Billie Jean King: Obama’s distortions are “cute”
Rowdy town hall protesters, take note: Please do not correct the president’s faulty math. It’s rude. And un-American.
Instead, follow the cue of tennis player Billie Jean King and embrace Obama math as “adorable.”
This is the polite and patriotic thing to do.
Via Politico:
Before presenting tennis legend Billie Jean King with the Medal of Freedom Wednesday, President Obama ticked off some of her accomplishments: 12 Grand Slam titles, 101 doubles titles, 67 singles titles.
“Pretty good, Billie Jean,” he quipped.
But he didn’t get any of it right, according to King herself.
“They didn’t get any of my facts right,” King lightheartedly noted afterward. “Did you see all the – how many titles I won? I was cracking up.”
“Not even in the ballpark,” she continued.
King found it amusing, and said her accomplishments on the court aren’t the most important.
“I thought it was adorable,” she said.
Watch the video at the link as she shrugs at the inaccuracies: “Who cares?”
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Sure, we shouldn’t bother correcting the president’s math. it’s not like the nation is running a huge deficit or anything like that.
To a moonbat, Obama can do no wrong. Apparently, Billie Jean is a fan of this POTUS. But then, most of the people who received the award yesterday were worshipers of Obama. Not all of them, but most. Obama does not generally reward his “enemies”. Once in a while he will throw one into the mix so that he can fool the public into thinking he is President of ALL the people. Most of us with a brain aren’t fooled.
She’s right, some numbers are more important than others. Always underquote your wifes age and never overquote the number of children you have fathered.
Good Lord, she’s still alive? Her brain is obviously dead.
Maybe he has some sort of a mental problem with number comprehension. He doesn’t think a trillion is a big number.
Sort of makes you wonder who hands out the tip on date night. I can picture Obama dropping a handful of $20 bills on the table and then when he turns to leave, Michelle picks up all but one.
Odd, because the official Women’s Tennis Association Tour website lists those exact numbers for her singles and doubles titles.
And she does indeed have 12 Grand Slam titles, but only in Singles play. She actually has more Grand Slam titles if you include her doubles and mixed doubles titles — 39 Grand Slam titles in total.
So I think someone might need to fact check Billie Jean!
King is still alive? She used to live in a condo in the building on Oak Street/Michigan Avenue in Chicago where I worked, and I’d see her waddling in and out on occasion. She gives Hillary a run for her money in the wide-butt-in-a-pantsuit contest.
voteprime, those are the figures just for the WTA tour, not her entire career. But I think that is an easy and excusable mistake for whatever sap in the WH who had to write up these bios to make.
However, I think the really sad thing is criticizing King for showing a bit of class and good humor over an ultimately trivial mistake.
Fixed it for you. LOL!
Chapoutier — agreed!
IMHO, Obama is kissing the posterior of Democrats to keep them thinking that he is “on their team”. When in reality he is just using them (like the media, the Unions, the “disadvantaged”, etc.) as a means to his end.
Anyone care to guess what that is? (hint: Alinsky, Ayers, ACLU)?
It’s “cute” because King can afford the underground health care network for the rich and famous, that is sure to spring-up should Obama Care pass.
I can’t believe she is still getting mileage on that Bobby Riggs farce. He was 55 and just hit lob shots and she still had a hard time with him. It was hardly the battle of the sexes as she still pretends.
I agree; however, do you think King or the MSM would have extended the same courtesy to a conservative Republican who made such mistakes?
I think that’s the litmus test here. A mistake is a mistake, but it seems that what’s a parking ticket for a Democrat is a felony for a Republican.
Debbie Stabyounow can feel global warming when she flys. This is cute too.I e-mailed the good Senator and asked if she flew on a broomstick?–waiting.
Obama: ‘Did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?! NO!’
I agree up to a point, Chap. But she practically drooled all over him with her statement that his mistake was “adorable”. Seriously, adorable??? That pretty much changed her classy statement into Obama worship syndrome. What is truly sad is that these people can’t see how stupid that makes them appear.
Considering how much King looks like her, perhaps Obama meant to give the Medal of Freedom to Janet Reno and just misspoke when advising the WH staff of his selection.
O/T but related, why is Billie Jean getting a Medal of Freedom? For her tennis prowess?
If the present trend line continues, Obamas approval will be at 35% by the end of the year. One way ticket to nowhere for a lame duck president.
Expect a Wag the dog moment some time in September. Axelrod and Emmanual are so predictable.
