• May 26, 2012

Obama Should Smoke During Press Conferences And Ash On This Lady’s Lap

by Jim Newell  

We did not liveblog this Obama press conference, sorry, but fear not! We hear that a website called the Internet has a good recap. TPM describes the President’s attitude as “testy,” and, that’s just how we like our Muslin cooked. Here’s an example of Obama being Testy in response to yet another human asking about his smoking. He tells her, “Fuck off, fraud,” and then cuts a few butts and kicks Chuck Todd in the tummy, to honor Neda. [YouTube, TPM]

{ 59 comments }

Serious June 23, 2009 at 2:25 pm

Neda jokes – too soon? Hmmmmm

InsidiousTuna June 23, 2009 at 2:27 pm

“kicks Chuck Todd in the tummy”.

I am straight losing my shit over that diction, Newell.

CrunchyKnee June 23, 2009 at 2:33 pm

Everyone (white suburban Americans) knows that smoking is super evil and possibly satanic. Jesus didn’t smoke, also.

One Yield Regular June 23, 2009 at 2:33 pm

I’m constantly awed by Obama’s tranquility and sense of self-control. If that reporter asked any of MY smoker friends a similar question she’d have ended up with her head ripped off – not to mention a fractured elbow.

slappypaddy June 23, 2009 at 2:34 pm

don’t mess with the big man, he is caught up in the struggle. ask him a question on point or stf up. next?

StoneAge June 23, 2009 at 2:34 pm

Yes, but do you smoke!? And do you hold it between your index and middle finger? Do you put it out in a side to side motion in an ashtray, or drop it on the ground and step on it with your shoe!?

Min June 23, 2009 at 2:34 pm

God, he’s cute.

jetjaguar June 23, 2009 at 2:35 pm

holy crap, that was a MUCH more amusing response than I expected

schvitzatura June 23, 2009 at 2:37 pm

Obama admits he’s a “lost cause”, lady. He falls off the wagon. He’ll still walk a mile for camel. He’ll continue to occasionally enjoy a cooler kind of mild.

In short, L.S.M.F.T., bitch!

But now, the FDA will be bringing samples over for him, he’ll no longer need to mooch off the Presidential Detail.

shortsshortsshorts June 23, 2009 at 2:38 pm

“Fuck off, fraud,” and then cuts a few butts and kicks Chuck Todd in the tummy, to honor Neda.

That is why you deserve a fucking Pulitzer, Jim.

peeno nwar June 23, 2009 at 2:38 pm

Sweet Jeebus, leave the man alone! Can’t you see he’s having one mother of a nic fit?

4tehlulz June 23, 2009 at 2:38 pm

Richard Cohen will now write a column dedicated to Obama being overemotional.

norbizness June 23, 2009 at 2:39 pm

I love seeing environmentally conscious yuppie scum drive 35 miles in a 6 mpg Hummer from the suburbs into town to shop for soccer equipment for Dakota and Connor, belching shit into the atmosphere all the way down, then react like you killed their dog with a rusty fork if you light up a cigarette OUTSIDE ON THE SIDEWALK.

I am unsure what that has with this Presidential exchange, but I like railing against assholes with junior league soccer team and pom-pom squad stickers in their Land Bemehoths.

DangerousLiberal June 23, 2009 at 2:40 pm

That journocreature totally got pwned by the POTUS. It’s great to be an American again.

And this flash of raw emotion from Obama…totally moving. Although I hear he needs a couple of servos replaced, also.

Internally valid June 23, 2009 at 2:40 pm

Testy and tummy are two of my top T terms. Also too, tizzy, telluride and tittle.

Wet Work June 23, 2009 at 2:42 pm

As long as he don’t inhale, what’s the diff?

Hooray For Anything June 23, 2009 at 2:43 pm

After watching that press conference, if Obama isn’t smoking now, he never will. Halfway through, when the fourth or fifth question came up about Iran, I wished a light beam would fall from the ceiling and take out half the press corp. E

BillyClubb June 23, 2009 at 2:44 pm

They probably had to shampoo the seat she was sitting in after Obama tossed a few fireballs in her direction.

