Will Media Notice Obama's Poor Taste Special Olympics Joke?

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During his appearance on NBC's "Tonight Show," President Obama made a joke that may come back to haunt him, degrading the physical abilities of participants in the Special Olympics.

Obama's joke came after host Jay Leno asked him whether he had torn out the White House bowling alley given the president's past difficulties with the sport.

(h/t NB reader J.H. Blair, video courtesy Ms Underestimated):

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OBAMA: No, no, I've been practicing.

LENO: Really, really.

OBAMA: I bowled a 129.

(Audience laughs and cheers)

LENO: Oh that's very good, that's very good, Mr. President (covers mouth and looks away).

OBAMA: It was like Special Olympics.

(Awkward pause)

LENO: No, that's very good.

Will this get much attention in the next 24 hours, and, if so, will it just get brushed off as another liberal's botched joke?

Stay tuned.

According to ABC's Jake Tapper, preparing for the worst, the White House is already in damage control mode. It released the following statement:

"The president made an off-hand remark making fun of his own bowling that was in no way intended to disparage the Special Olympics," White House deputy press secretary Bill Burton said. "He thinks the Special Olympics is a wonderful program that gives an opportunity for people with disabilities from around the world."

*****Update II: NYT's web-posting concerning Obama's "Tonight Show" appearance didn't cover his Special Olympics faux pas. Ditto USA Today. And AP. And MSNBC.com.

From what I can tell, of the major outlets -- not including blogs -- only the Christian Science Monitor and FoxNews.com covered this. 

Speaking of blogs, USA Today's "The Oval" reported:

The president also, according to MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and the Associated Press, made a joke that seemed to compare his own bowling ability to that of a Special Olympics athlete. [...]

-- Obama recently bowled a 129 game at the White House bowling alley. "That's very good, Mr. President," Leno sarcastically said. After Obama's performance at a bowling alley in Pennsylvania during the presidential campaign, 129 actually is much better.

It was then, according to Olbermann, that Obama said the 129 was akin to a score in a Special Olympics competition. Olbermann, live on the air this evening, said his producers were watching the feed of the Tonight Show taping. The AP says Obama's remark was that the score was "like the Special Olympics or something."

Olbermann guest Craig Ferguson, of CBS-TV's Late Late Show, said the White House may want to beg NBC to cut that comment from the Tonight Show broadcast.

Yikes. Even Olbermann thought this was out of line.

Imagine that!

(Editor's note: The lede of this story was rewritten on 2009-03-10 to merge updates into the original piece.)

—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters. Follow him at Facebook and Twitter.


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Dude

Dude, step away from the cocaine man..every time you snort, you slip up..er, well, must snort all the time..I am offended and I demand an apology..Tap, tap, tap...

I know, the teleprompter made me do it..

the spirit of joy and kindness...

let's see if the Press has endless interviews with Sarah Palin, the Special Olympics representatives and athletes to pound home how elitist obama really is...Let's see if the Kennedy's have anything to say...

if it were Bush, you can bet this would be EVERYWHERE as an example of how "evil", what a "nazi", "stupid" and "insensitive" he is....

instead, by contrast, enjoy GWB's comments as he hosted a Special Olympics Holiday reception at the White House:

"..We're so grateful for the Special Olympics....And so is America.  Because America is at its best upholds the values of every person and the possibilities of every life.  And the Special Olympics is an example of America at its best, sharing with the entire world the spirit of joy and kindness..."

Dick Cheney

Can you imagine the MSM fury if the evil, dark, Darth Vaderish VP, Dick Cheney had said this.

even thought he's evil....

he loves his gay daughter.  imagine that.  [who outed her, John F'ing Kerry?]

liberalism is one of the great deceptions of our time.  i hope America wakes up soon, 'cause we've just about reached the tipping point - if we havent passed it already.

 I hate the way they

 I hate the way they portray us mentally challenged in the media. You see a mentally challenged family, it says, "Aren't God's little mistakes, just so precious ?." You see a family with a normal child, it says, "He's looking for  a wideout." And, you know, it's been five days [waiting for federal help] because most of the people are handicapped. And even for me to complain about it, I would be a hypocrite because I've tried to turn away from the TV because it's too hard to watch. I've even been shopping before even giving a donation, so now I'm calling my business manager right now to see what is the biggest amount I can give, and just to imagine if I was down there, and those are my people down there. So anybody out there that wants to do anything that we can help -- with the way America is set up to help the crippled, the afflicted people, the less well-laid off, as slow as possible. I mean, the Special Olympics is doing everything they can. We already realize a lot of people that could help are broke right now, spending another way -- and they've given them permission to go down and shoot us!

Barack Obama hates retarded people.

 

- Kanye Blazer

 

"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "

                   - Ben Kenobi on  Liberals, and the MSM.

                               " The Cake is a lie."   

