# Latest "Obamaphone" Idiocy

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-obamaphone-idiocy/669759>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 26, 2013, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-obamaphone-idiocy/669759 "2013-09-26T22:23:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-obamaphone-idiocy/669759/1 "2013-09-26T22:23:39Z")

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Too silly for the Pit, but I felt the need to preserve this as a world-class effort at spreading ignorance. I like the way the author ties it in to the recent “Obamaphone” kerfuffle, even though it’s completely unrelated; that’s some astute marketing there.

> **[Do Not Buy The Obama iPhone 5nSa - Personal Liberty®](https://personalliberty.com/do-not-buy-the-obama-iphone-5nsa/)**
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> Since I’ve upgraded to the new Samsung Galaxy S4, I have never understood why anyone would want an iPhone, but that is beside the point. Here is a very urgent warning about why you should not buy the iPhone 5S or even upgrade to iOS 7.

I learned many interesting things from this article:

1. Apple (or rather, “someone”) pays homeless people to stand in line for its products; what happens when they get to the door, do they just like, peel off, or what?

2. It is “not out of the realm of possibilities that this (introduction of of the iPhone 5nSa) is a National Security Agency-sponsored event”; it is likewise not outside the realm of possibilities that space aliens are beaming microwaves into our brains.

3. The embedded iPhone fingerprint scanner “can and most likely will send your details directly to the NSA, CIA and U.S. government.” Dude, I’ve got a TWIC card; the government already has my fingerprints, probably forever.

4. The NYPD apparently is doing something very very bad involving iPhones, but neither I nor the article’s author seems quite sure what it is.

5. US police departments actually have “…a policy of hiring people with low IQs.” Well, at least could explain much.

Perhaps one can guess that this nonsense came off a Facebook share. Feel free to point and laugh, or, as the spirit moves, explain in great detail how I’m one of the sheeple and need to WAKE UP NOW.

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**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-obamaphone-idiocy/669759/2 "2013-09-26T22:31:11Z")

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Sorry, I should say for number One that the author apparently never heard of people holding places in lines for someone else.

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**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-obamaphone-idiocy/669759/3 "2013-09-26T22:34:39Z")

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Author sounds like a perfect candidate for an iPhone 5C in Clueless Cream.

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**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-obamaphone-idiocy/669759/4 "2013-09-26T22:51:30Z")

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I would think these crazies would be happy. At least the new iPhone is a step toward a gold standard. 🙂