Good news: Pop stars now posing in Obama’s chair in the WH Situation Room
posted at 7:50 pm on March 5, 2010 by Allahpundit
Fine by me. To object would, of course, be unhip, and besides, The One and his staff are perfectly capable of making this political calculation. If they think lending the president’s national-security seat for celebrity photo ops is a winner with voters, have at it. It certainly helps with his cool factor, and let’s face it — with stagnant unemployment and the ObamaCare debacle dragging on forever, that’s about 80 percent of his appeal at this point.
Did Bush do something like this too? I’ll bet he did and that every lefty media type who found out about it thought it was a cute and endearing reflection of his attitude towards the job. Here’s reaction from a different type of Situation Room featuring Donna Brazile and Alex Castellanos, who notes in Jay-Z’s defense that he has, after all, done more to create jobs than Obama. Exit ultimatum: If I see any photos of Lady Gaga rolling around on the Oval Office desk, that’s it.
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Considering that O is essentially a pop star, how can you tell the difference?
vcferlita on March 5, 2010 at 7:52 PM
Could we make a switch her? I mean how much worse could Jay-Z and Beyonce do than Obama and Hillary?
sharrukin on March 5, 2010 at 7:54 PM
Who’s Lady Gaga?
Chip on March 5, 2010 at 7:54 PM
Could Jay-Z be any worse than the Caliph?
Heck Beyonce be any worse than BHO?
At least they would make great videos.
PappyD61 on March 5, 2010 at 7:55 PM
Sure sign of being somebody.
On a serious note, a sure sign that Obama is an amateurisch egocentric, narcissistic nobody.
Schadenfreude on March 5, 2010 at 7:55 PM
The Vandals have sacked Rome…
Switching “0″ and Hil for these two is akin to changing deck chairs on the Titanic.
J.J. Sefton on March 5, 2010 at 7:55 PM
He already had Tony Hawk skateboarding down the hallways, so it’s not like this is surprising.
Emily M. on March 5, 2010 at 7:56 PM
Of course there’s probably one small consideration.
A SIZABLE donation to Der Leader’s campaign coffer is certainly in order.
Just think of the potential! $5,000 for a pic in front of the seal. $25,000 for the fraud to be in the pic, too!
GoldenEagle4444 on March 5, 2010 at 7:57 PM
Beyonce and Jay Z are like the opposite of the Obama’s. Beyonce is good looking; Jay Z is not. Obama has good looks; Michelle Obama does not.
Narutoboy on March 5, 2010 at 7:57 PM
Hey, it’s not like they were directing air traffic.
/s
Y-not on March 5, 2010 at 7:58 PM
The buck stops with…Jay-z?
Weight of Glory on March 5, 2010 at 7:58 PM
I love reading Debbie Schlussel’s take on Jay-Z and Beyonce.
SouthernGent on March 5, 2010 at 7:58 PM
That does it! I’m NEVER buying anymore Jay-Z albums!
hehehe I crack myself up :-)
Tony737 on March 5, 2010 at 7:59 PM
+++++++++++++++++
That’s good!
INC on March 5, 2010 at 7:59 PM
next season of the mtv’s real world will be in the west wing
Daveyardbird on March 5, 2010 at 7:59 PM
Freak Czar
Ronnie on March 5, 2010 at 8:00 PM
Who is Lady Gaga?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bESGLojNYSo
Ever heard of Barbara Streisand, Donna Summer, Madonna, Britney Spears?
Lady Gaga is 2009′s version of all of those (at the height of their popularity)…
PappyD61 on March 5, 2010 at 8:00 PM
A picture really is worth 1000 words.
The first picture shows exactly the state our country is in.
Hollywood is crying with indignance.
The world is, and ought to be, scared.
Schadenfreude on March 5, 2010 at 8:00 PM
When the next international crisis arises, I’d rather have Jay-Z in that chair than Obama. Jay-Z wouldn’t run around issuing “statements of concern” or calling for bilateral talks; he’d just drop a dime and have the 101st Airborne bust a cap in Ahmadinejad or Chavez.
Fabozz on March 5, 2010 at 8:01 PM
What’s not to love? There’s a ‘classic gangster’ sitting on our Dear Leader’s throne.
liquidlanguage on March 5, 2010 at 8:02 PM
Beyonce can sit in my situation room any time she wants. Now, jay-Z, nah…
TXUS on March 5, 2010 at 8:02 PM
I would think you would need some HIGH LEVEL SECURITY CLEARANCE to be in the part of the White House.
WHAT’S WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE!!!????!!!