Blazer, 0bama hates smart people too...

The dipshits in his 'administration' pretty much prove what a joke he and his ilk are.

Affirmative Action President Telelprompter Teddy Ruxpin Nicotine Patch needs to sit this one out. 

 Mother, in true leftist

 Mother, in true leftist borgeois fashion, retarded peep's to socialist- regressives is conservative peep's.

 

"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "

                   - Ben Kenobi on  Liberals, and the MSM.

                               " The Cake is a lie."   

Blazer...sadly...

...I don't think many people were ready for this Marxist clown crowded in his clown car with his cronies. It's a sad spectacle to behold.

P.S. I added you on my buddy list. Pending. :) 

Medic!!!!!!!!!!!!

Get this man a teleprompter, stat!!!!!!!!

 What an idiot!!  I'm so glad we have such a "brilliant" and "intelligent" man in the White House now.

 Perhaps you'd like to make fun of orphans next, Barack?

 God save us!

NC Cop, LOL!

Clear!

Oh poop. I was hoping for a 'flat-liner'...pfft! 

NC Cop...thank you!

I have a son with autism, and the comment from Obama really stung. But I have to really thank you for giving me a big ole laugh in the midst of my total shock at Obama's insensitivity.

"Medic!...Get this man a teleprompter, stat!" I didn't even get to reading the rest of your comment because I could not stop laughing. And I needed that, bigtime! Thanks. You put it all in perspective for me. 

 

 

Special Olympics Indeed!!!

Here's Obama's helmet for when he doing town hall meetings.  Apparently he left it in Washington when he appeared on Leno.

"Not to be a republican at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head." - Francois Guisot

Barrack Obumbler

This is why Barrack Obumbler picked Joe "Stand Up" Biden to be his V.P.

They are both walking gaffe machines!

 

"Gov. Palin has been subjected to one of the most massive and dishonest pile-on smear attacks in the history of liberal media."  -- Lowell Ponte

Obama is poor taste. Why

Obama is poor taste. Why would his "jokes" be any different?

Rational Liberty: Where Reason and Government Collide - The best website ever!

Liberals And Their Slurs

Wow! Every slur the liberals come up with is just fine with them, I guess. Remember when Al Gore referred to the Republicans as the extra chromosome people? I can just imagine what it would be like if I were a parent of a Down Syndrome child and my Vice President was using him as a slur. Obama is following in cool Al's sensitive footsteps. We all know if a Republican said anything like this they would be history.
TSF Protests!

Well, if my d#mn teleprompter would get his

butt off that blog he has been busy at all day I may have come across a little smoother!

 

 

"I need more cowbell!" SNL

 Well, if my d#mn

 

Well, if my d#mn teleprompter would get his

butt off that blog he has been busy at all day I may have come across a little smoother!

 

Now that's what I call funny ! Just imagine if his teleprompter became self aware, and decided to go back in time and kill the first conservative.

We could call it, The One Term-inator

 

 "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "

                   - Ben Kenobi on  Liberals, and the MSM.

                               " The Cake is a lie."   

OBAMA BUBBLE

HOW THE MIGHTY ARE FALLING: POTUS needs a late night talk show to sell himself? The most powerful office in the world reduced to this already?

Pathetic, and dangerous.

He is clearly unable to govern - like AIG, real estate et al, we're about to go thru another bubble of credibility, and he will take us all down the toilet.

It's really annoying that

It's really annoying that this is going to be covered up and never released much like the teleprompter gag and the door hunting incident.  I wish they would leak because I would be more than happy to make a youtube vid repeatedly looping these videos with "Yakedy Sax" (sp) background music.  It's incredible that the same media who spent the last 8 years (and still continue to do so) making a man seem to be stupid, while our new brilliant, intellectual president repeatedly makes a fool of himself.  If you want to vomit a little bit, go to Tapper's blog and read the comments. 

On a serious note I choose not to be offended.

 I know what he meant and I am not offended even though I am close to some that are mentally challenged. But, what will offend me greatly is the way this will be handled. I can assume we will now hear from the press that this is a great "opportunity" to "discuss" the less fortunate. It is a chance to bring the handicapped to the "forefront" for a greater "dialog" that was brushed under the rug for the last 8 years. There may even be a earmark that was just passed that they can point to to prove that he is all caring. That is what is offensive.

 

"I need more cowbell!" SNL

The double standard is

The double standard is insane.  I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Bush never made fun of disabled people.  Of course, after this gaffe is completely ignored and the evidence erased, no one will believe that Obama did either.

Has anyone else noticed that nearly every day of dear leader's presidency that something has been done or said that would probably ruin (or at least really embarrass) someone with an R by their name?

Very few mean to offend and

Very few mean to offend and almost everyone is not offended. The sad part is, if it is a conservative then the liberal media want them to resign because they are offended. And if the liberal media doesn't then the left wing hacks are on the media's case until they do. 

