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Barack Obama Kills The Dickens Out Of A Fly

Ah, so he is a killer robot after all. [YouTube]


5:54 PM on Tue June 16 2009
By Jim Newell
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  1. facehead says at 5:58 pm, June 16th, 2009

    He’s the Pat Morita of socialism.

  2. facehead: Well, hell. I just knew that I’d be fast enough to post the first Karate Kid joke.

    Alas, no.

  3. charlesdegoal says at 6:03 pm, June 16th, 2009

    What the hell is Homeland Security doing about flies? They get into the White House as if it were a barn.

  4. Kinbote says at 6:03 pm, June 16th, 2009

    “Go get the Roach.”

    BOOM

    “Film that. There it is. Motherfucker.”

  5. Yes You Can Own A Piece of History says at 6:03 pm, June 16th, 2009

    Oh sweet jeebus. Some group is going to go ape shit over him killing a fly.

  6. qwerty42 says at 6:05 pm, June 16th, 2009

    maybe he should have used Pai Mei’s Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique?

  7. OReillysVibrator says at 6:05 pm, June 16th, 2009

    Min: Oddly enough I thought I’d be fast enough to be the second poster, that the first would make the first Karate Kid joke, but that I’d be the first to point that out to him that I was one away.

  8. Internally valid says at 6:05 pm, June 16th, 2009

    The secret is to imagine that the fly is something you hate, like a fetus.

  9. Texan Bulldoggette says at 6:07 pm, June 16th, 2009

    If he were a lizard person, he’d have used his tongue, flicked it out of thin air & eaten it. I’m still waiting for Barry to part the waters or bring some locusts.

  10. Enturbulate says at 6:07 pm, June 16th, 2009

    Tonight on Fox News, “SEE OBAMA KILL & LAUGH ABOUT IT!!! ARE YOUR GUNS NEXT?”

  11. Squiggyfm says at 6:08 pm, June 16th, 2009

    I’m sorry. Does this really qualify as “breaking news”?

  12. 19kevin8 says at 6:08 pm, June 16th, 2009

    OReillysVibrator: Well, shit, I thought I could be the third, but by the time I finish writing and submitting this I’ll probably be the fifth.

  13. OReillysVibrator: Disappointing, isn’t it?

  14. m_supercomputer says at 6:09 pm, June 16th, 2009

    Man, I have as much of a crush on Obama as any lame twenty-something lefty, but even I was embarrassed about CNBC guy’s fawning. Christ.

    That said, I expect the wingnut conspiracy theory of the evening will be that Obama’s people brought the fly along on *purpose* to distract the interviewer from proving that he’s regulating the free market because he wants us all to be less free.

  15. slappypaddy says at 6:09 pm, June 16th, 2009

    as if we had any doubts this guy was a killer. we know what he had done to those three pirates a while back. enemies of the islamo-atheistic-socialist-and-what-have-you (buttseks, also?) revolution, take heed! yer daze is numbered.

  16. SayItWithWookies says at 6:10 pm, June 16th, 2009

    I guess that fly wasn’t too big to fail.

  17. paintitblack says at 6:12 pm, June 16th, 2009

    WAKE UP SHEEPLES NOBAMAS VILENT KILER JEST LIK I SED!!!!!!11111!!!! LOK UP DA WIMIN ‘N KIDZ!!!111

  18. dennymcden says at 6:15 pm, June 16th, 2009

    Why won’t anyone pay attention to the fact that the fly was trying to tell the truth?? That fly was the only patriot in the room. We should also demand an apology, you know, because of the military.

  19. Extemporanus says at 6:15 pm, June 16th, 2009

    David Shuster played the clip at the end of his threesome with Tamron Hall and Harwood, right before “Hardball.” This is an actual TRUE transcript:

    Harwood: “It was a ‘Dirty Harry-Make My Day’ moment. At the end of the interview, he picked up a napkin and said ‘I clean up after myself’ and picked the fly up off the carpet.”

    Shuster: “You know, Tamron, it never fails: Great weather, rainbows, incredible speeches, a three-point basket, and he nails it. Unbelievable!”

