From his cushy, all-seeing perch in the bucolic deserts of California, Wonkette editor Ken Layne forced your modest associate editor to walk into the HELLISH acid pool that is downtown Washington D.C. to take photos of Obama and whatever. (If you decide to do this later tonight, one piece of advice: when encountering tourists, punch them.) We did take several “good” photos, though, which will be revealed in a series of thematic posts. Hooray! At least one of these will be up in the near future, and then we are going into the microwave for a few hours, to thaw. Oh and yeah, this painting, it’s Obama and his black friends as cowboys. Almost bought it, pussied out.
We Went Downtown! Can’t Recommend Going Downtown!
by Jim Newell
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That painting is unbelievably fucking awesome
Awesome painting, is there one of the new administration as the Village People?
Did you throw any shoes on the White House lawn?
DC sucks on a good day, with like cherry blossoms and stuff. Worst “major” city in the U.S.
THE NEW SHERIFF’S A NI…..(BONG….as big bell sounds)!
Is the bald guy on the far left Kwame Kilpatrick? Because that would be too awesome for words.
Your bravery is an example to us all. Why aren’t they riding unicorns?
“…when encountering tourists, punch them.”
Isn’t this the general way to treat tourists in the nation’s capitol.
I have friends who flew to the inauguration. Be sure to punch them first.
Is that Michelle or does our Prez have two heads?
Where’s Denzel Washington??
is that prince in the back??
I haven’t missed the chance to say this makes me think of Blazing Saddles?
YES!
[re=223983]tunamelt[/re]: We all thought it was too obvious…
[re=223974]Tommmcatt[/re]: I think that’s Ray Nagin. And the three people in the very back appear to be Hillary, Rod Blagojevich and Don King.
Is that Hillary Clinton at looker’s left of Obama?
I thought there were only four horsemen of the apocalypse.
Ugh!! Amy Holmes!
I’m fed up already with this burgeoning cottage industry of black neo-con, Bush-apologist, pudits. And I fear it’s only just begun.
(Subtle, CNN.)
[re=223989]facehead[/re]: WIN.
[re=223985]teebob2000[/re]: SHUT UP IT’S TOO AWESOME.
You have to go back out and buy it Jim. At least you can write it off.
The feed from http://www.welcomehomebush.com/ is back. ‘W’ is about to mount the stage and bask in the glow of Midlanders. Who are holding up huge cardboard Ws. And everyone is waving little Texas flags because America is now ruled by Muslins.
[re=223994]Rodney Badger[/re]: Only if he sends it to Confluence. Out of charity.
That picture is hilarious. I want to see Al Sharpton on a horse because just the thought of that is too funny. Also, good to see Bill Richardson didn’t get painted–his horse would have had to have been the one that couldn’t move.
[re=223997]chascates[/re]: I got a “Service Unavailable” message. Which I suppose is the least offensive epitaph one might envision.
Jim, where are the pics of the supposed shitwave when the sewers explode from all the Hopey dumps?
ALMOST?
Epic Fail, Jim. You were thisclose to greatness.
Aw sorry Jim. I’d offer to buy you a drink except it’s after 5pm in DC already and the bars are all closed. OH WAIT NO I forgot about the executive clemency for alcoholics on this great day, the day the White House is liberated from all the fake teetotalers!
OK but now I’m still not buying you one because of logistical reasons. HAW HAW HAW!
Also:
[re=223983]tunamelt[/re]: It’s also reminding me of “The Wiz”, that part at the end where all the sweatshop workers take off their bulky costumes to reveal lithe dancer’s bodies and dance around the factory singing about the Brand New Day. Didja see that?
[re=224000]user-of-owls[/re]: If you can’t get I’ll post that there are no black or brown people at the rally; they all have to live in Odessa. Bush offers his prayers for Obama’s success. He says he’s back in Texas and here to stay. Motherfucker.
awesome painting of the wayans family reunion in texas!! but really, aside from seizures, speach assassins and miley cyrus, shouldn’t this day be about obama and the obama-nation?
O/T: I’m watching BBC and there’s a discussion on Obama featuring Christopher Hitchens, Andrew Sullivan and Chuck D. Bush would never have got these three into a live TV debate.