"DumbAssity of Dope"

Thats bad

 One time here , I posted asking if the the person I was replying to was retarded. I know the word has a legitimate definition, but I also know most of  those who suffer the brunt of that word are perhaps some of the most courageous, and intelligent people in this world. I don't make the mistake often. I never went as low as "special Olympics" humor. Thats just gross.

You're irrational if you don't want the new president to succeed - Gingrich

 

Does Obama Work?

Between flying out to smooze with Leno and working on his bowling score, does Obama actually do any work? 

This won't have any traction

Nobody could claim Obama has anything against the mentally challenged with the cabinet appointments he has made, his choice for VP as well as his close relationship with Nancy Pelosi. Hell, after every time Obama is on TV I sing the theme song to "Life Goes On". 

Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

Well it should have traction

 Using the politically correct "special" to designate the affirmed you are using to compare your short fallings to, approaches a a cognizance that implies either an habitual reasoning that the affirmed are "spazzes" or a premeditated insult. Both plausible explanations are gross behavior. The only thing that works here is "I apologize, I'm an idiot sometimes."

You're irrational if you don't want the new president to succeed - Gingrich

 

If Bush had said it...

If President Bush had said it, It would have lead every morning show and network news broadcast.

Obama will get a pass. Because he is the messiah and he is a Democrat.

If Bush had said it,

Bush would have been impeached by the "Democraps", before any of us got up this morning. Barack Obama needs to resign, immediately!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know

I was being sarcastic and a wee bit off color myself.

I predict it will not make it...

to the broadcast...Even if it does, there will be no "raised eyebrows" or outrage by any in the MSM...Can you imagine what the reaction would be if this were President Bush who had said this??? 

What a thoughtless dolt Obama is... 

"...peace is the highest aspiration of the American People. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will never surrender for it, now or ever." President Ronald Reagan~ January 20, 1981

Of course it will be edited out

 It's gross behavior. Where in the heck is that man's mind to compare his coordination to people working through infirmities? Thats a gross comparison.

You're irrational if you don't want the new president to succeed - Gingrich

 

Wow Nwahs

We agree.DDs have the ability and in most case the desire to improve.Obama and his cronies have none of that.They are stuck in the same self serveing rut and choose to stay that way.

Don't worry, this will get

Don't worry, this will get out. Tomorrow, when Rush comments on it, the media will be sure to criticize Rush for making fun of the Special Olympics.

Kennedy Damage Control

 I think the way the press will spin it is this way:

Eunice Kennedy Shriver was one of the original sponsors of the Special Olympics.  The press will get Maria Shriver or one of the other Kennedys to do the damage control by saying "We know that Obama didn't mean anything derogatory...yada yada yada." 

exactly

great point.

watch the damage control machine in action.  

Kennedy/Shriver comment....

You know what is sad?

I just took enough L-Tryptophan to knock out an elephant so I'll more than likely miss this 'epic' pile of bullshit.

Five more days until my dentist appt. *whimper sniffle* 

Gah

My posts keep doubling.

Sorry.

*flashes boobies* to detract. 

for real?

What a jerk, seriously!

My guess is that Jack Cafferty isn't going to get all outraged..

over this remark.  Obama is, as Cafferty reminds us, working his butt off, "something we haven't seen for 8 years" etc etc etc.,

Case in point: The president spending his evening in LA on a late night talk show, making jokes at the expense of the mentally challenged.

Michelle throwing a viewing party tonight at the White House, I suppose?

My guess is they'll find some big, bad conservative to attack tomorrow to shift attention away from Barry's idiotic joke.

This administration itself is quickly turning into a very, very bad joke.

At .54 seconds-What do 'we' err what do they do...

Olbermann and his slips of the tongue showing his colors like Matthews and so many others do as they are sold out propagadanists for this pathetic group of leaders...

 

Is this trickle down propanomics? 

Just pathetic.

It comes down to context. 

It comes down to context.  This same 'joke':

1.  By a Lib-OK

2.  By a professional commodian-OK

3.  By a Conservative or Republican-Evil

One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 61% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory (yep...approval for Congress now at 39%...do you believe that!?).

what do WE do about this?

I guess Olbermann thinks its his job to see that Obama succeeds too.

I wonder what Obama's Teleprompter will have to say about this.

This is not just an

This is not just an insult to some very special people, it is an unintended revelation of what our ruler thinks of us common folk.

Jesus Loves You

Wasn't it Palin that got smeared by the media for cutting....

funding for the Special Olympics?  A "report" that turned out to be completely false.

Gee, I wonder how the MSM will react to a deragatory remark The Savior made about the Special Olympics on national TV.

SOBama is

is just an A hole and I want to know who the real POTUS is?

He is in the White House to party, smile, and pretend. I don't think this guy has a single original thought.

I am going to ask TOTUS aka the teleprompter to let us in on the facts.

