“Reports that President-Elect Barack Obama is actually a Microsoft Zune user have been crushed last night by one of Obama’s spokesmen. ‘Not true, the President-Elect uses an iPod,’ addressed the spokesman to Philadelphia City Paper – Neal Santos’ accusations,” Daniel Ionescu reports for PC World.
“It all started with a blog entry on the Philadelphia’s newspaper website of Santos saying that Obama ‘hopped on the machine next to me [at the gym] and broke a mean sweat while reading a copy of USA Today and listening to his Zune,'” Ionescu reports. “During the campaign, Obama and now Vice-President-Elect Joe Biden, both claimed to use Apple computers and music players.”
Ionescu reports, “Now, with Obama denying of actually having a Zune, Neil Santos is saying, ‘I don’t know for sure that it was his.'”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Martin” for the heads up.]
Obama a Zune user? C’mon! The guy is intelligent.
Even Bush isn’t stupid enough to use a Zune… and Bush is tree-stump dumb.
No smear during the campaign against Obama’s character could be more damaging than linking him with the Zune.
And in fairness to his “Crackberry” addiction, the Blackberry is approved for use with the mail servers used by the U.S. Senate, the iPhone still isn’t. Therefore an iPhone may not have been an option for the Senator.
I think you’re mistaken.
Mr. Reeee: “Ignorance is bliss”, huh?
Has anyone really sees a Zune in the wild, that is about as hard as seeing a Dodo bird in the wild.
Almost everyone uses an iPod and 1 out of 4 use a Mac. Let me know when you see an iPhone in the First Lady’s or their kid’s hands.
Keep deluding yourself. People who are “tree-stump dumb” don’t become two-term U.S. Presidents.
I suggest you stop listening to truly “tree-stump dumb” Hollywood actors and connect with reality for once.
I suggest you stop listening to truly “tree-stump dumb” Hollywood actors and connect with reality for once.
Neatly forgetting Ronald Reagan, Charlton Heston, Arnie and Patricia Heaton in a single sentence.
Thanks! I’ll take your advice.
People who are “tree-stump dumb” don’t become two-term U.S. Presidents.
Yes they do.
If they have their campaigns organised by people who are smarter than they are.
If they’re voted for by people who are even dumber than they are.
How many people in the USA believe The Book of Genesis to be the literal truth and that the world is only 6,500 years old. Too many.
Balmer, Balmer, Balmer… Tsss! Tsss! Will you just stop with these sensless attempts to make believe that some worthy personnes could ever intent to use a zune…!
@Get Real
Mind it! Yes some of these fools can be elected… and even twice, in USA!!!
When Bush was re-elected all the world thought America was doomed… and maybe would pull down everything with it (wich as partialy been done, in fact)!
Confirmed:
Barack Obama has already backpedaled on his “windfall taxes” pledge.
And almux?
Which part of Bill Clinton’s deregulation frenzy was Bush’s fault?
Inquiring minds want to know!
Mr. Reeeeeeee. It takes one to know one. Can you fly a jet? Fool.
That’s strange to see this. I remember reading an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer a few days ago where it explicitly said he was using an ipod.
Here’s the article.
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/world_us/35457574.html
“Dressed in plain gray sweats and a blue ball cap, Obama jogged for 30 minutes on one of the club’s high-tech treadmills and put in 15 more on an elliptical machine while plugged into an iPod.”
I’ve never even heard of this Santos guy.
my kids know 2 people at school with Zunes – apparently there is some teasing as well. Teens are sooo susceptible to branding coolness, so no big surprise there.
Barack Obama’s iPod actually was confirmed by numerous sources back in June, including CNN, Rolling Stone, ZDnet, etc.
From one June 2008 article in the U.K.’s Telegraph:
What is on Barack Obama’s iPod?
Bob Dylan, Jay-Z, Howlin’ Wolf, Yo-Yo Ma, Sheryl Crow, Miles Davis and Charlie Parker may have little in common musically but they each have a place in the “pretty eclectic” selection on Senator Barack Obama’s iPod.
By Toby Harnden in Washington
Last Updated: 10:52PM BST 25 Jun 2008
The Democratic presidential nominee told “Rolling Stone” magazine that his iPod also contained tracks from singers and groups he grew up listening to in the 1970s, including the Rolling Stones, Elton John and Earth, Wind & Fire.
He named Stevie Wonder as his biggest musical influence from the era while his favourite “Rolling Stones” track was “Gimme Shelter”.
“If I had one musical hero, it would have to be Stevie Wonder,” Mr Obama said.
“When I was at that point where you start getting involved in music, Stevie had that run with Music of My Mind, Talking Book, Fulfillingness’ First Finale and Innervisions, and then Songs in the Key of Life. Those are as brilliant a set of five albums as we’ve ever seen.”
He was gratified to have been endorsed for president by so many of his musical heroes. “”I’ve got to say, having both Dylan and Bruce Springsteen say kind words about you is pretty remarkable. Those guys are icons.”
