Peeance Freeance

Posted on 03/20/2009 at 7:54 am by Bob Cesca

Predictably, the tea baggers are out in full force this morning hitting the president on the bowling gaffe from last night’s Tonight Show.

But again, after eight years of defending President Peeance Freeance who could barely form a complete English sentence without choking on his own tongue — and campaigning for a lightweight know-nothing from Alaska — they’re attempting to suggest that the smartest, most articulate president in decades is somehow a gaffe-prone idiot who can’t communicate without a prompter? At least they’re consistent in their ridiculousness.

Yes, the Special Olympics remark wasn’t good. But this bit about President Obama (of all people!) being an inarticulate prompter jockey is a perfect example of how truly crazy the far-right has become. And that’s saying a lot considering how crazy they were before Election Day.

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  • joshd

    The furor over the special Olympics comment shows, ironically, how retarded we are as a culture.This is how people talk. These are the words people use. I, for one, have not been as thrilled with a casual throwaway reference to retardation since Shatner said this in the “Nick of Time” TWILIGHT ZONE episode.http://www.rod-serling.com/wav/tzone/seas2/episod43/09_nick.wav

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    I wrote this on the “Tonight Show” thread, but I think it bears repeating here.

    Intersting. No sooner had 24hrjack wrote,
    “of course now what we’ll get from the fnc/drudge/AM hate radio doucheocracy is that whole bit about ‘if this was bush…’”

    …as if on cue, Truthiness comes in and replies with,

    “Pleese[sic]…imagine if this was Bush, Pallin[sic], or MClain[sic]. You librals make excuses for this dummy every day. He is useless without Axerod bi[sic] his side.”

    Like I said in the very first comment on the [Tonight Show] thread, there is no excuse for it. It was a dumb thing to say, and the President should be held to a higher standard. But if we’re honest with ourselves, I think everyone has used some form of wording to imply mental or physical handicap in such a way.

    “Retard” (pronounced ree-tard) has been used forever until it became politically incorrect, but I occasionally still hear some older people and comedians use it. I remember using it in the playground as a kid and all through high school. It was another version of “dumbass” as far as I was concerned until you peel away what it really implies. “Duh” evolved from the same place when you exaggerate its pronounciation. And EVERYONE uses “duh.”

    Obama’s “Special Olympics” comment wasn’t said in a malicious way and he was making fun of himself, so yes, the faux outrage is a bit much. I mean it wasn’t as if he was flailing his arms about making fun of people afflicted with Parkinson’s disease or anything.

    @ 24hrjack – your sister is right. In an unguarded moment, anyone could have said it. I didn’t see Steve Doocy’s obnoxious display but I think he was upset because he actually is retarded. BOOM! See what I did there?

  • http://nanotyrnns.blogspot.com/ Nanotyrannus

    I can’t believe they’ve latched onto this teleprompter thing. Bush mangled the English language with regularity and anytime he made even the slightest bit of sense it was when he was giving a speech read from a teleprompter. He could never speak extemporaneously. He’d give a SOTU, or some such “We have to attack Iraq now because [insert new reason here]” speech, then in the days afterward, repeat the talking points in that haltingly delivered mish-mash he thought made him sound smart but in reality made him sound like Hank Hill’s stupid cousin.ARRRGGG! I’m all worked up now!

  • Lexaburn

    None of this stuff is too serious. Another day, another Republicon outrage over minutiae.The right feels it is their responsibility to lead by following the left’s supposed example of nitpicking at every aspect of the president public image.Monkeys said they see, monkeys say they’ll do.

  • jmy

    I guess I was watching a different show because the President was very articulate and explained the AIG mess clearly and looked very comfortable.The Special Olympics comment wasn’t a big deal. He was reacting to Jay’s response to his bowling skills and looking back on it I kind see that. I don’t think it was a gaffe, after all it is a late night comedy show, and if it was McCain or Bush who said it I wouldn’t cared.

  • ElMystico

    >None of this stuff is too serious.Agreed. Especially this bit. They honestly expect to win people over with this? Sure it’ll keep the loons already in the nuthatch happy but it’s really testing their reality-twisting skills, which were already declining.

  • Jeff

    that really was a great interview up to that point. as a parent of a special needs child, i personally took no offense, but really he should know better.hey we’ve all screwed up like that though. I know i’ve made my share of bad jokes. it’s right to take him to task, and it won’t be his last gaffe, but he did apologize already, and it’s not an impeachable offense, so it’s time to move on.

  • Newsgrrl

    You know, it’s just not that big a deal. Come on, who among us has never. ever. ever. made an inappropriate joke? It wasn’t a teleprompter mix-up or anything else. What if he had said “It’s like — it was like second graders, or something.” Would people be outraged? No. They would realize he was making fun of himself and not a word would have been said.