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Topic: Broken viewing screen frustrates
thousands on the National Mall |
Broken viewing screen frustrates
thousands on the National Mall
The Hill [Washington, DC], by Mike Lillis
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Posted By:FlyRight, 1/21/2013 2:05:50 PM
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| Tens of thousands of people who flocked to the Mall to watch Monday´s inaugural ceremony will have to watch a replay to hear what President Obama said. A television set up just north of the Washington Monument was streaming terribly, sending a garbled signal — both audial and visual — that left observers west of 15th Street having to guess half of what Obama was saying. Many in the crowd – perhaps thinking there was another big screen on the south side of the monument – trudged that way only to find nothing,
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Kansas Conservative, 1/21/2013 2:07:13 PM (No. 9130385)
This is a victory parade for all of the EBT-carrying, Medicaid-receiving, Head Start-loving, who-cares-about-the-deficit liberals. The rest of America is at work.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
GOPinTN, 1/21/2013 2:09:37 PM (No. 9130391)
It´s ok, they are just showing a rerun anyway.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
scurfie, 1/21/2013 2:11:44 PM (No. 9130403)
That´s too funny! If I were there it might be the first time I understood our leader.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
LittleHoodedMonk, 1/21/2013 2:17:00 PM (No. 9130413)
A metaphor for 0bama 2.0 administration.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec, 1/21/2013 2:20:11 PM (No. 9130426)
At least the guy who built that can say he didn`t build that....
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bldrrepub, 1/21/2013 2:22:52 PM (No. 9130431)
Corrected headline:
Broken country frustrates millions in Real America.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
rburns, 1/21/2013 2:29:36 PM (No. 9130447)
And they are in charge of our national security, health care and the list goes on? You have to be kidding. THIS government under Obama is one BIG JOKE!!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
lydwho, 1/21/2013 2:38:49 PM (No. 9130468)
Don´t feel bad, everything he said as garbled as the picture on the screen!!!
Art
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
lil dotty, 1/21/2013 2:46:28 PM (No. 9130489)
Dear Lord, we American Patriots do appreciate your sense of humor. Thank you.
Amen.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
dman, 1/21/2013 2:49:13 PM (No. 9130494)
What??!! They couldn´t see him speaking from the clouds?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Rafter, 1/21/2013 2:52:45 PM (No. 9130500)
#5, I like that!
Solyndra never could make good plasma screens...
or anything else, for that matter.
Or was it a Gummint Motorola VOLT TV... ?
Boondoggle.
It´s a metaphor.
For the DimWitz who mention having Bammy added to Mount Rushmore...
"Mount Rush-More" is a DimWitz tactic to avoid being caught on the babysitter...
(It´s a hurry-up offense... )
I suggest we select a mountain (similar to Stone Mountain in Georgia)...
and carve a TOTUS POLE...
to honor our leader...
TOTUS...
Teleprompter of the United States.
My kind of shovel-ready project.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Jethro bo, 1/21/2013 2:56:08 PM (No. 9130506)
You mean they couldn´t watch it live on their Obambi phone?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
august9, 1/21/2013 3:06:40 PM (No. 9130524)
Not to worry ------ They will have everything fixed, as well as hundreds more scattered thru out the country when we´ll all be ordered to assemble and watch our leader announce that he is suspending the constitution!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
bluefindad, 1/21/2013 3:19:35 PM (No. 9130560)
"Who is John Galt?"
In "Atlas Shrugged" the phrase was a euphemism that was expressed when people were discussing a situation where nothing seemed to work well anymore - at all levels.
After a meal at a local restaurant yesterday - which used to be packed with the Sunday-after-church-crowd, but was nearly deserted, our waitress came to our table near the end of the meal and thanked us and said she was being sent home. We reflected on the fact that the quality of the food and service was declining in many of the places we frequent.
It´s hard to blame the owners, or the people who work there. Their costs are going up, hours are being cut and their hope for the future is dwindling.
"Who is John Galt?", indeed.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
god of irony, 1/21/2013 3:30:31 PM (No. 9130592)
#14 interesting comment. I just happened to watch part I last night when it dawned on me this is happening in real life. Just look at New Orleans and Detroit.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Italiano, 1/21/2013 3:35:43 PM (No. 9130618)
Hardly the last of the free (stuff) they expected to see, but won´t.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
FL_Absentee_Voter, 1/21/2013 4:06:39 PM (No. 9130702)
Excellent, #16.
Would love to see a four-years-later follow-up with the gal who thought he was gonna put gas in her car and pay her mortgage.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
vesicant, 1/21/2013 4:51:09 PM (No. 9130793)
More than likely it was some DC audiovisual outfit that´s either minority owned or has a minority goal in its contract. The lowest bidder is always scary, but in DC itself? Geez.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Ida Lil, 1/21/2013 5:41:58 PM (No. 9130885)
Nah! it was just the revenge of the teleprompters who never get the credit for their sacrifices.
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