Gaffetastic: Obama mixes up his black sitcom references; video added
Video added…
Oh, my. Can you just imagine if Sarah Palin or John McCain made a crack like this and botched up their pop culture references to famous black comedy shows?
Can you just imagine the high dudgeon from every minority lawmaker? WaPo and NYTimes columnist? Civil rights organization? The cries of RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACISM would shatter the political Richter scale.
Can you just imagine:
This is what happens when a candidates goes off script.
Barack Obama, in Raleigh, N.C., was doing a riff attacking John McCain for supporting the idea of putting some mandatory retirement money into the stock market.
“If Senator McCain is elected, we’ll have another president who wants to privatize part of your Social Security. Could you imagine if you had your Social Security invested in the stock market these last two weeks, these last two months? You wouldn’t need Social Security. You’d be having a — like, what was it, Sanford and Son. `I’m coming Weezie!”
Here’s the vid, via Business and Media Institute:
Weezie was on The Jeffersons.
The famous line Obama mixed up was from Redd Foxx’s Fred Sanford character, who faked having a heart attack to draw sympathy from his son, Lamont, on Sanford and Sons:
“Oh, this is the big one! You hear that, Elizabeth?! I’m coming to join you, honey!”
(From Mahalo: “When caught in a lie or in an embarrassing situation, Fred’s favorite response was to fake a heart attack, which he would refer to as “the big one.” He would grab his chest, look to the sky and speak out to his wife Elizabeth, who passed away sometime before the show began.”)
Here’s a clip reel a Redd Foxx fan put together of the famous running gag:
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Barack Obama: Gaffe machine
Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2008
All it takes is one gaffe to taint a Republican for life. The political establishment never let Dan Quayle live down his fateful misspelling of “potatoe.” The New York Times distorted and misreported the first President Bush’s questions about new scanner technology at a grocers’ convention to brand him permanently as out of touch.
But what about Barack Obama? The guy’s a perpetual gaffe machine. Let us count the ways, large and small, that his tongue has betrayed him throughout the campaign:
* Last May, he claimed that Kansas tornadoes killed a whopping 10,000 people: “In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed.” The actual death toll: 12.
*Earlier this month in Oregon, he redrew the map of the United States: “Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.”
*Last week, in front of a roaring Sioux Falls, South Dakota audience, Obama exulted: “Thank you Sioux City…I said it wrong. I’ve been in Iowa for too long. I’m sorry.”
*Explaining last week why he was trailing Hillary Clinton in Kentucky, Obama again botched basic geography: “Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known, coming from a nearby state of Arkansas. So it’s not surprising that she would have an advantage in some of those states in the middle.” On what map is Arkansas closer to Kentucky than Illinois?
*Obama has as much trouble with numbers as he has with maps. Last March, on the anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Alabama, he claimed his parents united as a direct result of the civil rights movement:
“There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born.”
Obama was born in 1961. The Selma march took place in 1965. His spokesman, Bill Burton, later explained that Obama was “speaking metaphorically about the civil rights movement as a whole.”
*Earlier this month in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Obama showed off his knowledge of the war in Afghanistan by honing in on a lack of translators: “We only have a certain number of them and if they are all in Iraq, then it’s harder for us to use them in Afghanistan.” The real reason it’s “harder for us to use them” in Afghanistan: Iraqis speak Arabic or Kurdish. The Afghanis speak Pashto, Farsi, or other non-Arabic languages.
*Over the weekend in Oregon, Obama pleaded ignorance of the decades-old, multi-billion-dollar massive Hanford nuclear waste clean-up:
“Here’s something that you will rarely hear from a politician, and that is that I’m not familiar with the Hanford, uuuuhh, site, so I don’t know exactly what’s going on there. (Applause.) Now, having said that, I promise you I’ll learn about it by the time I leave here on the ride back to the airport.”
I assume on that ride, a staffer reminded him that he’s voted on at least one defense authorization bill that addressed the “costs, schedules, and technical issues” dealing with the nation’s most contaminated nuclear waste site.
