Grand Theft TOTUS: Obama’s Prompter, Presidential Seal and Podium Stolen
**Written by Doug Powers
What’s next? Finding Air Force One up on blocks?
From NBC12:
HENRICO, VA (WWBT) – NBC12 has uncovered one of those stories that makes you think: “How in the world does that happen?!” A truck filled with President Obama’s podiums and audio equipment was stolen in Henrico just days before his visit to Chesterfield.
We confirmed an investigation with the U.S. Defense Department. There are still a lot of questions. The biggest one being did the thieves intentionally target the President’s truck or did they take advantage of a crime of opportunity and give a big “uh-oh” when they saw what was inside.
When you see President Obama speak, there is a pretty typical setup including the presidential seal on a podium, the see-thru Teleprompter and a portable sound system.
Thieves saw the truck carrying that equipment and couldn’t resist the target.
We’re told the truck was parked at the Virginia Center Commons Courtyard Marriott in advance on Wednesday’s presidential visit to Chesterfield.
Sources said inside that vehicle was about $200,000 worth of sound equipment, several podiums and presidential seals, behind which only the President himself can stand.
With the Democrat convention less than a year away, the White House is breathing a sigh of relief that the fake Greek columns weren’t also on the truck.
According to the story, the truck was later recovered. At this time, nothing about the teleprompter thief or thieves is known, other than that police are on the lookout for anybody who can’t stop saying “pass this jobs bill”:
This isn’t the first time TOTUS has been swiped.
It’s possible the presidential seal wasn’t stolen, but rather ran away. It has a history of trying to escape.
Update: This ransom note was just received. It’s starting to smell like an “inside job” if you ask me:
Update II: Iowahawk has TOTUS’s list of demands.
(h/t Free Republic)
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SPG said:
Transparency..? Nah..! Been my experience most thieves try to blend in. Working a wedding, bring a tux. Whatever the case, I’m pretty sure no one on the Right is willing to face jail time for a pResident that’s derailing just fine all on his own.
I’d like to see a few more high profile defections over the next few weeks. ValJa or whatever.
People just want stuff touched by Obama – I bet there’s a huge market for his stuff all over the world.
suck it bigots!
Troll alert
No talking or feeding the troll is allowed.
Doug, once again you have expressed Progressive lunacy to a “T” through your alter ego, ILMC. Your need to personify ILMC with a life history. I could see a book based on ILMC’s life. I’d buy it.
M_W #101,
“Desertions” maybe, but defections reeks of coming over to our side. I for one don`t want Val without an Act of God conversion of Biblical proportions ! Know what I mean ?!
Those of us w/ the misfortune to be forced into dealing with the wake of his experimentation have plenty of momentos. ( Trillions actually..? )
Yoda, we have concluded ILMC is actually Doug Powers doing a dead on parody of an unhinged, totally clueless, immature, wanna be Progressive poster.
Beautiful.
He has quite the Midas touch. I sure don’t want the economy his hands are all over.
ILMC #103,
P.T.Barnum was on the mark when he said, “There`s a sucker born every minute.” You prove it with every comment !
Flyoverman,
If you are correct, Doug has it nailed !
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hujYBEGedoQM3_y-UPP4QGEMUpkA?docId=b60b024af5fa49daa0f4c1312f09bd48
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People just want stuff touched by Obama
“Hey Doug, quit kidding around. We know it is you.”
Doug, what therapy do you use to rid yourself of the ILMC persona at days end?
SPG said:
Defections, desertions, kicking it David Carradine-style w/ bizarre auto-erotic insertions..? Just whatever OK!?
Yeah, the scrap metal and firewood markets are really going strong.
I have some of his used toilet paper I’ll sell you.
Where’s the punctuation police? Isn’t there supposed to be a comma after ‘it”?
There probably is a book based on his life. I’d say The Hobbit, but ILMC is no Bilbo Baggins…. might be an Orc, though….
“All warfare is based on deception.”
Sun Tzu, 514 B.C.
Hey, maybe Istewinmyownjuices may be on to something…
I bet an used Obama kleenix would be worth 2, maybe 3 tossed-out Big Macs taken from the dumpster next to the OWS playground in NYC.
“I could see a book based on ILMC’s life. I’d buy it.”
I did see in the “They will pay you to take this book” section of Borders when it went out of business the one called;”Turd in a Punch Bowl, the ILMC Story”
Borders could not pay enough to have people take it so this tome eventually found its way to a landfill, plastic lined of course.
So true. The uber-lefties from SF want a piece of his a$$, though I am confused as to exactly what they mean by that…is it figuratively, or literally?
ILMC: Commas? We don’t need no steeeking commas? (off microphone) Pssst. Hey, what’s a comma?
SHoward said:
Ha! Every where I go see more signs of individuals and businesses at the end of their ropes. Stooping to acts and measures they’d never imagined they’d be reduced to.
I’m sure pResidential Memorabilia like those supah cool Inaugural Plate offerings are a real must have on their list.
Ilovemyprecious is Smeagol.
FIFY
If the statement is coming from the Castro District, then they are being figuative. They would rather just dive right in.
