{"id":589900,"date":"2021-07-13T13:05:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T17:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=589900"},"modified":"2021-07-13T13:05:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T17:05:22","slug":"fact-check-did-barack-obama-say-all-this-national-pride-stuff-gets-on-my-nerves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-barack-obama-say-all-this-national-pride-stuff-gets-on-my-nerves\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did Barack Obama Say, \u2018All This National Pride Stuff Gets On My Nerves\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-barack-obama-say-all-this-national-pride-stuff-gets-on-my-nerves%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=589900&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2016-11-16T120000Z_1341624119_LR1ECBG129QBS_RTRMADP_3_OBAMA-GREECE-1-scaled-e1626138711596.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dave.woodward.1238\/posts\/348236713354863\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> claims to show a statement said by former President Barack Obama disparaging the Fourth of July caught on a hot mic in 2013.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Verdict: False<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is no record of Obama saying the quote. The claim stems from a satirical article.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Fact Check:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGod this holiday sucks! All this national pride stuff gets on my nerves,\u201d the image quotes Obama as saying. The post alleges he \u201cmuttered\u201d the statement while \u201cbelieving that his mic was off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is, however, no record of Obama making such a statement. Check Your Fact reviewed the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/obamawhitehouse.archives.gov\/the-press-office\/2013\/07\/04\/remarks-president-fourth-July-celebration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">transcript<\/a>&nbsp;of his remarks during the 2013 Fourth of July Celebration on the White House\u2019s South Lawn published by the Obama White House website, but found no instances of Obama saying the holiday \u201csucks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former president can\u2019t be heard saying anything negative about Independence Day or \u201cnational pride\u201d in PBS NewsHour\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0rKdvSeSldQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube video<\/a> of the speech either.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2019\/05\/23\/fact-check-michelle-obama-texting-pledge-allegiance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Does This Image Show Michelle Obama Texting During The Pledge Of Allegiance?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Had Obama said the statement attributed to him in the Facebook post, media outlets likely would have reported on it, but an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Barack+Obama+%22All+this+national+pride+stuff+gets+on+my+nerves%22&amp;oq=Barack+Obama+%22All+this+national+pride+stuff+gets+on+my+nerves%22+&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57.10050j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">internet search<\/a>&nbsp;by Check Your Fact turned up no news reports about the alleged incident.<\/p>\n<p>The claim appears to stem from a July 4, 2013, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duhprogressive.com\/index.php\/358-obama-on-4th-of-july-i-cant-believe-i-have-to-miss-a-good-day-of-golf-for-this-crap\">article<\/a> published by the website Duh Progressive bearing the headline: \u201cObama on 4th of July: \u2018I can\u2019t believe I have to miss a good day of golf for this crap!&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Duh Progressive includes a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duhprogressive.com\/index.php\/aboutmission-statement\">disclaimer<\/a> on its website stating it is a \u201cpolitical satire site,\u201d social media users have been sharing quotes from the article without such a warning, seemingly believing them to be genuine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook claims to show a statement said by former President Barack Obama disparaging the Fourth of July caught on a hot mic in 2013.Verdict: False There &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2314572,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2016-11-16T120000Z_1341624119_LR1ECBG129QBS_RTRMADP_3_OBAMA-GREECE-1-scaled-e1626138711596.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"FACT CHECK: Did Barack Obama Say, \u2018All This National Pride Stuff Gets On My Nerves\u2019?","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2016-11-16T120000Z_1341624119_LR1ECBG129QBS_RTRMADP_3_OBAMA-GREECE-1-scaled-e1626138711596.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"FACT CHECK: Did Barack Obama Say, \u2018All This National Pride Stuff Gets On My Nerves\u2019?","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}