Video: New “Tutankhamen of the world” visits pyramids
posted at 5:25 pm on June 4, 2009 by Allahpundit
How often do you see a photo op involving both the oldest wonder of the world and the newest? Chris Matthews leg-thrill rating: Off the charts.
As in all things, his speeches especially, The One’s frame of reference remains reliably focused on himself.
The great pyramid is one of the Seven Wonders of the World and during a brief stop here Thursday after delivering a major speech aimed at Muslims around the world, President Obama spotted another notable sight: a hieroglyphic that showed the face of a man with big ears.
Obama entered the tomb and saw it right away.
“That looks like me!” he said. “Look at those ears!”
Frankly, I’m surprised he didn’t deliver today’s “we are the world” hymn outdoors with the pyramids as a backdrop. We know he digs classical settings per his DNC Temple of the Gods acceptance speech; this one should have been a no-brainer. Why, the lame, platitudinous metaphors practically write themselves: “Just as each of these structures is strengthened and beautified by a union of many millions of blocks, so too our world is strengthened and beautified by different nations unifying in the common cause of” blah blah blah blah.
Actually, you know what an even sweeter setting would have been? Right on top of the Sphinx’s head. Imagine how majestic TOTUS would have looked.
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the Hits just keep on comin’……..
This isn’t funny any more, and never really was amusing.
Janos Hunyadi on June 4, 2009 at 5:27 PM
I fully expected Obama to climb to the top of the pyramid and say: “Look at me I am king of the world!!!” – and then he slips and falls off the pyramid…..
izoneguy on June 4, 2009 at 5:29 PM
Obama: I could have designed one of these things if I really wanted to.
Upstater85 on June 4, 2009 at 5:29 PM
Maybe if we all promise to buy a smartcar he will…
Upstater85 on June 4, 2009 at 5:29 PM
He couldn’t. They were non-union jobsites.
rw on June 4, 2009 at 5:29 PM
LOL!
elduende on June 4, 2009 at 5:29 PM
I am so glad I don’t have cable – I never have to see his face except in teeny tiny internet photos, I never hear his voice except in excerpts on the radio, and I read the words his teleprompter gives him in articles so that I can read between the lines. My exposure to this loser (or lack thereof) is ideal.
Animator Girl on June 4, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Well, I’m not likely to ever be able to afford a trip to see the pyramids myself, so I’m glad Obama’s getting a kick out of this latest little touristy jaunt we’re all paying for.
aero on June 4, 2009 at 5:30 PM
We can all “hope” that… he can’t “change” the fact he is human.
upinak on June 4, 2009 at 5:31 PM
Did he approve of the detail of his likeness in the Sphinx?
OT: David Carradine was found dead of an apparent suicide in a hotel room in Thailand.
MadisonConservative on June 4, 2009 at 5:32 PM
The thread on DailyKos about this is practically pornographic!
Speedwagon82 on June 4, 2009 at 5:32 PM
He said next he is going to Magic Mountain.
Firebird on June 4, 2009 at 5:33 PM
Didn’t they say that about Dumbo?
Steve Z on June 4, 2009 at 5:34 PM
Perusing pyramids looks like a fun date activity. Why isn’t Michelle w/ Der Furor?
BHO Jonestown on June 4, 2009 at 5:34 PM
This president is in our face everyday 24/7. He is like big Brother with teleprompter.
Geochelone on June 4, 2009 at 5:35 PM
His time would have been better spent vising the troops somewhere, than touring the pyramids.
Just sayin’…
JetBoy on June 4, 2009 at 5:36 PM
Allahpundit, I just love you.
DrMagnolias on June 4, 2009 at 5:36 PM
Allah, I think you might have a job as O’s speechwriter if you wanted it…
I_C on June 4, 2009 at 5:36 PM
Sarah Palin = Moses
jp on June 4, 2009 at 5:36 PM
I can’t take any more of this.
Stop the world, I want to get off!
