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But What About Obama’s ‘Basketball Summit,’ With China?

'Well I don't give a damn HOW Sarah Palin says you play basketball, you can't take the ball and go home.'
While the Main Stream Media (MSG) was wrapped up in the pointless, breathless, click-y coverage of Barack Obama serving beer to a Harvard professor, his vice president and some dumb mick cop, the real story was Obama’s secret meeting with the Chinese, as photographed here by Pete Souza’s spy camera. Why is Barack Obama giving our nation’s legacy (a basketball) to this combover fellow from China? [White House Flickr]


1:55 PM on Fri July 31 2009
By Ken Layne
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  1. GIJoeIce says at 1:58 pm, July 31st, 2009

    He should urinate on that basketball, which would make it worth a trillion dollars on EBay. DEBT ELIMINATED.

  2. Did Souza not get the memo that this was a “secret” meeting?

  3. ifthethunderdontgetya" says at 2:05 pm, July 31st, 2009

    We can haz teachable moment?
    ~

  4. LittlePig says at 2:05 pm, July 31st, 2009

    I love the “Don’t make me have to school your ass” look on President Hussein X’s face.

  5. jagorev says at 2:05 pm, July 31st, 2009

    alt text ftw

    Reminds me of this fantastic deadspin post - I don’t know if Wonkette linked to it:

    http://deadspin.com/5308468/diagramming-sarah-palins-full+court-press-metaphor

  6. tehbenton says at 2:06 pm, July 31st, 2009

    Lord, he even has the stereotypical buck teeth, poor guy. You just know Joe Biden is in the outer office mugging for the secretary: “Me so solly! Prease to accept aporogies! Herro Hans Brix!”

    This, of course, will be on CNN in half an hour, after which Robert Gibbs will “walk it back.”

  7. Chickensmack says at 2:06 pm, July 31st, 2009

    Yao Ming you ain’t, short shit.

  8. Noodle Salad says at 2:07 pm, July 31st, 2009

    A still from White Men Can’t Jump 2: Same for the Yellow Ones

  9. teebob2000 says at 2:08 pm, July 31st, 2009

    “No way, you’re a little short fucker! Yo, you gotta be Yao-sized for a China-man to make it in the NBA, man!”

  10. Clamps says at 2:10 pm, July 31st, 2009

    Lincoln looks pissed at what’s become of his nation.

  11. ALIVE! says at 2:11 pm, July 31st, 2009

    Blaxploitation Photographer Pete Souza strikes again with stereotype-laden images suggesting the nation’s first African-American president is obsessed with basketball.

  12. Monsieur Grumpe says at 2:13 pm, July 31st, 2009

    George Takei?

  13. gurukalehuru says at 2:16 pm, July 31st, 2009

    As Lincoln looks on, and thinks: I would so totally rule at this.

  14. Chet Kincaid says at 2:16 pm, July 31st, 2009

    “OK, so if I beat you guys two-on-one, we get Jack Bauer back, right?”

  15. Country Club Jihadi says at 2:16 pm, July 31st, 2009

    I hope he reminded them that the Chinese started building our railroads the year Lincoln died.

  16. Paul Tardy says at 2:17 pm, July 31st, 2009

    So what was he apologizing for this time?

  17. Extemporanus says at 2:18 pm, July 31st, 2009

    Pssst!

    “Rickshaw” Perry is gay.

    Pass it on.

  18. Smoke Filled Roommate says at 2:19 pm, July 31st, 2009

    Chinese Loy Logers doesn’t play basketball! C’mon, Barry..

  19. Larry Fine says at 2:19 pm, July 31st, 2009

    chinamans hands to small to play b-ball.

  20. LittlePig says at 2:20 pm, July 31st, 2009

    Monsieur Grumpe: “Basket’ is not his preference in balls.

  21. Cape Clod says at 2:21 pm, July 31st, 2009

    Another day to thank God that Hopey won the election. Asian guys standing in the Oval Office might of caused WALNUTS! to have flashbacks.

  22. norbizness says at 2:21 pm, July 31st, 2009

    Two seconds later: (*SWAT*) “Get that WEAK SHIT OUTTA HERE!”

  23. Accordion-o-rama says at 2:25 pm, July 31st, 2009

    This actually was quite a coup for the administration. They picked up Hu Jintao for Yau Ming a couple of 2nd round draft picks.

  24. mattbolt says at 2:26 pm, July 31st, 2009

    Christ, Obama, don’t give them our national secrets! The last thing we need in this geopolitical climate is a finger roll-capable China.

  25. Buzz Feedback says at 2:27 pm, July 31st, 2009

    The guy on the left is the Chinese Nate Archibald.

  26. Extemporanus says at 2:29 pm, July 31st, 2009

    “From way downtown…BANG! Booth drains the three! Booth drains the three! The Know Nothings win it at the buzzer! And the crowd. Goes. WILD!”

