Contrast: Iranian Protestors Shot As Obama Goes for Ice Cream
posted at 6:59 pm on June 20, 2009 by Patterico
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Here are some Twitter messages I saw today from Change_for_Iran, a pro-Mousavi Iranian student, and Mark Knoller, CBS News White House Correspondent:
Everybody “laffing”?
(Cross-posted at Patterico.com.)
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Time for another game of….
WHAT IF BUSH DID THAT!
RobCon on June 20, 2009 at 7:00 PM
1000 times worse than Katrina. Impeach now, heck Joe Biden can’t do any worse and we would lose the Obama hype.
lavell12 on June 20, 2009 at 7:01 PM
Watch out , those Iranians may not , may not be real professional journalists.
the_nile on June 20, 2009 at 7:01 PM
NeroObamafiddledate ice cream whileRomeIran burned.- The Cat
MirCat on June 20, 2009 at 7:04 PM
A CBS News White House Correspondent reporting on ice cream?
’nuff fricking said.
RobCon on June 20, 2009 at 7:05 PM
What an incredibly stupid, pointless and meaningless “story”.
Not to mention that all the Obama things and the things in Iran didn’t even happen at the same time. The Iranian twitter posts didn’t even begin until 21 minutes after the president had the audacity to buy ice cream.
Winner of the Moron Award of the Day. That’s you.
Dave Rywall on June 20, 2009 at 7:05 PM
It is Saturday…BHO does not work on weekends.
Seems like the ice cream would have something mixed with milktoast?
rlongstrat on June 20, 2009 at 7:05 PM
This is a two-fer.
First, it’s perfect indictment of Barack “Nero” Obama, fiddling while Iran burns.
Second, it’s a perfect illustration of the absolute shallowness of the American media.
By the way, thanks Mark Knoller, for that hard-hitting expose!
Could you have your nose any further up Barack’s ass? I mean that in all sincerity. Do you think it’s at all possible to shove that proboscis another single millimeter up the POTUS pooter? (Farking Hell, but this media of our sucks.)
DelD on June 20, 2009 at 7:06 PM
Well done, Patterico.
Weight of Glory on June 20, 2009 at 7:06 PM
Yeah, I’m gonna “laff” at how stupid this “reporter” is. He is fuuuuuugly. Looks like a fatass version of Paul Krugman.
NathanG on June 20, 2009 at 7:06 PM
Wow. Bush would’ve been absolutely brutalized had he pulled something like that. What a joke this guy is. And I love how Knoller breathlessly reports what the Obamas ordered, like its important or something. ‘You’re gonna laff’…yeah, not quite.
changer1701 on June 20, 2009 at 7:06 PM
This is unbelievable, Barack Obama has no balls, no brains and no heart.
What a worthless, gelded, corrupt incompetent.
Any President with a BRAIN IN HIS HEAD would order airstrikes on the Revolutionary Guard.
We could topple this regime in days. We could solve all of the problems in the Middle East by taking out this regime and expressing complete solidarity with the Iranian people.
Instead, complete idiot Obama goes out for ice cream.
Anyone who voted for Obama should be walking around with a bag on their head today. Obama is a complete and utter piece of absolute garbage. If he had even a sliver of integrity, he would resign immediately, leave the country permanently, never to be heard of again.
NoDonkey on June 20, 2009 at 7:07 PM
Btw, his saying if we meddle with Iran we’ll make things worse is just another way of saying, “Above my pay grade.”
Hey Barry, how could it get worse??!!
- The Cat
MirCat on June 20, 2009 at 7:07 PM
I was listening to CNN on XM a couple of hours ago, while I was running errands, and they were discussing how they were getting some of their news, and the different “new media” avenues (Twitter, etc.). They then apparently showed some “fresh” video (which I’m sure most of us saw hours before they were willing to even acknowledge it). The hedging and hemming and hawing and trying to stay as distant as possible from declaring it legit was appalling. There was absolutely no way that CNN was going to just accept that it was real. If they did, then they’d have to take the next logical step and question why our government has been equally unwilling to accept how real and horrifying this whole thing has been.