Same reason Gore got a Nobel Prize. Politics. There are so many other people more deserving, but they are all Conservatives.
My question too.
Oh yeah, the deficit is frickin adorable! He’s so cute! And Bobby Riggs so kicked her a$$.
Obama’s claims that doctors cut off feet to make a quick thirty grand instead of a thousand bucks is more troubling than a dozen grand slams and tennis title tucks.
The guy just ain’t no good with numbers between 56 and one trillion.
The White House’s inability to get things right makes them adorable.
It’s like the first time the puppy pees on the rug. After a couple months, it’s not so cute.
Chap, do you remember any Hollywood types, or snarky lefties like David Letterman, ever calling a Bush mistake “adorable”?
Me neither.
That’s the kind of thing you would say about a young child.
Billie Jean King is a great spokeswoman for women’s tennis. However, she is a HUGE liberal. I guarantee you she would not have extended the same courtesy to presdient Bush.
Keep it in context. Her response is right, who cares if he doesn’t know how many titles she’s won. In fact, as poor as his performance as President has been I don’t want him spending more time learning about tennis or some other useless topic. He should be studying the numbers in the health care bill.
Chap that would be true if obama didn’t have a long history of this type of crap.
He doesn’t know how many states are in the Union either. How adorable.
he doesn’t know that a country just can’t print money so he can distribute it to his posse either. how adoreable that will be for our grandchildren to pay off.
What is your point? Your perception of disparate treatment between Bush and Obama by Hollywood or media elites? Okay, but that is hardly Billie’s problem as she is neither. I suppose the only correct course of action for would have been for her to storm off the stage, run outside, and start screaming “ATTICA! ATTICA! ATTICA!”
That is a bold, and completely unfounded, statement. You all can speculate all you want about how you think King would have reacted if Bush had done the same, but all we KNOW is how she handled it with Obama, which was to minimize a trivial mistake and show a bit of class.
Are you being deliberately obtuse? A moonbat like Billie Jean King would never ever in any universe, under any circumstances, call Bush “adorable” for making a mistake. EVER.
She is a liberal. She would have bashed Bush and you know it. Liberals had no shame and no restraint when it came to Bush.
At least I never saw it.
Once Again: We have elected Chauncey Gardner as POTUS. Why are we surprised when all he can speak accurately on is gardening? Anything else and he is hopelessly lost.
By now Obama probably believes he was handing out Nobel Prizes, or Congressional Medals of Honor, or McDonald Gift Certificate books.
Like most of the Left he’s a high-functioning ignoramus. Unlike most of the Left he is blessed with charisma.
Again, you all seem to know Billie’s soul much like Bush did Putin’s.
It is amazing people here are criticizing her for not acting in the classless manner that they only speculate she would act with someone else.
FIFY
Remember how Magic Johnson repaid President GHW Bush for elevating Johnson’s profile and safety message by naming him to a presidential committee on AIDS? He campaigned against Bush in the 1992 election.
No, King would not have been as generous with President Bush had he made the same mistake with her record.
I think we’re finding fun in her silly choice of words.
Says more about the president when all a strong supporter of him can say is “isn’t he cute?” I mean really. That speaks volumns.
One thing we know for certain, if Sec of State Hillary thought Pres Obama screwed up her record of accomplishments, SHE WOULD NOT BE AMUSED or FIND IT TO BE ADORABLE.
It is good to see that Ms. King’s ego is not so big that she could take her thinking what she thought to be an error was nop big deal.
I’m sure Iran thinks he’s “adorable” too. After all, isn’t that one of his major problems and Billie Jean just affirmed he is what he is.
Now you’re saying she looks like Al Pacino! I know he’s looking kind of rough lately, but, I think you owe Al an apology.
Just kidding, yes we are speculating on how Billie Jean would’ve responded to a Boosh gaffe, but I trust it is not that big a leap.
So now we have the opinion of the Lesbian Left-and Chappy can dream his dreams of Life with Bille Jean.
Yes I know “That is a bold, and completely unfounded, statement” rather like “Bush-the only dope worth shooting” or “How is Bush different than Hitler-Hitler was elected”. Adorable statements aren’t they? Perhaps Billie Jean can wear her Medal of Freedom in the nude when she meets Nappy Napolitano.
But let’s not get Chappy too excited
I personally couldn’t care less what Billie Jean King thinks of President Bush! He kept us safe..Obama..not so much. But what do you expect from someone so “adorable?”