19kevin8 June 23, 2009 at 2:45 pm

[re=345452]Internally valid[/re]: What? You got something against taint?

President Beeblebrox June 23, 2009 at 2:47 pm

Heard the presser live this afternoon. Major Garrett (I think) asked a dumbass question like this (and ALL CAPS is pretty appropriate for anything coming from Fox):

O HAI MISTER PREZNIT, TEH SENNITRS JOHN MCCAIN AND LINDSEY GRAHAM SED U SHD BE MOAR AGGRESSIVE ON TEH IRAN AND THEN YR STATEMENT ON TEH IRAN JUST NAO WAS AGGRESSIVE, WUZ THIS CUZ OF WHT THEY SED?

And Barry’s answer was:

“What do YOU think?” (Laughter)

In other words, “Fuck off, asshole.”

WIN.

AnnieGetYourFun June 23, 2009 at 2:47 pm

Huh, the idea of Obama quitting has sort of killed my Obama boner.

hobospacejunkie June 23, 2009 at 2:48 pm

Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em! The moral fraud police, who completely ignored Iran the weekend after the election, are here to protect us from our smoking president.

engulfedinflames June 23, 2009 at 2:48 pm

“as a former smoker”…fuck you bitch. I started smoking Luckies when I was twelve because filters are for pussies. I have smoked almost everywhere you can imagine, including in the shower. I used to be awakened in the middle of the night with a craving that could only be satisfied with a couple pulls off a Pall Mall. While awaiting quadruple bye-pass surgery I removed my monitors and sneaked out of the hospital for what I assumed would be my last cigarette. That was eight years ago and I’m still quitting, so don’t give me that “as a former smoker” bullshit; you were never a serious smoker in the first place. Believe me, i know how stupid, how irrational this “addiction” is but 48 years of behavior is hard to change.

ManchuCandidate June 23, 2009 at 2:49 pm

“I don’t smoke in front of my family…”
Translation: if Michelle caught me, she’d beat me senseless and jam that butt so far up my ass that I’d fart ash.

I don’t blame Barry. When I have dinner with my parents, I get the same fucking question over and over again. Barry is more polite with the press than I am with my parents.

Extemporanus June 23, 2009 at 2:49 pm

Does reporter lady have any idea how many fucking Marlboro Miles it takes to earn a national health care plan? It’s, like, way more even than the pool table!

Give the man some time, dammit! And a light, also.

shortsshortsshorts June 23, 2009 at 2:50 pm

[re=345465]engulfedinflames[/re]: Hello, Phillip.

SayItWithWookies June 23, 2009 at 2:50 pm

Another display of pernicious socialist empathy from the Supreme Leader. How long must Hardfoots and Whorls and Boobles toil under the yoke of the atheist muslim communist Nazi oppresor?

iantenna June 23, 2009 at 2:52 pm

[re=345465]engulfedinflames[/re]: dad?

bored with gravity June 23, 2009 at 2:54 pm

Wonkette is FAILING in teh liveblogz. The Climate-Change Statue Card-Dispersal should definitely have been liveblogged.

hobospacejunkie June 23, 2009 at 2:54 pm

[re=345449]norbizness[/re]: I play soccer myself (no kids, ever) and light up at halftime. Of course it’s an adult league and I’m a large human, so no one says nothin’ to me, except the refs, who all know me as the smoking goalkeeper. And fuck those Connor & Dakota-having motherfuckers.

problemwithcaring June 23, 2009 at 2:55 pm

“I understand the frustration and fear that come with quitting…”

Your fears were warranted, Margaret. You got fat.

Internally valid June 23, 2009 at 2:55 pm

[re=345465]engulfedinflames[/re]: David Sedaris?

