Buzzfeed: “Obama Loses Cool, Snaps at Staffers” (Not)

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There was a little mix-up at President Obama’s speech in San Jose this morning; he didn’t have his prepared remarks at the podium.

So Buzzfeed headlines their article like this: Obama Loses Cool, Snaps at Staffers in Speech Mixup.

OK, folks. Watch the video above. Whoever thinks this is “snapping” is hallucinating. He didn’t even raise his voice, and he said it with a smile, in a joking manner.

Seriously, Buzzfeed. WTF?

UPDATE at 6/7/13 10:38:01 am

Fox Nation jumps all over this ridiculous story and adds some dishonest distortion of their own: ‘Uhhh…Uh…Uhhh….People!’ Obama at Total Loss for Words When Staff Forgets His Speech - Fox Nation

President Obama strolled out to the podium today in San Jose, CA and was immediately at a loss for words. Not only did the President not have teleprompter, his aides forgot his speech.

“My remarks are not sitting here,” the President declared awkwardly. “I’m uhhh….people….oh goodness….uhhhh…folks are sweating back there right now.”

President Obama, who’s often mocked for an over-reliance on scripts, shifted uncomfortably smiling for several moments buying time. An aide sprinted out with a hard copy of the speech, tripping at one point, adding to the drama.

Un-freaking-believable.

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1 Bulworth  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:19:59am

Uppity.

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2 Bulworth  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:20:14am

Rageaholic.

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3 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:20:16am
4 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:20:34am

That’s so badass. :)

5 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:21:17am
6 Bulworth  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:21:40am

Remarks-gate!

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7 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:21:45am

He said “People”? Oh my god. Take the nuke codes away from him! He’s dangerously unstable!

8 jaunte  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:21:46am

FORTY SECONDS OF RAGE!!!!

9 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:21:52am
10 thecommodore  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:23:20am

Obama has learned how to be a scary angry black man without actually being angry. You see he hides his rage at America and all that is great about her by smiling and making jokes. That’s how diabolical he is.

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11 Feline Fearless Leader  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:24:52am

OT.

foxnews.com

A list that I can’t really comment on since I have only been to one of the sites.

And the historical comment about Mel Gibson’s character from “The Patriot”, Francis Marion, and Monmouth doesn’t make sense. “Battle of Monmouth” and “Battle of Monmouth Courthouse” are the same event. And I don’t think Francis Marion ever served north of the Carolinas. Perhaps a bad reference to the “Battle of Guilford Courthouse”.

Then again, we’re talking FOX and historical accuracy and fact checking.

12 Beauzeaux  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:25:11am

It’s truly horrifying the lengths these clowns will go to put out the “angry Black man” theme. They’d shit themselves if ever confronted by an actual angry Black man — especially someone lacking the President’s impeccable manners.

13 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:25:24am
14 GunstarGreen  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:26:03am

Presidenting While Black

15 jaunte  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:28:02am

re: #13 Vicious Babushka

Before he was hired by BuzzFeed, Johnson worked as a multimedia producer for Glenn Beck’s website, The Blaze, and as a “video journalist” for the conservative group Accuracy in Media, which has a reputation for promoting anti-gay ideas and right-wing conspiracy theories.mediamatters.org

Oh, great.

16 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:28:20am
17 erik_t  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:28:51am

re: #13 Vicious Babushka

They hired a guy from The Blaze!?

For shit’s sake. Won’t be going there anymore.

18 AntonSirius  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:28:58am

We joke about this now, but when Jon Favreau gets Vince Fostered and his body washes up on the banks of the Potomac, you’ll all be sorry…

19 iossarian  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:30:11am

What a shitty piece of reporting.

20 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:30:22am
21 Mattand  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:30:24am

re: #18 AntonSirius

We joke about this now, but when Jon Favreau gets Vince Fostered and his body washes up on the banks of the Potomac, you’ll all be sorry…

He’s deserves it for Iron Man 2.

