Obama shuns Israel, but has time to kowtow to Pirates

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**Ouze**

Joke photo on Fox suggests Obama met with pirate

By DAVID BAUDER | Associated Press – 8 hrs ago

NEW YORK (AP) — Arrrrgh: Fox News Channel used a joke picture of President Barack Obama sitting with a man in full buccaneer regalia to suggest Thursday that the president was more interested in meeting with a pirate than in conducting foreign policy.
The network later tweeted a clarification to the blooper, made three times on the "Fox & Friends" morning show.

The picture depicted Obama sitting in the Oval Office with a man in a colorful pirate outfit, complete with a red hat, eye patch and hook for a right arm. It was taken as a punch line for a joke Obama delivered to the White House Correspondents Association dinner in 2009 about the administration talking to enemies as well as friends.
The picture resurfaced Wednesday when the Obama campaign tweeted it for International Talk Like a Pirate Day. The tweet linked to the picture with the message: "Arrr You In?"

Over an on-screen graphic that said "Arrrgh You Kidding?", Fox ran the picture Thursday morning with host Brian Kilmeade saying, "The White House doesn't have the time to meet with the prime minister of Israel, but this pirate got a sit-down in the Oval Office yesterday."
Later, with "yo-ho-ho" music in the background, Fox showed the picture as its "Shot of the Morning," with host Steve Doocy saying, "Here's a quick look at what President Obama is up to, making sure he didn't forget to mark International Talk Like a Pirate Day."
"Fox & Friends" also showed the picture, along with others of the president meeting with Jay-Z and Beyonce and appearing on David Letterman's "Late Show" on Tuesday. The headline was "Too busy for Israel" and Fox also showed twin pictures of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and an empty chair.
"He's getting the Clint Eastwood treatment — the empty chair," Doocy said.

Analyst Peter Johnson Jr., calling the president "Broadway Barack Obama," said that "it seems like foreign policy is taking a back seat."
After the show ended, the "Fox & Friends" Twitter feed noted that the pirate picture was from 2009.
Doocy also tweeted: "By the way, our picture of the president with the pirate was from 2009. How time flies!"

Fox had no additional comment.

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Monster Rain the other day said he was tired of how the O-Tizzy isn't funny anymore. Tell me true, sir: Are you not entertained?

**Peregrine**

Ouze wrote:
Fox also showed twin pictures of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and an empty chair.
"He's getting the Clint Eastwood treatment — the empty chair," Doocy said.

Good. If he doesn't like it he can feel free to cut ties with the US at any time. I can think of a lot of better ways to spend money than buying shiny new toys for Israel's military.

**Seaward**

Oh, Fox, you lovable, idiotic scamps, you.

**Wolfstan**

If I was him, I'd say I was too busy as well. I think the West should say that enough is enough and let them get on with it. None of the buggers seem to be able to play nice together and we just end up looking like the bad guys.

**Kilkrazy**

Fact check fail by Fox, but perhaps their ardent viewers would not care about the truth, anyway.

**DarkTraveler777**

Kilkrazy wrote:
Fact check fail by Fox, but perhaps their ardent viewers would not care about the truth, anyway.

The truth? You mean the truth that our "president" is a socialist muslim that is going to sell our country to the jack-booted thugs of the U.N.? That truth?! Well, people always said he was really a Kenyan, but now we have proof that Somalia is his homeland. Wake up America! We are dooooooooooomed unless Romeny-bot is elected!

Ah, Fox News. It would be funnier if people in their viewership didn't actually believe some of the crap I jokingly posted above. No doubt the pirate picture will reinforce the resolve of a few idiots to actually believe another ridiculous "fact" about President Obama's character.

**Mr Hyena**

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Reds8n

**kronk**

That's a very cheap costume. If you're going to do something like this, you should at least take $600-800 to the Ren Fest and get some decent gear, not $50 at the costume isle at Piggly Wiggly.

You're meeting the President, for crying out loud.

**Orlanth**

No fan of Obama here, but who he agrees to see and who he considered not to see should not be weighted directly.

A president can spend time on entertainment issues, it may even be good policy to do so showing a human side. It doesn't do to weight such events against ongoing political activities, were Obama not working only playing there would be a point to make, but credit where cridit is due, he is not an inactive president.

A president however only sees political leaders when it is in the interest of the administration to do so, in their opinion. Netanyahu is trying to levy support for an operation Obama is not entirely content with, furthermore he goes behind his back to levy support elsewhere in the US. Obama has the mandate to choose to back or not to back Netanyahu and every right to snub him when he travels to the US anyway and tries to garner support without the White House backing.

**Chongara**

Kilkrazy wrote:
Fact check fail by Fox, but perhaps their ardent viewers would not care about the truth, anyway.

