Video: Hopenchange finally takes question from Fox News
posted at 4:20 pm on December 3, 2008 by Allahpundit
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It was worth the wait, too, wasn’t it? Man, when they said they were going to go easy on Obama during the transition, they weren’t kidding.
So excruciatingly slow is the news right now that this may very well be the soundbite of the day. Exit question: Why did Richardson shave it? Aren’t apostles supposed to have beards?
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Bill Richardson – the perpetual Democratic version of what a ‘courtier’ is.
Hilts on December 3, 2008 at 4:21 PM
I can’t wait to have more in depth, important issues like this at future news conferences.
Wino on December 3, 2008 at 4:27 PM
Awesome. Obama will answer for everything. It’s a good start.
nitzsche on December 3, 2008 at 4:27 PM
Did they get the puppy yet?
ctmom on December 3, 2008 at 4:29 PM
Fox News sniffing the Messiah’s throne? Check.
Obama “uh”ing every syllable? Check.
Final answer an attempt at humor that utterly failed because he’s a boorish dullard? Che-heck.
MadisonConservative on December 3, 2008 at 4:29 PM
TOGA TOGA TOGA
benrand on December 3, 2008 at 4:30 PM
HE’S NOT FUNNY
lodge on December 3, 2008 at 4:31 PM
grdred944 on December 3, 2008 at 4:33 PM
Smell the Change ™
Mason on December 3, 2008 at 4:34 PM
24 second answer: 6 “Uh’s”. We need to start tracking this and see what his personal best will be. :-)
cannonball on December 3, 2008 at 4:35 PM
Just under a month after the election, and I’m already sick and tired of hearing from Osama Obama.
It was clear even before Nov. 4th that he is an arrogant, unfunny, incompetent boob. Why does he keep reminding us?
MrScribbler on December 3, 2008 at 4:35 PM
FWIW, and in no way taking away from the grave reservations I have about an Obama Presidency (*shudder*), I rather like this exchange.
Obama always seemed to take himself a mite too seriously during the campaign, and I like to see a sense of humor on an elected official. Obama’s speech at the AE Smith Memorial Dinner had moments, but McCain blew him away.
The ability to be lighthearted and playful is a sign of someone who can decenter from his or her self-importance. Of course, too much of this takes away from the gravitas thing (e.g., Clinton always seemed as though he was trying too hard to ingratiate himself, at the expense of his stature…and we’ve seen what lay behind that impulse!).
If nothing else, a bit of comedy can make the next four years go by a bit more quickly.
Noocyte on December 3, 2008 at 4:35 PM
That annoys me sooooo much. I thought he was supposed to be articulate.
Esthier on December 3, 2008 at 4:35 PM
They finally get a chance, and that is what they ask?
Richardson and rugged do not belong in the same sentence…
right2bright on December 3, 2008 at 4:36 PM
That would be “che-uh-ck”
Enoxo on December 3, 2008 at 4:38 PM
Four year of this…………….?
What about……………..
Seven Percent Solution on December 3, 2008 at 4:39 PM
……………. new drinking game!
Seven Percent Solution on December 3, 2008 at 4:40 PM
Why no beards for Richardson,well,I have noticed
that Hopey/Changey isn’t wearing one,and I bet,
theirs a memorandum floating around from Hopey’s
office banning beards!
Just a wild guess,but anything is possible with Obama!
canopfor on December 3, 2008 at 4:41 PM
Notice Bill was speechless!
canopfor on December 3, 2008 at 4:42 PM
Yup. That’s exactly what was going on.
Exactly.
wise_man on December 3, 2008 at 4:46 PM
That would exclude Osama bin Laden and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Fidel Castro. Obummer might want to re-think that one, unless he wants to play barber at his face-to-face sitdowns without pre-conditions.
Steve Z on December 3, 2008 at 4:46 PM
Why did he shave the beard? He had to put an end to those rumors that he has three chins. As we can clearly see now, he only has two. In these tough economic times Richardson has decided to do some belt tightening.
BrianBoru on December 3, 2008 at 4:46 PM
Barack decided Michelle should be the only one allowed to have a beard in his administration.
OH SNAP!
nitzsche on December 3, 2008 at 4:47 PM
Care to clarify?
a capella on December 3, 2008 at 4:49 PM
What about………….
“Gov. so why did you shave your beard…………. and by the way, do either of you know that our neighbor to the south of us is in a civil war?”
