The great Obama airdrop caper!
I almost feel sorry for Obama these last few days, as he’s undergoing a Howard-Dean-like implosion. Here’s another little story (h/t: commenter AJMontana) about Obama’s over-enthusiastic and off-target supporters getting him in trouble:
A stream of tiny fliers endorsing presidential candidate Barack Obama was released from a plane flying over the Empire Polo Field during Roger Waters’ Coachella-ending set late Sunday evening, Indio officials said.
But the plane missed its target. Instead, fliers drifted over a two-mile radius area northwest of the field, according to Indio Police Department spokesman Ben Guitron.
Obama’s campaign can’t be blamed for this, though it’s such bad publicity that I thought it might have been a dirty trick by the Hillary campaign. Instead, this was the brainchild of former Pink Floyd musician Roger Waters, who thought a shower of Obama leaflets during his final set at the Coachella music festival would have been totally tubular, and damn the wishes of local authorities:
Indio City Manager Glenn Southard said Waters had asked if he could shower the confetti-like fliers - and was told no by the city staff, police and concert promoters.
“He did it anyway. We are not happy about it and apologize,” Southard wrote in an e-mail to The Desert Sun. Coachella promoter “Goldenvoice will provide cleanup to anyone requesting it,” he stated.
Obama supporters are not happy about the extra work it’s causing for them, um, all of their gardeners:
Indio resident Carol Davison, who lives two blocks from the polo fields, said the display definitely changes her thoughts on the candidate, calling the incident a “derelict action.”
“I am just appalled. All of our gardeners will now have to spend the whole day trying to clean this up. It’s going to be in our pool filters clogging them up,” Davison said.
Word of advice to British leftists seeking to interfere with our political process: please, please keep it up! Next time you’ll get it right.
PS: Metaphor alert: runaway pork!
Pig on the loose!
A school-bus sized swine that hovered over the crowd Sunday night while Roger Waters played a version of “Sheep” from 1977’s capitalism critique “Animals” has flown the coop.
A $10,000 reward plus four Coachella tickets for life is being offered for the return of their pig, according to Marcee Rondan, spokeswoman for Coachella Music and Arts Festival promoter Goldenvoice.
MORE: Commenter Southpaw was there, and noted that the giant runaway pig had “Obama” written on its belly, and just floated away.
More of an allegory than a metaphor?
YET MORE: Yep, picture of the Obama-stamped pig from Getty Images, here. You gotta see this thing. It’s out there.
Tiny fair-use snippet of the photo, just in case you’re in the Coachella Valley area and happen to find a gigantic inflatable pig, and wonder if it’s the one with the $10K reward:
DEVELOPING: Tragic allegory?
Judy and Patrick Rimmer and Susan Stoltz each found pieces of the vinyl white balloon scattered in their driveways and backyards, hours after the two-story sized inflatable porker floated away from the Coachella Music and Art Festival Sunday night.
(Thanks to commenter Tonyr951.)
HAVE YOU SEEN THIS PIG?
Wee, wee, wee, all the way home…
P.S. That’s a lot of fancy Spanish ham!
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as feebiebabe would say, if that pig fly’s over my house the BBQ is ready. yum.
Hippie rocker? Pshaw! Pink Floyd is not hippie music.
Let’s see. Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall are believed to have sold over 70 million copies combined. Surely a great deal of MM commenters, if not Mrs. Malkin herself, has a copy of at least one Pink Floyd album. And I’m willing to bet those people wouldn’t want to be associated with “hippie rock.”
Les Nessman should have said
I’m sorry, but the pig story is HILARIOUS.
Could you imagine waking up and seeing that thing float by your bedroom window?
Further proof celebrities should stick to singing (or acting) and keep their political opinions confined to the voting booth…
Hopefully British readers of The Guardian will write letters to Americans in swing-states, asking them to vote for Barack. It worked so well for Kerry.
Sue Waters and/or the promoter for as much as it takes to clean your yard! I would sue them for ‘making me upset’ too. I would also sue for being forced to see anything resembling pork, as I’m trying to keep kosher ‘n all.
Sure hope that ‘pig’ doesn’t land on a cair member’s home. They don’t do pork.
L
The British are a cancer in our country.
First Elton John called us mysoginist for not supporting Hillary, now this clown scattering litter to show his support for Obama, and neither one of them can vote in this country.
On Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch I read something about England being terrorist central and these asshats want to tell us how to run our country.
Boggles the mind.
