According to the national press corps outlet CNN, Obama not only wears jeans sometimes on his airplane, but he also plays Taboo — with them! Check out this "interesting moment" from the heat of the action: "An interesting moment came when an Obama staffer was looking at the word 'gap.' His clue: a place where gay people shop. Before the word was accurately guessed, other reporters said they heard one staffer shout the store 'H&M' and heard Obama say 'Abercrombie & Fitch.'" It is well known that Abercrombie & Fitch clothes 95% of Obama's young supporters, meaning they shop there, meaning they are gay. And that's racist. [CNN]
that's not sexual orientation transcendence
Obama Indirectly Calls All Of His Supporters Gay
1:21 PM on Fri May 9 2008
By Jim Newell
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Does this mean his supporters are naked as well? Because I will strip down to my knickers for you, Barry.
I think the term should probably be "gayist," no?
He should have said Bannana Republic, him being a tropical muslim elitist and all.
I heart my new metrosexual President!
the only three obama supporters i know are fu manchucandidate, obamaton and shortshortshorts and they are all screaming nellies so i was assuming all obama supporters are gay
my brother was on the same floor of furnald dormitory at columbia college as barry hussein and told me barry was an undercover brother back in the mid-eighties. why doesn't hillary run a commercial on THAT.
Only white people shop at Abercrombie and only people from the mid-90's (Clinton supporters?) shop at the Gap, so none of this makes sense. Or does it?
as a loyal H&M shopper i want to state that as a straight man i would be an idiot to shop for clothes in a store that was not heavily favored by teh gays.
as far as i'm concerned the Gap is for kakhis wearing straight white men like hillary.
Abercrombie & Fitch is racist against Asians. Fuck them.
@shortsshortsshorts: My high school government class had pictures of all the presidents on the wall and we used to play a game called "Which President Would You Rather Do?"
When Obama wins, this game becomes a lot easier.
Taboo is actually a pretty fun party game.
It's somewhere in the range of more fun than Boggle, less fun than the Crack Olympics.
@metropolitan:
H&M is easily the gayest part of my life.
Come on , everyone knows GAP is for Gay And Proud. DIDN'T WE ALL LEARN THIS IN 5TH GRADE?
Does anyone want to join the Pen Fifteen club? I can initiate you...
@TEAM HEIDI:
It does not matter what Hillary runs on now, she lost, get over it.
I am an Independent voting for Obama, my sis is a Republican voting for Obama. How can Hillary explain that, Heidi?
We are the reality based Americans. Wish Hillary would join us before she completely ruins her political career.
@Botswana Meat Commission FC: I have never seen guy clothes at H&M. I always thought of it as like a bigger, slightly more European Forever 21.
Seriously, The Gap as where teh gheys shop? Jesus, this staffer must do all his shopping at Wal-Mart. I'd ship his ass off to work on Hillary's campaign with the rest of the slack-jawed troglodytes.
How great would it be to have a Preznit who knows Abercrombie and Fitch is a homocentric clothier and not a K-Street lobbying outfit?
@Botswana Meat Commission FC: Seriously. H&M's clothes run very tight fitting and slim... extremely French cut.
My son's 15 and he totally doesn't want to shop there.
@tunamelt:
In the U.S., only H&M's larger stores have men's sections. So the smaller mall locations are usually female-only, but the downtown stores have men's clothing.
@El Bombastico: Bien dicho.
@toastandlove: My sixth grade boys prefer asking people if they "want a free trip to Pen Island."
Mmm hmm. I'm sure, guys.
Hillary gets all of her pantsuits at Wal-Mart, or, for fancier pants, she's a Target gal...
I thought teh gays wouldn't set foot in an A&F. Tells you what I know. I thought it was all Bananna Republic and I guess the Gap, but I didn't get the handbook.
Meh. The A&F clientele is all closeted Republican fratboys who beat you up after sucking you off. Real gays shop at Zara, thank you verra much.
I wish Barry would have blown everyone's mind by saying "Uniqlo".
@El Bombastico: I don't think it is where they shop, but as a former Gap employee... it is where they work.
