Yes...I miss the days when we had an articulate President.

Wow, this one blew the PITA all to hell.

ragekage: Wow, this one blew the PITA all to hell.

Or else Mozilla didn't load the picture; take your pick. Nonetheless, I gotta say, the teleprompter schtick was funny the first couple times... then annoying... now, it's beyond annoying and into gargling-santorum territory.

ragekage: I gotta say, the teleprompter schtick was funny the first couple times... then annoying... now, it's beyond annoying and into gargling-santorum territory.

CHIMPY McFLIGHTSUIT

So she left... for an actually higher-ranking job in part of the administration. Chief of staff under a cabinet secretary is nothing to sneeze at, and is an actual management position rather than what amounts to basically the president's PR guy.

Alternately, if it wasn't a great career move, then she should get a brain, Moran.

PenguinTheRed: ragekage: I gotta say, the teleprompter schtick was funny the first couple times... then annoying... now, it's beyond annoying and into gargling-santorum territory.

CHIMPY McFLIGHTSUIT

I see. So, you're excusing your own piss-poor behavior by pointing to someone else's?

See, this is why I ended up supporting Bush in '04- the best argument the Left could come up with was "Kerry! Kerry's not Bush! Bush is horrible!" Etc. Keep that in mind, my friend, while you espouse your petulant bullshiat because you cried and cried and cried while your feelings were hurt by the big bad lefties making fun of poor 'ole Dubya.

ragekage: I see. So, you're excusing your own piss-poor behavior by pointing to someone else's?

Nope. Just pointing out that the mouth-breathing retards of both parties are going to spout unfunny, unoriginal bullsh*t ad nauseum and there's nothing you can do about it short of avoiding politics threads.

PenguinTheRed: Nope. Just pointing out that the mouth-breathing retards of both parties are going to spout unfunny, unoriginal bullsh*t ad nauseum and there's nothing you can do about it short of avoiding politics threads.

If you hadn't done it, we would have avoided it in this thread, so far.

So why'd you do it?

(W. is the top one, with the massive, cartoonish, underlined type)

PenguinTheRed: ragekage: I gotta say, the teleprompter schtick was funny the first couple times... then annoying... now, it's beyond annoying and into gargling-santorum territory.

CHIMPY McFLIGHTSUIT

WHICH CAME ABOUT AFTER BUSH WAS IN OFFICE FOR 831 DAYS.

You guys are a tad early for this stuff.

Obdicut: If you hadn't done it, we would have avoided it in this thread, so far.

So why'd you do it?

I didn't submit this crap. I only want to remind anyone who is getting butthurt over negative Obama memes that they do not have a monopoly on butthurt.

PenguinTheRed: Obdicut: If you hadn't done it, we would have avoided it in this thread, so far.

So why'd you do it?

I didn't submit this crap. I only want to remind anyone who is getting butthurt over negative Obama memes that they do not have a monopoly on butthurt.

Don't worry; that's been painfully obvious for five months now.

White House Communications Director Ellen Moran

Hehe

PenguinTheRed: Obdicut: If you hadn't done it, we would have avoided it in this thread, so far.

So why'd you do it?

I didn't submit this crap. I only want to remind anyone who is getting butthurt over negative Obama memes that they do not have a monopoly on butthurt.

I'm still not sure what point you were trying to make. What's more is that I didn't see "Chimpy McFlightsuit" and et cetera out of anyone but the left-wing trolls hanging around places like FARK, where I'd expect to see it. This meme seems to permiate the GOP mainstream- which, I suppose, is fine with me. Looks like it's working real great for 'em- I hope they keep it up.

THIS is news?

Gimme a farking break.

Dog takes crap on lawn. Full coverage at 11.

Um, is it just me or have Fark headlines gotten more trollish recently?

/ Relatively recent to Fark

Came for the "get a brain" image...left satisfied.

illegal.tender: Um, is it just me or have Fark headlines gotten more trollish recently?

It's like this a lot.

My theory is that they have a page view counter, and when it drops below a certain threshold they hit the "trollify headlines" button.

I suppose the task of explaining Obama's thoughts in laymen's terms to intrepid FOX reporters must be quite taxing :-)

"Chimpy McFlightSuit" came after the goddamned idiot flew out onto an aircraft carrier while we were at war playing super pilot and announced major operations over. Thousands of deaths prematurely.