Ghostbusters IX
Okay, think of something non-threatening…
““I am just appalled. All of our gardeners will now have to spend the whole day trying to clean this up.”
can’t.make.this.crap.UP!
/HA-HA!
was that recycled paper? or did we have to destroy another mother tree for Obama?
and from a plane? i hope it was burning
bioduelethenolold bras.was the ink tested on baby seal? i want assurances no animals were harmed.
That little stunt may be in violation of Federal Aviation Regulations, if any of those materials may prove to have caused a hazard to persons or property. The pilot might face FAA discipline including suspension or termination of his license. Additionally, was he paid to pilot the aircraft for the drop? If so, did he hold the proper certification to do so? Was he and all his ratings current? Is there a lawyer in the house?
Federal Aviation Regulation
Sec. 91.15
Dropping objects.
No pilot in command of a civil aircraft may allow any object to be dropped from that aircraft in flight that creates a hazard to persons or property. However, this section does not prohibit the dropping of any object if reasonable precautions are taken to avoid injury or damage to persons or property.
Could have been worse.
Could have been a blimp.
… or turkeys.
One of my buddies lives out there and said his pool was basically paper mache’d on the sides and the filter was jammed up. he’s pretty ticked off, before it could be just picked or raked off the yard the sprinklers came on and really made it ugly…..local news tonight might be worth a watch.
Was that a Pig coming home to roost?
Should have just stuck with turkeys.
I hope they find that pig in time for the convention.
What was the carbon footprint of the plane that dropped the litter all over the place? How much precious fuel was wasted for this WKRP type event?
Herb Tarlik Lives!
The point here is, did the pilot take the necessary “reasonable precautions” in what was reported to be a two-mile radius? How about one of those flyer’s getting caught in the face of a motorcyclist? Those precautions must be documented and presented to an investigator, in case the FAA comes calling.
Just wondering…
An homage to the intellect of Obama supporters everywhere.
The Stagecoach country music festival is in Indio this weekend…i’m sure country music fans, usually much more patriotic, will love to find those fliers strewn about. Since i will be there, i will keep an eye out for some…should make good kindling to start a night campfire!
You guys are looking at this all wrong, this is positive job incentive for all illegal gardeners.
Just doing the propaganda cleanup that Americans won’t do …
Roger Waters - all in all, it’s just another brick between your ears.
Imagine what would happen if that Pig Balloon drifted over Pakistan? I can picture Islamic Rage Boy trying to shoot it down with a bow and arrow
For all you baby boomers, it would be just like “F-Troop”: “It is balloon!!!
Oh good, I’m not the only one! I blogged this earlier today; http://dagneysrant.com/2008/04/29/poor-obama.aspx
Maybe one day this blog will have a substantive comparison between Obama, Clinton and McCain. Who is more honest on the campaign trail? Whose economic proposal numbers add up (hint: not McCain’s)? Who has taken the most money and done the most favors for lobbyists (hint: McCain)? Who has maintained his principles in the face of attacks from his own party (hint: not McCain — otherwise you would not support him at all)?
Instead we get this what might be called politely “distraction”, mostly from the conservative noise machine of which this blog is an integral part. Find real issues or go home.
Man, I really love his music but I wish he’d stay out of politics. *sigh*
lgm:
An “integral part”? We’re flattered.
Such a sweet boy.
GASP! choke….cough….Excuse me, liberals littering the landscape? Are you sure????????
[sarcasm off]
Were the flyers printed on recycled paper?
Laura Ingraham was right, shut up and sing! Just stick to drugs and song writing. Your sure no good at politics.
It’s such a shame that you are forced to come here every day while someone no doubt points a gun to your head and makes you comment on a page that you despise.
I feel really sad for you.
That, and laughing at you.
Kind of a - 50/50 mix. Most of the time.
It could be worse, Obama supporter Dave Matthews dumped a load of human excrement from his band’s tour bus onto the heads of tourists on the Chicago River in 2004. http://www.local6.com/entertainment/3691214/detail.html
Did life pee in your cornflakes again?
all i could think of was the great turkey give away
lgm,
Politics is no longer about substance. What planet are you living on?
I dare say there are few McCain fans here. But even so, McCain has more substance in the dirt under his finger nails then either Barry or Hillary. I mean, really - what have they ever done? Sure, Barry can give a pretty decent speech and Hillary, well, she figured out a way to stand by her man. But if somebody came to me with a resume looking for an executive position, it better have some real experience on it. Talk is cheap and so far, Obama is all talk. He’s done nothing, as you put it, substantive.
see-dubya said (#29):
I criticize pretty frankly, but I do not use personal insults against you or MM. I do not offer characterizations of your state of knowledge or motives.
