Grow a pair, Obama
Barry,
So, you found this satirical New Yorker cover art “tasteless and offensive.”
Welcome to public life.
Guess what? In Washington, political cartoonists and caricaturists spare no one.
*Update* Chris at The Hot Joints reminds me of this truly disgusting cartoon run in the Obama-worshipping Rolling Stone magazine last month:
Here’s a reminder of the crap Condi Rice has had to deal with over the years:
1. The buck-naked bigotry of Ted Rall:
2. Jeff Danziger’s Condi-as-Prissy cartoon:
3. Pat Oliphant’s exaggerated-lipped parrot caricature:
Much more here.
But hey, that’s nothing compared to the assassination chic targeting President Bush:
Oh, and if you’re going to echo your wife’s claims of special victimhood and decry the satirical “attack” on her, go buy a copy of the Laura Bush-bashing novel, “American Wife,” read what they said about her trip to Afghanistan, and check out the diatribe published by the San Francisco Chronicle smearing her as a “docile doormat” and much worse.
Then, when you’re done digesting all that, wipe your nose, grow a pair, do your little Jay-Z dance move, and take your own advice to your daughters:
No whining.
It clashes with your glow.
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The Left certainly knows about “tasteless and offensive”. They’re experts at it.
All this talk of growing a pair is like asking john kerry for an origial thought- is just ain’t in the jeans.
You simply don’t understand. Obama is the Chosen One. He simply cannot be besmirched the way us mere mortals are, lest we face eternal damnation in the flames of California.
Both Obama and the Left in this country intend to catagorize any criticism, any caricature of him as ‘racist’. To force across their wild, socialist agenda on the people by putting everyone on a guilt trip.
Such a lame attempt, hiding that neither has real solutions to America’s threats or problems.
Oh, Barry- at least they hid your big ears.
President Bush has endured slander of the worst kind without a sound. Senator McCain got the living snot beat out of him for 6 years at the Hanoi Hilton. I’m sure either of them could call the wah-mbulence for you, Senator.
Obama is whining if he calls ugly rumors and stereotypes of himself and his wife tasteless and offensive? just because idiots outside with stupid signs and tshirt makers in their basement create the same garbage doesnt balance it out and make it right.
Excellent post Michelle.
It never ceases to amaze me how vicious the left can be. If Obama wants to step into the arena, he really does need to grow a pair.
Wait a second, Obama has the biggest pair I have ever seen. ears that is.
as for the other kind, they just don’t grow on trees you either have em or you don’t. Just on his non voting to not show his hand on anything it’s obvious he does not have a pair.
Bush keeps moving on because he is focused on results. He doesn’t sweat the small stuff. Obama and the Moonbats focus on grievance and display because that is all they have. The cornering of the term Move On by the left was brilliant because that was the one thing they can not do. Results are meaningless to them. All they can do is attack those who create and build and solve problems. If Obama didn’t have non-issues to agonize over, like someone insulting him, then he would have to talk about the substance of an issue. Now Obama gets to talk about the appearance of substance. The hate filled thugs that attack Condi Rice are not an aberration, they are Obama’s core constituency.
Note to Obama: don’t go near Jesse (the race baiter) when he’s holding a pair of scissors.
If Barry grows a pair & that is a BIG IF, didn’t Jesse call dibs on them with scalpel in hand.
To the liberal mind, an individual’s personal character is solely defined by his/her racial or gender identity. This is the reason that they don’t cry foul when similar attacks are launched against conservates who happen to belong to a racial minority. Afterall, if conservatives remained “true to their identity” then they would not be conservatives. Therefore, it’s only racist if you attack a liberal in this manner because such an attack is a personal attack upon character.
This is truly the most backward thinking movement that I have ever witnessed – and they call themselves “progressive”. Quite mindless if you ask me!
I like it. I think it shows excatly who these people are.
This cover’s biting criticism of The Obamboozler reminded me of the fabulous film by Billy Wilder, “One, Two, Three.” I highly recommend it as good inspiration in describing Obama and his “people’s vision” (see Buchholz in film).
But…but…but…it’s just all a distration from change.