Disgusting.
nukemhill on June 20, 2009 at 7:07 PM
It’s historic. He’s our first black president to go out for ice cream. He’s also our first black president to fart. Did they get that story, too?
Daggett on June 20, 2009 at 7:08 PM
My G-d.
This is as bad as that skateboarding guy in the White House.
This is pathetic.
mjk on June 20, 2009 at 7:08 PM
There have been a lot of theories about why Obama doesn’t seem to care about the situation in Iran. I think it’s simply because it’s not about HIM. It’s about hundreds of thousands of brave souls who are actually HOPING for REAL CHANGE in the world, rather than Urkel’s legions of cultists who simply want free health care and god knows what else, “help” with their mortgages and student loans, more taxes to pay for it, all the while trying to shut up anyone who disagrees and calling them … greedy.
Kinda pales by comparison to what the Iranian people are doing, doesn’t it?
BuzzCrutcher on June 20, 2009 at 7:08 PM
I’m waiting for the classic Obama statement….”You all know that I inherited this confrontation from the previous administration.”
Rovin on June 20, 2009 at 7:09 PM
No big thing, he phoned it in.
Speakup on June 20, 2009 at 7:09 PM
They went to the Dairy Godmother I bet. I’m local, that place is awesome, and, yes, Obama is as clueless as ever when it comes to foreign policy. I do have to applaud his taste in food though. Dairy Godmother, Five Guys, Ray’s Hell Burger? Not bad, my man.
LeBron on June 20, 2009 at 7:10 PM
21 minutes, eh?
So what you’re saying is, if only Obama had known that the Iranian people were suffering and dying in the name of freedom he would never have gone out for ice cream?
So, if we can find twitters from prior to the ice cream run, you’ll concede the point that Barack “Nero” Obama was in the wrong?
DelD on June 20, 2009 at 7:10 PM
Awarded to you by HotAir’s own resident moron, Drywall.
Disturb the Universe on June 20, 2009 at 7:10 PM
If the twitter posts started 21 minutes after the president was eating ice cream then HE WAS EATING IT WHITE PEOPLE WERE BING SHOT IN THE STREETS. And it’s not like he didn’t know this was going on because the beatings, etc have been going on for days.
- The Cat
P.S. Shill
MirCat on June 20, 2009 at 7:11 PM
That’s your first mistake.
CNN “reported” a few days ago that the protests were dying down.
The only thing they had right was the “dying” part.
CNN must be getting their news tips from the White House. Two groups of people dumber than a box of rocks.
NoDonkey on June 20, 2009 at 7:11 PM
white = while
MirCat on June 20, 2009 at 7:11 PM
First black President to crap the bed on a daily basis too, this clown is a disaster on wheels.
NoDonkey on June 20, 2009 at 7:12 PM
Can I just finish my waffle cone?
trubble on June 20, 2009 at 7:13 PM
+ several many
MirCat on June 20, 2009 at 7:13 PM
Funny, libtards juts don’t see the irony in this. It is like the local major going for a beer while the firehouse burns down. Obama should be in the situation room figuring out what to do about this threat to our national security.
dpierson on June 20, 2009 at 7:14 PM
Well, I’m doing something. But it sure as bloody hell ain’t laffing.
Well, if someone knows about being a moron, it’s certainly you. You seem to be the type that would have shrugged and walked away when the SS kill Jews, right?
mjk on June 20, 2009 at 7:15 PM
21 minutes, eh?
So what you’re saying is, if only Obama had known that the Iranian people were suffering and dying in the name of freedom he would never have gone out for ice cream?
So, if we can find twitters from prior to the ice cream run, you’ll concede the point that Barack “Nero” Obama was in the wrong?
DelD on June 20, 2009 at 7:10 PM
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No, genius, what I’m saying is – you have no idea what the president has done with his time on the Iran situation, so you should stop applauding a childish twitter-shopped pile of sh1t that means nothing, and just stfu.
Dave Rywall on June 20, 2009 at 7:15 PM
For Iran its the first Blackberry revolution too, for the Pres. at least.
