Barack Obama’s ’60 Minutes’ Interview Has Me Screaming at My TV Again

Posted on | December 12, 2011 | 85 Comments

Today on Morning Joe, they were playing clips of Steve Kroft’s 60 Minutes interview with President Obama, and I literally started screaming. There is only so much of this bulls–t I can endure without talking back to my TV:

OBAMA: If I can’t get Republicans to move, partly because they’ve made a political, strategic decision that says, “Anything Obama’s for, we’re against, because that’s our best chance of winning an election,” I don’t think the American people would see that as a failure on my part. My preference is that they’d have a different attitude. You know, I’ve been joking with my staff lately that I think in my next speech, I am gonna say, “I am adamantly opposed to investing in education and putting teachers in the classroom. I’m adamantly opposed to rebuilding America and putting construction workers back to work.” And I’m thinking maybe suddenly Republicans might be for it. But, you know, keep in mind, I’m talking about Republican members of Congress. I’m not talking about Republicans around the country.
KROFT: They don’t like you much better. It’s only 7% approval rating.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Yeah, no, I understand. But I think that they like the ideas that we put forward. I mean, the interesting thing is the majority of Republicans actually think we should have a balanced approach to deficit reduction, including tax increases for the wealthy. The majority of Republicans do think that we should make investments in roads and bridges and improving our airports and investing in basic research and medical research.
So if you take my name out of it and just look at the ideas that we’ve been presenting, these are common sense, mainstream ideas that …

THAT WE CAN’T AFFORD! YOU ALREADY BLEW A TRILLION DOLLARS ON THIS STIMULUS CRAP AND WHAT DID IT GET US, HUH? WHERE’S THE F–KING RECOVERY? THE DEFICIT’S OUT OF CONTROL! WE DON’T HAVE THE MONEY TO PAY FOR THIS CRAP! SHUT THE HELL UP ABOUT ‘COMMON SENSE’!

Obama thinks he can just rattle of a laundry list of spending projects, call them “common sense, mainstream ideas” and — POOF! — the money magically appears to pay for this stuff.

And something else: He loves to talk about infrastructure — “investments in road and bridges” — as if that was the majority of what he’s spending money on, when in fact, infrastructure projects were less than 5% of the stimulus bill. It’s like me sprinkling a turd with sugar and asking you to eat it and when you refuse, I accuse you of disliking sugar. Here’s another idiotic assertion:

KROFT: [Republicans] say it’s your insistence on raising the taxes to the wealthiest Americans, that you’re fixated on that. And that there are other ways to raise revenue.
OBAMA: Steve, the math is the math. You can’t lower rates and raise revenue, unless you’re getting revenue from someplace else. Now, either it’s coming from middle-class families or poor families or it’s coming from folks like you and me that can afford to pay a little more. I mean, I think the average American understands that.

ECONOMIC GROWTH, YOU F–KING IDIOT! EVER HEARD OF THE LAFFER CURVE? SUPPLY SIDE? ART LAFFER COULD EXPLAIN IT TO YOU IN 15 MINUTES WITH A COCKTAIL NAPKIN!

Obamanomics is simply ignorance as the basis of policy. The more you know, the less you like it, and his only hope of re-election is to promulgate counterfactual ideas and persuade voters that they must choose between two lies: His dishonest characterizations of his own policies and his dishonest characterizations of Republican policies.

I hope he fails, because my blood-pressure can’t take another four years of listening to this guy lie.

UPDATE: Linked by The Lonely Conservative — thanks! — and welcome, Instapundit readers!