    Tamron: “I want to have Mr. Miyagi’s babies [or something to that effect].”

    Well done, Barack-san. Well done.

  20. facehead says at 6:15 pm, June 16th, 2009

    DAT FLY WAS A HOLOGRAMATON PROJECTION FROM HIS NEW JEWISH NASA TELERPROMPTERZ!!0!!!!!!

  21. GreatOldOnesParty says at 6:19 pm, June 16th, 2009

    PWNT!

  22. Hooray For Anything says at 6:20 pm, June 16th, 2009

    dennymcden: That fly was obviously looking for Obama’s birth certificate

  23. GreatOldOnesParty says at 6:23 pm, June 16th, 2009

    Slow news day is slow.

  24. Lascauxcaveman says at 6:23 pm, June 16th, 2009

    Yet two more INCREDIBLY UNCANNY similarities between me and my prez.

    I, too, am absolutley lethal to marauding houseflies, killing without remorse or even conscious thought.

    That, and I have the same aubusson carpet in my cave.

  25. WhatTheHeck says at 6:25 pm, June 16th, 2009

    Yeah, but Dick Cheney would have used a 12 gage fly swatter.

  26. orange says at 6:26 pm, June 16th, 2009

    stone-cold abortin’ shit.

  27. Another DC Lawyer (Again) says at 6:27 pm, June 16th, 2009

    Where is the OUTRAGE? Obama is a killer! You know who else kills defenseless flies? Muzlins. And terrorizers. And abortionists.

    In fact, that fly was a metafore for innocent feetuses, inncocently floating around the womb/white house and that terrorist muzlin man just went and killed it. TERRORIST!

  28. mayor_quimby says at 6:29 pm, June 16th, 2009

    I must say that that is much more impressive than clearing brush. Or falling ON YOUR FACE while mountain biking. The man just has good media karma.
    W choked on a pretzel, passed out and cut his face, and he actually told people what happened. That was either the truth, or the best lie they could come up with!
    Obama kills things with his bare hands live on camera.
    Let some Iraqi try to throw a shoe his way, he’ll catch those bitches and throw them right back, killing the infiltrator instantly.

  29. Hooray For Anything says at 6:31 pm, June 16th, 2009

    WhatTheHeck: I think Cheney would have captured the thing and then pulled the flies wings off with tweezers and then lit it on fire. Bush would have gotten the 12 gage fly swatter and shoot up half the White House. Then, when the fly was finally dead, he’d dress up in an Insect Repellant outfit and strutted around the White House while talking about the great victory he had against insects that hate our freedom.

  30. The Station Manager says at 6:33 pm, June 16th, 2009

    Oh man, I am so going to alert PeTA about this, and they’re going to picket his fly-killing ass, get naked for some reason, then try to convert broke Mexicans at the border to “Go Vegan And Don’t Kill Flies”.

  31. WIld Turkey says at 6:35 pm, June 16th, 2009

    Personally, I would have preferred the Dennis Kucinich version:

    He would have caught the fly, stopped the interview, and taken the fly outside to release it unharmed.

  32. Lionel Hutz Esq. says at 6:37 pm, June 16th, 2009

    Oh sure, Obama will kill a fly, but will he nuke Iran? Appeaser!

  33. Pat Pending says at 6:38 pm, June 16th, 2009

    Wow. Even though I’m still pissed about the White House logs and current waffling on healthcare and shit, he kills a fly and I’m all impressed again. Dubya would have accidentally swallowed and then choked on it.

    Obama CAN carry the ‘bad muthafucka’ wallet.

  34. Lord Growing says at 6:39 pm, June 16th, 2009

    There goes the always important Jain vote.
    2012’s gonna be tough.

  35. The best part was after he killed it, when he demanded approbation from his press secretary/personal lackey Robert Gibbs. “Whaddya think, Gibbs?” “That … that is very good. You are powerful and mighty. Thank you for not beating me to death like you did that fly, though I am as worthless.”