Hooray For Anything June 23, 2009 at 2:55 pm

[re=345457]BillyClubb[/re]: I think a good question to be asked is how pissed in their pants more– her or Chuck Todd. Todd looked like he was going to go home and cry to his mother after he asked his.

[re=345462]President Beeblebrox[/re]: “The guy who you totally schooled in the election who represents a foreign policy that has been completely rebuked by the people has gone on every television show including ‘According to Jim’ to criticize you about how you are handling Iran and since we keep on putting him on the air, can you respond?”

Extemporanus June 23, 2009 at 2:59 pm

[re=345462]President Beeblebrox[/re]: It was Chip from ABC who asked that one—the smile on Barry’s face when he answered was straight outta Comptom.

Major (Dale?) asked a similar question earlier that was even worse: “What took you so long to grow a pair and speak up for the people of Iran?” He also snarked some shit about how his “how’s that hot dog diplomacy working out for you now?” (inviting Iranian embassy employees to US embassy barbecues)

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/

Extemporanus June 23, 2009 at 3:02 pm

[re=345489]Extemporanus[/re]: “Comptom”: Err…it’s down the road a piece from Compton. Nicely manicured lawns, golf course, farmer’s market. Totally worth a visit…

AnnieGetYourFun June 23, 2009 at 3:04 pm

On the other hand, given the human interestingness of this story, perhaps Obama should publish another book, “Putting the Fags Away.”

NoWireHangers June 23, 2009 at 3:05 pm

Barry looked pretty pissed. He really needs a cigarette right about now.

hobospacejunkie June 23, 2009 at 3:05 pm

[re=345479]problemwithcaring[/re]: Ha ha, fuck you chubby Maggy. You know how at work all the cool people smoke? Well that’s why you don’t smoke anymore.

schvitzatura June 23, 2009 at 3:06 pm

[re=345469]SayItWithWookies[/re]: First hobbit concern troll, on teh Wonkettes, eva.

You saw it here first, folks. The halflings will still get their nasty, nasty little hobbitses paws on some Old Toby Menthol or Longbottom Leaf 100s, albeit approved by the Fellowship of the Burley Leaf (FDA).

hobospacejunkie June 23, 2009 at 3:09 pm

[re=345498]AnnieGetYourFun[/re]: I’d prefer his book be titled ‘How I Learned A Couple Smokes A Day Ain’t Gonna Kill A Bitch.’

Mike Steele June 23, 2009 at 3:11 pm

Good Christ, that guy is serious about stopping the HMO/Insurance Co./AMA gravy train! This uppity motherfucker is going to take ALL OF US ON? We MUST stop him. We MUST!!!

As God is my witness, the GOP will DIE before we let him break up this thing that we have built. There WILL NOT be choice in health care. Profits WILL BE PROTECTED.

As RNC Chair, I pledge this. I promise this. I WILL NOT LET THE BASE DOWN. I know that at a desperate time like this, you are all saying to yourselves, “If we ever needed a white man looking after our interests, it is now, in this time of crisis.” But you would be wrong. I don’t care how many poor, black, Hispanic, or white trash losers die in the ER waiting room, or get denied coverage because of an existing condition, I ain’t going back. It’s cold over there. No, nigger won’t let you down, Massa.

Mr Blifil June 23, 2009 at 3:14 pm

Round up the non-smoking kids and put them into camps. Summer camps.

Cicada June 23, 2009 at 3:20 pm

I bet Rahm was standing in the wings with a carton of Luckies at the ready.

engulfedinflames June 23, 2009 at 3:25 pm

[re=345468]shortsshort[re=345472]iantenna[/re]: sshorts[/re]: Morris? they had to change their brand name to “cavaliers” or some such nonsense after the philip morris first amendment campaign. iantenna: honey, please don’t believe those things you mother has been saying about me.

internally valid: nope, third degree burns suffered while trying to prime the carburetor on a 1960 Oldsmobile. It backfired spraying my face with flaming gasoline. Tragedy +Time=Pizzaface. I’m still pissed at Sedaris for popularizing my moniker.

shortsshortsshorts June 23, 2009 at 3:27 pm

[re=345529]engulfedinflames[/re]: They are called “ALTREA” now, which is simply amazing.

twowheeljunkie June 23, 2009 at 3:31 pm

[re=345466]ManchuCandidate[/re]: “I don’t smoke in front of my family…”
Translation: if Michelle caught me, she’d beat me senseless and jam that butt so far up my ass that I’d fart ash.”

