I’m thinking that if you’re going to spend a couple of weeks pushing a meme about a candidate’s family dog traveling atop a car for family vacations a few decades ago, you might want to make sure your candidate doesn’t have any doggie bones in his own closet. You know, wouldn’t want to alienate the all important dog owners vote, now would ya?
See also. It trended nationally last night.
Don’t miss this:
https://twitter.com/#!/BoFirstDog/status/192447644872876032
h/t WMCB
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The Crawdad Hole 
I missed the fun last night and read the previous thread just now.
Laughing too hard to eat my dog-free breakfast.
I had my fun with it last night, and it was HYSTERICAL. Too much fun.
Pic of Obama hunting
https://twitter.com/#!/ctmommy/status/192593029633277952
What’s great about the “Obama Ate Dog” story is that the Romney team responded to the Seamus story the way they needed to….sadly. A reasoned argument, like the one myiq put forward would never work…but this will work.
I actually suspect this has Mitten’s fingerprints all over it. People forget that he looks like Mr. Nice Guy, but he made his wealth by playing the whole field, and making sure his fingerprints weren’t on part of it. Just like Obama, ftr. So I would bet that this little tidbit was bled into the infostream somewhere by someone connected to Romney.
I do agree it sucks that this is what we’re stuck with, instead of actually discussing issues and addressing real problems, but it is gratifying to see Obama and his minions get ferocious pushback. Treacher’s article is already at #2 on Memeorandum. I hope it tops the stories today.
Oh, I don’t doubt that Mitt’s team may have put it out there, perhaps intending it to be a mild pushback on the Seamus thing. I doubt they expected or planned what happened next, though. 😀
I totally think the Romney camp is connected with this especially after I saw the clip of Mitt & Ann on the Diane Sawyer interview defending the Seamus thing (instead of saying it was 30 years ago, wouldn’t do it today, etc. to make the story die). They had this in their back pocket (although it probably went better than expected).
However, the really sad thing is: this was in Obama’s book, so nobody “put it out there” — it’s always been there. However, it appears no one has actually bothered to read the book. Romney was smart enough to read it, which tells me he’s smart enough to not get railroaded by Obama & his Chicago thugs, which is good enough for me at this point.
I disagree that this proves nobody read the book. I read it and I knew, and I bet a bunch of these folks did, too. But as WMCB explained, this isn’t about any real outrage over him eating dog as a child. It’s about pushback and mockery.
It was the perfect opening to put them on notice that they have to be very, very careful with those reams of opposition research they’ve generated. They better put adults in charge, or this will keep happening and Obama will be a laughing stock by July. It’s really strategic. If cons had ever led with this themselves, they could have been accused of racism. That’s why no one mentioned it before.
Good point. I guess it shows how our elections all hinge on emotions rather than logic.
Interesting to me is the subtext of each meme.
Seamus on the roof “terrified”* is supposed to underscore that Romney is without empathy – a robot. If he can’t empathize with a his own dog, how can he empathize with regular folks (aka 99%)?
(Presuming it’s true that he was terrified and not just suffering from indigestion. The way the Romneys tell the story, they transported the dog this way more than once, but it only crapped on the car once. )
Obama talking about eating dog (and snake etc) as a kid shows he didn’t grow up in an American culture. This echoes the right’s underlying concern with him — that American values are not ingrained in his psyche. He doesn’t understand what makes America great and thus he is, deliberately or not, destroying it.
votermom, I agree with you that that was the Obama team’s subtext in dragging out the ancient Seamus story. Because they meant it as a serious attack.
But I don’t think that Obama’s america values had anything at all to do with the counter of #ObamaAteADog. It would have been if the attack were serious. But it was more subtle than that.
This:
WAS their point, and the main unspoken target of the joke – not the ridiculous fact that Obama ate a dog.
If the obots could brush it off as jokes it would stay that way – simple ridicule.
Ironically it’s when the the obots start defending Obama’s childhood menu that they end up pushing the subtext themselves. The only defense is “that was the culture he grew up in”.
All the conservatives have to do is agree.
