Making History: WH Ridiculed on Twitter for Altering Presidential Biography Pages
- Posted on May 16, 2012 at 6:13pm by
Erica Ritz
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It was reported yesterday that the White House has “amended” the biography of nearly every U.S. president of the past century, adding a “Did you know?” section at the end where they tied former presidents’ accomplishments to those of president Obama.
At the bottom of Reagan’s biography, for instance, the White House tried to plug the “Buffett Rule.” Did you know, it asks, that “In a June 28, 1985 speech Reagan called for a fairer tax code, one where a multi-millionaire did not have a lower tax rate than his secretary. Today, President Obama is calling for the same with the Buffett Rule.”
The Calvin Coolidge connection is no less far-fetched. “On Feb. 22, 1924 Calvin Coolidge became the first president to make a public radio address to the American people. President Coolidge later helped create the Federal Radio Commission, which has now evolved to become the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). President Obama became the first president to hold virtual gatherings and town halls using Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, etc,” it explains.
While the adjustments don’t reach back as far as Woodrow Wilson, only a modest link to FDR is mentioned: “On August 14, 1935, President Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act. Today the Obama Administration continues to protect seniors and ensure Social Security will be there for future generations.”
The move is drawing ridicule in conservative circles, even inspiring a Twitter hashtag, #ObamaInHistory, that started trending worldwide.
Here are some of the best we found:
@stevenfhayward: In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth. And President Obama was there to say it was good.
#obamainhistory@huds_d: In Greek mythology, Narcissus gazed into a pond and saw Obama’s face
#obamainhistory@JohnSantorelli: Christopher Columbus discovered the New World in 1492 and Obama was there to apologize and bow to the natives.
#ObamaInHistory@CuffyMeh: In 1803, Jefferson bought the Louisiana Purchase for $233 million in today’s dollars, which Obama spent while you read this.
#ObamaInHistory@EthanMyers007: 30,000 Americans died on the Oregon Trail due to lack of health insurance.
#ObamaInHistory@iowahawkblog:
#Obamainhistory Washington could not tell a lie, Nixon could not tell the truth, Obama can’t tell the difference@red_red_head: Obama assured Henry Ford the Volt would be a great idea, but Ford wasn’t sold on the idea of exploding vehicles. #ObamaInHistory
@AllanRofer: Prior presidencies are merely the canvas upon which Obama’s administration masterpiece is writ.
#ObamaInHistory@syruss: If you can’t have good history, why not rewrite [others'?]
#ObamaInHistory
The Republican National Committee similarly summarized: “Obama in History — World Changing Events You Didn’t Know Obama Played A Part In.”
But White House defended its actions, saying: “No biographies have been altered…We simply added links at the bottom of each page to related whitehouse.gov content, which is a commonly used best practice to encourage people to browse more pages on a site.”
How can you add something, without altering the original? And it’s clearly not just an effort to encourage people to “browse more pages.”
“Each one finds a way to tout an Obama administration policy or practice in the process,” Fox describes.
But this isn’t surprising to anyone who has followed presidential politics…After all, Barack knows that “we’re going to have to change our traditions, [and] our history.”






















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RougeFastFingers
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 7:23pmLet me sugest some:
In the 1860s Andrew Johnson was impeached for misconduct and the same should be done for Barack Obama.
US Grant was considered to have the most corrupt administration in US history until barack Obama became president.
FDR slowed the recovery from the great depression by over-reach and uneeded spending the same way Barack obama did in the last financial crisis.
Report Post »doomytram
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 7:40pmObama chewed up his chili dog and Pooped out Poodle. Obama invented pink slim and the Iphone.
Report Post »tzion
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 8:33pmAfter President Lincoln completed his Gettysburg Address, Obama announced his amazement that Lincoln didn’t use a teleprompter.
Report Post »jhaydeng
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 9:31pmFor those just waking up, welcome to the Obama show!
Report Post »dublinthewagons
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 5:42amIf Obama had a son. It would look like the poodle.
