Introducing the fly-by media

President Obama killed a fly! President Obama killed a fly! “The poise! The cupping!” Swoon. Drool. Faint:
And for his next trick, chopsticks a la Mr. Miyagi:
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The media is the largest collection of total tools ever seen on this earth. Un-freaking-believable.
On June 17th, 2009 at 12:47 pm, max said:
fly was heard to be screaming “HELP ME! HELP ME!!” a la Vincent Price…
How dare he kill that poor defenseless Fly!!! Where’s PETA when you need them?
Of course any semblance of an un-biased Media died long before that poor fly!
Stupid is not curable. And anyone who tortures small creatures will grow up to torture larger creatures and it will lead to torturing humans. Oh, wait…
Agreed.
What idiots…all of them.
This whole fly thing just struck me as posing and “look at me” by Obama. I was gagging as the seconds dragged on…
Technique learned in Kenya and Indonesia…
What a bunch of nimrods!!
BO really does stink if flies are attracted to him.
I think most people start killing annoying insects about 5 years of age. Maybe younger (don’t have kids myself).
Suddenly the democrats are enamored with killing! Now, apply it to our enemies who want to do that to us.
That could have been Who-ville! Oh the humanity!
Apparently the fly did his job too well, finding corruption where he shouldn’t have been looking.
Sh!t attracts flies.
President Reagan did a similar thing once. However, he did not kill the fly. He just removed its left wing, which caused the insect to straighten up and……… wait for it.
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. fly right.
The media today resemble school children watching the antics of their favorite rock stars. Totally adoloscent behavior.
Maybe being a lib is like being a groupie…
This will make the mullahs and other despots around the world quake with fear!
The great flyslayer. Is there nothing this man can’t do?
He didn’t wash the fly guts off his hands. Ick.
Pfft…I could do that in kindergarten. Pose and preen all you want, Bo…I’ll let you know when I am remotely impressed with you. Hint: don’t hold your breath.
I just bashed someone who wrote this elsewhere…
Oh dear…I said I’ll take someone who gets shot down and spends 5 years in the Hanoi Hilton over that poser any day — now that’s a real man.
Please, when is this slobbering over him going to ever stop?
Boy, this is a conundrum: Is NBC better than ABC, since the former worships him from their studio in NYC and the latter will actually become his mouthpiece from the White House Blue Room? I gotta give this some more thought.
I can hardly keep up.
PS: Do we have a little emoticon that spews vomit? Please advise.
If he missed the fly would the same slobbering media be chortling how inept he is?
Tied for best comment award of the week!
Didja see that, North Korea? So ya better just watch it or he’ll come slap you next!
Vicki, the text version is
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Given the nod to Erin F.
Brevity is a virtue!
A media in love with itself shilling for a person who can’t see past the fat ego sitting on his shoulders.
It’s really too bad that more now than ever, journalism is more a professional destination for brainless cheerleaders than for those who wish to seak and report the truth.
The whole thing just disgusts me. There are serious issues facing our country and the least that media can do for this country is hold Obummer’s and his administration’s feet to the fire. This feels more like medieval Europe where absolute monarchs and their baron toadies kept each other in power as long as the monarch gave in to the barons’ demands and the barons bowed/scraped and showed support for the monarch.
This is all this sad relationship is now between the media and Washington. Just a monarch and his baronial sychophants expressing their love for one another. The thing is, though, if the monarch squashes any of the barons, the barons will turn on him in a heartbeat.
Let’s not even pretend that any of this power is shared with the common man.
I understand Barack is proposing fly-swatters for missile defense!
Wax on, wax off.
My God, do they have to suck up about everything?
My first thought was, “Haha… the White House is a ‘No Fly Zone’”
(I amuse easily)
Katie Couric (”deep in thought”): “If only that fly had landed on my butt while I was in the Pike position…”
Oooh! He killed a fly. I killed a big one in my office last week, can I be president, too?
This makes me sick.
