Obama Angrily Puts His Hands On Reporter - With Video
When one man touches another, even if it appears that it is related to sympathy, then there is a game of status and power being played out.
Invasion
A dominant act is to disrespect the ownership of others, invading their territory, for example getting too close to them by moving into their body space.
Invasion
Invading the space of the other person in some way is an act of aggression that is equivalent to one country invading another.
False friendship
Invasion is often done under the cloak of of familiarity, where you act as if you are being friendly and move into a space reserved for friends, but without being invited. This gives the other person a dilemma of whether to repel a ‘friendly’ advance or to accept dominance of the other.
Approach
When you go inside the comfort zone of others without permission, you are effectively invading their territory. The close you get, the greater your ability to have ‘first strike’, from which an opponent may not recover.
Touching
Touching the person is another form of invasion. Even touching social touch zones such as arm and back can be aggressive.
Sudden movements
All of these gestures may be done suddenly, signaling your level of aggression and testing the other person’s reactions.
Obama flashes irritation in press room visit
President Obama made a surprise visit to the White House press corps Thursday night, but got agitated when he was faced with a substantive question.
Asked how he could reconcile a strict ban on lobbyists in his administration with a Deputy Defense Secretary nominee who lobbied for Raytheon, Obama interrupted with a knowing smile on his face.
“Ahh, see,” he said, “I came down here to visit. See this is what happens. I can’t end up visiting with you guys and shaking hands if I’m going to get grilled every time I come down here.”
Pressed further by the Politico reporter about his Pentagon nominee, William J. Lynn III, Obama turned more serious, putting his hand on the reporter’s shoulder and staring him in the eye.
“Alright, come on” he said, with obvious irritation in his voice. “We will be having a press conference at which time you can feel free to [ask] questions. Right now, I just wanted to say hello and introduce myself to you guys - that’s all I was trying to do.”
The president was quickly saved by a cameraman in the room who called out: “I’d like to say it one more time: ‘Mr. President.’ â€
Obama spent about 10 minutes total, winding his way through a crush of reporters and photographers between the upper and lower floors of the journalists’ workspace and asking questions about who worked where and how the booths and desks were assigned.
Reporters had little warning about the impromptu visit by the new president, and those who were in the downstairs portion of the press quarters only came to the briefing room after an unexpected and cryptic announcement on the internal intercom that they do so.
“This is worse than the Middle East,” he joked, alluding to the territorial claims staked on the cramped corridor. “Who’s sitting where and all that stuff.”
He revealed that he had already gotten in two work outs since being sworn in Tuesday.
“Turns out I have a little gym up there,” he said with a smile.
Obama said he had watched press secretary Robert Gibbs debut briefing “in anticipation of some flop sweat. … I just want to thank you for not completely ripping up Gibbs,” Obama said.
“I am very proud of him today. He got a fist bump from me.”
(THANKS, Judy, for the better video!)
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The media is a bunch of whores…
And Obama is unfit for the task before him. What is he gonna do when he actually has to answer questions and can’t use intimidation to get past the moment. That asshole puts his hands on my shoulder and I’ll cold-cock him.
You can shmooze some of the people some of the time…
Will Barky’s head eplode when he finds his smile won’t work like back at Harvard? Coming from a one Party State, now he’s like a school boy trying to play in the NBA and he has to guard Shaq.
King Obama
Hell,…….. I couln’dt answer that question myself.
But no pass for him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Princess Obambi didn’t know the most advantageous answer, cos no one told him what it was.
Me thinks the White House press corps may be starting to have a, “Oh my gawd, what have we done!”, type realization.
OFuck has never been more than “just words”. He’s all rhetoric and no substance. He’s a used-car salesman selling lemons (like Danny Devito in the movie Matilda).
He’s sown to the wind all his miserable life. Now…watch him reap the whirlwind.
Maybe, someone should tell Obuggerme that the old hand on the shoulder look’em in the eyes intimidation ploy works better if you are not a skinny and effete suit hanger.
