At Red Sox game, President Obama comes on big screen to recognize Fenway’s 100th anniversary, followed by loud chorus of boos.
— Eric Fehrnstrom (@EricFehrn) April 20, 2012
Via email, from the Red Sox game: “[Pres Obama] just came on the Jumbotron with a birthday message for Fenway and was booed. Loudly”
— Jeff Emanuel (@jeffemanuel) April 20, 2012
3:30 p.m.: Fenway faithful giving Barack Obama some boos as our Nation’s leader delivered a message… #tcot #redsox nesn.com/2012/04/red-so…
— Erick Brockway (@erickbrockway) April 20, 2012
President Obama is definitely a jerk, now. Why did he record a video message today praising the Boston Red Sox, their fans, and their stadium, when all of those things are pure evil? The President should be ashamed to associate himself with such a diabolical Hitler-y terrorist organization that hates happiness, and freedom. It’s not like those people are capable of appreciating friendly compliments, anyway. Because according to the never-wrong Twitter machine, the daytime-drunk fans booed when Obama’s message played on the Jumbotron at today’s Fenway Park 100th Anniversary game. Where’s the news? This is what Boston sports fans do when they see any person.
We’re still waiting for cell-phone videos of this booing to materialize. You can be sure that when they do, the echoing boos will be muted by the ceaseless lunatic screaming of the morons shooting the videos. (“SO YOU THINK YOUAH SPECIAL, COLLEGE BOY? BOO EHH DONUTS…”) Until then, here’s some classic footage from 2008, when Sarah Palin’s handlers apparently thought that Philadelphia Flyers fans were polite people.
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A politician booed? NEVER!
Q: What do the Red Sox and lawn furniture have in common?
A: They both fold and end up in the cellar after Labor Day!
So, kinda like the pending Romney campaign?
Patio furniture?
Paddy O'Furniture?
Too subtle.
2004 and 2007 ;)
Booooooooooooooo!!!
The Palin appearance at the Flyers game was staged with piped-in cheers. Trust me, I am a Flyers fan, I am wearing a Flyers jersey right now and I am having a party tonight when the game starts. People in Philadelphia hate her.
I didn't know you were a Philly girl, Barb! Bryz better step it up tonight!
Are you a fan, Vulpes82?
I come from a very Flyered up family. They better bring it Sunday! It's a noon game, Barb, FYI.
So, when does the Flyers jersey come OFF. That's what we want to know…
I switched to a Flyers t-shirt. I have to fry chicken wings and make the rest of the food now.
I'm backing the Canucks, for the moment. I'm close enough to Vancouver BC to watch their local newscasts, and it's so fun to watch the city of Vancouver go completely batshit after their team cruises through the regular season, thoroughly kicking everyone's ass, and then fumbles and bumbles its way through the playoffs, in constant threat of being eliminated. Rending of garments, tearing of hair, oaths sworn to God and the Devil, etc etc. The whole of British Columbia are all on suicide watch even as we speak.
Being of an Islander persuasion, I find myself compelled to support whoever the Flyers are against.
So "go… err… lemme check quickly… Pens!" ;)
(P.S., you forgot the burning of cars. Or do they only do that when they win?)
"Staged" being the operative word. The Dems, to their credit, fail abysmally at thinking that way
Flyers fans hate everyone.
People in America hate her.
I love Fare.
Just replay the ovation us mile highs gave him in Denver to cheer up with.
Sorry Barb – someone forgot to give the Penguins the memo
Did you know an anagram for Sidney Crosby is Disney Cry Sob?
Broad Street Barb!
Of course, if you wanted to pick a venue where Sarah Palin (or any other Goober pretty much) was most likely to be roundly booed, you'd pick any Philadelphia team, or maybe the Knicks or my beloved Mets – fanbases that boo their own players (or even Santa Claus) at that drop of a hat from cities that vote overwhelmingly Democratic.
Kinda makes you suspect.
also a flyers phan.
Buckner should have delivered the message.
Buckner sold Chryslers here in Idaho until the dealership closed in 2008.
Oh, wait, I don't have a joke.
He's apparently still churlish about that one thing.
Bucky "Fucking" Dent might be a better messenger.
And/or Aaron F. Boone.
I think Buckner got forgiven, finally, after 2004 — he got cheered at the 2005 presentation of the rings. He's been elevated in status to just one of the many who labored so long in futility. (If they were still looking for that first title, of course, he'd still be dirt.)
Speaking of which, I'm off to the Mets game tonite, to cheer on the Giants. Later!
Buckner wasn't asked to appear 'til '08, after the second Series win. Just in case the first was a fluke.
Yankee fans, pipe down–I can hear the "Boston Sucks!" chants all the way out here in Los Angeles…
Oh, OK, OK, just this once…
Maybe he shouldn't have worn that White Sox hat in the video.
Ask Jim Rice about how friendly Red Sox fans are.
Scott Brown needs to try this.