Yeah…people have the same reaction when one of the slower kids in class stands up and completely blows the answer in class. “Awww…wasn’t that adorable? He thinks he knows what he’s talking about. Someone give him a cookie”.
Unfounded? I hardly think that msking the claim that an outspoken Liberal Lesbian Feminist would not give Bush…or ANY Republican/Conservative the same leeway as she gave Der Führer is unfounded. In fact, it is pretty much guaranteed that, especially in Bush’s case, there would have been a good two weeks spent on this in the media, with more than likely some insulting comment made by King during her rounds of “Larry King”, “Late Night”, etc.
To say otherwise shows a great deal of sycophantic dishonesty.
But then again…
1. Why is it the Medal of Freedom? I understand acknowledging accomplishments, but the Medal of Freedom? It didn’t make sense for Muhammad Ali and it doesn’t here.
2. Who’s really going to correct the president? Does it really matter if they were off on the numbers?
3. Knowing how journalists misquote and like to use clips and phrases, I suspect King was referring to something other than the numbers gaffe with her “adorable” comment. Perhaps, “what did you think of the ceremony?”
Off topic, but speaking of name-calling, I enjoyed Dennis Miller last night on O’Reilly. He called Pelosi, “nasty, vapid, insipid, and karma-compromising”. Couldn’t have said it better myself! I love that guy.
Chap, not a real significant point, but you said those stats on the WTA site were for the WTA tour only. Is there some other professional women’s tennis tour that I don’t know about? It may have been called something else when BJ was playing, but I assume they included her complete career stats. Just wonering….
I just re-read the article and have to say that it’s really poorly written. Half of the quotes can be construed multiple ways.
I guess journalism isn’t what it used to be.
It was amateur before that, as I recall. The WTA was the first pro women’s tour.
Superficial- what else would she be?
Does the phrase “educated beyond his intelligence” come to mind…
Obama KNOWS he is brilliant. He KNOWS he is smarter than everyone else. He KNOWS we KNOW it too no matter what he says or does. He really KNOWS we are all idiots. He is utterly blinded by his arrogance and contempt for us.
And so many leftist morons just smile and go along with the silly game.
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” — Mark Twain
Billie Jean, you might want to take a look at the, um, SCOREBOARD! The polls show that your cute boy is going DOWN.
Lying – so easy a Democrat can do it?
Could you possible have picked a less important issue to turn all red in the face about today? Oh, maybe someone ate a cheeseburger?
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With President Obama (PBUH) what he said 5 minutes ago is past history and forgotten. My Chihuahua has a longer “attention span” than the Messiah does.
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Ditto for the State Run Media–or Left Wing Media. What he said or did 5 minutes ago on videotape is never remembered–even if it is diametrically opposed to what he is saying at the moment.
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Figures can lie–and LIARS CAN FIGURE! The only way to evaluate a politicians competency and honesty is to WATCH THEIR ACTIONS, ASSOCIATES, VOTES, BILL SUPPORT, AND LAW SIGNINGS. Ignore their speeches. THE ONE fails these tests for anyone with common sense.
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As far as sports legends commenting on subjects out of their areas of skill and expertise–maybe this old engineer should start giving Billie Jean tennis pointers!
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John Bibb
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What have you got against red-skinned people? Racist.
Gee, lgm, the entire point of this blog and all the comments is to give you an opportunity to tell us how pointless and irrelevant all of our concerns are. Keep up the good work.
Who are you to decide what is post-worthy? Your “contributions” to this blog are the lowest of the low. So anything – ANYTHING – that Michelle posts far exceeds the relevance of your posts. The only redeeming value of your posts is to show how zombie, water-carrying, libtards think.
So why is a tennis player getting this award?
My question as well.
As far as “class” is concerned. The error was in her favor, so it is easy to let the ego silence what would have been an insult if he had distorted the stats in the other direction. Sorry, this does not represent “class” on her part. However, her response does show her disillusionment.
She has already shown the world her serious deficiency in judgment by deciding to be a lesbian, so why do I care what she has to say?
Fixed it.
Award?? I thought this was a “reward” for towing (or kowtowing to) the party line–oops, I mean BHO’s line.
Jake
mattm said (#61):
Because of her work promoting women’s sports — title 9, women’s leagues, etc. And, I hope, cleaning the clock of Bobby Riggs.