Category: Barack Obama, CBS, Economics, Election 2012

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85 Responses to “Barack Obama’s ’60 Minutes’ Interview Has Me Screaming at My TV Again”

Anonymous
December 12th, 2011 @ 8:26 am

My favorite part was the sheer disdain in his voice; as if the American people aren’t worthy of him since we’re expecting too much. He “can’t change the weather”, you know.
Garym
December 12th, 2011 @ 8:46 am

I yelled at my TV last night when the Cowboys gave up another winnable game!
Anonymous
December 12th, 2011 @ 8:49 am

Yeah, my sons are Cowboys fans. They blamed the refs.
Garym
December 12th, 2011 @ 8:54 am

Romo’s missed pass to Austin and a defense that can’t stop a high school team.
Anonymous
December 12th, 2011 @ 8:55 am

Wow, Stacy; TWO Instalanches in as many days! Congrats!
Mystapitt
December 12th, 2011 @ 8:55 am

He saved us from another Great Depression ya know? Oh and he saved the auto industry ya know??
Jones_paj60
December 12th, 2011 @ 8:56 am

He said he could lower ocean levels if he was elected, and all that other hooey-changey stuff.
Anonymous
December 12th, 2011 @ 9:02 am

See, I don’t have this problem when Obama is speaking. I simply insert earplugs, put on the noise suppressor headgear I use at the range, dunk my head into a full tub, and blow bubbles until my wife taps me on the shoulder to let me know he’s finished. I never get upset anymore.
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December 12th, 2011 @ 9:12 am

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Pathfinder
December 12th, 2011 @ 9:14 am

I got more than enough of him while watching the game Saturday.
Anonymous
December 12th, 2011 @ 9:19 am

“You can’t lower rates and raise revenue, unless you’re getting revenue from someplace else.”

Ok, set supply side aside for a second and this is still wrong- you get the revenue by closing off deductions and loopholes largely crafted to favor special interests. You’re getting the revenue from those cozy deals crafted by lobbyists. Of course that flies directly in the face of the central tenet of Obamanomics- ‘take care of your friends and punish your enemies’.
Anonymous
December 12th, 2011 @ 9:21 am

‘Never interrupt an enemy while he is making a mistake.’

Let him continue to blame Republicans for pushing
the policies that he, and the next President, will be
forced to implement when the shock wave from the
economic implosion of Europe reaches the US.
LBJAY02
December 12th, 2011 @ 9:26 am

Yep, no store as ever increased it’s sales by lowering it’s prices. Walmart doesn’t exist. Amazon doesn’t exist.

“I reject your reality and substitute my own.”
Lady Liberty 1885
December 12th, 2011 @ 9:32 am

I can’t take listening to this man sit there and LIE with such ease anymore. I refuse to watch him because I cannot afford a new TV if I break our current one by throwing things at the screen.
Dcmick
December 12th, 2011 @ 9:32 am

Well, you’re not alone.

The Cowboys defensive secondary had ME screaming at the television last night, screaming at Newman, screaming at Rob Ryan, screaming at the GM for fielding such a pack of unworthy defensive players.

They gave up 15 points in the final 5 minutes of the game!
Dcmick
December 12th, 2011 @ 9:40 am

I blame the defensive secondary!
Dcmick
December 12th, 2011 @ 9:45 am

Blaming Romo is some kind of parlour game.

He scored 34 points, moved his team into field goal range to tie.

As for the Austin reception, Austin said later that he lost the ball in the lights and that’s why he didn’t make any sight adjustment on the route. It’s another case where Romo put the ball there and the receiver failed him.

BUT EVEN WITH THAT, the first down play was weak, the second down play was the passing down, which set up an obvious 3d down passing play. Unimaginative offensive series.

But the defense giving up TWO touchdown scoring drives and on top of that allowing the Giants to convert, which means they gave up FIFTEEN POINTS in five minutes.

NOBODY can save the Cowboys with that defensive secondary.

The Archangel Gabriel couldn’t pull them out of it.

And even if they tied the game, had they lost the coin toss, THEY STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE GAME because the secondary wouldn’t have any better chances to hold in overtime than they had in the fourth quarter.

But if you check out the Dallas Morning News and the Fort Worth Star Telegram, they’re trying to finger Romo and the supposed December curse.

Utter nonsense!

They need a PROFESSIONAL secondary!
Dcmick
December 12th, 2011 @ 9:47 am

I don’t watch him; I don’t listen to him.

