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October 9, 2008

Reporter Complains That Obama Plane Is Smelly

by Sara K. Smith  

Why so smelly?Dean Reynolds sat down and penned this long angry rant about what a sack of douches the Obama campaign staffers are, while all the McCain people are helpful and informed. This jibes pretty squarely with Wonkette editorial impressions of the parties’ respective conventions, in which a bunch of disorganized know-nothing liberals dedicated themselves to fucking up your day while a demure coterie of courteous, knowledgeable Republicans offered way more attractive press credentials and a bar RIGHT NEXT TO THE CONVENTION ARENA. Republicans secretly love the media, hurrah! But the really important take-home in this screed is buried midway through this interminable thing:

The McCain campaign plane is better than Obama’s, which is cramped, uncomfortable and smells terrible most of the time. Somehow the McCain folks manage to keep their charter clean, even where the press is seated.

So there you go, Obama’s press corps is always peeing on the seats, probably because they aren’t allowed to use the bathroom “for security,” while the McCain press people have personal valets. Dean Reynolds is in the tank. FOR McCAIN, ZING!!!!

Reporter’s Notebook: Seeing How The Other Half Lives [CBS News]

{ 87 comments }

ReverendGreen October 9, 2008 at 2:16 pm

Probably smells like Marlboros.

sezme October 9, 2008 at 2:19 pm

Cindy McCain slathers on enough Chanel #5 to mask a wide range of smells.

Masorca October 9, 2008 at 2:19 pm

These guys are too much. Suprised he dint venture to say the smell was somehow related to the fried chicken, and chitlins they be servin’

CrunchyKnee October 9, 2008 at 2:19 pm

Smells like TERRA!

NoWireHangers October 9, 2008 at 2:19 pm

Of course it smells. Arugula, granola, and organic tea give you raging gas.

dano October 9, 2008 at 2:19 pm

I wish Hunter S. Thompson was still around to cover the McCain campaign. Now that would be entertaining.

Anonymous Office Zombie October 9, 2008 at 2:20 pm

The Obama plane smells… like victory.

Someday this campaign’s gonna end.

SelfDeprecatingFed October 9, 2008 at 2:20 pm

These comments are clearly rascist.

grundle burrito October 9, 2008 at 2:21 pm

“I like my coffee like I like my men; milky white, sour, and penguinish.”

dano October 9, 2008 at 2:21 pm

McCain’s plane smells like mothballs, Ben-Gay and ribbon candy.

ihasasad October 9, 2008 at 2:22 pm

He sums up well:

“Maybe none of this means much.”

InKnockYouUs October 9, 2008 at 2:22 pm

“But in politics, everything that goes around comes around,” writes Mr. Reynolds. Is this, like, um, a threat?

MoodProcessor October 9, 2008 at 2:23 pm

Obama’s plane smells like effort and success. Maybe Mr. Reynolds doens’t recognize these olfactory cues.

SayItWithWookies October 9, 2008 at 2:23 pm

Nobody flies on Obama’s plane anymore — it’s too crowded.
(with apologies, of course, to Yogi).

shortsshortsshorts October 9, 2008 at 2:23 pm

“Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?”
“Joey, have you ever seen a grown man naked?”
“Joey, have you ever been to a Turkish prison?”

and I’m spent.

lazyb October 9, 2008 at 2:24 pm

Gee, are all reporters such whiny little bitches? Did somebody deny him an extra pillow?

NoWireHangers October 9, 2008 at 2:24 pm

[re=127974]dano[/re]: Totally. Priceless gold.

Son of Mark Penn October 9, 2008 at 2:24 pm

Now we find out why Maureen Dowd isn’t allowed on the McCain plane.

InKnockYouUs October 9, 2008 at 2:27 pm

The comments on the linked article are better than that stupid guy’s video from the parking lot. Get this:

“It stinks because Obama doesn”t give a rat”s azz about anybody that doesn”t serve him. He doesn”t even care if your on that plane – he”s so elite and thinks he”s “God” and your just a lowly servant!
The real facts are he doesn”t care about any Americans, or Christians for that matter – His faith won”t allow him to care about us – he loathes us – all of us – wake up people – the stink on the airplane is the stench of Marxism, Socialism, Communism, totalitarianism, and elitism!”

V572625694 October 9, 2008 at 2:28 pm

[re=127974]dano[/re]: Well, we’ve got Ken, who seems to channel Dr Gonzo quite effectively.

Cogito Ergo Bibo October 9, 2008 at 2:29 pm

Baggage calls are preposterously early with the explanation that it’s all for security reasons.

Ah HA! Someone is cranky because he didn’t get his beauty sleep.

