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FOR SHAME, BARRY. They bowl better than a 129 at the Special Olympics, don’t they? [YouTube]
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Here Is Your President Mocking The Disabled
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on Fri March 20 2009
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In before Republican outrage (while ignoring Failin’ Palin’s turning away special ed funding..)
Trig disapproves.
Anyone who gets offended by that is a total retard.
what a retard.
129? That’s average. Why do righties get their tighty whitey’s in a twist over stupid shit like this anyway?
In his heart of hearts, Barry is a eugenicist. First he’ll come for the retards, then he’ll start in on the pure-bloods…
THIS IS WHAT HAPNZ WHEN THE TELEPROMPTER IS OFF WAKE UP AMERICA THIS IS WHO YOU VOTED FOR THE MONGOLOID MESSIAH WHO WNTS 2 EUTHANIZE THE ECONOMY TO SUIT HIS AIMZ WELCOME THE COMING OF THE TOTALITARIANISM OF THE PROLETARIAT HE HAS NO SENSITIVITY BECAUSE THEY DONT TEACH THAT IN FILTHY MADRASES WHERE THEY SUP ON HATE AND TEACH THE Q’UR AN WITH TELEPROMPTERZ
He already apologized.
Wow, I totally did not expect that this completely innocuous comment which offended no one at the show and went pretty much unnoticed by the host himself would be taken out of context and then spread far & wide (so to speak, they are a regional party these days) through the wingtard echo chamber, with Jake the Tapper out in front of everyone. Because Jake Tapper is all about finding the real, hard-hitting stories no one else even has the guts to look for.
Let me see if I’m understanding this, conservatives have been gnashing their teeth over the horrors of political correctness for 20 God damn years and all of a sudden the President says something politically incorrect and they are outraged, did I miss anything? THE COMEBACK STARTS NOW!
Well, Hopey was bound to fuck up eventually. It’ll be funny to see The Big Republican Outrage over this lame-ass joke.
Mr Blifil: ALL CAPS, ftw! But you spelled one word wrong. It’s TELEPROMTER.
do retards even vote?
Mr Blifil: Baby, you need to step away from the comments on the wingnut sites, that’s almost too good. ‘Tard, also.
It’s fun watching the right wingers, who hate virtually everyone, act appalled by a retard joke.
Guys, guys - ok imagine if “W” said that. Just think. Us libtards would be in meltdown. Barry fucked up. Simple.
He could have said, “I now bowl better than Terri Schaivo.”
Obama’s remark was still funnier than the Johnny Knoxville movie. And he didn’t even ask where the fuckin’ ice cream was afterwards.
tulfjvzvxlxj: Yes, they vote republican or libertarian.
My Mrs. works with the “developmentally challenged” as her day job. The Little Lady often takes them bowling and informs me that any tard bowling a 129 would be pants-ed by the other tards.
Clearly, Jake Tapper needs to pants the President.
I imagine that Biden is all pissy this morning because he didn’t say it first.
hobospacejungle: There will be no backlash, all Republican voters are retards anyway.
tulfjvzvxlxj: Only in Mississippi.
WadISay: Rush Limbaugh.
ring joyce: But I thought it’s OK when tards make fun of tards, blacks make fun of blacks, etc.
WadISay: Does this stuff come to you naturally or do you, like have a randomizer in your computer where you just enter: “dark/inappropriate/hilarious/send”? Only laugh of the day so far.
I respect President O a lot, but for someone who is a gifted athlete to say something like that, TACKY, sir.
Hopey said Leno was treating him as if he were a Special Olympian, with the faux, sarcastic praise. How is this objectionable? I do not want to be one of those folk on the left who say “Barry fucked up, no big deal, just apologize and move on” because I don’t think he fucked up.
Fucking up would’ve been “I bowled 129. I think I qualify for the Special Olympics.” Which is pretty much how the wingtards are treating this. Hopey said nothing remotely like this. Let’s not ask for an apology where none is needed, just to satisfy the blood lust of the anti-political correctness (until just now, and again starting tomorrow) republican hate machine.
Obama made himself the butt of the joke. If he had said, “Fucking retards can’t touch me in the bowling alley. Their puffed up, slitted eyes can’t see the pins well enough. And then it takes them about 20 years to learn the rules. Get back on the special bus, you mutant fucks.” See, that would have been offensive.
THIS? People have their panties in a wad over THIS? Sheesh.
