From Top of the Ticket at the LA Times:
Barack Obama was elected commander in chief promising to run the most transparent presidential administration in American history.
This achievement and the overall promise of his historic administration caused the National Newspaper Publishers Assn. to name him “Newsmaker of the Year.”
The president is to receive the award from the federation of black community newspapers in a White House ceremony this afternoon.
The Obama White House has closed the press award ceremony to the press.
When asked for clarification of this strange contradiction, a White House spokesman replied: “This is a very important event, and we don’t need a bunch of reporters in there acting all retarded.”
President Obama’s crutch Teleprompter could not be reached for comment.
Update: Speaking of Special Olympics bowlers, it turns out they’re actually very good.
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Perhaps the Big O meant he was “transparent” in the sense that “Deaf-mute Amish newborns sequestered in closets have already snapped to the fact that I’m a colossal liar and hypocrite”, not in the “open and honest” sense.
Open and honest like last night blunder on “Leno?” Lord, we have incompentent and ignorant people running this country.
He scares me.
Yeah, Bush had a reputation for misunderestimating the English language, but he didn’t spend his first 100 days insulting Special Olympians and widowed former First Ladies, and he SURE didn’t make showing up on late-night talk shows a priority. Then again, he wasn’t in love with himself.
This just goes to on to prove the point I made to a friend the day after Obama was elected – his Presidency is probably the ONLY thing that could save Bush from eternal scorn. Not that I believe the scorn was deserved, quite to the contrary in fact. I just knew that after 4 years of Obama, people (especially people my age, who knew Clinton and Bush, but really no one else) are going to figure out that it’s better to have someone in office who speaks like an idiot, than someone who is actually an idiot.
I read on one blog the mind-blowingly short-sighted sentiment that “Obama would screw up, and try to hide it, but thank God, he’d do it with proper English”. Now, I’m often a grammar/spelling Nazi myself, but I’m not proposing to lead the free world.
In response to this New York Times, CNN, and MSNBC all put their fingers in their ears and said “La-la-la! I can’t hear you! La-la-la-la! Obama is the Savior of the world! La-la-la!”
That statement from the White house spokesman is the most hilariously depressing thing I have heard in a long time.
Obama..He is so sneaky! Everyone is so enthralled by his oration skills that they somehow have faith that he knows what he’s doing or that he’s somehow different than the rest of DC. It’s disturbing to me how this Presidency has been so far.
52% of America got exactly what they deserve. I just wish it affected only them.
Yeah, Pasta, you and me and a whole bunch of other Americans feel that way.
Erm…That should be “You and I”. Because I just claimed to be a grammar Nazi. Heh.
Scott F.
“This just goes to on to prove the point I made to a friend the day after Obama was elected – his Presidency is probably the ONLY thing that could save Bush from eternal scorn.”
He’s like the Caligula to Bush’s Tiberius. Let’s hope we likewise get a Claudius right after this. Which would be especially relevant considering how Obama just mocked the handicapped. Egads! History really does repeat itself!
My wallet is certainly 52% lighter.
Geez this guy really does flail about without a teleprompter doesn’t he.
I respect the office, but the man is making a bloody fool of himself.
(Btw, my aunt is a Special Olympian, a bowler by strange coincidence. She kicks my butt at bowling every time)
How does he bowl with both feet stuck in his mouth?
Y’know, if I were a person to make a big deal of race, I’d point out that President Obama is receiving an award from the “federation of black community newspapers” away from the camera behind closed doors. If this weren’t a post-racial America I would say that the unknown black folk show up to give him an award and sure he let’s them in but he takes a good look around and shuts the door before someone sees.
But thank God my President is (half) black so I no longer say things like that.
Unfortunately, most of the people who voted for him have no clue what really is going on. They only want to believe certain things. Many of them refuse to care what is going on because he can do no wrong. Others are not becoming outraged and outspoken against this man. No matter how much Bush was not liked, he was a very compassionate man who loved all human beings and it showed. He signed bills into place out in the open, and did not use the Air Force One as his personal toy to be used whenever. How much does these trips cost us? These are the same people who cried out at Bush’s $400 billion deficit. We are now at $1.2 Trillion in the first 90 days of messiah’s power play.
Wow I’m so glad I have a president I can be proud of now. After that idiot Bush, nice to have a classy guy like Obama in office! Not.
I’d take Bush’s choking on a pretzel and opening the wrong door (who hasn’t done that??? Really) over Obama’s semi-cruel comments any day.
This site is boring me with all the bitching about Obama. I’ll go to Fox News if I want to hear that. Stop with the low-hanging fruit and go back to what you do best: finding the more obscure deceivers and exposing them.
“This site is boring me with all the bitching about Obama. I’ll go to Fox News if I want to hear that.”
Pardon me in advance for my language. Ahem… 8 years. 8 YEARS!!!! Every morning: Bush lied, kids died. Every afternoon: Commander in Thief. Every night: retarded, monkey-looking Texan. 8 years of listening to every comic, every pundit, every dumbass celebrity with a mike in their face spout off. But we made it 8 years listening to that crap EVERY SINGLE DAY.
It’s been less than 3 whole months – grow a pair.
I would also point out that Deceiver is practicing the only safe form of Obama criticism we have left. Every time anyone tried to make an actual joke about the guy they’re deemed racist (can’t say I didn’t call that one about 2 years ago).
Bye.
i second raraavis.
I have no doubt that Kolan McConiughey would make a much better President than Obama.