One Yield Regular October 9, 2008 at 2:29 pm

[re=127968]sezme[/re]: I’m betting “Red Door,” by Elizabeth Arden. Chanel #5 is WAY too tasteful a fragrance to accompany the satin circus tents Cindy dresses up in.

MathewBrooks October 9, 2008 at 2:31 pm

[re=127974]dano[/re]: HST is sorely missed, though Matt Taibbi isn’t bad.

FreshCliches October 9, 2008 at 2:31 pm

Smells like napalm in the morning.

Smells like victory.

V572625694 October 9, 2008 at 2:31 pm

[re=127983]InKnockYouUs[/re]: “I suspect there is a feeling within the Obama campaign that the broadcast networks are less influential in the age of the internet and thus needn’t be accomodated as in the days of yore. Even if it’s true, they are only hurting themselves by dissing audiences that run in the tens of millions every night.” Here’s another threat! This guy’s pissed! How dare Obama dismiss the Metamucil/Fixodent demographic?

Gopherit v2.0 October 9, 2008 at 2:32 pm

Not surprising. You need extra filters to keep the smell of presidential Depends out of the air.

slomojoe October 9, 2008 at 2:33 pm

“What goes around comes around”? What does he mean, that his reports (and perhaps those of others in the media) are going to be slanted against Obama because of substandard traveling arrangements? Really? Great display of professionalism and ethics there, Mr. Reynolds!

What he probably doesn’t realize is that this is already the “come around” phase: the press’s nose has been so deep in McCain’s ass in the past, that the Obama campaign probably thought “Screw them, don’t clean the plane – they probably can’t smell anything anyway.”

Texan Bulldoggette October 9, 2008 at 2:33 pm

It’s the scent of watermelon & jheri curl activator. Poor Dean was probably too scared Barry the Terrorist would knock him out the plane door to remark on the stained headrests.

V572625694 October 9, 2008 at 2:33 pm

[re=128003]Cogito Ergo Bibo[/re]: Man, I hate those early baggage calls too! Or I would, if I had some peon to schlepp my bag for me, like these elitist MSM whiney-girls.

joezoo October 9, 2008 at 2:33 pm

I don’t know what this jackass is insinuating. Obama is so fresh and so clean (clean). Joe Biden told us so!

monty October 9, 2008 at 2:34 pm

Mctesty’s plane probably has to be cleaned everyday after he looks at poll numbers and shits himself of course its gonna smell good, oth i think he should have to identify the smell, watermelon, fried chicken(if fried chicken is it like grammas chicken or shitty chicken like roscoes)mmmmwaffles… and if it smells like watermelon is it like watermelon jolly ranchers or the drink they give you when you have an upper-gi. or does it just smell like musk ox? I mean we all know that muslins smell like cous-cous and falafel(sic) but he didnt mention that. Maybe it just smells like change(and i dont mean the jingly kind, i mean the foldy kind)

sezme October 9, 2008 at 2:35 pm

[re=128004]One Yield Regular[/re]: Or possibly “Just Me” by Paris Hilton.

azw88 October 9, 2008 at 2:36 pm

“But in politics, everything that goes around comes around.”

Doesn’t that sound like a threat? Is this guy gonna be an asshat during White House press conferences WHEN Obama is President?

Or maybe this guy is just PISSED OFF that Obama isn’t sucking up to the press like McCain did for FIVE AND A HALF YEARS!

vintageways October 9, 2008 at 2:36 pm

[re=127986]MoodProcessor[/re]: He is a reporter, after all.

Kwame' October 9, 2008 at 2:36 pm

I think an appreciation for “Black Love” incense is an acquired thing.

bluebrazos October 9, 2008 at 2:38 pm

McCain’s plane doesn’t stink because it’s paneled with a special grade of rain forest cedar that absorbs old people smell.

qwerty42 October 9, 2008 at 2:40 pm

[re=127997]InKnockYouUs[/re]: “…the stench of Marxism, Socialism, Communism, totalitarianism, and elitism!” ”
myself, I love the smell of napalm in the morning. it smells like victory.

Cogito Ergo Bibo October 9, 2008 at 2:41 pm

[re=128013]V572625694[/re]: Seriously. Life is hard! Boo effing hoo. I would freakin’ love to be paid to follow Hopey across America.

dano October 9, 2008 at 2:44 pm

[re=128006]MathewBrooks[/re]:

With all due respect to the Wonkette team and the others covering the campaign, for my money “Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72″ is the single greatest work of journalism in the history of mankind. Thompson’s drunken, and drug fueled writing seemed to capture the core of R. M. Nixon’s vile character. I just wish I could read his take on McCain.

