
Sep 25, 2015 -- 8:25AM, polybot wrote:
Why? What's wrong with the story? If it's a set-up, it's not a very good one because most people who read the story, like myself, would have thought... I think patra is either playing stupid, or being stupid.
Not playing stupid, I'm afraid, so you're going to have to explain why it was a conspiracy rather than just a perceived PR opportunity for Obama.
The link you posted made a big deal of Obama tweeting that the clock was cool before a picture of it had been published in a newspaper (as evidence of this conspiracy), even though the story was already all over Twitter and other social media before Obama's tweet.