Delsa..."party, smile and pretend..."

Exactly! I've been calling Obamessiah "the pretender" too...He just seems to be playing 'dress-up', doesn't he? He "pretended" to be an Illinois state senator, then a US senator, and now president. Pelosi and Reid are the ones calling the shots in Washington, not Obama...Lord knows, he's never even in Washington half the time...He's always on Air Force One going somewhere...How many trips has this twit taken since he was sworn in? TOO MANY...

"...peace is the highest aspiration of the American People. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will never surrender for it, now or ever." President Ronald Reagan~ January 20, 1981

You have that right.  Obama

You have that right.  Obama keeps his foot clean by frequent insertion into his mouth.  This is quite a trick, given that most of the time his head is up his ass.  What we have here is a pathetic and embarrassing excuse for the POTUS.

More Theater Of The Absurd

What's next from our Moron In Chief?  A claim he's "lost his head" like Daniel Pearl?

Each day brings a new revelation of the idiocy of this administration.  The man is a lightweight in the world's biggest heavyweight bout.  Instead of the "Thrilla From Manilla" we have the

  • "Charlatan From Chicago",
  • "Lyin' Hawaiian"
  • "Kenyan Kommissar"
  • "Uncle JoeBama
  • "Marxist with the Mostest"
  • "Slumdog Millionaire"
  • "Barack Gita - Now I am become Death, destroyer of worlds"  (H/T J. Robert Oppenheimer)
  • "Fresh Prince Of Bill Ayers"  (H/T Newsbusters)
  • "Man-made Disaster Blaster"
  • "TOTUS"  (H/T Rush)

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Obama will be the Dem's Nixon (minus the scope of RMN's achievements).

strat, here's one for

strat, here's one for free:

President Teleprompter-Tse-Tsung

"

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "

                   - Ben Kenobi on  Liberals, and the MSM.

                               " The Cake is a lie."   

I was wrong...They left it in...

Surprise, surprise...I'm shocked...I thought for sure that NBC (aka the National Barack Channel) would have that edited out...

What do you know???... 

Leno closes with, "Mr. President, this is one of the best nights of my life..."(loud applause) Good lord, Jay... 

"...peace is the highest aspiration of the American People. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will never surrender for it, now or ever." President Ronald Reagan~ January 20, 1981

Speaking of Blogs...

President Obama's Teleprompter may address this concern, stay tuned:

http://baracksteleprompter.blogspot.com 

No---Olberman is still a tool

Olberman slipped up though, in his comments with Ferguson. Olberman said, "What do we do---what can he do about it?" Olberman made his own verbal faux pas, which he then tried to cover up. Olberman plainly aligned himself as part of the damage contol effort that will be forthcoming from the White House.

I just watched Leno and NBC did not edit out Obama's crude attempts at humor.

NewsBusters:

I propose a bowling match between President Obama and Kaci Ellison, who earned gold medals in the recent statewide Special Olympics bowling competition in Little Rock.

Just for fun. Just for charity.

Show no mercy, Kaci.

TOTUS...You're the Only One that can save us!

Without TOTUS, we are lost, hopeless and doomed.

Without TOTUS, we don't know what to do or where to go. Who will pay for our mortgage, car payment, cable bill, lottery tickets and food?

Please TOTUS, we beg you, save us from the random speech patterns, insults, petty asides, disturbing pauses, deceptions, lies, falsehoods, poor phrasing, insane and irrational logic and promises of the Alien Empty Suit.

Maybe conservatives should

Maybe conservatives should show no outrage.  Merely say,  "Well, what did you expect from a baby murdering, earmarking elitest?"

I wouldn't let

SOBama anywhere near Kaci!

Why tarnish Kaci's achievements?

SOBama would use the event as a photo op and cheapen all attached to it.

Besides, I hate to see grown men cry. On second thought????....

Delsa, good points

I thought about that, too, but there it is.

(edited)

Yeah, I edited it. ;^)

 

 

 

The Organizer supports the murder of "inconvenient" children...

...even if they have already been born, his coming health care plan supports letting "inconvenient" elderly people die. He also supports forcing our "inconvenient" wounded military veterans to have to pay for their own care once they return home.

How much of a stretch is it to believe he would support getting "inconvenient" handicapped people off the roles of his health care plan as well.

After all, the Nazis did it.

-Dave

This coup has gone on long enough. The time to put it down is NOW.

Watch for Sarah Palin

Watch for Sarah Palin to issue a thoughtful, kind, and gracious remark that will cut Obama to ribbons.

What a prick

Yeah, the liberals are the compassionate ones, right? 

If Obama spent just a few hours with my little daughter, witnessing what incredible strength she has to muster just to get through a day at school because of her special needs, he would understand what a vile and reprehensible remark he made tonight.

