Christmas miracle: Traffic soars on “shirtless Obama” Internet searches
posted at 7:41 pm on December 23, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Got an e-mail from Ed 20 minutes ago telling me to check SiteMeter. On one of the most gruesomely awful traffic days of the year, with blog readers tuning out in droves to prepare for the holiday, we’re … way above our daily average. Have a look at the referrals to see why. It’s not just us, either. It’s Internet-wide, per the AP and The One’s current standing at Google Trends.
Hours of searching to find interesting Headlines, hours of toil to compose thoughtful posts — and all America wants is a Barack Obama beefcake pec-tacular. All right then, I won’t stand in the way of love. Drink it in. A man-boobs alert has been issued by the boss and Althouse, but I say let he who is without love handles cast the first stone. And don’t underestimate his strength: If German media reports are accurate, he’s capable of curling 70 lbs. Judging by that photo, I’d have guessed that was half his body weight.
It stands to reason that paparazzi photos of him would be huge, I guess; he is, after all, the world’s biggest celebrity. Exit question: What are the odds we’d start the day talking about Festivus and end it by talking manssieres? I’m almost afraid to post again, lest we somehow end up in a discussion of who’s “spongeworthy.”
Update (Ed): I’m glad AP decided to post this instead of me. I’m above posting phrases like Obama six-pack, Obama shirtless, and especially Obama topless in a vain effort to get Google traffic. You’ll never see that from me. No sir-ee.
Seriously, though … wouldn’t you think that people have better things to do two days before Christmas? Thankfully, no.
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And yet McCain’s comparison to Paris Hilton was somehow, what was it, racist or something?
Seems dead on to me.
jimmy the notable on December 23, 2008 at 7:44 PM
Just to put it out there,Hopey’s chest is
crap,and btw,me thinks that touching up of
Obama’s picture is highly possible!
canopfor on December 23, 2008 at 7:45 PM
Rather pasty and hairless… say, is that Michael Jackson?
T J Green on December 23, 2008 at 7:51 PM
Not to get technically,but these 70lb curls,
is that,
Standing Bicep curls with a total weight of 70Lbs!
or 70lb. Dumbell’s in each hand,doing hammer curls,
and yes,that would mean 140lbs.,but they weren’t to
specific on the curls!
or Standing Barbell Reverse curls with 70lb.total!
canopfor on December 23, 2008 at 7:52 PM
Shirtless Obama much like shirtless Putin?
knob on December 23, 2008 at 7:53 PM
I hate to be harsh, but he gives new meaning to the word P*SSY!
What a wimp.
HornetSting on December 23, 2008 at 7:56 PM
Don’t ya mean “bros”? haha…
Around dis place, the odds are always in favor of wackiness!
JetBoy on December 23, 2008 at 7:58 PM
I’d, of course, would hit it.
lorien1973 on December 23, 2008 at 7:59 PM
Great………… an eternety of this crap begins.
……… you know this will never end, even after he leaves office. Let the time clock begin, we are in the new age of:
Seven Percent Solution on December 23, 2008 at 7:59 PM
He looks a bit ghey!
grapeknutz on December 23, 2008 at 7:59 PM
70lbs?
Impressive. There is “hope” to skinny-armed geeks like me.
Slublog on December 23, 2008 at 8:01 PM
Barry just can’t seem to stop breaking records, this has to be a new low for your incoming President of the United States.
christene on December 23, 2008 at 8:02 PM
Er…”to” should be “for” in that last sentence.
Child-induced sleep deprivation is a wonderful thing.
Slublog on December 23, 2008 at 8:02 PM
What he said!
BTW why the frenzy about the pictures, and nothing about Obama and friends having to answer Feds questions on the 18th. Didn’t know that until mentioned on HA. Rezkoifyou have something let it out!
Kevin in Southern Illinois on December 23, 2008 at 8:04 PM
My first thought; “pencil-necked geek.”
TugboatPhil on December 23, 2008 at 8:06 PM
The traffic is caused by everyone waiting to see the Obama Blago report.
faraway on December 23, 2008 at 8:06 PM
Don’t you mean Festivus miracle?
Ian on December 23, 2008 at 8:07 PM
*casts first stone*
OneGyT on December 23, 2008 at 8:07 PM
I wouldn’t mind a shirtless Palin
uptight on December 23, 2008 at 8:13 PM
Are you sure this isn’t just Axelrod astroturfing?
snaggletoothie on December 23, 2008 at 8:14 PM
This picture is his way of making up with all of the gays he made mad over Rick Warren.