"Fact check Fail", really? It feels more like progress. I mean at least they're reporting on something that actually happened somewhere at some point in time. Sure they reported it being at the wrong time by a several hundred days and took it grossly out of context but that's closer to the truth than they usually get.

**d-usa**

He was probably apologizing to the pirate for something America did.

**Samus_aran115**

That's a really, really good editing. Saturation is good, color is good. Looks almost real.

**Mr. Burning**

Samus_aran115 wrote:
That's a really, really good editing. Saturation is good, color is good. Looks almost real.

what? You don't believe a black guy is president?

**Hulksmash**

Mr. Burning wrote:
Samus_aran115 wrote:
That's a really, really good editing. Saturation is good, color is good. Looks almost real.

what? You don't believe a black guy is president?

Thread over. Mr. Burning wins....

**Manchu**

Oh another story from Herp Derpson.

**LordofHats**

OMG.

Obama has won us Pirate allies? How is this a bad thing? Now all we need are some Ninjas and a couple cyborgs and we're good to go

**KalashnikovMarine**

Fox makes an International Talk Like a Pirate day joke and now everyone's butthurt? Yeah it's an election year alright.

**d-usa**

KalashnikovMarine wrote:
Obama makes an International Talk Like a Pirate day joke and now Fox News is butthurt? Yeah it's an election year alright.

Fixed that for you.

**KalashnikovMarine**

d-usa wrote:
KalashnikovMarine wrote:
Obama makes an International Talk Like a Pirate day joke and now Fox News is butthurt? Yeah it's an election year alright.

Fixed that for you.

I was under the impression Fox edited the photo

**d-usa**

It's a real photo that Obama released quite a few years ago. Obama tweeted it on Wednesday as a homage to "TLAPD".

Fox News saw the picture and raged about how he refuses to meet with Israel but is sitting around with pirates.

**Do_I_Not_Like_That**

Slightly OT, but when are these UN troops turning up to invade America? Been waiting for ages

Back OT is the pirate dressed like a pirate? He looks more like a Spanish galleon captain!
I'll check the books

**reds8n**

Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:
Slightly OT, but when are these UN troops turning up to invade America? Been waiting for ages

6th of October.

The new chaos codex and models is naught but a cunning ruse. They'll never see us coming.

**KalashnikovMarine**

Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:
Slightly OT, but when are these UN troops turning up to invade America? Been waiting for ages

Back OT is the pirate dressed like a pirate? He looks more like a Spanish galleon captain!
I'll check the books

Actually it looks like a low quality Captain Morgan costume...

**AustonT**

LordofHats wrote:
OMG.

Obama has won us Pirate allies? How is this a bad thing?

He's trying to reverse global warming.

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Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:
Slightly OT, but when are these UN troops turning up to invade America? Been waiting for ages

I belong to another board for shooting and some idiots keep posting about the UN small arms treaty being signed yesterday: utter fiction. The people that ring that bell will literally say anything.

**d-usa**

AustonT wrote:

Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:
Slightly OT, but when are these UN troops turning up to invade America? Been waiting for ages

I belong to another board for shooting and some idiots keep posting about the UN small arms treaty being signed yesterday: utter fiction. The people that ring that bell will literally say anything.

They are probably watching the Red Dawn remake and use it as a training video.

**AustonT**

d-usa wrote:
AustonT wrote:

Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:
Slightly OT, but when are these UN troops turning up to invade America? Been waiting for ages

I belong to another board for shooting and some idiots keep posting about the UN small arms treaty being signed yesterday: utter fiction. The people that ring that bell will literally say anything.

They are probably watching the Red Dawn remake and use it as a training video.

It's a small devout group of idiots that just scream conspiracy at the top of thier lungs at least twice a week. Every once in awhile, by accident Im convinced, they make a decent point.

**d-usa**

I should probably go stockpile ammo as well.

Not because Obama is going to take my guns away, but because the nuts are going to have another run on ammo.

I just want to go have some fun on the range, not spend hours looking for ammo.

**Do_I_Not_Like_That**

What's happening 6th October?

Auston, the people you mention have everyright to be fearful. 10,000 UN troops, drawn from Nigeria and Pakistan, will blockade New York and Boston, and drive to the Rockies, cutting the USA in half. Despite its $600 Billion defence budget and on average of 4 weapons for each of it's 300 million plus populace, it will be close

**kronk**

10,000 UN troops? We have high schools that are larger and better armed than that...

**d-usa**

kronk wrote:
10,000 UN troops? We have high schools that are larger and better armed than that...

But those kids have swag and say brah, so they will lose.

And rightfully so, our liberation by the UN cannot come soon enough.