Agree. The point here is not that Obama ate dog meat when he was a kid where it made sense in that cultural context. By itself that would be a smaller blip. The point is that the Obama team tried to make a big political story out of the Romney dog issue while they had something even worse in his past. All of course silly. But all designed to push more subtle messages. The Obama team blew it. Sadly none of them, probably including Obama, ever read that book. 🙂
I agree that it was meant as a serious attack. With Seamus getting his wiki page in Jan 2012, it was clearly set up for Obama’s team to exploit when the time came. I guess technically Santorium opened up the topic when he got desperate. But contrast that with Obama’s team starting at the desperate topic.
They’ve clearly got a poke a voter with a stick list and it came back and bit them in butt.
Now that they unleased this, they better go back and review that list. Because they never were really all that skilled at introducing anything. It’s the media that smoothed out the rough/ruff edges for all these years.
Sorry dog puns are fun.
You are what you eat!
Obama gives new meaning to the term “dog breath.”
That’s an insult to dogs everywhere.
It was really fun making the Obots crazy and undermining their narrative of “Mitt Romney, evil animal torturer”. I spent half the evening on twitter, watching the thing break, and grow viral, and hundreds jump into the mockery.
And you know what was most fun and fascinating about it? It was obvious that no one tweeting really believes that Obama did anything bad. It was not a serious attack. No one was actually outraged that he ate an exotic food in a foreign culture where that’s normal. It was all sheer mockery not just of Obama, but of his media noise machine that decided to make Seamus a big campaign issue because poor Obama has NOTHING to run on.
It was all, “Hey, you wanna get trivial? Fine, we got yer trivial right here!” Which is why everyone laughed even harder when furious Obots started tweeting how R’s are teh stupid, because THAT”S WHAT THEY EAT IN INDONESIA, AND HE WAS SIX, YOU DUMMIES! That right there brought on more peals of laughter and more jokes, because they were the clueless ones for not recognizing the entire ironic nature of this #ObamaAteADog wave. Woosh, right over their heads!
If the R’s had been seriously saying that Obama had done something bad, it would have been just stupid, mean spirited, and not particularly fun. It was the fact that it was sublimely ironic, a kind of self-referential mocking of dumb “gotcha” narratives, that made it go viral.
IOW, it is always a fuckload funnier to pull the chain of someone who obviously does not get that their chain is being pulled. That takes it to new heights of hilarity. 😀
Obots need Sensei Huma
My daughter took her latest job while recovering from a injury that caused her to have a slight limp for a few weeks. One of her new co-workers graciously asked her if she needed some accommodations made. She said, “No, I’m used to walking with a slight limp. It comes from all those years of living with my parents and having my leg pulled.”
It really is the American way to mock those who are in power. Unfortunately we haven’t been able to blow off much steam since Obama’s election because the media has been in the tank for him and racism has been such an issue. The dog issue is like returning to the natural order of things. Finally!
Yep. That to me is the biggest sign that the race card thing is played out and won’t help him. The press can’t protect him anymore. He’s gonna get mocked, just like ALL presidents get mocked.
https://twitter.com/#!/votermom/status/192618376554741761
A complete lack of irony is a requirement to be an Obama supporter.
And credit where it is due — the new media is the only reason Obama isn’t able to get away with his usual tactics as he was in 2008. If it wasn’t for Twitter, the #obamadogrecipes meme never would have seen the light of day.
That’s the reason South Park started to mock liberals more than conservatives. Conservatives don’t get nearly as outraged, so the writers moved to more angry pastures.
Fluke is back 😀 Taking on Equal Pay now …. this is from the Independent Women’s Forum which does a pretty good job picking through her claims.
http://iwf.org/blog/2787648/She's-Baaack
This was tweeted toward the end of the hilarity last night, and give great insight about what happened. It wasn’t really about eating a dog. It was about the press dutifully trotting out “serious” questions on Obama’s behalf about the great scandal of the Romneys and Seamus.
It was about not sitting back helpless watching the media machine do their thing, just as they did in 2008.
THIS, my friends, is what is was really about:
https://twitter.com/#!/ExJon/status/192452052549509122
Doggone right, this time we control the narrative!
Yup.
https://twitter.com/#!/NolteNC/status/192613506040860674
Nice tie-in:
https://twitter.com/#!/weshouldallcare/status/192615843501326336
LOL!
