Memo to talking heads: if you are going to continue to tell viewers that President Obama's

[Atticus]

criticism of his "successor" is "unprecedented", could you also mention that Trump's 100-plus derogatory tweets about his predecessor are ALSO "unprecedented"?

Thanks for what I know will be your instant compliance with this request.

[Sherman A1]

1. Might be worth emailing that to the various

Cable Noise Networks or whomever of which you are speaking.

[lunatica]

2. I second that!

Some people can’t see the obvious even after it beats the shit out of them!

There’s gotta be some kind of syndrome there. They’re like wife’s who are beaten so regularly that they think it’s normal human behavior criticizing people who are really normal.

[politicaljunkie41910]

37. Also you have to state the obvious as far as his 4229 false or misleading claims (aka lies)

in the 558 days he's been in office as of Aug 1, 2018; the last time the Wash Post provided us with an updated count. He lies so much that the vast majority of the media takes it for granted that if his lips are moving, he's lying and doesn't even bother mentioning it any more, which should in itself be an impeachable offense. He is the only president in my lifetime that you can bet your bottom dollar that, if his lips are moving, he's lying.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/08/01/president-trump-has-made-4229-false-or-misleading-claims-in-558-days/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.88305c9ca36a

[CrispyQ]

15. Post it on their FB pages, too. Those get wide audience. -nt

[ck4829]

22. +1

[True Dough]

3. Excellent point

Obama could have rightfully piped up many, many times to defend his name and his record based on Trumpy being so unfairly critical.

[Fred Sanders]

7. Trump's birtherism was kinda unprecedented also, if I recall..remember you media guys yucking

that up and carrying water for years....for ratings?

Look in the mirror before clutching pearls, media.

[ck4829]

25. Right

[heaven05]

4. true, and

this MSM failed for 8 long years to reference the unprecedented obstruction, racism and just plain hatefulness of 99% of the RW thug Party calling themselves the GOP. TO HELL with the MSM and their culpability in making it a possibility and then fact that we have to live every day with a psychopath that's a sociopathic pervert potus that rivals Hitler in being a psychopath. And his grifter family is no different from him. How about his 5000+ lies just to keep his base of idiots happy? No one except Rachel, Odonnell, Maher is saying one word about his out and out lying. Such stress with this idiot, "unhinged" potus even near 'the Button'.

[jaysunb]

32. ++++ n/t

[yardwork]

5. Obama's criticism is not unprecedented. Trump created the precedent.

What incredibly dishonest, inept reporting.

[Cha]

20. Exactly, yardwork!

[oasis]

6. Obama should be applauded for acting on the threat posed by Trump. nt

[dalton99a]

8. Trump criticized Obama 200+ times on Twitter

between Jan 20, 2017 and today

[Izzy Blue]

9. Click any word under Obama's list and Trump's original tweet about him comes up.

The 487 People, Places and Things Donald
Trump Has Insulted on Twitter: A Complete List

By JASMINE C. LEE and KEVIN QUEALY UPDATED July 10, 2018


https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/01/28/upshot/donald-trump-twitter-insults.html#the-letter-O

[rocktivity]

29. But but but isn't this

fake news?


rocktivity

[Kurt V.]

10. Reporting only half of the 'unprecedent'

is not reporting. thanks for post

[groundloop]

11. Also don'r forget Spanky's call for his election opponent to be jailed - just as unprecedented

Well, unless you're talking about a 3rd world banana republic / dictatorship. It seems like the press should be talking about this also.

[ck4829]

24. +1

[exboyfil]

26. Rep. Bachmann called for Obama to be in jail

As the Trump supporters say, Obama is just fighting back.

https://www.newsweek.com/michele-bachmann-says-obama-clinton-should-be-jail-1085805

"I’ll tell you the people who should be under investigation—really who should be in jail right now—and I don’t say this to be partisan, is our former president, our former candidate for the Democrat Party. They were misusing government to advance their political wins. So rather than Donald Trump being under the microscope, it should be Hillary Clinton, it should be Barack Obama," Bachmann said in an appearance on the Christian radio program Understanding the Times on Sunday.

