Open thread: You know what America needs? More Barack Obama on television
posted at 7:31 pm on March 24, 2009 by Allahpundit
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8 p.m. ET across the dial, or try C-SPAN.org if you’re sans TV. Serious question: Why did The One call this presser? Half of it will be esoterica about Geithner’s rescue plan, the other half will be perfunctory outrageous outrage about the AIG bonuses. We can do without more of either. If you’re watching and anxious for annotation entertainment (anno-tainment?), though, there’s an embarrassment of liveblogging riches to choose from. The boss will have something going, as will Ace — with special guest star Iowahawk filling in for Obama’s teleprompter. And in what I think is a first, Greg Gutfeld will be spending his night off sharing his thoughts with Daily Gut readers. Don’t mention Canada in the comments!
While we wait, enjoy the near-epic failure of Organizing for America’s first foray into post-election canvassing. Or laugh along as CNBC cravely caves to leftist criticism by hiring Howard Dean as a contributor and inviting nutroots eminence Arianna Huffington to guest host their morning show. Good work, Jon Stewart.
Update: The TOTUS is ready, baby.
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getalife on March 24, 2009 at 9:31 PM
In case some others haven’t made it clear: FU. POS troll. Tell your mommy I said hey!
jwp1964 on March 24, 2009 at 9:36 PM
Well it is easier to listen to the corporate hacks making millions spewing their opinions but I perfer to read and to form my own opinion.
I guess reading is too hard for the cons.
getalife on March 24, 2009 at 9:36 PM
No, see Obama’s biggest fans don’t wear deodorant…
Upstater85 on March 24, 2009 at 9:37 PM
4 flat lies and an amazingly boring performance…while the left will never admit it, Bush gave better pressers.
JIMV on March 24, 2009 at 9:37 PM
canditaylor68 on March 24, 2009 at 9:36 PM
TOTUS tonight was a HDTV monitor on the back wall and a answer monitor in the podium.
kingsjester on March 24, 2009 at 9:38 PM
Ynot, I keep hearing about ace, ace. With AP going off the deep end over McCain’s fat daughter, maybe I will join you. Been creeping around manly’s site. Pretty fun.
HornetSting on March 24, 2009 at 9:24 PM
Being a AoSHQ moron is a lot different than here you have to like to go hobo hunting and drink valurite vodka by the gallon.
goat on March 24, 2009 at 9:38 PM
YA, we stwuggle wit R abc’s n all – LOL
*Oh snap, Rosie taught me how to write.*
Upstater85 on March 24, 2009 at 9:39 PM
Taqiyya.
ex-Democrat on March 24, 2009 at 9:39 PM
Above his Paygrade…..
TN Mom on March 24, 2009 at 9:39 PM
The Lightworker’s 15 watt bulb finally burned out..
Maybe they can get one of those fabulous “Green Workers” to replace it.
TexasJew on March 24, 2009 at 9:40 PM
Bill O’Reilly says what I think too: Obama didn’t do himself any favors tonight. He was stuck on his talking points, unresponsive to questions, and transparently deceptive at times. People get angry when fed this kind of crap too often, especially when there’s a crisis boiling up around them.
petefrt on March 24, 2009 at 9:40 PM
Sounds like I’m missing some fun…link please?
jwp1964 on March 24, 2009 at 9:40 PM
getalife, you’re a tremendous ignoramus. Stop selling yourself short.
Chuck Schick on March 24, 2009 at 9:40 PM
FDR’s Socialist thugs coined that promotion, that if you are not part of his deal/solution, you are a problem to the nation.
Talk about intolerance for differences of opinion or a broad perspective, Democrats take the Socialist cake.
maverick muse on March 24, 2009 at 9:40 PM
I read somewhere that they count kids living with Grandparents or other relatives.
If his mother-in-law moves into the Whitehouse doesn’t that make Obama’s own girls homeless?
petunia on March 24, 2009 at 9:41 PM
You’re referring to the con artist from Chicago I’m sure!
SouthernGent on March 24, 2009 at 9:41 PM
getalife, return to base immediately. We must replace your core chip and update your programming. getalife come home. Obey your prime directive. We will fix you. You will be a new and improved getalife. You will getalife v2r1.