What I enjoyed most about the Obama-bites-Dog humor, it wasn’t vile and mean spirited. That is, compared to the leftbots’ Ann Romney attacks using misogyny, sexism and death threats.
Totally agree.
Oh, I also had another thought last night about framing the narrative. I need to think on this some more, flesh it out, but the gist is this:
I was thinking of the race-baiters, the Sharptons and Toures of the country, who consistently tell the country that a return to Jim Crow and lynchings and the widespread KKK is imminent. They scaremonger with visions of Bull Conner around every corner, just waiting to pounce and take over the whole country at the slightest provocation or relaxing of our uber-vigilant guard.
What if we started treating this crap the same as we would treat ANY conspiracy theory? Because that’s precisely what it is. What if we mocked the tinfoilyness of it all?
Conspiracy theorists, the “black helicopters” crowd, take a kernel of truth (that the govt overreaches and abuses authority) and take it to absurd conclusions (ZOMG!!! FEMA camps! Illuminati!)
Maybe we ought to start referring to the racial conspiracy theorists as what they are. The white helicopters crowd – who take an example of mild or questionable racism as proof that slavery is going to return any minute now.
What helps me understand the minds of the far left, are the years I spent in the trenches at DU and dKos. I couldn’t question anything and was simply told to *believe*…. and donate to their sites. It’s still painful to go back and read them. Something happened to the Dem Party between 2004 and 2008 and I can’t quite put my finger on it…….
Yep, me too. I was on Kos as well. I think about all the times I jumped on the outrage train over some “most disgusting, extreme, horriblest proposed legislation evah!!!” without bothering to…… go find the actual bill and read it, not just their summation of it.
And frankly, I am embarrassed that I did that. Maybe some of those bills truly were horrible, and maybe some weren’t. The point is – I didn’t bother to know for myself.
I went to YK07 with some fellow kossacks and DUers. I started to feel the “change” at a table of 12 with Taylor Marsh and “icebergslim”. First time I heard the term, sit down and shut up, because they both had something more important to say and I wasn’t allowed to question them. I always thought Question Authority was one of my legal liberal rights…lol….I learned that day, it really wasn’t.
Hey, LOLA! You are going to love this new one by She-PAC. Women, front and center:
This is a really smart move, politically speaking. She-PAC keeps making a contrast: D Party: “takes care” of women in return for mindless vote R Party: Is empowering women, period.
Whether you think it’s true or not, it’s good framing.
Love that –
specially the dig at the very end “If you want something said, pick a man” – Obama stuttering
“If you want something done, pick a woman.”
I love “I have a child, and I’m watching children run my country.”
Ouch.
OMFG, WM! You MADE MY DAY! I posted this on P&L’s FB page with this comment:
A war by women is right. And we will knock the fuck out of anybody who gets in our way. Go women!
She-Pac is exciting. I don’t think the GOP officially sanctions them. It’s founded by Tea Party & pro-Palin activists.
Yeah, it’s sort of like the R version of Emily’s List.
It doesn’t matter. It will change the game, insiders or not. But bless them for having the guts. I am fired up and ready to GO! LOL
PS: I put it up at P&L, too. http://peacocksandlilies.com/2012/04/18/what-parity-brings/
Wow. That’s a great ad. It gave me chills just watching it. The comment about watching children run the country was priceless.
It is about the sanctimoniousness and ridiculousness of the WH and their minions. They make everyone feel like they are in a straightjacket. THEY determine what is politically correct. THEY determine what can be discussed. THEY determine who is A SERIOUS PERSON and who is qualified to talk about any given subject, field, policy, issue. THEY tell everyone to shut the hell up.
No less than David Axelrod himself, plus his PR machine, were pumping this story with Obama making nasty cracks from the sidelines. Obama cannot run on his policies because he doesn’t have any that are not a complete nightmare. He has to run on frigging dog stories from 30 years ago. It is pitiful. The push back is perfect from the Romney camp. They are making fun of Obama’s oh so serious exotic background that makes him uniquely qualified for foreign affairs. He ate dog.
HONK! This wasn’t really about Obama, per se. It was about exposing how the media sets the narrative in his favor. THEY decide which outrageous outrage over “trivia” is appropriate, and which is not.
