Michelle Malkin » Photoshop of the week: Typical liberal snob; Update: New Obama spin - “I didn’t say it as well as I could have”

Photoshop of the week: Typical liberal snob; Update: New Obama spin - “I didn’t say it as well as I could have”

By Michelle Malkin • April 11, 2008 09:32 PM

A big thank you to reader Tennyson, who cooked up this fabulous photoshop that pushes back at small-town-trashing Barack Obama. All native-born, gun-owning, God-fearing, pro-immigration enforcement, pro-sovereignty Pennsylvanians are grateful to you, Tennyson! Yo, Barack. Get over yourself already:

Keep spinnin’, pal. You’re going to land right back into the gutter, with your bowling ball. Video of Obama’s response to Snob-gate is now posted on his YouTube channel:

Transcript via Ambinder:

So I made this statement– so, here’s what rich. Senator Clinton says ‘No, I don’t think that people are bitter in Pennsylvania. You know, I think Barack’s being condescending.’ John McCain says, ‘Oh, how could he say that? How could he say people are bitter? You know, he’s obviously out of touch with people.’

“Out of touch? Out of touch? I mean, John McCain—it took him three tries to finally figure out that the home foreclosure crisis was a problem and to come up with a plan for it, and he’s saying I’m out of touch? Senator Clinton voted for a credit card-sponsored bankruptcy bill that made it harder for people to get out of debt after taking money from the financial services companies, and she says I’m out of touch? No, I’m in touch. I know exactly what’s going on.

The hopelessness of audacity.

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Congrats, Barry O: You’ve won Knee Deep in the Hooah’s Jackass of the Day Award.

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Update 11:20am Eastern 4/12: Obama in Indiana this morning is still spinning. He has ditched “cling” for “comfort,” and is clinging to the “bitter” part of his quotation to defend The Bitter Truth of his diss against small-town Pennsylvanians:

“I didn’t say it [as] well as I could have,” Obama confessed today during a town hall in Muncie, Ind., in response to the controversy he described as a “political flare-up because I said something that everyone knows is true.”

He then launched into a broad explanation of what he was trying to express: “There are a whole bunch of folks in small towns in Pennsylvania, in towns right here in Indiana, in my home town in Illinois, who are bitter. They are angry… So I said, well ya know, when you’re bitter, you turn to what you can count on. So people, ya know they vote about guns or they take comfort from their faith, and their family, and their community, and they get mad about illegal immigrants who are coming over to this country, or they get frustrated about how things are changing. That’s a natural response.”

Ed Morrissey breaks down the dishonesty.

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#101

On April 12th, 2008 at 9:17 pm, puhiawa said:

Obamalitism is sinking the ship and the Captain is getting a bit testy.
#102

On April 12th, 2008 at 9:18 pm, puhiawa said:

Lots of us Hawaiians on the thread today.
#103

On April 12th, 2008 at 9:29 pm, TexasTiger said:

“I didn’t say it as well as I could have”

=I didn’t think this would get out.

Dubbya is a pretty good athlete, but Obama would kick his tail in hoops.

That’s ’cause no one can backpedal as fast as Oh!b♥m♥. Plus Oh!b♥m♥ would put the rim at 15′ for 43…just to level the playing field.
#104

On April 12th, 2008 at 10:01 pm, puhiawa said:

“I didn’t say it as well as I could have” = “Where is the cover I have come to expect from the MSM? Where every idiocy Michelle and I mutter gets reported like it was an original thought, instead of retread Limousine Liberal BS?”
#105

On April 12th, 2008 at 10:19 pm, Marshall Russ said:

The MSM will be all over the non-apology apology. All the news shows should be interesting tomorrow. The bottom line will be “it’s Bush’s fault”.
#106

On April 12th, 2008 at 11:14 pm, almeehan said:

I’m into guns and have my faith, precisely because of dangerous, clueless people like him who threaten my life, my family and my country.
He would make a good Zimbabwean.
#107

On April 12th, 2008 at 11:15 pm, behiker said:

I’m amazed, I just saw a report on this on my local ABC 11:00 news in Richmond, VA. And it didn’t make Obama look very good.
#108

On April 13th, 2008 at 12:09 am, behiker said:

Obama said… “If I worded things in a way that made people offended, I deeply regret that,” Obama said in an interview with the Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal.

