Comments on: Everybody Loves a Good Manufactured Outrage

By: JDurl

JDurl — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:17:27 +0000

I watched Jay Leno Thursday night with President Obama. I was thrilled to see P. Obama make himself so available to the people of North America and beyond.
I love him…………he is so much like “the boy-next-door”, down-to-earth and likeable! Not to mention that he is an extremely intelligent man and I feel he is going to do miraculous things for the United States of America!
As for his comment re: bowling score……….excuse me but I missed it!
Signed: A white, Canadian Anglophone

By: Cesar Fernandez-Stoll

Cesar Fernandez-Stoll — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 13:58:06 +0000

Frankly, I think Hussein Obama is an incompetent. After all the noise the collectivist world made about his ‘experience’ as a community organizer, it seems the type of nonsense he get involved for free, and I am not talking strictly about his mention of the Special Olympics, which of course, it is not a matter of what he always say without thinking, but of the fact that insofar, he has made every possible attempt to show himself as someone that disregard life and human nature and so, when he ventures a comment on the ‘limitations’ of the Special Olympic participants, ist becomes difficult not to relate it to his love for killing babies and the innocent altogether.
There are and will be many other episodes and you will be always ready to excuse or defend the character you fabricated and privately wonder if two years will be long enough to cope with this guy… It is a tragedy for humanity and not just the USA.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:29:52 +0000

Dear Mr. Weinman

President Obama’s comments were offensive to those of us who are trying to bring greater understanding and respect to people who have developmental disabilities. I was not outraged but saddend. His immediate apology was important and hopefully the whole matter will bring how we talk about people with developmental disabilities to the fore front. That you think this is a manufactured outrage is indicitive of your attitude of people with disabilities or you lack of understanding of the years of struggle to achieve respect and rights by this community. I ask you to research this issue as the last of the institutions in ontario close.

By: fran

fran — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 03:23:57 +0000

too much over too little,get a grip

By: Andrée Donally

Andrée Donally — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:29:03 +0000

Can even a President have a day off? President Obama just answered an off the cuff comments and now the world is moaning! I think that the media and the broadcasting «elite-only in their minds» should just shut-up! That`s probably too much to ask!

President Obama has a very hard road ahead and all this denigrating him is not helping him at all. I would have like to have seen those so call «elite reporter» on their first 50 days on the job and they only have to use paper and pencil and take pot shot at people!

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:43:48 +0000

Manufactured outrage over how hypothetical manufactured outrage would be more manufactured (and outrageous) than actual manufactured outrage that occurred.

(This post plays no role in this recursion; it’s manufactured bemusement, thank you very much.)

By: SAB

SAB — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:55:49 +0000

jwl you cannot be serious. If Bush got through a speech that was moderately coherent he got rave reviews!

Also there is a big difference in the treatment for someone who says “I was wrong” or “I made a mistake.”

Your man took 5 @#$%ing years before he admitted that, in fact, the mission was not yet accomplished, despite what the banner said.

By: sf

sf — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:40:05 +0000

If anything, this will harm Obama’s reputation as a good speaker.

Letterman and others made fun of Bush’s grammatical gaffes all the time.

By: Olaf

Olaf — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:14:45 +0000

Haha that’s pretty bad though. I wasn’t offended personally, but my sensors that tell me when society thinks I should be offended registered off the charts.

By: Blues Clair

Blues Clair — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:51:16 +0000

I don’t know jwl, it was a stupid joke and Obama seems to be getting raked over the coals for it. Anyways… coffee is ready.

By: jwl

jwl — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:28:13 +0000

I am happy for both Bush and Obama to crack wise about special olympics because I know they are harmless jokes that many of us make all the time. What I am tired of is lib msm and the manufactured outrage that would have occurred if Bush made this joke but we get apologists tripping over themselves to explain the joke away because Obama said it. It would be nice if people, no matter their political affiliation, were treated the same way.

By: Blues Clair

Blues Clair — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:12:13 +0000

“if it was Bush…”

You would be defending Bush.

By: jwl

jwl — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:06:39 +0000

Liberal intelligentsia/msm would be going nuts at the moment if it was Bush cracking wise about special olympics but since it was Obama, a liberal and we all know libs can’t be racist or bigots or anything bad for that matter, we get these mealy mouthed posts about manufactured outrage.