*Last March, the Chicago Tribune reported this little-noticed nugget about a fake autobiographical detail in Obama’s “Dreams from My Father:”
“Then, there’s the copy of Life magazine that Obama presents as his racial awakening at age 9. In it, he wrote, was an article and two accompanying photographs of an African-American man physically and mentally scarred by his efforts to lighten his skin. In fact, the Life article and the photographs don’t exist, say the magazine’s own historians.”
* And in perhaps the most seriously troubling set of gaffes of them all, Obama told a Portland crowd over the weekend that Iran doesn’t “pose a serious threat to us”–cluelessly arguing that “tiny countries” with small defense budgets can’t do us harm– and then promptly flip-flopped the next day, claiming, “I’ve made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave.”
Barack Obama–promoted by the Left and the media as an all-knowing, articulate, transcendent Messiah–is a walking, talking gaffe machine. How many more passes does he get? How many more can we afford?
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nlebou #85
I knew too. It was funny then, because I never thought it would go this far in this country. It took me a few years to pick up on the slow and certain drift taking place and exactly what it meant. I always thought there were enough common-sense people here to keep it from happening, but I guess all the people wanting to change our society had to do was start “cleaning” up textbooks and wait for the people who remember to start dying out.
I know the creators of “All in the Family” thought they were making fun of conservatives, painting them to all be like Archie, but now Archie looks like a genius. He had many faults, but he was spot on in everything he had to say about liberals.
Some of Fred’s best:
Aunt Esther: Who you calling ugly, sucker?
Fred Sanford: I’m calling you ugly, I could push your face in some dough and make gorilla cookies.
Lamont Sanford: You’re a dirty old man ya know that?
Fred Sanford: And I’m gonna be one ’till I’m a dead old man.
Fred Sanford: I still want to sow some wild oats.
Lamont Sanford: At your age, you don’t have no wild oats, you got shredded wheat.
Julio: Buenos Dias, Mr. Sanford.
Fred Sanford: And beans and disease to you, too.
Sambo, Archie absolutely had Meathead right and Rob Reiner is even more of a Meathead today.
On October 29th, 2008 at 3:47 pm, watershed said:
In the words of the great Beavis: Dude.
You can’t even tell when people are making fun of you at your own expense.
Can you pass on the baton to a more intelligent troll? Let us speak to your manager, you are not presenting enough of a challenge and / or demoralizing us properly.
#76
As Hannibal used to say to the rest of the A-Team, “Sit on it!”.
A bit off topic, but Rob reminded me …
on the Jewish World Review website, they are offering 5000$ for the hidden LA Times video of Obama praising Khalidi, etc.
wighttrasch #103 (you devil, you, with a name like that!)…anyway, I have seen the reward up to $150,000 for a copy of the video. Hope someone bites.
watershed #88, LOVED the Obama volunteer call. Priceless.
Oops, just saw on sidebar, the reward is up to $175,000. Wish I had a copy!
Wasn’t ‘Weezie’ a nickname for the mother on ‘The Jeffersons’?
I wonder what Mr. Jefferson would have thought about Obama’s taxes….
Weezie was Louise Jefferson’s nickname. She was George’s wife.
How come we could laugh at Archie for his malapropisms, but we can no longer laugh at some of the ones that were in Amos and Andy?
e.g., “Let’s simonize our watches.”
He would have told him to shove them up his zebra a$$.
Well he is missing a speech writer.
http://sarah-palin-2008.blogspot.com/2008/10/obamas-speechwriter-opens-eyes-votes.html
“I wonder what Mr. Jefferson would have thought about Obama’s taxes….”
Considering he worked his tail off to build up his business from nothing – made a good life for himself and his family – I’d say that his thoughts on Obama taking more of his money to give to somebody who isn’t doing all they can to achieve success would be along the lines of:
“Hell No!”
#101
Did you even listen to the Obama volunteer drunk cold caller? Its really funny.
I still laugh at anything I can remember from Amos and Andy. And I would laugh at it if we were allowed to see it again. That was entertainment. Of course, I also like watching a lot of the programs on TV Land, like Andy Griffith… at least until his recent Obama ad, Leave it to Beaver, etc.