Brat on June 4, 2009 at 5:36 PM
There is no “like” about it.
myrenovations on June 4, 2009 at 5:37 PM
And his fans eat it up. This is exactly what they want. They want to be able to turn their TV on to the ObamaChannel, go to the bathroom with the door open a crack, and when they are finished, yell “Politically Correct Non-gendered Parent, I’m ready.”
Upstater85 on June 4, 2009 at 5:38 PM
What he was really looking for: how many pillars are the foundation of this pyramid built on?
dont taze me bro on June 4, 2009 at 5:38 PM
heh…Well, he finally found his birth certificate.
JetBoy on June 4, 2009 at 5:38 PM
With regards for Egypt, there was an insightful article weeks ago at American Thinker on some ulterior designs behind the region’s tolerance for Somali pirates. They destabilize Egypt’s economy in punishment for having recognized the State of Israel, and for having some positive diplomacy with the West in general.
maverick muse on June 4, 2009 at 5:38 PM
Photoshop please
jp on June 4, 2009 at 5:38 PM
That type of pro-occupation mentality tends to set the Arab Street a-blazin’ /s
Upstater85 on June 4, 2009 at 5:39 PM
Let him rave on, that men shall know him mad. (Rameses, The Ten Commandments.)
TheQuestion on June 4, 2009 at 5:39 PM
Did he even bother going inside or was he too big of a sissy?
I wonder if they cleaned up all the camel crap around the Pyramids cause it’s everywhere.
Knucklehead on June 4, 2009 at 5:39 PM
Norah O’Donnell: Eight wonders of the world.
Is Obama Number 8?
txsurveyor on June 4, 2009 at 5:39 PM
heh…Well, he finally found his birth certificate…
JetBoy on June 4, 2009 at 5:39 PM
According to TMZ, it wasn’t suicide; most likely an accident. He was reportedly found hanging naked in a closet, with a rope (or some sort of rope-like cord) around his neck “and another body part.” Sounds like auto-erotic asphyxiation that went too far and accidently caused death. Happens more than people realize. (Took a course in crime scene investigations once. The text had a whole chapter — with actual police photos — on the subject).
RIP, Mr. Carradine.
AZCoyote on June 4, 2009 at 5:40 PM
gaddangit…double post, sorry.
Cartoons set the Arab street a-blazin’.
JetBoy on June 4, 2009 at 5:41 PM
I’m going to start pounding my head on walls any second now. The only consolation I have is that school is finally out and I can become a lazy ass full-time.
Emily M. on June 4, 2009 at 5:41 PM
man the MSNBC spin on this. Had bush done this, MSNBC would be at the front criticizing him for it
jp on June 4, 2009 at 5:42 PM
Best ban them… Don’t want to offend.
Upstater85 on June 4, 2009 at 5:42 PM
And if you work for the government, that can continue forever!
Upstater85 on June 4, 2009 at 5:42 PM
Same as Michael Hutchence, singer INXS.
Brat on June 4, 2009 at 5:43 PM
Did Obama really say he was impressed the pyramids were repaired so quickly after Megatron had destroyed them?
redshirt on June 4, 2009 at 5:43 PM
*Sigh* It was a frigging joke. Do you get your ass whipped for being reasonable even occasionally? You’ve been going mental over nothing at least twice a day recently.
radiofreevillage on June 4, 2009 at 5:43 PM
Before,… some in the media dare not mention his middle name, nor his huge ears, for fear of offending the one, my how things change in 5 months, …Hussein, ya know- the one with the big ears!
christene on June 4, 2009 at 5:43 PM
Actually, you know what an even sweeter setting would have been? Right on top of the Sphinx’s head. Imagine how majestic TOTUS would have looked.
TOTUS TOTUS TOTUS ALL A HAIL TOTUS.
Dr Evil on June 4, 2009 at 5:43 PM
Speaking of Arse Wiping, has MOM (Janet) checked your diaper recently?