  27. SnarkNotFark says at 2:31 pm, July 31st, 2009

    “I’m sorry I couldn’t find our teaching model, but this basketball will do. You want to cup the testicle with one hand and feel massage it with the other, checking for unusual lumps or bumps. Try to do this at least once a month.”

  28. Larry Fine says at 2:31 pm, July 31st, 2009

    Obama is in negotiations to invite the chineese team to replace the Washington Generals as a new comic foe for the Harlem Globetrotters.

  29. WhatTheHeck says at 2:32 pm, July 31st, 2009

    When the Chinese finally have democratic erections, Obama will go over there and get some pointers on ping pong.

  30. SayItWithWookies says at 2:34 pm, July 31st, 2009

    The upcoming Biden gaffe: “Of course the president can get health care done. Hell, he was in here yesterday teaching Chinese guys to play basketball, so if he can do that, he can — what?”

  31. GreatOldOnesParty says at 2:35 pm, July 31st, 2009

    U RACIST PRIKS!!!!!11
    It’s the NIPS that don’t have “L”s.

  32. CrunchyKnee says at 2:38 pm, July 31st, 2009

    Buzz Feedback: Awesome!

  33. Well, they *do* own us, so they pretty much call the shots. If it’s hoops they want, it’s hoops they’ll get. Or hops. No, wait, that’s the other story. Either one. Whatever. Faster than you can say ‘number one with egg-roll and blowjob’. I mean, we *love* these guys.

  34. SayItWithWookies: Gotta love Joe Biden. He’s like the alternative to the MSM and the White House official message.

  35. Atheist Nun says at 2:43 pm, July 31st, 2009

    …and one hour later, Obama wanted to play basketball again. *rimshot*

  36. TGY: It’s like we’re always going to China and knocking on the door. “Hello, can we borrow a cup of economy? We seem to have run out.”

  37. Jesus, Yao Ming has really let himself go.

  38. Smoke Filled Roommate says at 2:49 pm, July 31st, 2009

    GreatOldOnesParty: I know, I know.. That’s why Chinglish is Chinglish and Engrish is Engrish.. But you know, Asians and their L’s–who can resist? hennnnnngh? Hennnnnngh?

  39. And you see that guy in the painting in the upper left? That’s Lincoln. When he was president, people from China pretty much exclusively worked as coolies on railroads. Funny old thing, history.

  40. Monsieur Grumpe says at 2:57 pm, July 31st, 2009

    Obama is going to sucker them into a game where he lets them win the first few rounds. Just when their getting cocky he’ll say “Let’s make this interesting. How about we play the next game for the national debt?”

  41. finallyhappy says at 3:00 pm, July 31st, 2009

    hey, he may be playing b-ball in the oval office but he is wearing a coat and tie! Also I think some Chinese did laundry here when the railroads were being built

  42. chascates says at 3:01 pm, July 31st, 2009

    I bet Barry could take them in bowling as well.

  43. Politicartoons says at 3:11 pm, July 31st, 2009

    I wanted to make a comment about George Takei, but then I thought it would be racist. And then I thought, Why Not? Maybe it’ll get me some free beer!

  44. Come here a minute says at 3:14 pm, July 31st, 2009

    This beats the crap out of the royal iPod gift — it’s Obama basketballs all around until there’s one in the rec room of every chief executive in the world! Check out the logo.

  45. RoscoePColtraine says at 3:19 pm, July 31st, 2009

    The Chinese invented eye glasses, but when it comes to sports, contact renses make all difference in world.

  46. magic titty says at 3:21 pm, July 31st, 2009

    “Actually the first time I said ‘yo mama’ it was on the b-ball court. Funny story…”

  47. WadISay says at 3:21 pm, July 31st, 2009

    Hopefully the Chinese guys will not emerge from the meeting telling the press that Obama looks to them like one cool Uighur.

  48. Todd Mecklem says at 3:30 pm, July 31st, 2009

    Wait–it looks like the president is about to show them how to spin the ball on a fingertip. DON’T DO IT! If they find out that secret, America’s last advantage over China will be gone!

  49. Better American Than You says at 3:46 pm, July 31st, 2009

    You say Chinese. I say Hawaiian.

  50. Chet Kincaid says at 4:51 pm, July 31st, 2009

    Monsieur Grumpe:

    All hail The Grumpe!

  51. Mr Blifil says at 1:43 am, August 1st, 2009

    The members of the Washington Generals have lots of pics like this where they pose with Meadowlark Lemon.

  52. Why is da prez playin’ hoops with Lieutenant Sulu?

  53. bored Socialist/Communist says at 2:44 pm, August 2nd, 2009

    GreatOldOnesParty: You must be muslin! Real Americans know the truth from ‘A Christmas Story’.

    ‘Deck the hoars wit bohrs of hoarry… Ra ra ra ra raaa…’

    No Ls.

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