Report Post »He wrote the dictionary BIG “I” little “u”
DoomsdayProphet
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 7:51amIn 1963 MLK marched Obama was conceived and on his conception he suggested a great society to LBJ.
Report Post »Truthbeliever2
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 9:44amOn the day Benjamin Franklin discovered electricity Obama’s ancestors were sitting around a campfire eating dog.
Report Post »JRook
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 10:14amOf course Erica spends little time identifying that the modifications to the Presidential biographies are factually accurate. And similarly little time pointing out the stuff on the tweets is mob inspired crap.
Report Post »ivote
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 10:57amWhen Roosevelt entered WWII, Obama looked down from the pre-mortal heavens and said “he acted stupidly.”
Report Post »Leader1776
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 11:15am@JROOK
Report Post »What flavor is it you drink?
hereandnow
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 11:24amObama is to the Democrat party what Lewinsky was to Clinton…
Report Post »DissenterKnight
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 11:34amIt should be noted that the folks in Marion, Ohio, hometown of President Harding, love Obama; thanks to Obama, their guy is no longer the most inept, most corrupt president in history!
Report Post »Nathaniel Horn
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 11:46amOn the 8th day Obama created an army of obamatrons like JRook & encinom who can subsist upon lies and pink slime and said it was good- mm, mmm ,mmm. Just like eatin’ dog… :) Obama; the god who eats his own.
Report Post »Mike N
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 12:34pmDeflecting the bad news by linking myself to other’s successes . . . let me count the ways.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 1:01pmI wonder how much this cost the American tax payer?
Report Post »johnjamison
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 1:06pmIn the annals of American history Obama’s legacy will be 6 plus trillion in debt,unconstitutional acts,and big a55 hypocrit
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 1:11pmHistory isn’t all he is re-writeing – don’t forget all rules on political coorcteness! Last week myself and wife were watching a John Wayne movie on CBS, NBC or ABC (can’t remember). It was the one with James Caan in it. We were both shocked when it came to the scene were Caan, acts like a Chinaman – well it skipped right over it to where he punches the guy and they slip in the back way. Also, don’t forget one of Obamas professors re-wrote Huckelberry Finn by Mark Twain and took all of the N words out. We bought a copy of the real edition and got the original on my Kindle for our grand kids. If re-elected I’m sure all books will have words blacked out or pages missing. Good Lord he might put a million people to work as government Book Police.
Report Post »WakingSheep
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 2:32pmIt’s ok. Romney will fix it! He is Constitutionally sound!
BAAAAAAAAAA
Report Post »Saved777
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 2:41pmObama Hijacks,vandalizes & defaces presidential history of the US, I would say that’s misconduct
Report Post »Truthbeliever2
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 2:45pmLOL Yea. He’ll fix the constitution, and it will make a crinkling sound as he crushes it up and throws it away…
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 3:08pmThe third debater at the Lincoln – Douglass debates was Obama, but he didn‘t say anything because teleprompters hadn’t been invented yet.
Report Post »tothepoint
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 3:12pmObama said, “Let there be light,” and his cult following cheered.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 3:21pmJROOK..perhaps you’re not getting it? Whether factually correct or embellished (Obama has a penchant for it) that’s not why this is so hysterical. It’s the fact that Obama has chosen to put himself on shoulders of giants by connecting himself to as many past Presidents as he can even if the connection is trivial. The asinine “did you know” ploy is hilarious.
Report Post »I’ll add…I never believed that Obama ran a great campaign in 2008. How can you with Chicago thugs like Axelrod and Plouffe at the helm? No..what Obama ran was a scripted campaign where all he had to do was stay on message while the economy and two wars did the work for him. In those “heady” daze/days he promised to go through the budget “line by line” and “cut the deficit in half”. Like I said…he just stuck to the script. Today…he has a record. He can’t rely on lofty promises anymore and the script writers are reduced to “did you knows” to make him appear competent and presidential.
pickupyurcross
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 4:27pmIt’s said that Superman wears Chuck Norris pajamas, but Chuck Norris wears Obama pajamas.
Report Post »BeverlySue
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 5:52pmwell, this is true!