If Tom Yawkey where alive NObama would have had to use the service entrance let alone appear on the Jumbotron. GO YANKEES!
Sad but true! Yawkey was a racist good old boy- and the sox never won any World Series under his ownership. Glad that's over. Go Sox!
I'm beginning to realize Bishop Janky had a point. This is just like the times that Hitler or Stalin made appearances at public events and people booed and heckled them openly and fearlessly. Obama really is a dictator.
Bishop Yankee?
"No more yanky my wanky, the Donger needs food!"
Oh, you and your …… reality.
It'll never catch on.
In Boston they like their monsters green not blah.
A blah guy not welcome in Fenway?
This is not news.
The Bean Town Boo'ers? Barry did not come in person because most people in Boston would rather be some where else.
Now I haz an embarrassed.
The sports fans, who come from all over New England, are obnoxious/from Southie.
But Boston is a lovely, civilized town full of liberals, frighteningly smart college kids, and married queers, I swear.
I have a button I got in Boston, " Dip me in honey and throw me to the lesbians".
Good times.
I live here, and I know exactly one republican. That has to be good for something.
Well, duh, I mean, RED Sox? We all know those Commies hate National Socialists like out Preznit Bammers.
You know who else…oh wait.
National League socialists?
Did Fehrnstrom bring his fucking Etch-A-Sketch to the game?
Like Marge Schott, maybe Fenway doesn't like "million dollar N**gers."
Cranky note to Rebecca: I'm tired of being comment 15 instead of comment 3 because Intense Debate runs some sort of crappy "script" that causes my computer to run slow and refuse to post my comment! End of rant, carry on.
Sarah Palin tweeted: Boston, the birthplace of democracy. One if by Jumbotron, two if by U.N. helicopter.
No wonder. The curse of the Bambino lives on.
Wait, is someone suggesting that Boston Redsox fans are assholes? This is the first time I have heard any such thing!
Mint Mormoney would have gotten the same, and probably worse. Folks come to the ballpark to get away from politics. Just wasn't a good idea, period.
True. I am a typical angst ridden, schadenfreude having, insert german word here verbing Sox fan but I do not, ever, go to Fenway to experience "classy behavior on a lovely afternoon." Double that for a Sox-Yankees game. Any politician, whether I like him/her or not, who shows up at Fenway will get shit. Remember John Kerry throwing out the first pitch? Sadly, as lefties tend to be slightly more polite in social situations if not on blogs, Democrats will catch a little more grief than Republicans.
The last Sox/yanks game I went to was on a Sunday afternoon midsummer so, naturally, lots of kids were there. In 2004, gods help me. About a dozen seats away a guy in his late thirties began yelling obscenities involving Yankees players engaging in sphincter stretches with their Series rings, with each other, with his own grandma, with a bag of bats, et cetera. Amazingly, after six innings or so, he got kicked out. You almost have to launch a missile from your seat to be kicked out of a Sox-Yankees game. Until security escorted his ass out I had not realized he had his two young sons with him.
This must be one of them.
And here's the other.
indeed. A reminder that assholes aren't born, but trained.
One of the first rules of politics is to never introduce your candidate at a sporting event.
It's pretty much guaranteed the fans will boo. Why? Because they can.
Considering the price of tickets nowadays, they're entitled to take a little liberty.
Guppy:
I have no problem with fans booing people who have nothing to do with the game.
Heck, I was at Candlestick Park when Alan Ginsberg read a "tone poem" before a game. Talk about booing! You woulda thought Old Lassagna Breath himself, Tommy Lasorda, was trapsing across the infield.
The only time I think players should be boo'd is for an obvious lack of effort.
Regarding Mr. Obama, I was just pointing out it's not exactly news that a politician got boo'd at a baseball game. I'm going to guess the last elected official who didn't get that treatment at the ballyard was Gentleman Jimmy Walker.
Or have your death announced. I was at Belmont Racetrack on Belmont Stakes Day when it was announced the Gipper had passed, which was followed by silence and a guy loudly doing a Loony Tunes laughing impression. A fitting end, but kind of in bad taste, he could have died on some other day, Smarty Jones had a big shot at winning the Triple Crown that day.
Awesome, totally awesome.
They should have had McCain record a video instead. He was there for opening day in 1912.
Plus he's into crashing and burning. Like the Red Sox.
Boourns?
I was saying boo-urns.
Jumbotron? They named a TeeVee screen after Lyndon Johnson's johnson?
Did LBJ's peter eat peanuts?
Who was in the stands? No jobs people?
That's gutsy for Catholics — I'll bet President Obama sent them all to the gas chambers.
According to a noted historian, tolerating the catholic church was one of hitler's finer moments.
Today is the 100th birthday of Fenway Park.
I bet this guy was there.
Well, this whole "being a nice and polite President" thing seems to be going over swimmingly!
Government whistle blowers, Afghanis, Pakistanis and Gitmo former-humans may beg to differ with the "nice and polite" part.
Yeah – it's fucking Boston – what do you expect?