Afterwards, Obama was heard to comment: “If you think that was good, wait until you see what I do to the US Constitution.”
That would make President Hussein Obama an arachnid (spiders, scorpions and such for our Liberal friends)? We can spray for them
Vincent Price: scaring kids for generations.
What I want to know is, how did that fly get within striking distance? Where was the Secret Service? Have we learned nothing since Bush and the shoe incident?
All I know is that there were no flies in the Whitehouse until abc showed up.
Let’s see him do that with a wasp. THEN I’ll be impressed.
Maybe.
Now I’m not saying it was staged, but, you never know about these things. (Hey lgm, how’s that for conspiracy theory of the day?)
Mr. Miyagi had nothing on Our Man Flint.
I guess we now know which room the new puppy has been hanging out in.
I liked how Flint would sleep with only his heels and head resting on two coffee tables.
“America” was that fly, and he killed it.
Look, up in the air…it’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Prompterman the Flyslayer!!! Da da!!
Could be worse. He could be swallowing rats whole, like those aliens in the TV series ‘V’.
And there is a couple billion in the budget earmarked for them.
Obama: (to the media after disposing of the dead fly) “Let’s see TOTUS do that!”
How do we know he’s not? That’s all I’m askin’. How do we know?
Obama = Lord of the Flies
I like Robert Vaughn’s line, playing a super-fast gunslinger in “The Magnificent Seven,” after snatching at three flies on a table: ” One. There was a time when I would have caught all three. “
He hasn’t proved he’s NOT an alien yet…
Fly? Most likely a miniature Red Chinese reconnaissance drone.
like this
I’d like to see McCain try that stunt.
I thought Obama’s family was off limits.
Anybody can just kill a fly, but Sarah would’ve gutted and field dressed that fly in under a minute.
And I’d like to see Obama try to survive for years in a Vietcong prison camp.
Way to take a cheap shot at a guy who sacrificed his physical health so you can run around mocking veterans. Creep.
That was beneath even you, butthead.
I would too. Or any prison for that matter. And the sooner the better.
You rock, EQ.
He didn’t even read the fly its Miranda Rights… how horrible.
By the way, here’s where Obama learned his moves.
Reagan would have roped it and tied its little legs together.
Thanks, but that loser made it really easy. It says a lot about the man he voted for for president if he thinks there’s anything newsworthy or impressive about swatting a fly.
On my blog, I invited injured vets and/or their family and friends to leave comments about his below-the-belt comment. If I get any, I’ll post them here.
I think you are all being unfair to the President.
He accomplishes the first and only tangible success since his inaguration and you make fun of him.
Be happy. He did it without costing you the usual $700 billion it takes to pursue one of his objectives.
Mocking the military again I see. Too much of a coward to serve yourself but brave enough to mock the real warriors in harm’s way.
You stay classy. This type of comment is all you’re good at.
You forgot about the earmarks for fly swatters…comment 45. Somehow, this fly incident will end up costing us plenty.
Forget that. A $250,000 earmark for a personal fly-swatter assistant will suffice. Lest Obama sully his pretty hands with fly guts or something.
I killed a frog with a stick once.
“I killed seven with one blow!!!!”
Thanks for ably representing the perpetual adolescence and ugliness of the left.
I’ve killed flys before. Big deal! I’d like to see Duh One take my Savage .30-’06 and shoot a deer, gut it, and skin it!
It is the stench around the president that attracts those flies.
Might as well have a nubile Nubian waving an ostrich feather fan at him like the other African potentates.
Of course, special effects has nothing to do with it? I wouldn’t put this past this man to set the whole thing up. However, Obama will see this as yet another reason to be prideful and arrogant. Just keep it up Obama. Wisdom is not your strong suit.
Like Rush said today, the sycophantic state run media is acting as if Obama had personally killed Bin Laden~!
Dexter, I’ll have you know they use the tails of either cattle or antelope for the swatting of flies in Africa. But we already know he’s a poser.