My young college Obamamaniac has a big sticker on her laptop that says, “God hates George Bush’. She works at a public school and the laptop and sticker are visable in the classroom everyday and no one has ever told her to remove it. But I will bet this cover would sure be yanked pretty damn fast.
Ooops..
distrationdistraction.I guess its too early yet for me.
When I said “My young college Obamamaniac” I should have added co-worker.. she is NOT my child.
Don Imus had no comment.
But it sho is funny.
Jesse wants to cut off Obama’s… but I think McCain left his in Vietnam. He just doesn’t want to win this, does he?
So Barack HUSSEIN Obama can’t take the heat? Yet another reason he’s not ready for the Presidency.
For some reason, it’s racist to use his middle name, but saying George DUBYA Bush is okay. Pointing out where his wife put her foot in her mouth is racist, but attacking Laura Bush or Condi Rice is okay.
Ya can’t have it both ways, Barack HUSSEIN Obama!
This would not help Michelle’s kids…
The irony is that long before the campaign is over, the left will be pointing to this particular attack and others like it as evidence of right wing hate mongering.
Now if Obama would just show us he can walk on water, then we would know he is the chosen one. Racism and being insensitive comes in all colors and it doesn’t matter if you are a Dem or Rep. But only a Dem can get away with it.
Barry Obama the media phenomena have thee no stones? Smooth talking when reading from cards, but without look-out, he’s a one-hit wonder with nothing to show for it…but a media fixation that is what he is and nothing else.
The cover was intended as a satire on how the Right views the Messiah. For heaven’s sake, it is impossible to conceive of the New Yorker doing anything else. The Obamas being the urban sophisticates that they claim to be certainly should know that, or does irony completely escape them?
As for McCain, he thinks irony is something the laundry does to his shirts. If he does win, I can well am imagine him spending election night repeatedly apologizing. Like Bush he appears to have two modes: placating the left and attacking the right. Why didn’t these men switch parties decades ago? They could have spared us so much.
George Bush’s answer to the satire and caracatures of him was that they were exibiting the right to free speech. Senator Hussein has a list of things we aren’t supposed to talk about, meaning anything derogatory or concieved as negative by him. Unbelievable.
MM said: “No whining. It clashes with your glow.”
Great image, Michelle! BHO is definitely having problems keeping his shine. Maybe, just maybe, enough voters will see the tarnish by November!
Dang, I think the artist forgot to put the Parrot on his shoulder.
Typical socialist liberal democrat. They have no problem with the crude and inappropriate handling of Republicans and conservatives but they cry foul when the exact same things happen to them. Cry baby, B. Hussein!
I think B.H.O. is worried. Despite his camp’s self proclaimed savior status he is tied in the polls with a guy the MSM’s tries to tell us nobody wants and nobody agrees with.
Maybe that explains Hussein’s daily flip flop on issues from his extremist left wing anti-American views to more conservative stance.
There’s also this classic Bush montage.
Yep…me think that there is a Freudian slip here at The New Yorker..what they meant for satire…well….maybe it’s true.
James 1:8: “A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.” (KJV)
It boggles my mind that so many lame people want this whining, sniviling, cry baby as the leader of the greatest Country on God’s Green Earth. Absolutly mind-boggling.
ditto that henry.
Most excellent all! Bro Obama can quit his whining yesterday if Sista Michelle (the other Michelle) would release his Pair from the Lock Box. She learned that Lock Box thing from Mama Hillary, the other Liberal Whiner in the race.
Now I need to dig out my 2000 Left/Right flip flop beach shoes.
With due respect, this is one of the most oblivious blog posts I have ever seen. First, the issue isn’t Barack Obama. The issue is Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh and all the other demagogues who have taken the opportunity at every chance they get to play on Americans’ bigotry by calling him Barack Hussein Obama (what’s John McCain’s middle name? I don’t know either because it’s not important unless you have roots in an unpopular ethnic group).
And the issue is Michelle Malkin for taking on Mrs. Obama for being a strong black woman — dare I say a typical strong black woman — who has the nerve to say what she feels is wrong with this country.