I was soooo upset by that.
I love TV land too.
It’s a good thing he didn’t misspell “potato” though, because then he’d really be in for it.
I agree. I grew up with his show and feel betrayed.. oh well, still a great show!
Obama is UNQUALIFIED. He got his sitcoms mixed up. Saving grace…thats still probably better than getting Afghanistan and Iraq mixed up.
Yeah Rob…but I do like his video with Brad Paisley
Yes, nlebou, seeing Andy and Opie doing an ad for Obama was like a stake through the heart. When I was young, I wanted to live in Mayberry. Now I find out Andy has feet of clay. Really crushed.
Now I can’t get The Jefferson’s song out of my head.
I did grow up in a Mayberry like place. It was wonderful. Almost unrecognizable now.
After this election, this sweet man will pass away and his spirit will go straight to heaven:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW-6DpC-mj8
Could you imagine telling him he had to share it with the pinko commie Meathead!
uh, you must have missed when he said we were that we needed to pull out of Iraq because all our Arabic speaking solders were needed in Afghanistan…
hint: In Afghanistan they don’t speak Arabic.
Could you imagine telling him he had to share it with the pinko commie Meathead!
or Archie. There would be fireworks.
Good catch and THANKS! I hope she is all over the news for the rest of the week!
He would say something along the lines of…why do you think I worked my ass off trying to get away from those honkey’s.
I done moved on up!
nlebou #121
For a short while, I lived in a small town that maybe wasn’t like Mayberry but in my memory is a Norman Rockwell painting. I refuse to go back. I prefer my memory.
About 20 years ago I read for a commercial with Dana Plato from Different Strokes… she was obviously high, really wired, during the reading. I thought it was cool to have read with her because I had enjoyed the show… when she died of overdose, I felt bad. The reading is a kinda cool memory though.
That has nothing to do with anything, but it is rare that I can work that sort of thing into conversation..
This is a reach. Citing references from old sitcoms incorrectly as a gaffe? Come on Michelle… This coming on the heels of Biden ridiculous and ruinous comments that he seems to spout off everyday. Putting this along side that smacks of desperation.
freeman, bless your heart.
Obama is unqualified because his ears stick out and he thinks there are 57 states in our great nation.
Obama is also unqualified because he has accomplished nothing in the Senate (um, compared to Senator McCain), he votes ‘present’ and won’t take a stand on tough issues so as not to offend. And, uh, um, he has run for the highest office for most of his time in the Senate.
In addition, take your pick here, as it is multiple choice, he has a lot of gaps in his background with some smarmy characters/associations such as Wright,Davis, Rezko, Ayers, Dohrn, ex-PLO Khalidi, Odinga, etc. Just knowing one of these people would disqualify him from any job in the defense industry of our country as he could not obtain security clearance.
Obama is also missing some stuff the American people would like to view:
1. Occidental College records
2. Columbia College records
3. Columbia Thesis paper
4. Harvard College records
5. Selective Service Registration
6. Medical records
7. Illinois State Senate schedule
8. Your Illinois State Senate records
9. Law practice client list
10. Certified Copy of original Birth certificate (sealed by Hawaii)
11. Embossed, signed paper Certification of Live Birth
12. Record of baptism
Obama also has a problem with being a socialist who wants to spread my wealth, and the most liberal dude in the Senate.
‘Nuff said?
Rob #129
I don’t get to put this into a conversation either so I understand and here goes. In my job, a few years ago, I had occasion to call Henry Winkler, aka The Fonz. He was extremely nice; actually answered his own phone. He told me to be sure to watch his new TV show that was beginning that week. I watched it, at least the first half, but turned it off. I hoped that he didn’t remember, in case I talked to him again, because I would have to tell him that Mrs. Cunningham wouldn’t have let Joanie watch the show.
What a pretender.
Go eat some arugula Bambi.
