her.................................
LOL! He’d be absolutely flabbergasted by a touch screen computer....................
That’s the biggest lie. Bush was NOT in a Super Market. He was at the National Grocer’s Convention in Orlando. He saw the scanner at the NCR Booth where they were showing their new technology.
Good eye.
I heard he filled out a job App but they declined on no experience!
Wawa is a chain of east-coast convenience stores.
Well, the problem is that he never saw anything about this on tee vee or in the paper. How was he to know? That is where he learns everything.
“Oh wow, so you can sign the machine?”
Or not, if it’s less than $25, and it’s coming from a foreign country, and it’s being deposited in your campaign fund...
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