Anyway, everyone knows that “retarded” no longer refers to someone with something actually wrong with them, officially diagnosed and all. Those people are “developmentally disabled”. If you’re retarded, that means you could be normal, but you choose to be stupid instead. Like W and at least half the people in the red states.
ring joyce: “W” is unaware the Special Olympics even exists and wouldn’t have the slightest frame of reference to use to determine who competes in it.
Mr Blifil:
LOL. Very convincing. A 5 TruckNutz rating.
tulfjvzvxlxj: No, but they are allowed to members of the Washington press corps.
Mr Blifil: You’re wrong. Bush was not oblivious to common knowledge. Barry was trying to be cute and he failed. It’s not the end of the world.
I see a “Support the Special Olypmics” PSA in Obama’s future.
WAH WAH STOOPID LIBTARDS AND THERE PILITICAL CORECTNESS YOU CANT EVEN MAKE AN INNOCENT JOKE WITHOUT OFENDING SUMBODY THESE DAYS WAIT *OBAMA* SAID THAT???? (Pause) As you were, Blifil.
So yeah, he was making fun of Jay’s patronizing.
Still, though: rough chuckle, Barry. Don’t give ‘em any ammo. Ain’t your strong suit.
Give the guy a break, not everyone in the Special Olympics (SPED) is a retard. Some of them are missing arms and legs and shit, but otherwise they are normal humans. I’d like to see a quadrupedal amputee bowl a 129.
ring joyce:
True, but Bush also vetoed special olympics funding, so we kind of already knews what he thought of the tards.
Well, I was going to turn today’s reindeer games of Perpetual Outrage into a drinking game, but so far today I’ve already heard on radio/seen on tv Obama’s stupid joke compared to Don Imus, calls for his resignation, references to Rev Wright, Lindsey Graham throwing a hissy fit on tv and calling the president out of Touch for making basketball brackets, and I haven’t had the time to go out and get gin yet.
Thanks to Ty Pennington and Sears, the tards are the only people with homes.
wow, anyone offended by this is REALLY over sensative
You’d have to be retarded to be offended by this.
Uh, did anyone else notice he wasn’t talking about his crummy bowling score when he made the Special Olympics reference? He was talking about all the patronizing praise he was getting from Jay and the audience for his crummy bowling score. As in, not referencing the brave retards and their special athletic efforts, but referencing the people who give them hugs for the effort, no matter how “special.” And not being the slightest bit mean about it. If you’re self-deprecatingly calling yourself a ‘tard, it’s not offensive. Not super funny, but hey, it’s live teevee and NOOBAMA DOSNT HAVE HIS TELPROMTPER!
LIPSTICK ON A PIG THATS SEXIS
Wait, am I wearing the wrong outrage?
I find the defense that Obama was joking that Leno was being condescending to him, as one would be to a Special Olympian who didn’t compete up to par, to be pretty disingenuous. Because although the video makes it appear that this is indeed the joke he was going for, it’s still a pretty bad joke, one that’s still based on the perception that there are those in the Special Olympics towards whom people feel the need to condescend, and so pointing out that that was what he was going for doesn’t make things much better. I even saw a commenter on Huffington Post saying that in a way he was “standing up” for Special Olympians with his joke.
You know how people on the internet, or anywhere else, look like complete idiots when they stand up for Bush no matter what? Don’t turn into that kind of person.
I was just listening to a caller, a mother of a Developmentally Disabled child, on the “Stephanie Miller Show” (yeahhh, I know) who said that the president’s statement caused her to “cry all morning.”
THIS is what makes you cry all morning? He didn’t personally call out your daughter as the shittiest bowler in North America. I have a feeling that Kleenex commercials make her cry all morning, as well.
WadISay: or Max Cleland.
Seriously, people, I have a kid with Down Syndrome and I wasn’t offended.
Though this may have been a highlight, the whole interview was pretty good. You can watch the whole thing here:
http://gotchamedia.blogspot.com/2009/03/obama-on-leno-full-interview.html
ph7: They love retards since Trig came along.
HOW COULD HE SAY ANYTHING MEAN ABOUT THOSE RETARDED FUCKS? THIS WILL NOT STAND. IT IS UN-AMERICAN THAT OUR PRESIDENT IS POKING FUN AT RETARDED MORANS.
This is all totally retarded, and gay.
Serolf Divad: He can even volunteer to compete in the “Solve the Banking Crisis” event…
Seriously, the dude just earned himself a personal appearance at just about every leg of the competition, including the prelims which is where you find the…ah…least competitive entrants…
You are all missing the point. The joke was on a TELEPROMPTER!
also; trucknutz; fucking valuable; etc.