Report Post »db321
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 7:29pmAs Obama hung his head on the Cross he yelled “It Is Finished.”
What is Finished – The Constitution, Elections, Free Enterprise, Freedom, and America as we knew it.
Forgive me Lord – I was not mocking you – I was mocking the one that thinks he’s you.
Report Post »CruisingGranny
Posted on May 18, 2012 at 7:08amthis is straight from the propaganda machine in nazi germany. do people really believe the garbage coming out of this white house? it is getting scarier by the day
Report Post »nancienice
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 10:31amJRook! YOU CAN’T REWRITE HISTORY! You are brainwashed my dear.
Report Post »azghost
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 7:21pmOne has to ask Mr Obama, will you out do Mr Clinton on you’re way out of the White House, the Clintons took the W’s from type writers etc. and other damage to the White House. Will Mr Obama do as the Clintons did? This man has no conscience. Every things always about Mr Obama a legend in his own mind.
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 7:37pmThis article made me wonder……what the heck kind of future does The Big Zero actually have? Clinton was adored by the left. But the left is turning against Obama and starting to ridicule him. This can’t end well.
Report Post »RamonPreston
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 5:40amObama has his own agenda. Unfortunately, it’s NOT for our good.
Report Post »hudstim
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 8:00am“This article made me wonder……what the heck kind of future does The Big Zero actually have? Clinton was adored by the left. But the left is turning against Obama and starting to ridicule him. This can’t end well.”
I predict that Prez Gump will be playing golf with OJ in some federal minimum security prison within 2 years.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 8:08amCOPATRIOTS, I have a slight disagreement with your statement. If the left is actually turning against 0bama I believe that will end well for the nation.
Report Post »SilaSez
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 8:48amThey might just as well take to “O” and the “I” keys because they are worn out from over use…
Report Post »jds1959
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 10:00amThat is assuming that we can get Him to leave the White House. You know after 4 years or 8 years or 20 years or ever!!!
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 11:55amIf you happen to return to this discussion today RJJ…..
Assuming Big Zero loses in November which I won’t believe until it happens, I’m not envisioning 0bama surrendering the position quite like the considerate transition that occurred with Bush. Nor will he give up his ultimate goal of destroying this country and continuing to divide us. How will that unfold? I’ve also wondered who will receive Presidential pardons. The he77 0bama is going to unleash on us will be monumental.
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 1:55pmThis is why all the smart countries boot out the ex – leader the next day before they can do any damage. In the USA they have 2 1/2 months to waste our money and pardon all their old buddies that put them in office and even broke laws doing it. I would like to see a law as such here and do away with presidential pardons. Remember bill Clinton giving a pardon to Mark Rich who owed 33 million in back taxes to the IRS. This is why Warren Buffet crams his nose up Obamas back door everytime he stops to fast – Buffet owes 1.2 billion bucks.
Report Post »moussiagilda
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 7:21pmBeck is still being held hostage, but enduring it somehow. I know, Beck. It’s insufferable, and at the same time, it’s a whole lot of fun. Had the cather? I’m typi8ng this behind another message. Let’s see if it postsd. I’m sure it dies.
Silly, thumbsucking, empty, nonexistent evil…
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Report Post »paulusmaximus
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 9:33pmSorry to say even stupid gets printed !
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 8:15amPAULUSMAXIMUS, You’re right, too bad The Blaze doesn’t have a filter for stupid. At first I thought that ITSJUSTTIM had changed his site name. Certainly not sure about that now. Go You Tube and look up MOUSSIAGILDA and enjoy (tongue in cheek) his music videos. For a good laugh while you are on You Tube check out JOE_R_PIEHOLE too.
Report Post »ccnav90
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 6:48pmWe see you. Come out of the haze. No secret code got through. Nobody cares but you. Take your meds or whatever. And I hope they help/
Report Post »DSTSS2010
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 7:18pmObama was in hte Garden of Eden. He offered Eve the apple!
Report Post »That Guy
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 3:14amOn the third day he rose again
Report Post »in fulfillment of the Scriptures;
And Obama was there to tell him he needs to offer contraception and stop the war on women.