WadISay October 9, 2008 at 2:44 pm

My guess would be that he who smelt it dealt it.

obfuscator October 9, 2008 at 2:45 pm

“The candy dishes on the McCain plane are always filled with Werther’s Originals. The couches in the lounge still have the plastic on them… the mini-fridge is always stocked with cans of Fresca… “

AngryBlakGuy October 9, 2008 at 2:46 pm

…whoever smelt it, dealt it!!!

mr.november October 9, 2008 at 2:47 pm

Whoever smelt it dealt it!

Servo October 9, 2008 at 2:48 pm

The problem on McCorpse’s aircraft is keeping him from playing with the blue water in the head ( lavatory ).

Godot October 9, 2008 at 2:48 pm

[re=127980]dano[/re]: And Werther’s Original.

Kev-O-Tron October 9, 2008 at 2:49 pm

[re=127997]InKnockYouUs[/re]: Damn, who knew isms smelled so bad. I bet that guy’s house smells like douchism. or maybe just jizm.

mr.november October 9, 2008 at 2:49 pm

[re=128039]AngryBlakGuy[/re]: jinx

ManchuCandidate October 9, 2008 at 2:50 pm

Shirley you can’t be serious about the smell!

TGY October 9, 2008 at 2:51 pm

Smells like Nirvana.

S.Luggo October 9, 2008 at 2:53 pm

Reynolds neglects to mention the free hand jobs given on each McCain flight. Cindy is kept so busy that occasionally Bristol has to spell her.

On the Obama flight all you get are boring position papers.

AngryBlakGuy October 9, 2008 at 2:55 pm

[re=128035]WadISay[/re]: [re=128041]mr.november[/re]: …talk about a jinx!

magic titty October 9, 2008 at 3:00 pm

But here’s this comment-er:

Obama is a disgrace he is unqualified to be president, he treats ever one poorly1 His plane is dirty, because he has an upside down flag as his logo on the plane rather than American Flag! BLUE WHITE RED and there is the logo a Top of a Mosque, and to sword blades scode of arms for islam! Oringa Kenya Obama and Treason it”s coming soon! Obamas EGO is ten times his capability, he is nothing but a Muslim Manchurian Candidate. OBAMA is not organized, he is pure nut bag that has handlers! To all in the Media what does Obama say? Nothing, he talks like he in a circle jerk or never answers a question!

Tawmn October 9, 2008 at 3:00 pm

[re=127977]SelfDeprecatingFed[/re]: The politics of rasc?

shortsshortsshorts October 9, 2008 at 3:01 pm

He was graciously smuggling in Kenyans seven months ago, but understandably he forgot about them. He’s a very busy man.

TGY October 9, 2008 at 3:04 pm

Apropos nothing, this will always be my favorite pic of Barry from this campaign:

Barry waving in the rain

So evocative of boding or whatever.

longjohnson October 9, 2008 at 3:05 pm

the dude just needs to trim his nose hairs – that should take care of the smelly problem

askwhipple October 9, 2008 at 3:07 pm

Barry is Roger Murdock and McSame is Captain Oveur……Joey, you ever seen a grown man naked? HEGHH….Ever hang around a gymnasium HEGHH…..The hackey maam must be the empty headed flight attended who gave Otto oral sex…..ughhhhh

DemmeFatale October 9, 2008 at 3:09 pm

Awww…that movie…
Remember when Zucker wasn’t a colossal douchebag?

WadISay October 9, 2008 at 3:14 pm

[re=128062]AngryBlakGuy[/re]: That’s sort of wierd. Was your mother’s name Helen? Did you have a dog named Lady?

youknew October 9, 2008 at 3:18 pm

Oh my God. They’re doing the “negroes stink” thing. Unbelievable.

magic titty October 9, 2008 at 3:21 pm

pickled pigs feet and waffles.

Itsjustme October 9, 2008 at 3:22 pm

Dear Mr. Reynolds: On behalf of the Obama campaign, I have traced the scent you are speaking of. It is Early American Douchbag and it eminates from you.

Miller October 9, 2008 at 3:28 pm

Apparently no matter how childish your opinion of the political press is, they go and open their mouths and prove that you didn’t lower the bar enough. I bet Obama doesn’t even mesquite smoke his BBQ.

http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/

Itsjustme October 9, 2008 at 3:36 pm

[re=128067]magic titty[/re]: Gotta love someone that calls herself Kitty! How many letters in weed? Is she suggesting that Obama was so jealous he A: Shit himself or B: Farted?

I wonder why my blog was taken down, because I said that OBAMA hangs with criminals. And what ever they smelled on that plane was not plain cig. probably more like w…..d. or what ever they smoke, that is an ugly smell and is not easy to get rid of. Obama has looked a little irratic and loose lately….Hello little naive persons. MCCain”s mortgage plan is BRILlANT, good for him. Obama is jealous it wasn”t him to suggest it.