An American in Toronto: I know that when I am suffering I like nothing better than to get on a call-in radio show telephone queue and be put on hold for 20 minutes or so. It’s a very calming experience.
Jake Tapper: the new David Gregory.
In other news, President Obama brushed his nose with his index finger today ostensibly to relieve an itch by scratching. Still, millions were offended at the brushing off gesture since it is often associated with discounting what others have said in conversation. Asked by the WH press corps, Sec. Gibbs said the president often has itches he needs to scratch, some in areas inappropriate to comment on. When pressed further Gibbs did say the President does need to scratch his armpits and area behind his kneecaps regularly, primarily as a result of minor irritation from clothing fabrics. In further elaboration Gibbs said an inquiry would be established to provide a list of possible fabric softeners that would enable the President to cease scratching and resume his role as Über-parent of the Universe.
Mr Blifil: sorry. Should have read the prior posts more closely.
shortsshortsshorts: Think about it, Shorts. He was insulting a large proportion of the country. I mean, the ALL CAPS CONTINGENT ALONE ACCOUNTS FOR LIKE 40% OF THE COUNTRY AND 95% OF THE RETARDED!!1!
Fake umbrage, an American tradition.
Orangeen: Yeah yeah. That’s not the point. It’s all meta now. As the wonkette subhead flagged, the conventional wisdom now will be that Obama dissed disabled people. Fuckups happen. If Bush was on the Tonight Show and made a similar joke the media would have crapped itself. It’s just fucking true. I’ll have a bourbon, thanks.
ring joyce: Yes, but Bush can make that joke because he IS retarded.
Oh. That wasn’t nearly as bad as I feared. Although I would think that 129 would be a pretty pitiful score in the Special Olympics, too.
Zinco: Sigh. This is becoming a daily occurrence: Concern troll is concerned.
It’s not disingenuous to point out that Barry was not ridiculing Special Olympians. He was ridiculing Leno’s sarcastic treatment of him, as if Leno was encouraging Barry like Leno would encourage a Special Olympian. He did not say “I suck as bad as those fucking ‘tards or one-legged dudes in the Special Olympics.” There is a difference. An important difference. To suggest otherwise is disingenuous. And using HuffPo as an appeal to authority is laughable.
Nevertheless, concern troll, your concern and the concern of other concern trolls like you have already resulted in an apology from Barry to the Big Kahuna of the Special Olympics. Congratulations, you have helped those who seek to tear down President Hopey at every turn. Don’t break your arm patting yourself on the back.
ring joyce:
Well , I’ve been to a couple Democratic message boards today, and I see a lot of “I’m the mother of a kid who is in the special olympics, and I have been crying all morning”, and the media HAS been giving Obama shit for this, and whatthefuckamIdoing this in Wonkette, and I wasn’t trying to have a serious conservation.
And don’t worry, Jake Tapper, who is our personal Is Obama still Smoking watchdog, will be all over this today.
shanemacgowan: CHK WTH YR TELEPROMPTRZ NXT TIME YOU LIB FAIRY FAGGOT LOVING INSENSITIVE POLITICALLY INCORRECT INTOLERANT RETARD ASSHOLE
hobospacejungle: Hopey said Leno was treating him as if he were a Special Olympian, with the faux, sarcastic praise.
that was how I understood it, too - but context is not the strong suit of the New Media.
Zinco: I’m tattoing your post along the circumference of my perineum as an homage to you.
Yes, this was clearly more offensive and deserving of shame than Steele’s one-armed midget comment. also.
Pelagius: Also queer.
NoWireHangers: I SUPPOSE YOU ARE CORRECT. I MEAN WE CANNOT LET HIM GET AWAY WITH IT BECAUSE MOST OF THE INTERNET IS MADE UP OF THE RETARDED. WE MUST DEFEND OUR RIGHT TO RETARDEDNESS, FOREVERS.
Orangeen:
um….. conversation
fuck jay leno for snickering at Barack’s score. a 129 isn’t THAT bad. i’d like to see what ol’ chinny McChin-Chin bowls.
Zinco: I wish more people were like you. No snark here.
Wingnuts - mission accomplished. It’s all completely bogus, but they’ve successfully diverted the dialogue. Look at the activity here.
Echo chamber still lives!
Yes We Can make fun of people who make fun of the President making fun of the Special Olymipics Bowling competition. It’s all about making fun fun again and Hope and Change and fun.