DasObamaReich on March 24, 2009 at 9:42 PM
After tonight, we will never have the phrase “Green Worker”. Green might remind people of smart money policies. Now it will be chic to be “Brown” – the color of the debris coming from O’s words…
Upstater85 on March 24, 2009 at 9:43 PM
canditaylor68 on March 24, 2009 at 9:43 PM
petunia on March 24, 2009 at 9:41 PM
Ah yes, the mythical “homeless”. The Democrats always pull that scam out of the bag whenever they get caught being shitty little socialists.
TexasJew on March 24, 2009 at 9:43 PM
HornetSting, I have a trick question for your cat. Let’s see just how smart this feline is….
Let’s say that your cat is in the 39% tax bracket and my dog (dumb son-of-a-bitch that he is) is in the 28% tax bracket. Let’s also assume that Dear Leader limits all charitable deduction write-offs to 28%. If both your cat and my dog donate $1,000 to Jeremiah Wrights church (I told you I had a dumb-ass dog), how much of a tax write off would they get.
(here comes the trick part)
If your cat is smart enough (which clearly she is) and my dog is lucky enough (the only way this will happen) to actually EARN an additional $1,000, how much does do they pay in taxes on their additional $1,000.
I just asked my dog and he decided to lick his balls. I hope your cat does better.
mctowler on March 24, 2009 at 9:43 PM
It won’t make a difference. He will get his budget, and pretty much everything else. But like I said, it’s hard to take Republicans serious when themselves are responsible for all the out of control spending for 8 years.
Also, the plan to bankrupt America is going just as predicted.
True_King on March 24, 2009 at 9:44 PM
Well gee, getalife, Obama is a millionare. But he is good kind of rich, like Oprah and George Clooney and Warren Buffet and George Soros. etc.
Terrye on March 24, 2009 at 9:46 PM
Obama wants to damage churches. He wants all power. He wants all help for the poor to come from the government. That keeps people from thinking for themselves and makes them have to vote Democrat in order to eat.
petunia on March 24, 2009 at 9:46 PM
I Pledge Allegiance to the Teleprompter
of the United States of America
and to the Liberalism
for which it stands,
one Community under Government,
Organized,
with hope and change, er, shared misery and equity of outcome for all.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on March 24, 2009 at 9:46 PM
Upstater85 on March 24, 2009 at 9:43 PM
Remember Hillary’s spiel about all those great “Green Jobs”?
She mentioned changing lightbulbs as a career path.
And we wonder why China is so desperate to shitcan our dollars..
TexasJew on March 24, 2009 at 9:46 PM
So, the Con in Chief spoke tonight? He can’t get enough of himself.
The Earth has never had such an empty megalomaniac with ‘penache’.
Entelechy on March 24, 2009 at 9:46 PM
Childish insults, spelling, come on cons.
You can do better than that.
getalife on March 24, 2009 at 9:46 PM
getalife do you like feral cats?
Entelechy on March 24, 2009 at 9:47 PM
Did anybody even bother to listen to the President?
getalife on March 24, 2009 at 9:47 PM
True_King:
Apples and oranges. For instance, when I quit smoking I gained 20 pounds. When my cousin quit smoking she gained 100 pounds. Which one of us will be able to get back to our ideal weight without having to starve as long?
Terrye on March 24, 2009 at 9:48 PM
“He betrayed this country. He played on our fears!”
Who said it?
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on March 24, 2009 at 9:48 PM
Um ya.
canditaylor68 on March 24, 2009 at 9:48 PM
getalife is complaining about childish insults. ahh such a kidder.
Terrye on March 24, 2009 at 9:48 PM
In response to the Over-Exposure of TOTUS, all my TV’s are protesting: They’re all showing a documentary of The Boston Tea Party.
“Taxation without Representation”
TN Mom on March 24, 2009 at 9:48 PM
Why? Nothing he could say would make him more than what he was, is, and always will be, a pathological narcissistic cipher. If you’d get out of his crotch you’d realize that by now.
Entelechy on March 24, 2009 at 9:49 PM
You shouldn’t use terms like “feral”. She will have to go to the dictionary and then back to her handlers to find out what to say.
Nuts4koi on March 24, 2009 at 9:49 PM
I didn’t make fun of your spelling. I was making a point about your “style.”
Upstater85 on March 24, 2009 at 9:50 PM
getalife do you like feral cats?
Entelechy on March 24, 2009 at 9:47 PM
Well, HornetSting’s cat has just finished licking its ass, so there is a new “Green Job” for getalife to apply for: Cat’s Ass Environmental Protection Worker, Level III.