22 Bulworth  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:31:14am
David Corn: Faith & Freedom Coalition announces speakers for 6/13-15 conference. Includes Palin, Trump, Bachmann.

I thought it was about time for another one of these. Looks like they’re getting the Clown Car back together again.

23 iossarian  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:31:27am

Obama loses cool - is still coolest person in hemisphere.

24 iossarian  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:32:29am

“Wait a second, for a moment there I thought I lost my cool. Oh, there it is. It’s that massive freaking pile of cool right over there.”

—Obama

25 Gus  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:32:44am

They’re crawling out of the woodwork!

26 jaunte  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:33:49am

Alex Pareene:

If an audience exists for a BuzzFeed of the right, BuzzFeed will happily be the BuzzFeed of the right, because capitalism. In fact, they are already producing cheap viral crap for conservatives to like on Facebook. Recent attempts include What It Feels Like Being a Conservative on the Internet, which went viral but was deemed “fail” by the BuzzFeed community, and “7 Things Democrats Would Have Freaked Out About if Bush Had Done Them,” which was voted both “win” and “fail.”

The author of that latter piece, Benny Johnson, was hired (from Glenn Beck’s the Blaze) basically explicitly to create viral conservative content. (Well, and regular viral content, too.) He’s also recently big-upped Utah Republican congressman Jason Chaffetz and — pay attention, NRCC — counted down “13 Ways Republican Can Win the Internet.” (I can sum up: It seems that the RNC postmortem was tl;dr.)
salon.com

27 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:33:59am
28 Gus  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:35:39am

I’m sure “it’s teh JUICE” should be next.

29 Kragar  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:35:58am

OH! THE HUMANITY! HIDE THE CHILDREN!

30 Gus  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:35:58am

Video not playing here.

31 Gus  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:37:08am

re: #30 Gus

Video not playing here.

Works at Crapfeed however.

32 darthstar  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:37:53am

McConnell sucks, y’all.

33 Charles Johnson  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:38:08am

Fox Nation jumps all over this ridiculous story and adds some dishonest distortion of their own: ‘Uhhh…Uh…Uhhh….People!’ Obama at Total Loss for Words When Staff Forgets His Speech - Fox Nation

President Obama strolled out to the podium today in San Jose, CA and was immediately at a loss for words. Not only did the President not have teleprompter, his aides forgot his speech.

“My remarks are not sitting here,” the President declared awkwardly. “I’m uhhh….people….oh goodness….uhhhh…folks are sweating back there right now.”

President Obama, who’s often mocked for an over-reliance on scripts, shifted uncomfortably smiling for several moments buying time. An aide sprinted out with a hard copy of the speech, tripping at one point, adding to the drama.

Un-freaking-believable.

34 Bulworth  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:38:27am

re: #32 darthstar

I’ve fainted onto my couch with pearls clutched.

35 Kragar  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:38:41am

This is simply amazing.

No matter what the scandal is, or what serious questions it raises, some wingnut will bring up some overblown nonsense unrelated issue and overwhelm the real issue with a tsunami of derp.

Well done nutters

36 iossarian  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:39:15am

Obama smiling uncomfortably:

google.com

37 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:39:19am
38 jaunte  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:40:04am

re: #33 Charles Johnson

I’m frequently at a loss for words, and I can tell Fox, that ain’t it.

39 thatthatisis  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:41:54am

Actually one of the things this points out is Obama’s lack of self-absorption. If this happened to Bush, he’d make a comment about himself. He always saw things as they related to him.

But Obama’s comment was a wry self-aware comment about how his staffers were going to react.

Obama and Kennedy are/were the two wittiest presidents we’ve ever had. Maybe Lincoln, but since we didn’t have 24/7 back then, hard to tell.

40 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:42:59am

re: #39 thatthatisis

Actually one of the things this points out is Obama’s lack of self-absorption. If this happened to Bush, he’d make a comment about himself. He always saw things as they related to him.