“IF”? “IF”? Why can’t this guy say “I offended people with my comments, I’m sorry”.

I’m beginning to fear the damage he could do to this country as much as I did/do fear what algore would do.

Guess I’m just a typical white person, but I need to go to bed so I can get up early to go to church in the morning.
#109

On April 13th, 2008 at 3:35 am, puhiawa said:

LOL. Obama makes Bush seem tone deaf.He is SOOOO clueless.
#110

On April 13th, 2008 at 7:47 am, cf said:

Really incredible — with the nuthouse church Obama belongs to, & he has the nerve to ridicule churches in Pennsylvania.
#111

On April 13th, 2008 at 8:11 am, iamsaved said:

Foxnews kept asking its listeners to respond to a survey to indicate whether or not they found Obama’s comments offensive. Personally, I didn’t find them offensive, but rather enlightening as to the make-up of this man.

One thing I noticed is Barack Obama must not consider himself very religious as he doesn’t find his rascist church’s doctrines worth clinging to.

His statement also let me know without a doubt his stance on the 2nd Amendment.

My question is, what does he cling to? What does he hold as precisous to him? Power? Prestige? Money?

I wonder who he is talking to when he makes condescending statements like that? It must be a small minority of people who are still bitter about the loss of manufacturing jobs in the Midwest 25 years ago. Most people evenually accept the fact and move on with their lives. Those who are still wallowing in self-pity are the same ones waiting for the government to come and rescue them - sort of like many of the Katrina victims.

If you really want to see arogance at it’s pinnacle, watch Michele Obama if she becomes First Lady.
#112

On April 13th, 2008 at 9:15 am, ajmontana said:

cf said:
Really incredible — with the nuthouse church Obama belongs to, & he has the nerve to ridicule churches in Pennsylvania.

exactly, obama is high. still.
#113

On April 13th, 2008 at 9:51 am, Dimsdale said:

Obama is a lawyer, supposedly a fairly good one, given his election (?) to editor of the Harvard Law Review (even without publishing in it himself).

For lawyers, words are the tools of their craft. You know the old legal saying, “never ask a question for which you don’t already know the answer.”

So how come the Obamas make such egregious and elitist gaffes? Occam’s Razor demands that the simplest answer is most likely the correct one, and as such, it follows that the Obamas ARE elitist snobs who got much of what they have via means that did not involve their personal skills or abilities.

How can anyone say that BHO was a good lawyer? Is there a trail of court battles we can look at? Of course, the exact same thing can be said of Hillary.

They are both portrayed as the best, the brightest, the most capable, the most experience, and then they make the ameteurish mistakes of the most inexperienced tyro, a sure sign that everything has been spoon fed to them all of their lives because of who they are and not what they can do, and when push comes to shove, they stumble.

I think they call that an empty (pant)suit.
#114

On April 13th, 2008 at 10:09 am, DaveC said:

Dimsdale #13:

that sums it up nice..
#115

On April 13th, 2008 at 10:23 am, jim m said:

So, Michelle has now become a Communist/Socialist and demands that everyone must be equal in America irrespective of their hard work and education? The US is a meritocracy–the best people go to the best schools and get the best jobs. That’s the way it is.

Michelle must be bitter because she’s a failure even though she peobably got into her Ivy League college through affirmative action.
#116

On April 13th, 2008 at 11:20 am, Jim M. said:

Again, there are two people here that use “Jim M” - I use caps for the first letters of my name and the evil one uses small letters.
#117

On April 13th, 2008 at 11:27 am, TexasTiger said:

Michelle must be bitter because she’s a failure even though she peobably got into her Ivy League college through affirmative action.