Upstater85 on June 4, 2009 at 5:45 PM
Well Obama is special,he’s getting a special tour,
by none other,than Zahi Hawass!!!!!!!
canopfor on June 4, 2009 at 5:46 PM
+1000
Upstater85 on June 4, 2009 at 5:47 PM
Suuurrreeeee…that’s how you know about it.
In all seriousness, RIP.
Joe Caps on June 4, 2009 at 5:47 PM
Exactly…we dont want to spook the camels.
Joe Caps on June 4, 2009 at 5:49 PM
Maybe it’s that time of the month, and she was on her pyramid. /rimshot.
TheQuestion on June 4, 2009 at 5:49 PM
Finally, the pyramids have been visited by the man for whom they were built.
Jim Treacher on June 4, 2009 at 5:49 PM
to bad they don’t crumble and crush.
upinak on June 4, 2009 at 5:50 PM
read a great article about how Hawass was threatend by the Muslim Brotherhood for exalting Egyptian rather than Muslim culture a few years back so now he takes pains to not “offend” which must be hard.
It must suck to be a member of an Arab Muslim supremacist organization living in a nation who’s great world changing achievements were neither arab nor Muslim.
elduende on June 4, 2009 at 5:50 PM
No. But he did express a desire to use stimulus funds to repair the Sphinx in his likeness.
Joe Caps on June 4, 2009 at 5:51 PM
I’d be willing to let Obama rule Egypt if we can have the USA back
jp on June 4, 2009 at 5:51 PM
Man, even in the sun of the desert, he’s just so. . . cool.
*barf*
RedNewEnglander on June 4, 2009 at 5:52 PM
I’m just surprised that the idiot messiah didn’t marvel at the engineering prowess of the ancient Egyptians when they took him to the Suez Canal. He loves to riff on “history”, like that.
(BTW, Israel never should have given the Suez back – certainly not over and over again!)
progressoverpeace on June 4, 2009 at 5:52 PM
Interesting new face on the Sphinx.
portlandon on June 4, 2009 at 5:53 PM
No, no, no
Magic Mountain will come to him…
trubble on June 4, 2009 at 5:53 PM
Wonder when Obama is going to tour the utopian paradise of his (and Carter’s) future homeland of Gaza.
Upstater85 on June 4, 2009 at 5:53 PM
Ahhh… he probably confused Gaza with Giza…
Upstater85 on June 4, 2009 at 5:54 PM
When are we going to wake up from this night mare? This is not even funny anymore. MSNBC has got to be the most pathetic piece of trash on cable.
Allah, you keep mentioning Thrill Up my Leg Matthews… Just for some laughs I’d like to see him drooling over The One in some clips today. Got anything from Hardball you can post?
This BS is why this idiot’s approval ratings stay in the 60s. Everytime I see this drooling by the “State Run Media” per Rush, I just can’t see how they are ever going to let this guy fail…
davek70 on June 4, 2009 at 5:54 PM
Maybe it’s that time of the month, and she was on her pyramid. /rimshot.
TheQuestion on June 4, 2009 at 5:49 PM
That’s bad. :)
txag92 on June 4, 2009 at 5:55 PM
+1000
Upstater85 on June 4,2009 at 5:47PM.
Upstater85:I would love to know where Zahi Hawass had the
free time,or if the President strong-armed him
self a special tour somehow!:)
canopfor on June 4, 2009 at 5:55 PM
LOL. Perfect.
progressoverpeace on June 4, 2009 at 5:56 PM
My therapist keeps telling me I should go into politics. I think she wants to keep me neurotic so she keeps getting paid.
Emily M. on June 4, 2009 at 5:57 PM
Unlike those damned pasty face ones on Mt. Rushmore!
And the thought within The One was that when His time came to replace
Mohammad at Allah’sJesus at God’s side, He would command His flock to add a Fourth Pyramid, to tower over all the others, rather than add just another face to Mt. Rushmore.MB4 on June 4, 2009 at 5:58 PM
Hawass: Having you here Obama…We have been present for the biggest interdimensional cross rip ceremony since the Tunguska blast of 1909!