  36. imissopus says at 6:43 pm, June 16th, 2009

    Man, that Obama is a bad mother–

    Shut yo mouth!

    I’m talkin’ ’bout Obama.

    And we can dig it!

  37. imissopus says at 6:46 pm, June 16th, 2009

    I for one do not welcome our new fly overlords.

  38. FlownOver says at 6:52 pm, June 16th, 2009

    Or our new flyover lords.

  39. Lascauxcaveman says at 6:55 pm, June 16th, 2009

    imissopus: (Black Lassie ref: +1)

  40. The fly is a metaphor for [insert right-wing or left-wing cause that Obama is currently defeating and/or ignoring]

  41. populucious says at 7:04 pm, June 16th, 2009

    Josh Fruhlinger: You could feel everyone in the room psychologically rolling over on their backs and exposing their bellies.

    And yes, PETA will have Something To Say About This, Mr Obama, or should we say Mr O-betrayer!

  42. One Yield Regular says at 7:08 pm, June 16th, 2009

    I just keep picturing the end of the 1958 version of “The Fly,” except with John Boehner’s head on the thing as it lies there writhing on the floor after Obama’s slapped it, squeaking “Help me! Help me!”

  43. Accordion-o-rama says at 7:10 pm, June 16th, 2009

    Min: “When you can snatch the first post from my blog, Grasshopper, …”

  44. bitchincamaro says at 7:13 pm, June 16th, 2009

    Filthy shit-eating La mouche was throwing up on his hand. Had to be killed.
    Next.

  45. GreatOldOnesParty says at 7:13 pm, June 16th, 2009

    Expect lots of flies to show up in political cartoons in the next few weeks.

  46. desertwind says at 7:26 pm, June 16th, 2009

    No flies on he.

  47. Lionel Hutz Esq. says at 7:31 pm, June 16th, 2009

    imissopus: Very good sir. Very good indeed.

  48. wheelie says at 7:36 pm, June 16th, 2009

    Colonel Gaddafi - you have been handed your ass.

  49. WadISay says at 7:45 pm, June 16th, 2009

    He violated the no-fly zone.

  50. Holding Out for a Hero says at 7:46 pm, June 16th, 2009

    Daniel: Wouldn’t a fly swatter be easier?
    Miyagi: Man who catch fly with chopstick accomplish anything.
    Daniel: Ever catch one?
    Miyagi: Not yet.

    Alright I know I’m late with it.

  51. Country Club Jihadi says at 7:47 pm, June 16th, 2009

    I hope they scooped him up for the next Newseum exhibit, so we can watch that loop forever.

  52. assistant/atlas says at 7:47 pm, June 16th, 2009

    Is there anything this man can’t do? (besides show us his birth certificate)

  53. problemwithcaring says at 7:48 pm, June 16th, 2009

    No doubt, a baby fly.

  54. wheelie says at 8:05 pm, June 16th, 2009

    problemwithcaring: A pregnant fly. With Christian f(ami)ly values.

  55. A belated sally towards John “Fly-Boy” MccCain.

  56. Witsendnj says at 8:14 pm, June 16th, 2009

    I don’t know. I watched it several times but much as I adore Obama, I think it might have been a more competitive stunt had there been, in the background, some turkeys being butchered with, of course, swarms of flies all around. Also.

  57. Josh Fruhlinger: Barry is one approval-seeking attention hungry whore, Chthulu bless him.

  58. Witsendnj: Aw, come on. He did the best he could with what he had on hand (face, knee, hand again…)

    But yes, next time, I want to see him battle crates of horny snakes.

  59. LToons says at 9:12 pm, June 16th, 2009

    Gawd, doesn’t anyone in that house have any Purell?

  60. Capricatony says at 9:18 pm, June 16th, 2009

    You see what happens when you buzz around and annoy the president? Better take note, Newt.

  61. Dog Trombone says at 9:27 pm, June 16th, 2009

    A young Robert Vaughan would have caught four. (I’m very old.)