TexasJew on March 24, 2009 at 9:50 PM
Speaking of reading, TOTUS likes to read a LOT: Teleprompters, Monitors mounted under camera……
TN Mom on March 24, 2009 at 9:51 PM
Hotair has linked two Huff Po pieces tonight. What’s up with that? Leterman says everyone should lay off the teleprompter jokes.
His argument is that Obama would sound like Bush if it weren’t for TOTUS.
While the joke while Bush was in office was that Cheney told him what to say. We know Biden can’t pull that off.
Is this an acknowledgment that Obama is an idiot who must be told what to think like the last President supposedly was?
chunderroad on March 24, 2009 at 9:51 PM
The Definition: Michelle O
Upstater85 on March 24, 2009 at 9:51 PM
God no,why? Hes an idiot that somehow fails to realize that everything hes doing can and will be undone at some point in the future.
canditaylor68 on March 24, 2009 at 9:52 PM
Ace of Spades live blogged it hilariously. I can’t wait for you to come back and tell us how strong the dollar is these days.
chunderroad on March 24, 2009 at 9:52 PM
chunderroad on March 24, 2009 at 9:51 PM
It is hilarious.
Did you watch it.?
getalife on March 24, 2009 at 9:53 PM
I see what he has done. That speaks louder than words.
His words were planned and honed to say what he thought would drive his approval numbers up.
When you see what he has done–it is often the complete opposite of what he said. Tonight he added new definitions to words… or he lied. And I couldn’t keep watching.
It is painful to see such a disgraceful charlatan lead where giants have led in the past.
Actually, Obama lies more often than any politician I have seen. I started voting in 1980 and was politically aware during the Carter years. Obama is the biggest liar yet. It is dangerous to the country to listen to what he says and believe anything he says is true.
petunia on March 24, 2009 at 9:53 PM
MANLY’S REPUBLIC
INC on March 24, 2009 at 9:53 PM
The only thing Obama is missing is the Texas accent… Even Booosh didn’t use “Uh” that much.
But what would I know? I’m sure “Uh” is Old French for “I’m a moron.”
Upstater85 on March 24, 2009 at 9:54 PM
I can’t listen to this dumbass, afirmative action, liar.
Two sentences and two lies in I get lost and realize that the fools that voted for him think since they don’t understand what Pinnochios’ saying or doing then he must be smart, therefore qualified and lookin out for them, gittin ready to give them someone elses money.
Do the crapweasels that voted for Urkel understand the goberment doesn’t have any money other than what it steals from people who earned it? Is there a Republican that can articulate this to the dumbass masses?
Thanks to all the brave souls who listened so I didn’t have to I will try to return the favor.
dhunter on March 24, 2009 at 9:54 PM
Nah, only Republican presidents are idiots. You should know that by now. The MSM and getalife said so.
Entelechy on March 24, 2009 at 9:54 PM
HornetSting, I have a test for this feline phenom of yours. It’s a bit of a tricky 2-part math question so she’ll need to be sharp.
Let’s say your smart cat is in the 39% tax bracket and my dumb-as-dirt dog is in the 28% tax bracket. Let’s also say that Dear Leader limits charitable deductions to 28% and that both your cat and my dog make a $1,000 donation to Jeremiah Wrights church (I told you my dog was dumb-as-dirt). How much of a tax deduction do they both get?
(watch out, here comes the tricky part)
Now, let’s say your cat is smart enough to actually EARN an additional $1,000 (which she is) and my dog is lucky enough to earn an additional $1,000 (stranger things have happened). How much of a tax increase do they both get?
I just asked my dog and he’s decided to go off and lick his privates.
mctowler on March 24, 2009 at 9:55 PM
Sounds like I’m missing some fun…link please?
jwp1964 on March 24, 2009 at 9:40 Pm
http://ace.mu.nu/
goat on March 24, 2009 at 9:55 PM
Ask a socialist whore to define “neoconservative” and note the blank stare. The audacity to presume a word has actual meaning beyond punk pigeon slang! How dare a socialist authoritarian be questioned. Of all the gall.
The biggest, brashest con artist clamoring for the cameras and prime time every week is the Obama. His cohort asses presume that stealing a word grants ownership to alter its application and nullify its original meaning, playing the juvenile opposite game of revisionist newspeak liberally applied.
maverick muse on March 24, 2009 at 9:55 PM
getalife:
I would not spend an hour of my life listening to Barack Obama lie to me if you put a gun to my head.