Obama: Felt great.
Hawass: We’d like to get a sample of your brain tissue.
Obama: Okay.
portlandon on June 4, 2009 at 5:59 PM
and he could also talk about how they think the Jews built the pyramids….
Awesome!
mjk on June 4, 2009 at 5:59 PM
Hahaha. Nope, that’s not an experience that appeals to me. But I was surprised when I took the course at how prevalent the practice is — even women do it. One of the photos in the book was a young black woman who’d died accidentally in her closet at home. Her 8-year old daughter discovered her body. Anyway, according to the text, police investigators are instructed to always consider the possibility of accidental auto-erotic asphyxiation whenever they discover a hanging victim, especially if the victim is found naked or unclothed below the waist.
AZCoyote on June 4, 2009 at 6:00 PM
The guy giving him the tour is great, if you get a chance to see him on Discovery Channel.
Ted Torgerson on June 4, 2009 at 6:07 PM
Oh who cares? Presidents are always doing stuff like this.
Remember when Bush went to Africa and tens of thousands of people turned out to cheer him on? Well, you might not remember because the media refused to cover it, but it happened.
Now, all Obama has to do is scratch his behind and the media starts slobbering all over themselves.
It is impossible to miss the bias.
Terrye on June 4, 2009 at 6:07 PM
If Jews had built the pyramids, they would have included a good deli.
Cicero43 on June 4, 2009 at 6:08 PM
Did you just refer to President Obama as the “Boy King”!
I denouce you. I denouce myself for thinking it earlier.
Mr. Joe on June 4, 2009 at 6:16 PM
So now that Obama is engaging on government spending not seen since the Pharaohs built the pyramids, who is going to be the slaves to do all this work!
Mr. Joe on June 4, 2009 at 6:17 PM
You know Obama is thinking about how he can have his very own pyramid, one ten times bigger and better than the great pyramid of Giza.
OxyCon on June 4, 2009 at 6:17 PM
Don’t give Mr. Zero any ideas…
I am sure he is sketching up a monument to himself on the way to Germany.
Hmmm, that sounds familiar.
izoneguy on June 4, 2009 at 6:21 PM
Silly goose. that’s what the Sphinx is. Sphinxstein’s Deli, it was originally called.
mjk on June 4, 2009 at 6:26 PM
Dictator in Dockers.
Ugly on June 4, 2009 at 6:28 PM
Pharaoh…not so much..
Boy King??
You betcha!!
BigWyo on June 4, 2009 at 6:30 PM
Just pray that the Egyptians don’t give him the Tut needle in the ear treatment.
We don’t need a martyr .
Amazed on June 4, 2009 at 6:36 PM
Were there any pictures of Obama with local structures in the background resembling phallic symbols?
Bob Herbert needs a topic for his next NYT column.
Shifting gears, did anyone cue up that 1970s tune by Steve Martin, “King Tut”? Classic performance on SNL back when that show was actually funny.
BuckeyeSam on June 4, 2009 at 6:37 PM
His name is Zahi Hawass, and I had the privledge of touring the Cairo Museum with him. He’s a true gem and a gentleman.
Knucklehead on June 4, 2009 at 6:44 PM
She didn’t want to wear a veil and hide her beautiful arms.
Steve Z on June 4, 2009 at 6:48 PM
I won.
I have a gift.
That looks like me.
Me me me me me but no soup for you!
Dhuka on June 4, 2009 at 6:52 PM
I’m finding it more and more difficult to avoid running cars with Obama bumperstickers off the road.
When I walk through the shopping center parking lot and see an Obama sticker, I want to tie the car’s antennea into a bow.
Last week I stopped at a red light and saw an idealized Obama sign taped to a portion of the guard rail. But when I realized that instead of Obama,the sign read “Obey”, I felt like maybe these poor morons out there are starting to understand who our new president really is.