Wow I thought i would at least take six months before his popularity tanked……this is awesome. I like that he is pissing off the press……..Cue the shades of Jimmy Carter and his idiot administration. The only question is can the conservatives in this country be poised for midterm elections.
Jedi mind trick? “You are the press and you have no questions of me.”
He will spank them all into shape eventually.
He put’s our nation in Grave Danger..He’s a Fraud!!
Can’t stand real questions, because he is basically stupid, underneath the teleprompter.
As the questions get hotter I would bet that The Personal Jesus begins banning those that don’t spread his treason.
FUCK’em
Uhhh….I….ummmmm…..dont….the,,,,,hopenchange.
DON’T BE DISCOURAGED…TRUTH WILL OUT…STAY ALERT AND DON’T LIGHTEN UP. MAY AS WELL SPEAK OUT BECAUSE NOTHING REGARDING OVOMIT WILL EVER GO TO COURT…HE CANNOT WITHSTAND BEING CLOSELY QUESTIONED…HE WILL NOT HOLD UP ONCE PEOPLE REALIZE THERE IS NO FREE RIDE…HE OWES A LOT OF FAVORS…HE HAS SOLD HIS SOUL AND IS MORALLY BANKRUPT.
Obama’s visit, and talk, to the media is nothing more that “bend over boy” and the media “gets it”. Clearly, they know that they have to be the “Pravda information network” for new incoming Soviet dictator.
We are on the verge of communism.
Dax, Obama is well beyond a fraud. He is a historic evil.
Obama has a real problem with not keeping his hands to himself. We have seen it repeatedly. One of these days he is going to go too far and get his ass handed to him.
The first 2 days of his Presidency and he has weakened a nation, made numerous blunders, and assaulted someone. What a complete inexperienced fool.
RESPECT MY AUTHORITAAAY!!! I am once again reminded of Hitler, Stalin, and the rest of history’s despots. Hussein is a megalomaniac, narcissist, with delusions of grandeur. The Kool-Aid wearing off yet boys? Bush was a class act, he put up with more SHIT from the press than any other President. Now these assholes try to pull the same and realize their getting fucked by demon they summoned. Maybe this will restore some objectivity to press…Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!…restore objectivity! THAT was a good one!
““I am very proud of him today. He got a fist bump from me.—
Apparently getting fisted by the president is a sign of affection as well.
Just lemme have my waffle….
Hey I don’t like BO but the press are vipers. Look what they did to Sarah Palin.
More like cheerleaders than vipers here - allies giving each other a hug. They will be the last to turn on him, and then it will be a tsunami.
Anger plus hands = assault
Look at Obama’s hands next time you get a chance. The guy has to have the most feminine hands a man has ever owned. Clearly the guy hasn’t done a real days work in his life and I’d guess that he even goes to the manicure to get his nails done.
In the words of the plating plant manager also a LCN Enforcer and bodyguard in the movie “Thief” with James Caan, referring to what I predicted about Obama…”What’d I tell ya, huh? What’d I tell ya???????”
Get the video on a permissive seizure…”Guarro v. United States, 237 F.2d 578, 580 (D.C. Cir. 1956). But, of course, an assault can also be committed “merely by putting another in apprehension of harm whether or not the actor actually intends to inflict, or is capable of inflicting that harm.” Ladner v. United States, 358 U.S. 169, 177 (1958).
Proof of this form of assault requires establishment of a reasonable apprehension of the immediate application of force to the victim. Note also that a condition in an offer of violence may negate the element of apprehension. For an excellent discussion of this concept, see Watts v. United States, 402 F.2d 676 (D.C. Cir. 1968), rev’d on other grounds, 394 U.S. 705 (1969).
While the conviction of assaulting a Congressman requires proof that the defendant willfully caused an offensive touching, it is not necessary to prove a more severe injury. See also United States v. Masel, 563 F.2d 322 (7th Cir. 1977), cert. denied, 445 U.S. 927 (1978) (spitting into the face). Throwing eggs at a Congressman running for President was an assault under the statute and did not constitute protected symbolic political speech. See United States v. Guerrero, 667 F.2d 862 (10th Cir. 1981), cert. denied, 456 U.S. 964 (1982).”