Hannity Claims Bush Never Played Golf During Wartime: He Was ‘Far More In Touch

[G_j]

:rofl:

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/04/hannity-bush-golf-obama/


Hannity Claims Bush Never Played Golf During Wartime: He Was ‘Far More In Touch’ Than Obama

Last night on Fox News, Sean Hannity criticized President Obama for inviting famous guest chefs to cook at the White House, claiming the President is “out of touch” with regular Americans. “He’s jetting around to Broadway on vacations on our dime!” Hannity complained. “He is so far out of touch with what is going on,” said former Bush adviser Nicolle Wallace.

Both then reminisced about the days when a president was in office who was “far more in touch” with regular folks: President George W. Bush:

HANNITY: George Bush who you worked for did not play golf while this country was at war. He didn’t want the families of loved ones serving, well, that they may have lost the loved ones seeing him on a golf course.

WALLACE: Yes, I mean…

HANNITY: He seemed to be far more in touch.

Watch it:

[SidDithers]

1. "Now watch this drive"...

Edit:
Granted, that famous clip was from 2002, but Bush played in Oct 2003
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/14/bushs-golf-story-doesnt-hold-water/

Sid

[Tempest]

14. In 2002 we were in a war with terrorism according to Bush

And what about all the time he spent at his ranch clearing brush?

[lame54]

24. in 2002 we were in Afghanistan

[SidDithers]

31. That's just a minor detail...

Hannity doesn't do details. :hi:

Sid

[DumbBassRepublicans]

52. FAUX NEWS LYING NETWORK.......

Strange....
I typed in "Hannity says Bush never played golf..."
on the Fox Noise Website....
The cursor just sat there, and sat there, and sat there....
Then I realized....
THE TRUTH CANNOT BE FOUND ON THE FOX NOISE NETWORK...!!!!
WHAT A PATHETIC EXCUSE FOR A NETWORK, LET ALONE ONE THAT MASQUERADES AS A NEWS NETWORK...!!
And what can you say about Sean "Water boarding ain't that bad" Hannity...???
LIAR, HYPOCRITE, COWARD...!!!
Oh gee.
I've just described Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Beck, Cavuto, and just about EVERYONE who works on the Fox Noise Channel.

What an EFFING, CREEPY, Network...!!!!

:puke:

[SpiralHawk]

2. "Smirk." - xCommander AWOL (R)

[Jennicut]

3. Funny how the Bush family never wants to talk about all their time spend in CT.

They want to forget...actually we in CT want to forget too. They were "Northeastern elitists" and filthy rich.

[havocmom]

4. Do they not have televisions at FOX? They never see their own videos?

Or do they REALLY have that low an opinion of other people's mental abilities? I know their vapid followers have some shortcomings with critical thought, but the rest of the world? Do they really think we can't just go get a video out of the archive and slap the pudding out of them with it?

[daleanime]

Until their viewers call them on it...

False News will run with any thing they want:nuke:

[BOSSHOG]

5. But george bush deserted his military unit during the Vietnam War

TO AVOID A DRUG TEST. And chickenhawks on right wing hate radio like hannity never served their country AND HAVE NEVER DONE ANYTHING FOR OUR COUNTRY.

While your at it sean tell us how ruinous President Obama's last three fiscal year budgets have ruined the country.

[bullwinkle428]

6. I'm shocked...SHOCKED to hear Hannity never watched Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11"!

[FormerDittoHead]

7. One wonders if there's ever a point where they say, "Naaa, that's crazy talk..."

Hannity and Beck should start a cult. Oh wait, I think they already have.

[w8liftinglady]

8. video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3p9y_OEAdc

[KharmaTrain]

9. Short Attention Span Theater...The "Rehabilitation" Of Booooosh

Of course they failed to mention how Emporor Bunnypants spent close to one third of his time in office on vacation...especially that month long stay at his prop chicken ranch in Crawford prior to 9/11...ya know when that PDB came out. But then these scumbags are revising history...boooshie really didn't take power until 9/12/01 and the economic collapse happened the day Obama took the oath. It's all revising history and hoping people are so simple to swallow the meme and bullshit.

