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Tuesday Open Thread: Obama and his Binky

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  March 17th, 2009 at 03:37 PM  | 

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Huge tip of the cap to a fellow RS Contributor for the apropos title. He also asks the question, “How many more pictures like this are they going to allow before they install the video screen in Obama’s podium?”

Who knows? One thing is true, as Rush has also noted: the TelePrompTer can serve as a useful whipping boy for the president’s current foibles and failures — as in, “My TelePrompTer tells me the economy is the worst we’ve seen in years!,” “My TelePrompTer says ratcheting up the deficit by a couple trillion more will solve the current crisis!,” and, my personal favorite, “Even though I have enough votes in Congress to pass Porkulus, the Omnibus, and anything else I want without even acknowledging the Republican minority’s existence, my TelePrompTer tells me I’m supposed to be demonizing them in the most old-politics way imaginable, all in the name of Hope, Change, and post-partisanship!”

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  • Tbone

    is useful when you have the runs of the same stuff at the other end.

  • Tbone

    is useful when you have the runs of the same stuff at the other end.

  • http://www.phxgonline.com phxg
  • 6eorge Jetson

    Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-laa, & Po ?

  • 10ksnooker

    That can make the same noises.

    You can mount it on a swivel for effect.

    NO doubt we have a socialist, and a dumb one at that.

  • usrbinperl

    if those are hard-wired or wireless?

    Now THAT would be a worthwhile hack..

    • http://www.fredmaidment.com Fred Maidment

      ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States.

      PresBO: Good evening. I would like to talk to you tonight about the very serious subject of schizophrenia. No he doesn’t! Shut up and let him talk!

      [confounded stare]

      PresBO: I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell – ‘I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!’ Things have got to change. But first, you’ve gotta get mad!… You’ve got to say, ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!’ Then we’ll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it:

      [screaming at the top of his lungs]

      I’M MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!

      • GCBWI

        thanks for a needed chuckle

  • JustLeaveMeAlone

    It’s been two freekin’ months. Take ‘em down, already.

  • redneck_hippie

    Here is what Rush said about the Binky this week:

    “I’m challenging his teleprompter to a debate.”

  • http://www.RedState.com/ETCartman Kenny Solomon

    ACORN TO PARTICIPATE IN 2010 CENSUS

    The U.S. Census is supposed to be free of politics, but one group with a history of voter fraud, ACORN, is participating in next year’s count, raising concerns about the politicization of the decennial survey.

    The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now signed on as a national partner with the U.S. Census Bureau in February 2009 to assist with the recruitment of the 1.4 million temporary workers needed to go door-to-door to count every person in the United States — currently believed to be more than 306 million people.

    A U.S. Census “sell sheet,” an advertisement used to recruit national partners, says partnerships with groups like ACORN “play an important role in making the 2010 Census successful,” including by “help[ing] recruit census workers.”

    ================

    Obama secretly ends program that let pilots carry guns

    After the September 11 attacks, commercial airline pilots were allowed to carry guns if they completed a federal-safety program. No longer would unarmed pilots be defenseless as remorseless hijackers seized control of aircraft and rammed them into buildings.

    Now President Obama is quietly ending the federal firearms program, risking public safety on airlines in the name of an anti-gun ideology.

    =================

    Barack Obama advisers urges talks with Hamas

    Paul Volcker, a senior adviser to President Barack Obama, has urged him to break with US policy and open talks with Hamas in order to test the militant group’s willingness to join a unified Palestinian government.

    Mr Volcker, a former Federal Reserve chairman who was picked by the president to head his new economic recovery advisory board, signed a letter with nine other Washington veterans and senior ex-officials urging him to open dialogue.

    Other signatories of the letter, delivered to the president days before he took office, include Brent Scowcroft, national security adviser to the first George Bush, and Zbigniew Brzezinski, who performed the same role under Jimmy Carter.

    ===================

    EU bans use of Miss and Mrs and sportsmen and statesmen because it claims they are sexist

    Using ‘Miss’ and ‘Mrs’ has been banned by leaders of the European Union because they are not considered politically correct.

    Brussels bureaucrats have decided the words are sexist and issued new guidelines in its bid to create ‘gender-neutral’ language.

    The booklet warns European politicians they must avoid referring to a woman’s marital status.

    This also means Madame and Mademoiselle, Frau and Fraulein and Senora and Senorita are banned.

    • bk

      So I guess we’re not supposed to call them a bunch of weenies.

      Ditto a few other epithets.

      On the bright side, they discovered a cure for man-made global warming.

      Man-made is also taboo – it should be artificial or synthetic….

  • usrbinperl
  • lukematthews

    Perhaps if we just take away his binky, we could stop the madness. Without his sidekick, he may not be able to operate at all.