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This is one of those Jake Tapper-esque “Just sayin’, it’s a fact, just sayin’…” style twats from CBS’ Mark Knoller, who probably doesn’t mean to imply anything, but is just sayin’, this is a statistic, just puttin’ it out there, interpret it how you will, just sayin’. [Twitter]
2:57 PM
on Mon October 26 2009
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Jim Newell
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Pfft. Bush is still waaaay ahead in the all-important brush-clearing metrics (both counting AND rate stats).
Way to go, Edward R. Murrow. Try comparing vacation days. GUH.
It must be hard for Barry to find a golf course in Virginia that will let him play…
And the unspoken real tragedy: all those golf courses allowing a colored feller to play there.
It took Dubya so long because he kept losing his balls…
Yeah but how much brush has Obama cleared? Jus’ sayin’.
It took Bush 8 years to be labeled an utter failure. Took this guy 30 seconds.
Just sayin’
At what point do we find out when he ties Bush in number of people renditioned to Guantanamo/Bagram? Or “preventively” detained? Mayhap the Robert Gibbs does not so willingly supply this information for the nice CBS guy to dutifully write down?
But at least we’ll know when Obama ties Bush in amount of brush cleared.
OBAMA WILL NEBBER MATCH BUSH’S BRUSH-CLEERING RECERDZ
Is Mark Knoller Marjorie Knoller’s natural son by a rottweiler?
Bush also spent over 1 year of his 8 years in Crawford.
Obama is black, therefore lazy, but WTF @ golf? Shouldn’t he be hyphy crumpin, sitting on the stoop, miscegenatin’ with his homies eating fried melon and chickermelon et al.? Tiger Woods, also.
Obama is still lower in the unjustified invasion count, by my reckoning.
It took Bush 2 years to figure out how to fill out the scorecard.
Aurelio: Robert Noel is much worse…
In other news, Gob Knobbler is a total fuckstick. Just sayin’.
Meghan McCain would never twitter this because she has duct tape over her mouth and the characters “NO H8″ written on her face.
McCain Blogette
I’m just saying Mark Knoller’s middle name is Kevin. I’m JUST SAYIN.
markkknoller
Thank Goddess we have such hard hitting investigative journalism. Our system needs this 3rd rail, or 4th estate, or 5th dimension, or whatever it is called.
This is further proof that Dubya solved all the world’s problems — so much so that President Obama has nothing to do but relax and watch the freedom pile up.
Puts.
Yes but Bush has a commanding 2-0 lead in the all-important category of starting unwinnable wars.
And yet, Obama gets more done in a day than dumbfuck did in a week. Except for killing innocent people and using the Constitution to wipe his ass–Bush still has it all over Obama.
Maybe Bush can parlay these facts into lucrative speaking opportunities, like motivational speeches for people who pay only $19 for the whole office to go and get all motivated and shit.
It took GW 2 days to read My Little Goat. But, he did read it without moving his lips.
“Now watch this drive.”
But w gave up golfing for the troops. And Hopey’s given up straight bitchslapping assholes like Mark Knoller.
What has Mark Knoller given up, besides eating cheetos and jacking off (for at least the 30 seconds it took him to “research” and twattle this)?
AbstinenceOnly Ed: Some good has come from Mark Knoller’s twitter–it’s reminded me I haven’t listed to Mark Knopfler in a long time. I’m off to boot iTunes and click on Sultans of Swing.
Wait a sec… CBS still broadcasts the news?
Maybe because Dubya had the coordination of a wingless chicken. The man choked while eating a pretzel & fell off his bike regularly. And didn’t he give up golf for the troops? So there, Mark Knoller, I did your research for you, you worthless hack!
shadowMark: lord knows it made me think “money for nothing.”
I call bullshit. Bush only played 3 rounds of golf a year? Even when Republicans are saying something totally irrelevant, they are lying their asses off.
I’m assuming Mark is good friends with Chip Reid.
AbstinenceOnly Ed: It’s like looking in a mirror.
A dusky, Cablasian mirror.
Today - Mark Knoller’s face pelt superpasses Ross “Neck Beard” Douhat for “Most Disgusting” record. No one knows how long it took Knoller to grow that thing out. Probably a very long time.
Does this moron really want to open up a comparison of accomplishments in first 9 mos of office between these two? I mean, really? Can we start with Exectuive Orders on Day 1?
You can tell even from that tiny photo that Mr. Knoller is completely insane. Hasn’t changed his hairstyle since 1976 (except to gradually move the part lower and lower).
It’s not Mark has anything to do these days. Still pissed that Nico Pitney of Huffpo asked a question to Preznit Barry and Mark was left to juggle his ball sack.