You do realize that in some countries, the fate of nations depends on those magic 10 pins and their 10 frames. WAKE UP SHEEPLE! PREZNIT WHO CAN”T BOWL WILL KILL US ALL!!!
Just remember, Barry. Tomorrow is Shabbos. Do not fucking roll on Shabbos.
Orangeen: Crying? Oh God. I saw the first of this idiotic meme on the local news this morning. The news fucking sucks. This is so goddamn stupid. Who the fuck cares? Do people honestly believe that Obama hates special needs children? Really? If so, go fuck yourself. Then cry a little more. I need a drink and it’s not yet 8:30 in California.
The Neoskeptic: Well…My grandma bowls better than that and she’s in her 80s…
The Neoskeptic: I think we all know what kind of bowls Jay prefers.
ph7: Except this is but an echo of the echo chamber, functioning under the precept that the echo chamber participants might thereby notice the echo for once, slim thought the chance may be.
Mr Blifil: “FILTHY MADRASES WHERE THEY SUP ON HATE AND TEACH THE Q’UR AN WITH TELEPROMPTERZ”
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
How long do we have to wait for a comment from Sarah Palin?
3…2…
Arguing on teh Intarwebs is like competing in the Special Olympics…Oh, wait.
shortsshortsshorts: Wonkette, the last bastion of the retarded. Don’t fuck with us Barry.
Today we are all retarded.
I AM THE MOTHER AND FATHER OF A DOWNS SYNDROME CHILD, A ONE-ARMED MIDGET, A HYDROCEPHALIC HERMAPHRODITE AND A SPECIAL NEEDS GOAT. I HAVE BEEN CRYING ALL MORNING WAITING TO HEAR MY VOICE ON AM RADIO. HOW COULD OUR HALFRICAN AMERICAN PREZNIT SAY SUCH HURTFUL THING ABOUT MY CHILDRENS. US AMERICAN HERO JOHN MCAIN WOULD NEVAR RIDICUL ANYONE THAT SWEET TEMPERD MAN SHOULD OF BEEN PREZINENT. ONLY JAKE TAPPER TRULEY KNOWS HOW I FEEL WHY DOES THE BIAS MEDIA ALWAYS GIVE NOOBLAMA A FREE PASS HE IS THE TRUE RACIST AND RETARD HATER. TAKE AWAY HIS TELEPROMTERZ AND UH-BAMA ONLY SPEAKS HATE LIKE THE ACORN ANTECRIST.
NoWireHangers: She will be appalled, then she’ll cut special ed funding some more to illustrate her outrage at Obama’s comment.
chascates: AHahaHahAHaha
>>A SPECIAL NEEDS GOAT
hobospacejungle: is Mickey Kaus.
My four year old bowled an eleven this past Wednesday. An eleven! I can’t imagine what Obama would think of him. Send him off to the secret sterility program, I’m sure.
IMPEACH BARRY!
HE MUST NOT MOCK US AMERICA! FUCKING MUSLINS AND THEIR SMURT TERRORISTIC KIDS!!!!
IMPEACH!!! IMPEACH!!!
Mr Blifil: I will now move back to Packistan, where I belong. Or maybe San Francisco.
chascates: I don’t feel tardy.
I can’t wait to see how Barry turns this into another win. I bet he ends up bowling with, and getting beaten by a Special Olympian at the White House Lanes. With hugging.
And. I have the feeling that when Barry has a few and lets fly, he’s pretty funny.
Oh, Christ. The knuckle-dragging morons and PUMAs are out in force at
politico.http://dyn.politico.com/members/forums/thread.cfm?catid=1&subcatid=2&threadid=2202473
TELEPROMPTER!!!! MY KINGDOM FOR A TELEPROMPTER!!!!
d4g33z: He’ll throw the honorary first whiffleball at the next Special Olympics. Directly at Trig.
ManchuCandidate: I like peaches.
hobospacejungle: I don’t really think pointing out that Obama said something stupid makes me a concern troll, and I definitely think he’d be worse off it he hadn’t apologized right away (on the flight back to D.C., no less), which I’m guessing he would have done immediately even if Olbermann hadn’t pointed out the comment before the show aired. Do you honestly think he’d be better off if he hadn’t apologized? Just imagine that hullabaloo.
d4g33z: This guy is already way ahead of you:
http://www.tmz.com/2009/03/20/special-olympics-champ-to-barack-bring-it-on/
I can’t wait for what will be, I’m sure, a cracking/outraged response from the RNC leader (read Mount Rush)…
Especially since we all remember his comments on Michael J. Fox…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5TdGCMLuRk
Would that all these retards have been so outraged when W. & Dick were shredding the Constitution, pushing torture, allowing illegal wire tapping, starting a war on KNOWN false premises, de-regulating the financial markets & generally telling the rest of the world to go fuck itself. Cry me a fucking river & STFU.