For once, it’s the Republican who has left his cripple wife for a young, beautiful, rich heiress — and then lying about the adultery. This time, it’s the Democrat who is the pillar of family values, but it doesn’t matter. It’s always something, and it’s always personal.
Moreover, either condemn all bigotry or excuse all bigotry. You can’t spend your whole life whining about the Ted Ralls of the world, and then say “get over it” when liberals are exposed to equally offensive hatred. Condemn the Curious George shirts. Condemn the Obama “assassination chic.” Don’t play the conservative grievance card and then tell Obama to “grow a pair” when his camp (not really Obama, who just shrugged and had no comment when told of the story) takes offense.
Obama is a mix of rube and urban, that’s a Ruban. When a candidate for POTUS lacks the ability to understand why much of the world speaks English rather than Ghetto he’s a relic of the far, far left. A carbon unit that will amount to very little unless initiated and fostered by the courts. He clearly is in a race with McSwish for stupid.
Johnny Mc and his retinue have come out against the New Yorker cover.
I don’t know–I LIKED it!!!
Stop playing NICE Mr Republican!!!!!
http://neveryetmelted.com/?p=4067#respond
Militant Michelle O, accurate and scary.
Would she become the future reparations queen?
Looks like Barrack Hussein Obama doesn’t like his life’s choices … well Barrack Hussein Obama, you should have done some things differently.
On July 14th, 2008 at 7:03 am, ajmontana said:
Note to Obama: don’t go near Jesse (the race baiter) when he’s holding a pair of scissors.
I think Jesse already got them. He really does have to grow a pair!
Obama is often compared to JFK, and for many good reasons. They are (were) both young and charismatic senators. It has been pointed out several times that Kennedy was a terrible president for many reasons, not the least of which is that he was nowhere near bright or experienced enough to handle the job.
But, although he was a cretin, there’s no denying that JFK had a pair. Aside from his psychotic womanizing, he was a man’s man. That was actually his aura – much of it faked, given the reality of his frail health, but his “pitch” was “here’s a man’s man.”
Obama has JFK’s look, but beyond that he’s 100% Phil Donahue.
The press will make a meal of Oboohoo for 4 years. It will make the Carter years look like a love-fest.
This will be the one high-point in what will otherwise be a miserable 4 years…
I heard James Carville laughing about the cover on TV this a.m.
That’s a scary sound.
Guilt Trip, can’t afford the gas so I’m not going.
Obama’s Big Black Suburban needs a sign in the window “Baby on Board”
it might be fun to tune into “the spew” today just to see the fake outrage. Bash a General good, Bash Obama bad, and oh the pukey sweet Michelle when she made her appearance was enough to make a a garbage disposal barf.
Those “Kill Bush” signs are a stark reminder that American society is falling steadily down to the level of a third-world country. Frightening!
Good post MM!!!!!!!!
lol
Well, you can’t blame the poor man for being upset about this… only conservatives/Republicans are supposed to be critized and made fun of, not liberals! Oh, the audacity of The New Yorker for playing fair.
The cover is accurate in its representation of Barack Hussein Obama and his wife. If he disagrees, it’s called freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
No doubt if this were his country, the first “change” would be to get rid of anything criticizing him or the revolution and to place his picture everywhere like in 1984.
The revolutionary aspect of the cover is dead on:
The Muslim and Stalinist Obama actually wants a civilian corps of Obama “youth,” just like in 1984, that is LARGER and more POWERFUL than the military. This is straight from the horse’s mouth on July 2. He actually wants a gang of La Raza style youth going around in guns to “secure” the country:
http://lonewacko.com/blog/archives/007818.html
The above was a headline on Hot Air. Is there any wonder that the MSM does not want to advertise it?
Barack Hussein Obama IS a Muslim and he and his wife ARE communist revolutionaries. What Obama is upset about is the fact that the cover of the mag is going to draw attention to the evidence supporting it:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042459/posts
http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/12745.htm
Ahh! But Hope and Change. I hope he can change his pants after (if) he is elected because I’m sure he will get the crap kicked out of him in the cartoon arena.