I know what you mean. Andy even did an entire album of Christian songs. I know because I bought it but I’ll never listen to it again. I’m one of those that believe a person cannot be a democrat and a Christian because they oppose one another. I’m not saying all republicans are Christian either. But I am saying no one can be for Jesus and killing unborn babies at the same time. It just don’t work. I used to love the heart to heart talks Andy and Opie had….it was a part of growing up. Were they always like this or did something change them? Sooooo sad.
On October 29th, 2008 at 4:26 pm, watershed said:
It is.
Now how about we get back to the topic at hand – namely that you believe that mankind exists to serve the State.
Despite what some say here, I believe that anyone with full mental faculties, intellectual honesty, the ability to admit mistakes, and above all a good heart (empathy for other human beings) can eventually shuck off their collectivist, hive-mind philosophies and become fully human again.
That’s why I don’t mind the trolling as much as others, but even for me there is a limit.
The other side requires all four elements.
On October 29th, 2008 at 4:58 pm, Ahh a Lion! said:
Well, it’s not an apocalyptic revelation but then again… you get to have the theme song from Sanford & Sons going through your head.
Ahh a Lion missed the humor also.
Lighten up libs.
I hope not cuz this white guy occasionally uses the “Comin’ to join ya, Elizabeth!” line to great comedic effect.
My personal favorite.
Lamont: Pop, at your age you can’t afford to be burning the candle at both ends.
Fred: At my age I can afford to burn the candle at both ends, in the middle, around the side, and up the back!
One of the finest things Redd Foxx said was “I am the head of my house and my wife is the heart”
Was that racist or sexist? I can’t tell any more. The PC police have me sooooo confused.
Some relief from the Sanford and Son song in your head.
There was a Weezie in the movie “Steel Magnolias”
Neither Family Man it was just very sweet.
That was Weezer Misscheryl.
OH! roflmao..Weezer Weezie, same difference!
yeah…I loved the line….here hit Weezer.
Score another one for Karl Rove’s gaffe machine. What a sinister man, that Rove…
Really, though, didn’t surprise me. Andy is an old dyed in the wool southern democrat who probably never voted for a Republican in his life.
Opie is just going along with the Hollywood crowd making sure he doesn’t lose out on future film making opportunities.
I’m sure he’s working with Steven Speilberg to put the Obamessiah’s life story on screen as we write.:)
That Biden, always good for a gaffe.
Quickie poll: When you sing the song to Sanford and Sons outloud or in your head, do you sing it like:
1) Ba ba ba bada ba, ba ba bada bada baaa ba bada bada baaaa…
or
2) Wa wa wa wada wa, wada wada wada waaa wa dada wa wa waaaaa…..
Your answer is important, and will factor into the fate of our great republic.
On October 29th, 2008 at 6:09 pm, hawkeye54 said:
Griffith should know better. His Oscar was for his part as Lonesome Roads in A Face In The Crowd.
Plays a charismatic man with no past, who is catapulted to fame and political power from the bromidal strength of television. And, in one moment, loses it all when his mask his lifted and his true nature is revealed to the American public.
Directed by Elia Kazan, who understood the true nature of collectivism and communism.
#2 filmladd
On October 29th, 2008 at 6:21 pm, old_texan said:
Ohhh nooo! You picked the racist “w” interpretation! I’m sorry, we’ll have to put you into the re-education camps.
that’s the shame about many actors. They can play a part so diametrically opposed to their personal views and never learn a thing.
And if only the MSM would wake up and do its job – its duty! – Reality can immitate fiction as there is plenty of recorded evidence to lift his mask and present his true nature and intentions to the American public.
That is Obama’s true nature and intentions.
TO Mrs. Malkin: In my best Alex P. Keaton impersonation: “Whach U Talkn’ Bout Willis?”
Speaking of Obama and mixed references.
Quoth the Obamessiah: McCain is to Bush as Robin is to Batman
No, this is not a joke, this is not a parody, this is not a satire, he actually fucking said it.
Speaking of Obama and mixed references.
Quoth the Obamessiah: McCain is to Bush as Robin is to Batman
No, this is not a joke, this is not a parody, this is not a satire, he actually said it.
This election is fixed. Both Obama and the media, the propaganda media have gone a long way toward destroying our political process. And once it’s gone, it is over for us.
