Classless ghetto trash. What a stain on American history.
Posted on 05/02/2010 9:13:35 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama Says F-word At Correspondents' Dinner, Posts It At YouTube By Noel Sheppard Created 05/02/2010 - 11:46
Barack Obama said the F-word at the White House Correspondents' Dinner Saturday evening, and the video of his obscenity was posted at YouTube and WhiteHouse.gov.
As he began his comic remarks, the President said:
I wasn't sure that I should actually come tonight. [Vice President Joe] Biden talked me into it. He leaned over and he said, "Mr. President, this is no ordinary dinner. This is a big (whispering) f--king meal."
At 9:09 AM Sunday, a video of the President's routine was published [1] at the White House website after being posted [2] at YouTube some time Saturday evening.
As you can hear in the video, a bleep has been added, but the whispered F-word is still audible (video follows with commentary, joke in first 60 seconds):
As readers, viewers, and those in attendance were aware, this was a joke mocking Biden's F-bomb at the signing of the recently enacted healthcare reform bill when he whispered in the President's ear [2], "This is a big f--king deal."
However, was it appropriate of the President to use that word in public, at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, on live television?
And if the White House was going to post this at YouTube and its website, shouldn't someone have done a better job of making sure the bleep actually covered the obscenity?
This seems especially important as it appeared the networks that aired the dinner properly bleeped his F-word. I was watching C-SPAN and thought the bleep covered it up. I've been informed that CNN and MSNBC also bleeped appropriately, although Fox News's censors may have been a tad early.
This suggests these networks were alerted to the joke, and were on the ready to bleep when necessary.
But did the President have to say "f--king" for the joke to work?
Wouldn't "f-ing," "freaking," or "frigging" have been more appropriate for the most powerful man in the world in a public setting with cameras rolling?
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trying to keep up with joe..how mature
What a disgrace. ugggh
raising our prestige in the world..hahahahha
I watched it on Fox last night and thought it was disgusting. Such a jerk. I miss George W.
The child (alleged) president.
Classy Guy.....
NOT!
Do we really need anymore proof what a disrespectful piece of crap this empty suit is in the people’s house?
I watched the first few minutes and found nothing funny about anything he said.
As for the line in question here, it could have been funny if he had paused between ‘big’ and ‘meal’. Like:
“This is a big (pause) meal.”
Totally.
LOL!
Howdy Maam
Classless ghetto trash. What a stain on American history.
Amusing, but it’s still a bad choice and he displayed (again) that he’s a man of poor judgement.
Frankly any President visiting disaster places strikes me as a waste of time anyway and ends being more of a photo op than anything else.
I don't recall Nixon or Truman publicly using the term and especially not deliberately as some sort of joke. This is a new low.
I didn’t girlish men went in for that kind of crudeness...especially for a cheap laugh at their co-worker. I guess uhbama’s crassness is simply a manifestation of his interior thought processes.
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