But Obama’s comment was a wry self-aware comment about how his staffers were going to react.

Obama and Kennedy are/were the two wittiest presidents we’ve ever had. Maybe Lincoln, but since we didn’t have 24/7 back then, hard to tell.

Reagan was also quite good at snappy one-liners. Unfortunately not at much else.

41 jaunte  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:43:28am

Fox Nation comments:

txnbud
10 minutes ago

He dares not speak his mind for fear that what he really wants to say will come out and make him look like the communist dictator that he really wants to be. He’s the best example we’ve ever had of incompetence at the highest level.

Gohmert or Stockman?

42 thatthatisis  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:43:55am

^ Reagan’s were mainly written in advance.

43 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:44:32am

re: #42 thatthatisis

^ Reagan’s were mainly written in advance.

By Peggy Noonan IIRC?

44 abolitionist  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:45:06am

re: #39 thatthatisis

Kinda witty: “I just tell them the truth and they think it’s hell.” —Truman

45 Charles Johnson  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:45:59am

Apparently some Buzzfeed people are embarrassed by this crap.

46 Romantic Heretic  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:46:58am

If this demonstrates anything it is how desperate the wingnuts are to find something, anything, that demonstrates that the Muslim/Kenyan/Communist/Nazi usurper is the anti-Christ.

They’ll be cutting open sheep and examining the entrails next.

47 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:47:04am
49 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:51:31am

Angry black men terrify free speech patriots.

Youtube Video

50 Mattand  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:53:44am

re: #45 Charles Johnson

Apparently some Buzzfeed people are embarrassed by this crap.

51 Dr Lizardo  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:56:48am

re: #22 Bulworth

I thought it was about time for another one of these. Looks like they’re getting the Clown Car back together again.

That’s not a Clown Car; that’s a Clown Supertanker.

52 Dr Lizardo  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:58:48am

re: #34 Bulworth

I’ve fainted onto my couch with pearls clutched.

At least you had a couch. When I fainted while clutching my pearls, I hit the floor.

53 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 10:59:22am

re: #52 Dr Lizardo

At least you had a couch. When I fainted while clutching my pearls, I hit the floor.

At least you had pearls. And a floor!

54 Gus  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:00:50am

What Obama did here is the worst thing I’ve ever heard in my life! I am clutching mah pearls and jumping out the window! Good bye cruel world!!

55 Gus  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:01:05am

*I’m on the first floor. //

56 Kragar  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:02:18am

Surely this is grounds for impeachment.
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57 Mattand  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:02:38am

re: #53 Vicious Babushka

At least you had pearls. And a floor!

When I was a kid, we didn’t have pearls to clutch over fake outrages! Just strings of rusty nails!

And we didn’t need a couch or a floor! We fell into a bottomless pit for all eternity! Uphill both ways in the snow! On broken glass!

And we had to do it 9 days week! And we liked it that way!

58 Dr Lizardo  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:04:53am

re: #53 Vicious Babushka

Heh.

The wingnuts get into a tizzy about the slightest thing President Obama does. Personally, I simply cannot understand it. It’s beyond bizarre.

59 Charles Johnson  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:06:48am
60 GunstarGreen  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:06:50am

re: #58 Dr Lizardo

Heh.

The wingnuts get into a tizzy about the slightest thing President Obama does. Personally, I simply cannot understand it. It’s beyond bizarre.

Deeply-ingrained racism will do that to a person. They’re frothing with rage that a Black Man is in the White House.

61 GunstarGreen  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:07:17am

re: #59 Charles Johnson

What did they have to say before they EMERGENCY PURGE’d?

62 Gus  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:07:25am

re: #59 Charles Johnson

What’s that?

63 Gus  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:09:08am

Oh great. Now anonymous is releasing classified NSA and DOD documents.

64 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:10:12am

Wingnuts know the NSA is monitoring their phone call data but they think nobody is reading their Tweets?