@FloraWay: But that is in Iowa... because there isn't much more than Gap.
@queeraselvis: That was incredibly accurate.
@El Bombastico: Oh that would've been rad. "Consider it a gift from three goats to your upper body!"
@Botswana Meat Commission FC: The only one I've been to is in Pasadena, and apparently I have zero observation skills, but thanks.
@freakishlystrong: Don't you dare mock Target. She's obviously a K-Mart lady.
This catalog was on Consumerist the other day. (Warning: links to the lynxes at Jezebel, so it's kind of NSFW.)
Do you think that Barry shops there?
obviously obama knows nothing about A&F
TEAM HEIDI=Tony the Tiger? Discuss.
Good news: I think we have a convenient final resting place for Hillary and her entire berserk campaign. See [news.yahoo.com] ... It's only 900 feet wide and 260 feet deep, so it probably won't hold all the pantsuits and we'd have to lower Mark Penn in with a crane, and plant him upside down given the size of his ass. But this would solve a number of problems...
@The Real JR:
here in nyc we like the boys in tight pants and underwear cut to emphasize the basket, but that might not be the case in the heartlands.
wait a minute, is this wonkette? for a second i thought i was in bizarro world and that this was Jezebel for men.
@queeraselvis: Yup. He was right on with A&F if he was talking about angry, deluded 'straight guys' who are 'just curious,' and will eventually beat their future wives out of frustration, because said wives don't have cocks.
@jfruh: I've said the same thing for days now. Seems like we need to call an exterminator.
I think that the only game that Hillary plays with her campaign staff is "Let's see how long it takes us girls to start ovulating at the same time!"
@jfruh: I don't think he/she was hiding that, for what it's worth.
the sad part here is that now that hillary's campaign is in the crapper until she runs against McCain in 2012 i have lost my interest in politics and this site so i am quitting wonkette for good.
but on the bright side this site brought shortshortsshorts and me together and our relationship gets stronger every day....i'll name our first born son Ken after our fearless leader....unless he is born with down's syndrome....then i figure it would be more appropriate to name him after jim.
Abercrombie and Fitch is that gay dance club in the mall that sells clothes, right? Or is that Hollister?
@tunamelt: "A bigger, more European Forever 21" warmed the cockles of my heart. Now the question is, who do American Apparel shoppers vote for?
@jfruh:
Bien sur. I guess he/she ran out of meds on Wed judging by yesterday and today's crazee.
@jfruh: What is there to discuss?
Yes. True.
@jfruh: I called it on the Gay's dropping Hillz post. Yes. It is.
This gay doesn't shop at A&F for many reasons, but one is that their clothes are generally ugly. I do love H&M though. And I worked for a Banana Republic outlet store when I was in college. At my store, there were 3 straight guys out of 20 or so male employees. The store is for what my roommate and I refer to as Stodgy Old Gay Men, or SOGM. You know, like Tim Gunn on Project Runway.
@Spence: They don't vote, they are too busy laying in crack dens, half-clothed, looking disaffected and sexy in an underage, seventies porn kind of way.
@TEAM HEIDI: And your firstborn daughter? Ana Marie or Megan?
@tunamelt: I HAVE to start shopping at American Apparel.
@NotAnEvilLobbyist: when did wonkette turn into jezebel? get back on topic please.
There's no way that Larry Craig shops at the Gap. So that blows this whole theory. But wait a minute, Larry's not gay, is he?
apparently sunlight is much faster and more effective than bug spray.
@tunamelt: I'm gonna register for that party.
@TEAM HEIDI: oh shit! I and my husband and my parents and my straight aunt and my 87 year old mother-in-law are all Obama supperters! Shit, we must be gay men and we just never knew it! The only Hillary supporter I am related to is a gay male 23 year old and my 88 year old grandfather.
@The Rev. Yevot: since i am a six foot blonde with startling green eyes i am assuming that my beautiful countenance will make up for shortsshortsshorts rather more unfortuante guise so i'll name my first born daughter Sara. anyhow I promised everyone i would stop posting on this blog so i'll revert back to jezebel under a new avatar i set up this morning. have a nice life everyone!