Jim M:
It’s sweeter than that. She got into Princeton because her brother was a star hoopster for the Tigers. In other words, she was a LEGACY–the same term semi-literate liberals use to smear 43 in reference to his admission to Yale.
#118

On April 13th, 2008 at 11:28 am, TexasTiger said:

Oops. Sorry, Jim M.
#119

On April 13th, 2008 at 11:31 am, radio relay said:

Hey, “evil jim m”! Here’s a clue…

The ivy league schools discriminate against Asians. Seems that Asians believe in hard work and actual scholarship to get their good grades. That’s not popular with the bitter elites
#120

On April 13th, 2008 at 11:38 am, gandolphxx said:

If you want to have a fun jolt for the morning - Halp us Brak… - it really a nice takeoff on the Kary fiasco.
#121

On April 13th, 2008 at 11:42 am, Marshall Russ said:

Well, the talking heads are trying to explain what Obambi really meant when he said what he said. What they are not saying is that Hillary is staying in the race because of this very reason. He is going to self destruct beyond help if he has not already done so. I for one am glad she is. The MSM will not be able to ignore his total ineptitude and hide his incompetence as long as Hillary is screeching about it.
#122

On April 13th, 2008 at 12:01 pm, 3Steps said:

I am bitter.

/and a Christian
//and a gun owner
///and against Shamnesty
////But then.. there wasn’t a chance in heck I was ever going to vote for him anyway.
#123

On April 13th, 2008 at 12:34 pm, Bob1234 said:

As one born and raised in small-town Pennsylvania a long time ago, I can assure you that many of the folks there are religious, and many are strong supporters of Second Amendment gun rights. But, those attitudes are definitely not the result of “bitterness” resulting from economic setbacks, as he suggests. They existed long before the factories moved away. I doubt there is, by and large, any more “bitterness” among Pennsylvanians than among folks anywhere.

And, coming from someone who has sat through 20 years of Wright’s sermons oozing with insane bitterness of Herculean proportions, the irony of his comment is overwhelming!
#124

On April 13th, 2008 at 12:36 pm, SHoward said:

“jim m,”

Are you talking about our lovely and gracious hostess, or Michelle Obama?

Inquiring minds want to know…..
#125

On April 13th, 2008 at 12:56 pm, Travis McGee said:

I’m going to cling to my guns until Barack sends somebody to pry it from my cold dead hands.
#126

On April 13th, 2008 at 1:09 pm, brentano said:

The leftist equivalent of religion = knee jerk darwinism & global warming mythology.

The leftist equivalent of guns = kangaroo courts and “human rights committees” as weapons to shut down speech that threatens you.

Oh, and you don’t know the meaning of bitter until you’ve come face to face with a typical democrat.
#127

On April 13th, 2008 at 2:17 pm, txvet2 said:

I just don’t understand what everybody’s so exercised about. It’s not as if he called somebody something derogatory, like “macaca”. After all, every liberal knows that rural and small town people are all inbred and stupid, easily led by their preachers and KKK bosses.
#128

On April 13th, 2008 at 2:46 pm, Helene said:

I grew up in small-town in western PA when the steel mills were downsizing. The economy was fragile then and is fragile now. Some people were/are bitter ata the job loss. Others moved on.
Obama appears to be speaking from experience. His minister is bitter. His wife is bitter. This bitterness may actually be coloring his comments now.
People in PA are not a bunch of knuckle-dragging, gun totin’, snuff dippin’, crazed, bitter people supporting dubiouis churches.
#129

On April 13th, 2008 at 4:05 pm, Dimsdale said:

brentano said:

Oh, and you don’t know the meaning of bitter until you’ve come face to face with a typical democrat.

I think you left out “hateful,” if liberal blogs are any indication. Ignorant is probably apropos as well.
#130

On April 13th, 2008 at 6:30 pm, jim m said:

I’m talking about our hostess, Michelle Malkin. You know, the one that got into Oberlin (okay, it’s technically a mini-Ivy, not a full blown Ivy) probably because she was Asian.
#131

On April 13th, 2008 at 6:53 pm, terrig said:

Again Jim M, is Oberling the only stinking college in this country? There are not other colleges and universities?
#132

On April 13th, 2008 at 6:55 pm, terrig said:

Sorry, should be Oberlin-
#133

On April 13th, 2008 at 7:15 pm, terrig said:

Mea culpa again to Jim M, should be jim m.
#134

On April 14th, 2008 at 12:44 am, Dimsdale said:

“little” (lowercase?) jim m said:

Michelle must be bitter because she’s a failure even though she peobably got into her Ivy League college through affirmative action.

I hardly see Ms. Malkin as a “failure,” particularly as she is so successful at tweaking the noses of liberals such as yourself (the truth really does hurt).

