Weekend Captionfest II


After narrowly winning the Indiana primary on Tuesday, Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton addresses her supporters as her family looks on.
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Daddy, You know what; I just love Obama.

Change and hope make me feel so good, Don't tell mom just yet.

The POPE says, GOD BLESS AMERICA!!


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THE FAMILY PORTRAIT FROM HELL.


Bill and Chelsea Clinton catch some badly needed zzzzzzzzzzzs...

...as Sen. Hillary Clinton puts the rest of America to sleep during one of her interminable press conferences.

"The Scarecrow addresses

"The Scarecrow addresses the crowd as the Cowardly Lioness and the Tin Man look on..."

(...if I only had the nerve, a heart, some brains...) 

And as the story goes...

blooloo,

FYI- As a matter of reference- The Scarecrow always had the brains, the Tinman always had a heart, and the Lion always had the courage...read or watch "The Wizard of Oz" to the end. By the way, I'm not a supporter of Hill.

Syrius

Come on dude...

Do you think I don't know the story or haven't seen it through to the end? It's a captionfest. Lighten up Francis...

I truly believe there is some good in everyone; the sad thing is, in
the case of the Cowardly Lion, the Tin Man and the Scarecrow it took a
wizard to find it. In the case of Bill and Hill, we have yet to find
it. The jury is still out on Chelsea...

No sweetie...that's not the

No sweetie...that's not the blue dress...

Karma, ROFLMAO

 

The POPE says, GOD BLESS AMERICA!!


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blue ribbon, Karma

blue ribbon, Karma

I respectfuly decline the

I respectfuly decline the award.

In hindsight, I regret typing the dark humor that crossed my mind. I have daughters of my own and, although I would never put myself in his position, I have sympathy for Chelsea and would not say that to her face. I apologize for my error.

Karma, You know darn well she's wearing a pantsuit.

Not knowing how old your daughters are, sooner or later they will hear about "the blue dress" as you know sex is everywhere in America. Chelsea has heard of the blue dress. Nastier stuff is spewed on prime time TV!

Don't be so hard on yourself..

Once you click on that "POST COMMENT" button.

Gulp

Your FUNNY comment is etched forever on the internet.

Tomorrow your comment will be fading away with over 606,051 other comments....

The POPE says, GOD BLESS AMERICA!!


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Hillary

As Hillary Clinton thanks her supporters after narrowly winning the Indiana primary, husband Bill and daughter Chelsea share a private joke about her Wonder Woman underwear being slightly visible through the slit in her skirt.

Caption

Chelsea and Hillary Clinton pose with Boris Yeltsin.

Look at the size of that

Look at the size of that ass!

OMG

Did they practice that pose and those phony smiles in front of a mirror?

Bill  "All I can say is

Bill  "All I can say is thank god niether of us has to live with Her anymore Chelsea."

Chelsea "Amen Dad!"

 

"How do you know when Hillary Clinton is lying?".."When She opens her mouth to talk."Neal Boort

When you look up

When you look up dysfunctional in the dictionary you'll find this picture.

The Happy Couple...

As part of a liberal progressive agenda, Hillary Clinton announces her approval of the recently announced engagement between Bill and Chelsea Clinton.

Yer scannin' me!

I was trying to link this to "step two" on the California gay marriage thing, but I could not think of a clean way to say it...

Dodecahedron wins!

Chow Time

Bill: "I'm thinkin' Arby's"
Chelsea: "Me too. I'm hungry. Let's go there right after this."

And one more thing...

Bubba: "...and McDonalds, Taco Bell, Rally's, Popeye's, Burger King, Jack-in-the-Box, Chipotle's..."

A kodak moment...

Chelsea: "Dad, is it true that you and mom really wanted to name me Hillary, Jr.?"

"How can you be in two places at once when you're not anywhere at all?" - Firesign Theater

 

"Don't worry sweetie...

