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August 20, 2010

Why Does Barack Obama Hate Thursday?

by Sara Benincasa  

America's new Edward R. MurrowSometimes, even superfans get angry at their favorite auteurs. For example, every time I think about those Star Wars abortionfilms with Hayden Christensen, I get PPSD (post prequel stress disorder) and have rage fits involving visions of Jar Jar eating George Lucas. Last Friday, I was rather incensed at my own favorite director, Official White House Videographer Arun Chaudhary, because he did not post his latest installment of West Wing Week at the usual time of 12:00 a.m. ET. Like all good boyfriends, Arun attempted to make amends via Twitter.

100% pure love

Because I have forgiven him, and because he did eventually put up last week’s West Wing Week, I have deigned to examine this week’s West Wing Week with an unbiased eye and an open heart. This week’s edition is called “Turkey Turkey and a Jammer,” which sounds absolutely filthy, much like Absent Ken Layne.

Okay, first of all, why the fuck does Sasha get to go everywhere while Malia has to stay home and read Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry or whatever is on the Sidwell Friends summer reading list? As a fellow oldest daughter, I would like to protest the lack of fun vacation action on Malia’s behalf. Barry and Michelle Ma Belle and Sasha went to Panama City, Florida to play mini-golf and probably stay at a La Quinta Inn so the press for once wouldn’t be all bitchy about Michelle having a nice freaking vacation.

On Monday, Barack went to Milwaukee to confer with the Bronze Fonz on economic policy. He also visited Shotz Brewery, where he put a rubber glove on a beer bottle and waved bye-bye to it, adorably.

On Tuesday, Bammerz went to Seattle with Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke. Everyone was confused to see a black person, but Locke soothed them all with some wrenchingly emotional guitar riffs. They toured the Sub Pop factory, and enjoyed an impromptu performance of that “Yes I Can” video song by Mother Love Bone. Then everyone went to Pike Place Fish Market, where the ghost of Kurt Cobain threw a fish at Obama and was promptly escorted away by Starbucks secret police. They concluded the day with some espresso-flavored homecooked meth from a lovely trailer just outside Seattle city limits.

On Wednesday, Our National Hotness-in-Chief went to hang out with some totally RANDO family in their rando house in Columbus, Ohio. The family was very attractive and their house was really pretty and Obama hung out with the whole neighborhood in their backyard. And now, on to Thursday!

Wait…where the…what the…WHY IS THERE NO THURSDAY? Why does West Wing Week stop at frigging Wednesday in frigging Columbus, OH? This is bullshit, Arun! Are you too good for Thursday?! Is Thursday beneath you? Or do you and Obama hate Thursday because it is named after Thor, Norse God of Thunder, and you are both racist against Scandinavia? Is that it? Is that fucking it? We’re never going to get anywhere with a nation run by Hate, Arun!

Have a great weekend, you bastard children of the damned! I’ll be at your DC Arts Center at 7:30 Saturday night. $10 for interactive comedy death. Fuck you. [West Wing Week]

{ 25 comments }

Sleeves August 20, 2010 at 12:48 pm

Name dropping with Blingee: I like this character very much.

SmutBoffin August 20, 2010 at 12:49 pm

Paragraf #5 is really funny! I am leaving this tab open so that I can come back and reread it all day long.

BlueStateLiberal August 20, 2010 at 12:51 pm

I think you should have received a personal apology from Obama himself, Sara, but that’s just my opinion.

SayItWithWookies August 20, 2010 at 12:53 pm

I hear Thor’s not a Muslim, so that’s probably it. Fortunately our dear Freya converted when Muslim atheist evolutionist Adolf Hitler invaded Trondheim in one of his little adventures — the one that didn’t end with the Sixth Army being encircled and starved and frozen to death.
Also, I think Malia’s at camp or something — enjoying a normal life of just being followed by half a dozen Secret Service agents like most kids.

CrunchyKnee August 20, 2010 at 12:56 pm

Oh, Sara J., you had me at “espresso-flavored homecooked meth.” That’s what SkoalRebel and I enjoyed at the Gathering of Jugalos, recently, also too.

Sharkey August 20, 2010 at 1:00 pm

Finally, a blingee without bieber-seizure.

Lascauxcaveman August 20, 2010 at 1:01 pm

Wow. As someone who knows Seattle with the intimacy of an ardent young lover, I must say your word-pictures really brought it to life for me here, Sara. I must now go pick up a copy of The Stranger, down a six pack of Pike Place Kilt Lifter and feed french fries to the seagulls at Ivars whilst I wait in line for the Picasso exhibit to open at SAM.