Freedom Hound
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 7:28amSomeone has a God complex. He is in all places.
Report Post »Sine labore nihil
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 8:38amYou don’t think the media gave him this complex???
Report Post »Nathaniel Horn
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 11:53amOn the 8th day Obama created dog and said “mmm, mmm, mmmm that’s GOOD!
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 2:22pmYep, obama was the serpent…..
Report Post »scarletpimperneltx
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 7:16pmHe’s the Pied Piper…..
Report Post »TurboCat
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 3:40amIt started out with school children having to sing his praises. And then during classes they were told to write songs or poems about him. Soon, Dear Leader will have his mug plastered all over public buildings. They are just getting started.
Report Post »RamonPreston
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 5:42amAntichrist
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 7:14pmWhen France beheaded it’s King and Queen along with millions of others, Obama referred to it as “Hope and Change.”
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 6:58pmThis goes along with Owell’s book “Animal Farm” as well.
Report Post »TheBurningTruth
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 2:54amActually it comes right out Orwell’s 1983 where the govt re-wrote history every time they wanted to change course.
Report Post »Matrix22
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 8:10amBurning, I think you mean 1984? :)
Report Post »9111315
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 9:55amI guess you did not get the memo. The book title has been changed to 1983.
Heads up, there is a draft memo the change it again to 2013. (2012 was already taken by the Mayans)
Report Post »possom
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 6:56pmObama hi the head nut but don‘t forget about all the little nut’s surrounding him!
Report Post »simplygilly
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 6:55pmNow, now, now, Michelle Obama did say we’re going to have to rewrite our history. And so it has. Another Obama accomplishment.
Report Post »bdandsl
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 6:50pmI hate obama more everyday!
Report Post »RLTW
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 7:12pmI’ll second that.
Report Post »Wolfgang the Gray
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 8:40pmHe is the result of his surroundings. His entire life has been spent around socialist left thinkers. Maybe we could send him to Cuba for an Obama 2012 fundraiser and get the Secret Service to leave him there.
As for changing the histories of other presidents to make it appear that all roads lead to Obama is just low. The worst part for me is how many Americans think there is nothing wrong with this or it is a good idea. When the next civil war comes, I don’t think the sides will rejoin.
Report Post »RamonPreston
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 5:44amHis picture makes me sick to my stomach. I am so sick of him.
Report Post »wyldibrouse
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 9:42amI just pity him. He had every opportunity to become a great man and leader. He could have been historic. Instead he’s like Voldemort dying a piece at a time and earning nothing but contempt. Poor, poor little man.
Report Post »BuckarooBanzai
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 10:35amWolfgang, I also worry that this administration has caused so much division among US citizens that nothing will bring us together again. Very sad.
Report Post »Byrn67
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 6:37pmIts just getting started folks . We sound more and more like North Korea evey week . Soon the sun will only shine for him and the mountains will weep and sing his name in joy .
Report Post »Annika2011
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 12:46pmYes it does. All the inserts into history sound very ‘Beloved Leader’-ish.
Report Post »Will we all be arrested if we don’t cry loud enough at his defeat?
doomytram
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 6:35pmHow much dog could a dog eater eat if a dog eater could eat dog? The Obama administration will be telling the buffoons that Mitt ate dog.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 8:19amDang near spit coffee on the screen over that one.
Report Post »DGuy
Posted on May 18, 2012 at 11:44pmI wonder if he was high when he ate that dog meat???
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 6:34pmOh my gosh can he get any worse? This guy is a fruitcake. Totally nuts.
Report Post »DenisWTexas
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 7:52pmHe’s not nuts. He’s Mao. He’s Stalin. He’s Kim Jong Il. He’s Hitler. He’s every wack job fascist that ever dreamed of seizing control of a country through its media, it’s banks, its schools and its industry. And he’s running the playbook page by page.
He’s the antichrist.
Report Post »happ77
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 9:33amHe’s an embarressment, one that will go down in history
Report Post »for all time. The boy president, in over his head, and too
conceited to know it. The smartest president ever, what
a joke. Hopefully history will repeat itself and America will
wake up. Since Eisenhower no dem has been re-elected
for a second term except slick willie and if not for Ross
Perot he never would have been in the first place.