It was annoying but he truly deserved to be mocked for it. It was frat boy bullshiat and will go down in history as an absurd thing to do. It already has.

illegal.tender: Um, is it just me or have Fark headlines gotten more trollish recently?

/ Relatively recent to Fark

it's just that the FARK Independents^tm have become more prominent

/at least this president can READ a teleprompter

Someone needs to explain to me a few things:

1) What's wrong with using a teleprompter? He's obviously intelligent - we saw that during the debates - and he's well spoken. What part of the presidency is an extemporaneous speaking quiz?

2) When has he misspoken when off the teleprompter in the last 100 days? Has it affected international or domestic policy or relations in a major way, or was it easily correctable? How many times has he done it exactly?

If there aren't any definitive answers to these questions I'm going to assume this is a BS issue and submitter's a moron.

Prospero424: d when it drops below a certain threshold they hit the "trollify headlines" button.

Fark is no difference than O'reilly or Rush. The mods are professional trolls and we bite all day long.

Why do you think sites like "American Thinker" are constantly greened.

The teleprompter bit is going to get some traction any day now. I can feel it!! Any day now!!

I thought there would be more to this story.

Truly, this is not news. This is FARK!

PenguinTheRed: ragekage: I gotta say, the teleprompter schtick was funny the first couple times... then annoying... now, it's beyond annoying and into gargling-santorum territory.

CHIMPY McFLIGHTSUIT

I see the point you are getting at and I think it is valid, however, lets look at the details here.

When we say "Chimpy McFlightsuit," we are making fun of Bush for declaring a war to be over, when we all knew the war wasn't (and still isn't) over. In fact, the worst casualties occurred after that time.

When you say "TelePrompter President," you are making fun of Obama for using a machine to help articulate his speech, as if it's a bad thing.

3_Butt_Cheeks: THIS is news?

Gimme a farking break.

Dog takes crap on lawn. Full coverage at 11.

Wow. From you I would expect something along the lines of "OMGWTFBBQ his administration is falling apart already!!!!!

You turning over a new leaf?

d'art: 1) What's wrong with using a teleprompter? He's obviously intelligent - we saw that during the debates - and he's well spoken. What part of the presidency is an extemporaneous speaking quiz?

Nothing. Its desperation. The Republicans are getting politically slaughtered on an almost daily basis and are in full panic mode.

PascalsGhost: "Chimpy McFlightSuit" came after the goddamned idiot flew out onto an aircraft carrier while we were at war playing super pilot and announced major operations over. Thousands of deaths prematurely.

It was annoying but he truly deserved to be mocked for it. It was frat boy bullshiat and will go down in history as an absurd thing to do. It already has.

Look, lib, it is exactly morally equivalent to talking about Obama's MeGaPROMPT0R. I'm not a conservative, I criticize conservatives too, but Obama's teleprompter is the worst thing a president has ever done.

You guys are really analyzing the hell out of a silly meme aren't you?

ragekage: See, this is why I ended up supporting Bush in '04- the best argument the Left could come up with was "Kerry! Kerry's not Bush! Bush is horrible!" Etc. Keep that in mind, my friend, while you espouse your petulant bullshiat because you cried and cried and cried while your feelings were hurt by the big bad lefties making fun of poor 'ole Dubya.

Well, see, that was A) more than enough, and B) Kerry's best quality. He was a lousy candidate, but "he's not Bush" was shorthand for "he doesn't have a hard-on for invading foreign countries, he won't run a huge deficit for the sake of cutting his rich buddies' taxes, and he won't try to push the religious-right's opinions on the rest of us", and all the other stuff that we were decrying back then, even BEFORE we knew about the torture and the invented intelligence, even BEFFORE the economy went to hell.

Everyone was really pissed off by the end of 2008. But if you weren't already pissed off enough in 2004 to vote for almost anybody at all just because they weren't Bush, you weren't paying attention.

PascalsGhost: Fark is no difference than O'reilly or Rush. The mods are professional trolls and we bite all day long.

Why do you think sites like "American Thinker" are constantly greened.

Meh, it's better than it was a few years ago when every other headline ended "suck it, libs".

Another rat leaving the ship that is this failing administration.

3_Butt_Cheeks: You guys are really analyzing the hell out of a silly meme aren't you?

Well, there's not a whole hell of a lot to the story, is there?

Hey, retards, just to put an end to all of this "she's running away from the administrationgarbl!":

White House Communications Director Ellen Moran is leaving her West Wing job to become Chief of Staff to Commerce Secretary Gary Locke.