Here is a man who has been given more advantages in his life than most of us could ever dream. Perhaps this explains why he appears to be so clueless as to what it is to truly suffer everyday of your life with an incredible burden.

What an absolute prick.

If this had been Bush, the

If this had been Bush, the left-wingers would be all over this.  Every channel would be interviewing "specially challenged" folks asking questions like, "did you feel offended by the remark of the President?"  And the little girl would say, "I feel very sad that the President would make fun of me like that" (sniff...sniff).  Then, Bush would have to setup a meeting with the little girl, shake her hand on camera, sign his autograph, give $5,000 of his own money to some charity, have a meeting with Jesse Jackson and then discuss how this is related to racism.  That would just be the beginning.

So true.................................

The faux "news" shows would also headline this for the next two weeks, just to make sure their point got across to "all" the nation.

Our economy is like Obama's bowling ball

--- in the gutter.

Daily Kos already spin, spinning away..

Guaranteed to make your head hurt.

Hey maybe this (or the DVD's that Gordon Brown can't play) can finally give some material for Letterman, Colbert, Stuart or Leno. They seem to be short on Obama jokes.

Oh wait, silly me.

Whooooops. That's a pretty

Whooooops. That's a pretty stupid thing to say. 

National Healer strikes again

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"Officially fought

"Officially fought traditional marriage"? 

Look up their press releases

 

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Was it edited or not??

Has anyone noticed if the Special Olympics remark has been edited out or not?? I can't see the show live, but would like to know before I view the show myself.

______________________
Moderate... Democrat... Liberal... Progressive... Socialist... Communist—The progression is clear as day.

The only thing that concerns

The only thing that concerns me is that possibly this is a calculated diversion by Obama to take the spotlight off everything else he is screwing us on.  How about the justice with Acorn ties?  How about Obama knowing about AIG bonuses long before it was made public and he acting like he knew nothing?  How about the stock market sinking while Obama in office?  I know, I know, put my tin-foil hat on, right?  Just saying, how could somebody go to "Harvard" and then act so stupid like Obama has in this instance and in the past?

TOTUS please save me!

God without his teleprompter he's almost as bad a gaffe machine as Biden.  From his 'spread the wealth around' comment, "been to 57 states", Truman history gaffe, grandfather holocaust history gaffe, and bad taste joke about Nancy Reagan that he had to apologize for and his um's and ah's and pauses...it's no wonder why he uses leans on the TOTUS 99% of the time when he speachifies.

Can you imagine Obama and

Can you imagine Obama and Biden with no teleprompters and no speechwriters? And how about a mainstream media that actually reported everything they did, like they did Bush?

He just keeps putting his foot in his mouth.

Obama: AIG is like … a suicide bomber

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/03/19/obama-aig-is-like-a-suicide-bomber/

Amazing.

Personal and Inside Jokes

This disparaging comment by Obama, spoken with an everyday ease and a casual tilt of the head reveals how those with mental and physical challenges are seen within the Obama household - people who are obviously less-than.

Making an off-hand and demeaning joke about those that participate, courageously, in the Special Olympics will be a jewel in Obama's  self-placed crown of rotting laurels.

It had me wondering if Michelle and Obama say to their daughters, should they fail at a simple task, "you're ready for the Special Olympics."

Obviously a lame joke

and not in good taste,

BUT it makes me laugh seeing you people grasping at straws feigning outrage. Please! This is all you got on Obama now? A stupid joke that is hardly audible? Lame. But its even more hilarious seeing you guys get al P.C. on this. LMAO at the "Critical Update". Oh man. 

 Your God and Saviour Rush Limbaugh disparged and made fun of Michael J. Fox's Parkisons Disease in a much more crude and disgusting manner. Are you disgusted by that too? Well are you? I really want to know.

Give Obama a break. He knows

Give Obama a break. He knows about Special Olympians, he has one former champion as head of his Treasury Department and another as his flack in the US Senate from Connecticutt. 

you don't research anything do you

I guess your screen name is fitting then.

Limbaugh was making fun of

Limbaugh was making fun of Fox because he is obviously so ignorant of his own disease that he believes it acceptable to destroy other human life in a vain attempt to treat his own condition.  In doing so, Fox becomes no different than those porphyria sufferers who in olden times turned to drinking human blood for their condition.  Some people have a sufficient appreciation of moral standards to be repulsed by such reprehensible, selfish and amoral desires.  Apparently YOU aren't.

Let's talk about Fox's misuse of his celebrity status to promote embryonic stem cell research and his promotion of false hopes that it might cure Parkinson's disease, despite a lack of any supporting evidence or prototype therapies coming from those medical establishments in places like China and Korea where embryonic stem cell research has been unfettered in any way.

I'm still laughing...

at the CRITICAL UPDATE: video of this comment now available below the fold. 

