Obama's "Coffee Salute"

[Dill]

(10-29-2018, 11:11 AM)GMDino Wrote: So most of us will remember when Obama saluted with a coffee in his hand and how the right lost their collective minds.
Here's a quick reminder for those who will feign that they "didn't care that much" about it.

http://insider.foxnews.com/2014/09/23/%E2%80%98how-disrespectful-was-that%E2%80%99-karl-rove-blasts-obama%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98latte-salute%E2%80%99

So I wonder how FOX will handle no salute?
Ignoring that he just dropped his umbrella...lol...

LOL Fox will not hand it; a right wing media which created a daily storm in every Obama Chai tea cup, now looks the other way when their Golden Boy shows us who he really is. Again.  

In a poltical climate in which defense of the current president generally involves false equivalence (both sides do it!), this would maybe be "de-equivalence"?  

ON the flip side, Trump ignoring the salute (not required anyway), and right wing media ignoring the ignoring, suddenly becomes NOT news- or analysis-worthy. Here the instincts of the "liberal" press complement Fox and friends.  Don't you have something better to do, Dino, than calling attention to "insignificant" contrasts in news coverage/emphasis on a message board?  Isn't this one of those things we "already know" about right wing media?

The picture of Rove with the cup salute, all the air time dissecting what all this "meant" about Obama's competence and "Americaness" brings us back to a very different time, seemingly, when presidents were expected to act "presidential."   Managing what is or is not "insignificant" may be as important to managing public perception as generating big news (Benghazi!) where and when necessary.