BUT! He isn’t the same ol’ politician is he?
To Red State Skeptic…how refreshing…a troll. It seems that you are no longer just a skeptic but kool-aid drinking left winger Obamaniac.
Over on huffpo they had a picture of bush with a bone through his nose for days. They laughed it up, but just ry doing the same for Obama. I sugest we do exactly the same thing to Obama that was done to bush.
Wasn’t the original Messiah also blasphemed and treated quite poorly by cultural elites? Oh, that’s right. He’d know that if his church for 20 years actually preached biblical material.
BTW, if he won’t grow a pair, perhaps he can borrow Hillary’s.
…or better yet… “Just words.”
Red State Skeptic,
After 8 years of such attacks from the left on the right, do you really expect us to just play nice? You seem to think making bush look like a chimp is ok but somehow obama can’t have the same treatment? Go to hell.
If he grows a pair, don’t let jessie jackson anywhere near him!!!
LOL! That’s a great New Yorker cover.
Screw him if he can’t take a little ribbing. What a wuss!
BO & MO really wanted a cartoon depicting them as the new camelot white house. The the cartoon hit a nerve because it is the truth. The left has to make-up stuff about the right and the right just has to expose the truth about the left.Add JJ to the mix and it produces one comedy act. BO needs to realize that if he gets the WH he can expect more nasty cartoons when he screws up!BO is too thinskinned to be POTUS and MO is not a strong woman!
The only bummer about the cartoon is the American Flag burning.
is that a Obama bong on the mantel next to the pot plant?
LOL!! Best post of the day! I’ve thought many times that Obama will not be the “uniter” his people think he will be merely because I am angry about the 8 years of tantrum throwing the left has had over Bush and I intend to give it back 10-fold. They think we’re mean? Let’s show them just how mean we can be. We are better at it and we’re smarter than they ever thought of being.
The irony of this statement, of course, is that the cartoon is meant to make fun of how absurd these right wing slurs are (as well as the people who make and believe them. In other words, The New Yorker isn’t laughing with you, it’s laughing at you). The artist is quoted as saying the cover was created to “show it as the fear-mongering ridiculousness that it is.”
Really? I kinda think it’s par for the course around here.
It has had some competition over the years, but this blog has got to be one of MM’s all-time best – served up cold with a perfect garnish of vitriolicly dismissive disdain.
Eat ‘em up, Michelle!
Yes I know what they intended, but they actualy managed to paint a somewhat accurate picture. Except Obama is not muslim (sorry guys, he isn’t)
I don’t know if Newt has weighed in yet, but if he does be sure he’ll mention the 1994 Time (with Newt as Scrooge taking away Tiny Tim’s crutch) and Newsweek (with Newt as Dr. Seuss’s Grinch) covers in 1994 after the Repubs took over the House. And the sick thing is, they were SERIOUS. The most popular weeklies out there, not some crappy little New Yorker mag. Gingrich is still steaming about those covers, 14 years later.
Obama, stop whining? Who would he be without his whining? He’s like the Jackie Chiles character in Seinfeld — saying “I am outraged!” at the slightest provocation. You upset about my racial reference? Stuff it.
But yet you keep coming back…Solomon said ‘like a dog returns to his vomit’.
If he grows a pair??? I don’t think MO has room in her purse for another pair. She already has his in check, in case she needs them…
We got that already. The point is, many a truth is said in jest.
NYK, I live eastern KY, a.k.a., Democrat Central, and believe me, it is not right wingers who are saying those thing, the “slurs,” about BHO but the base of the Democrat Party.
I think it’s a great cover for the magazine. The american white voter should not be forced to vote for Obama because he or she is guilty of being born white. They should not vote for that clown and his angry wife because they are bad for our country.
The Obamas spent 25 years or however many going to all black anti white church ceremenonies. I’d say that is out of touch with most Americans. If McCain went to an all white church which spewed out anti black sermons every week he’d be on a grill for it. But he’s white so the rules are different…
The news media wants us all to think that Obama is the only one running for president. They never give McCain any air time up here in Seattle.
nyk said:
Another demonstration of Nyk’s integrity and supreme lockstep intelligence.
