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- President Obama is now being taken to task
for asking Marines to shield him
during a news conference rain shower.
- [News Anchor] He asked them to hold umbrellas
over his head,
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- Check out the picture of the Marines holding the umbrella
for President Obama as it rains,
and the metaphor being, hey, they have him covered,
wouldn't it be nice if he had them covered
the way they have him covered?
- [News Anchor] He asked Marines for umbrellas.
- [News Anchor] The President called in a couple
of Marines for umbrella duty.
Many people complained, saying Marines have been
through too much training to have to hold an umbrella.
- [News Anchor] This shot of the President emerged,
President Obama hiding under an umbrella,
hit the airwaves yesterday.
Look at the marine standing so erect.
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- It was a symbolic moment today
when the Marines came out and put the umbrella.
They were protecting him.
Maybe in this case, he should have been protecting them.
- [News Anchor] Is there a more apt visual than this one,
the disembodied arm of a U.S. Marine holding an umbrella
over the head of our beleaguered Commander in Chief
for him in the middle of a rain storm?
- [News Anchor] The Marines aren't supposed to do that
because they can't properly salute!
- What is now being called Umbrella-Gate.
- [News Anchor] A blog, Hot Air,
is demanding justice for the Marines.
These guys aren't valets!
- I mean, I guess he coulda held it himself, right?
- I don't know.
- Yes, bring forth the umbrellas unto me.
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- An American flag pin is standard accessory
for just about every politician
and candidate in the country these days,
but not Barack Obama.
- [News Anchor] He stayed in Johnson County
to give a speech in Iowa City,
and he wasn't wearing an American flag pin?
Flag pin, flag pin? (dramatic music)
- [News Anchor] Presidential contender Barack Obama
won't wear an American flag lapel pin.
- [News Anchor] A reporter for ABC's Cedar Rapids
affiliate was the first to notice.
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- They asked him about the flag pin,
he didn't have really good answers.
- A no pin zone.
- [Reporter] You're taking the pin,
- You're taking the pin off! - The American flag off of you
and saying, "I'm not gonna wear it,"
almost in a little bit of a protest, I guess.
- I think he's disrespecting the American flag.
- He's got to apologize to the people, for example,
that are working the fields.
There were Marines who were in the Army.
- It matters something to our troops!
- [Sean] Why do we wear pins?
Because our country was under attack.
- Barack, put on the pin!
- They just hate the flag!
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- Well, President Obama and the First Lady
are taking their tradition of date night
on the road this weekend.
The First Couple are heading for New York.
- They went out to dinner,
and they went to see a Broadway show.
And they had a extravagant date night, date night,
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- They took a small Gulfstream jet.
- [Reporter] They're also using Marine One,
which costs about 20,000 bucks an hour.
- Traffic is stopped, as you can see,
the show waited 45 minutes.
- They want to go to Broadway.
They want to go out to dinner.
They hold hands.
- [Reporter] So according to our calculator,
the cost is between 50 and $100,000.
- I'm just saying the taxpayer expense,
the flying a private jet here.
- [News Guest] She should have also acquiesced
to less extravagance during a time of war,
and during a time of an economic crisis.
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- It is inappropriate while a country is suffering
for him to spend 350 grand, you know,
to take a picture of the Statue of Liberty
when you can Photoshop it for 20 bucks.
As extravagantly with three planes, two helicopters.
- He maybe should have chosen a less extravagant
kind of a date night.
- Should the taxpayers pick up the bill?
- Barack Obama is a millionaire,
he can pay the tab himself.
Why shouldn't he?
- Think about the message that President Obama
and Mrs. Obama are giving to their two daughters,
that we'd be willing to disrupt
other people's lives around us.
- The emails are pouring in on this!
- The White House declined to say
how much the trip was costing taxpayers.
- Boy, we'd like to know, like that Air Force One flyover
for the photos.
We'd like to know.
- True that.
- The president of the United States bowing
to the king of Saudi Arabia?
- [News Anchor] Obama's controversial bow.
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- This president bowed before the Saudi king.
- The bow or just bending over.
- The White House said that wasn't a bow,
but it sure looked like one.
- [News Anchor] Here it is.
He comes in, literally bows below his head
and below his shoulder!
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- [News Guest] By bowing, he showed the world that,
"I am subservient, I do bow down to you as a Muslim king."
- That man loves to bow!
Look how low, I want for our audience
to go back, if we could re-rack that.
Watch how low, he is, it's below his shoulder!
- It sent a message that Islam is superior
to any other master or king or president in the world.
- I think it's best if American presidents
do what they have always done,
which is do not bow to monarchies.
- I think a White House which feels compelled
to lie about the most trivial thing is really pathetic.
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- As you all know, President Obama is a real man
of the people and yesterday he dropped
by a popular Virginia restaurant
to grab a burger with his pal, Joe.
Now, take a look at him ordering his burger
with a very special condiment.
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- Just your basic cheddar cheese burger,
medium-well, I just want mustard, no ketchup.
You got like, a spicy mustard or something like that?
Or a Dijon mustard, something like that?
Dijon mustard, something like that?
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- [Radio Host] The president and vice president
had hamburgers for lunch,
the president reportedly had Dijon mustard.
- [News Guest] Did you ask if they had any Dijon mustard?