65 calochortus  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:11:30am

re: #64 Vicious Babushka

Wingnuts know the NSA is monitoring their phone call data but they think nobody is reading their Tweets?

They don’t care! They’re willing to take the risks involved in Tweeting the Truth!!!

66 Bulworth  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:11:38am

re: #64 Vicious Babushka

Tweeter is invisible. Also, too: gov can’t see my text messages or Facebook posts.

67 wrenchwench  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:12:10am

re: #59 Charles Johnson

68 GunstarGreen  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:12:22am

re: #64 Vicious Babushka

Wingnuts know the NSA is monitoring their phone call data but they think nobody is reading their Tweets?

I think a fun little experiment would be to go back through (non-famous) speeches/writings from Nazi Germany, replace “Jew” with “Muslim”, then make a twitter account putting out a steady trickle of them and see how many right-wingers like/retweet/whatever twitter does for approval.

69 Feline Fearless Leader  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:14:12am

re: #68 GunstarGreen

I think a fun little experiment would be to go back through (non-famous) speeches/writings from Nazi Germany, replace “Jew” with “Muslim”, then make a twitter account putting out a steady trickle of them and see how many right-wingers like/retweet/whatever twitter does for approval.

Isn’t that where Pamela Geller is getting her blog material from currently?

70 Lidane  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:14:20am

Looks like the California prison system has a free bed now:

71 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:16:06am

re: #70 Lidane

Looks like the California prison system has a free bed now:

Would “natural causes” include shanking?

72 Kragar  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:16:08am

re: #68 GunstarGreen

I think a fun little experiment would be to go back through (non-famous) speeches/writings from Nazi Germany, replace “Jew” with “Muslim”, then make a twitter account putting out a steady trickle of them and see how many right-wingers like/retweet/whatever twitter does for approval.

Take speeches made by union generals made during the civil war and replace the South with Liberals/Muslims

73 Gus  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:17:09am
74 iossarian  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:19:29am

re: #73 Gus

That reminds me of Terry Pratchett’s joke where the local tour guide can only figure out the meanings of the words “picturesque” and “quaint” by their usage by the tourist, and decides they mean “horribly precipitous” and “run-down and disease-ridden”.

75 Ian G.  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:19:51am

re: #33 Charles Johnson

Of course it does. They can make Obama both an illiterate and an angry black man at the same time. What’s not to love?

76 Ian G.  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:21:34am

re: #64 Vicious Babushka

Not a parody account? Sigh….

77 dragonath  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:22:38am
‘Uhhh…Uh…Uhhh….People!’ Obama at Total Loss for Words When Staff Forgets His Speech - Fox Nation

Cool, not only is it a teleprompter joke, it implies that Obama is a cipher and a figurehead. Did you know that Reagan’s speeches were written by himself with a pen of gold?

78 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:23:02am

Uh, uh, uh

79 Bulworth  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:23:42am

Everybody’s missing the Big Scandal today. POTUS is in Caleefornia. POTUS doesn’t live in Caleefornia. He lives in Washington.D.C. How much is this grand trip costing American taxpayers and what about WH visits for the kidz?

//

80 dragonath  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:24:16am

re: #73 Gus

Let’s face it. Everybody is dynamic and articulate compared to The Reince.

81 HappyWarrior  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:24:30am

re: #73 Gus

He sure is articulate about how nutso he is.

82 dragonath  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:25:36am

“Articulate…” didn’t Biden get raked over the coals for the same phrase?

83 HappyWarrior  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:25:59am

re: #82 dragonath

“Articulate…” didn’t Biden get raked over the coals for the same phrase?

It was clean and articulate, but yes. It obviously didn’t bother Obama since he thinks enough of Biden to have made him his running mate and to have kept him on board.

84 Varek Raith  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:27:00am
Matt Andrews * Top Commenter * Hussian School of Art
So it turns out that Benny Johnson used to work for Glenn Beck. And here he is at Buzzfeed, trying to drum up a faux “Obama is an angry black man” scandal.

