And they says bloggers are news-lite. The latest issue of Details magazine carries this ludicrous headline on the top of the cover: "Can Obama Make You Better In Bed?" Inside is an article suggesting that "from the way we wear our suits to the way we relate to our wives, somehow American men are acting a little more like 44."
This is, as you might suspect, the work of a magazine just making wild generalizations about American manhood with bold assertion and zero research. Men may have favored McCain last November, "But it might not matter all that much, because in voting for a radically different avatar of American masculinity, we were, in a way, voting for Barack Obama to change us. Which is exactly what he's doing." (Italics theirs.)
Then we’re subjected to the idea that Obama has arrived to overcome the "overcompensating masculine drag" of the Bush-Cheney era:
For some, it's what's not there that matters. Byron Hurt, a New York–area filmmaker who last fall produced a documentary titled Barack & Curtis, sees Obama's ascent as the rejection of "defiant, in-your-face manhood." Hurt's film drew a parallel between George W.'s masculine identity and that of 50 Cent—a.k.a. Curtis Jackson—reminding us that Fitty once admiringly called Dubya "gangsta." ("I wanna meet George Bush," he said. "Just shake his hand and tell him how much of me I see in him.") "Barack Obama doesn't have to front like he's hard," Hurt says. "It's a deeply secure presentation of masculinity."
It's also an entirely different one. Cintra Wilson, author of Caligula for President, an apocalyptic fantasia that takes Dick Cheney's construction of an imperial presidency to its logical conclusion, shudders at the memory of Bush's "whole 'Mission Accomplished' codpiece thing"—the crotchtastic flight suit on the aircraft carrier: "Obama would sooner go out in front of the American people in a dress than in that overcompensating masculine drag."
Bush and Clinton were disasters from men, and then came Obama to the rescue:
Obama sticks to a less-is-more script with a smarty-pants subtext: the knowledge that blustery masculinity doesn't fool anyone anymore. Especially Obama himself. He's got enough self-awareness to know just how ridiculous he'd look in the sheriff's hat. And if that inspires the rest of us to drop the cartoonish manhood act, well, God bless America.
—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center.
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Blind Meets Dumb
July 1, 2009 - 13:16 ET by allanf.. and Vogue says Michele Obama is more fashionable than us. Go figure, blind now meets just plain dumb.
.. and these editors wonder why the magazine industry is crumbling.
"And Michele Obama is a fashion icon"
July 1, 2009 - 15:58 ET by Ten7sThat was my first thought too.
OTHO, everyone can certainly look to The Big 0 for an example of how to screw everything up.
If anyone could answer this
July 1, 2009 - 13:18 ET by Ken ShepherdIf anyone could answer this question I suppose it would be Kathleen Matthews, the longsuffering wife of Chris "Tingles" Matthews.
What a couple of asses.
July 1, 2009 - 13:21 ET by WhoIsJohnGaltI had no idea that a predidential election was intended to define masculinity. I had always thought it was to select a leader who was capable of piloting this ship of state, this embodiement of human ideals. Silly me.
I imagine that somewhere, journalists worth their salt read tripe like this and wonder, "How did this fool ever convince someone to pay him to write for them?", much like we all do in our respective professions when we run across someone so totally incompetent that we stop in our tracks, mouth agape before we catch ourselves and proceed with our day.
The title of the article
July 1, 2009 - 13:21 ET by HelenSThe title of the article alone was enough to make my skin crawl. BO is slime and so disgusting that just hearing his voice or seeing his ears...I mean face makes me want to throw up. Which is why I spend most TV-viewing sessions with the mute-button at hand while I avert my eyes!
Me - "The libs/dems of today are the Quislings of former years - the cowards who would vote a fraud into office in exchange for handouts from the devil."
Welcome back to the Land of
July 1, 2009 - 13:28 ET by HockeyKidWelcome back to the Land of Metrosexuals, where real men are "cartoons" and pantywaists are "deeply secure".
Sorry, ye sufferers of liberal dementia, but that "man enough to act like a woman" bullshit still stinks, even if you try to polish it up.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Newspeak at work here
July 1, 2009 - 15:10 ET by DontFeedTheTrollsFemininity is the new masculinity, 5% unemployment was the 'New Great Depression', 10% unemployment is the Obama 'Recovery'. Newspeak abounds.
D
P.S. Who's the new Tzar of Newspeak anyway?
Write Congress and say vote NO on cap and trade!
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Just six months in, and already......
July 1, 2009 - 13:30 ET by BarkerObama jumps the shark.
Bamster in a dress?
July 1, 2009 - 13:40 ET by slickwillie2001In case you were wondering: http://2.bp.blogspot.com
Not bad legs.
freudian slip
July 1, 2009 - 13:44 ET by konoObama sticks to a less-is-more script with a smarty-pants subtext . . .
