Going Ape Over Obama’s Comments
September 9th, 2008 at 8:31 pm by BrianWhat? You’ve never heard of “going ape” over something before? It’s an old expression. Not unlike putting lipstick on a pig or wrapping stinky, old fish in a newspaper.
For crying out loud – it’s just an idiom! Don’t read more into it than I’m saying folks. That’s all I’m saying. Don’t go crazy. *ahem* Exercising some restraint is what I’m trying to convey.
Watch the video above though. That was a premeditated insult that he started rubbing his forehead over before he said it and he’s going to live to regret it.
Watch the crowd start to cheer when they begin to “get” the joke. (OMFG! – did he just say that?!? *whisper, whisper* This is exactly the kind of attack we’ve been waiting for! Yay!)
Then watch them pitifully try to spin their way out of this before being forced to apologize for you misunderstanding what they meant. The same people who see coded racial attacks in the phrase “community organizer” can’t see Obama’s callback to Palin’s “The only difference between a hockey mom and a pit ball is lipstick” remark from last week is little more than selective sensitivity. Or insensitivity as the case may be. Alas, such is the moral tuning fork of the liberal white male. So attuned to the plight of the black man as he is.
My, my – what a difference a few points in the polls makes. Thank God the era of Karl Rove’s dirty politics is over. Two weeks ago, no one could have told you who Sarah Palin was. Today they could tell you that she’s the bad mothering, wolf-killing, land raping, moose hating, adulterous mating, earmark taking, pregnancy faking, banned book baking, Down syndrome baby-making, pig in lipstick who smells like old fish. In two weeks.
Change – can’t you feel it in the air?
Digging Yourselves Into An Early Grave: Censorship from these Diggheads? Never saw that coming.
Seems talking about Palin is only ripe for shovels when they’re cracking one across the back of her head.
9/10 UPDATE: Digg now posts Obama’s response to a story they refused to even allow on their site. Nice move, diggleberries.
Not one to leave a mouth shoeless, Joe Biden gets in on some Sarah sucker punches too – Hey, you know who could really use some embryonic stem cells, that retarded baby of yours.
Stay classy, Big J.
UPDATE (PTH):
Do you think Big J will call Gov. Palin sweetie during the debate? Or are their sexist/racist/religionist slurs reserved for B. Hussein, due to his protected class status?
I suppose we’ll find out soon enough!











September 10th, 2008 at 11:47 am
I am MUCH more concerned about what their platforms are and their voting records while in office. The rest is just good satirical fodder.
What IS relevant though, is going to be low on the radar, and that is how he handles himself under fire. He whinges.
September 10th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Well, let’s just call a spade, a spade… Did I just say that?!
September 10th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
Greetings:
Yeah, but it’s a shame that Senator Obama didn’t use the “monkey in a tuxedo” idiom, because Gov. Palin could have then come back with the “Negro with a dictionary” idiom.
September 10th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
I hope Obama isn’t spooked by Palin. Yes, he is concerned with own welfare, but that is no reason to use code words. Surely, there must be an easier way for him to cleanly articulate his superior credentials.
September 10th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Isn’t this the pot calling the kettle black?
(which is also just another common analogy with no secret racial overtones, so please don’t go ape, and all)
September 10th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
FreakyBoy, you leave niggardly praise – why assume that we’d go bananas over racial overtones and all?
NOTE: please, before going nuts, go look up the word – I chose it because people have had witch hunts over this word, which means nothing like the first assumptions – Washington Mayor Anthony Williams’ Aide David Howard was forced to resign over this word.
September 10th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Hey, I’ve had Barry featured in my Friday Surrender Monkey posts. It’s just an expression.
September 10th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
What a fantastic expression it is, too!
September 10th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
Gawd! I haven’t heard that saying in a coon’s age. Sometimes YOU PEOPLE surprise me.
September 10th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
Ferchrissakes, people. I was only trying to make a simple point – not start a pogrom. Sheesh.
The Establishment has decided that this is not a big deal. Just let them go on with their lives and know that no one on the right would be forced to kiss Jesse Jackson’s ass on live tv if they said “afro” instead of “african-American”.
So please. For me. Let it go. With two months left and a media that is completely in the bag, if he’s given enough rope that he’ll hang himself.