It is amusing to watch little jim m try to turn the observations of elitism in the Obamas against Ms. Malkin. Yet it is Ms. Obama that complains about the country that allowed her to achieve her success, while Ms. Malkin does nothing but praise it. Ms. Obama is the one crying that she just can’t make it on her (their) enormous incomes, yet I hear nothing remotely analogous in Ms. Malkin’s writings.

It is BHO that belittles people with beliefs he does not share, imperiously declaring that their religious beliefs, their beliefs in the Second Amendment etc., are aberrant products of their economic problems, as if they are going to go out on some sort of religious shooting spree. To listen to Ms. Obama’s tales of woe, you might then expect her to be toting a Colt Python!! And these two are hardly in a position to be criticizing other’s religious beliefs and churches.

To address another little jim m point: in my years at different Boston area colleges, I have never found Affirmative Action programs directed to Asian students (including Far East and Southeast Asians). For whatever reason, these programs are primarily directed towards blacks and Spanish speaking students. If that is racist, then you need to speak to the directors of said programs, but the fact remains: Ms. Malkin is unlikely to have even been considered, much less the recipient, of such a program. If it is different at Oberlin or elsewhere, then please provide that information, or, if you have information specific to Ms. Malkin, this is the place to present it.

Otherwise, you are just sucking wind, as we used to say back in the eighties.

I, for one, don’t need some racial animus to criticize either of the Obamas: their words and actions are sufficient to that task.
#135

On April 14th, 2008 at 7:38 am, DaveC said:

On April 13th, 2008 at 6:30 pm, jim m said:

I’m talking about our hostess, Michelle Malkin. You know, the one that got into Oberlin (okay, it’s technically a mini-Ivy, not a full blown Ivy) probably because she was Asian.

small jim m.. even if I go by what you say and that MM DID get into Oberlin because she is Asian..

So did a lot of other people too.. And what have they done with their lives? Did they sit back and expect the money train to arrive because they have a fancy degree?

MM has drive and determination.. started two (count them, 2) successful websites, author, and you can check out her resume to see what else she has done..

it is what you do in life.. not where you went to school..
#136

On April 14th, 2008 at 11:18 am, Tennyson said:

Hello. I finally got a chance to register here, and I want to thank all of you for your kind comments about the SNOBama poster.

Many thanks to Michelle Malkin for putting it on her site, and for making it available through the Hot Air store.

Thanks also to everyone who picked it up and posted it elsewhere. This is my first attempt at political cartooning and now I’m thinking it might not be my last.

The most encouraging thing is the discovery that I’m not alone in my assessment of this candidate. I don’t appreciate the disparagement of my fellow citizens and am very grateful to have the opportunity to fight back.
#137

On April 14th, 2008 at 10:40 pm, j2k4real said:

Makes sense, Obama, the guy who gave up a lucrative law career to work for indigent citizens in Chicago is the elitist, nope.. not the Clintons and their 100 million dollar bank account and dirty back door deals.. right.. wow.. if I would expect anyone to see through a Clinton lie it would be here, but I guess it’s now convenient to use her fabrications when they can be used to shoot down the best candidate the Dems have… sad sad sad… the fact that instead of dealing with the issues we now sit back and wait for someone to misspeak and jump all over it. Mind you, he could have said he was dodging sniper fire as he built his 35 years of political experience (despite in office for < 10).
#138

On April 14th, 2008 at 10:48 pm, j2k4real said:

I think you left out “hateful,” if liberal blogs are any indication. Ignorant is probably apropos as well.

And right wing sites are statues of virtue to educated discussion covering such learned topics of: Obama is a secret Muslim plant who eats babies, Democrats hating America, and other assorted rubbish. If Democrats hated America, it would cease to exist since they account for roughly half of the political spectrum, and I won’t waste my time here discussing the ridiculous rumors that get spread in the blogosphere about Obama. Its wrong when people do this to McCain and its wrong when they do it to Obama. Period.
#139

On April 15th, 2008 at 1:58 am, purealchemy said:

Barack and Michelle are in desperate need of diversity training so they won’t offend white people every time they open their mouths.
What he needs to do is show that he understands why certain, people are offended but it doesn’t seem like he has the life experience to support that. He should have to go live with the Amish for awhile. ;o)
p.s. my first time here