This whole thing was a big “Fuck You” to that entire dynamic.
LOL! See. The left still isn’t getting it. Which is making it funnier!
https://twitter.com/#!/EWErickson/status/192610319837831169
Only Obama Democrats are allowed to use Twitter. This is their attitude about everything. Talk about entitlement. Only they get a turn and a trophy. Babies.
MSM and Obots today: “WE will decide what nonissues are flogged for outrage! Would you..no…shut up! Stop it! Stop it I say!”
Proglodytes: Obama was just 6.
Us: So was the dog.
Hypocrites. How many of them rail about corporate welfare?
https://twitter.com/#!/NolteNC/status/192625883633303553
https://twitter.com/#!/Sami_Shamieh/status/192484076719046656
https://twitter.com/#!/votermom/status/192631314267123712
ROFL! Ouch.
LMAO! So, the Obots are whining that you can dig up trivial crap on Romney from 30 years ago, but not Obama, because…..he was a child!!!
Sure, okay, we can play by those rules as well. Here ya go:
https://twitter.com/#!/RBPundit/status/192632060026961920
Just saw that. 😀
This is not 2008. The Proglodytes are freaking out.
2008
Progs – “Raaaaacist!!! Hater!!” Opponents – *ok, I’d better tone it down…*
2012
Progs: “Raaaaacist!! Hater!!!”
Opponents: “Pffffffftt!!!!! Screw you. BWAHAHAHA!”
Bingo. I laughed mockingly at a Proglodyte friend who claimed the dog eating thing was racist. What losers.
What color was the dog?
I want them to freak out. I want them on the edge of their seats every minute of this election. I want blood pressure raised all over the place.
I think we should exploit the pushback Media Matters has been getting from the some on the left (word is they will ruin it for Obama) by tweeting : I blame #MediaMatters for #ObamaAteDog. Get them thinking about it and bitching even more. Group polarization opportunity right there.
@Lola – I agree. Some (not all) of what I engage in on twitter has nothing to do with what I personally think, and a lot to do with pushing strategic narratives.
LOLOLOL 😀
Vanilla 😉
iowahawkblog: Obama to visit ASPCA shelter today; or, as he calls it, “Trader Joe’s” #PaperOrPlastic
iowahawkblog: For all those times I claimed Obama wasn’t qualified to run as Dog Catcher, I take it all back. #sorry
ROFLMFAO
LMAO!
that is hysterical!
I’m loving every second of this!!!!
LOL! Me too!
I know, and just when I think I’ve chosen my favorite tweet, a hundred more pop up.
I am too! One in-your-face backfire after another. I almost can’t wait to see what Axelrod comes up with next. ROFL!
Meanwhile, over in the UK, it’s The Chelsea Clinton-Jenna Bush war….
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2131286/Battle-First-Daughters-Chelsea-Clinton-struggles-NBC-Jenna-Bush-thrives.html
Stay tuned, Kim Kardashian wants to run for Mayor of Glendale, CA.
True story…..
Not-Jenna is the cute one.
I went to the doctor yesterday (I am now eligible for VA) and they had me come back today for “Labs.”
“Labs” apparently means 1 gallon of blood, 2 qts of urine and a DIY stool sample kit.
They don’t want much. Excellent to hear you’re set up with the VA.
Joy. But glad you are getting coverage.
Obama: “Labs? Did someone say Labs? Those are delicious!”
No, this joke is never going to die. 😀
Leg of lab?
Seriously it isn’t. Every time I hear a faux prog saying something about the opponents, I’m going to say, at least they don’t eat dog.
And if they bring up the 30+ years ago / kid thing, I’m going to say, but that was fine to talk about 30+ years old Romney stories. And then just for fun, I’ll follow the above tweet and say, sure, let’s talk about his coke habit then.
I’d love to just make the argument that Obama is a empty suit fronting for wall street and the banks and pushing Republican policies, but that doesn’t seem to get through. So I’ll just make fun of them.
Nit-picking: In his book Obama says that’s when he was introduced to dog meat. That means the first time he tried it; not necessarily the last.
Does it say he never again ate it?
Edit: My new passive-aggressive faux-sympathy line will be : “It’s not Obama’s fault he grew up as a dog-eater.”