I agree with McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds that the cover graphic was “tasteless and offensive”, but the SCOTUS has not reached the point of regulating “tasteless and offensive” speech from the first amendment. Elect BHO, though, and a future generation of justices will surely discover that Congress’ making no law “abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press” does not apply to “tasteless and offensive” speech for certain classes of people.
Then the oh-so-brilliant Obamas missed the memo. If they felt it was a portrayal of the “fear-mongering rediculousness that it is”, they’d embrace it – you know, great for the campaign and all.
However, methinks they doth protest too much, which means the “right wing fear-mongering” is probably closer to the mark than the Obamas wish to acknowledge.
I’m a Democrat, so hell is a given. It’s not OK to make Bush look like a chimp, and it’s not OK to make Obama look like a chimp.
I would love conservatives to at least be self-aware enough to see the irony of telling liberals to stop complaining, when they spend every waking moment whining about the “liberal” media, institutions of higher learning, Hollywood, and pretty much anything else that they’re convinced isn’t being fair to them.
Conservatives, the “grievance mongers” are you.
The cartoon shows the prejudiced, twisted mind of a left-wing cartoonist and what he thinks of the mind of the right-winger. Even those on the left should be able to see the joke is on the cartoonist, not on conservatives. The truth is, the mind of a conservative is generally more flexible and lacking in prejudice than those on the left. There are so many things a left-winger won’t consider rationally because his emotions get in the way.
Has Obama commented on this?
It’s a factual matter those institutions are liberal. Whining doesn’t have anything to do with it.
He isn’t? So everyone that knew him, including the president of Garuda airlines of Indonesia, is wrong? He didn’t actually state that “There is no god but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet” to the New York Times” in a perfect Arabic accent? He wasn’t registered as a Muslim in an Indonesian Catholic school? He didn’t go to a Marxist and anti-American church for 20 years? None of his family was Muslim?
He IS Muslim, and this article proves it. But he STATES he is Christian! Just because someone states something–especially when they are desperate to gain something from a lie, in this case the presidency–doesn’t make it true.
Here is the proof that Barack Hussein Obama IS and WAS a Muslim:
http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/12745.htm
Of course, we have all known he is a Marxist, and his Stalinist statements on July 2 prove this fact as well:
http://lonewacko.com/blog/archives/007818.html
Thus, the cover is entirely accurate. If it weren’t, the Obama campaign would just be shrugging it off as Condi Rice has always done with the negative caricatures.
News flash: Barack Hussein Obama is already scheduling talks with his Muslim and terrorist allies:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080714/ap_on_el_pr/palestinians_obama_3
Red State Skeptic trolled:
Remind us again, who wants to restore the Fairness Doctrine?
Primarily to marvel at posts and responses like this.
In one fell swoop you both ask and (unwittingly) answer your own question about why the Obama camp might not “welcome” the image. Oh, the irony!
Exactly.
We don’t whine–we point out discrepancies, fallacies & foam-flecked maniacal rantings.
Now that is the biggest pant load I have seen in a long time. Conservatives look at solutions, democrats look at past “crimes” (jessie jackson ring a bell??)
nyk, If the liberal press were even handed in thier reporting, you would probably know alot more about Obama and he probably would never have been nominated.
Ha! Thanks for the morning laugh.
nyk: I stand by my assessment. The truth hurts, and clearly the Obamas are feeling the pain.
Their behavior over the past 20 years, plus some of their campaign commentary, would say the picture painted by the New Yorker isn’t too far off the mark – regardless of where it comes from.
But, then agin, who am I to blaspheme the son of god, right?
nyk – you are certainly no better than the right wingers you hate. You are guilty of behaving the same way.
But, see, the media does report some of this stuff, but it’s never a big deal. It’s not important to the media, nor deal-breaking news to those who believe in liberal candidates. The only things that matter to liberals is if we go to church, how we teach our children to salute a flag, if I want to smoke a cigarette in a bar, if I don’t want to put on my seatbelt, or if we want to search suspicious-looking people at the airport.