Speakup on June 20, 2009 at 7:15 PM
I’ll bet those idiots in Alexandria were just swooning over this too. Soooooo glad I don’t live there anymore!
rockmom on June 20, 2009 at 7:16 PM
I don’t like swearing, but this guy is such a piece of shit.
Emily M. on June 20, 2009 at 7:16 PM
Or soda?
redrock on June 20, 2009 at 7:16 PM
Dude, your hero is AWOL in this crisis. Just admit it and move on.
rockmom on June 20, 2009 at 7:17 PM
This is getting you all emotional, isn’t it?
AUINSC on June 20, 2009 at 7:19 PM
You seem to be the type that would have shrugged and walked away when the SS kill Jews, right?
mjk on June 20, 2009 at 7:15 PM
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You cannot possibly be so stupid as to believe that Obama hasn’t been briefed a great, great great deal already. But then again, maybe you are, just like all the other soggy pantsed outrageheads around here.
Dave Rywall on June 20, 2009 at 7:19 PM
No, genius, what I’m saying is – you have no idea what the
It’s clear that neither him nor that policy heavyweight Biden has any idea what to do here. They have no clear ideals to stand for so they do nothing and carry on as if it was business as usual.
dpierson on June 20, 2009 at 7:19 PM
“No, genius, what I’m saying is – you have no idea what the president has done with his time on the Iran situation, so you should stop applauding a childish twitter-shopped pile of sh1t that means nothing, and just stfu.
Dave Rywall ”
STFU…..isn’t that just about the same thing the powers that be are telling all those rabble rousers in Tehran? Man, you’d fit right in with that open minded bunch.
heddly_lamar on June 20, 2009 at 7:19 PM
Yeah, you don’t even know DelD. You don’t even know.
I mean I bet he cries himself to sleep at knight over this, you don’t even know.
I bet he’s got CIA agents setting up safe houses for these people, you don’t even know.
DelD! You don’t even know!
- The Cat
MirCat on June 20, 2009 at 7:20 PM
Seriously, i despise Obama, but isn’t this a little silly? It was silly when the dems went nuts over this kind of thing, and it’s silly when ‘we’ do it as well. So Obama went for ice cream while a crisis is going on somewhere – oooh, horrible.
C’mon, guys.
Midas on June 20, 2009 at 7:21 PM
My sentiments exactly.
Daggett on June 20, 2009 at 7:21 PM
I would agree, the reporting of ice cream flavors purchased by Obama is absurd and pointless…really…who gives a flying frack. But, case in point, I’m not sure if this means, entirely, Obama doesn’t give a rats behind about it. The Revolution in Iran has been going on everyday, and though I’m concerned about it…I just played some Metal Gear Solid 4 on the playstation for a few hours. Am I as rotten? I had some Jamba Juice earlier…is that bad? I don’t quite see the anger here (besides Obamas weak response and position on Iran…now that is utter ridiculous).
cabbageheat on June 20, 2009 at 7:21 PM
Sorry Dave.
You can’t defend the indefensible.
Now just go back to mowing the lawn on this weekend and pray for another Cuda thread to keep you busy later.
Sapwolf on June 20, 2009 at 7:22 PM
Mark Knoller is not a journalist, by any stretch of the imagination. He’s a member of Obama’s entourage, period.
Cowardly scum, just like the cowardly prick he’s following.
MadisonConservative on June 20, 2009 at 7:22 PM
We know he has zeroed out funds for opposition in Iran and that he’s failed to stand up to the thugs several times in a week already.
aikidoka on June 20, 2009 at 7:22 PM
I think at least half the outrage is over the fact that the press covers his trip for ice cream like it’s a big event, and that all the people who screamed about Bush doing similar things are mysteriously silent when Obama does worse.
Daggett on June 20, 2009 at 7:23 PM
Me too, DC blows.
I was just back there for two weeks, traffic and a lot of irritating, stressed out liberals. So glad I moved to Texas.
Especially with this president Poof in office. I have no confidence in him or his administration and am glad I no longer reside at Target Central.