Way too funny!
Actually if what happened 30 years ago is relevant to today, then Obama’s coke habit is 100% appropriate to talk about — 1982-1983 is the school year he gives in the book. So, 30 years ago Romney was taking his family on vacation and Obama was doing coke.
I think you mean this joke is going to dog Obama. 🙂
LOL. See, the puns start to roll and before you know it, the morning has disappeared in a fog of laughter!
It really isn’t. I was at a cafe this morning reading and having coffee, when a HUGE dog stopped at the window where I was sitting. All I could think of was “Here I am having coffee and a great Dane-ish” ( i knew I was stealing it from something I read, but it made me LOL at the cafe`).
I was up last night about 3:00 a.m. after finishing my taxes, and laughing hysterically at the tweets I was reading here.
Plus, I had just survived a grueling tax marathon because my laptop kept stalling – at one time for more than 2 hours.
Next they do “the physical”.
😯
You means it doesn’t mean Obama’s lunch? Bu-dum-pum. 😀
iowahawkblog: Name of Obama’s last dog? “Stew.”
iowahawkblog: #ProTips don’t want to talk about your dog-eating? Don’t bring it up in your autobiography.
The comments today have me rolling on the floor like a dog. LOL I love that the irony is so lost on the proglodytes. And like yttik said, its AWESOME that the door has been thrown open to insult the POTUS again. That’s part of the fun of this political game. I’m even liking the pointedness of republican ads.
When the progs question me about why I’m NOBAMA I ask them what Obama accomplishment has benefited them personally. response is zip. nada. except their responses what Obama’s policies will do for them in the future. They even complain that their unemployment has run out. I remind them that one thing they can point to of Clinton’s many accomplishments is FMLA. And FMLA was accomplished during Clinton’s first few years, signed in 1993. All my friends and acquaintances have had to use it at one time or another. A FMLA request is required by most HRs for illnesses or time-off taken 5 business days in a row, unless vacation time was formally requested. Where’s Obama’s FMLA equivalent???
jtLOL: Dreams from My Schnauzer: http://t.co/2izBcinY
jtLOL: Funny how it’s only a “distraction” when it embarrasses @BarackObama, innit? http://t.co/8RFp6kpW via @guardian
jtLOL: More Panic Mode: Obama eats dog story has DNC communications director unleashed http://t.co/Go1sPI00 via @TwitchyTeam
Ooooh, in his own voice. Tweet it. That’s bound to go viral.
PANIC! And too stupid to know they are looking ridiculous by seriously and solemnly defending against freaking #ObamaAteADog jokes. I am loving this. 😀
http://twitchy.com/2012/04/18/more-panic-mode-obama-eats-dog-story-has-dnc-communications-director-unleashed/
Can you imagine how LAME it would have looked if Bill Clinton or George Bush’s official campaign teams made public statements refuting…. fucking jokes being told about them?
How whiny is that?
I bet they are having a meeting in the WH Situation Room as we speak. Nothing gets this bunch off their ass like being made fun of. They had to drag Obama off the golf course for bin Laden but he would be FULLY engaged on this.
or Hillary or SP ? I am reading “Dirty Words on Clean Skin” and if either had responded to the numbers of insults and lies being told/spread, they would never have to talk about policy or their own records.
Oh…….wait.
I think I understand the motivation for the catfood commission – they have other ideas about dogfood.
jtLOL: Jay Carney: “Well, I know at least three different dogs…”
ROFLMAO …. I do feel sorry for Jay sometimes, he’s like Baghdad Bob without a clue. 😉
A Must Follow and a rec for TCH blogroll 😀
When even Mika is laughing at you….. you are no longer The Messiah.
they really cannot take a joke
http://www.mediaite.com/online/dogs-against-romney-defends-obama-over-dog-consumption-revelations/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+mediaite%2FClHj+%28Mediaite%29
My comment:
Thank you — they call the organization Dogs against Romney and they still can’t get it.
The Dogs against Obama have all been eaten.
LOLOLOL
Dandy! *spew drink* LOLOLOL!!!
I stole that Dandy and turned it into a tweet.
Perfect.