KusoJiJi
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 6:32pmOrwellian!!!!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 6:37pmSoon enough we will see history being rewritten to encompass Obama leading the exodus; and then being declared as a modern day ‘living god and messiah’ here on the earth. His madness and pure narcissistic behaviour grows by the hour.
Report Post »doomytram
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 6:38pmNo making a diabetic drink Ensure is Orwellian… Said a ridiculous leftist.
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 6:29pmKeep in mind that his fat a** wife said history would have to be rewritten. Now we see how to cover the narcisisst
Report Post »RamonPreston
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 5:47amThey have already rewitten history so we feel “white guilt” about slavery. We BOUGHT them from other blacks; the losers of war. They would be dead if we didn’t buy them.
Report Post »CafeConservative
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 6:27pmIn 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev led the Soviet Union down the path of dismantling Communism. In 2009, President Obama led United States down the path to resurrecting it.
Report Post »Lord_Frostwind
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 8:00pmEven better than that, President Obama is trying to make himself into the new Josef Stalin. At least the same trick of co opting every major figure in history is the same MO.
Report Post »Texan4ever
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 6:27pmIt’s too late, little man…
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 6:26pmHey JZS, they are telling lies about Reagan to support your idiotic theory from about a month ago.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 6:24pmWasn’t it Michele that said Barack needs to change our history ?????? Well there you have it…..
Report Post »dublinthewagons
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 5:20amHe led us out of the darkness into the light.
Report Post »It was the headlight of an oncoming train.
RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 8:34amDUBLINTHEWAGONS, Spot on statement.
Report Post »Jeff1000
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 9:27amHow can you rewrite history? History is what it is and can never be changed. Michelle is an idiot, historically and presently.
Report Post »ReallyAUnionGuy
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 6:22pmInformation is power…control the information……. Its going to be great to watch the left implode this election cycle….. I think and am hoping enough people are seeing right through this crap….
http://www.firefightersforfreedom.blogspot.com
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 6:35pmIndeed, control the information and you have both control and power; this is why they are so desperate to rewrite history as more and more truth comes out about Obama and his cronies and the progressives, radicals and all the evil corruption of their cause. Today on the Sean Hannity radio show they had the three hour interview played in part by the author of “Ameture” who interviewed the pastor of Pres Obama…old Mr Wright himself.
It was interesting to hear the parts where Obama threw him under the bus repeatedly.
Report Post »ALL4FREEDOM
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 6:20pmCan I rewrite Obama’s biography? Pleeeeeeeease?????
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 7:40pmSure….why not? It’s kinda of “make it up as you go”.
Report Post »RamonPreston
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 5:52amIt can’t be any worse than his real story….
Report Post »http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/who-is-barry-soetoro/question-1678573/
75andkickin
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 8:42pmHow much do you need for the ammo? My SS doesn‘t go far but I’ll give up some basic groceries to buy some for you……….
Report Post »IDConservative
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 6:18pmObama is so full of himself to actually believe he is making a POSTVE difference in a country where he is despised by the majority of it’s citizens. (only gays and communists support BHO and his ideaology)
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 6:18pmAs is said in the film “The Dark Knight”…”sometimes the truth just isn’t good enough”.
Report Post »RamonPreston
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 5:56amIsn’t that the same movie where he says “I said I would take you places. I didn’t say you would like it.”? This fits Obama perfectly.
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 6:17pmthis president‘s ego is bigger than our country’s debt
Report Post »DSTSS2010
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 7:23pmCan Obama make a debt so great that he, himself, cannot spend it???
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 7:41pmThis country can’t survive either one!
Report Post »Its Gonna Getcha
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 6:17pmHow much more are we willing to do to make this little boy happy at last? And will it ever last?
Report Post »Welcome Black Carter
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 10:48pmGetting to the point where I can’t even stand to look at the man. Can’t wait to see how he writes himself into future history…
Report Post »75andkickin
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 8:46pmWho sez we want to make the little boy happy? We just want him gone from American soil by any means possible.
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