The Republican noise machine seeks to win elections by keeping up such a level of negative static that people don’t hear what the real issues are. Anyone who only broadcasts such noise is part of that machine. It would be fine to cover the unfortunate leaflets if you also cover the actual issues.
Was at the concert(awsome), wondered what all that flying stuff was. I thought it was confetti. To add insult to injury (for Obama), the giant pig that was floating over the crowd, with Obamas name on the bottom, apparently drifted off into the night sky, never to be seen again. Apparently they’re offering a $10,000 reward for anyone that finds the flying pig. This is all a metaphor for something, but I haven’t figured out what yet, heh heh.
Ya know lgm,I’ll bet if you just stayed over at Kos long enough, you’d probably find a good suicide pact to join. Over here we have an actual sense of humor. Quit throwing your wet blanket on everyone else! Candya$$……….
Southpaw–
You wouldn’t happen to have a picture of that, would you?
#27-lgm.
Somewhere out there is a village in desperate need of an idiot. I’d say your resume is flush.
Must really be hard, being forced to read this page. Every day.
What’s wrong? Were you shunned by the daily kos? Did you support Hillary? Now you have no where else to go? Which is it?
see dubya - here it is:
http://www.coachella.com/forum/showthread.php?t=19904
Am I the only one who sees the poor illegal immigrant having to clean out the pool filter?
Nope, now I see Amglo’s comment (23). My bad.
lgm saith:
Dude: did you happen to sneak out of the Heaven’s Gate mansion before Applewhite said it was time to evacuate the Earth and hitch a ride to the spaceship carrying Jesus? If so thanks for surviving that ordeal, we luv ya.
Shredded Pork
Floating pig missing from Coachella music festival found … in pieces
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_D_webpig3.2455f24.html
I played baritone in high school marching band. Does playing John Phillip Sosa make me part of the “Republican Noise Machine”?
I hope so!! WONK! WONK!
#43, that is the funniest thing I’ve seen in awhile. Thanks for the chuckle!
Dang, I so much wanted that giant piggy to fly over my house. the pig lotto that would have been…
even figured out a way to bring that mother down with rope bow and arrow. shucks!
Hey, lgm, no fair. You peppered your post with hints.
Besides the subject is Barack (with the unmentionable middle name) Obama’s misguided British supporter employing an off-target release of fliers.
Who needs a noise machine when you have pastor Wright?
lgm,
You must live in backwards land. I fixed that statement for you.
As see-dubya said: such a sweet boy, but I’ll add–a little misguided.
Helium balloons that lose their tether generally go up to several tens of feet up and pop as the differential pressure overcomes the ballons strength. Weather balloons are designed not to pop. That Obama balloon is history.
When I was a kid my troop ran rivers so we were in the middle of nowhere for a week or two. In the middle of the trip we would have a mail drop. We always got FAA approval, indeed the were so used to us most of the paper work was done when the pilot showed up.
lmao, were just pokin a lil fun at what your guys are say/doing/living.
noise machine, ha! more like the listening machine, listening to all the fodder coming out of the Dems…. how proud you must be of this party you stick up for. they are a laughingstock!
Re, #27’s ” Find real issues or go home.”
Yup, that’s a lib alright… they just can’t understand that they don’t have the power to regulate everything they see… & somehow they have more right to exist than every one else (hence: go home)… Hmmmmm now that is a real issue in my book.
lgm…
Are you on Huff Puff’s payroll? Or is it Kos?
If you don’t like Republicans or conservatives, then why do you bother coming here in the first place?
Just a question: If I want to join the VRWC or the Conservative Noise Machine do I have an entry fee or dues? By the way the Noise Machine sounds like a rock group, I can play the bass, where do you practice?
do I have an entry fee or dues?
Only your very soul, David!
Mwahahahahah!
I’d bet the 10 grand the giant pig was let free on purpose.
see-dubya, that’s cheap, according to Hillary we have no soul.
cause he likes to make good folks itchy!
Umm, it’s MM’s blog, she is at home and has allowed see-dub to blog here.
I just feel sorry for whomever gets Sheryl Crow’s one “flyer”.
The $100 pork sample, ok, I’d try it out too, but hasn’t he gone a Pig Too Far? What’s with the pig theme?