"Don't worry sweetie... once this is finally over, we're moving to Stepford and your mom's being upgraded to the TSW 69: Total Subservience Wifebot."

Vote 4 change. Vote 4 anything. See Jack & Mr Shy's first campaign ad for the ONLY viable 3rd party candidate.

With the ...

...TSW69a Monica add-on!!!

Syrius

"...the dire consequences to society when people begin to believe that by
renaming someone to erase their humanity opens the door to the
devaluation of everyone's life..."-dscott

 

Only problem is...

She's my daughter!

Fascism is a religious conception in which man is seen in his imminent relationship with a superior law and with an objective will that transcends the particular individual - Mussolini

All in the Family

Hillary Clinton: Habitual liar

B.J. Clinton: Habitual liar

Chelsea Clinton: Genetically loaded

Let's just enjoy this

Let's just enjoy this moment, Sweetie. Tomorrow it's back to losing again!

Chelsea

Deleted after further consideration.

Come on, Noel...

Noel,

We all have our disdain for Billary. I know there is a high level of hatred for Bill on this site. I just found your comment somewhat inappropriate. I'm sure if a future picture of President Bush and his daughter showed up on a Huffpost or DailyKos with a comment like that, you would be all over it. I think you would agree we can be funny without lowering ourselves to their level...

Syrius

"...the dire consequences to society when people begin to believe that by
renaming someone to erase their humanity opens the door to the
devaluation of everyone's life..."-dscott

 

Syrius

Syrius,

I could post the lyrics to "The Star Spangled Banner" here, and you would find it inappropriate. As such, I will reserve judgement as to whether or not this has crossed the line of decency by what others possessing less hatred for NB have to say. If people whose opinions I respect agree with you, the caption, which can be taken a lot of ways rather than the one you apparently jumped on, will be deleted. ns

As Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. once stated...

Noel,

"Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief
and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or
some failure of energy stifles the movement at its birth. The only
difference between the expression of an opinion and an incitement in
the narrower sense is the speaker's enthusiasm for the result.
Eloquence may set fire to reason. But whatever may be thought of the
redundant discourse before us it had no chance of starting a present
conflagration. If in the long run the beliefs expressed in proletarian
dictatorship are destined to be accepted by the dominant forces of the
community, the only meaning of free speech is that they should be given
their chance and have their way."

As an associate editor of NB, I would think you would be above a "somewhat inappropriate" comment. As I have said- if an associate editor of the HuffPost or DailyKos had made a similar comment in regards to President Bush and one his daughters, you would have risen to the occasion and seized the opportunity to expose and combat the bias. You now wait for an opinion from those who will always support you...to speak against you and support me. I won't hold my breath. Sorry to point it out in the first place...

Syrius

"To have doubted one's own principles, is the mark of a civilized man." -O.W. Holmes


 

Syrius

Syrius,

Your protestations would be taken absent a grain of salt if you didn't regularly present yourself as nothing but a liberal antagonist at these message boards. That is INDEED the role YOU'VE chosen here, and you revel in it. As such, the high road is by no means something you have access to regardless of your shameless attempt to take it this morning.

That said, your Bush and his daughters analogy is valid, and is enough for me to delete this caption. ns

Your not sorry at all

"I won't hold my breath. Sorry to point it out in the first place..."

You're not sorry at all. As a matter of fact, I don't think you even care about what Noel posted. You just want to argue because it would be boring if you didn't.

You've said this yourself in another thread earlier this week: "If all debate ceased on this site it would be boring as all get out."

You also said that you're not concerned about personal attacks: "I don't really care about offensive personal attacks, I'm not allowed to punch back with the same vigor (it's a little one sided on this site)."

Then you exposed your true motives, playing the devil's advocate, arguing for the sake of arguing: "I'll play devil's advocate just to get some of these posters to start thinking and possibly realize there is always another side to their argument."