JPS: Santos is from Philadelphia City Paper not Inquirer. Nor wonder he’s a flop.
At least that PC World guy made some sense of this mess.
They kind of went out of their way to confirm that the president-elect in fact does NOT use a Zune and is an iPod user. As if it was some propaganda against Obama that had to be stopped!
As for flying a jet, it doesn’t require that much intelligence; just a lot practice (obviously, the more intelligent you are, the quicker you’ll learn and the better you’ll be at it). Not that GWB was actually ever that good at it (ask his superiors, or read through some testimony and records from that time).
If idiocy and/or insanity is repeating the same thing and expecting different results, then Obama is indeed a maniacal moron for extolling the failed social and economic policies of Hoover and Roosevelt.
there goes another $10 thousands to Santos…
Figured he had the Brown Zune.
Obama=Carter Redux
I believe he also has an iPhone…
This week’s GOP talking point: President-elect Obama has a Zune.
Last week’s GOP talking point: Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt had comparable social and economic programs.
GOP talking point after Barack Obama won the election: The US is a Center-Right country.
Hit-bait…
Does it matter what he uses to listen to music on the go?
If he was a Zune user, and you found this out before the election, would you have not voted for him, because if it?
Only a moron would support or not support a candidate based on whether or not they owned a Zune or an iPod.
Only moron would consider that ownership of a particular assemblage of glass, plastic, and metal has any rational correlation with a person’s intellect and ethics.
@John,
“JPS: Santos is from Philadelphia City Paper not Inquirer. Nor wonder he’s a flop.”
The Philadelphia City Paper and the Philadelphia Daily News are two minor newspapers here that only report on news that involves black people. Yes, I am not kidding – it’s 2008 and there are still racist people and publications out there. Amazing. Because, you know, replacing historical double standards with a modern double standard makes everything better.
What do you think would happen if someone started a newspaper that would only report on news that involves white people?
@ Sixvodkas
What President-Elect Obama stated was that he would propose a windfall tax on the oil companies as long as the price of oil was above $80 a barrel, “Illinois Senator Obama is mulling is imposing a 20 percent tax on the cost of a barrel of oil above $80” (source http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aP_1wrIyt1Nc)
Oil is currently trading at around $40 a barrel (source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12400801/).
That being said, please explain to me how that’s back tracking? It’s not. $40 < $80 a barrel therefore no need for a windfall tax, currently.
How about researching the issue before you make a fool out of yourself? Oh, and listening to conservative talk radio isn’t research.
@cubert
isn’t that every other newspaper?
Who really gives a Shiite?
@Mr. Reee…youare giving tree-stumps a bad name.
@Ron…Dubya could fly a plane? How do you know, he was AWOL most of the time from what I hear. Took the same characteristic to the oval office where he was out-of-office (read vacation) more than any US president in history.
Peruchito,
Yeah, I never saw any articles about Obama in mainstream newspapers. I haven’t seen any articles about the black members of Obama’s cabinet that he has been nominating. I have never seen an article about Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, black athletes, black entertainers, black authors or commentators in mainstream newspapers either. Also, there is no such thing as a black editor or editorial columns by black authors. And, the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Editorial Board isn’t almost entirely black either. It seems that you are soooo correct in your statement.
Had they seen a Zune, his Secret Service bodyguards would have seized it and wrestled it to the ground. He uses Apple, and will stay overnight at the Steve Jobs household sometime.
How many people in the USA believe The Book of Genesis to be the literal truth and that the world is only 6,500 years old.
I assume you have first-hand proof and witnesses to prove otherwise? Or do you take blind faith in your beliefs as well?
Anyway, believe what you will; mankind’s knowledge is still hopelessly primitive. If current world trends continue, soon it won’t matter what anyone thinks.
As for Obama? So he’s with the majority of the population that has an iPod. Slow news day if this gets a headline.
You should know better that even G.W.Bush does not own a Zune. He has an iPod and Mac Book Pro. Russians President owns a Mac Book Pro… The list is endless..
@Sixvodkas
Well, let’s see it through: For the last 2 president mandats, USA was almost to be considered as “out of the human realm”. Since a lot of american could prove that “Think different” made some sens to them by electing a different president, the rest of the world could again consider USA as a smart enogh partner to support the exchange value of the dollar for a while yet.
It’s hard for someone who’s completely drawned in a system to actually see the lacks of it… Most of bad things happened ONLY because G.W.Bush and his (religious and nationalist fanatic) confederates poored enough oil on the fire to make it all come out in a general rejection and gave way to a complete anti-americanism all around the globe.
Bill Clinton was, at least, a good cigar smoker… An d with Al Gore, the two towers would just yet be up right where they were!
While we are all rambling WAY off-topic, let’s take a break from the incessant Bama Gush to consider:
1) 9-11 was the SECOND attack on the world trade center, and guess whose response was obviously impotent,
2) We were kept safe for 7 years after 9-11 by the administration led by the idiot who beat Ann Richards, Al Gore AND John Kerry, and
3) There are now TWO democracies in the hellhole known as the Middle East