• February 15, 2012

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]

{ 30 comments }

surfacenoise76 September 25, 2008 at 9:11 am

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

InsidiousTuna September 25, 2008 at 9:11 am

Oh, this is just sexist.

wx insider September 25, 2008 at 9:12 am

Fill in these blanks:

FU_K _OU HOP_Y

BobLoblawLawBlog September 25, 2008 at 9:14 am

You said “meat.” Heh.

facehead September 25, 2008 at 9:17 am

Obama will live on forever, like the emu.

Serolf Divad September 25, 2008 at 9:17 am

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.”

Inadequate Blackmail September 25, 2008 at 9:18 am

Big Crossword, YOU ARE IN THE TANK!

Canuckledragger September 25, 2008 at 9:19 am

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

ManchuCandidate September 25, 2008 at 9:19 am

[re=107527]InsidiousTuna[/re]:
Don’t you mean Textist?

Inadequate Blackmail September 25, 2008 at 9:21 am

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

CrunchyKnee September 25, 2008 at 9:26 am

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

CrunchyKnee September 25, 2008 at 9:29 am

[re=107542]CrunchyKnee[/re]: Sheesh, now I am a Palin…I meant “gets done” not “gets down.” Moron.

Cape Clod September 25, 2008 at 9:29 am

[re=107534]Serolf Divad[/re]: And they won’t read any newspapers that don’t carry the heartwarming and hilarious misadventures of ‘The Family Circus” on a daily basis.

InsidiousTuna September 25, 2008 at 9:33 am

[re=107537]ManchuCandidate[/re]: You’re awesome.

stew September 25, 2008 at 9:38 am

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!

donner_froh September 25, 2008 at 9:40 am

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.

sleepy September 25, 2008 at 9:40 am

one across in what respect, katie?

Special Agent Jack Mehoff September 25, 2008 at 9:42 am

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

Serolf Divad September 25, 2008 at 9:42 am

[re=107548]Cape Clod[/re]:

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

Special Agent Jack Mehoff September 25, 2008 at 9:48 am

[re=107561]Serolf Divad[/re]: 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?

graceless September 25, 2008 at 10:01 am

[re=107536]Canuckledragger[/re]: Win.

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

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

gurukalehuru September 25, 2008 at 11:05 am

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

pondscum September 25, 2008 at 11:23 am

[re=107533]facehead[/re]: And the oboe.

checkonechecktwo September 25, 2008 at 11:39 am

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

shortsshortsshorts September 25, 2008 at 12:44 pm

Ageists.

WagTehGod September 25, 2008 at 12:48 pm

I need a six-letter word for douchebag.

Miller September 25, 2008 at 1:37 pm

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

http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/

NYNYNY September 25, 2008 at 2:34 pm

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

helzapoppn September 25, 2008 at 3:49 pm

[re=107534]Serolf Divad[/re]: Hey, that golf-tee puzzle is HARD.

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