You beat me to it. Thats what I was thinking.
But you put better than I would’ve.

gjdodger June 23, 2009 at 3:32 pm

“By the way…uhhhh…Margaret, if you continue…uhhhhh….to experience the frustration of trying to refrain from smoking and…uhhhh…need to suck on something else as a placebo, what can I say but…uhhhhh…’SCUSE ME WHILE I WHIP THIS OUT!”

Youstonedorjuststupid? June 23, 2009 at 3:43 pm

I was particularly happy when Hopey slyly implied that McCain is a tool.

LittlePig June 23, 2009 at 4:04 pm

I’d walk a mile for a Longbottom.

picadillythirds June 23, 2009 at 4:04 pm

Please tell me I am not the only person who heard that douche toward the end call one of Obama’s responses about Iran “Spock-ian.”

Dweeb.

LittlePig June 23, 2009 at 4:08 pm

Is Leonard Nimoy going to have to choke a bitch?

somethinstinks June 23, 2009 at 4:22 pm

Wow. If he really could say “fuck off, fraud” there wouldn’t be much else to say at these things.

the cold war makes me hot June 23, 2009 at 4:29 pm

While I appreciate Hopey’s deft bobbing and weaving in putting fat ex-smoker lady reporter in her place, I want him to know that he could smoke gold-plated baby seals and I would still think he’s the shizznit.

God, I haven’t had a Parliament Light 100 in like 3 months. Cigarettes should be subsidized, like the banks and General FAILORS.

octupletsmom June 23, 2009 at 4:41 pm

That guy is adorable. Was there ever such an adorable Leader of the Free World? or of any world?

CBastard June 23, 2009 at 6:02 pm

“Look here, fucko, I’m the goddamn President and I’ll smoke as many
goddamn cigarettes as I goddamn want to, OK? F.D. fuckin’ R. smoked five
hundred packs of fuckin’ unfiltered cigarettes a day and ended the
depression and fought World War II from his fuckin’ wheelchair and nobody
gave him any shit about it during any of his four fuckin’ terms. Next
motherfucker asks me about my goddamn cigarettes I’m gonna put one out in
their fuckin’ eye. Bitch. OK next question. You – Tony from Associated
Press.”

“Mr. President. Um, that’s a really great tie.”

lawchic June 23, 2009 at 7:08 pm

[re=345572]LittlePig[/re]: LMAO. If Tapper’s snide Spock remark didn’t convince sane, rational, minds that he is one of the most self-important assholes that the white house press has ever seen, i don’t know what will.

hobospacejunkie June 24, 2009 at 4:22 am

Whoa. I just watched this video. He handed that idiot “journalist” her fat ass on a plate. “You just wanted to ask me about my smoking, bitch, didn’t you?” She will not treasure this moment for the rest of her life. She will not show this clip to any family members. This is the lowest point in her professional career, and he will never call on her again, because she asks stupid, personal questions that have nothing to do with the office of the president.

rebellitor June 24, 2009 at 11:41 am

[re=345440]jetjaguar[/re]: Agreed. I didn’t see it as testy, but I did see him as being like, “Seriously? Again?” I like that he called her out on her crap.

ocirats June 24, 2009 at 2:20 pm

[re=345500]hobospacejunkie[/re]: It’s a fair question in light of the recent anti-smoking legislation that O signed into law to great fanfare.

And, sorry – what does her weight have to do with anything? I loathe Rush Limbaugh, but if you ask me about the top 10 attributes that make me despise him, “fat” doesn’t even come close to making it on the list.

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