I just observe what he does, what policies he implements, what personnel he appoints.
Jwfent
December 12th, 2011 @ 9:50 am

When liberals accuse someone else of something, that something is usually exactly what the liberals are doing. When Obama says that the GOP is against anything he is for for political reasons, then he is actually telling us that he is against anything they are for as pure political calculation.

One can always know that the liberals are actually doing by listening to what they are accusing the GOP of doing.
Finrod Felagund
December 12th, 2011 @ 9:58 am

Yeah, I try to avoid watching Obama on TV at all if I can help it, since the SCOAMF makes we want to scream at him like Sam Kinison finding out his girlfriend has been cheating.
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Leslie Eastman
December 12th, 2011 @ 10:07 am

Ever since Jan. 2009, my goal has been to watch and listen to as little of Obama as possible. Challenging, as I like to follow current events. My goal for Jan. 2013 will be to use the expression “former President Obama” as often as possible.
Fred Beloit
December 12th, 2011 @ 10:07 am

Hmmm. A turdicant sprinkling sugar for us. I like the justified image. And what Obama offers is a little expensive. Like all DC Ciceros, it never occurs to Kroft to mention costs. That’s what happens when one has covered politics too long.
Anonymous
December 12th, 2011 @ 10:09 am

Obama is full of crapola. All the man knows is I-I-I and blame, blame, blaming others instead of taking responsibility for his own actions or inaction. He must have been a spoiled brat growing up who always got what he wanted because that is exactly how he’s acting today. He is a pathological liar and a narcissist.

I try to avoid watching Obama on TV for fear of throwing something at the T.V.
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ThePaganTemple
December 12th, 2011 @ 10:29 am

How can anybody stand to watch that little piece of shit? I don’t watch him, I just can’t stand him. But then again, I’d probably be the first person in history to be questioned by the Secret Service for shooting his television.
Aramy964
December 12th, 2011 @ 10:34 am

The question were pre-fed, enabling hustling absentee golfing POTUS to appear so cocky! Kroft, a enowned enabler of the move to elect and re-elect Obama himself looked a bit miffed, realizing that Chutzpah, Chicago style has no bounds. The nexus between the enabling media and the Chicago mob is destroying his nation, there is a hi price for indulging in trivia and hypocracy.
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December 12th, 2011 @ 10:54 am

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Rich
December 12th, 2011 @ 10:57 am

It’s Bush’s fault.
Anonymous
December 12th, 2011 @ 11:11 am

Obama believes that raising taxes is the only way to raise revenue. The man’s economic ignorance is profound. And he avers these things like they are obvious truths (“common sense”) while they are demonstrably false.
Anonymous
December 12th, 2011 @ 11:13 am

To the morons who segue into a Giants-Dallas game: “please go back to the playroom and your video games”.

Obama is infuriating in his ability to LIE over and over again without blinking. Worse is the lame stream media drones allowinng his lying.

This son-of-a-b**ch is destroying our economy. And an idiot like Steve Croft refuses to take him to task on his lies and his failures of the last 38 months. Wait, I forgot. Steve Croft is just another liberal propagandist for the Democrat Party.
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December 12th, 2011 @ 11:15 am

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wolfhowl2007
December 12th, 2011 @ 11:33 am

This post is just pure B***S***. It would never take Laffer more than 5 minutes to explain the curve.
Anonymous
December 12th, 2011 @ 11:44 am

Congratulations! I didn’t start yelling at the television (and shaking my cane angrily at it while yelling,) until after my 82nd birthday – but I’m a chronic late- bloomer.
;~)??}
Bob Belvedere
December 12th, 2011 @ 11:47 am

Try the Mute Button, it’s a lot less physically intensive.
Bob Belvedere
December 12th, 2011 @ 11:48 am

It’s called ‘The Big Lie’.
Bob Belvedere
December 12th, 2011 @ 11:49 am

It’s quite obvious that he was the golden child.
Becky
December 12th, 2011 @ 11:51 am