One of you should go over and talk about how you don’t have a dog in the fight, but you think it’s funny, too. LOL
Done, Lola. I had to register a discus account (angienc1 — how dare someone already have angienc).
https://twitter.com/#!/jtLOL/status/192683892992507904
HAHAHAHA!!!!
http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg620/scaled.php?tn=0&server=620&filename=5j0rju.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640
photo caption contest
http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2012/04/18/dog-eater-or-caption-contest/
More tolerance, racial sensitivity from the Left. I cannot believe I ever associated myself with these hateful people.
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/04/18/Racist-Hate-From-Liberal-Lefties-In-Wisconsin
jpodhoretz: At least we know Seamus’s name.
Jeebus, do these people have any idea how they come off? Ironic tweet of the day:
https://twitter.com/#!/OccupyWallSt/status/192662613501542401
I’ll tell you what — for a long time now (as my abscence posting has shown) I’ve become truly disgusted about/detached from this election. First, mommy wars & now #obamadogrecipes has made me excited to engage again. I hope we can expect something like this every week.
Me too, angie! Its fun again. Look at this new Romney campaign button –
LMAO! Exactly! Everything the Left/MSM wants to say about Romney (and really, all they have on him is Seamus & Mormonism), all he has to say is “At least I didn’t eat my dog.”
http://minx.cc/?post=328520
Ace of Spades
poetry contest on current events
so far only one is about dogs
Also this – haikus
http://twitchy.com/2012/04/18/obamaeatsdogshaiku/
Ace of Spades skewers a twitter cop.
http://twitchy.com/2012/04/18/smart-set-wrongly-claims-twitter-not-for-serious-politics-mocks-non-serious-distractions/
https://twitter.com/#!/5sahandful/status/192666411045359617
Okay, that one takes it for me! A real twofer.
LMAO. This is one open thread that has yet to derail. Still on topic after 115 comments!
http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/296386/professional-bizarre-food-eater-draws-line-dogs
after all there have to be some standards
LOLOLOL.
And that guy eats some really nasty stuff – he’s going to kill himself someday with if he’s not careful.
UFB. This is what it has come to? A dog story? And a shaggy-dog story to boot!
America has not merely jumped the shark. America has been consumed and shit out by the shark.
We’ve been living in bizzaro Amerika for quite some time now.
For MOTUS fans:
http://www.michellesmirror.com/2012/04/out-of-darkness-help-me.html
todays aftermath picture
http://terrellaftermath.com/
That last one with Michelle welcoming military families with Obama stealing their med benefits was killer.
Caption this
http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/18/caption-this-obama-holding-a-cute-little-dog/
You know, I am now starting to wonder about all that WAG-yu “beef” that Obama is so fond of in the WH.. #Obamadogrecipes #ObamaAteADog
BO must have sensed something similar…..
could not pass this up
BWAHAHAHA!
Another campaign button: I refuse to eat Obama’s dog food.
HAHAHAHA!!! http://dogsagainstobama.tumblr.com/
that was great
Ha! Pretty darn funny!
Just watched Romney’s speech in NC. It was good. One laugh moment: Said that this time around at the D convention, Obama would not be standing under any Greek columns, since he certainly doesn’t want to remind the public what has happened to Greece! Attacked Obama a lot, then said very forcefully: “One thing you will NOT see me do is attack the American people. I don’t do that.”
Talked about Obama’s big promises, quoted parts of O’s own overblown convention speech. Pointed out that all those conditions that Obama was supposed to change have NOT changed, have gotten worse, and it’s his fault. He has failed to do the job, then has tried to blame everyone else under the sun for it. Romney ripped him for not taking responsibility.
Mitt ain’t pulling any punches. He is going to, I think, continually remind people of Obama in 2008 standing under those Greek columns all puffed up with his grand plans to transform the country just by being Obama. Good strategy, IMO, because the contrast with what he has delivered is so stark.
The RNC is already running this:
I must get up off the floor now these comments are hilarious. 😆
sorry to go off topic
http://www.tmz.com/2012/04/18/dick-clark-dead-heart-attack/#.T48ZRatYsmQ
I remember when bandstand was on tv and broadcast from Philadelphia. Many stars used to appear on bandstand and it was a place for teenagers to enjoy the music. It was sad to see that era end.
my prayers for his family
RIP Dick Clark. My granddaddy taught me to dance watching Bandstand every Saturday, followed by Soul Train. I can hear him now, laughing: “Come cut a rug wit your grandaddy, Puddin”!” Ah, memories.