Wouldn’t be surprised to see shirtless Rick Warren pic in the morning.
Fundamental Fred on December 23, 2008 at 8:15 PM
Shirtless Poll:
Putin vs Obama poll on Drudge.
Nearly 100,000 votes and Putin is ahead 66% to 34%.
Funny.
FireBlogger on December 23, 2008 at 8:19 PM
Working on the “tan” before the inaguration.
milwife88 on December 23, 2008 at 8:21 PM
Coming soon, Iranian photoshop of pec-tacular Obama with cresent moon tatoo.
Tony737 on December 23, 2008 at 8:24 PM
Thanks, milwife, just spewed Big Red all over my mom’s monitor. She’s gonna be pissed.
HornetSting on December 23, 2008 at 8:24 PM
Hey AllahP,
In the immortal words of Larry the Cable Guy,
“I don’t care who ya are, that was funny.”
Merry Christmas / Festivus / Saturnalia,
Anton on December 23, 2008 at 8:24 PM
HornetSting on December 23, 2008 at 8:24 PM
My gift to you! :) Merry Christmas!
milwife88 on December 23, 2008 at 8:25 PM
… me thinks that touching up of Obama’s picture is highly possible! – CanOp
Ya mean like they did to Al Gore’s package? haha
Tony737 on December 23, 2008 at 8:26 PM
Thank you. And Merry Christmas to you as well.
HornetSting on December 23, 2008 at 8:26 PM
HornetSting on December 23, 2008 at 8:26 PM
If only my monitor was scratch and sniff we may be able to smell Hawaiian Tropic….mmmmm coconut!
milwife88 on December 23, 2008 at 8:29 PM
Wait a sec … This is the NY POST! I doubt they’d be touching up The Mahdi to make him look good. This must be the real thing. I may not agree with his politics, but I hafta admit he’s got me beat on the pecs … but not by much.
Tony737 on December 23, 2008 at 8:30 PM
Bodaciousaudacious ta-ta’s…Cuffy Meigs on December 23, 2008 at 8:30 PM
So Barry and PuttyPutt have something in common. How presidential! And in the Drudge poll, Putin kicked Obama’s ass.
Blake on December 23, 2008 at 8:37 PM
Obama was much flabbier in another Hawaiian beach shot earlier this year. Maybe he’s been working out. No
matter..he’s still a dink….and what’s with the boobs?
Put your shirt back on, dufus.
Don’t blame you for that!
gracie on December 23, 2008 at 8:44 PM
And of course he had no idea his picture would be taken. Bleh.
Mr_Magoo on December 23, 2008 at 8:45 PM
More like caramel (think about it).
Mr_Magoo on December 23, 2008 at 8:46 PM
All we need now is for the ShamWow! guy to jump out from behind a palm tree and start toweling him off yelling “Are you following me camera guy?”
Mr_Magoo on December 23, 2008 at 8:48 PM
I agree.
I prefer a President who is morally fit with integrity and mentally fit with wisdom along with a buffed and burnished sense of duty and love of country.
INC on December 23, 2008 at 8:49 PM
….Ewwww! Smells like burned moonbat to me. :(
HornetSting on December 23, 2008 at 8:50 PM
Every time Bush went running or vacationing he was an unconcerned slacker, Obama goes to a pricy Hawaiian retreat during this terrible economy and it’s somehow great news?
Shouldn’t he be making the oceans recede, or is that what they’re doing at the beach?
Media are fawning asswipes
clnurnberg on December 23, 2008 at 8:53 PM
Yuck. ewww. Yuck. And let me go one step further than yuck and throw in a “nasty”. I wish ill upon this egomaniacal fool. I bet he waxes his 13 year old boy chest. Blech.
anniekc on December 23, 2008 at 8:53 PM
What a clown.
I’m not going to make it through four years of the TMZ pres.
Dubn8tr on December 23, 2008 at 8:54 PM
nauseating double standard
clnurnberg on December 23, 2008 at 8:55 PM
Ewww, my mind just flashed back to the “journalists” who were going nuts (pun intended) over his stuff, and he was happy to oblige.
Dubn8tr on December 23, 2008 at 9:05 PM
Do you think Obama is one of those guys that shaves all his body hair except on his skull? Not too manly to me. Ooohhh,
I’m creepin’ out here. Still can’t get over those boobs.
gracie on December 23, 2008 at 9:05 PM
A couple of weeks ago a web site had shirtless pictures of The One and The Arnold. Drudge should have include ones of The Arnold along with those of The One and The Tsar. The Arnold would have been lucky to get 1%, Has he ever gone to pot.