All this shows me that you're not interested in debate, you're not interested in the topic at hand, and you're not interested in what someone says or believes. You're only interested in arguing and bashing conservatives, a motive that you try to hide by claiming that it‘s done for the sake of “others.”. I believe this is just an expression of some latent hostility you have against conservitives as you admitted that "I was one of you back in my past."

 

I'm glad you waited Noel

I didn't see what you posted so obviously I have no opinion one way or the other but I think you were right to wait until a conservative complained

None of us claim to be perfect and if Syrius, Jason, Shawn, Baloba, Cleverpig, Jer and the many other liberals who come here had any real concern about changing any tone then they would be spending their efforts criticizing the much more regular and egregious attacks by liberals.

If they like the standard that Newsbusters has, and come here rather than filthy sites like Huff Po, then that is great, but then they should go over to Newsbusted on Youtube and shoot down their nasty bretheren who post tons of nasty attacks that include profanity, inappropriate sexual innuendo, name calling and everything else.

Those same people who complain to you about what you just said (again I don't know what it was) are the same ones who would call or imply that you or others of us are prudes if we complained about them. I'm really sick of the way they manipulate this site.

We have no voice in the media like they do. It would be easy to be them and claim some sort of higher ground when others were out there doing our dirty work for us. This site is better than all of theirs despite that fact and their fake criticism of us is getting very old.

Dee

Dee,

Well, in the grand scheme of things, my caption was very tame. VERY. However, it could have been taken a number of ways, and the one that most people would have opted for was clearly off-color. Although that's what makes good satire funny, after receiving responses from several of our readers, including one of the left-leaning ones I respect, I decided to yank it solely because I am the associate editor. If someone not affiliated with the MRC had posted the same caption, nobody would have had any problem with it. Make sense? ns

Glad to hear it Noel.

I assume when you say "Nobody would have had any problem with it" you mean the NB staff.

I'm sure there would have been people complaining about it no matter what. I have no doubt that even more of the liberal regulars here would have jumped on it if someone besides yourself had said what ever it was.

Dee

Dee,

The folks responding to my PMs in the "yank it" camp felt the over-riding factor was my position as AE. They didn't find the caption offensive, just felt that it could be used against me or the site in the future because of my position.

For the record, the vote was 3-1 for me to yank it, and as these were all people whose opinion I respect, that's all I needed.

In the end, I was hoping that because this was a weekend captionfest I'd be allowed to let my hair down. Sadly, such is not the case. :-) ns

And that is good Noel - you do have a certain image

and I'm sure you like to maintain it. It's great and there is nothing wrong with it. I was thrilled to see you stick up for WTH the other day because some of these liberals here like to equate his more aggressive style to the trashy nature of those on the Daily Kos and Huff PO etc... You and Warner couldn't be more different and I love you both.

I'm sick of the attacks on Warner and on posters. We all have different personalities here and the very fact that Warner engages those self righteous hypocritical snobs is a testament to his character. He could just delete their comments. He doesn't because he isn't as bitter as they are. He's just having fun.
I like and appreciate all of the different Newsbusters bloggers and love that their styles are all different. It's the same with the Newsbusters posters. Who wants to be in a boring world where everyone is the same?

People are most interesting being themselves and not trying to be someone else. Everyone is offended by something different. I hope Newsbusters always remains as a "big tent" kind of site and those who are easily offended by things don't have to come here.

All in all, I think this is

All in all, I think this is a rather telling incident. Television is filled with (and I use this term loosely) people spewing hate, then calling it an attempt at humor in retrospect rather than apologizing (and nary a retraction to be seen). Here we had a conservative of considerably lesser celebrity status make a comment in a thread expressly designated for comedic captions to begin with, but when others in the community deemed it a step over the line, the comment was voluntarily retracted.  Telling indeed.

www.rhjunior.com Great comics with a hefty dose of Christian and anti-nutjob goodness.

"With your mind as high as Mt. Fuji you can see all things clearly. And you can see all the forces that shape events; not just the things near to you." -Miyamoto Musashi

Look, Dee... I noted just

Look, Dee...