@TEAM HEIDI: The girls at Jezebel would love to have you back, I'm sure.
@TEAM HEIDI:
back on topic? so where was I?
not only do i love H&M but i still love classic Calvin Klein black boxer shorts. the ones with the 2% spandex and 98% cotton. and i like their t-shirts but they're a bit long.
and hillary is a sore loser and mccain is one foot in the grave.
@TEAM HEIDI: and who gives a shit if he was whatever your brother so eloquently said (which is horsecrap)? How is that relevant to anything? Do we know Hills never had some LUG action at Wellesley (or some Les After Grad action since then)? All that would mean in my book is that they both knew how enjoyable sex can be. Gee, that's a real negative.
@TEAM HEIDI: and you are so modest, too.
@porter melmoth: He shops at Big and Tall stores to accomodate his wider stance.
@TEAM HEIDI: "... since i am a six foot blonde ..."
It rubs the lotion on its skin.
@TEAM HEIDI: "a six foot blonde with startling green eyes"?
Thanks for playing, Cindy.
Really, does anyone describe themselves as "startling"?
@TEAM HEIDI: Startling green eyes? Do you also write Harry Potter fan fiction?
A&F shoppers aren't gay, but they might hold it in their mouth for a little bit.
@The Real JR: but tightfitting and slim and androgynous is quite in for the male emo crowd (I am not saying this is a good look, just that there are lots of markets out there and we cannot say who shops where definitively)
@ everyone: I think it might be referring to Heidi Montag (avatar)?
Comment on Obama Indirectly Calls All Of His Supporters Gay I want to play Taboo with Obama! Can you imagine playing Taboo with Hillary Clinton? She would keep giving you the same clue over and over again until time ran out even though you clearly didn't get it. If you were playing until one team reached 20 points she'd be like "No, 20 is a fake number we are PLAYING UNTIL 30!" If she didn't get a point she would blame it on her teammate and be like "He clearly didn't understand the rules when we began, he thought we were playing Scrabble." She'd also tell you that you have to count the points she made in another Taboo game from 3 weeks ago because even though it was before the game started, every point should be counted. And when it looks like she's going to lose she takes a shot of whiskey, fires her gun into the air and declares war on the living room.
@loquaciousmusic: That was Mark and Lanny's favorite...they totally were synched up...
i was going to bitch until i remembered that i am gay married to h+m and used to be gay married to gap until we got a gay divorce.
@tunamelt: His quidditch broomstick bumped against me with a startling insistency. "Give me your Quaffle" he panted. "I need your startling golden snitch!"
@Doglessliberal: This is difficult for those of us who are tall and skinny but don't want to look like we're wearing a shirt that would fit snugly on a Bic pen.
"Medium" has been getting smaller and smaller recently, and "Small" has pretty much stayed the same.
@TEAM HEIDI: I am a Obama supporter and mostly hetero, but my boyfriend supports Alan Keyes...
@mookworthjwilson: Just to complete the joke, I am a man.
@Spence: yeah, that self-description made me think "she" is a 450 lb, 5'5" man with psoriasis and who lives in his mother's basement, spanking off to videos of Hillary in pantsuits.
Meanwhile, Hillary said "Versace? Unless you mean the poor white gay folk who vote for me, they shop at, what's that store called, Bullseye?"
@Doglessliberal:
Dogless... You're arguing with Tony the Fucking Imbecile.
It's the unwinnable scenario....
@Doglessliberal: Have you seen Abercrombie's new Summer Pantsuit line? A fresh and startling take on an old lady classic!
HOW MANY STRAIGHT OBAMA SUPPORTERS DOES IT TAKE TO SCREW IN A LIGHT BULB?
@loquaciousmusic: funnily enough, among women's clothes, sizes have gone the other way, with a "4" now being what a "10" was a few years ago, so now I am down to 0 i many stores, when I am in reality a 6-8. America has gotten fatter, so women's clothiers have started lying a lot to make widening women still want to shop a lot and buy clothes.