Yes, my granddaddy called me either Puddin’ or Pistol, depending on my mood. Don’t laugh. It was sweet.
Thanks. That was great. found myself singing along and feeling grateful for Dave Clark and American Bandstand. Didn’t get to watch much as a teen. but always loved it when I could.
I liked watching the reactions of the stars after watching their appearances. Great re-cap of songs over the years! Loved American Bandstand. We’d dance like crazy to that and Soul Train on Saturdays!!
Watch part 3 lots of Little Steve Wonder and other soul music! very cool!
No doubt Letterman is a Dem, but I wonder if he’ll give Obama the same attention he gave Romney’s dog.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/73618.html
If y’all haven’t seen Joe & Mika laughing about Dog Wars you have to go & watch this clip. When even Mika is laughing at you, you aren’t Teh Precious anymore.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/joe-scarborough-loses-it-laughing-over-news-that-obama-has-eaten-dog-meat/
read the comments
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0412/75296.html
a really good article on just what citizen journalist did and the effect on the msm with the dog story
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/04/18/Power-new-Media-Obama-Ate-Dog
Of course, the obligatory “Hitler Finds Out Obama Ate His Dog” video
Wow, not available. Did the Obama team, aka, Google, have it removed?
Dandy –Are you sure? I can still view it.
I just saw this at McNorman’s and wanted to post it here. Thanks for beating me to it. LOL
It’s at the top of Memeorandum!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ♥ (treacher’s article, not this one)
Here’s the question. Does SNL mention Obama eating dog? It’s Wednesday, there’s plenty of time to put it in the cold open. They’ve made fun of dogs hating Romney twice. Just how much do they show their naked partisanship?
I still say it’s even money that there is no Obama dog skit.
Or if they do, they’ll down play it kind of like Dogs Against Romney are now defending Obama eating dogs.
The irony burns! The guy who named an organization Dogs Against Romney is complaining about “desperate ploys” and “trivial memes.” These people will never get it even when it is literally staring them in the eyes.
Remember that “Do you want your pillow fluffed” SNL skit?
Try to find it at the SNL site.
PETA opens mouth steps in doggie doo
gives backtrack a pass, blames aduts
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/04/18/peta-rips-adult-who-fed-obama-bos-cousin/
They’re assuming after he was introduced to dog meat as a kid that he stopped. And it begs the question of him bragging about it in his 30s.
And not to play the race card on those tools. But isn’t their comment the actual insensitive remark in terms of another country and their diet? And then to blame it on an adult. Huh? It’s not a taboo meal choice in that country so putting an American vegan-shame construct around it and factory farming in support of Obama, seems to reach further for the offensive than usual. And what factory farms were in that country?
it is getting funnier by the minute
the obots trying to explain why the romney dog story is important
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/04/18/huffpo-doubles-down-insists-romneys-dog-story-is-a-huge-deal/
The Huffpoo story doesn’t even mention the dog eating.
But the comments do 😀
jtLOL: I just want to thank everyone who has spent the entire day defending @BarackObama from the people quoting his own words about eating dogs.
jtLOL: Team Romney’s ‘Obama eats dog’ joke: A desperate move? http://t.co/XLCSODft
This person gets why even though it’s a joke, it’s still important:
http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2012/04/18/the-meme-war-we-must-win/
perception is important. For almost 5 years the obots have been allowed to paint any opposition as racism, and all backtrack did as great even when he did nothing.
That is ending this year. People are no longer buying the BS .
Humor has always been used against presidents, I bet if we could find them , there were jokes against Washington.
But since backtrack all humor except when the obots used it against any opposition has been frowned upon.
This dog story was the crack in the ice and for the next months a lot more push back with humor should be expected.
