Mark Simone needs to learn the definition of "Context"

I turned on Hannity very briefly today and heard someone named Mark Simone talking. He was talking about Obama's "You didn't build that" statement, and saying, "They're saying we're playing it out of context. Well, we'll air it again, this time in context."

And then they proceed to play it from, "I'm always struck by people who say, "Oh, I must have succeeded because I'm so smart. There's a lot of smart people out there."

That did not establish context. To establish context, Simone should have played it from the beginning, where Obama began with, "A lot of wealthy people endorse my tax plan. They want to give something back...." because - and then he goes on to talk about people getting help from teachers, from our system of government (and it's interesting how people ignore the fact that he said that it was our way of life that allowed people to succeed - you'd think that that is what they'd be harping on because it is that that Obama is hellbent on changing!) and so on and so forth.

Now, don't get me wrong. That doesn't change the fact that Obama's tone was so contemptuous and that he really seemed to believe that hard work wasn't enough to achieve anything.

Simone did continue, and made sense - the bit about how some businesses succeed and some fail, and why would that be if it wasnt all about hard work (well...frankly, it's about money. Most businesses fail within five years because the business owner doesn't have enough capital to see him/her through rough patches). So yes, I still think Obama was in the wrong and more contemptuous of small-business folk then you'd expect, but the fact remains that his words are being taken out of context.