Yeah? WHY? How about let’s look at another medal winner to see if there is any parallel? .. oh.. here’s one! …
Marlene Dietrich
Who will show up for Billy? (And we know there ain’t going to be no American Flag.)
God bless Marlene and I’m glad she died well before seeing someone like King get the VERY SAME AWARD – for playing tennis.
What?! Someone ate a cheezburger & didn’t tell me?!?
Sorry, I confess.
You bastages!
Being ill-informed and grossly wrong is now “adorable.” Remember that when you get audited by the IRS.
What? taking an exemption for my trip to Rio does not qualify as an educational allowance. Isn’t that adorable?
What if I send MYSELF to summer camp?
I don’t believe people “choose” to be gay and I have no issue with what people do in the privacy of their own bedrooms as long as no one is abused (without their consent I suppose I should clarify) or forced against their will. I am sure there are a lot of people who get awards for stupid reasons and this is only one more of many. Not a “hero” – not that most people have any idea what that even means anymore.
No point it letting the facts get in the way. BHO is too self-centered to bother to convey another’s accomplishments. Who cares who gets an award, it’s about a photo opt for BHO.
The only way I’ll have genuine respect for Billy King is if she has the courage to give it BACK telling Obama that she doesn’t deserve it.
Oh great. Obama is “cute” when he lies but Bush is a “f**king mother f**ker” when he does.
Off topic but did anyone catch the report about the almond growers in Southern California who are going bankrupt because the government shut down the irrigation pumps due to a 2 inch minnow being threatened? Now they have 500,000 acres of firewoood for sale.
When you worship the messiah it doesn’t matter how much he craps on you.
I’ll agree to disagree on whether one chooses to live a gay lifestyle (and make it public), but I wholeheartedly agree that Ms King is not a hero of Freedom and therefore I conclude that Obama is diminishing the meaning of the award, just as he is diminishing the meaning of freedom in America.
Sorry…I’m not buying it! Lgm is NOT adorable. He, like a horsefly drawn to the aroma of his party’s posterior, is annoying.
Didn’t make sense for Al Gore and Yasser Arafat to each be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize.
Not certain why Jimmy Carter got one either… …the Middle East is still a bubbling cauldron.
What a dolt, bringing up Bobby Riggs. He was 55 and he never couldn’t hit a tennis ball over 55 mph. To him it was just clowning as he just tossed lob balls over the net. Maybe Bobby Riggs should get that medal of honor?
Well Billie Jean you are starting to get to the “consultations” stage to prepare you for all the options available to you at the end. Large red pain pill is the preferred method. Remember how “cute” he is as you swallow.
These awards have been promoted as important by liberals, to make liberals feel good about being liberals. There is nothing heroic, patriotic, or unselfish about any of these recipients actions to warrant recognition. Any recognition should be issued by the special interests they serve.
The more we are “encouraged” to be tolerant, colorblind, and compassionate, the more those “schooling” us (the liberals), go in the opposite direction when they make accusations of racist, zenophobe, uncaring, unpatriotic, greedy, etc.
My open mind closes a bit everytime these idealists open their mouths. Their rage, IMHO, is fabricated, and they neither practice what they preach, nor believe their own rhetoric.
OK, just for fun, since Hussein is the “post racial” POTUS.
Scenario: White POTUS misquotes accomplishments of black & gay sports figure.
My take is that not only would the “white” POTUS, whether Bush or Reagan or take your pick, be lambasted as a racist by most blacks and be absolutely condemned as hating gays/lesbians by those groups. In other words the “white” POTUS purposely misquoted career statistics because the person was black and/or gay.
That is the way our media, liberals, and special interest groups treat white Republicans on a very consistent basis. But you know, its doesn’t matter what Hussein says. If it was a simple mistake or an outright lie or outright misrepresentation this POTUS is above reproach.
Go ahead libs make all the excuses you want to. You are so easy to see through.
Have you looked at the recent recipients of the Medal of Freedom? Even under Bush it was a mixture of entertainers (writers, actors, athletes, etc), politicians, scientists and people that fought for our country. Ignoring the fact that Billie Jean King was way more than just a tennis player, if you feel she doesn’t deserve this honor, then there’s at least a dozen more people that received the medal during Bush’s eight years that also did not.
People get so worked up over everything mentioned on this site and think it always nothing less than a sign of the downfall of our society.