Now; if he had caught the fly, then eaten it, like my cousin, I’d take notice. Not impressed, mind you.
The media is full of (fill in the blank)
Look who is following Obama off the cliff….they don’t understand why everyone isn’t joining them. Somebody has to pull them all up when they go over the side. Why is there such a huge culture of personal self destruction in the MSM? This drama playing out on the national and international stage, only has a couple of outcomes, and none of them good ones. Corporate owned media has picked it’s side but everyone in this country isn’t riding along with them on the short yellow bus. Hey NBC -MSNBC things may appear further away then they actually are – check your side view mirrors (getting really close to going over the edge). Obviously these networks have no idea where they are headed.
CBS how is that boycotting of Letterman’s advertisers working out for you? Didn’t see it coming huh?
http://hillbuzz.org/2009/06/16/david-letterman-protest-rally-430pm-61609-ed-sullivan-theater-on-broadway-in-nyc/
CBS Poll
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Poll
Were you satisfied with David Letterman’s apology to Sarah Palin?
Yes 28%
No 72%
http://wcbstv.com/entertainment/david.letterman.protest.2.1047451.html
Good to know I’m cut out to be President.
Agreed.
What has any of that got to do with playing tennis?
She’s got my vote!
**barfs**
Wait. I have got to write that down…
Where’s undreseige?
fer cryin out loud! The media keep piling it on..he’s kills a fly. These people are so easily impressed. If Booosshhh had killed it, they would have called him a murderer and demanded an investigation. Poor empty, pointless, aimless people.
First of all, John McCain has had both hands and arms crippled from torture in an NVA prison. Additionally, he is now 72 years old, despite the many unimaginable physical and psychological hardships he has endured. However, without those injuries, and at your beloved Barack’s same age of 47, he could no doubt have accomplished the same demonstration of quickness and superior reflexes. Remember, McCain was a Naval Aviator, flying high performance jet attack aircraft at speeds up to 700 mph. The kind of clear thinking, lightning fast reflexes, and hand-eye coordination required to perform in such an environment is rare among humans, as only a small percentage are selected to train for such a position. Along with such superior abilities comes a superior mind. Given the same situation, John McCain’s superior focus would likely have enabled him to finish the interview unphased, while a staffer killed the fly without being asked and thus McCain would have avoided getting the fly guts on his hands during a network interview. It is the mind of an arrogant self-aggrandizing adolescent like Obama who would attempt to impress the sycophantic interviewer and audience with his manual fly-killing skillz!
I saw this on one of the nbc’s this morning, and the anchors went on like it was glorious. I actually screamed obscenties at the tv. I usually only do that while watching the Packers or Brewers.
This is so embarrassing. Video of the POTUS, any POTUS, swatting a fly during an interview belongs on the editing room floor, not on actual airtime.
My thoughts exactly –
ourthe president doesn’t have the disipline to ignore a fly..He is an embarrassment.*discipline* sorry
I guess the old saying, “Simple things amuse simple minds” apples to the MSM in this case.
My point was that the media is embarrassing. I can understand anyone swatting a fly, but treating it as newsworthy is ridiculous, and exposes a severe case of teenybopperish celebrity obsession.
But I do agree with your assessment of the POTUS as embarrassing, too.
apples=applies
When ABC sets up shop in the White House we might get footage of the messiah wiping his butt! Swoon!!
(NOT)
I would love to see you have even half the guts it took McCain to survive the ingures that caused him not to be able to do that you worthless p.. of s…
Present Dear Leader with a belt:
“One with one blow”
…more likely.
Hey, let’s watch dogs and cats chasing and catching flies. When The One catches and eats a fly, on the fly, then I’ll agree that he’s really done an amazing thing.
Will: Do you like applies?
Clark: Yeah.
Will: Well, I got her number. How do you like them applies?
Hmmm, not quite the same.
Somebody’s banana was rotten…
No, Helen Thomas opened her mouth.