NoDonkey on June 20, 2009 at 7:23 PM
The difference when Bush went on vacation he was still working at the ranch. He had people on it. Things were happening and getting done.
Obama? Not so much. We don’t wanna get involved.
- The Cat
MirCat on June 20, 2009 at 7:24 PM
Dear Patterico: Very simple. Very well done. Thanks.
Loxodonta on June 20, 2009 at 7:24 PM
Heck of a job, Mr. President.
I can’t believe this is happening.
The Ugly American on June 20, 2009 at 7:24 PM
Listen, I can’t stand Obama. But what is he supposed to do? He finally got off his ass and made some strong statements about the situation. Should he make some stronger statements? She he bomb Iran? Should he put his life and the lives of his family on hold and not get ice cream to stay at home and watch the situation? What’s going down in Iran is very important. But I for one don’t have a problem if Obama chooses not to micromanage a foreign situation into the ground the way he is doing with everything in this country.
Kataklysmic on June 20, 2009 at 7:24 PM
This should be Obama’s “reading to children while the WTC was attacked” or “Katrina flyover” moment. But, unlike coverage of GWB, the media will spin this as being presidential.
highhopes on June 20, 2009 at 7:25 PM
Uncomfortable as it is to ‘defend’ Obama here, no, it’s not like this at all. It’s like the local major going for a beer while a firehouse burned down on the other side of the world. His own firehouse isn’t burning down, get the difference?
Seriously, Obama is a cretin, but this outrage over a trip for some ice cream is simply making ‘our side’ look extremely foolish, imo.
Midas on June 20, 2009 at 7:25 PM
It’s historic. He’s our first black president to go out for ice cream. He’s also our first black president to fart. Did they get that story, too?
Daggett on June 20, 2009 at 7:08 PM
He just committed a crime against global warming. I believe it’s an impeachable offense…. or at least I can hope.
txag92 on June 20, 2009 at 7:25 PM
Why did she get the whipped cream on her order and why was it of a kind that needed to be scraped off?
ericdijon on June 20, 2009 at 7:25 PM
I wonfer if the Iranians read O’s twitters?
Got to be really motivating to read about his custard and all.
It’s twits, I mean twitters like those that just make me wanna block a bullet for freedom.
Our POTUS is so brilliant.
Sapwolf on June 20, 2009 at 7:25 PM
I agree. Obama doesn’t have a clue.
All the foreign embassies in Iran, all the events that have led up to this, the CIA, the NSC, the Pentagon, all the satellite photos, all the military and communications technology….
hell…
without these twitter tweets, how the hell was he supposed to know?
Face it Drywall, Ben and Jerry can’t bail him out this time.
Saltysam on June 20, 2009 at 7:26 PM
Well Obama did say he supported the peaceful protests of the Iranian people. Now that it has gotten violent, they have lost his support. So time for some custard with the daughters and dog. True leadership if there ever was. :-/
Spectreman on June 20, 2009 at 7:26 PM
RACISM!
Cool, I never get to say that.
Sapwolf on June 20, 2009 at 7:26 PM
The media in this country is to abhor! Such important news in Iran.
The media loves socialism and hate freedom.
They are purposely ignoring Iran to remind people the idiot we have as president and his deplorable response to the situation in Iran.
The MSM is a disgrace.
jencab on June 20, 2009 at 7:26 PM
Live by Twitter, Die by Twitter
Sapwolf on June 20, 2009 at 7:27 PM
Going out for ice cream knowing this situation was brewing does illustrate a real indifference to the situation. I would expect a real President to monitor whats going on closely and order the ice cream in.
I’m surprised the protesters haven’t started shooting back already…
dogsoldier on June 20, 2009 at 7:27 PM
What chick isn’t like this?
Besides, it’s not like she inherited logic from Obama.
- The Cat
P.S. I think I scored two party fouls from this comment muahaha
MirCat on June 20, 2009 at 7:27 PM
Was the official food tester along for the ride?
txag92 on June 20, 2009 at 7:27 PM
Oh, well that explains why the liberal media didn’t cover the fart. Otherwise, they’d probably take a picture of the first black president fart and sell copies of it online as a piece of precious history.