DO THEY THINK THEY”RE ON AN EPISODE OF WEST WING????!!!
Excuse the yelling, but I cannot believe this. As has been said, if Obama wasn’t elected his past would never have gotten him enough Security Clearance to work at the WH.
INC on March 5, 2010 at 8:02 PM
Second picture sends the same message…children at the switch. The Kindergarten is in full swing.
Michelle O. is having cooking contests with fake veggies…
Schadenfreude on March 5, 2010 at 8:02 PM
Aaaaaaand………
For White House Entertainment and Oval Office addresses what could be better than Jay-Z with a cigar and Beyonce on the pole (in the background where the pictures usually go)?
PappyD61 on March 5, 2010 at 8:02 PM
I`m not exactly sure what it is.
ThePrez on March 5, 2010 at 8:03 PM
I nominate 50 cent over Steve Urkel.
El_Terrible on March 5, 2010 at 8:03 PM
It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye. If your going to let grown men skateboard through the White House, why not this? Adults in charge don’t you know.
Cindy Munford on March 5, 2010 at 8:03 PM
I had no idea 2009 was that lame. Thanks for that.
stefanite on March 5, 2010 at 8:04 PM
Probably more F-Bombs that day than on the Nixon tapes.
Hummer53 on March 5, 2010 at 8:04 PM
Its a female somehow… there are pictures of her bajingo… I feel really dirty.
El_Terrible on March 5, 2010 at 8:04 PM
Get Seger in there or maybe Skynyrd, until then I’m not clicking on jack shat.
Bishop on March 5, 2010 at 8:06 PM
Setting a great standard for the troops. /s
Commander in Chief allows non clearance holding yahoos into a secured area and probably for campaign donations past or future. Lovely.
journeyintothewhirlwind on March 5, 2010 at 8:06 PM
LOL! Dump Obama, Jay-Z for Prez! He knows how to save and/or create real jobs unlike our Lecturer-in-Chief.
sarahpalinfan99 on March 5, 2010 at 8:09 PM
When he got elected, I just pictured the White House full of dumb-assed rappers smoking blunts and drinking Cristal in the Oval Office. I’m so glad to see it coming to pass…
stefanite on March 5, 2010 at 8:11 PM
Classy.
reaganaut on March 5, 2010 at 8:11 PM
Indeed.
amerpundit on March 5, 2010 at 8:12 PM
If you’re havin’ girl problems i feel bad for you son
I got 99 problems but a bitch ain’t one
txag92 on March 5, 2010 at 8:13 PM
Wow, just Wow! This WH is even sleazier than I thought was possible. The Situation Room?
If only it was just a pop star. JayZ is a former drug dealer turned thug rapper who refers to women as bitches and said kids didn’t need an education in schools since drugs and rapping made one wealthy.
lonestar1 on March 5, 2010 at 8:13 PM
If you’re havin’ girl problems i feel bad for you son
I got 99 problems but a b!tch ain’t one
txag92 on March 5, 2010 at 8:14 PM
“Wingnut Blogger Spreads Rumor Of Obama Oval Office Tryst With Lady Gaga”
eeyore on March 5, 2010 at 8:14 PM
Jay-Z and Beyonce were being honored by Hussain
because they recently honored Libya’s Gaddhafi and son with a ‘private’ concert / party
Com’n people
keep up with the current events
macncheez on March 5, 2010 at 8:14 PM
Dude!
Seven Percent Solution on March 5, 2010 at 8:15 PM
Not really sure, but my 2 year old loves her music.
uknowmorethanme on March 5, 2010 at 8:15 PM
Lady Gaga sounds sorta like I do after a fifth of Bushmills, only worse. Plus, I look better.
Anybody been jumping on the bed in the Lincoln bedroom?
The Reasonable Man on March 5, 2010 at 8:16 PM
It’s all coming together for me now. Bill clinton’s Oval Office escapades must have been the inspiration for Jay-Z’s big Pimpin.
“We doin’ big pimpin, we spendin’ cheese (Check ‘em out now )
Big pimpin’
On B.L.A.P.‘s (vulgar definition at link)
We doin’ big pimpin’ up in NYC
It’s just that Jigga-man, Pimp-C and B.U.N.B.
Check em out now”
forest on March 5, 2010 at 8:16 PM
Did anyone see the clip on Brieitbart of Tom Hanks talking about what a great job BO is doing? It made me want to puke. I think I don’t want to
support… buy anything that is coming out of HW if they are money bombing the progressives. Think I will keep my money and save it for when the whole thing crashes.wi farmgirl on March 5, 2010 at 8:17 PM
I take a certain comfort in the fact that I have no idea what most of that means. I know what pimp means and I assume cheese means money.
sharrukin on March 5, 2010 at 8:19 PM
Jay-Z deserves it for his entertainment on election night.
