• February 9, 2012

'Hello, Cleveland!'Ha ha ha PSYCH, he did not go to “Iran,” as suggested briefly by the LA Times, but Iraq, its neighbor, the one with the war. Wars? The president stopped there even though he clearly hates Iraq, given his eternal pledges to get out of there and “bring the troops home” to Afghanistan. He probably handed out a fake turkey as a fun prank, as is the wont of American presidents visiting Iraq. Thank you to Sam M. for the screenshot of the LAT’s moment of terrible shame. [Al Jazeera]

{ 39 comments }

Jewdishoowary Square April 7, 2009 at 11:07 am

Go easy on the LA Times. Those “N” and “Q” keys are practically right next to each other.

jagorev April 7, 2009 at 11:11 am

They get partial credit for not spelling his name as Osama.

President Beeblebrox April 7, 2009 at 11:11 am

WAKE UP SHEEPEL, YR PREZNIT IS REALLY A SEKRIT MUSLIN! YESTERDAY TURKEY, TODAY THE IRAN!

Advocatus_Diaboli April 7, 2009 at 11:11 am

He did go to IraN because he’s a secret mooslin and he just sold all the negroes in US Merika to Akmadinajad!

TGY April 7, 2009 at 11:14 am

No one expects the Obama Inquisition.

Terry April 7, 2009 at 11:14 am

Now, that WOULD have been a surprise visit. Ahmadinejad would have been sleeping and had to run to the airport in his jammies to meet Obama.

Sussemilch April 7, 2009 at 11:14 am

Oh sure, the reporters are all homeless bankrupt food stamp hobos, and you’re grilling them on geographical minutiae. Have a heart, applaud them for having the strength to type real sentences and not resorting 2 l33t sp33k.

Serolf Divad April 7, 2009 at 11:15 am

No, no, no. The L.A. Times got it right. Obama’s body double went to Iraq, but Obama himself went to Iran to speak with the Ayatollah Khamenei and receive further instructions directly from his Sith master.

hobospacejunkie April 7, 2009 at 11:15 am

Please let this hasten the death of newspapers and herald a new paradigm of news-gathering, whatever it may be.

Can’t wait for Bobby Gibbs’ next press conference: “I can report that the president was not the victim of a shoe-throwing incident, so already our foreign policy is paying dividends, Mr. Cheney.

Come here a minute April 7, 2009 at 11:16 am

Check out the photo — Hopey is surfing the beaches of Iraq, with oil rigs in the distance. Is it dangerous? “Ahmed don’t surf!”

picadillythirds April 7, 2009 at 11:19 am

Wait, there is a difference between Iran and Iraq? They are both just muslin countries that wish to destroy us, right?

AngryBlakGuy April 7, 2009 at 11:21 am

…doesn’t Iraq have a job open for a new thoroughly insane, ego maniacal, dictator with the name Hussein?!

NoWireHangers April 7, 2009 at 11:22 am

I’m actually more offended by that shot of Kristen Johnson to the right. It’s from the bitch troll from hell Americanized remake of Absolutely Fabulous. NO!

On a side note, GOD I miss Defamer. Wonkette is all I have left.

AngryBlakGuy April 7, 2009 at 11:22 am

…Barack HUSSEIN; Saddam HUSSEIN, brothers?!?!

AngryBlakGuy April 7, 2009 at 11:24 am

[re=282677]hobospacejunkie[/re]: …Twitter?

hobospacejunkie April 7, 2009 at 11:27 am

[re=282685]AngryBlakGuy[/re]: Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bruno April 7, 2009 at 11:29 am

Are there pre-conditions, because without pre-conditions you should never ever talk to foreigners.

Also, did Fox, or McCain finally stop their Number of Days Until Obama’s Been in Iraq counter yet?

magic titty April 7, 2009 at 11:30 am

Will we be receiving our Children’s Treasury of Freeper comments, regarding Perzdnit Hussein NOsama’s visit to his uncle’s mosque in Iraq?