Daggett on June 20, 2009 at 7:27 PM
It’s not just the Ice Cream trip…it’s sucking his thumb for seven days before even saying anything definitive…and when he said something, it was typical soggy HopeyChangeyILuvMyself crap. It’s his initial ‘robust debate’ pap he spewed. It’s all part of the bigger picture with this guy.
This also is about the MSM…on this day, they decide this is worthy of print…just like Date Night, Michelle’s wardrobe or arms, etc, all the time…when the US economy is tanking…nothing better to do than shill for Obama. This administration and the MSM together make for a sickeningly funny team.
AUINSC on June 20, 2009 at 7:28 PM
You have it right, especially the she-he part.
Air strikes on the Revolutionary Guard are in order.
And don’t give us this nonsense that the Iranian people will rally around the regime if we attack them.
The regime is killing their children. It’s about time our child president grow up, grow some balls and a brain.
NoDonkey on June 20, 2009 at 7:28 PM
Dear Leader doesn’t have to worry about this or any other crisis – his handlers may be busy trying to figure out what to do and devise a policy, but the puppet in chief can eat all the dessert he wants.
InTheBellyoftheBeast on June 20, 2009 at 7:28 PM
Again, no, it’s not remotely like that.
It’s like Obama reading to children while the Taj Mahal is attacked (you know, on the other side of the world).
It’s like Obama flying over New Orleans while a tsunami is wiping out a south Pacific island (you know, on the other side of the world).
YES – the Iran stuff is *huge* but you guys are, I’m sorry, going way too nutter over this (and this from a guy who’s prone to go nutter over some Obama stuff, lol).
I just don’t see the outrage here. You know, I heard a rumor that Obama ate breakfast and lunch already, and is also planning to have dinner today – all on the same day that this Iran stuff is happening! THE HORROR!
Give it a rest and some perspective, guys.
Midas on June 20, 2009 at 7:28 PM
Well well, isn’t our insignificant little Canuck Troll getting pissy nowadays. He’s not even your president and yet his screw-up after screw-up is starting to show on you like more and more O Voters on this side of the border. Suck on it, socialist.
Patrick S on June 20, 2009 at 7:29 PM
Great, and that pisses me off as well.
But to get whirled up over the ice cream thing makes the rest of the outrage look incredibly vapid, honestly.
Midas on June 20, 2009 at 7:30 PM
Iran students, if you are monitoring. We are with you. Bush wanted freedom for all in the Mid East. Obama is not your friend. In the U.S., we may be fighting in the streets soon to keep our healthcare and rights. Obama is evil.
suzyk on June 20, 2009 at 7:30 PM
He should be working. This isn’t like an isolated/surprise attack. This is an ongoing Biden. I mean testing. I mean Crisis.
This kids do have a mother you know.
- The Cat
MirCat on June 20, 2009 at 7:30 PM
Maybe so, but good journalism completes the story. There are many who, what, why, when, where, and hows totally ignored here.
ericdijon on June 20, 2009 at 7:31 PM
America suffers from Electile Dysfunction, a condition which results in a limp presidency that is unable to stand for liberty.
beatcanvas on June 20, 2009 at 7:31 PM
Yup, that is 100% correct.
dogsoldier on June 20, 2009 at 7:31 PM
Is this what we’re supposed to gird our loins for? Ice cream trips?
rbj on June 20, 2009 at 7:31 PM
I don’t give a hoot in hell if he goes out for ice cream or a hit on a crack pipe.
He’s been AWOL on everything since day 1, besides screwing up the economy.
And I have no confidence that he has anything positive to contribute to this situation. Other than reading off of teleprompters and paying back Democrat donors 1,000 fold, Obama’s skill set is pretty limited.
I’m just so disgusted that this pile of crap is our president and that he has absolutely nothing to offer in this situation.
NoDonkey on June 20, 2009 at 7:32 PM
Remember when the libs got all mad about Bush reading My Pet Goat to a classroom of kids during 9/11? ….how things change.