Sorry this selective outrage just boggles my mind.
Mr Blifil: Not buying it. YEW SPILLED TO MANIE WORDSES WRIGHT, YOU MORAN.
+1 for Obama. It was wickedly funny. And politically incorrect. Very snarky. Well played.
Saxbe Chambliss laughed loudest at this joke. And he hasn’t apologized to anyone yet, also, so he will burn in hell.
Zinco: I know were supposed to be funny here and all. But you’re missing the politics at play. I’d be willing to wager that Obama planned the statement, and the fallout from the statement.
The only way to knock yourself off a truly bad news cycle (AIG) is by tossing different red meat to the critics. Only a few people care about the statement (though I will admit that those people care deeply). But Obama isn’t losing any votes by being pummeled for not being PC. Indeed, he’s probably gaining them. So, Obama was able to shift the public dialogue from incompetence over AIG to an issue that isn’t hurting him.
We saw this tactic last summer when Obama made the “lipstick on a pig” comment. At that time he made it he was reeling from some mini-scandel - I don’t even remember what it was anymore.
Nooningham alert! Foxes and Hedgehogs at 11 o’clock!
DangerousLiberal: Moran is not PC. Retard, plz.
COMRADE LENO HAS ONCE AGAIN ADVANCED THE SOCIALIST AGENDA BY ALLOWING THIS UNBORN AFRICAN HYPNOTIST MAKE FUN OF OUR GREATEST NATURAL RESOURCE, RETARDS. WAKE UP PEOPL!
A great billboard to put outside Rush Limbaugh’s house would state something along the lines of him not being capable of bowling a 129, at least without his pills that is.
Worst. President. Ever.
Oh, & Jake ‘fucking’ Tapper & Jonathan ‘fat as a blimp’ Martin need to go get a room & work out all those latent homosexual frustrations they have towards Barry.
Poor Barry. He’s had a rough week.
Retards are seriously underrepresented in the cabinet. I think Bill Richardson’s stock just went up a little.
Canmon (the Inadequate): God bless TMZ. And yes, many of the Specials are way ahead of me…
ring joyce: Here’s the deal, Libtartds have been toooooo politically correct for too long. Political correctness is nothing but a white sheet covering racism, homophobia and sexism. +2 for Obama. I take my +1 back and double it. There’s no fuck up. It’s just a dude with a wicked sense of humor being wicked.
What Mr.President wanted to say was “My balls usually end up in the gutter” but he changes his joke to the less offensive comment.
hobospacejungle: Epic Win.
Canmon (the Inadequate): That’s great. And then Obama will invite him to bowl and will get his ass kicked by a retard. And then Putin will take off his shirt and wrestle a bear to show the world what a real man is all about. Because being a real man ain’t about hope. It’s about taking what you want, when you want, anytime you damn well please. Vlad knows this.
ring joyce: Get over yourself.
I know I’m repeating here, but a score of 129 is pretty fucking good in my book. I can only do it when I’m in the zone. I mean drunk.
WhatTheHeck: Much as Elin Nordegren kisses Tiger Woods’ balls for good luck.
hobospacejungle:
Siddown, Leno!
kill me now for my lack of snark
Zinco: I think you jumped to conclusions that weren’t warranted when you assumed Obama said something stupid. If you listen carefully to the interview it is clear that he did not compare himself to a special olympian. He compared Leno’s treatment of him to Leno’s supposed treatment of a special olympian. Automatically assuming Obama said something offensive or stupid and criticizing him for it is the MO of the republican party since Obama took office. They twist his words or take them out of context or deliberately misunderstand what he says in an attempt to score cheap political points because they have no other weapons (ideas) to attack him with. When those supposedly on Obama’s side participate in this silly game it only further distracts us from what we really should be outraged about. I’m fine if he wants to apologize but I don’t think it’s his supporters’ place to ask for that apology since I don’t believe it is warranted. And I hope Gibbs later today explains what really happened on the show and doesn’t just accept the anti-Obama version which isn’t actually true.