Bruno April 7, 2009 at 11:31 am

[re=282678]Come here a minute[/re]: I didn’t know Obambi wears a cape when at the beach. Snazzy. (It’s probably to hide the cellulite)

ManchuCandidate April 7, 2009 at 11:32 am

NOBAMA, the IRANIAN Candidate!

Quick, someone make a T-shirt so we can sell it the fat dumb bitters.

frumious_bandersnatch April 7, 2009 at 11:35 am

Maybe Hopey is just enjoying the opportunity to have some conversations with grownups.

JohnnyMeatworth April 7, 2009 at 11:36 am

no, he actually went to a Flock of Seagulls concert where they played “I Ran.”

Mild Midwesterner April 7, 2009 at 11:42 am

This is just LA’s way of getting back at the Baghdad Times for reporting that Bel Air is in the Valley.

Come here a minute April 7, 2009 at 11:45 am

Hillary ain’t done yet — PUMA power! Obama, PRESUMPTUOUS.

Norbert April 7, 2009 at 11:47 am

[re=282693]JohnnyMeatworth[/re]: damn you, Meatworth, you got there first.

Lazy Media April 7, 2009 at 11:53 am

[re=282696]Come here a minute[/re]: What’s with these Segway idiots and their insistence on gyrostabilization instead of, I dunno, wheels? Are they worried about some looming wheel shortage?

queeraselvis v 2.0 April 7, 2009 at 11:55 am

Roast turkey? Feh. Obama would do just as well to bring in Bush’s balls on a platter.

Zadig April 7, 2009 at 12:01 pm

[re=282701]Lazy Media[/re]: You may laugh, but that’s because you can’t see the looming Wheel Bubble.

Professor Proffy McProfalton, Prof. April 7, 2009 at 12:01 pm

[re=282683]NoWireHangers[/re]: But Movieline is coming soon, and we shall have our defameroids back…

SayItWithWookies April 7, 2009 at 12:01 pm

This is just like that time they reported we invaded Iraq. Hahaha, what the hell reason would we have had to do that? Those yokels can’t get anything right.

Zadig April 7, 2009 at 12:02 pm

[re=282696]Come here a minute[/re]: Also, it looks like two moderately in-shape people could easily steal that out of your parking space.

NoWireHangers April 7, 2009 at 12:06 pm

[re=282715]Professor Proffy McProfalton, Prof.[/re]: Not soon enough. I have the shakes. It’sss haardd toooo typpppeee. Brian Grazer isn’t going to make fun of himself gggoddammitttttt!

Rush April 7, 2009 at 12:13 pm

Isn’t N. Korea on the way home from IraQ? The Axis of Islam.

S.Luggo April 7, 2009 at 12:17 pm

[re=282675]Sussemilch[/re]: This is what happens when you fire all the copy editors and replace them with cheap, Mexican labor and robots. Pulido for Congress!

bitchincamaro April 7, 2009 at 12:21 pm

Didn’t Stevie Wonder sing about this very conumdrum in the preamble to “Dont’ You Worry ‘Bout a Thaing”?

randomsausage April 7, 2009 at 12:22 pm

I just don’t know why we can’t get a crack team assembled to sort out this whole middle east shit: say, Chuck Norris, Arnie, The Rock, Vin Deisel plus some token black dude (maybe before they head out to the area they could spring Wesley Snipes from house arrest). Anyways, with or without Blade, I say fly them in low, under the radar, for a moonlit desert drop…and then have them free the hostages and bring back the secret plans. That would solve a lot of our problems.

Hooray For Anything April 7, 2009 at 12:35 pm

[re=282668]Jewdishoowary Square[/re]: I often that the Bush White House made the same mistake which is how we wound up fighting a war with Iraq

catsonmars April 7, 2009 at 12:53 pm

Let this be a lesson to the Times: things like this happen when you cut costs by firing all your staff.

meyotch April 7, 2009 at 12:54 pm

In related headline fuck-up news, the entire leadership of the Mormon Church resigned Monday.

http://www.buffalonews.com/260/story/632590.html

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