  62. steverino247 says at 9:38 pm, June 16th, 2009

    The President, as he points to the wrecked fly on the nicely carpeted aerodrome: “CONFIRMED!”

  63. Witsendnj says at 10:36 pm, June 16th, 2009

    I take pride in my own fly-smacking skills. People are impressed, usually, and now I have something in common with our Preznit, Barack fly-killer Obama. This is just, a true fact.

    And the other important thing is, he doesn’t go all squeamish with the germy detritus. This is a good thing.

    I know so many parents who are petrified of germs. And pedophiles. But GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE that is going to destroy our environment and cause mass extinction and widespread famine and disastrous insect borne diseases and drought and water shortages…oh, please, fill the swimming pool and spew sprinklers all over my private club golf course!

    Eh. visit my blog at witsendnj dot blogspot dot com if you think you can stand any more of such stuff.

  64. NoWireHangers says at 11:27 pm, June 16th, 2009

    He’s so SEXY when he’s diabolical.

  65. dijetlo says at 11:41 pm, June 16th, 2009

    A true Zen Master would have snatched it mid flight and released it to demonstrate all life is water drawn from the same well. Of course a true Zen Master would have smacked Chris across the head for being such a rump nuzzler long before the fly landed.

  66. ladymacbeth says at 12:01 am, June 17th, 2009

    dude is aragon, black mamba, voldemort, harry potter, mr. darcy and dr. paul all in one.

  67. Valentine Flintheart says at 12:06 am, June 17th, 2009

    This is almost as newsworthy as last week’s big story: “Member of the media accidentally knocks water across Obama’s desk.”

  68. Paul Tardy says at 12:16 am, June 17th, 2009

    I call fake. Total crap never happened. The fly was a prop. B Hussein Obama can kill flies like W could fly airplanes. Sheeesh. You people are so easily fooled.

  69. TexasCowGirl says at 12:58 am, June 17th, 2009

    Obama to wingnuts” “You are like the buzzing of flies to me. And you know what I do to flies don’t you?”

  70. ladymacbeth: Tish and pish. He’s 90% Lord Vetinari and 10% Lord Krishna the All-Attractive.

  71. jasonelias says at 2:52 am, June 17th, 2009

    That fly was the Strom Thurmond reincarnated. Killer!

  72. mollymcguire says at 5:46 am, June 17th, 2009

    Lord Growing: Thank you.

  73. mollymcguire says at 5:47 am, June 17th, 2009

    Kill, baby, kill.

  74. and that’s how fat-ass boomers on the hip replacement waiting list will be treated under ObamaCare.

  75. Suds McKenzie says at 7:25 am, June 17th, 2009

    Enter the Muslim

  76. Suds McKenzie says at 7:34 am, June 17th, 2009

    oh, .. and here is the Dhalai Lama showing a mesquito whos what;

    http://vodpod.com/watch/1557359-dalai-lama-kills-a-mosquito

  77. The Schadenfried PAC says at 9:25 am, June 17th, 2009

    Yes You Can Own A Piece of History: 20 bucks says it’s Confluence.

  78. The Schadenfried PAC says at 9:27 am, June 17th, 2009

    WhatTheHeck: Dick Cheney would have used his lizard tongue.

  79. And they say Dems are soft on defense.

  80. Crazybroad says at 9:52 am, June 17th, 2009

    You just know this is going to show up on HuffPo under the headline, “POTUS — He’s just like us!”

  81. choinski says at 11:52 am, June 17th, 2009

    Okay, so its a slice of life that’s amusing if you catch it. But really, a banner below screaming BREAKING NEWS: OBAMA SWATS FLY ?

  82. NopantsMcGee says at 1:26 pm, June 17th, 2009

    Sure, he’s good with a fly. But, can he slap a newt?

  83. bloatedwhitetruck says at 5:00 pm, June 17th, 2009

    I was disturbed that he didn’t ask for a wipey or get up and wash his hands. Did I miss something? Did Gibbs get up and lick his hands?

  84. I wonder: is this the first time America has ever actually seen its sitting President kill something during an interview? Or at all, even?

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