HAHAHAHHAHAHHHAA! lol
wait, ewwwwww…….
ajmontana said:
You may have a point:
The original Pink Floyd pig was designed by Roger Waters and built in December 1976 for the cover of the Animals album. Plans were made to fly the forty-foot, helium-filled balloon over Battersea Power Station on the first day’s photo-shoot, with a marksman prepared to shoot the pig down if it broke free. However, the pig was not launched.
On the second day, the marksman wasn’t present because no one had told him to return, and the pig broke free due to a strong gust of wind (gaining a lot of press coverage). It disappeared from sight within five minutes, and was spotted by airline pilots at forty thousand feet in the air. Flights at Heathrow Airport were cancelled as the huge inflatable pig flew through the path of aircraft, eastwards from Britain, over the English Channel, finally landing on a rural farm in Kent that night.
Gah, i’m agreeing with Rusty on the music.
Surprised no one’s gone there yet.
“it’s a hell of a start, it could be made into a monster if we all join together as a team.”
LGM LGM LGM LGM
Could someone please explain to LGM that this is a CONSERVATIVE BLOG?
Anyone?
Actually, it’s jeremiah wright who’s getting all the attention, and I know, I know, criticizing a Black reverend is racism as far democrats go.
From what I’ve seen Barack Obama has more cash than McCain. So, naturally, he’s got more special interests which explain his elite demeanor.
Distraction? Just because he got wasted in the 1970s doesn’t give him the right to civil disobiedance.
Now, LGM, I know that like Muslim men, you want special rights for yourself and for famous liberals, but you’re the one who should GET LOST.
Lgm is like old luggage, nobody else wants him.
Dude,
What is it you are smoking. I was at the Dark Side of The Moon concert at the cow palace in the 70’s. There was so much acid at that concert one could have chlorinated a pool. And the pot smoke was so thick all one had to do to get high was inhale and hold your breath. It was hippie central.
Thank you, retarded British musicians. We can’t win this thing without you
What I don’t understand is why Obama is on the Pig?
Roger wrote that ‘Pigs’ were the “Big man… Charade you are!”
So, if as in Animals, ‘Pigs’ are representative of whats wrong, and or ‘THE MAN’, then whats Obama’s name doing there?
Does he mean to say Obama is a Pig, or that he is ‘THE MAN’, or perhaps ‘THE MAN’ needs to vote for Obama? (or from my angle, its ‘Charade’?)
The pig DOES have part of the theme going, with the hypnotized eyes, and the ‘Build WALLS’ thing, so the Obama part is just contrary.
Really, ‘Sheep’ is much more appropriate for his supporters, but no one cares if sheep fly, so whatever.
Sorry if this is a bit disjointed, i’m watching the Stanley Cup atm…
Get over it. Hiring someone to clean your yard in SoCal isn’t that expensive. There are Home Depots on every corner with “areas” where strong, able-bodied “locals” are willing to work on a “daily-contract” basis.
The real issue is what the hell is Roger Waters doing promoting Obama’s politics here? Isn’t he a British citizen? Does this mean we sent aging “lingerie rocker” Madonna over there to promote Gordon Brown…um…er…wait.
And I hope this flyers were printed on recycled acid-free paper. Heh heh…the irony of acid-free anything at a Floyd concert…heh.
lgm,
“Lighten up, Francis.”
I know you don’t really feel this way, but we do actually discuss issues here.
This event may only be marginally newsworthy, but it is funny. I’ve actually seen you crack a joke on here once in a while, so I know you’ve got a sense of humor, but you’re not doing it any justice right now, man.
ajmontana and see-dubya thanks for a fun read about another Obama disaster (not of his making) after the serious business of the last couple of days a little levity is a good thing. I loved ajmontana’s plan to use his trusty bow and arrow to bring the balloon down if he was lucky enough to see it floating over his house.
SHoward,
I think lefties like lgm are angry that the extended primary is causing the implosion of the Dems. So it’s not suprising he’s bitter. He clings to his candidates and liberalism and antipathy to conservatives as a way to express his frustration.
jsr:
That rocked! (more than Roger has in about 30 years!)
If I was at that concert and that PIG came out, I would have thrown a Dart at it and left.
Well I guess if you have to put Snobama’s name on something…A PIG is the best
This thing leads to the only possible comment:
Obama will be elected “when pigs fly”
fluffy said:
Les Nessman should have said
As God is my witness, I didn’t think pigs could fly.
Sometimes a person needs a safe place to rant and rave about the unbelievable antics of the moonbats. It is sometimes fun to make fun of goofy things that happen. MM’s blog is that kind of place. Sure wish lgm and his ilk understood that once in awhile we just need a good laugh.