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Posted by miukitty at 03:25 PM : Oct 09, 2008

gurukalehuru October 9, 2008 at 3:39 pm

[re=128052]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Yes, I am, and stop calling me Shirley.

Keram2 October 9, 2008 at 3:41 pm

[re=128034]dano[/re]: I wonder if the Obama plane smells bad because it’s a horrible den of drugs and alcohol, like HST wrote of the McGovern plane in ’72.

Mo MoDo October 9, 2008 at 3:46 pm

[re=128012]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: I just knew someone would beat me to the ironic faux-racist take.

magic titty October 9, 2008 at 3:46 pm

[re=128167]Itsjustme[/re]: ha. whatever “they” smoke. “irratic”.

sadly, she’s probably already taken.

OzoneTom October 9, 2008 at 3:47 pm

That’s what happens when you get a plane full of mostly vegetarians.

lazyb October 9, 2008 at 3:47 pm

[re=128058]S.Luggo[/re]: A much more plausible explanation for her cast than a handshake.

magic titty October 9, 2008 at 3:51 pm

[re=128192]Keram2[/re]: I don’t think our hero HST would have been able to make it through this campaign. Well, at his advanced age, he would have just shot people while nursing a Jameson’s.

Hobo Chef Dinty Moore October 9, 2008 at 3:58 pm

worst of all, obama never hands out any werther’s original.

tiger October 9, 2008 at 4:06 pm

What a-i’ll say it-douchnozzle. This rabid parasite is lucky he’s employed, and he’s bitching. Kind of like a mini-version of America, nést-ce pas?

lawrenceofthedesert October 9, 2008 at 4:07 pm

I begged Hillary not to put that carp in the cooling system.

flyingspaghettimonster October 9, 2008 at 4:07 pm

McCain leaves events early instead of hanging around to meet real Americans just so he can get back to the plane and tidy up with a little Febreze abd potpourri…

tiger October 9, 2008 at 4:08 pm

I bet Cindy is actually sporting “LÁir du Cunt”…by an elitist french perfumer, La Cunt.

Kwame' October 9, 2008 at 4:16 pm

It’s Obama’s cologne: “Eau Sama”. By Mennen.

shoeho October 9, 2008 at 4:27 pm

Ah, Dean? Sweetie? The freakin’ plane is dirtier because they are USING it more. If Barry is doing three shows a day, and Walnuts is doing ONE that means WALNUT’S plane is parked longer. Ergo, it gets CLEANED because there is more ground time. Also, some of the more “out of the way” airports do not have much in the way of “services” for anything bigger than a Cessna. What a serious douche. And he doesn’t even work for FixedNoise.

ChatteringClass October 9, 2008 at 5:37 pm

[re=127990]lazyb[/re]: [i]Gee, are all reporters such whiny little bitches?[/i]

Um, yes. Well except for the war correspondent types, but most of them don’t bother with (domestic) politics.

Maus October 9, 2008 at 5:54 pm

I too, prefer nearly-empty airplanes where nobody bothers me and there’s only the soft-spoken and snoozing elderly around.

SisterTruth October 9, 2008 at 8:13 pm

Read the original article.
1. I think this guy is confused because he thinks that Obama should actually be serving him on the plane, and is confused that the black guy is running for president instead of cleaning the plane.
2. Obama doesn’t release his schedule so that the people that Palin riled up at her rallies don’t try to assassinate him.
3. McSleepy’s schedule is always on time because he only does one event a day so there is time for him to take a nice long nap.
4. This is deliberately invoking racist stereotypes that black people smell and are dirty.
5. Do you remember when reporters used to actually like go out and report stories instead of waiting for Obama to bring them the news with their sherry?

Slutty_Chola_Cobbler October 9, 2008 at 8:40 pm

MAYBE OBAMA HATED HIS REPUBLICAN ASS AND FARTED TO GET RID OF HIM!

FalconerHK October 10, 2008 at 1:29 am

Stinks like sex in here. Meow.

skyinator October 10, 2008 at 6:06 am

It’s 6 a.m. Insomnia. Got up to pee and snark. Cannot stop laughing. All of the above was some funny shit. Really funny shit. All is right with the world. Let the day begin!

Ed O October 18, 2008 at 4:21 pm

You should smell his house!
Dont vote for B.O.

Ed O October 18, 2008 at 4:31 pm

You should smell his “feet”!He sleeps with his shoes on because he doesnt want to smell “defeat”!
Dont vote for B.O.

Ed O October 18, 2008 at 4:32 pm

Why do you think they call him B.O.?
Dont vote for B.O.

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