[malaise]

12. Great post

Rec

[Roland99]

13. Nailed it!

[Historic NY]

14. Poppycock..........unwritten rules

Just because some “puzzlewit” and “fathead” will get upset............


“I love how because of our short memories, we come up with these eternal rules that don’t really apply,” said the historian Tim Naftali, the director-designate of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum.


[link:https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/22/washington/22carter.html|]

[IggleDuer]

16. It's odd that Mango Mousillini now supports "traditions" ...

... when he prides himself about not being politically incorrect.

[ck4829]

23. Indeed

[bitterross]

17. Everything about Trump is unprecedented and non-traditional.

They should point the facts as you suggest.

But it also goes without saying

[MadDAsHell]

39. Yep; I think that was the whole point of his nomination and the votes he got.

People apparently wanted anarchy; they got it

[bitterross]

41. Yes, they wanted something different. The GOP Message Machine won.

People wanted something different. They didn't stop to look and see the real problem with the status quo was the Republican House, Republican Senate, and Republican Supreme Court. They didn't stop to think about what part of the government is really screwing them.

It is far easier to just blame the guy at the top.

[lsewpershad]

18. Nah

when the cons (republiCONS) do ot it's ok.

[Cha]

19. Thank You, Atticus! I don't have a tv so

I don't know what damn manipulative shite the damn pundits are up to now.

"Unprecedented" my Democratic

Fraud's LYING Tweets about President Obama.

Obama is telling the truth.. Fuckhead LIES.

[ck4829]

21. K&R

[Vinca]

27. Thanks for your post. That's been driving me nuts.

[Towlie]

28. I don't see that as a criticism of Obama, but a sign that things are so bad that it was necessary.

It was extraordinary that Barack Obama restrained himself for such a long time.

[treestar]

30. You are so right and

how about the Orange Idi Amin's breaks with tradition? There were tons of them.

[sprinkleeninow]

31. *Someone's* degree of disgustingness is unprecedented. n/t

[Magoo48]

33. Everything from sea to shining sea is unprecedented now.

Well, except the predictability of the msm...of course, when you’re owned, you have little choice in whether you’re predictable or not. Thank the news gods for Amy Goodman.

[Nitram]

34. Unprecedented? After Trump's accusation that Obama is not a US citizen, nothing is "unprecedented."

[Honeycombe8]

35. I think they did at the start of it. I think.

There were so many "unprecedented" things Trump was doing that it's hard to remember.

Culminating in him claiming Obama wiretapped him at Trump Tower. Remember that oldie but goodie?

It's been noted how he continues to harp on Hillary like a Banana Republic leader would do of his opponent...jailing her if possible.

So none of that has gone unnoticed by the press.

[pansypoo53219]

36. also. the moron is NOT PRESIDENTIAL.

[maddiemom]

38. Trump's "unhinged" jealousy of President Obama has broken the usual mold.

He's been insulting and making false accusations about the former president since before he (Drumpf) even began to officially run for office. I'm still waiting to hear the "unbelievable things" that "his men" found out in Hawaii." President Obama has as usual, ignored him and "stayed classy." Enough time has passed (as long as Obama handles things true to his usual style and doesn't go, overboard(---if anyone could imagine) on the Orange Menace (for one thing, I'm SURE he'll never give Trump a nickname). Sane minds want to know what President Obama thinks. The break in his silence was very welcome to the majority of us.

[orleans]

40. k&r love it! n/t

[NoMoreRepugs]

42. These are unprecedented times....'nuff said.

[onetexan]

43. Desperate times calls for desperate measures

the Cons are screwing norms left and right. It's about time Dems do that (ala Senators Mazie Hironi, Kamala Harris & Cory Booker @kavanaugh hearings). Obama couldn't just sit out while the Idiot & his enablers devastate our country. He is the Voice of Reason during this very dark time when our democracy is at stake. His amazing wife our First Lady is also taking a major role to get people signed up to vote in November. The Obamas are doing whatever they can to make sure we win this given so much is at stake. Let us follow their example and do what we can as well.