Oh man! Talk about grasping at straws. Ooooh Obama said something stupid! We have something on him! Yeah! Interesting see Right-wingers get uber politically correct. Too bad its not becuase of the disabled and more about the fact Obama said a stupid thing. I guess your God Rush gets a free pass from his making fun of "shaking" Parkinson's Disease patients. OH the double-standards!

Is that a rock in your hand?

 Looks like someone's hands are "shaking" so much they hit the Post Comment button twice. 

Not that anyone should bother telling you, but

No one really cares about either remark, differance is, one is met with righteous indignation, the other will be met with crickets. The point is your PC BS is for the birds. This is proof that those who parade the PC BS dont bother practicing it.

 

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

I'm still laughing...

at the CRITICAL UPDATE: video of this comment now available below the fold. 

Oh man! Talk about grasping at straws. Ooooh Obama said something stupid! We have something on him! Yeah! Interesting see Right-wingers get uber politically correct. Too bad its not becuase of the disabled and more about the fact Obama said a stupid thing. I guess your God Rush gets a free pass from his making fun of "shaking" Parkinson's Disease patients. OH the double-standards!

Is that a glass house?

 Looks like someone's hands are "shaking" so much they hit the Post Comment button twice. 

Really though...

CRITICAL UPDATE: video of this comment now available below the fold. 

LMAO! You guys must be creaming your pants. Awww. 

Proof

In a time where so much is being made about our first black president, Ann Coulter made the following observation in her column of 2/25/2009: ” But as long as the nation is obsessed with historic milestones, is no one going to remark on what a great country it is where a mentally retarded woman can become Speaker of the House?”

(GRINS) kilrod

Remember, only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you, Jesus Christ and the American Soldier

Here is an example of a tasteless comment.....

that will not be aired nationwide;

You better get your shoes on now so I can tie them SayAnything, your short bus will be here in a little while.

While Rush's comments on Michael Fox dealt with Fox's own hyprocracy and the left's using him for public sympathy (Fox admitted he played up his symptoms for TV), Duh1's gaffe is a window into his tele-promter-less soul of his views on under achievement and sub-standard performance. Sort of like he does not want his daughters "punished" with a baby for a "mistake".

Liar liar

Michael J. Fox has NEVER admitted in interviews that he goes off his medication.

From Crooks and Liars: " A tireless
search of the Internet produces no such record of any interview, or any
statement in which Fox has ever admitted or even suggested that he ever goes off his Parkinson's treatment at all, let alone for the purposes of shaking it up for the television audience.

 SO please take your feinged outrage and faux PC police over what Obama said when you guys can't bring yourselves to say that what Rush Limbaugh did, making fun of a man with an uncontrollable disease and actually "shaking" himself, was anything less than disgusting. No one here can do it can they? Wow. 

You missed your bus.......

Though medications provide some relief from symptoms, the effectiveness decreases over time.  In his outstanding 2002 memoir, Lucky Man,
Fox wrote that he did not take medication prior to testifying before
the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee in 1998, because ...  "I
had made a deliberate choice to appear before the subcommittee without
medication.  It seemed to me that this occasion demanded that my
testimony about the effects of the disease, and the urgency we as a
community were feeling, be seen as well as heard.  For people who had
never observed me in this kind of shape, the transformation must have
been startling."

old cro -- excellent catch.

old cro -- excellent catch. I sort of remembered reading about Fox boasting about his trick at the time but couldn't place it.

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complete chronicle

along with links (including video) here.

SayAnythingWithoutFacts (CHIRP).....

Calling Sayanything     (CHIRP) (CHIRP)

Thanks katainkent, my guess is that is off Rush's 24-7 site which I don't have (cause I usually listen) althought I may have to get because if that is a sample, it looks like a lot of time and research went into it and it would be an excellent tool to refute these liberal trolls popping up here and there.

Welcome to our world

For 8 years we watched you Liberal hacks turn Pres. Bush speech gaffs into major, long running news events. The difference being is B Hussein's gaffs are not limited to inocuous events. His are sending the Country into the dumper.

Let me hold the rock up for you. There you go ... scurry back under.

"All generalizations are false, including this one.” Mark Twain

I guess its a special day

for you folks.

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hahaha! Classic.

Enjoy this one gaffe. Hey maybe you'll get lucky and get another gaffe! Happy times!

He is a gaffe machine.

Only an idiot like you would not have noticed that by now. Speaking of idiots, didn't you vote for Obama?

 Hey maybe you'll get lucky and get another gaffe!

 We don't need luck. All we need is the dawn of a new day and a report of yet another gaffe, sweetie with the 57 states that clings to guns and religion and splits platoons over 2 different theatres who can't wear a flag pin because there are better ways to show patriotism and laments the death of 10,000 people in a tornado, i mean 12. Don't you come from Sioux City, I mean Sioux Falls? Oh, that is not important, you were conceived in the Selma march, 4 years after you were born. No, you were the guy that claimed Iran was not a threat the day before you claimed you had always said they were a threat. Oh, I remember, You thanked yourself for being here last week.

