(while you were living in reality) OBAMA TO BAN FISHING ????

[underpants]

I just stumbled onto this during the 11+ minutes of stupid here and did a DU search.
Apparently an entry on the ESPNblog on March 10 (see below) set off a flurry of nonsense about President Obama banning fishing....ALL FISHING-the story became.


Culled out
Public input period for federal fishery strategy has ended
The Obama administration has ended public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing some of the nation's oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters.

Fishing industry insiders, who have negotiated for months with officials at the Council on Environmental Quality and bureaucrats on the task force, had grown concerned that the public input would not be taken into account.

In late summer, just after the administration created the task force, these groups produced "Recommendations for the Adoption and Implementation of an Oceans, Coasts, and Great Lakes National Policy." This document makes repeated references to "overfishing," but doesn't reference recreational angling, its importance, and its benefits, both to participants and the resource.

Additionally, some of these same organizations have revealed their anti-fishing bias with their attempts to ban tackle containing lead in the United States and Canada.

Also, recreational angling and commercial fishing have been lumped together as harmful to the resource, despite protests by the angling industry.

http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/saltwater/news/story?id=4975762

Obama Admin Jumps to Squelch Rumors of U.S. Fishing Ban
Published: March 11, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/03/11/11greenwire-obama-admin-jumps-to-squelch-rumors-of-us-fish-65275.html
The news blog Drudge Report reposted the column, and dozens of right-wing bloggers wrote yesterday that President Obama would ban recreational fishing.

....aaand we all know what happened next.... :eyes:


Video: Glenn Beck propagates story that Obama will ban fishing in the United States
http://www.examiner.com/x-5738-Political-Buzz-Examiner~y2010m3d10-Video-Glenn-Beck-propogates-story-that-Obama-will-ban-fishing-in-the-United-States

Obama to Ban Sport Fishing?
http://www.thefoxnation.com/culture/2010/03/09/obama-ban-sport-fishing

Obama To Ban Fishing? What Next?
http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=5822

[FSogol]

1. It worked for the NRA. Quick everyone buy hooks and tackle!11!!1

:shrug:

[underpants]

6. Boy! did it work the gun and ammo companies

they even lumped in some nice "ammo is running out" PR stories to jack up prices

[Mugweed]

2. If the mercury levels in the fish keep rising

someone will have to at least ban fishing for food. Catch and release would be OK.

[The Magistrate]

9. Well, Sir, You Know What They Say....

"Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll be dead of mercury poisoning in six months."

[frylock]

12. well done, sir!

:rofl:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. *sigh* This dead horse has already been beaten to a pulp. It's false, of course.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/fishingban.asp

[underpants]

7. I was going to post that

I read it before I posted but I thought I had enough material and links as it was

thanks

[dalaigh lllama]

4. Nice catch

:evilgrin:

[Born_A_Truman]

5. Only criminals will have rods & reels

[spanone]

8. next he is outlawing the shaving of armpits...standy by for next desecration

[frylock]

10. they'll have to pry my ugly stik from my cold, dead hands

[lonestarnot]

11. When is buckethead going to say Mr. President banned all toilet paper. That stupid freak would lie

about his own mother.

[cynatnite]

13. If only the constitution had said "the right to bear fishing poles". n/t

[karynnj]

14. This sentence tells me all I need to know of this sorce

"Additionally, some of these same organizations have revealed their anti-fishing bias with their attempts to ban tackle containing lead in the United States and Canada."

If they can't think of why lead should be banned other than anti fishing bias, they have a problem.

[Cali_Democrat]

15. Now Obama is a radical commie fascist christian muslim Kenyan by birth......

that hates fishing.