I noted just the other day that of the handful of posts I have made at HuffPost and DailyKos, probably half have been condemnations of what I believed to be were offensive posts.

How many conservative sites have you been on and done likewise?

Frankly, I'm tired of your gratuitous, unwarranted attacks and insults.

Try something more constructive.

Jer

Frankly I don't give a (you know what ) Jer

I'm only commenting now when I see it happen. It just happened. I held it in and I'm not anymore and I don't care what you think is constructive.

Like I said if you are so concerned about what is constructive, please let us know your Youtube handle and let us see you complaining to those creeps over there on Newsbusted.

Otherwise buzz off.

Dee... I don't have a

Dee...

I don't have a Youtube handle and I don't watch Newsbusted.

You have been making repeated claims lately about how we liberals just attack and criticize everyone here.  How about providing some evidence supporting your accusations.

Put up or shut up.

Jer

No - Jer - I don't answer to you

I'm talking about my perception of things and no one else's. I'm not drudging up past things because if I picked one or two instances it would be as if I were picking on the people who said those particular things. I'm dealing with it going forward.

You will never shut me up Jer. The fact that you think you can is my very problem.

It's easy to get a youtube account. It takes little effort. So if you care then I expect to see vigorous comments over there against those liberal posters.

Dee... If you are going

Dee...

If you are going to attack, slam, and insult us by name, then back up your accusations or stop making them.  I believe the reason you don't back them up is because you can't.  So you just keep repeating the same broad, baseless claims devoid of any evidence. 

I'm not trying to shut you up about anything else.  But if you intend to continue peddling these absurd charges, which you've been doing for several days now, then let's see some proof.

Jer

Sorry jer - It's not going to happen

I don't need to because the people who can see it like I can will realize that they have someone who will be behind them the next time you guys attack. Everyone else, like you, can write it off as some pointless rambling. You have nothing to worry about. I'm just a crazy person who sees things that are not there.

If you want further explanation for my philosophy, it's under my forum topic on Smiling.

So, you'll just continue to sling mud.

So, you'll just continue to sling mud.

Sad, but not surprising.

Jer

And you Jer, will continue to endorse mudslingers

And you Jer, will continue to endorse mudslingers in your entertainment, news and political leadership so why are you so concerned about little old me?

Just...name...ONE, Dee...

Just...name...ONE, Dee...one mudslinger I have endorsed, or one mudslinging incident I have endorsed.  Please.  I double dog dare ya!

Jer

Jer - who did you vote for for President and house and Senate

Seats in 2004 and 2006?

Dee...I have consistently

Dee...I have consistently voted for Democrats for President, and both Democrats and Republicans at every other level.  Beyond that--in fact, including that--it's my business.

Jer

If liberals think they are outnumbered here ...

.... they should check out the comments section at Crooks & Liars - conservatives not allowed. All the diversity of opinion of the Massachusetts legislature.

One side of the political divide genuinely believes in an open exchange of ideas, and it sure as hell ain't the left.

Syrius, There is a

Syrius,

There is a precedent for Bill Clinton with women his daughter's age. There is a precedent for Bill Clinton and womanizing. There is a precedent for Bill Clinton doing things behind his wife's back. There is a precedent for Bill Clinton pawing women without their consent. With George Bush, there isn't even a remote hint of such behavior. Good comedy is rooted in actual behavioral traits. Thus, jokes about W groping for a phrase or mangling a word are extremely funny. Likewise with jokes about Clinton acting inappropriately.

When asked if he went to war with Iraq to derail the impeachment vote: “I don’t think any serious person would believe that any President would do such a thing." - President Clinton (Dec 1998).

Jerry

Jerry,

I agree, and considered that very fact. The reality is that Clinton philandering jokes exist and are funny because the man is a serial philanderer. By contrast, as you stated, there are no such accusations surrounding George W. Bush, and any comical representation of that would indeed be an attack and not humorous due to a lack of factual basis.

