We all know that Boston sports fans are a bunch of half-literate swamp turds who make all sorts of furious, guttural moaning sounds whenever you mention the athletic teams they’re supposed to like. So were those boos last night when, at a Boston fundraiser, Obama “thanked” the Red Sox for trading their aging third baseman Kevin Youkilis to the president’s beloved Chicago White Sox? Or were they screaming “YOOOOUUUK,” like cavemen? White House spokesperson Jay Carney, a notorious Masshole, insists that it was all “YOOOOUUUK,” because playful boos at a high-dollar fundraiser would be the worst sort of tragedy.
Here’s the tape! We embed, you take guesses:
It sounds like a mix of playful YOOOOUUUKs and BOOOOOs and MOOOOOOs, none of it “damaging” to the president. (Although Boston sports fans are so dumb that maybe they would stop supporting the candidate to whom they’d just given ten or twenty grand if that candidate were to joke about a recent trade of a longtime Red Sock.)
Jay Carney is furious, however:
“There has been some really silly reporting about the president’s remarks regarding Kevin Youkilis last night. It is highly commendable in my view as a Red Sox Fan that the president has always refused to pander on sports. He is a White Sox fan, he owns his fandom of the White Sox . He proved that again last night, And anyone who knows Boston, knows the Red Sox and anyone who was in that room last night knows that the preponderance of people shouting in response to what the President said about Kevin Youkilis were saying ‘Yoooook and not Booo’ for God’s sake.”
FOR GOD’S SAKE. Jay Carney should play Slave 10 on Aaron Sorkin’s new show.
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At least Barry didn't bring up the fact that the Red Sox are still in last place, or the Pats losing to the Giants.
Booooo!
They might consider changing their names to the Red Stockings, now that they got rid of one of the last men on the team
More than anything else, I hate the Patriots for being so insufferable that the actually made me root for the fucking Giants in the Superbowl.
But the fate of all those smugly produced "19-0" T-shirts and the reaction of those awful fans makes me smile.
As a lifelong Jets fan, sorry, man, nothing could make me root for the Giants.
Except maybe Tim Tebow.
DOWNFIST.
Lighten up, Francis.
What this country needs is a Big Toe.
Red Sux fans can't take a joke.
As a Red Sox fan, I resent that attempt at a joke.
Needs more Ketchup stained sox.
Curt Schilling LIBEL! Now there's a man who I loved on the field, but don't agree with his politics at all.
Time to revisit that antitrust exemption…
They were saying BUUUUUU-RNS!
Came for the Simpsons reference, leaving a happy man.
Same! 'Cept I'm a chick.
Or was it CHOOOOO-MMMMM!!
It was "Boog" for Boog Powell.
Go O's.
"*I* was saying 'Boo-urns'."
This fucking guy's JOB is to stand around commenting on this sort of thing? Where do I send my resume?
1211 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036-8795
Attn: Rupert
Mooks. That is what they are (saying).
I don't like wearing socks.
Romney would have made a much more intelligent comment about his friends who own baseball teams.
I believe Jay just had a lemon vinegar enema.
Looks more like he gargled it.
Those are not mutually exclusive.
Compare Obama's graceful reaction to how Mittens would have reacted in a similar situation…
(closing eyes, picturing the difference…)
OK, I am somewhat less paranoid about November now…
Mittens would have bought the Sox and outsourced them to China.
First, he would have fired the audience and outsourced them to Gitmo
The Red Sox, no less.
When I lived in Montreal for a year to my great shame I would cheer for the Boston Bruins. I still feel unclean but if you are an asshole something’s are not optional.
The people are always inspired and enthused by the wisdom and genius of the Great Leader!
Baseball's the one with the wood stick, right?
As opposed to hockey, yes.
I think that's hockey?
and the players on steroids? Yup.
But I thought piñata was banned?
The Yankees got him from Seattle but he's out for the season.
The white sox needed a third baseman, and the red sox have an up and coming one in Middlebrooks. This trade was good for both teams. What's not to love? I'll always root for The Greek God of Walks.
Funniest line ever uttered by Terry Francona: "I've seen Youk in the shower. He's not the Greek God of anything."
At least he didn't bring up that whole Babe Ruth thing.
I heard that Johnny and Rielle will get back together when the Red Sox win the World Series.
As a hard-core fan of The Saahx, I can assure you that those were indeed boos — but they were not directed "at" Obama the President. They were directed at Obama the White Sox fan, to some extent, but also at Red Sox management, White Sox management, and against the cold, uncaring universe in general. This is what Red Sox fans have always done, and will always do.
It's our birthright, and no mere World Series win can take it away from us — although crushing the Yankees in 2004 did provide a nice break in the routine.
Yea, we have seen the promised land! I was a bosox fan in NJ growing up in the '70s, so clearly I'm congenitally predisposed for suffering. Rooting behind enemy lines gives me even more of a thrill.
I was there, I was shouting "YOUUUUK" like the caveman-esque sports fan that I am.