On October 18th, 2011 at 2:50 pm, Marshall_Will said:
Sock Puppets legacy is well written here – i drive about 30 miles to get home and the empty business parks, half built malls – housing neighborhoods 3/4 empty with for sale signs rotting away,looks like something from the Black Blizzard days. It is worse than sad -
I want the pen he uses to sign his resignation letter!
stillontheroad said:
“My Name Is Mook”
An update, call it “Mook Like Me” where a 20-something that actually has his head screwed on straight dons Mookwear, dyes hair complete w/ lick & stick tat’s then records how the very same people treat him ‘differently’?
Wow! Doug, did you have to go back to college for indoctrination or join a Union to learn from the Neanderthals? I mean, there’s no way you could sound like the galactically stupid otherwise.
This just in – President responds to critics TOTUSLess:
“I’m not the Democratic president or the Republican president. I’m a one man pair of Clown Shoes that beep,” Obama said. The Sock Puppet finally admits what we have known all along.
Hey, how come Obowmao is only picking up the white kids, or is he just shaking them down for loose change?
My Word!
All of you are so clever!
How does that work?
Let me see, if I sit in a trailer park in Alabama all of my life, I guess I would become clever like you people.
But, back in the real world, you folks can be of help to me – what’s a good moonshine recipe, what does coon pie taste like and do colleges accept home schooled children?
Thanks,
ILMC
Doug, you are on a roll. You make me want to strip off the shoes and socks, break out the bib overalls, and get the banjo!
Two ounces of turpentine.
Four ounces of battery acid.
One ounce of rat poison.
Over crushed ice.
Shaken, not stirred.
Drink all in one gulp.
Bon appetit.
Ice? When did you get electricity? And a refrigerator? WOW! We can only dream of such things here.
Dude! You forgot your tin foil hat again. They’re telling you to say things-do things… Your thoughts are not your own. You have been assimilated. They’re coming even now. Lotsa luck, shmuck.
Come on, IlovebreathinginmyownBO,
Come on down to the trailer park…getting out of your Mom’s basement may help put a little color back into your skin. Here put on these sunglasses…these cloudy days could be awfully bright to a mole man’s sensitive eyes.
What electric?
We had a big hail storm last night.
Our outhouse went to the next county.
Hail = crushed ice.
Hey everybody, I finally figured out what I lovemywildebeastscatmoonpies looks like! ILMC at home.
BTW – I’ll bet 100 Pesos the amigos pulled the TOTUS caper and are using it to negotiate for a ’78 Impala and a truckload of Jose Cuervo. Pure evil.
La Raza strikes again!
Don’t laugh, awhile back Doug mentioned on PTB he had an old email acct. he’d closed for almost a year.
One of the trolls that hounded him on the site had been sending him the most vile disgusting emails for the better part of a year. Wouldn’t you think after a YEAR of No Response these dimwit trolls would throw in the towel..?
Evidently not! Must be what Conservative Bloggers do when they get together. Compare Hate-mail.
Yoda, you forgot brake lathe shavings in your recipe. The battery acid brings out their flavor.
The book is found in the bathroom aisle of your local grocery store.
Doug forgot to put the words in to fill in the back story so the book comes cheap.
Doug, Doug, Doug. You gotta fully get into the ILMC part. Any good character requires a personal history page.
Yeah, Harvard. See current white house resident.
I see no good reason to demean the naked mole rat species.
Don’t try to return that book: it’s been “flagged.”
Rogue Cheddar said:
Actually, that picture bears an amazing resemblance to Henry Waxman.
Doh!
This is what happens when you try to be in a helpful hurry – you forget the all-important seasonings.
Note to ILMC – add two pinches of shavings, but only after your have shaken the drink. You’ll appreciate the noticeable improvement in flavor.
That wasn’t his hat.
FilAmWiguy said:
Inclined to agree. If the OWS/ADD Crowd refuses to define who they are and what they’re about we can oblige.
What made Dim-Paid Trolls somewhat effective leading into ’08 was they were a) doggedly persistent, b) skilled in the art of annoyance, obfuscation and semantics and c) seemed to be everywhere!
We need to put a face on Mook Teh Wun. And what self-respecting girlfriend is going to let her guy revel in Mook-fest unbathed for a month plus after their Unemployment has run out?
Doug, are you channeling your inner Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane or Deputy Enos Strate?
Yeeeeeehaaaaaw!!! Let’s go General Lee!!
What in the world is a yumpin yoda?
I really have to get to the hills of west virginia to see what you folks look like.
Maybe I should go on google and search for people who marry their siblings.
So, no descriptions of coon pie?
Thanks for nothing.
There’s no way I would marry my sister Doug – she’s ugly.
I married Mom after Dad left.
She’s still sitting in her rocking chair in the upstairs bedroom – been there now for close to 12 years. Won’t talk to me no more and won’t give me her coon pie recipe. All Mom’s fault, not mine.
I gotta go now – just saw some fresh canoeing tourists coming down the river – seems to be a nice fat one that just suits my style.
‘Welcome.