Regardless, this is still a former President deserving of respect, and though this is a captionfest where all should understand the attempts at humor, I could see how some might have felt it was over the top. So, it's gone. ns

Noel,

Noel,

I agree about presidential respect. But I have to admit, the first thing that popped into my head was a thought bubble over Clinton that said "Man, if only you weren't my daughter... but hey, it all depends upon what the meaning of weren't was".

When asked if he went to war with Iraq to derail the impeachment vote: “I don’t think any serious person would believe that any President would do such a thing." - President Clinton (Dec 1998).

on the creepy-meter

Sadly, that is something that Donald Trump has actually stated.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
- George Bernard Shaw, 1944

Jerry... Clinton's hand

Jerry...

Clinton's hand on Gennifer Flowers' butt--fair game.  His hand on Lewinsky's butt--fair game.  His hand on a cigar butt--fair game.  His hand on his daughter's butt--out of bounds.  No ifs, ands, or buts.

Jer

Says you.

But joking about it?  Lighten up, Francis.

Well, that's my

Well, that's my opinion...and I'm pretty "liberal" in what I think is okay to joke about.

But, please, even in stating my opinion, I was trying to be light-hearted about it.  I'm not attempting to make this into a profoundly important issue.  It's just captionfest.

Jer

I agree.

It is just a captionfest.

Jer

Jer,

Or, as George Dzundza hysterically says to John Cazale in the movie "The Deer Hunter" when the latter complained about the bandleader having his hand on Cazale's date's butt, "It's only a wedding, Stanley!" :-) ns

Noel...

Hmm....Interesting you would remember that line.  :-)

Jer

Indianans?

Folks from Indiana are Hoosiers.

Noel's joke about Chelsea

I read your joke before you changed it. Honestly I'm on the fence. :-)

It was a little low brow, but it was funny as crap.

My two cents. I know that's not very helpful but that's all I can say. Maybe, just for Chelsea's sake, it was better to erase it.

(but thanks for initally sharing)

I missed all the fun! Nuts.

I missed all the fun! Nuts. Was it _really_ mean? Or just kinda mean but fair.

bal...

bal...

I tried to alert you with the super secret liberal emergency laser emitting ring.

Jer

Was _that_ what that was? I

Was _that_ what that was? I thought it was my cellphone. 

I'd love to hear what it was, as I've had this argument over and over again with people who get upset over shots taken at conservatives and their causes.

Normal 0 Hillary pauses for

Normal
0

Hillary pauses for a random thought; "God bless the gullible".

Bill wonders why they keep addressing crowds of the mentally handicapped.

Clelsea, hums her favorite Jim Croce, song "..You
know I'm gonna be like you, mom, I'm gonna be just like you..."

Wrong song...

Lastlib,

You're thinking of Harry Chapin's song "The Cat's in the Cradle".

One more caption: Slick Willy and Hillary, Jr. look on with admiration as Shmillary sings "I Am Woman?"

"How can you be in two places at once when you're not anywhere at all?" - Firesign Theater

Even though Beldar knew

Even though Beldar knew that incest was taboo even on Remulak, he could not resist the urge to reach for the senso-rings in his pocket.

 

Record Time

Chelsea smiles but tries not to laugh when she notices her father has fallen asleep faster listening to her mother's speech than he did listening to the Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration speech.

For all the girls he's loved before.

At least Bill supports one women in a non demeaning manner.   

never has there been a more staged photo op

you couldn't get a more preplanned staged photo op if coppola, spielberg, scorsese, and kubrick had 30 years to hammer out the details.

lunaticcringeradio

You've got that one right, luny!

Yes - just looking at that photo is enough to give you a case of nausea where a antacid can't reach!

"How can you be in two places at once when you're not anywhere at all?" - Firesign Theater

Daddy it feels so...

good when I'm with you. Hey, you in the blue tie get your hand away from my...