That said, even if we were booing, it was just some fun sports banter that only actual human beings could pull off. Romney isn't programmed to do that.
What, was Bob Uecker there?
Fox Nation Headline: Bostonians pay $2500.00 a head to boo at president.
Obama got some schooling right there in Cambridge — he's tuned-in enough to use the same line, as a gag at his next event.
I just hope all the commenters on ESPN don't come over here now. Makes breitbart comments look like Socratic discourse.
Oh my god. I'd never think to look. Thanks for dissuading me.
Put a red sock in it, Carney.
Ben Konop…
those boos… BOOOOOS….
finds this all very not funny.
No, no, they were saying Boo-rack, Boo-rack.
I was saying "Boo-arrack".
Yes, but did anyone go bankrupt making a shitty videogame and then blame the Governor of a neighboring state?
I had red socks that one fall when I was chopping firewood and miscalculated.
Romney faced a similar situation at a recent fundraiser when he mocked 'Totilas the stallion', a Barn of Fame Dressage champion.
He wasn't sure if the crowd were cheering for 'Totiliiiila' or ordering their LEGAL (probably illegal) immigrant waiters to bring more yummy Mexican 'Toooortillas' for their $150,000 plates.
According to Carney, Joe Wilson was actually yelling "U-I" as he is an irrepressible Hawkeyes fan.
Fuck it, it's baseball. There is only one team: the Cardinals.
Do they still play in the Vatican?
The who?
Oh, the dudes in red what report to the Vatican. My bad.
So I guess you folks get worked up about baseball.
You guys always get it wrong. Stanford's teams are "The Cardinal". It's a color, not a bird.
Someone told me once that there's a sports team somewhere named after the bird, so maybe that's what confuses people. Although, really, an oriole looks nothing like a cardinal.
Roll Tide?
San Looey or Phonix?
Baseball.
There are no Red Sox states and White Sox states. There is just the United States. Except for the Yankees.
I remember this episode of Star Trek where these two alien dudes wearing red and white socks were beating the shit out of each other, and Captain Kirk was like "why can't you guys just get along, after all you're both wearing red and white socks?" And one of the alien dudes looks at him like he just stepped up on the table at a fancy dinner party, dropped his pants and took a shit in green bean casserole and was like: "What are you a fucking retard? I'm wearing a white sock on my left foot and a red sock on my right foot, but he's wearing a red sock on his lfet foot and a white sock on his right!" Or was it the other way around? I forget. I just remember that it was deep
Ah yes. But I remember it differently. It was a gray sock on one boot and a lighter gray sock on the other.
Dr. Seuss wrote a Star Trek episode?
Simultaneous usage of the interrupting cow joke. What- it's never happened to you?
Since this came up at the daily press briefing, I'm assuming that all of the other problems in the wold were solved last night?
Or it was asked by someone from FOX, the Washington Times, or the Daily
StalkerCaller.I officially hate all these fukkers.
How about the crowd at a Springsteen concert, all screaming BRUUUUUUCE!?!
I live in Seattle. I can't remember if we got rid of our baseball team or our basketball team.
You know the one that hoovered up your tax dollars for a new stadium, before leaving town? That's the one.
Wasn't this whole Red Sox curse thing because Babe Ruth fucked a goat or something?
Gave him a tummy ache, I hear.
That's an urban legend.
It was because Glenn Beck raped and murdered a girl in 1990.
"OK, so we traded away a popular, championship-winning, frachise player. Seriously, what could possibly go wrong?"
– Red Sox management.
CUBS LIBEL!
That's really hard to pull off … you'd have to say something bad about the Cubs that's not true.
touché
Carney is not enough of a misogynist to play a male role on a Sorkin show.
If Obama and Rmoney do a televised debate, Barry will install a new anal port on the Mittbot.
The modern, high-tech version of "ripping him a new one."
"Hold my beer, and hand me that screwdriver." – Barack Obama
Dang! He can sing AND talk baseball. Is there anything he can't do?
NOPE. (I saw it on a poster, so it must be true.)
Close Gitmo.
Wow, now I just made myself sad.
He wouldn't even need to close Gitmo if he'd just release all the muslins and fill it with banksters. So I guess that's two things he can't do.
as a Sox fan – he's right, and you're welcome.
I'm withholding comment until I hear from George Will.
this is what our media is fucking reduced to? God damn, anyone with half a fucking brain would recognize the very familiar sound of Fenway when Kevin Youkilis is either at bat or just made a great defensive play. if any wants me, I'll be in the garage. with my car running.
If it was a state of the union speech, I would have guessed "Jigga-booooo!"
I don't know who the guy in the blue tie is, but his mouth looks like a cat's butt.
Barnicle, straighten this out for cripes sake
Forget making the call on the raid that got bin Laden. Standing up in front of a crowd of Red Sox fans and talking some smack? Now that takes balls.
Jay totally swears, you guys! They weren't saying "boo", they were saying "boo urns."
Come on, Carney, pick your battles!
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