 Oh, I am getting tired. This could take all night.

 www.obamasgaffes.blogspot.com

 

Sincerely,

a Veteran of a 1000 psychic wars.

You have to admit that

You have to admit that everytime your messiah goes off teleprompter he puts his foot in his mouth.  I will bet his handlers are getting tired of this.  But I agree with you, the stuff he says when he is not thinking is nowhere near as bad as the stuff he says when he is.  Like, "Hey, we should require wounded combat veterens to pay for their own medical treatment!"

Obama:  "The Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers." -Ed Mahmoud

SatAnything (stupid) if

SatAnything (stupid) if liberals didn't have double standards, they'd have none at all.

I know this was mentioned but...

I want to know who put this on the teleprompter! Was it Dodd? Geithner? Oh I know- it was some Treasury Staffer- that's who!

"It won't be six months into his Presidency before Jay Leno tests this man..." 

I can just hear Emanuel today: "Okay Barack the Blunder Dog, you're off camera for awhile. Joe Gaffemaster? You're up! Try to get us at least to Monday before you start eating your shoe, okay? Oh geeze, Nancy? You're on deck... (mumbling- I sure as hell can't put Reid out there) Timmy?! Timmy! Get back to your office and pretend to be working on something. Try the new Tetris game we just loaded on your computer. That's the thing on your desk that looks kinda like a TV! (dumbass...) 

Poor Joe Biden must be feeling insecure this morning...

...as the President is now taking over his job as well.

Well what did you expect?

I mean Obama is mentally handicapped so he probably didn't think he was out of line. 

"To sin by silence when we should protest, makes cowards of men" -Ella Wheeler Wilcox

You saying

The drugs burned out his brain?

The incredible shrining TOTUS

Yep, he is a creep, thinks nothing of others. I doubt the Mulsim military junta in Indonesia taught the kids to respect those who are disabled.

 

Does the ACTING president even know Jay Leno is a frigging comic?

Imagine the outrage if

Imagine the outrage if George W. Bush said this.

Obama's Dream

In Obama's America, there is no need for Special Olympics: retards get aborted.

Well Obama knows about Special Olympians

His entire cabinet is filled with them.  Hell, the Special Olympians would probably do a better job

"To sin by silence when we should protest, makes cowards of men" -Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Special Olympics Donation

Someone needs to donate a $500,000 book advance to the Special Olympics.

I second that suggestion..........

Great mea culpa for Duh1, BC57

My best friend at work, a

My best friend at work, a man I have known for thirty years, has a son that competed in the Special Olympics in bowling. 

Now, his son is a World Class Special Olympian weightlifter in the heavyweight class that most recently medaled in China with the Special Olympics, lifting the heaviest weight ever by a Special Olympian. 

I would love to see Robbie power lift Obami and toss him aside like the ragdoll he is.  Next time Obami, when you feel the need to pick on somebody, I'll volunteer.  However, you won't get a free pass with me.

 

Next Time...

Next time Jay will just invite the teleprompter instead of BHO.

Makes for better conversation. 

I just found this....

http://www.politico....

Apparently, Obama called Tim Shriver to apologize for his comment.

I also noticed he has a video message to the people of Iran, so he may not be far off about being in the Special Olympics.  The Russians are putting going to put bases in Cuba and Venezuela and he's reaching out to Iran, who hates us.  He ignores Gordon Brown.  Throws nice parties at the White House on Wednesday night while the economy is suffering and people are out of work.  If Bush did this stuff, we would never hear the end of it.

What the heck?

Maybe Coach K is onto something?! 

Do your job Obama!  Stop being a community organizer!

Next thing we will see him at is Natasha Richardson's funeral (which is truly sad,, but he will show up I am sure just to be seen).

Tom

Message for SayAnything

Message for SayAnything:

It's not so much that "right-wingers" have "something" on Obama (this gaffe is the least of our complaints), the irony here is that the national media will say "Nothing to see here---move along."

It's an old refrain, but I'll sing it again. If Bush had done this, there would be hundreds of political cartoons in every newspaper across the land, the late-night comedians would be having a field day, even "sports" writers would get in on the act, and it would never go away. SNL writers would be planning a skit for this week with Bush bouncing a bowling ball off the walls, and the bile from HuffPost would run knee-deep in the streets. And the so-called deans of American journalism would report on this with pained, hurt expressions, wondering how Bush could be so cruel.

And you know it.

 

Wow. Sarah Palin said that

Wow. Sarah Palin said that with her the disabled would have an advocate in Washington.  Apparently now we have someone who mocks them.  Good going 53% of Americans who voted this jerk in.

 Anyone notice how Olbermann quickly corrected himself when asking Ferguson "What are we -- what he is going" to do about this?  As usual, already looking to cover for him.