- Who eats a cheeseburger with Dijon mustard?
(guest laughs) What is that?
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- [Reporter] He doesn't like ketchup?
- [Laura] What kind of man orders a cheeseburger
without ketchup, but Dijon mustard?
- All right, I hope you enjoyed that fancy burger,
Mr. President.
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- In the latest presidential video project,
well, it's getting a lot of attention,
but perhaps not in the way the White House intended.
- [Reporter] The president, joking around
with a selfie stick.
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- [News Anchor] President Obama appeared
with a selfie stick.
Critics called it undignified.
- [Reporter] A lot of conservatives especially said
this is not presidential, this is beneath the presidency,
why is he doing this, he's demeaning the Office.
- [Lou] Quote, "A foolproof way
"to make yourself look like a self-absorbed assclown."
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- You know, it's said that Ronald Reagan
wouldn't even take his jacket off
in the Oval Office, but now we have a Commander in Chief
that's doing jump shots and actually,
what is it, a stick selfie?
I mean, it's ridiculous!
- Tonight's question of the day,
what do you think of that selfie?
- Yeah, that's your president.
He's got a selfie stick.
- [News Anchor] One conservative Tweeted, quote,
"Remember when the office of the president had dignity?"
And another wrote, quote, "This definitely is a new low
"for our juvenile president."
- Here's the leader of the free world,
the guy we trust with the button for the nukes,
acting like a twelve year old.
- It is ridiculous, it is beneath the president
of the United States, but I think he thinks
he can do no wrong.
- It is not only not befitting,
but imagine what Reagan would have done in this situation.
- You saw that he deployed a selfie stick
in the White House.
That's befitting the office?
- I just don't have words for that clip!
- Are we seeing a changing of the guard?
Is the Office not gonna be as dignified as it used to be?
- Now the president is under fire again,
this time for his clothes.
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- [Reporter] Former George W. Bush chief of staff
Andrew Card says the Obama dress code is way too laid back.
- I wish that he would wear a suit, coat, and a tie.
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- There was something about this picture
that really irritated the forces loyal
to the last president.
- [Reporter] It shows Obama in the Oval Office
not wearing a coat, but he is wearing a tie there.
- [News Anchor] The president in the Oval Office
without his jacket on.
- [News Anchor] Photographed without his jacket while
in the Oval Office, something that'll remind you
that Ronald Reagan never did.
- [Andrew] I'm disappointed to see the casual,
lassaiz faire, short sleeves, no shirt and tie,
no jacket kind of locker room experience
that seems to be taking place in this White House.
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- [News Anchor] Something that'll remind you
that Ronald Reagan never did.
- There's one more thing that has many Americans,
including myself, humiliated today.
Take a look at the photo comparison
of our Commander in Chief.
There he is juxtaposed with Vladimir Putin.
They have no respect for our president,
for his weakness.
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- He wears a helmet when he rides a bike.
- The picture of him riding the bike
with a bike helmet while Putin's got his shirt off.
- Shirtless on the horse and all that
and Obama was riding a bike with a helmet on.
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- The picture says a thousand words.
Here's, watch.
- [Co-host] Oh my goodness.
- Which one?
- You want to talk about Ukraine for a second?
- [Bill] It all began with the picture
of President Obama on the bicycle with the helmet,
and now we're paying a price for that.
- [News Anchor] Putin, big, strong, muscular, on a horse,
there's Obama riding a little bicycle with a helmet on.
A leisure, not like a real racing bike,
I mean, just going out for a leisurely,
and he's got this dumb hat on, dumb helmet on.
This is humiliating, it's unnecessary,
you deserve better, we as a country deserve better,
and we can do better.
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- And new developments tonight on the falloff
of what many are calling President Obama's latte salute.
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- Everyone's talking about the disrespectful way
the president saluted a marine yesterday
with his latte in his hand.
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- Here's the other problem with the picture,
he has a free hand.
The other hand he's holding his tie down.
- His heart wasn't in it.
- How disrespectful was that?
- [News Anchor] A marine manual states do not salute, quote,
"When carrying articles with both hands
"or being otherwise so occupied
"as to make saluting impractical."
- [News Anchor] Floppy, ill thought out, inappropriate,
callous, selfish, and disrespectful.
- I was surprised, I mean, after all,
we've got a chai swillin', golf playin',
basketball trash talkin', Osama Bin Laden is dead,
GM is alive, a community organizer Commander in Chief.
How disrespectful was that?
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- The president came out addressing reporters
on Thursday and he was wearing this tan suit.
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- [News Anchor] President Obama's decision
to wear a light tan suit at yesterday's news conference.
- [Reporter] He was wearing a tan suit.
- [Reporter] Light tan suit.
- I think it was shocking to a lotta people.
Is this an effort to make him look warmer?
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- [Peter] There's no way I think any of us can excuse
what the president did yesterday, I mean,
and for him to walk out, I'm not trying
to be trivial here, but in a light suit, light tan suit.
- Also known as Tan-Gate. (dramatic music)
- Tan suit and how the tan suit
made him look unpresidential.
- Who ever talked him into going into a tan suit?
They're so desperate because of these low poll numbers.
They're willing to do anything!
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- [News Anchor] The tan suit made him look unpresidential.
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