Yes, Daddy, I feel safe being close to you....

because I am way over your age preference!

or: C'mon honey, can you blame me for stepping out...between the size of that tush & the shrillness of her voice....

 

or: Hey, Chelsea, know what I say to mom after sex? "I'll be home in an hour"

wierd

Staged, orchestrated and practiced. I am instantly reminded of the rocks placed in a cross on Normany Beach, the dancing on the beach while on vacation just to name a couple. Every thought, action and deed has a purpose and has been calculated. What a strange way to live your life; its like daytime soap operas.

American Gothic 2008

Our long national nightmare --- when will it finally end?

two heads are better

two heads are better then......the one in front of us.

daddy....are you my daddy??

Bill: "man, look at that ass." "I cant believe I tapped that ass", What was I thinking"

 

Chelsea....."AAAHHHHH Incest is best!!!!"

I believe

this thread has long since turned the corner on being unsavory and beneath the calibre of people and posts normally seen here. There is no need for this to be this repugnant.

Doug

Agreed.  Which is why I generally don't comment on the Caption Fests. Plus, I am sick to death of the Clintons, and Obama. 

This was the last capfest which truly tickled my fancy.

The NB's are an inventive lot.

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

 

Blonde

Mine too. There were some very inventive and humorous captions posted for that one but then it was so typically American. Who else would mow their grass during a flood. Loved it.

Doug, maybe we're just politically burned out

Clinton fatigue to the max.

Agreed about the typically American comment.  Only here.  Gotta love it.

Some of the comments here are a bit over the top, but I don't believe they even begin to approach the level of the KosKids.

And Noel....your comment was pretty funny, and rather innocuous, you should have left it there to show what a prig Syrius is.  He was trolling for a big fish...you.

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

 

Doug

Doug,

I agree, and apologize to all if I precipitated the downturn. This picture is just rife with mischief, especially given Bill's history, and it appears to have brought out the little devil in many of us. :-) ns

Boy, this thread went to hell in a hurry.

:-(

Bill and Chelsea:

Bill and Chelsea: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Hillary: If they snore any louder during this speech, they're both so gonna catch h*ll when we get out of here!

"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan

Heh heh, she said doodie!

Bill and Chelsea Clinton share a private laugh when Hillary repeated her determination to continue campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination by stating "It's my duty to stay in and fight."

I'd like you all to know

that Bill has gone 48 hours without commmitting adultery and we're all quite proud of him!

"I luv you hunny"

Bill: "I luv you hunny"

Chelsea: " I love you too daddy. Daddy? I have to tell you something. While I have been interning, I have been doing this thing with my boss in his office- don't worry it's not sex, he told me it doesn't count as sex. I felt a little ashamed about it when everyone found out, but all of his co-workers said it didn't matter cause it didn't affect the way he did his job. Is it ok daddy?"

Bill"Define 'is' please."

caption

Look Daddy - she wore a blue dress just for you!

Dee

Have you had a rough few days at work or something? Your post have been very angry lately.

Is it the fact that Democrats are gaining more house seats? Seriously what gives? The tone of your posts are getting angrier an angrier.

You even apologized to Balboa for your tone the other day and now here you are making accusations against us again.

If you make accusasions, ie. 10 liberals usually jump in and attack a conservative. No one is telling you to do anything, If a liberal said conservatives on this site have no points and a bunch of neocons, surely you would ask me for evidence contrary wouldn't you?

I for one have always been respectful to Warner, I give as good as I get. I'm sorry you find I am attacking Warner, if I defend myself after he calls me a retard.

 

Siamese Wins

To reiterate our motto "you vote for one, you get two", we've permanently fused the heads of Bill and Chelsea together. 

Blue

Chelsea: "Oh dad, this is so great. On 'National Monica Lewinsky Day' we all wore something blue"

You know...

I'm tired, but I'm still hornier than a hoot owl...

I'm Winning the Boozer Nose Contest