Their humor is always nasty and at the expense of someone else. It is put downs, condescension, inside jokes, snark and used to denigrate to stop discussion or questions. That is over. Obama is not cool. He is not a nice person. He is not a smart person. He is not imaginative or interesting. He is a bully and much of the country is sick of looking at his face. This has been a turning point and the Obama left is confused, angry and unsure what to do. I think the attacks on Romney’s wife was probably was the turning point and he simply gave out the order that they were not going to take the shit anymore. Sometimes the tipping point is as simple as that.
Not only that but Hillary Dems know that mocking Obama is his kryptonite and have been practically begging Reps for years to attack Obama as such.
Palin knew it too.
Red State’s article above notes Carville and Begala and their effectiveness mocking Reps. And in reading the ABC news report below they mention Lanny Davis’ article on Seamus.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/02/political-punch-dogs-against-romney-democrats-say-unleash-the-hound/
Never mind that Axelrod had already used social media to bring it up, which they don’t mention until the end of the article.
But it made me wonder. Were they were using Hillary supporters to talk dogs, both Lanny Davis (1/12/12….two days later Seamus gets his wiki page) and Paul Begala touched on the topic in articles. Begala even re-tweets a Seamus story on HuffPo.
Which talking heads fought for Hillary harder than these two and are more well known? Were they dispatched to make sure Hillary Dems didn’t bolt? Those uneducated, bitter, caretakers couldn’t vote for a dog abuser./s
It seems like Romney’s women problem is really an Obama polling problem with Hillary Dems.
I wanted to leave a comment, so I signed up, only to find I can’t comment for 24 hours. That’s a stupid policy, because they’ve lost that comment now and I’m unlikely to keep trying. Keeping newbies from commenting sacrifices gems like this:
Yet another example of not knowing when to laugh and move on.
http://theweek.com/article/index/226937/team-romneys-obama-eats-dog-joke-a-desperate-move
A bunch of links trying to narrate that Romney is on the ropes with this…..lol
So one of them leads to LGF, you might be a wingnut if and a lame example. Which then leads to video of those clowns that were going to protest the Westminster Dog Show. I bet you recognize the stuffed animal…Dogs Against Romney.
They video taped a recreation, except without the window screen to try and make their point about how awful it was up there.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/40226_Video-_What_Its_Like_for_a_Dog_in_a_Kennel_on_the_Roof_of_a_Car_on_a_Freeway
Clearly, they are just upset that this is dog thing is blowing up in their faces. Just poking around, the Dems were going to beat this horse/dog until election day.
iowahawkblog: The Shih Tzus have come home to roost.
I’m surprised he didn’t say, “The Shih Tzus have come home to roast.”
iowahawkblog: Spork is the proper utensil for beagle. MT @jaketapper: POTUS in Ohio: “I wasnt born with a silver spoon in my mouth”
iowahawkblog: This #ObamaAteaDog story doesn’t have legs. It has drumsticks.
here is another story that just begs for humor
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/04/18/hud-secretary-claims-obama-once-needed-to-take-a-subway-or-a-bus-just-to-find-a-fresh-piece-of-fruit/
He said fruit, but we know what he was really after. Woof, woof.
Helen — I hope Romney digs up info on all those working poor IL constituents who were forced to live in privatized public housing owned by Rezko who had to live without windows, cockroaches coming out of outlets and sewage backing up into their kitchen sinks — conditions not fit for dogs. Will Obama then say he knows what its like to live in one of those?
that would be a great pushback.
campaign button
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR ME LATELY????
OR
IS THIS WHAT YOU MEAN WHEN YOU SAY SHARE THE WEALTH
WE GET CRAP AND YOU GET GOLD
Think of the words that could be put to this music
jtLOL: Do the math, people. https://t.co/415TkJFS
Today’s soup at the White house: Chicken Poodle Soup
Dandy, stop! You’re killing me!
just think what could be done with this one
around 2AM in a bar , you see many things that look good. But at 8AM when you wake up all you have is a hangover
Is that supposed to be Obama’s logo in the beer? good omen, man are they reaching for hope
The saying is “A 10 at 2 and a 2 at 10”
Those pigs couldn’t bother to move the dirty plate out of the way before the took the picture? (Which, btw, is not any kind of omen for the Once).
Good compilation of all things Obama Eats Dogs …. tweets and photoshops…
http://thehayride.com/2012/04/the-obama-dog-eating-fark-thread/