[tblue37]

48. And they *will* swallow the meme. nt

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

10. Yeah... what Bush actually said was, "Now watch this DRIVEL"

[timeforpeace]

11. May be true. But Obama needs the practice. He really sucks at golf.

[NoNothing]

12. Bush at least got the message

At some point he realized that the appearance was bad and stopped. Is Obama going to have to be embarassed as much as Bush before he gets the same message?

It looked bad when Bush did it. And now, it looks bad when Obama does it. If he wants to golf, he should just end the wars.

[Tempest]

18. What a crock of shit

I don't have a problem with the president doing something to release energy and tension during any time.

It's better than having a wound tight stressed out president with the nuclear codes.

And Bush never got the message. He spent more than a third of his presidency on vacation.

[NoNothing]

19. What you think is not the issue

The issue is how it looks to other people. You know, voters? Those people whose support we need? Like it or not, they think it looks bad when the president is out golfing while troops are getting shot at. You think they'll suddenly not care just because it's Obama and not Bush?

[Tempest]

30. Voters didn't care when Bush did it

He got re-elected, remember?

And Hannity lied, Bush didn't give up golf.

Bush claimed he quit playing golf on Aug. 19, 2003, when U.N. envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello was killed in Iraq. Yet, the AP reported two months later that Bush had spent a “cool, breezy Columbus Day” playing “a round of golf with three long-time buddies.” And during the 2008 presidential campaign, Bush attended a high-dollar golf fundraiser for John McCain to “greet the foursomes.”

[RaleighNCDUer]

34. Bullshit.

I don't know anyone who would object to Bush playing golf if he ever did any WORK in his off time.

His "I won't play golf..." was just a PR stunt to make it look like he was doing something when he was really doing nothing. Seriously, what is the difference between two hours on the golf course and two hours having the secret service chase him around on bicycles?

Bush declaring "I won't play golf..." was camouflage, a smokescreen, to distract people from the fact that "...while (our) troops are getting shot at..." he took TWICE the vacation days of any previous president. But that's OK - at least he didn't play golf.

Once again, you live up to your handle.

[YOY]

39. But he DID play golf. His did so to raise money for McCain.

n.t.

[NoNothing]

45. Apparently people cared

Else why would Moore put it in Fahrenheit 451? And not just in the movie, but the trailer? It looked bad, that's why!

I'm not trying to make an ideological point, here. I'm trying to remind you that however unfair or unjust or whatever, appearances matter. Bush learned this the hard way.

[RaleighNCDUer]

46. No, what Bush took away from it was ONLY appearances matter.

As I said, nobody would have given a crap about his golf if he had actually been doing his job.

To counter the APPEARANCE of not caring, he made an APPEARANCE of caring, while lying and going on with whatever he wanted to do.

In any case, consider the context -

"I call upon all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorist killers. Thank you. Now watch this drive." (Swings)

It was NOT that he was playing golf - that's just how Rove had him spin it. It was the confirmation that we had an IDIOT in the White House. And in case you've forgotten, that clip was from before he declared he would not play golf. Rove, seeing him look like the moron he is, wanted to keep such juxtapositions out of the public eye and told him he needed to make the public 'sacrifice' of giving up golf (which he didn't do anyway).

[ThomThom]

44. I guess riding his mountain bike does not count as having fun

it was just exercise to stay healthy ;-)

[YOY]

25. He didn't change shit.

Getting tanked at the Olympics isn't changing one's behavior.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/04-mfb-5127742-bush-merkel-hoch,templateId%

Massaging the German PM against her wishes isn't changing one's behavior.

He kept on being a fuck up without a care about anyone other than for whom he was told to care...and it wasn't the American people. He was a PR disaster without the capacity to change for the better...just to change his photo ops.

[Tempest]

29. Bush not only continued to play golf, but he took up biking as well

Bush claimed he quit playing golf on Aug. 19, 2003, when U.N. envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello was killed in Iraq. Yet, the AP reported two months later that Bush had spent a “cool, breezy Columbus Day” playing “a round of golf with three long-time buddies.” And during the 2008 presidential campaign, Bush attended a high-dollar golf fundraiser for John McCain to “greet the foursomes.”