Seven Percent Solution on December 3, 2008 at 4:50 PM
You’d die of alcohol poisoning in no time flat.
Vic on December 3, 2008 at 4:51 PM
The reason for the shave is obvious. He had his facial hair encoded with what remains of US Nuclear secrets. Now that he’s in the Cabinet again he can finish the rest of the deal with the Chicoms.
THE CHOSEN ONE on December 3, 2008 at 4:51 PM
So that wasn’t a softball question? Then what would one have been? “President Savior Messiah, does the glow from your awesomeness ever hurt your eyes?”
Your denial is really deep there, isn’t it?
MadisonConservative on December 3, 2008 at 4:52 PM
He shaved the beard because he’s still hoping to get drafted by the Yankees. They don’t allow beards. He’s hoping things work out better with the Yanks than they did when he played for the Kansas City A’s.
BrianBoru on December 3, 2008 at 4:53 PM
Howie Carr does a bit called “The Wizard of Uhs” where he plays a clip of Ted (or Patches) Kennedy and callers have to correctly guess how many times he says “Uh.” I think he can add our Dear Leader to the mix.
crazy_legs on December 3, 2008 at 4:54 PM
Was that suppose to be funny? I guess it wasn’t really that easy of a question.(uhm…uhmm..uhmmm)
DJ from MA on December 3, 2008 at 4:55 PM
David in ATL is an a**hole.
Grow Fins on December 3, 2008 at 4:55 PM
Is this the first time that Wendell Goler has tried to ask a question? Or did Fox have someone else trying to ask the question?
Do you get my drift?
Oink on December 3, 2008 at 4:57 PM
Why, that question from the deepest in the tank for Obama Fox news is next! Just you wait@!@@@@!!!!
wise_man on December 3, 2008 at 4:58 PM
Is Fox starting to lean left? Seems like Shep, the reporter who asked this question and some other newcasters are joining the Drive-by’s.
Christian Conservative on December 3, 2008 at 5:02 PM
Since Obama has never really done anything in his life (except campaign and write books about himself), he needs to surround himself with people who know what they’re doing. Thus far he has taken three Senators (Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton and himself) and two Governors (Janet Napolitano and Bill Richardson) into his Administration, and they may not last very long if they run afoul of the Great EgoBama.
This might leave a few holes in the Senate and Governors’ mansions, since their successors might be more vulnerable during a 2010 re-election campaign than those taken into Obama’s Cabinet. Could Richardson and Napolitano evenutally be replaced by Heather Wilson and John McCain? What about Rudy Giuliani for Senate?
We saw this phenomenon in reverse when President Bush took three Republican Governors (Christie Whitman of NJ, Tom Ridge of PA, and Tommy Thompson of WI) into his Administration, who were all replaced by Democrats. If Obama is doing the same thing, there might be opportunities for Republicans to build up the rear-guard.
Steve Z on December 3, 2008 at 5:04 PM
Newsflah Fox fans. They are in television media and thus, are total and complete hacks. Did you think Fox actually cared about conservative causes? They saw a market share and they took it. The tides are shifting, Obama is popular and Fox is falling in line. MSNBC is starting to make gains on Fox, that has to be dealt with. They wan ad revenue, not conservatives in office. Sorry.
DeathToMediaHacks on December 3, 2008 at 5:05 PM
Calm yourself, wise. You’ll have a heart attack.
Esthier on December 3, 2008 at 5:07 PM
Once Fox starts using a laugh track, then I will have to stop watching. That whole exchange was painful.
DJ from MA on December 3, 2008 at 5:08 PM
He looked like too much of a badass with the beard. He decided to soften his image and go with the Tom Bosley look.
Anybody remember the Star Trek with Evil goatee Spock.
forest on December 3, 2008 at 5:09 PM
Hey Esthier, it’s time to but into someone else’s conversation and defend madison conservative!!!!!!
wise_man on December 3, 2008 at 5:10 PM
FIFY, dude.
UltimateBob on December 3, 2008 at 5:11 PM
Thank you.
I was touched when Richardson used Spanish to talk to all his homies during his prepared speech. Do I need to learn a FOREIGN language to understand what the Secretary of Commerce of the United States is going to say in the future? I’ll bet there were 20,000,000 illegal aliens that smiled today when they realized the guy in charge of our Commerce Department “felt their pain”.