He also mocked GWB as he left the White House, which he deserves extra props for.
Election night festivities
Spathi on March 5, 2010 at 8:19 PM
Allah’s fantasy. She’s very alpha.
SouthernGent on March 5, 2010 at 8:20 PM
Heh, it’s always fun to watch idiots like jay z and p puff diddy daddy, whatever he’s calling himself, do the “look at me i’m a successful businessman making tons of cash but i’m still a thug and a good commie lib” sctick. Their hypocrisy is staggering and a perfect fit for obama.
clearbluesky on March 5, 2010 at 8:20 PM
So because he mocked Bush he deserves to fool around in the White House Situation Room. Okey dokey.
amerpundit on March 5, 2010 at 8:21 PM
As good a summation of the obama presidency as I have seen…all hype/not good
winston on March 5, 2010 at 8:21 PM
Wow. CNN has no shame. It’s just a big joke.
JKahn913 on March 5, 2010 at 8:21 PM
O maybe that was Jay-Z.
Well whoever was talking about the shout out to throw shoes at George Bush booth deserves to sit in the WH chair then.
Jay-Z came in after that I think.
Spathi on March 5, 2010 at 8:22 PM
Good Lord, no wonder CNN’s ratings are in the toilet. I really hope Alex Castellanos was kidding about the Dems and GOP getting together and using Jay-Z as a model of entrepreneurship for the nation. And this guy is a Republican strategist?
Doughboy on March 5, 2010 at 8:23 PM
Historic Presidency.
I’ll never forget it, although I’d like to.
fogw on March 5, 2010 at 8:24 PM
How long before Allah’s dream girl Meghan McCain gets her turn in the chair?
Clink on March 5, 2010 at 8:24 PM
Jay Z? Lady Gaga? Who are these people?
atheling on March 5, 2010 at 8:24 PM
What is a Jay-Z?
keep the change on March 5, 2010 at 8:25 PM
No big deal. Richard Nixon had Elvis over for visits and photoops and even gave him some form of a title for anti-drugs.
Now when Sarah Palin becomes president she can have over Taylor Swift. Then Kanye can bust in and say: “Yo, Taylor Swift, Imma let you finish, but Beyonce and Jay Z had the best presidential visit eva!”
Towash on March 5, 2010 at 8:25 PM
What’s wrong with me? All I see is a former drug pusher visiting a former drug user.
parke on March 5, 2010 at 8:27 PM
Iknew things were going to hell in a havdbasket then. What is a 40 something man doing on a skateboard. Yo,Tony, time to pack it in. You could break a hip or something.
katy the mean old lady on March 5, 2010 at 8:29 PM
Ya, Jay-Z is a great model for a businessman. Great model for kids, too. Talk like an imbecile, exploit women, ohony tough loser. In the situation room…
Doesn’t he basically exploit – errrr produce – young “rappers” now and make loads of money off them?
Is he also the idiot who was making those videos that were posted here last year? I remember one right after Palin was nominated talking about Alaska and it’s lack of black people. He was on some merry-go-round.
reaganaut on March 5, 2010 at 8:30 PM
FORMER ????
;)
macncheez on March 5, 2010 at 8:31 PM
I wonder what style of speach the garmentless king used…
What a nightmare, though Obama is making conservatives at a rate OBL would be proud
Sonosam on March 5, 2010 at 8:33 PM
Before this election night song, we have to give a shout out to the throw 2 shoes at George Bush from inauguration day festivities.
Spathi on March 5, 2010 at 8:33 PM
He should have had Jeezy there to since it was originally his song.
But I like the fact that Jay-Z at least got to sit in there.
Spathi on March 5, 2010 at 8:34 PM
Which is which?
After all, O’bama is being a “drug pusher” too. O’bamacare would force people to buy their own drugs, wouldn’t it?
Del Dolemonte on March 5, 2010 at 8:36 PM
Whats next, porn shoots in the Lincoln Bedroom?
For a suitable consideration to obamao’s re-election campaign, of course.
HBowmanMD on March 5, 2010 at 8:37 PM
Yes, the sell it to private sector.
Spathi on March 5, 2010 at 8:38 PM
So is this like the “middle-finger scratch”? BO to USA: “Stick it!”
indypat on March 5, 2010 at 8:38 PM
Yes, then sell it to private sector
Spathi on March 5, 2010 at 8:38 PM
Beats Markie Post and the producer of Inconvenient Truth jumping up and down on the bed in the Lincoln Bedroom like it was a friggin trampoline, during the Clinton Presidency.