Media Matters notes that Bush gave up golf, but took up biking.

http://thinkprogress.org/

[old mark]

32. Bush would not know a "message" if one bit him in the ass.

He is a dumb ass spoiled rich drunk little prick who still does not grasp the harm he has done to our country.

Fuck him.

mark

[lpbk2713]

51. Nor would Hannity.

He's got to be the absolute dumbest of the RW Media Hatemongers.

[butterfly77]

36. What you can't deal with is that...

Obama is working something that Bush never did his whole so called presidency was ran by Cheney and others. The problem is that even when Obama tries to take a vacation the media won't leave him alone.

He thinks he is having a private moment and looks up and the damn media is filming his every move. Anytime he goes somewhere to make a speech the media are fighting to cover it and complain if he doesn't invite them. They just can't get enough of him,and then they want to call him a celebrity.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

50. What an excellent opportunity to test the recent promise of better response time. -nt

[no_hypocrisy]

13. Busted

[gratuitous]

43. That doesn't count

Bush wasn't wearing his presidential seal golf shoes, so it doesn't count. Kind of a mulligan round, you know?

[w8liftinglady]

15. this Keith Olbermann piece regarding bush giving up golf..breathtaking

http://vodpod.com/watch/721699-keith-olbermann-special-comment-on-bush-golf-and-iraq

[YOY]

16. In touch with what??? What Cheney told him to do?

Fucking revisionist assholes. Not this time.

[havocmom]

20. Seems he is always in touch with (or ruled by) his inner 2-year-old

[Lerkfish]

17. really, hannity? "now watch this drive"

he played golf all during the war.

the blatant revisionism is disgusting.

[wisteria]

21. And, no one calls him out on this BS lie? n/t

[w8liftinglady]

22. I bet KO will(see video above)

[soleft]

23. All average Americans trip over their Segways

[Ganja Ninja]

26. He was all business all the time.

:crazy:

[hvn_nbr_2]

27. Informal Poll: Will Hannity be worse, worser, or worst tonight on KO? nt

[arcadian]

28. What about his mountain biking?

[blm]

33. never golfed...never went biking....never spent his afternoons in the gym.....

never had movies brought in....

[Ganja Ninja]

37. Next thing you know they'll try to say he wasn't drinking either.

[progressoid]

35. Sadly, his viewers were nodding in agreement.

[Blue Owl]

38. Because he was too busy eating cake during natural-disaster-time

And BTW Sean (I know you repukes have a short memory) -- GWB was *NOT* very good at keeping up appearances.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

40. Since when did we begrudge our Presidents some leisure time

(assuming it's not cutting into their.....you know....duties)?

Oh yeah, silly me, only when Democrats are in charge do political opportunists like Hannity (and his ilk) worry about such trivial and, frankly, stupid things. I don't honestly believe that the average voter much cares as long as it seems like the President is doing his job. Didn't the Repubs and the corporate media whores once complain about Obama doing TOO MUCH at one point? :crazy: Did they howl in outrage when Bush publicly proclaimed that he and Laura were "having the time of their lives" at one point?

[LibertyLover]

41. Bush 2 took more vacations than any other president

According to a CBS News story dated May, 2008 Bush was spending his 879th day of vacation at the ranch.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/11/politics/uwire/main3927378.shtml

He broke the previous record, 335 days of vacation during 2 terms held by Ronald Reagun, early in his second term on August 19, 2005.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_W._Bush:_The_War_President_is_Missing_in_Action

Once again Fox News gets it wrong.

[krispos42]

42. How many years did Bush keep Cindy Sheehan waiting outside his toy ranch?

Hmmm... he was there about 25% of his presidency and she spend several years knocking on his front door.

[Initech]

47. Really? Bush wasn't responsible for anything the last 8 years?

:crazy:

[jmowreader]

49. Bush stopped playing golf, but not because of how it looked

Bush had bad knees. He couldn't have played a round of golf. He also gave up running--remember, he was a gym rat and really liked to run. When he stopped golfing and running, he switched to mountain biking, which didn't hurt his knees so bad.

Hannity doesn't seem to realize Obama's guest chefs are going to improve the economy--wouldn't you want to eat at a restaurant where the chef was so good the president wanted to eat his creations?