A white guy, in a suit! Dancing! Or possibly having an aneurysm! Medical science cannot tell! The NYTimes claims this soul brotha is one “David Weprin,” the intrepid New York City Democrat running for Anthony Weiner’s old seat. Can he capture voters’ wang-weary hearts? The race is apparently very close in this once safely blue district! Thanks for absolutely nothing, Anthony Weiner! David Weprin will win them back with his loco techno Macarena. (This adorable video is “opposition research” from 2009 some Republican just posted to YouTube, for freedom.) Viva! [NYTimes/YouTube]
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Does he have a twitter account?
@weprindanceifwewantto
Thank you. Hat's off to you, man. #quebecoispop
@dancedancesocialistrevolution
@weprin2electricboogaloo
@debatingonthehousefloorislikedancingaboutdongshots
Wait until he gets in good with Obama and his cronies then he will be Dancing with the Czars.
I groaned, then giggled, then fapped.
Like you don't always do that.
Or alternatively, Dancing with the Tsars.
Stalinist fascists dance with der Kaiser, I believe.
Who was he dancing with? It looked like he took his dancing lessons from Marcus Bachmannn.
Never mind the dancing, he needs to do something about that mustache to win. The 70s are over, man!
Disco Stu says prove it.
Not only are the 70s over, nostalgia for the 70s is long gone; hell it peaked when I was in college, and I'm old now. Although, with 90s nostalgia due on the 20-year nostalgia cycle, maybe they'll be some nostalgia for nostalgia; like with the video for Wheezer's Buddy Holly featuring clips from Happy Days, nostalgic for a 70s show that was nostalgia for the 50s. Through in the reference to Mary Tyler Moore and that's nostalgia on at least four levels.
Weezer rocks, man, what the hell are you sayin'?
You just blew my mind, man.
Say what?!1? If nostalgia for the 70s peaked when you were in college, you're a young tyke! "Happy Days" had just barely started when I gradumacated from college (for the first time).
You ever been to a 60's nostalgia party? Neither has anybody else.
Opposition research? He dances like a Republican, FFS.
I think he's just saying "Look up here at my hands and not down at my package"
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! THE HARDEST WORKING JEW IN POL-BIZ!!!
T
(And also, you are awesome.)
It isn't dancing so much as it's a drugged kitten batting at invisible pieces of string.
Yes We Prin!
If the opposition Republican won, wouldn't he still be left of Ted Kennedy?
I've never seen that many black people awkwardly shifting.
At least, not since the last time Wayne Brady was on TV.
Or watching any of those Madea movies–seriously, what is up with Tyler Perry & all the cross dressing?
Well…
Gayer than Pedro Almodovar?
And with that, Tyler Perry acquires mention with Almodovar for the first and last time.
Wayne Brady is black?
Christ on a crutch, if his dance moves were any whiter, he'd be invisible.
They prefer the term "Translucent Americans".
that YouTube video's comments make me want to punch Weiner for make that seat empty
By my rough estimate, 90% of YouTube commenters are 12 years old, brain-damaged, or both. Not much different from the BrightFart crowd, in other words.
In my experience, a non-brain-damaged 12-year-old is an oxymoron.
Smooth. Very smooth.
I fear this has a career ending Howard Dean scream quality to it.
Appears you can't post a video link to YouTube here? Well, trust me on this one. That guy looks a lot like this guy by film animator David Lewandowski:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRZ2Sh5-XuM
As it turns out, there aren't too many people left who "want Weiner's seat."
So, in his defense, this is not the best New York has to offer.
Why did Weiner have to resign? Vitter the Shitter is still there.
Fuckin' double standards.
~
And Weiner didn't even do anything. Sadly, I don't think he would have been hounded into resigning if it wasn't for his name and the fact that our media has the maturity level of a twelve-year-old and wouldn't stop making childish puns about the world's mildest sex scandal.
Stop talkin' sense.
How can it be close, this is NYC we normally have to open a National Geographic to even see a real Republican.
Can't you find them by walking down to Wall Street?
But they don't live in the city, amirite?
Larchmont or some such if they’ve made their bones, Jersey if they’re posers, Poughkeepsie if they’ve only seen the DVD.
How could you forget Connecticut? Don't forget Connecticut.
But, not even a banker would live on Long Island.
Elaine Bennis called. She wants her moves back.
This is a companion step to the little kicks – it's called the little palms.
I suck as a dancer but at least I know it when I see it. Whatever that shit was he was doing – it wasn't dancing.
The word "funky" is mysteriously missing from this Wonk post as well as all the comments.
Where is everybody tonight? Recovering from last night's jobs-whatever-hangover?
Why don't these people realize they look like the total rhythmless dorks they are? O.T. My wife's best friend says she never fucked a man unless she danced with him first. This clown would not make it to first base with Dottie, I guarantee.
I must admit I'm in the same camp – If you can't/won't dance, you can't/won't fuck. There is a ray of sunshine however – it does not matter whether the dancing is good. Just do it and see where it gets you. That's the point.
Edit: This clown probably never had a chance with Dottie no matter what the circumstances.
I'm not gonna watch the video, because I can always look in the mirror if I want to see bad dancing, but I'm gonna register a vote for "dance like there's nobody watching".
I can't jump either, but that didn't stop me from enjoying hoops well into my forties. And I'll still dance if I can find someone foolish enough to accompany me.
I've always heard that about driving too.
Bad driving is sort of self-regulating; at least at speeds in excess of 50mph.
By the same token, excessive terpsichorial competence in a putatively hetero male is highly suspect.
Quite true, however Dottie's criteria centered around the presence or absence of rhythm primarily, if not solely; and yes, godammit, you made me go to the Dictionary. Happy?
