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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]
Neda jokes - too soon? Hmmmmm
“kicks Chuck Todd in the tummy”.
I am straight losing my shit over that diction, Newell.
Everyone (white suburban Americans) knows that smoking is super evil and possibly satanic. Jesus didn’t smoke, also.
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.
don’t mess with the big man, he is caught up in the struggle. ask him a question on point or stf up. next?
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!?
God, he’s cute.
holy crap, that was a MUCH more amusing response than I expected
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.
“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.
Sweet Jeebus, leave the man alone! Can’t you see he’s having one mother of a nic fit?
Richard Cohen will now write a column dedicated to Obama being overemotional.
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.
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.
Testy and tummy are two of my top T terms. Also too, tizzy, telluride and tittle.
As long as he don’t inhale, what’s the diff?
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
They probably had to shampoo the seat she was sitting in after Obama tossed a few fireballs in her direction.
Internally valid: What? You got something against taint?
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.
Huh, the idea of Obama quitting has sort of killed my Obama boner.
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.
“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.
“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.
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.
engulfedinflames: Hello, Phillip.
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?
engulfedinflames: dad?
Wonkette is FAILING in teh liveblogz. The Climate-Change Statue Card-Dispersal should definitely have been liveblogged.
norbizness: 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.
“I understand the frustration and fear that come with quitting…”
Your fears were warranted, Margaret. You got fat.
engulfedinflames: David Sedaris?
BillyClubb: 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.
President Beeblebrox: “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?”
President Beeblebrox: 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: “Comptom”: Err…it’s down the road a piece from Compton. Nicely manicured lawns, golf course, farmer’s market. Totally worth a visit…
On the other hand, given the human interestingness of this story, perhaps Obama should publish another book, “Putting the Fags Away.”
Barry looked pretty pissed. He really needs a cigarette right about now.
problemwithcaring: 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.
SayItWithWookies: 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).
AnnieGetYourFun: I’d prefer his book be titled ‘How I Learned A Couple Smokes A Day Ain’t Gonna Kill A Bitch.’
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.
Round up the non-smoking kids and put them into camps. Summer camps.
I bet Rahm was standing in the wings with a carton of Luckies at the ready.
shortsshort[re=345472]iantenna: 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.
engulfedinflames: They are called “ALTREA” now, which is simply amazing.
ManchuCandidate: “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.
“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!”
I was particularly happy when Hopey slyly implied that McCain is a tool.
I’d walk a mile for a Longbottom.
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.
Is Leonard Nimoy going to have to choke a bitch?
Wow. If he really could say “fuck off, fraud” there wouldn’t be much else to say at these things.
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.
That guy is adorable. Was there ever such an adorable Leader of the Free World? or of any world?
“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.”
LittlePig: 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.
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.
jetjaguar: 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.
hobospacejunkie: 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.