MB4 on December 23, 2008 at 9:08 PM
Notice the left manpec is more developed than the right. That’s all you need to know.
eaglewingz08 on December 23, 2008 at 9:08 PM
Just thank your lucky stars that you didn’t see pics of today’s The Arnold.
MB4 on December 23, 2008 at 9:10 PM
He. Needs. A. Bra.
Most supermodels have tinier boobs than he does.
Mommynator on December 23, 2008 at 9:11 PM
Get that bro a Bro.
keep the change on December 23, 2008 at 9:12 PM
Looks like Urkel hitting the showers after PE. Anyway, most un-Lincolnlike.
ddrintn on December 23, 2008 at 9:21 PM
I can’t even imagine what Chris Matthews is doing with this picture.
Fundamental Fred on December 23, 2008 at 9:21 PM
If I could advise Obama on one thing, I would suggest…Wonder bra and soon, before gravity finishes it’s job…LOL
rich801 on December 23, 2008 at 9:30 PM
EW!
& where’s the Michelle bikini shot?
Urban Infidel on December 23, 2008 at 9:38 PM
EWWWW, No, just no.
That’s almost making me turn to lesbianism.
:)
mjk on December 23, 2008 at 9:42 PM
Ya mean like they did to Al Gore’s package?haha.
Tony737 on Dec 23,2008 at 8:26PM.
Tony737: Dat is,like so,mean,hehe,how you’ve been Twin
Powered bro,and if we don’t converse till the
25th,
To you,and your family,have a Very,Merry
Christmas:):):):):):).
canopfor on December 23, 2008 at 9:56 PM
Wax. Because of teh ghey.
Stephen M on December 23, 2008 at 9:57 PM
Hopefully in a lock box dropped in the deepest part of the ocean.
MB4 on December 23, 2008 at 10:19 PM
Dude, barf.
loganthompson on December 23, 2008 at 10:19 PM
Just a continuation of the JFK – Obamalot thing. I guess they couldn’t find a PT-109 boat for him to be photographed in. Rush made a good point – he and the missus vacationing at a 30 million dollar Hawaiian resort. The double-standard, could you imagine, I mean, could you IMAGINE if…..while people are losing their homes.
Marcus on December 23, 2008 at 10:29 PM
OH EMM GEE.
Allah, that’s just wrong. It’s just so….ewwww.
;)
fireweednectar on December 23, 2008 at 10:37 PM
*Points and laughs @ Barack
Elektra on December 23, 2008 at 10:58 PM
If he had muscles from manual labor or from preparing for war, that would be one thing. If I knew he was going to or had come from combat, I’d have a lot more respect for his “physique” (gotta love the “man-breasts”). But as it is, this is nothing more than an image stunt, a pitiful one at that. This is a fine example of a weakling putting effort into looking tough because he knows that he isn’t.
Send_Me on December 23, 2008 at 11:03 PM
Sorry, milwife88. Didn’t mean to quote you, but that is funny. He has been looking a bit wan.
Elektra on December 23, 2008 at 11:08 PM
Most women would love to have his forearms….tone yet thin and delicate……what a fruitloop. That picture pretty much confirms for me how he spent his time at Columbia.
Candidly, I think that photo stunt was an attempt to distract the outraged gays over his selection of Rev. Warren. Way to go BO….you have elevated the Office of the Pec’s Elect to a new level.
David in ATL on December 23, 2008 at 11:11 PM
Elektra on December 23, 2008 at 11:08 PM
Not a problem, have fun with it. I really enjoyed the Steve Urkel comment. Hopefully he’ll keep the shirt off, God forbid he show up on the 20th with a farmers tan. Now that would be funny! Maybe some racoon eyes.
Don’t worry I’m not racist, I dislike everyone equally.
milwife88 on December 23, 2008 at 11:16 PM
Damn he looks pretty good, wish I was built like that. Michelle is one lucky woman.
jim_collins on December 23, 2008 at 11:26 PM
I take Vladimir Putin shirtless anytime. At least, he doesn’t seem to hide who he really is.
newton on December 23, 2008 at 11:28 PM
Chris Matheews gets more than a thrill up his leg
I see a boob man
Kini on December 23, 2008 at 11:39 PM
See. Smoking does keep you thin.
andycanuck on December 23, 2008 at 11:50 PM
Doesn’t do a think for me. Now President Bush in a cowboy hat, jeans, with a pair of gloves on working on the ranch, it just doesn’t get any more manly and hunky than that.