This simply has to be wrong, as I cannot believe there are that many non-restricted golf clubs in the greater DC area.
gurukalehuru: He was doing other stuff, like being in Washington as little as possible, driving around his ranch, mountain biking, bending over for Dick Cheney, etc.
Happy Knollerween!
http://wwwimage.cbsnews.com/images/2005/10/31/image998555x.jpg
The best (worst?) part of this is that you just know Mark Knoller has been sitting at his desk every day for a month, rubbing his hands eagerly while he looks at the 23 tally marks on the post-it in the corner of his monitor.
“Just one more, Barry. Just one more, and then, holy penis what a scoop I’ll have. What’ll ya do, Barry, now that Mark Knoller’s on the case?”
What our intrepid reporter forgot to mention is that President Boyfriend completed those 24 rounds of golf in one kick-ass golf party weekend!
The guy is PURE STUD.
so what is the point here? that W sucked D at golf and didn’t like to play?
Rumproast: There have been many a disturbing image in these parts, but GOOD GOD, would he just wipe that jiz off. (Whatever the source.)
So? One weekend in and Obama had tied already Bush in number of times he and The First Babe made sweet, sweet love. Took Bush 2 years to get it up that many times.
yeah but GWB played like eleventy billion rounds of golf with Gog and Magog. In his mind.
How many times did Bush go before the press, versus Obama? Could somebody get on that?
Today - Mark Knoller serves as evidence of the total decline of a once-mediocre-to-okay news organization. Took most journalists a lot more than 140 characters to do so.
The black just can’t get enough of this ancient tribal Kenyan game of “golf.” I wonder what name is on his USGA card: Barack Obama or Barry Sorento?
Conservative shills once again exhibit hilariously inept math skillz:
2 years 10 months into Bush’s term: Nov 2003.
Bush “gives up golf for the troops”: Aug 2003.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/13/AR2008051302783.html
BTW, Mark, that research took about 2 minutes.
RoscoePColtraine: And don’t forget clearin brush at the ranch.
Any people wonder why I only watch BBC and Al Jazeera news. US news is knee deep in hacks like bearded ass clown Mark Knoller.
gurukalehuru: Yeah, bullshit flag raised here, too.
did u know that hussein has 2 Daughters who goes to 2 different schools of the same name but in 2 different states? just sayin…its a fact,just throwing it out there….and ALSO, LIVE MEGHAN ALONE***********
I just wish Mark Knoller would just go back to making Dire Straits records.
Also, I seem to remember seeing footage of W playing golf after pretending to give it up, in an act of supreme martyrdom, for “the troops.”
Yaybuls: FTW!
I look forward to the full 5 page cover article in Rolling Stone about how W (a white guy) golfs like this, and Obama (a black guy) golfs like this.
This is about as ridiculous as comparing the bedtimes of presidents. That’s been done, too, dontcha know. But, I secretly loved knowing that George Bush was in bed by 9PM. Only old timey, overall-wearin’ country bumpkins do that. Yeah, I just typed that AND PUT IT ON THE INTERNET.
And we all know who was else was meticulously contempuous of golf and had shit for facial hair?!
How much golf would Jesus play?
Just another reminder that the coloreds are even taking over our precious whites-only recreation activities. Why won’t they leave us alone?
Efficiency in government FTW.
‘”They pulled me off the golf course, and I said it’s just not worth it anymore to do,” Bush said in yesterday’s interview.’
Did he give it up because it was inappropriate to play, or because he couldn’t finish a game without hearing about more US troops killed on his watch? I’m just sayin’…
Don’t count the rounds played - count the shots taken. I’m sure Barry won’t catch up to Shrubby for another year.
Acutally, yes, Aloysius…
Li’l W said in one of his exit interviews that giving up golf was his great sacrifice in solidarity with the troops and their families sacrifices.
Olbermann went on a rant about it. Justifiably, I should say.
Yeah, but Bush was usually mending his fences and running away from the pumas.
Enturbulate: In defense of Mark Knoller, he is the go-to guy, quoted by the other news orgs, on counting vacation days, and his reporting of George W. Bush’s record setting vacation pace during a war was well-documented.
When our President publicly renounced golf so he could devote his considerable mental energies to Iraq, casualties peaked for the year. In fact, the year after Bush gave up golf, American casualties in Iraq were at their second-highest in any individual year of Bush’s two terms in office.
Thanks for bringing us the news that matters, Mark.
Bush also went fishin’ and caught fish that his servants threw in his lake. Catching a big, stocked fish was his happiest moment in office.