MOG August 20, 2010 at 1:04 pm

Wow, Sarah save something for the weekend.

donner_froh August 20, 2010 at 1:10 pm

Did the bag carrying aide take lessons from McCain on proper tongue sticking out etiquette while in the presence of Obama?

pdiddycornchips August 20, 2010 at 1:13 pm

Sara, if I wasn’t on this weekends in prison schedule, I would so totally be there but alas, I’ll be stuck making boloney and cheese sandwiches for my fellow innocents in the Kings County lockup. I only have to serve another three weekends and I’ll be free as a bird. Where’s your traveling minstrel show going to be in three weeks?

queeraselvis v 2.0 August 20, 2010 at 1:15 pm

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, my ass. Malia is totally reading Das Kapital, excerpts from the Qu’ran, and Mein Kampf.

queeraselvis v 2.0 August 20, 2010 at 1:16 pm

[re=642719]queeraselvis v 2.0[/re]: And meanwhile, somebody needs to re-read HTML for Dumbshits.

Joanie August 20, 2010 at 1:16 pm

I love Wonkette, and Sara, you are surely funny and a good writer. But does anyone get the feeling that Wonkette editors have recently shifted from making fun of politics to… talking about themselves? While navel gazing is an enjoyable passtime that I engage in myself, Wonkette’s new shift toward autobiography blog has admittedly reduced my interest in reading it. Still, I have nowhere else to go at present for poignant, humorous takes on the news so, Wonkette, you’re still my one and only. Especially when you talk about Alvin Greene and Buddhism. That’s about the funniest series of posts I can recall since… your Pulitzer-worthy coverage of Mark Sanford.

nappyduggs August 20, 2010 at 1:21 pm

Schlemiel, schlimazel.

Zadig August 20, 2010 at 1:27 pm

[re=642722]Joanie[/re]: No, not really.

dedalus August 20, 2010 at 1:37 pm

[re=642719]queeraselvis v 2.0[/re]:

First Annual Summer Reading Quiz:

Match the Quote:

Mein Kampf
Catcher in the Rye
Marx’s Last Words
Qu’ran
Roll of Thunder

Oh, how sweet was well-maneuvered revenge!

He deserves paradise who makes his companions laugh.

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that…kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

Was there any form of filth or profligacy, particularly in cultural life, without at least one Jew involved in it? If you cut even cautiously into such an abscess, you found, like a maggot in a rotting body, often dazzled by the sudden light – a kike!

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough.

problemwithcaring August 20, 2010 at 1:47 pm

Anyone notice how the West Wing update neglected to mention the Boyfriend in Chief’s fundraiser in Hancock Park that snarled Westside traffic on a Monday during rush hour. The comments on the LA Times story about it were predictably sad and hilarious – fewer Westsiders breaking up with Bamms than wingnuts just wishing they would.

I, personally, was honored that my usual 30 minute stint in traffic had a higher purpose – drafting even those Los Angelenos who didn’t vote Dem into “servicing” him anyway.

binarian August 20, 2010 at 3:29 pm

[re=642726]nappyduggs[/re]: Hassenpheffer incorporated….

finette August 20, 2010 at 3:37 pm

Yeah, Malia’s at camp. I’m fairly certain it’s not prison camp, but she was only allowed one phone call and she saved it for Barack’s birthday. Awwwwwww.

The Greatest American hero August 20, 2010 at 4:51 pm

One correction: unlike the rest of Washington State, Seattle does have a few black guys.

MLM August 20, 2010 at 6:03 pm

Seattle even had a black mayor! (Once.) Amazing but true!

Lascauxcaveman August 20, 2010 at 6:17 pm

[re=643132]MLM[/re]: Mayor Norm Nice!

FlownOver August 20, 2010 at 6:22 pm

The Nice guy finished first? Roll over, Durocher!

facehead August 21, 2010 at 12:18 am

[re=642722]Joanie[/re]: Wonkette has changed, but I don’t think it has gotten too personal … BUT in SB’s case getting personal is her SHTICK (and she carries a big one).

I do like me some NEW WONKETTE.

AKAM80TheWolf August 21, 2010 at 1:32 am

[re=642722]Joanie[/re]:

No.

Hit the road then Joanie.

What is a passtime, also?

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