If only he'd learned to say "chowdah."
Maybe they were just booing him because he's from Chicago?
That would assume some kind of geography-based sports affiliation. Is it possible?
You Will Suffer Humiliation When The Sports Team From My Area Defeats The Sports Team From Your Area
Too many Bostonian half-baked beans.
largest mass booing in the history of mankind was Jan 20th 2009 at 11:50 a.m. in DC when the Obama faithful reacted to the wheeling out of one Dick Cheney. The mere sight of him on the jumbo was enough to unite 2 million people in unison to BOOOOOOOOO!.
I have heard the roar of the crowd and that one gave me chill bumps. Then the next moving moment was the about 1 million who Na Na, Na Na Na, Hey Hey, Goodbyed Bush on Marine One. Awesome, fuckin' awesome.
I remember that! Although I was still stuck in the crowd outside security in the Penn Quarter. Trying not to freeze, or pee on myself. I succeded at one of those.
Speaking of booing, my family has a very good chance of seeing/meeting my close personal friends(whom I have only seen at a distance), Barack, Michelle and Bo tomorrow- while I have to work. I am not happy.
So … you're saying there's an upside to being unemployed?
Oooh, tell them to ask him for a nuclear sub! I want a nuclear sub.
I could have told him not to wear that damned Yankees cap.
You mean guys who can't even spell the plural of "sock" are kind of dumb assholes?
Nawwwwww.
As a New Yorker I would like to say for the record fuck Boston, fuck their fans and fuck all their sports teams which could more accurately be described as criminal enterprises.
Edit– I think the cities curling club is OK but that's it!
As a Bostonian, I expect a citizen of a city that tolerated George Steinbrenner, a man so morally bankrupt he was arrested for being Nixon's back alley sugardaddy, to say something like that.
Well played but lets not fight I think we can all agree that at least neither of us is from New Jersey.
The horror. Agreed.
Hey! I heard that. Remember despite the title; Snooker, BowWOW and The Waistband are all New Yorkers.
Cripes, Boston Red Sox Fans, you will always be assholes.
Boston, home of the champs, fans, not so much …
Obama was booed, therefore HITLER.
Obama smiled at the poor darlings, said he was sorry they were off to a four and nine start this season and reminded that they will always have the warm memory of Bucky Fucking Dent.
Ah, sportsmanship.
In the Red Sox fans' defense, Obama deserves to be booed for pretending to be a fan of the White Sox.
They weren't booing, they were just chanting "Bruuuuuce! Bruuuuuuuuuuce!"
Oh, just STFU you redneck, baybilly lobsterbacks.
BTW, Imma let you finish, Boston, but Philadelphia sports fans are the most boorish evah.
Also, apropos of nothing: Fuck the Texas Rangers and the Dubya they rode in on. Also.
Little known fact: The Washington Senators' owner who moved the team to Texas, Bob Short, served as treasurer of the Democratic National Committee during Hubert Humphrey's presidential campaign. He was so reviled in DC that, according to the Wiki, "During the Washington Nationals' final game at RFK Stadium on September 23, 2007, a similar scene unfolded. Nationals' fans unrolled a series of three banners vertically spelling out "Short Still Stinks", in nearly the same place in the stadium that the two [similar] banners hung 36 years earlier [during the Senators last game in 1971]". Short died in 1982. He had a lot to do with me never registering as a Democrat until 2008. Asshole.
Did Dubya ever reimburse the kind folks of Arlington TX for the crapwads of dough he finagled out of them for the stadium?
Ignore baseball. It gives Little Georgie Will a boner.
Yeah, all but the middle inch.
What's the difference between Fenway Park hot dogs and Yankee Stadium hot dogs?
You can get Yankee Stadium hot dogs in October.
(This joke killed before 2004.)
Newell, you're overcompensating.
Then the Yankees won the baseball game, 6-2.
That's all.
And though I am a skeptic and atheist, I cannot help but see the middle finger of baseball fortune in that.
Captain Renault
@theCaptainRenault,@Wonkette
I am shocked…shocked! …#redsoxfans #boos #president
So, this Fehrnstrom fellow. Isn't he some kind of "campaign guy" for one of the Republican opponents of the President?
Should we be surprised that he would portray this event in the most negative-to-the- President way possible?
Fehrnstrom is a lying liar who lies. The Brother, who was there, said it was 80/20 yays to boos, which is probably an accurate predictor of the Hopey v. Mittens results in the Fall Classic.
Who the fuck cares what those liberal, lobstah-eatin' elitists think?
Boos or muffled bean-farts? Wonkette reports, you decide.
No one here has mentioned our totally awesome Capitals fans.
Ironically, Obama will win Massachusetts by at least 20% in November.
Riot after game seven, regardless of result (see 2011.)
Goal #2, Sullivanist!
Ah yes of course. I struggle to remember which car burning incidents are related to which results for which teams sometimes :P Although I do find that when in doubt, UWV hoops is probably a good guess.
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