This reminds me of when wingtards get outraged about someone’s book or movie & predictably it turns out none of them have read the book or seen the movie. These people supposedly crying all morning; I’m guessing very few of them even saw Leno’s show. They heard it from someone who heard it from someone, or better yet, read it on Drudge or some similar hate-filled site so by the time the crybabies hear it the real story has been so distorted that the faux outrage is well & truly stoked. For those on Obama’s side to participate in this wingtard theater of the absurd is, well, absurd.
At the very least anyone who has the slightest bit of sympathy or respect for Obama should have first given him the benefit of the doubt and not assumed he actually said something offensive before watching the interview themselves. But that appears not to have happened. Why bother with what actually happened when we can draw attention to ourselves and cry on AM radio or feign outrage on website comment sections. These people are too fucking stupid to understand the real problems facing the country and instead enjoy acting like 8-year-olds having temper tantrums. Democrats shouldn’t participate in this garbage. Ignore the wingtards, don’t debate them on Hardball, let them be petty on their own. And save the criticism of Obama for when he really warrants it.
He’d be better off if he explained what actually happened and apologized for a poor choice of words, not automatically accepted the probably wingtard response and apologized for what they want everyone to think he said.
TELEPROMPTERZ…or ACORN!!!
PopeyesPipe: You’re right. 129 is pretty good.
NoWireHangers: i know a lot of old ladies at my bowling league [yes i'm in a bowling league - excuse to drink beer by the pitcher on a wednesday] and you’d be surprised at how good old ladies can be at bowling. they pick up spares like hobos pick up recycling.
ring joyce: How in Christ’s name is that a fuck up? Saying “Spercial Olympsticks” is a fuck up. Godamnit I can’t stand how fucking retarded people are.
Fortunately we always have Joe the Plumber to say something much more repulsive than anything President Obama might come up with.
I can’t even bowl 129 on Wii stone sober. Well maybe, never tried it sober before.
This is what drives me crazy. If you LOOK AT THE DAMN CLIP, he’s not mocking the disabled. He’s not saying that they can’t bowl (??!) or whatever. He’s making fun of Jay Leno. Hopey says his score is 129, and Jay’s all, “Oh, that’s very good” in the the most condescending manner possible, as if he’s in the Special Olympics (”yay, look, you ran a lap, good for you!”), which Hopey points out. He said nothing bad about the Special Olympics, he said nothing bad about people in the Special Olympics. If anything, he was dissing the way people talk about people who are in the Special Olympics.
I predict this will have a three day news cycle. Carry us through the weekend on this stupid crap. Are we supposed to fiddle away from Rome, or towards it?
Right-wing-tard-faker posted this at Politicrap:
‘Found this little gem on the net. It appears that other kids are picking up on Obama’s remarks and using it to further hurt and justify hurling abuse on Special Needs Children.
“deer persident obama,
i wass on the intanet andisaw were u maike me sad.
sum kitds make fune ofv mea oll ttme. plse madide dem stop. dose kitds hurt me, pls make dem stop mr. persident.
i sory 4 mybad splell.
cindy”‘
SayItWithWookies:
Joe so horny? Joe love you LOOOONG TIME!
I humbly apologize for writing a bunch of boring ass shit above. I promise never to do so again. I am so bored by it myself I am going to bed now to sleep it off. When I awaken I fully expect Corky to be our new preznit.
I truly believe there are ideas out there on TELEPROMTERS. Years ago I drove from near Pittsburgh to El Paso,Tex for a new job. The CO. put me up at a SHERATON. The GM at the new job didn’t hire me saying he got a report I was up during the night ‘HIGH’ running up and down the hallway chasing the maids with a broom. I found out later on SOMEONE started a rumor I was a NARC that went from RADIO STATION to RADIO STATION for the FEDS. Well,my wife and I worked 2-3 weeks to make enough money to get back home near Pittsburgh. lIVING MOSTLY IN OUR CAR. Someone had an AGENDA that didn’t include me. I know all about CONSPIRACIES.
hobospacejungle:
You forgot a copy-n-paste quote. *sigh* Goddamn amateurs.
suchsweetthunder: Oh, for Christ’s sake. First concern trolls, then the tinfoil hat people. Buttsecks, stat!
Canmon (the Inadequate): Via that story: A bowling phenom in the Special Olympics has just challenged Prez Barack Obama to a White House roll-off … and he’ll probably kick Barack’s butt.