DrW on June 4, 2009 at 6:53 PM
Turn up the volume and you can hear him say:
“I can have my people build something like this for me. This will be good way to get people back to work.”
He now understands that slaves were not slaves, but common people working to correct an economic downturn of Egypt’s floundering economy.
The hieroglyphics he pointed to was a scholar, teacher, and community organizer…
right2bright on June 4, 2009 at 6:55 PM
Obama: I remember this place–it’s where my daddy Joe took me when King Herod was killing baby boys 20 centuries ago when they wrote the Constitution. Right after my parents met while marching in Selma.
Steve Z on June 4, 2009 at 6:58 PM
One of those slaves was Moses. Hope he can come back with the Plagues of Egypt right now.
Steve Z on June 4, 2009 at 7:00 PM
Obama: I may not look like those guys on the US currency, but I do look like the pharoh on this hieroglyphic.
Disturb the Universe on June 4, 2009 at 7:00 PM
I have my “Don’t blame me I voted for McCain-Palin” sticker on my car and since I live in Socialist Portland-Home of the Bike Squads, I’ve had my antenna broken, car keyed, big spit marks on the car windows, soda poured on the car to make the windshield sticky, flipped off,cursed at, tailgated, etc.
Liberals are respectful & peaceful MY ASS.
The Bush Stickers didn’t leave my car looking much better. (Actually had someone let the air out of the tires in ’04).
portlandon on June 4, 2009 at 7:01 PM
Good catch. I heard him say that and missed the significance. This turd is really taken with himself. Pride before the fall.
elduende on June 4, 2009 at 7:14 PM
Man,
you folks are going to have absolutely miserable existences for the next 3.5(+) years.
Obama looked at Pyramids while in EGYPT, OH NOOOOOOESSSS!!!!
I didn’t understand it from the insane left when Bush was President(America wasn’t destroyed and we weren’t all put in detention then like they said) and I don’t get it from the right now(America will not be destroyed and you won’t be put in detention camps).
Magnus on June 4, 2009 at 8:08 PM
I cannot believe the insult MSNBC just did in this video to Zahi Hawass, the tour guide, when they used the words “playing tour guide” in reference to Dr. Hawass as he explained fact and details to Obama during the photo opt. Dr. Hawass is an Egyptian archaeologist and Egyptologist in addition to being the current Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities. I met him some years ago and was very impressed with his knowledge and expertise, and would never assumed anyone would ever use the term “PLAYING TOUR GUIDE” in reference to him. It’s an insult of the worst degree to this Egyptian expert.
Sunshein on June 4, 2009 at 9:11 PM
“Right on
top ofunder the Sphinx’sheadpaw. Imagine howmajesticgreat TOTUS would have looked.”burt on June 4, 2009 at 9:56 PM
Nice catch, I didn’t listen long enough. But you are so right, this man is incredible on so many levels. Spending 3 hours with him was a dream come true for me, something I will never forget.
Not to mention all the hard work he’s done in reclaiming so many lost treasures from other countries that rightfully belong to Egypt.
Knucklehead on June 4, 2009 at 10:21 PM
Obama is planning a pyramid in his honor? Using the newly funded “volunteers”?
seven on June 4, 2009 at 11:54 PM
We are as one my dear! Invisibility is bliss.
drunyan8315 on June 5, 2009 at 12:08 AM
Was Tutenkamen a community organizer?
Geochelone on June 5, 2009 at 3:17 AM
Oh can we ride the teacups now?
johnnyU on June 5, 2009 at 8:41 AM
Did I hear that right? President Bush was criticized because he didn’t take enough vacations? Not enough site seeing tours? That’s funny, I don’t remember that at all. I remember Bush being criticized for being on vacation for every trip he made. I wonder if people know that one of these site seeing trips costs the taxpayers 10s of 1000s of dollars for security alone.
Dollayo on June 5, 2009 at 10:39 AM
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