Under his plan, more Americans will have to make do with much less. So that's a pretty apt way to put it.
Can Chief Jughead make me better in bed? Maybe, maybe not. I do know that when I wake up in the morning now I feel totally screwed, thanks to him.
Like
July 1, 2009 - 15:26 ET by DragonsbreathOver night dinner trips to Chi and NYC? Sorry I work for a living and could not afford them before...
“Less 1984 — More 1776"
Monument to wussiness
July 1, 2009 - 13:57 ET by nkviking75Obama may be more style conscious than W., but he's not more of a man. He's a monument to wussiness, he's a fool, and he lacks the character of a real man. If I had to choose between the two for my masculine role model, it'd be George W. Bush in a runaway.
When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.
Yuck
July 1, 2009 - 13:58 ET by SickofLibsMy gag reflex is so worn out, I think I could take up sword-swallowing with no learning curve at all.
You just can't stop talking sex, can ya?
July 1, 2009 - 14:58 ET by StarAZSword swallowing--about sums it up.
"overcompensating masculine
July 1, 2009 - 14:03 ET by Franksam"overcompensating masculine drag"
I had to read the story a couple of times before I realized that the above quote was not in reference to Michelle.
With the possible exception
July 1, 2009 - 14:04 ET by gopsteveWith the possible exception of bill clinton, can you imagine any other president beinig used this way...kind of like when clinton was asked if he wore boxers or briefs, and he actually answered!
I think this celebrity gaga cheapens the office, not that obama cares as long as he gets even more publicity...
I doubt
July 1, 2009 - 14:15 ET by Joe CamelI have serious doubts on whether this dolt could compete with me in anything; whether it be physically, mentally or sexually..and I am 52 years old. That skinny little panytwaste is not a match for a real man, just these rags keep telling everyone they don't want that, being a real man..most women I know would tell you differently. I unlike the Big O have a beautiful wife, and not something that looks like it crawled up from under a wreceked train doing 300 miles an hour; and I am being nice here.
I agree - I will concede he
July 2, 2009 - 09:26 ET by seaniepI agree - I will concede he may have a better jumpshot than me, but I would throw him around like a ragdoll if we played one-on-one - not because I have any skills at basketball, but because as a former rugby player, former Marine, and current student of brazilian ju-jitzu (I can arm bar, but not spell it), I know he would sit there and cry foul at the manhandling he would receive - oh and I have worked around fine dining most of my life, I would pwn him in the kitchen too
I hate the New York Times more than it hates the US Military
Speaking as a woman
July 1, 2009 - 14:56 ET by StarAZSkinny coathanger, know-it-all talkers are not my fave.
Just a thought
July 1, 2009 - 15:33 ET by well99Maybe they could ask Barney Franks.I am sure he could tell you if Obama makes you better in bed.
Obama is a fag, I'm sure
July 1, 2009 - 15:40 ET by George S PattonObama is a fag, I'm sure the limo driver in Milwaukee was paid off or threatened with death to keep his mouth shut about obama being on the down low.
Answer
July 1, 2009 - 15:59 ET by DelsaOnly if you are brain dead and gay!
hot guys
July 1, 2009 - 18:01 ET by LorraineObama - oooo ick! Skinny, hairless chest, he's a boy (or a girl)
Hugh Jackman, Gerard Butler - my kind of men!
Re hot guys
July 1, 2009 - 18:57 ET by slickwillie2001What do you think he is, about a 38A, or maybe a B?
where have all the cowboys gone?
July 1, 2009 - 19:07 ET by katainkentpersonally, I like me a real man. Not the sissfied crap that passes between the pages of these rags. Who writes this crap.
Obama comes off as a deeply insecure schoolyard bully. He can talk tough only when there are several ass-beating real guys ready to back 'im up.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past - George Orwell - 1984
Yaa hooo
July 1, 2009 - 19:52 ET by general companyYahooo. Cowboy at your service. I'd make Obama p¡ss himself ; ]
My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful
"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg
yuck
July 2, 2009 - 02:16 ET by m1xramIs this some kind of bizarre argument for Obama sucking or blowing more. Is it really relevant?
He has already failed... his country.
Ha!
July 2, 2009 - 08:29 ET by SpikerMy gag reflex is so worn out, I think I could take up sword-swallowing with no learning curve at all.
Great comment, sick of libs!!
I also feel like gagging reading this. I'm a female in my thirties and positively cannot stand prissy metrosexual men like the Pres. My man doesn't even know what arugula is, let alone "what it costs these days". And to suggest that somehow men who don't fit the mold of His Holiness are lacking bedroom skills, well that is just hilarious!