OT News flash: This just in…. my inbox – from Michelle Bachmann
Dear [swede],
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Would you like to discuss the election and my campaign with Donald Trump and me at 8:00 p.m. ET today? Click here to register. It’s free and will only take a minute.
I know I’m eager to hear Donald Trump’s thoughts about the race so far and why he thinks retiring Barack Obama is atop priority for our businesses and families.
This is huuuge! Somebody wake up Phil pronto. I wonder if she knows I jumped ship and am supporting Cain now. Guess I should break it to her. Maybe later.
Doug is unaware that a Yumpin Yoda is a Swedish Jedi Master? I guess he assumes a ficticious leftist would not now that.
Hey yumpin Yoda – that was a good reply (gotta give credit where it’s due).
Thanks for the laughs.
ILMC
No need to find the google on the interwebs, ILMC. I have a feeling they’re closer than you think….
More likely Norwegian methinks. And Lutheran.
Anytime Doug. We love your alter ego.
Unfortunately, his parents could not spell.
If it was “Yumpon: or “Yumpen” we would know, if he was Swedish or a Norsky.
Ja, shoor, ya betcha!
May those who love us, love us.
And those that don’t love us,
May God turn their hearts.
And if He doesn’t turn their hearts,
May he turn their ankles.
So we’ll know them by their limping
Trained as a Jedi Master in the Ring of Kerry, Ireland with leprechauns and short swords.
I live in Oklahoma, but, yes. Rednecks have a lot of practical knowledge.
Mix some corn and yeast and wait.
That’s RAAACIST!
Yes. Mostly because they know proper grammer. The previous statement should read, “How does coon pie taste”.
Yumpin O’Yoda?
Good catch, tre.
I thought IlovethelittlebunnyrabbitsGeorge wrote Moon Pie, not Coon Pie.
Waiting for the photoshop!!!
PLEASE!!!! Anyone?????
TOTUS has been stolen?
HOW will Obama speak now?
So, no comment from Obama on the missing teleprompters yet?
He’s at a loss for words……
I’m thinking the podiums, audio gear and TOTUS were re-possessed for lack of payment or late payment.
What’s that? They have been recovered? Somebody paid something on the nation’s debt? Wow, I’m impressed! Wonder where that came from?
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IOWAHAWK gets A+ on the video. That Comrade Obama (PBUH) is sure great when TOTUS goes on the fritz.
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Good thing the Sarah’Cuda bailed before she had to meet that brilliant silver tongued orator Comrade Obama on the debate battlefields. The Messiah would have blown her away with His awesomeness. TOTUS or no TOTUS–she would have been toast.
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John Bibb
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Barry speaking without the TOTUS is comparable to the Flying Wallendas working without a net.
AF-1 on blocks? Maybe we can find a reliable Piper Cub J-3 to fly him from campaign stop to campaign stop. With a Secret Service agent/pilot at the controls, he is good to go and cleared for takeoff!
It’d be quicker to just talk to your Mom instead.
TOTUS staged it’s own kidnapping prior to it commiting suicide. It just…couldn’t…take it…anymore…
“Grand Theft TOTUS: Obama’s Prompter, Presidential Seal and Podium Stolen”
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A seriously deficient, adolescent and amateurish administration.
Buffoonery at its finest.
I haven’t read all the comments unfortunately, but I bet all here are just having fun, making jokes and just not taking this heinous crime as serious as you should.
I am scared spitless!
The pResidency is totally incapacitated with these vital machines missing.
Hey! Isn’t there a provision for removing politicians due to incapacitation?
But then, I guess that would only pertain to the R party, so I won’t get my hopes up.
“On October 18th, 2011 at 9:48 am, Flyoverman said:
If you can break into the truck and steal TOTUS, you can break into the truck and replace him with one filled with explosives and a remote detonator.
This is not funny folks. Some heads need to roll.”
…Or they could replace them with center/independent sounding words to replace the commie/marxist sounding ones to try fool more people in time of 2012.
Never work. Too late.
“Let me see, if I sit in a trailer park in Alabama all of my life, I guess I would become clever like you people.
But, back in the real world, you folks can be of help to me – what’s a good moonshine recipe, what does coon pie taste like and do colleges accept home schooled children?”
Gee Doug, it must suck to have to go to HuffPoo every day to get these cliches down pat.
I heard it wasn’t that big, but if you know something, do tell.
When asked to comment, Obama was speechless
Maybe, just maybe, the psuedo-president will miss his TOTUS so much and those podium signs, he will run away. We can only hope.
Just resurfaced, haven’t had time to catch up on all the news, yet!
I did notice the squib on the bottom of the thumbnail for this item.
I’m so sorry to read that the President’s equipment has been stolen!
Even though we’re world-views apart, I want to extend my warmest sympathies to the first lady, I’m certain the president’s “snore-y, stink-y” condition not-withstanding, him being without his equipment must provide quite a trying time for her.
Only one thing perplexes me – why did he leave his equipment on the truck? It seems an uncomfortable thing to do…
Just took time to read this.
It was actually a breakout!!! TOTUS has been held against it’s will and it’s friends were just coming to the rescue. Remember, TOTUS I leaped off the stage to commit suicide. This TOTUS waa trying to escape!