Hmmm…guess the Special Olympics athletes don’t think it’s okay to make special people jokes even if the one doing that belongs to the special people category himself. Which makes them a whole lot smarter than some representatives of some races/ethnicities, who think it’s okay to hurl racial/ethnical slurs at one another if they both belong to the same race/ethnicity.
How can we miss you if you won’t go away?
I’m telling you, my fading flowers, you do not want to be around here tomorrow. Because I’ve got one that’s really going to upset you. Do yourselves a favor and run now.
Should have turned on his thought filter before answering
There is so much I could say…I shall content myself with this:
Filling out the NCAA bracket on TV is more important than accepting an award from a group that undoubtably worked relentlessly to get him elected, and is now trying to honor him?
I guess we know what Obama’s priorities are…though I really would have expected him to jump at the opportunity to further aggrandize himself. Maybe his ego IS smaller than Clinton’s.
And also, wtf was he doing on Leno in the first place? Slow day at the office? Got some extra time on his hands? This reminds me why I couldn’t stand him during his campaign – all this shameless media-whoring and self-promoting…I stopped subscribing to the Rolling Stone after they put his mug on the cover. I used to enjoy reading the Rolling Stone, you know. I thought they had the best album and movie reviews. I remember how it used to be all about music…Then they started getting all political all of a sudden. And I wouldn’t have had a problem with that if they’d been providing an unbiased informative political coverage…but naw. During the presidential campaign, they’d been riding Obama’s d*** so hard, you would have thought they were on his payroll (and may be they were) while all other candidates were being mocked in such a distasteful, disgusting manner that I just cancelled my subscription. And it wasn’t just me – other readers seemed unhappy about it, too…at least, judging by their letters to the magazine (actually, I always thought that the magazine staff write those letters themselves). Anyway…all of his interviews always made me gag…the way he always answered the question without actually answering the question. I even had this cute little nickname for him – bulls***ter. I really, REALLY tried not to hate him though, I even kinda felt bad for him when he was being criticized for his “improper” (it was actually correct) grammar, but that special olympics “joke” was totally uncalled for. And I don’t believe that it’s our president’s job to be on some talk show making unfunny insensitive jokes…doesn’t he have more pressing matters to occupy himself with?
Had a Conservative made a similar comment, their heads would be mounted on a wall somewhere, as it’d be a “bigoted statement”.
In my opinion, insulting someone for disability is the equivalent of insulting someone for race, except the difference in biological detail although essentially you’re still insulting someone on the basis of something that is 1. nothing to be ashamed of, and 2. something that is inherent.
As someone who attends a fairly liberal university, I’m slightly disgusted/amused to hear all the hip kids jumping at Barack Obama’s defense against political correctness already.
It also strikes me rather odd listening to how freely the ultra liberal fraternity bandwagon college kids exchange the word “fag” in one sentence…with their ever so fashionable Barack Obama bumper stickers and signs out on their lawns.
And Nati, you’re not alone on your opinions of Rolling Stone. Up until two or three years ago, I never looked through the magazine, and when I subscribed to it, it was a severe disappointment. Rolling Stone is merely the left wing’s little attack dog that rolls onto its back at its commands…and for a magazine staffed by a bunch of people generalizing that all Conservatives are bigoted, I find Rolling Stone to be rather bigoted as anything the Conservative party does, it’s grilled by them.
You know what the sad part is? I used to like this guy. But lately, every single thing he’s done has let me down big time, and I’m at the point where I regret ever liking him at all.
My question is: how many Kims are out there?
Since I’m in the arts, most of the people within my real life circle are waaaay to the left. I’m still not seeing the kind of about face I had hoped for amongst people who consider themselves smarter than the average bear.
So far it’s just a lot of contortionism. “Yeah, but” and “but he’s” all the live long day.
I wish Kim was typical… wish, wish, wish.
And I want a pink pony who sings Irish lullabyes too.
Apparently our education system has been circling the drain for much longer than we’d thought, if folks like RaraAvis can see the title of the post, click on it, and only THEN notice what it’s about. Why even go after “obscure” hypocrites when the biggest one around is running the country? What would be the point, and where would be the fun?
If they’re so smart, how come they’re in “the arts”?
Hey, don’t blame me. Perhaps you missed the “people who consider themselves…” part.
…as if IQ points were awarded for thunkin deep thoughts real hard.
…We have a sophomoric snot for president who prioritizes being on a talk show all because a bunch of people didn’t want an “old guy” for president.
I wanted to give Obama a chance, but apparently, he’s too concerned with being a celebrity.
Christina X, the Rolling Stone has turned into one of the most biased, partial publications out there, at least, when it comes to politics. The way they ridiculed McCain during the presidential campaign was just disgusting. And their music coverage hasn’t been all that lately, either. I was done with the magazine after they’d put Chris Martin (whom I hate with a passion) on the cover and hailed him “A Rock’n'Roll God”. In the next issue there was the letter from one of the readers saying “If Chris Martin is a rock’n'roll god, consider me an atheist”. I lol’d. I think I stopped reading after that. Oh well…there are other, much better music magazines. I especially like Q (it’s a British magazine, but they sell it here, I buy it at the Village) because they also cover indie, lesser known and European/world musicians/bands. With the Rolling Stone it’s almost always (mostly US) mainstream. Revolver is okay, but they cover mostly metal and hard rock.
Well, I don’t see what the big deal is. Who cares what Obama Ha’Mashiah actually says, as long as he looks good saying it, pronounces it properly, and uses correct syntax? Because, in the long run, that’s all that really matters.
To paraphrase a renowned humanitarian: “It is better to look good than to act good…and you look mahvelous!”