David in ATL on December 3, 2008 at 5:12 PM
You mean butt, and did I miss something? What does he need to be defended on?
Esthier on December 3, 2008 at 5:18 PM
negotiation
allrsn on December 3, 2008 at 5:19 PM
LOL!!!
D2Boston on December 3, 2008 at 5:20 PM
“Uh” is the new “you know”
Watch and listen – I guarantee all the inarticulate athaletes will start saying it to fill their thought voids.
Brat on December 3, 2008 at 5:20 PM
No apparently the puppy has been delayed. He’s willing to throw his daughters under the bus with Grannie, Rev. Wright, William Ayers, etc. The only person who will never be thrown under the bus is Madam I Hate America because he’s afraid of her.
Illinidiva on December 3, 2008 at 5:22 PM
That, and calling people beaners are two different things.
Esthier on December 3, 2008 at 5:23 PM
I think they will hold off on the puppy until a crisis arises after January 20. Sort of a “wag the dog” distraction.
Brat on December 3, 2008 at 5:26 PM
Are you ready for a 4 and half hour SOTU in January?
Uhh….ummmmm….uhhhh….ummmmmm…..As I have always said…..Uuuhhhhh…..
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on December 3, 2008 at 5:34 PM
No. The teleprompter was articulate. It was specified in the rental contract.
Yoop on December 3, 2008 at 5:36 PM
This ahole has been on tv everyday since the election just to listen to himself talk. Occassionaly he will have some real annnouncements, like his cabinent picks, but the rest of the time, I don’t know what he is talking about. But, then again, I don’t listen to his b.s.
cjs1943 on December 3, 2008 at 5:45 PM
Ha! AP, you make a much better comedian than BO. That was awful.
Tzetzes on December 3, 2008 at 5:45 PM
He shaved it because whenever he was within a thousand feet of Obama, he made The One look like the fey swishy-boy he is.
greggriffith on December 3, 2008 at 5:47 PM
Good Lord, the guy should have kept the beard.
It hid that fabulous 2nd western, rugged second chin.
nor on December 3, 2008 at 5:57 PM
I don’t know if anyone mentioned it, but he is still using that sign saying the office of the president-elect.
INC on December 3, 2008 at 6:03 PM
I enjoy that you take things on here so personally. It’s like watching a toddler throw a tantrum because their mother won’t buy them a candy bar.
MadisonConservative on December 3, 2008 at 6:06 PM
Leave Obama alone. He’s busy making preparations for Kwanzaa.
whitetop on December 3, 2008 at 6:11 PM
Boycott Fox, cause they suck anymore.
Metrosexual girly men can’t grow beards. Fags!
Michelle O is the man in that family. It reminds me of a couple I worked with at Oakland P.D. The husband had to join the Black Muslims to become a man.
Oh Snap!
Mercy4Me on December 3, 2008 at 6:11 PM
The beard was obviously chaffing BHO’s tender backside when Richardson was applying a number seven lip lock to The Messiah’s posterior.
This stammering idiot should not even attempt humor. It is clearly another thing that is beyond his pay grade.
DeweyWins on December 3, 2008 at 6:12 PM
That’s really going for the juggle, huh?
TheSitRep on December 3, 2008 at 6:17 PM
Obama should grow one!
Now we can all see Richardson’s double chin more plainly. *Sigh*
Aronne on December 3, 2008 at 6:27 PM
any word on the lowering of the sec. of state’s wage so shrillary can slip into office?
constitution be damned is their motto innit.
devadevadasa on December 3, 2008 at 6:31 PM
Didn’t read all the comments.
Would have thought the reason for the clean face was obvious. He’s not trying to get the Hispanic vote for Obama anymore so he no longer has to look the part. Sorry if this has already been said.
JiangxiDad on December 3, 2008 at 6:46 PM
He’s trying not to get the Hispanic vote for Obama anymore…….
JiangxiDad on Dec 3,2008 at 6:46PM.
JiangxiDad: Your logic sounds good to me,because all of a
sudden,Richardson is losing his beard,and your
theory sounds awfully good to me!:)
canopfor on December 3, 2008 at 6:56 PM
Sort of surprised Richardson was appointed for anything since he has a CCW.
