Talk:Supermarket scanner moment/Archive 1

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So most of the sources are about understanding the Bush incident and not about the general concept of a "supermarket scanner moment", even though that's how it is commonly invoked today. "Supermarket scanner moment" appears to be the common name in reliable sources, based on how it's been invoked. We can discuss if others feel it's important to qualify this as "George H. W. Bush supermarket scanner moment" but personally I think the shorter title is the proper balance of the article naming criteria (reasonable concision and precision). If it would make more sense to put the bold phrase at the end of the lede to start with the Bush incident and end with the generalized term, open to that as well. czar 04:43, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

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I have yet to find a White House official photo from the event, if one exists. I don't think a non-free photo would qualify for WP:NFCC#8, as there isn't textual necessity to depict a non-free version of showing Bush casually handling a checkout machine with no specific "look of wonder" on his face. The text explains that idea sufficiently. czar 05:15, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

Oz's crudité


I believe this contains a mention/some discussion but it's paywalled, so leaving here for now. czar 05:10, 8 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Looking at a copy, appears that this doesn't mention it after all czar  20:13, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

Trump
Donald Trump has had some moments, including when he claimed Americans need an ID to buy groceries:. Thriley (talk) 06:14, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

Balance the coverage, please
While the incidents themselves are covered neutrally, covering only Republican gaffes and no gaffes from any other political party (American or otherwise) gives this article a distinct partisan lean. To that end, here's some coverage of "out-of-touch" gaffes involving prominent Democrat leaders that could be covered in the article to balance it:
 * Barack Obama "Arugula-gate":
 * HuffPost:
 * The New Republic:
 * The LA Times:
 * Nancy Pelosi's ice cream freezer:
 * The Daily Dot:
 * The NY Post:
 * New Deal Strategies, Justice Democrats, Sunrise Movement, Data for Progress: (This link is a memorandum from several Democrat-aligned special interest groups that alludes to the incident as having a negative effect on voters without naming Pelosi specifically.)

Similar incidents from other nations could also be covered. And I'm surprised there's not a link to "Let them eat cake", the ultimate expression of "out-of-touch elitism". 97.102.30.205 (talk) 16:08, 16 February 2023 (UTC)


 * It is an article about a type or touchstone of out-of-touch elitism but surely isn't a catalog of all out-of-touch elitism. The examples in the article were directly compared to Bush's event. If reliable sources compare the events you mentioned to Bush's event then they could warrant inclusion as well. czar  00:44, 17 February 2023 (UTC)