[re=223986]SayItWithWookies[/re]:
What, no horse for Walkin’ Joe Biden?
[re=223965]MisterLoki[/re]:
I’m putting that right between my “Dogs Playing Poker” and the Elvis on Velvet piece I picked up in Vegas. Soooo classy!
[re=223990]DemmeFatale[/re]: There is this other black female conservative pundit on CNN that is more annoying than Amy Holmes. I can’t remember her name. MSNBC has one as well, but she is in the tank. You are right about it becoming a cottage industry. Expect Fox to have a show hosted by independent black women called Purrspectives or something. Topics will include how Obama sold out black America and how black men only care about getting oral from white coeds.
Also, you’re racist.
…bucolic agrarian compound in California.
/fixed
[re=223982]intellijen[/re]: I wish!
[re=224015]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: Have you been to Bakersfield? Desert and agrarian compound are not mutually exclusive.
[re=224020]Rodney Badger[/re]: I fucked up and left out desert, because I am a failure of a pair of shorts.
However, after more then many trips through that horrendous shit-sack of a town, I can tell you that Bakersfield is neither desert nor agrarian, but rather, “terrible.”
there are no black or brown people at the rally; they all have to live in Odessa.
Ah, thus the origins of the Odessa Step Dance.
I’ve been looking for a portrait of Clarence Thomas on black velvet. Anybody got one?
[re=223988]Rodney Badger[/re]: Back o’ the bus, beyatch!
[re=224021]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: I once had to attend this thing:
http://www.bpcbakbusconf.com/new/
The speakers included J.C. Watts, Cal Ripkin and Karen Hughes. The special guest speaker was Nancy Reagan. There was a giant portrait of Bush Jr. made of Jelly Bellies. We had to hide from the dust storms by huddling in tents with fat, sweaty insurance executives.
[re=224020]Rodney Badger[/re]: It’s been 30 years since I passed through Bakersfield; my childhood memory is of an adobe-themed church with neon sign that read “Bible”. It was animated, and rocked back and forth between two positions.
Quite frankly, I don’t want to see an exhibition of what wretchedness catches Jim Newell’s eyes on any given Tuesday.
It really sucks that Michelle doesn’t get her own horse in that painting.
Obama halts all regulations pending review
Strong pimp hand!
[re=223990]DemmeFatale[/re]: I’ve noticed that phenomenon during the primaries. It seems that all of the black republicans are strategist and they’re all CNN or MSNBC commentators.
Is Frederick Douglass in this picture? W.E.B. DuBois?
If not, I call foul!
[re=224008]wheelie[/re]: Andrew Sullivan was a hero to most, but he never meant shit to me….
[re=224008]wheelie[/re]: Is Hitchens still defending the Iraq invasion? Because that takes a special kind of delusion.
[re=224123]Barrett808[/re]: As a matter of fact he is. See this column:
http://www.slate.com/id/2209133/
[re=224132]chascates[/re]: Gah! Now I’m off to down a pint.
I hope the guy was asking for somewhere north of $50,000.00 because if you passed it up for anything less, Jim, you’re a bonehead. Sorry, but it’s true.
[re=224142]Serolf Divad[/re]: But it’s not sofa-sized.
Oblazing Saddles?
Mel Brooks might lawyer up for trespass on his Intellectual Property.
Gah! Should’ve charged the painting to Ken. He gives you an open account, yes? Haha, kiddin’.
[re=224101]Dreamer[/re]: Except Alan Keyes. Who is insane.
(Also, DC is not the worst city in the world. It’s bad; don’t get me wrong. But I would both Baku and Cincinnati lower on the list. Also Hamilton. Also.)
[re=224330]jbd[/re]: Also, if I had to do it all over again, I would verb. Probably “put”. Possibly “rate”. Likely between “would” and “both”.
[re=223979]Spunion[/re]: “Is that Michelle or does our Prez have two heads?”
Yes. Yes. Duh.
Saw this crazy painting on my walk through the tourists after the inauguration in my attempt to get a beer somewhere. The guy was yelling “Obama Tupac original artwork!” You mean to tell me they never got the chance to sit down and have a painting done? Unreal.
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