Catseye on December 3, 2008 at 6:57 PM
Maybe he was trying to avoid looking too much like Kevin Kline as master of disguise Artemus Pyle to Barack’s Will Smith as Jim West…
Captain Scarlet on December 3, 2008 at 7:13 PM
David in ATL – gotta love those pejorative stereotypes! I think I have some beans rustling around my SL500 somewhere, asshole.
FLcapitalistthug on December 3, 2008 at 7:22 PM
He doesn’t miss any meals. Not that I could tell……….
sheebe on December 3, 2008 at 7:39 PM
eww now we get a full on view of his quadruple chins.
anna on December 3, 2008 at 8:02 PM
Obama is such a richard cranium. Richardson is a walking definition of lackey and/or toady.
Zorro on December 3, 2008 at 8:27 PM
The question was no better than “diamonds or pearls”.
Dave Shay on December 3, 2008 at 8:42 PM
Yes, I did notice and it made me sick to the a**.
mz.josephine on December 3, 2008 at 8:43 PM
Barack Obama.
Now 74% as funny as John Kerry.
Knuckledragger on December 3, 2008 at 8:43 PM
Sly like a Fox. Ask him a serious of inocuous questions when no one cares…and then lower the boom when people are watching.
RedSoxNation on December 3, 2008 at 8:46 PM
Doncha mean Artemus Gordon?
(Pyle was drummer for Lynyrd Skynyrd)
hillbillyjim on December 3, 2008 at 9:01 PM
Governor Richardson … what was your batting average when you played in the A’s organization?
OBP?
joey24007 on December 3, 2008 at 9:17 PM
and you take great pleasure in being an a*hole because that’s what makes a*holes tick.
wise_man on December 3, 2008 at 9:24 PM
From your lips to God’s ears.
But to what effect? The people who put credence in Fox already know the score, and the Obamatrons see and hear no evil. The One gets a 2 year honeymoon from here. As the economy improves (which it will) the honeymoon is extended.
Our conservative cause has serious and honest work to do just to make people receptive to doubt about Our Leader.
phineas on December 3, 2008 at 9:28 PM
Calm down, you two. Sniping at each other like this is not getting anyone anywhere.
And, as for Fox News, they need to get more aggressive later on. If Obama doesn’t take questions from Fox because they won’t wipe his a$$, I’m gonna be even more pissed. Bush always has had to take questions from the MSM because he cannot rely on the liberal MSM journalists to defend him.
Achilles on December 3, 2008 at 10:08 PM
Ha! (Yes, he really couldn’t pull a Reagan off, could he?)
Tzetzes on December 3, 2008 at 10:15 PM
Dude, where’s my box of chill-pills? I’d like to offer you one.
Tzetzes on December 3, 2008 at 10:16 PM
There’ll probably be plenty of unintentional comedy over the next four years. Obama doesn’t strike me as someone who is comfortable with self-deprecating humor, which requires a little less ego and more perspective. That stupid Office of The President-Elect placard is funny enough.
ddrintn on December 4, 2008 at 12:18 AM
Plus one gaff.
- The Cat
P.S. ‘He was thoo rugged looking, but it wath jutht too thcratcy.’
MirCat on December 4, 2008 at 2:49 AM
Wendell Goler most likely felt a thrill going up his leg when he asked that asinine softball question, which “The One” deemed important enough to answer himself.
Goler’s question ought to embarrass Fox News and Mr. Obama’s answer was weird and creepy. Oh that’s right, he didn’t use a teleprompter.
sinsing on December 4, 2008 at 7:34 AM
Q. Why won’t Obama Messiah release his real birth certificate?
A. It shows that he didn’t have a virgin birth.
Q. Why won’t Obama release his real birth certificate?
A. He accidently smoked it.
Dakotobol on December 4, 2008 at 7:45 AM
Wow – this thread has gotten a little too Kos for my taste.
Darbraun on December 4, 2008 at 8:47 AM
bahahaha
Doppleganker on December 4, 2008 at 8:56 AM
So the darker tan and beard gone? Gee, wonder if it’s because they no longer need the Latino vote, never did really, with acorn you need only blue & black.
BTW Fox News, you call that a news worthy question from a man who keeps fighting the release of his birth certificate?
christene on December 4, 2008 at 9:58 AM
I’m guessing Fox sent Shep because He Would get called on by the One. Shep is middle of the road for the most part, but definitely fell for Obama during the election. His preference if not actual bias came out more as it got closer to Nov 4th.
BiasedGirl on December 4, 2008 at 11:39 AM
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