That was on his “ranch” without livestock that he bought shortly before running for President and abandoned immediately upon leaving office. At least he didn’t golf in that barren wasteland he pretended to like so he looked like Reagan.
Hi, I’m hirsute office stooge Mark Knoller and I am
jealous of Jake TapperGONNA BLOW THIS STORY WIDE OPEN. On Twitter.since this twat posted this on twitter does it mean he cant get twats sent to him?
hobospacejunkie: But then it leaked that his doctor told him to quit because of his knees as I recall.
I smell a Pulitzer.
PoignancySelz: Mark Twain?
A-hole in 1.
I just took a week off from work because this story ROCKED MY CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
PoignancySelz: CaiteeCruelle: Eugene Debs?
Whereas 410 vacation hours/year puttin’ the jihad on yer back forty? TOTALLY LEGITIMATE, I’m sayin’…
And yes, there is a double meaning in that.
Knoller didn’t do any research on this. He just checked HuffPost’s “Presidential Golf Clock.”
AnnieGetYourFun: Annie, you’re not eating at the moment, are you? Ok, good. Now I want you to close your eyes and try to imagine what Mark “Lancelot Link” would look like in a Speedo.
You said you wanted to lose 5 lbs., didn’t you? You’re welcome.
Is anybody else confused by “played as much golf as Bush did in his whole presidency” and “it was 2 years and 10 months before Bush had played as many games?” So… Bush stopped playing golf 2 years and 10 months into his presidency? What am I missing? It’s something obvious, isn’t it?
By Mark Knoller’s calculations, it would take Bush 148.3 years in office to equal the amount of basketball games played by Obama in a single year. We would literally run out of countries to invade.
Yeah, well, Bush was just really slow. Anyway, Joe Biden is WAY behind in the number of people he’s shot in the face. Obama/Biden really need to step up their game.
Let’s not forget another important comparison: stock market crashes.
Bush clearly leads 2-0.
Monsieur Grumpe: What you smell is a Poolitzer.
They award them to “writers” who produce exceptionally shitty word piles.
Bush Was Right!!!
He’s still down by one in 9/11’s. Took Bush about 8 months!
Why is it that, in my mind’s ear, I hear that twitter being read in the voice of Stewie from Family Guy?
Elephants Gerald: Coolest … screen name … EVER!
Bassweasel: Time for me to change my screen name to T.S.Elephant.
Jr. has choked on more pretzels and fell off his bike more than Barry, also.
Here’s a shocker….lead story on Drudge “Obama plays more golf in 9 months than Bush did in nearly three years”
All it does is link to a blurb story quoting twitter, with one addition. It also points out that our president hates women, as his record tying golf round was also his first with a woman. In the corner, Drudge is thinking “two birds!” as he pleasures himself.
Knoller is very brave to post this during Halloween week. I’d be worried that Eric Sevareid would burst out of his grave, stumble over to my house, and feed on my human flesh. As in Night of the Living Real Reporter.
One Yield Regular: Joe Biden is WAY behind in the number of people he’s shot in the face.
Hilarious.
In Bush’s first nine months, Bin Laden determined to strike inside the US = win
In Hopey’s first nine months, douchebag fuckwads determined to ruin US = also win! Thanks CBS NOOZEman
Bush was a slow golfer, any surprise? Probably didn’t let anyone behind him play through, also.
Knoller’s real outrage is that Obama was playing golf, not caddying.
geminisunmars: More like close encounter of the 4th kind…
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Fox n Fiends: That’s why he’s golfing so much as sitting President. Once he does not have the trapping of the Office, no way any club allows him to be more than a looper.
I’m just pissed that Obama not only plays golf (and more than basketball, it seems), but totally seems to love it. He just lost half of his “cool black guy” points in matching Bush. Do not pass go; do not collect $2000 stimulus dollars, Mr. President.
Seriously, guys, golf is a joyless and inane game. Any sport that John Daly — who makes CC Sabathia look like Mary-Kate Olsen — can become a pro at playing ain’t no sport, to me.
Jus’ sayin’, folks.
Wow. W really was a fucking asshole. “Hey guys, thanks for volunteering to go get yerselfs all blow’d up and shit. As a token of my affection I will give up golf. Mind the IEDs!” Why didn’t he try not being such a fuckwad or maybe getting less than 12 hours of sleep a night and trying to be miminally competent in his job? I am sure the troops would have preferred either.
hobospacejunkie: “Now watch this drive.”
revree
dan williams: May the Newell bring down his righteous fury.
Monsieur Grumpe: Actually a Pullet Surprise (thanks Dave Barry)
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