It was Arthur Carlson who said, “As God is my witness I thought turkeys could fly.” Poor Les just got to do the “Oh, the humanity!” play by play.
Using flying inflatable pigs in a campaign just isn’t kosher.
This is the reason I always preferred Deep Purple. A boy could always get into “Highway Star”
You guys have had all the fun.
The pig just wanted to learn to fly…
have his grubby hair be a vapor-trail in the empty air…
…blow his soul right through the roof of the sky…
You know…that kind of thing…
You have me laughing so hard,
I’m comfortably numb…
Boy, you sure overlook a passel of questionable campaign financing on the part of Hillary and Obama, but then, ’tis your nature. Methinks you doth protest too much about McCain. Are you afraid of his campaign against your far more deficient candidates?
Now there is some advice you should heed! Physician, heal thyself!
Then, pray tell, why do you waste your time and bandwidth here on this topic? I have noticed a distinct absence of your jewels of knowledge on several other, more important topics. Why not go to those?
And the only “noise machine” you should be worried about are the ones run by the two Democrat candidates, who are eating each other alive. There is some evidence that the Wright invitation to the NPC was arranged by a Hillary supporter. Now how are you going to blame that on Bush or the “Republican noise machine?”
Republicans don’t have to make a peep: they can sit back and watch the fun!
ROFL!!! BWAAA…..
Anbody see Sheryl Crow out picking up extras?
I can see the headline now,
British Moonbat Takes out Plane Carrying Muslims on Pilgrimmage after releasing Giant
PigUnclean Animal.It’s not just Roger Waters.
Gordon Brown was visiting the US at the same the Pope was, and he gave a speech at Harvard where he said that the US needs a new “Declaration of InterDependence”. You all know what that means.
Phyllis Schlafly wrote a great article on it:
“…Brown rejected the traditional concept of national sovereignty, which means an independent nation not subservient to outside control, telling Americans to replace it with “responsible sovereignty,” which he defined as accepting what he calls our global “obligations.” Hold on to your pocketbook.
Brown admitted that his “main argument” is that the United States must accept “new global rules,” “new global institutions” and “global networks.” Brown’s global rules include massive U.S. cash handouts and opening U.S. borders to the world.
Brown’s use of well-known American political phrases was tacky. He tried to morph Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal into a “New Global Deal,” and JFK’s New Frontier into “the New Frontier is that there is no frontier.”
Brown even slipped in an attempt at thought control: “Americans must learn to think inter-continentally.” He declaimed, “We are all internationalists now.”
Using the rhetorical device of inevitability, Brown warned Americans that his vision of the globalist future is “irreversible transformation.” He wants to “transcend states” and “transcend borders” as he builds the “architecture of a global society.”
Brown peddled the nonsense that the peoples of the world “subscribe to similar ideals.” He tried to tell Americans that all religions (Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists) have “common values” and “similar ideals.”
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2008/04/28/browns_global_ideals_threaten_us_sovereignty
The Brits are so democratic. They want to ensure that everyone shares equally in socialist misery.
God help us. And we ought to send them packing like we did in 1776.
Off topic but…….
I didn’t realize hippies still played music festivals these days (arent hippies extinct yet?)
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=2763761&albumID=406830&imageID=11880691
All that litter and no treehugger within miles to complain….oh wait they were all at the concert.
Politician on the loose!
A school-bus sized swine that hovered over the crowd Sunday night while Roger Waters played a version of “Sheep” from 1977’s capitalism critique “Animals” has flown the coop.
A $10,000 reward plus four Coachella tickets for life is being offered for the return of
their pigJack Murtha, according to Marcee Rondan, spokeswoman for Coachella Music and Arts Festival promoter Goldenvoice.Is it just me, or is the line between reality and Looney Toons becoming harder and harder to distinguish as the DNC primary goes on?
You mean they actually cut down TREES to make these fliers? Good point on FAR 91.15, if Obama becomes president (gag) then they really WERE hazardous to both us and our property.
Oh, the humanity!
When Waters included B.Hussein’s name on the imitation-inflatable-plastic-beast-that-cleaves-the-hoof-but-does-not-chew-the-cud, it became an ‘issue’. Aaaannnd that’s what we’re doing.
Sorry, but I cannot relate to this thread. I’ve listened to my 7th-8th grade students’ musical tastes for so long, that I’m now attuned to non-offensive acts like the WeeBeeboys (a parody rap/hip-hop act) who, according to one of my students, are “totally awesome!”