There’s a trick to not letting Obama pump your blood pressure up, and that’s by not watching him at all. I can’t stand the sound of his voice anymore, because I know he’s just going to be telling another lie, or making some ridiculous accusation. I suspect there are a whole lot of people in the country who have simply tuned him out.
Change to what?
December 12th, 2011 @ 11:57 am

He’s a legend in his own mind
Change to What?
December 12th, 2011 @ 12:02 pm

It is their classic strategy for decades.
‘Always accuse your enemy of doing what you are doing to him.’ James Carville
Prebius
December 12th, 2011 @ 12:03 pm

“my blood pressure can’t take another four years”

Snap! An extra added benefit of Four More Years!
Anonymous
December 12th, 2011 @ 12:12 pm

With high unemployment, constant attacks from the rabid right and bad economic news everywhere Obama is still beating all comers in south carolina.

Now, that in itself should excuse Mr McCain’s high blood pressure and juvenile WRITING IN ALL CAPS LIKE A LUNATIC CRAZY YELLER.

But, then he does have to write for his regular readers…
Anonymous
December 12th, 2011 @ 12:13 pm

Yeah, because everyone knows that cutting taxes increases revenue.

That’s tea tard math. and it’s wrong.
Anonymous
December 12th, 2011 @ 12:26 pm

I don’t watch or listen to him. His actions speak his intent.

But, on reading Prez!Stinky™*¹‘s idea, (“…just take my name out of it…) I take it to mean The Presidency, and think it his only worthwhile idea.

Let’s get started immediately, so come January 2013, we can bid goodbye to this Kannibal King. Never has a walking-talking malaprop been more forsworn in his office than this Frankenstein Creation of Hatreds.

This B.O.-critter’s a cardboard cutout who entertains delusions of three dimensionality. Distillate of the liquor of Rot of Western Civilization, the putrid odor of his arrogance rising as if in proof of that Civilization’s decay. It’s one thing to be too stupid to realize what you are attempting to do defies physics. It is another thing entirely to be immodestly proud of the stupidity!

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*¹: “Prez!Stinky™ is an Official Michelle Obama Approved™ nickname. Her suggestion, and who’d know her husband better than the Lady Flatus, Herself?

Quote:
“…he’s [Barry’s] too snore-y and stinky, … don’t want to ever get into bed with him.” Michelle Obama
Glamour Magazine Oct 2007 [09_2007]
Link:
http:/www.glamour.com/magazine/2007/09/michelle-obama?currentPage=2
Anonymous
December 12th, 2011 @ 12:40 pm

IRS receipts refute your point, but I suppose you have the mental machinery to simply look up how much was received by the IRS and compare it to taxes… take would require handling what, two numbers, right? All you “Progressives” can handle is One.

So many clamoring for the slave-collar. I pity you.
Paul Anderson
December 12th, 2011 @ 12:42 pm

The Laffer curve is not real….
ltw
December 12th, 2011 @ 12:51 pm

“You can’t lower rates and raise revenue, unless you’re getting revenue from someplace else.”

The poster child statement for government greed. Especially true since government spending and revenues are not even remotely related at this point in our country’s history.
Anonymous
December 12th, 2011 @ 12:55 pm

Well, not more than 5 minutes to a normally intelligent 4yr old, you forget, he’s allowing for the fact that it is an attempt to teach toddler math skills to Progressives… that might actually take years of explanations and real-world examples. Progressives are uncommonly stupid, being those who inhabit the first-third of the bell curve.

Hard to believe? Look at the population size, compare the number of “Progressives” and the intelligence bell curve for the U.S. population – a very close match…

Not that I’m complaining. They fulfill a purpose. Someone has to fill the shallow end of the gene pool…
Blacque Jacques Shellacque
December 12th, 2011 @ 1:01 pm

” Obama thinks he can just rattle of a laundry list of spending projects, call them ‘common sense, mainstream ideas’ and — POOF! — the money magically appears to pay for this stuff.”

He can, not because money magically appears, but because the “journalists” that interview him consistently fail to press him on how he plans to lay for his profligate spending.