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netfotoj on Wednesday, July 16, 2008 4:37:37 PM
Maureen Dowd, the best-lookin’ redheaded op-ed
columnist at the New York Times, asks May
We Mock, Barack?
The answer, if you lean leftward, is “How dare you!?”
as The New Yorker magazine found out this week. But it wasn’t always this
way.
Maureen
writes: When I interviewed Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert
for Rolling Stone a couple years ago, I wondered what Barack Obama would mean
for them. “It seems like a President Obama would be harder to make fun of
than these guys,” I said.
“Are
you kidding me?” Stewart scoffed. Then he and Colbert both said at the
same time: “His dad was a goat-herder!”
When I
noted that Obama, in his memoir, had revealed that he had done some pot, booze
and “maybe a little blow,” the two comedians began riffing about
the dapper senator’s familiarity with drug slang.
Colbert:
Wow, that’s a very street way of putting it. “A little blow.”
Stewart:
A little bit of the white rabbit.
Colbert: “Yeah,
I packed a cocktail straw of cocaine and had a prostitute blow it in my ear,
but that is all I did. High-fivin’.”
That was then. But since then, this son of a goat-herder
who admits to sniffing “a little blow” has been proclaimed by
lefties as “Messiah,” “Lightworker,” “Enlightened
Being” and Mr. “Thrill up my leg” just to list a few of their
over-the-top names for He-who-shall-not-be-mocked.
But of course, members of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
(of which I have been a member since before Hillary named us) have no
difficulty whatsoever finding something about Obama to mock. So herewith is the
Reader’s Digest version of right-o-sphere names for The Anointed One.
Ace of Spades has coined my personal favorite, Captain Bullsh!t, which
of course mocks Obama’s ever-changing versions of what “I have always
been for…” and his extremely slippery and loose grip on “truthiness.”
Or as Ace so colorfully often puts it, Obama’s “loose sh!t.”
Bob Owens at Confederate Yankee calls Obama “Flapjack”
for the same reasons, his constant flip-flops on what “I have always been
for…”
Michelle Malkin calls him “D'OH-bama” which
if I’m not mistaken is a favorite way of saying “Stupid!”
on “The Simpsons.”
James Lewis at American Thinker calls him “Alfred
E. Obama” referring to the freckle-faced kid with the big
ears in Mad magazine. Lewis apparently named him thusly because “Obama
told Maureen Dowd early in the primaries that he is hypersensitive to any remarks about his ears.”
Jennifer Rubin at American Spectator notes that John
McCain “came up with a
slick moniker for Obama: Dr. No,” in
contrast to McCain’s support for new domestic oil drilling to relieve
pain at the pump, which Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and the entire left are
vehemently opposing.
Jennifer asks:
“Could the Agent of
Change be transformed into Dr. No? … Public
polling indicates McCain may have caught a wave. Significant majorities now
favor increased domestic oil production including offshore drilling. When Obama doubled-down
on Tuesday, declaring that he wouldn't be joining the ranks of nervous
Democrats now considering offshore oil development, the McCain team no doubt
smiled broadly.”
Perhaps McCain’s name for Obama will be the one that
hurts him the most. It mocks Barack on an issue that seems to resonate with
voters.
If you’d like to join the “Mock Obama”
movement, here’s a site that lets you create your own ‘Mock
Obama’ poster. Pick a name and go for it. Here's my "Mock Obama" campaign poster.