EL_FABREZ: Another rat leaving the ship that is this failing administration.

35 posts for the first FARKtard to arrive. Welcome, jackass,

/your butthurt, it pleases me

EL_FABREZ: Another rat leaving the ship that is this failing administration.

Ummmm....

FTFA:

White House Communications Director Ellen Moran is leaving her West Wing job to become Chief of Staff to Commerce Secretary Gary Locke.

My don't we look just absolutely ridiculous.

EL_FABREZ
Another rat leaving the ship that is this failing administration.

Another freeper too stupid to realize that she's moving from one post in the Obama administration to another post in the Obama administration.

How did you guys do in the last elections, btw? The whole "Dumb As A Cinder Block Freeper" thing working out?

illegal.tender: Seems pretty articulate to me.

It's so nice to see the president pause after being asked a question, form his opinion and then respond.

d'art: 1) What's wrong with using a teleprompter? He's obviously intelligent - we saw that during the debates - and he's well spoken. What part of the presidency is an extemporaneous speaking quiz?

They're trying to say that Obama can't think for himself. He needs a teleprompter or else he's a dimwit.

Which is patently false. But reality's got nothing to do with it.

heinekenftw: When you say "TelePrompter President," you are making fun of Obama for using a machine to help articulate his speech, as if it's a bad thing.

I think you're missing the point of the meme, which is the observation of the fact that while Obama is a magnificent orator (and I mean that) when he has a teleprompter, but when engaged in Q&A he tends to stumble and drift off-message, sometimes in ways contrarian to his official public line.

Bush, on the other hand, was a lousy public speaker even when he DID have a teleprompter.

I understand both of them are very engaging and articulate in private, when hundreds of reporters and cameras broadcasting their words around the world live are not a factor. Not everybody is a great public speaker, and some are better than others.

But that didn't stop throngs of left wingers from lambasting Bush as a retard, and it's not going to stop throngs of right wingers from doing the same thing to Obama.

3_Butt_Cheeks: You guys are really analyzing the hell out of a silly meme aren't you?

This silly meme has replaced serious discussion - on major news networks. That's a problem.

Xetal: How did you guys do in the last elections, btw? The whole "Dumb As A Cinder Block Freeper" thing working out?

Fine, because next year we'll own the elections and Barry will be out in four. So that's 8 years of butthurt for you libs and 2 for us.

PenguinTheRed: heinekenftw: When you say "TelePrompter President," you are making fun of Obama for using a machine to help articulate his speech, as if it's a bad thing.

I think you're missing the point of the meme, which is the observation of the fact that while Obama is a magnificent orator (and I mean that) when he has a teleprompter, but when engaged in Q&A he tends to stumble and drift off-message, sometimes in ways contrarian to his official public line.

Bush, on the other hand, was a lousy public speaker even when he DID have a teleprompter.

I understand both of them are very engaging and articulate in private, when hundreds of reporters and cameras broadcasting their words around the world live are not a factor. Not everybody is a great public speaker, and some are better than others.

But that didn't stop throngs of left wingers from lambasting Bush as a retard, and it's not going to stop throngs of right wingers from doing the same thing to Obama.

Ohhh...you're asking for it.

Lando Lincoln: d'art: 1) What's wrong with using a teleprompter? He's obviously intelligent - we saw that during the debates - and he's well spoken. What part of the presidency is an extemporaneous speaking quiz?

They're trying to say that Obama can't think for himself. He needs a teleprompter or else he's a dimwit.

Which is patently false. But reality's got nothing to do with it.

Reminds me of how they railed about the Left choosing whether Bush was incompetent, or an evil mastermind, really. Delicious, delicious irony. Neoconservative tears nourish my soul.

We had better pictures in the last Moran thread. (new window)

whereisian: 3_Butt_Cheeks: You guys are really analyzing the hell out of a silly meme aren't you?

This silly meme has replaced serious discussion - on major news networks. That's a problem.

I fail to see how a blurb about overuse of a teleprompter = "replacing" serious discussion. Most mentions are by commentators on opinion shows.

3_Butt_Cheeks: whereisian: 3_Butt_Cheeks: You guys are really analyzing the hell out of a silly meme aren't you?

This silly meme has replaced serious discussion - on major news networks. That's a problem.

I fail to see how a blurb about overuse of a teleprompter = "replacing" serious discussion. Most mentions are by commentators on opinion shows.

I think that was his point. They should have something a bit more serious to discuss than "Zomg teleprompter!"