Wasn’t that the whole POINT of Barry’s super offensive horrible hateful joke? He knows he sucks at bowling? Ugh.
amateur. this effort wouldn’t even register on the biden gaffe-o-meter.
Get a brain, moran. (And by ‘moran’, I’m referring of course to Jay Leno.)
SayItWithWookies: My face was thisclose to freezing in a disgusted frown. I hope you’re happy. It speaks to Joe’s irrelevance that a quote that ridiculous isn’t meme worthy.
hobospacejungle: I agree with most everything you said, except that it never, ever makes political sense to make any jokes involving the Special Olympics or the disabled, however innocent they are. Even if Obama had phrased his quip better, there’d have been belly-aching, whether or not it was justified. Really, the main reason I found the comment stupid was because it gave people an opening to rip him apart, not because I personally found it very offensive, although I do think it was a bit inappropriate (but disagree with me on that if you want).
Oh come on, you old women - I think Obamarama should have just whipped his massive, 10 inch, uncircumcised cock out and bitch-slapped the shit out of Leno, that whiny retarded cunt.
That’ll show America he means bidnezz!!
shortsshortsshorts: SHORTS!!!! WE NEED YOUR HELP HERE!!!!!http://dyn.politico.com/members/forums/thread.cfm?catid=1&subcatid=2&threadid=2202473&start=451¤tPage=16
Gopherit: d4g33z: It’ll be a photo-op - until the Secret Service flashes a piece out on the lane and gets Barry thrown out of the semis.
Zinco: You’re talking about the same people who made up a faux sexist outrage over lipstick on a pig. The same people. The Rethuglicans have nothing. They’re grasping for anything that they think can sink. It’s just like the campaign.
Gopherit: Stop being a masochist and step away from Politico. You’ll thank me later. Possibly. You can get a nosebleed from reading the comments alone!
Zinco: The only people who would think Obama was deriding retards are the people who would deride retards. He was deriding Leno for the false praise he’d given. So where are all the assholes who should be chastising Obama for being mean to Leno - who, by the way, appears very capable of taking it on the chin.
Lazy Media: It’s a tin beret, damnit. A BERET.
La résistance sur la vie!
trondant: Agreed.
Jesus Quintana: Let me tell you something, pendejo. You pull any of your crazy shit with us, you flash a piece out on the lanes, I’ll take it away from you, stick it up your ass and pull the fucking trigger ’til it goes “click.”
The Dude: Jesus.
Jesus Quintana: You said it, man. Nobody fucks with the Jesus.
I haven’t made fun of retards or the deformed since I got this Bell’s Palsy and look deformed and get so fucked up with manually blinking my right eye and using eye drops and accidentally deleting files that I’m acting like a retard.
So, having made no jokes of this nature for more than three months, Hopey is welcome to the moments of political incorrectness I have carefully eschewed for, low, this long, long time.
Now, will someone please explain this to the blogtards?
2druk2phluq: I am having a shitty day and you made me laugh out loud. Epic victory.
So what if Barry made fun of the Special Olympics? Bush’s presidency WAS the Special Olympics of presidencies, even more than Buchanan, who was also the gay. And yes, I know Lewis Black made this lame (retarded) joke first.
does barry have to go to rehab now, or will he save that for when he makes fun the gays?
An American in Toronto: Wouldn’t crying all morning be more logical if the Repubtard had won the election and McCain would have iced any funding for the disabled? In this woman’s case, it was about her–not the retards. Like Sarah Palin and her “Look I didn’t abort this Retard” baby–”vote for me” political stunt.
tulfjvzvxlxj: Yes, retards vote. They’re called Republicans.
DustBowlBlues: Reading that some woman cried all morning after hearing Barry’s Special Olympics comment makes me want to go over to her house and beat her to death with her retarded kid’s bowling trophies.
hobospacejungle: I scanned the whole thing–you did very well, but I have to query: Did you write in an erudite fashion to prove you aren’t, in reality, an ACORN-financed retard?
Gopherit: I LIKE TURTLES!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMNry4PE93Y
People who are mentally retarded aren’t disabled. They are mentally retarded.
I just read an article in the Wed. Edition of the CS Monitor (my refuge from the idiocracy chatterers) that economists see the bottom of the recession, with some key indicators showing Bernanke might not be completely a cockeyed optimist when he says we could be in recovery mode by the end of the year.
Since the Repubtards have distanced themselves from anything Hopey has done, it really doesn’t matter if O’Bama is responsible for the recovery, or not. He will get all the credit.