I noticed this...

Eugenia,

I noticed this as well.  Ferguson and Olbermann looking for cover for Obama.  After all the screw-ups in his administration this week, it's not a surprise they wanted NBC to edit this part of the taping out for the "Exalted One."

Congress gave Obama and themselves cover by passing that barbaric bonus tax legislation yesterday and these two buffons want to practice censorship.

Nothing surprises me at this point with these characters.

Tom

bingo

but not in the least surprised.  Just like Chris Matthews stated, "It's my job to make the President look good..." 

MSNBC is shameless in its bias.

wonder if the boys and girls in Fairfield (who are trying to save their valted firm from collapse) are putting the pieces together...?

I've had enough of the Messiah.

When I heard about this on the news this morning, my jaw about hit the floor......there is no end to what this fool gets away with due to the slobbering disgusting media. If ANY Republican said such a thing he or she would be crucified.

Around 10 AM I heard MSNBC

I think it was Alex Witt, say that Obama really meant to say that the Special Olympics inspired him to be a better bowler or something. It was unreal. I guess we now know why Bob Gibbs gets away with his immature snarky remarks- his boss is even worse.

And WHO is surprised by this comment?

Narcissists are often callous- and even ruthless. They tend to lack empathy and/or a conscience. This is evident in Obama's lack of interest in his own half-brother who lives in poverty in Kenya, or his aunt found living in public housing in Boston.
Obama's almost certainly a pathological narcissist... the most dangerous charismatic leaders are, comes from an insecure childhood (like Barack's).


Indicators include control freakery, grandiose self-importance, feeling "above the law", interpersonally exploitive, inability to handle criticism, lack of empathy, arrogant behavior, surrounds himself with sycophants... sound familiar? -How else to explain his writing a self-absorbed autobiography when he was still a nobody? Same as fellow narcissists Hitler and Stalin- no surprise there. -Obama is a mess- and his insecurities, bad childhood, and irresponsible, wierdo far-left mother are now all our problem, too.  http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/

not I

I wonder what the administration will be doing today while the media chews on this non story.

Kinda reminds me of the piece in Chicago "The Trial".

Courtesy of Treacher.

He has a list of jokes for Obama the next time he goes on a late night talk show.

 http://jimtreacher.com/archives/002035.html

"Not to be a republican at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head." - Francois Guisot

Doing the hard work

Don't forget, he's working soooo hard... going on Leno, filling out brackets, wiping all the media lipstick off his ass.

Nero fiddles while Rome burns.

Part Deaux

"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American prople"

Why NBC didn't edit "Special Olympics joke"?

The questions to be asked are, "Did anyone try to get the exchange edited out, and why did the Tonight Show decide to leave it in?"

With the quick spread of the news about the "joke" spreading across the internet, my guess is that NBC decided it would not have been in it's best interest to cut that segment ... on many levels.

Did NBC fear the fallout by appearing to cave in to pressure to "protect" Obama?

An ominous sign for the President?

metaphorsbwithu

new media is why it aired...10 yrs ago, no way it airs.

thank GOD, pardon me....., Thank you Al Gore, for the internet.

 

"Thank you Al Gore ... "

"Thank you Al Gore ... "

Hah! Isn't that the ultimate irony!

RE: SayAnything (stupid, that is)

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LMAO! You guys must be creaming your pants. Awww.

 

This, coming from the side of the political aisle that went into ecstasy over the Dan Quayle potato drivel and has harped on every utterance by Obama's predecessor for the past eight years.

 

Tell me, have you geniuses decided yet whether W is too dumb to tie his shoes or if he is some genius mastermind who is taking over the world? 

Oh the irony!

Some Americans picked this OAF because they felt that this woman was too white trash for them.

"Not to be a republican at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head." - Francois Guisot

I cover this & Obama's Special Interest Groups

Check Out my week in Review, it is all about Special Interest Groups and their effect on us.

http://youhavetobethistalltogoonthisride.blogspot.com/2009/03/tgif-circus-life-week-in-review-flea.html

Including
The Obama Administration decide to not to go ahead with their plans for
Wounded Veterans Medical needs. President Obama will not pursue a
proposal that would have allowed the VA to charge private insurance
companies for the treatment of veterans with service- and war-related
injuries, read more here. That was a REAL FLEA BRAINED IDEA.

I cover this & Obama's Special Interest Groups

Check Out my week in Review, it is all about Special Interest Groups and their effect on us.

http://youhavetobethistalltogoonthisride.blogspot.com/2009/03/tgif-circus-life-week-in-review-flea.html

Including
The Obama Administration decide to not to go ahead with their plans for
Wounded Veterans Medical needs. President Obama will not pursue a
proposal that would have allowed the VA to charge private insurance
companies for the treatment of veterans with service- and war-related
injuries, read more here. That was a REAL FLEA BRAINED IDEA.