/don’t forget, folks. Desiree arranged a party nearly every night the Obamas have been in the White House (less vacations, Camp David, weekends in Chicago etc). 300 parties’ worth of this sort of shenanigan. HIS FIRST YEAR.
rayra on March 5, 2010 at 8:39 PM
I was coming back on the bus from a Giant game when some brother refered to jayz with ” f jayz that camel faced mfer”
Sonosam on March 5, 2010 at 8:40 PM
I’ll buy everyone of her albums til the day I die.
Blarg the Destroyer on March 5, 2010 at 8:43 PM
Obama just appointed Jay-Z’s brother to a federal judgeship.
sdd on March 5, 2010 at 8:49 PM
Yet another classy move by Teh One. At least this guy’s wearing a tie.
Yellowdog12 on March 5, 2010 at 8:49 PM
At least Jay-Z was wearing a tie, which is more than our Poseur-in-Chief can manage most days.
Buy Danish on March 5, 2010 at 8:50 PM
I hear he loans out the nuclear “football” to anyone who donates more than $1,000. This weekend, Nelly has it.
Star20 on March 5, 2010 at 8:52 PM
Finally! I kept telling myself, “Chewy, don’t jump ahead and do a Lincoln bedroom post…Surely (don’t call me Shirley), someone will make a Lincoln bedroom comment!”
Feets don’t fail me now!
Chewy the Lab on March 5, 2010 at 8:52 PM
She’s a platinum blond 13 year old that belts out really mean ceremonial Chinese ballads wearing outfits from the moose-knuckle-r-us catalog but they wear too large on her.
I think…
ericdijon on March 5, 2010 at 8:57 PM
2012 elections
coming soon
macncheez on March 5, 2010 at 8:57 PM
Now all BHO needs is an A-hole brother pushing “Billy Beer”. What a low rent president.
Claypigeon on March 5, 2010 at 8:58 PM
With all the sex that went on in the Clinton White House, I wouldn’t be surprised if there is a secret film out there somewhere…
Conservative Samizdat on March 5, 2010 at 8:58 PM
It’s just another calculated diss by the Dirtball in Chief.
justltl on March 5, 2010 at 8:59 PM
You never heard the troll Danny DeVito telling what he did in there?
reaganaut on March 5, 2010 at 9:01 PM
That really is an embarrassment to the office.
WisCon on March 5, 2010 at 9:02 PM
THAT says a lot
nyx on March 5, 2010 at 9:07 PM
Isn’t Jay Z the guy with a love child in one of the islands?
What is with these celebs and having sordid lives?
nyx on March 5, 2010 at 9:12 PM
As a former U.S. Marine and also a former U.S. Soldier, words escape me for the moment. But I feel them bubbling up. Maybe after a few more drinks.
snowman423 on March 5, 2010 at 9:16 PM
I’m sure his brother in “Hut-Sweet-Hut” would love a gig like this. He’d prob’ly make more scratch if brother Barry would let him open a flippin’ lemonade stand on Pennsylvania Ave.
Chewy the Lab on March 5, 2010 at 9:18 PM
I expect that by the end of his reign, the White House will have a Caligulesque atmosphere- just as a way of saying what he thinks of America, and also because he “won”.
justltl on March 5, 2010 at 9:19 PM
Not much difference. Same amount on intellect sitting in the same chair.
GarandFan on March 5, 2010 at 9:26 PM
In Jay Z’s defense I believe he narrated some of the History Channel’s recent documentary on WW II in color and HD. Beyonce on the other hand should do some free concerts for the troops and less for the Quadafi family.
rob verdi on March 5, 2010 at 9:27 PM
What’s next? A rap video shot there? Lot’s of bling and half naked bootie?
Blake on March 5, 2010 at 9:29 PM
Niiice, we’ve turned the WH into da hood. You can take the community agitator out of the ghetto, but you’ll never get the ghetto out of the community agitator.
Alden Pyle on March 5, 2010 at 9:48 PM
Picture parody — Critics Concerned by Obama’s Jersey Shore Briefings in “The Situation” Situation Room http://optoons.blogspot.com/2010/03/critics-concerned-by-obamas-jersey.html
Mervis Winter on March 5, 2010 at 10:11 PM
Makes you wonder who was at the stick when AirForce 1 did its New York City Buzz.
Bicyea on March 5, 2010 at 10:17 PM
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