Another point…entertainers, athletes, politicians, et al. What do they all have in common? A NEED to be lauded, praised, exhalted, given awards. Academy awards, emmys, golden globes. And WHO are you wearing this evening. You LOOK beautiful! How many carats in that stunning necklace. Botox, breast implants…you get the point. Narcissism to the hilt. Shallow people who think the sun rises and sets with them. That is another reason why it is mostly libs that get awards. They praise each other ad nauseum.
That’s because the Nobel Peace Prize has nothing to do with peace. It is awarded “as a political statement”. Those words (on at least one occasion)came straight from the committee chairman itself. Jimmy Carter got the prize as a way to embarrass the Bush administration.
I canhas cheezeburger? Nom…nom…nom!
Captain Irrelevance chimes in on what it considers to be relevant. Ironic? Or just a run of the mill hypocrite?
Who said they did? Obama is the current POTUS (maybe), so this discussion is about the medals he distributed yesterday. What’s Booosh got to do with it?
Nobody claimed he gave medals only to heroes.
Your statement makes the assumption that everyone on this sight who is critical of Obama’s actions, automatically praise Bush. NOT! False assumption!
To each individual do the signs of a downfall be. IOW, everyone is an individual who makes their own decision on what is important and what is not. Each have their own priorities and I disagree that everyone sees everything on this sight as a sign of a downfall.
Do you wish to continue with the broad accusations, or do you wish to discuss your personal opinion regarding the topic at hand with the goal of reaching a conclusion based on collective reasoning?
I, for one, make my own decisions and do not parrot talking points. Can you say the same?
What’s really sad is how the “thoughtful” leftists only show up to post on threads like this that are easy to nitpick and say something contrary about. How about the Nancy Pelois thread re: her selective support of disruption as dissension? Nothing but crickets and lonely whining wind.
THAT’S what’s pathetic and sad.
Also, Michelle mentions things of varying significance–from t-shirt logos to 9/11, so the simple fact that something is on her blog doesn’t imply that it is all of a piece.
As a huge tennis fan myself, I really don’t get the importance of this award. It’s meaningless. Anybody can now receive it for whatever accomplishment under the sun. Even foreign citizens.
Title 9 has so skewed the balance of women’s sports that both men’s and women’s sports aren’t equally funded. In essence, title 9 has had unforeseen consequences as a result of feminist meddling in sports.
Billy Jean King may have done a lot for women’s tennis such as equating prize money but the male tennis players have a point. Why not have the women play 5 set matches like the men? The men often play longer than the women. This is an example of feminist meddling where there shouldn’t have been. It’s about time on the court, not who makes more.
Billy Jean King really just needs to get over herself.
So what does this mean? If we feel she does deserve it then all of a sudden those dozen all of a sudden do as well? My God, but these analogies are so amazingly asinine I hardly know where to begin.
There just is no reasoning with Obama-zombies. He could rape a moose in the middle of one of his twelve dozen prime time “press conferences” that are nothing more than “Hail Obama” rallies and they would say how wonderful it was for him to do it, how it benefitted the moose, and how it saved the country, cured the economy, healed everyone with cancer, brought hope to the masses and changed Washington forever.
While also saying how Bush did it too.
And, don’t forget, how racist YOU ARE for pointing out the madness. And then would follow an unsubstantiated allegation that Halliburton workers were nailing camels in Iraq so conservatives have no room to speak.
Waiting…1…2…3…
Good question
Uhhh….no.
She won 129 singles titles (as opposed to 67).
She won a total of 39 grand slams (as opposed to 12).
The 101 total doubles titles appears correct.
I think she is getting the medal of freedom for being free to nail fresh innocent females and “turn” them to the lesbian way of life. I had the unfortunate opportunity to witness this disgusting crime against nature during one of my previous jobs involving women workers at a an extremely remote job site. Thank you Mr. president for honoring the lesbian life style. I guess that next week you will present a medal to Barney Frank for his excellent work at destroying the housing financial industry and being a proficient homosexual congressman.
Can you imagine if President Bush had made this thoughtless mistake?
Would Ms. King have thought it cute or an insult to herself an all to women athletes? To all women? To homosexuals and minorities?
“No one but an idiot Nazi would make such a mistake! How insulting! How thoughtless! Worst person in the world! What a buffoon! What a fool! Can’t string two words together without looking like a moron. He did it on purpose! It was racist ‘code’ meant to dishonor all women athletes! Etc…”
I wonder if the silliness of the “honor” bestowed upon Ms King made her feel patronized, or did she actually feel like she deserved it?