TheQuestion on June 20, 2009 at 7:32 PM
There’s no doubt he’s been briefed.
It’s the “doing something” part that seems to be absent right now.
12thMonkey on June 20, 2009 at 7:33 PM
I… er… ah, I forgot.
ericdijon on June 20, 2009 at 7:34 PM
Oh, well that explains why the liberal media didn’t cover the fart. Otherwise, they’d probably take a picture of the first black president fart and sell copies of it online as a piece of precious history.
Daggett on June 20, 2009 at 7:27 PM
No, they’d bottle it and call it Ogasm for women.
txag92 on June 20, 2009 at 7:34 PM
W at least went to work and stayed at it. Bozo hasn’t worked day one yet.
dogsoldier on June 20, 2009 at 7:34 PM
Dude, calm done. No reason to get your panties in a bunch. Why doncha go out for a sno-cone or something.
It’s not like people in Iran are dying for your freedom, right?
Just a bunch of nobodies. Who are they to interrupt a perfectly good presidential photo-op with their cries of pain, with their desire to live free?
F’em! Right, Drywall, F’em. They didn’t vote for Obama.
DelD on June 20, 2009 at 7:35 PM
Cant’t resist
We scream
The Iranians scream
The world screams
Obama screams for ice scream
fourdeucer on June 20, 2009 at 7:35 PM
Yep. Remember how we goofed on them for it? How decidedly unserious it all sounded? How strictly partisan and mindless and petty? And that was with regard to a direct assault on our own country.
And now, the grousing about the ice cream trip during a crisis in another country is more justified? Less petty and mindless? Hmmm.
Midas on June 20, 2009 at 7:36 PM
Bush didn’t keep reading My Pet Goat for a week. He got busy pretty quickly. Obama? Not so much…
beatcanvas on June 20, 2009 at 7:37 PM
Since he’s such a big guy about apologizing for America’s sins, perhaps someday Obama will apologize for acting like a potted plant while the Iranian people were crying out for help, instead of a President.
Ya think?
NoDonkey on June 20, 2009 at 7:38 PM
Obama is killing our planet. The loads of toxic dioxins transmitted in ice cream is pure poison. Any environmentalist know chemical plants can’t handle dioxins like ice cream contains. Fine them all!!!!
seven on June 20, 2009 at 7:38 PM
Reality meet leftist moron.
The truth is that Obama’s Iran policy lies in ruins thanks to the Basij and he’s to arrogant to realize it.
Its now amusing to watch the beautiful irony of Obama’s sycophants hyperventilating in defense of his arrogance and ego who are, if you follow the logical progression of their argument, in de facto alliance with Ahmadinejad and the Iranian regime.
It is beyond pathetic. Even the socialist dominated corrupt US Congress has taken a stronger stand than Obama has…
elduende on June 20, 2009 at 7:40 PM
Oh… and didn’t I hear during the campaign that Palin wasn’t qualified because she was a mom, and that would distract her or something?
But one of the major sources of terrorism and instability in the Middle East may be in the middle of a regime-changing revolution, and it’s cool for dad to take the kiddies out for ice cream.
Okie dokie…
12thMonkey on June 20, 2009 at 7:40 PM
And more to the point…
(hey Rywall, you might want to pay attention here)
…the protesters had already turned to violence when he gave the speech.
His commitment was simultaneously annulled in the same breath.
Saltysam on June 20, 2009 at 7:42 PM
I hope the idiot who put the whipped cream on sasha’s ice cream is ready for the IRS anal probe that’s coming his or her way. Since “Dad” had to wipe it off for her, the ice cream idiot actually made Barry do something this week.
heddly_lamar on June 20, 2009 at 7:42 PM
Photoshopped a couple pics myself:
http://nicholasjacob.wordpress.com/2009/06/20/iran-in-turmoil-obama-goes-for-custard/
I think you’ll get a laugh :-)
nickj116 on June 20, 2009 at 7:43 PM
Strange, with a name like that, yet no eye for gold.
Saltysam on June 20, 2009 at 7:45 PM
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