At that point, this shit won’t matter. The wavering Democrats will be queuing up to praise him–or suck his cock, if their self-serving bullshit has gotten completely out of hand. (I’m looking at you, Byah et. al.)
An American in Toronto: A mother of a developmentally disable child crying all morning? Over THIS? God, she must be a joy to be around. I have an autistic son and so as a spokeperson for parents of scratch-n-dent children the world over I hereby decree this outrage lame, overblown and utterly retarded.
DustBowlBlues: My cover’s been blown! And I would’ve gotten away with it if it weren’t for you meddling, Palsy-inflicted (have you mentioned that?) kids.
Also you keep spelling Bayh b-y-a-h. Also. Not that I care, just wondering if it’s an insulting acronym I’ve not heard before.
If it is all right for black people to say “nigger,” then is it alright for Rush Limbaugh to say “braindead retarded fat drug addict loser.” ?
Custerwolf: Reading that some woman cried all morning after hearing Barry’s Special Olympics comment makes me want to go over to her house and beat her to death with her retarded kid’s bowling trophies.
Snorf! Goddamn that is funny. If outrage produces snorts of laughter like this comment please let it continue.
Ha ha, retarded people are hilarious!
Except when they get appointed president by the Supreme Court. Then it’s not so funny.
DoctorCulturae: Can you imagine if Hopey was scratching his balls?? The outrage? The fury?
Fact. Barry hates retarded people.
http://democralypsenow.blogspot.com/2009/03/barry-goes-hollywood.html
Anyone else excited for this to be the main focal point of the 2012 Obama/Palin debate?
“I just want to interrupt your point about no one in the country having a job since 2010 and talk about my special little guy, and how this president and hollywood elite media folks hate him and want him to be an abortion, don’t ya know.”
Tangentially, Stephanie Miller LURVES her some Wonkette.
She mentions Wonkette at least a couple of times a week.
hobospacejungle: “Bayh b-y-a-h.” I so wish this spelling error were part of a code from a secret, leftist journo cabal. Sadly, I just spelled the guy’s name wrong. Bayh. Byah. Face it–it’s a weird name, either way you spell it. Though in the case of his dad Birch (to go with the goofy last name? A bad name theme?) I could make the exception.
hobospacejungle: “Palsy-inflicted” Who, me? I believe it’s come up once or twice.
Meta-satire on the condescending and marginalizing treatment of those with special needs by comparing it to our treatment of messianic politicians?
Damn, Mr. Arugula, please just stick to plain old rape jokes….
Well, yeah, Palin ended up criticizing the comment. But of COURSE she would defend the Special Olympics. It’s the only thing a Palin has a chance of winning.
this freakin obamanation got into office on the pity party card ,now he’s going to turn around and insult some of his most loyal voters
this freaken obamanation got in on the pity party card now he wants to turn around and insult some of his most loyal followers
patrickhenry: Troll echo echo echo…
patrickhenry: OMG so not listening
patrickhenry: kommints u r doin it rong
patrickhenry: It wasn’t worth posting the first time.
I’m more annoyed to see Wonkette comentators turning into my-president-right-or-wrong catflaps. But it was an unfortunate thing to say and I think some of the suggestions that he was commenting on people’s patronising praise of the disabled are a bit disingenuous. To me it implied that Special Olympians aren’t really worthy of praise but that we praise them to be kind.
p.s. Not that I think that Obama thinks that. It was just clumsy.
hobospacejungle: Total agree. I heard the outraged ruckus before I saw the clip and came away with the impression that he had said that his bowling score was so bad that he either qualified for or would not be able to qualify for the Special Olympics. When I heard what he actually said, which was not even in that neighborhood (or that zip code, for that matter), I was like are you fucking kidding me?! All that over this? Those wingnuts need hobbies, although I guess for many of them, waiting with bated breath for Obama to say something that could even remotely be construed as a gaffe IS their hobby.
Mr Blifil: WIN. WIN. WIN.
patrickhenry: So it’s safe to assume that your handle is a tribute to your law school?
lapinot: Obama was simply saying that Leno’s praise would be more suitable were he competing in the Special Olympics. Why is THAT considered an automatic putdown of retarded or disabled folks? For that matter, why is it that we are expected to treat these people with kid gloves, all the while shitting all over anyone else who gets in our way? They’re not SPECIAL. They’re just different. To think otherwise is merely a subtle form of snobbery, a less tangible handicap perhaps.
Now how the fuck do I climb down off this godamned soapbox with only a pogo-stick for a leg?