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WILL SHORTZ IS APPALLED

‘Times’ Crossword Puzzles In The Tank For Obama

This was a very difficult puzzle to design.Barack Obama has cleverly seized control of our nation’s crossword puzzles by having so many alternating vowels and consonants in his last name. Meanwhile, John McCain gets no love anywhere from anyone, although he might do OK in one of them Jumble puzzles, where you have to unscramble four words and then take a bunch of random letters out of them to spell “FIVE AND A HALF YEARS, ALAN.” [Politico]


9:09 AM on Thu September 25 2008
By Sara K. Smith
1937 Views

  1. surfacenoise76 says at 9:11 am, September 25th, 2008

    I see they’re perpetuating that stereotype about black men, too.

  2. InsidiousTuna says at 9:11 am, September 25th, 2008

    Oh, this is just sexist.

  3. wx insider says at 9:12 am, September 25th, 2008

    Fill in these blanks:

    FU_K _OU HOP_Y

  4. BobLoblawLawBlog says at 9:14 am, September 25th, 2008

    You said “meat.” Heh.

  5. Obama will live on forever, like the emu.

  6. Serolf Divad says at 9:17 am, September 25th, 2008

    It’s not like the bitters do the New York Times crossword puzzle anyway. They’re more “golf tee peg game at Cracker Barell” than “Times Crossword puzzle at Starbucks.”

  7. Inadequate Blackmail says at 9:18 am, September 25th, 2008

    Big Crossword, YOU ARE IN THE TANK!

  8. Canuckledragger says at 9:19 am, September 25th, 2008

    I don’t get it. I thought it was McCain who specialized in using “cross words.”

  9. ManchuCandidate says at 9:19 am, September 25th, 2008

    InsidiousTuna:
    Don’t you mean Textist?

  10. Inadequate Blackmail says at 9:21 am, September 25th, 2008

    My joke was the headline of the article. (slaps forehead) I’ll go back to lurking, now.

  11. CrunchyKnee says at 9:26 am, September 25th, 2008

    The ‘Times’ crossword gets down around the Palin Snowbilly compound every Sunday. Oh wait, I might be mistaken.

  12. CrunchyKnee says at 9:29 am, September 25th, 2008

    CrunchyKnee: Sheesh, now I am a Palin…I meant “gets done” not “gets down.” Moron.

  13. Cape Clod says at 9:29 am, September 25th, 2008

    Serolf Divad: And they won’t read any newspapers that don’t carry the heartwarming and hilarious misadventures of ‘The Family Circus” on a daily basis.

  14. InsidiousTuna says at 9:33 am, September 25th, 2008

    ManchuCandidate: You’re awesome.

  15. CNN is reporting that now McCain wants to postpone the VP debate and have the first preznit debate in its place. Operation “Keep The Barbie Doll Off The TeeVee” is in full swing!

  16. donner_froh says at 9:40 am, September 25th, 2008

    Love the quote from the Times spokesperson: “If McCain’s name was Obama, then his name would have been used many more times in crosswords.”

    And if it had been AEIOU it would have been used even more.

  17. one across in what respect, katie?

  18. Special Agent Jack Mehoff says at 9:42 am, September 25th, 2008

    I hate crossword puzzles. Oh, and America, almost forgot about the old America hating. Yep crossword puzzles, America, and this fucking Oxford comma.

  19. Serolf Divad says at 9:42 am, September 25th, 2008

    Cape Clod:

    Or headlines that inform: “BABY MAULED BY PIT BULL WHILE ADDICT MOM BOUGHT DRUGS!”

  20. Special Agent Jack Mehoff says at 9:48 am, September 25th, 2008

    Serolf Divad: How long will we continue to ignore America’s pit bull’s desire to wear lipstick and feed on the flesh of future drug addicts?

    or

    How do we know that this wasn’t just a Hockey mom out of make-up trying to secure human meat for her pregnant offspring back in the den?

  22. Lionel Hutz Esq. says at 10:53 am, September 25th, 2008

    Dear God. What if all of America is in the tank for Obama?

  23. gurukalehuru says at 11:05 am, September 25th, 2008

    1 across a toilet
    8 across a city in Australia
    5 and 1/2 years down, Alan a popular brand of microwave french fries

  24. facehead: And the oboe.

  25. checkonechecktwo says at 11:39 am, September 25th, 2008

    I want to know how to find this tank. Sounds like quite the shindig.

  26. shortsshortsshorts says at 12:44 pm, September 25th, 2008

    Ageists.

  27. I need a six-letter word for douchebag.

  28. If Obama’s got the coveted crossword endorsement all McCain has left is the jumble constituency. Well played Barack.

    http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/

  29. Alan, four minus one, times two, minus one half! What is it Alan!! In Years!

  30. helzapoppn says at 3:49 pm, September 25th, 2008

    Serolf Divad: Hey, that golf-tee puzzle is HARD.

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