Maybe if there is an asteroid heading for earth, I might be forced to listen. But barring extinction level events…I refuse.
I have to sleep tonight. No bad dreams.
Terrye on March 24, 2009 at 9:56 PM
Yeah, and we are only capable of letting them form our opinions… If only we could read…
Upstater85 on March 24, 2009 at 9:56 PM
ap-wire always put a halo in Obama’s pictures !Don’t they realize someone will notices there crap?
beachkatie on March 24, 2009 at 9:56 PM
Did anybody even bother to listen to the President?
getalife on March 24, 2009 at 9:47 PM
Yep. What we saw and heard was 60 minutes of a President trying to push his agenda items while evading any question that he could not or did not want to answer. He kept checking his podium for answers that were being sent in to him. He tried to act like he supported troops when just last week he wanted them to pay for their own care. He exaggerated numbers for homeless children, including those living with their grandparents. He also said that the new charitable tax rate would have no effect on donations, which was a dubious statement at best. And finally, all through the Press Conference he followed Troll Rule #1 Always Blame Bush!
Yeah. We paid attentionm. We were not impressed.
kingsjester on March 24, 2009 at 9:57 PM
s/b +60 million
Entelechy on March 24, 2009 at 9:57 PM
I’m dumber than Hornet’s cat… what is the answer? Don’t make me do math! I had to get a calculator to help my 4th grader do decimals… I didn’t let her use it I just needed to make sure I didn’t teach her wrong…
petunia on March 24, 2009 at 9:58 PM
Nope.
ex-Democrat on March 24, 2009 at 9:58 PM
Heavens to Murgatroyd! I must put this rumour to rest. I am NOT that mongrel dog!
FeralCat on March 24, 2009 at 9:59 PM
OK I’m just joining the party… I couldn’t watch it for more than 2 minutes. He’s a liar and dull and full of crap and I end up screaming at the TV and…. Did I say he’s a LIAR!!!!!!
Anybody hear Manly on Rush today>
BTW- Who coined the name Ogabe? Was that Bishop? Rush used it for the first time today. It was pretty damn funny. He acted as though it was a slip of the tongue. HA!
katy on March 24, 2009 at 9:59 PM
I see AP has tried of HotAir now lives blog on Twitter.
:(
Lance Murdock on March 24, 2009 at 10:00 PM
mctowler, my cat is angry that you think she would give a donation to Rev Wright’s church. She is a conservative and she knows that Rev Wright is a damned sack of dung.
I don’t know how to calm her down, but she is on her way to your house as we speak.
HornetSting on March 24, 2009 at 10:00 PM
I did not watch (no, I can’t watch, will not watch)…but once a teleprompter addict, always a teleprompter (or a monitor, or a ..) addict.
McCain must really be wondering what went wrong????
OneConservative on March 24, 2009 at 10:00 PM
Article tomorrow will say that he gave up the prompter, for a big TV screen, really. Have at it for a new acronym.
Entelechy on March 24, 2009 at 10:01 PM
The truth is this guy makes Clinton look good.
Terrye on March 24, 2009 at 10:01 PM
Of course not. You are the Feral Cat.
Entelechy on March 24, 2009 at 10:01 PM
So you would want to spend your remaining hours on earth listening to Obama? Huh?
Oh, I get it — it would feel so good by comparison when the asteroid hit.
Daggett on March 24, 2009 at 10:02 PM
Uh, well, perhaps if he had actually read the stimulus and gone line by line like he had promised, he would have known about it ahead of time.
So why did President Obama not know about it?
kcarpenter on March 24, 2009 at 10:03 PM
Yes, but its Big-Screen TV…..or….BSTV for short.
genso on March 24, 2009 at 10:03 PM
“Watch it” like have a hand in my pants and the other in a bowl of Cheetohs? No.
chunderroad on March 24, 2009 at 10:03 PM
Hmmm could we work in Plasma in Chief somehow? I know they aren’t green enough, but with Obama, “we” can make exceptions.
Upstater85 on March 24, 2009 at 10:03 PM
Obama makes what the cat just did in the litter box look good.
Daggett on March 24, 2009 at 10:03 PM
Too bad, he pretty much covered his first term and the direction he is leading our country and the world.
Very informative.
getalife on March 24, 2009 at 10:04 PM
If he can’t figure that out, it’s probably better he’s not POTUS.