Hey, Buzzfeed: looks like your “Hire a Racist” program is working real well.

Heh.

85 Lidane  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:28:05am

re: #83 HappyWarrior

It was clean and articulate, but yes. It obviously didn’t bother Obama since he thinks enough of Biden to have made him his running mate and to have kept him on board.

That and Biden had a long-time reputation for shooting his mouth off and saying dumb things. It was easy to just roll your eyes at another Biden-ism instead of finding any malice in his words.

86 Ace-o-aces  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:28:07am

re: #78 Vicious Babushka

Pammy doesn’t have to worry about forgetting a speech. All she has to do is drink a fifth of vodka, scream incoherently, and pass out.

87 HappyWarrior  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:28:07am

You know I constantly hear about how angry Obama is and how filled of rage he is from people well always angry and constantly filled with rage. Projection, how’s that work?

88 HappyWarrior  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:29:06am

re: #85 Lidane

That and Biden had a long-time reputation for shooting his mouth off and saying dumb things. It was easy to just roll your eyes at another Biden-ism instead of finding any malice in his words.

Right, but of course the usual suspects complained of media bias because George Allen here in Va got raked over the coals for “macaca”, lest they forget or more obviously ignore that Allen had a history.

89 Lidane  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:30:29am

I always laugh at the wingnut image of Obama as this fire-breathing, rage-filled demagogue. The guy makes Spock look like he needs anger management, FFS.

I have no doubt he gets irritated about things behind the scenes, but publicly, he has mostly managed to keep a firm lid on his temper.

90 Feline Fearless Leader  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:30:52am

re: #85 Lidane

That and Biden had a long-time reputation for shooting his mouth off and saying dumb things. It was easy to just roll your eyes at another Biden-ism instead of finding any malice in his words.

The same Biden whose lunch was going to be eaten in the VP Candidate debate as well.

91 dragonath  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:32:17am

re: #78 Vicious Babushka

Uh, uh, uh

Tommy Robinson wouldn’t ever forget a speech!

92 HappyWarrior  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:33:51am

re: #90 Feline Fearless Leader

The same Biden whose lunch was going to be eaten in the VP Candidate debate as well.

I’ve learned that wingnuts are always projecting big time when they say liberals need to be afraid of their VP candidates. First it was Palin that we were supposed to be “afraid” of and then Paul Ryan. I came out after watching both her and Ryan totally unimpressed.

93 Charles Johnson  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:33:55am

Maybe it’s just the people I follow, but I’m seeing a LOT of liberals and journalists on Twitter who are definitely not fans of Glenn Greenwald. The guy has made a lot of enemies.

94 Kragar  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:35:41am

re: #73 Gus

LOL.

Please proceed.

95 dragonath  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:36:31am

re: #93 Charles Johnson

I think the “Obama raping a nun” metaphor has a lot to do with that.

96 Feline Fearless Leader  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:39:13am

Oh look, anti-capitalist boycott threat!

nbcnews.com

97 geoffm33  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:49:17am

I know that folks are gathered upstairs in the newer thread, but I am just seeing this for the first time. WTF!!?!?!? Living in their own little reality aren’t they!

98 William Barnett-Lewis  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:50:18am

re: #96 Feline Fearless Leader

Oh look, anti-capitalist boycott threat!

nbcnews.com

KT will have a sad.

I have never purchased from them due to their corporate anti-union activities anyway so it doesn’t matter to me. The proximate cause is no real surprise either - the owner is a real scum-of-the-earth kind of guy.

99 wrenchwench  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 12:28:19pm

re: #96 Feline Fearless Leader

Oh look, anti-capitalist boycott threat!

nbcnews.com

You don’t mess with the Spanish speakers in New Mexico.

100 Tigger2  Fri, Jun 7, 2013 5:10:06pm

re: #96 Feline Fearless Leader

Oh look, anti-capitalist boycott threat!

nbcnews.com

I would definitely be onboard with the boycott if W.F. had a store in my town.


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