I disagree. Michelle’s point is not just that BO made a gaffe. She is showing the gigantic disparity between how the media treats Obama/Biden vs. McCain/Palin. This is not a reach at all, but a very relevant and essential observation.
On a related note, I wonder who ACORN will make Redd Foxx vote for this election.
I don’t think Arnold would appreciate you calling him Alex P Keaton. BTW APK was a staunch republican remember his framed picture of Nixon
lol
Sadly, when the “Big One’ actually hit Redd he was in rehearsal and collapsed holding his chest on a sound stage. His cast mates, Della Reese among them laughed and guffawed thinking he was going through his schtick.
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/o/Huntley-Brown-Obama.htm
Why I Can’t Vote For Obama – Huntley Brown-Truth!
Summary of the eRumor:
An email from Christian music artist Huntley Brown stating reasons why he won’t vote for Barack Obama.
The Truth:
Huntley Brown is a popular Christian music artist and he told truthorfiction.com that he wrote this email to some friends who were inquiring if he was going to vote for Senator Barack Obama.
Brown said that he wasn’t asked if he was going to support the GOP candidate, John McCain, and that this email was primarily directed at his opinion of the Democratic candidate. He also told us that he has problems with both candidates but the differences he has with Senator McCain pale in comparisons with the ones he has with Senator Obama.
Brown did not write this email to influence public opinion nor did he expect his response to be forwarded to others which resulted in wide distribution of his opinion on the super information highway. No matter the outcome of this election, Brown told us, that as a Christian, he could be counted to support the President in prayer every day.
If the media succeeds in getting this “historical” ‘One’ elected the gaffes will really multiply and we will be having the heart attacks. Heaven help us.
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Lindsey:
but i’m movin on up, movin on up, finly got a peice of da pie! ( yor pi)
Don’t forgett Redd.
His continued utilization of the non-word “ain’t” will most surely cost him the librarian and English teacher vote.
Wait…those are union positions. No wonder he’s so smug.
I.T.T. = In The Tank
Also: did you like how Barry could be seen setting up the “Weezie” joke? He was like a five year-old who couldn’t wait to show you the stickered star at the top of his kindergarten homework.
Just about as spontaneous as an Al Gore joke. Or a John Kerry one-liner.
I am seriously afraid for this nation if enough lemmings bow at his altar of idiocy on the 4th.
Mr. Obama also was in Sunrise, Florida and called it Sunshine.
Not to mention calling the Pennsylvania State football team the “Nimminy Lions”.
It’s good to hear about these gaffes here.
How do we get it to the rest of the people that watch CBS, NBC, ABC, & CNN or read the LA times, NY Times or Washington Post?
Better yet, the news in the battleground states. Isn’t that what it’s all about. Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, W Virginia, etc.
Californians and New Yorkers can watch it till they rot but they will still vote for a Democrat.
Having a “D” after your name automatically makes you much smarter than the “average bear”–and even smarter than any dumbo with an “R” behind his name on the ballot.
This is like staying a night at a Holiday Inn Express–you can do anything without any experience or knowledge!
John Bibb
Hi Republicans. Those are not ‘gaffes.’
Thanks for your time.
.
He’s not a normal American black guy.
Never was. Never will be.
I don’t care what Oprah and her self righteous rich friends like to pretend.
Tryin’ to be one with the hood, when you ain’t from the hood, makes you the hood.
You’re right…it’s normal idiocy.
Thanks for YOUR time.
uh yeah right..to commie stooges like you if the messiah says it, it must be true!!
are you going to get your mark of obedience to your new bi-racial messiah on your hand or forehead?
Oh Please, Obama’s whiter than I am.
My guess is both, Dig can’t outdone in showing his obedience to The One.
Obama’s Black Muslim street army is the creepiest idea I ever heard by an American politician in my life. Arm yourselves.
that video made me spit out my coffee… died in your arms tonight lol
Arm yourselves.
60’s radical violence, bad.
Anti-Obama radical violence, good!
Toolshed, When they come to take away my arms, they will wish they could go back to the good old days of 60’s radical violence.