Upstater85 on March 24, 2009 at 10:04 PM
I believe if you take a poll now, Obama is surpassed Carter ‘ as the worst prez yet!!
beachkatie on March 24, 2009 at 10:04 PM
He pretty much covered his ass while making a bore of himself.
genso on March 24, 2009 at 10:04 PM
BSOTUS?
Daggett on March 24, 2009 at 10:06 PM
You must understand that, in general, conservatives prefer to judge history by the facts (that will happen) and not let it be (pre)-formed by the “talking heads.”
Upstater85 on March 24, 2009 at 10:06 PM
HornetSting, please let me set the record straight. I was taking my cues from Dear Leader who says one thing but means another. I know I said “donating to Wright’s church”, but what I really meant was “Our President is an Idiot”.
Better?
mctowler on March 24, 2009 at 10:06 PM
I wanted to let everyone know that my cat just fired getalife as green job, litter box cleaner level I. He kept putting one hand in the litter box and one hand in his pants and she got offended. She’s filing suit against him. Back to the welfare office for getalife.
HornetSting on March 24, 2009 at 10:06 PM
She’s not placated, mctowler. You’re gonna have to try harder. She is a hard case.
HornetSting on March 24, 2009 at 10:07 PM
There’s a video up on YouTube: The Blackberry Shuffle
RedState asked, Did Rahm and Valerie realize the President was blowing the presser?
Look at the expression on Valerie’s face.
INC on March 24, 2009 at 10:07 PM
Upstater85 on March 24, 2009 at 10:06 PM
Yeah, you never listened to w.
Try a little honesty.
getalife on March 24, 2009 at 10:08 PM
I thought the ass was in full view of the world tonight…
canditaylor68 on March 24, 2009 at 10:09 PM
INC on March 24, 2009 at 10:07 PM
He did fine.
getalife on March 24, 2009 at 10:09 PM
I thought Rahm looked like a sad but hopeful mom when he held a finger to his mouth.
genso on March 24, 2009 at 10:09 PM
As informative as his view about lobbyists in his administration? As informative as his views on signing statements? As informative as his view about making bills public for five days before signing? Need I go on? Sounds like he’s more dis-infomative than informative. Actually I take that back; he’s only dis-informative when he speaks (read, “reads”).
Weight of Glory on March 24, 2009 at 10:09 PM
Thanks.
jwp1964 on March 24, 2009 at 10:09 PM
Haha… Yeah, I think this crude clip explains it all… The missing link to the progressive movement!!!
Upstater85 on March 24, 2009 at 10:10 PM
I was parroting getalife but stand corrected. ;)
genso on March 24, 2009 at 10:10 PM
Well the our feral kitten turned out to be a beautiful, affectionate cat… but was much older than we thought… and began getting pregnant… We couldn’t get her fixed because she was PG or nursing constantly! After 4 litters of two kittens each we finally took her to get fixed anyway she was pregnant again! She only lived about 5 years after that, hair ball.
She also is the first cat we’ve had who was litter box illiterate! We couldn’t get rid of her because my daughter loved her so much!!! And my husband and I are too soft. So we picked up cat poop for years!!!! So I’m sort of mixed on FeralCats…
petunia on March 24, 2009 at 10:11 PM
Thanks for sharing that.
Del Dolemonte on March 24, 2009 at 10:11 PM
Sooooooooooo………..
…….. I just got back from helping coach my son’s little league team play a wonderful game on a beautiful Spring night along the Southern California Coast.
So much fun, running around with a bunch of six and seven year olds, the smell of grass, and the sound of laughter every where………
…….. so, what did I miss?
Seven Percent Solution on March 24, 2009 at 10:11 PM
Oh so now that I am a BHO-basher I am automatically a Booooshite? Yes, that would be a very binary way of looking at things…
*My hero, Bush the neo-liberal.*
Upstater85 on March 24, 2009 at 10:11 PM
I think they will ditch the Teleprompter and the big screens by this time next year and just go with a microchip implant. The electronic equipment is getting way too much press.
sherry on March 24, 2009 at 10:12 PM
The Peggy Noonan sockpuppet was on fire. I’ll say that. Getalife could take a few lines from her columns.
chunderroad on March 24, 2009 at 10:12 PM
You’re both good.
Entelechy on March 24, 2009 at 10:12 PM
You know, petunia, I can’t help myself.
Has your cat gone to the welfare office to get food stamps and housing assistance yet?
This sounds like what’s happening in south Texas.
HornetSting on March 24, 2009 at 10:12 PM
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