Learning is a life-long process, regrettably. It’d be so much easier if you could just turn off your brain, like a Republican.
That would be a comfy feeling, wouldn't it? I guess that's why they usually seem so smug-they are convinced they know everyfuckingthing.
That's the kind of stuff that launches stand up comic careers at The Apollo.
C'mon, y'all. We are the people who are accepting and tolerant of differences. Okay, this dude couldn't out-dance Speaker Boner. But he's out there, making a fool of himself amongst the Voters of Color, trying to be uninhibited. Give him a break.
Nobody's gonna vote on the basis of this. (Barry can't dance worth a damn either.)
Yeah but have you seen the flotus? Girl works it in the most dutiful of ways.
He's not great, but he's not too terrible. At least he's got (wait for it … wait for it …)
RHYTHM!!
This guy is pretty pitiful.
White guys can't dance.
No offense, but come on…
The gals don't do so good, either.
I'm a little teapot short and stout.
This is my handle and this is my spout…
It takes a wanker to replace a Weiner, I guess.
He's going to lose the seat , by all accounts.
This will probably turn into a whole new Wonkette post but here goes anyway:
"We have a strong conservative candidate in Bob Turner who has the opportunity to win a congressional seat in the heart of New York City. He is facing a career politician who will vote in lockstep with Nancy Pelosi in support of Barack Obama's failed economic policies that have added $4 trillion to our national debt in only three years. The Obama Democrats just put $500,000 into the race to defeat Bob Turner and keep this seat in their liberal hands."
-Reince Priebus
Chairman, Republican National Committee
Emphasis NOT mine.
Bad dancing can get U SRS $$$$!!!!
I can't help but burst into laughter whenever I see Reince Priebus' name. I think at this point, the republicans are just fucking with us.
Don't worry, SarahPAC's forced last-minute $1,000 contribution will make a difference in all causes near and dear to her servant's heart to make a difference for Real American's wanting to take our country back without a title.
Seems she ain't desiring to progress beyond her "potential Presidential candidate" non-title that gets her all those teabagging hard workin dollars.
This is nonsense. Let me know when he takes a picture of his dick.
Frankly, penis pix might be less disturbing than this…whatever it is…
What exactly would you call that dance? The Vertical Crawl? The Rock Climber? The Epileptic Seizure?
The Wreprinobate?
Cat Scratch Fever, I think…
But will Obama prerepudiate him?
If he doesn't he's morally weak. Or maybe if he does; it's hard to remember.
Best teabagger rally evah.
Ah, hell.
A Weiner by any other name is still a wiener.
No big and the thick does the trick jokes ladies.
I'm swayed by the woman holding his campaign sign. She definitely has my vote!
Mine too. She was hardly moving, but still out-danced him by a mile.
Why is that moustachioed man high-fiving the air…and can he teach me how to do it?
This is actually worse than Wolf Blitzer being taught how to Dougie at last year's Soul Train Awards. Google it.
No fucking way! I've suffered enough.
Electronica Libel!
On behalf of white people everywhere, I have to apologize to Don Cornelius.
C'mon, pdog, just apologize to ALL people of colour, and we'll pretend like this never happened.
Don Cornelius. My, how the mighty have fallen.
I like the cut of this gentleman's jib. His chaste dancing confirms he's never known another so carnally as to text them his dick, and chances are he's still embarrassed every time he whips it out to pee.
'Tis true, 'tis true. If your congresscritter has skills beyond doing the chicken dance or running man, be very worried. Very, very worried. Actually, be very, very proud that your congresscritter is getting some, and probably anywhere and everywhere in between.
The beat goes on and I'm so wrong
The beat goes on and I'm so wrong
I may be totally wrong but I'm a – dancin' fool
I may be totally wrong but I'm a – dancin' fool…
Move over boy, I got better things to do
I've got plans and they don't include you
Tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight
All right, all right, keep your shirt on. No, seriously, keep your shirt on.
If I were running for office I would never dance again.
Funk soul brother.
Since he's a Dem, it makes sense that he dances like a marionette instead of a GOP puppet. He'd dance better with a hand shoved up his ass.
At least he's trying, oppo assholes!
And he isn't charging them $15.00, or having them arrested, or…
mostly he's just standing there, reaching out for some invisible something or other…
The tattered remnants of his dignity.
Better moves than Obama.
Truly, Barry, Sr., made his greatest mistake never teaching his namesake to dance.
I thought his greatest mistaken was knocking up some Kansan, and then running — nay, fleeing –all the way the hell back to Kenya, the bastard.
When I take Metro North from Grand Central I see these sad folk on their way to Connecticut. I’m even told some of them live there by choice.
Letterman libel!
Ever read the book about Pat Tillman — Where Men Win Glory? That was one amazing learning experience for me. Pretty sure you’d feel the same way.
I could not stand to read it. I am a Ranger (former) and I feel so badly for him, his family and his comrades. I blame Bush, Rummy and McChrystal for his death, the felonious “investigation” and the attempted cover-up. It sickens me to this date.
I understand. There's one beautiful moment in it when Tillman looks around at the flabby, cigarette-smoking losers in his BT platoon, most of whom are one tattoo away from a jail sentence, and writes in his journal that maybe there's a bit more to this “leadership” thingthan just being the toughest guy among a bunch of spoiled NFL players who've never done anything but work out and play football. He was an amazing guy: married his high-school sweetheart, read books, had cats, and knew that he had to do something more with his life than play football.
Such a waste of humanity.
Lieberman Libel!
BTW, for such an insanely wealthy state, Connecticut has some pretty shitty cities, no?
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