Glynn on December 23, 2008 at 11:54 PM
LOL, LOL, LOL.
oh, wait you’re serious….. He’s not my type – not Semitic enough for me (if you get my drift). But still, just no. He’s not attractive at all.
Any other chicks on this site want to weigh in (so to speak)?
mjk on December 23, 2008 at 11:58 PM
America, and the world, have gone farking crazy. Count me out of this interminable dog-like coitus.
In, or out of, clothes, he looks like a boy king, Tut, for example.
If God is malevolent he sits there, now, laughing histerically at the world.
If God is benevolent he says “what have I created? My experiment has gone completeley haywire”.
Entelechy on December 24, 2008 at 12:03 AM
is this paparazzi? wouldn’t that be a serious security breach? of course, it made headlines worldwide, but wait a couple of years, when Obama has to actually work 24 hours a day instead of spending so much time at the gym.
Phoenician on December 24, 2008 at 12:33 AM
I know you ladies [MM, Althouse] would never use an expression like this, so let me say it–those aren’t man-boobs. They are called b*tch-t*ts, and he’s got-em. Lose all the weight you want–once you’ve got’em, nothing short of surgery can do away with them. If I had em I wouldn’t be caught dead with my shirt off. Lucky this is a photo–in a video you’d be able to see the jiggle. Eeew. I think I just threw up a little in the back of my throat.
smellthecoffee on December 24, 2008 at 12:58 AM
Sorry Obamba, you chest does nothing for me. My 67 year old hubby has a chest that is damn right sexy! He looks like a kid. No hair! Made me queasy looking at it.
sheebe on December 24, 2008 at 1:03 AM
I know you ladies [MM, Althouse] would never use an expression like this, so let me say it–those aren’t man-boobs. They are called b*tch-t*ts, and he’s got-em. Lose all the weight you want–once you’ve got’em, nothing short of surgery can do away with them. If I had em I wouldn’t be caught dead with my shirt off. Lucky this is a photo–in a video you’d be able to see the jiggle. Eeew. I think I just threw up a little in the back of my throat.
smellthecoffee on December 24, 2008 at 12:58 AM
LMAO!!! You are right on!
sheebe on December 24, 2008 at 1:04 AM
Sure it would be, if Obama didn’t want his picture taken. This guy is all ego.
ddrintn on December 24, 2008 at 1:09 AM
God is a comedian playing to an audience to afraid to laugh.
- Voltair
Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when He was tired.
- Mark Twain
MB4 on December 24, 2008 at 1:34 AM
I’ll bite. I don’t do curls – isolating muscles is a waste of time – but I can crank out 21 pull-ups in a row with palms facing away from me. My current goal is 30.
I can also clean 185lb (which is 10lb more than my body weight) and clean-and-jerk 165lb.
Then again, I’m 33 and he’s 48.
OscarSchneegans on December 24, 2008 at 4:11 AM
Looks like a metrosexual to me, I work for a living and have a harder body then that.
gdonovan on December 24, 2008 at 5:40 AM
Man boobs. Ew.
chunderroad on December 24, 2008 at 5:58 AM
ewwwww
In any event,I am sick of the press that constantly tell us how healthy he is,how fit he is….he smokes friggin cigarettes, for God’s sake!! He has to have health issues related to that…..geesh
becki51758 on December 24, 2008 at 6:16 AM
I really don’t think Obama is intending to appeal to women (at least those of us who have had a good man or two) with this photo. Overall, mind and body, way too small a package.
gracie on December 24, 2008 at 7:25 AM
Obama the ‘Beefcake’ !!!! more like Obambi the cheesecake :)
philly_PA on December 24, 2008 at 8:08 AM
CHECK THIS OUT ABOUT BO’S LAST VISIT TO HAWAII TO VISIT HIS SICK GRANNY:
Mr. President, why would you lie about this? Cui bono?
gracie on December 24, 2008 at 8:29 AM
gallons of Haterade just spilling all over this thread. Cleanup! Aisle three.
DeathToMediaHacks on December 24, 2008 at 9:32 AM
Work? Well if you consider signing tax hike after tax hike and surrender papers work. This guy won’t do anything other talk a lot.
angryed on December 24, 2008 at 9:33 AM
Dubya would still beat him in a foot race, or a bike race.
kirkill on December 24, 2008 at 10:28 AM
…or a shoe dodging contest.
labrat on December 24, 2008 at 11:01 AM
“One man’s opportunism is another man’s statesmanship.”
-Milton Friedman
labrat on December 24, 2008 at 11:11 AM
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