Monday’s Gregalogue – Now, Because I’m Pissed
by Greg GutfeldAm I an old fart or am I right to be pissed that some jackass is skateboarding down the halls of the White House while all this Iranian shit is going down?
We truly have succumbed to the idiocy of the MTV/Mountain Dew/Road Rules backward hat and baggy short culture. Did I miss something, or is the White House the future set for the next Real World? Where are the wallet chains? Is Hot Topic handling our foreign policy? Obama should be grounded for a week for letting Tony Hawk play in OUR house. Where in hell are the adults?
Look: Tony Hawk is in his mid forties. He’s a grown man…and he skateboards. Could you imagine your dad or anyone who lived during World War II treating a man who skateboards with anything less than scorn and ridicule?
Right now, people are risking their lives for the glimmer of freedom, and Tony Hawk is in the White House tweeting about Frosted Flakes.
Someone please dig up Reagan. I’d take a dead leader with balls over a living camp counselor who wants all the cool kids to like him.
What a screaming joke.
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Right on, my brother! When in the world did we surrender control of our society to kids – read immature adults – who have yet to accomplish anything in life. I worked in the innercity for almost five years and I grew tired of punks struting around like they were the toughest boy/men on the block when they had accomplished exactly zero in their life. My grandfather was coalminer from southwestern Virginia who entered the mines at age 7 and worked until his lungs were too destroyed to continue. In his spare time he farmed the Appalachian mountain side. He was tough. My dad went to Vietnam as a scout dog handler. He was the guy who actually went out to look for the enemy and the boobytraps. He was tough.
Now we have a nation of Peter Pans – men who refuse to stop being boys – and they somehow have captured the culture. We are in a life and death struggle for the heart of our nation and the fate of the world but the "cool" kids are too busy playing x-box to get involved. Apathy and being distracted by the flash of the world is going to kill us.
I could put up with the skateboarding if the balls were present as well. It does interest me how the U.S. government ultimately decides which human rights abuses to get involved in. This would be such a great time for Mr. Messiah to sweet talk Russia, China, and Europe into getting the same kind of coalition together that kicked Saddam out of Kuwait.
Is it possible that "the one" is not all that he cracked himself up to be? He sure never had any kind words to say about President Bush, but maybe he is a paper messiah after all.
OMG, freak out alert. I was just thinking earlier, when is Greg going to say something about that dopey photo on Drudge of Tony Hawk amidst this potential world changing crisis.
Well Greg – This is what happens when being cool trumps everything else. Thirty years of moral equivalence and celebrity worship have given us a state of affairs where Tony Hawk's versatility with a skateboard is exactly as important as the defeat of a proto-nuclear thuggocracy. Mr. Hawk is a perfect metaphor for modern American culture – An overage teenager who is absolutely fantastic at doing something completely trivial. What can you say about a society where the last thing anyone wants to be is a grown-up?
Keep speaking truth to idiocy, Greg.
It is absolutely insane how Obama is running things. But then, it's insane that he was ever elected to begin with.
Wow. What amazes me is that he's defending it as if it's OK to do it, but he also admits that he did it on a dare. Last time I checked, when someone dares you to do something like that, it lends a negative connotation to the act by definition. And frankly, if it was OK, then why did he have to be dared to do it.
I bet the Uniformed agents of the Secret Service were steamed. And the White house protocol people. And the American people…….
"Right now, people are risking their lives for the glimmer of freedom, and Tony Hawk is in the White House tweeting about Frosted Flakes."
You got a right to be pissed brother.
A right to be pissed.
Affter the insults to India, Gordon Brown and the Queen and a number of other allies plus the bowing to foreign chieftains, I am not sure the White House has protocol people any more.
I guess protocol people are due to their profession not naturally "rad", they may be older white people or have conservative tendencies, so who needs them, right?
Maybe they have new "progressive" protocol people whose idea of the world was formed by postcolonial studies and the fact that Hollywood baddies often have English accents.
Skateboarding aside, exactly what do we expect this president or ANY president to do about a contested election in another country? We don't have regular relations with Iran, we're not confident that either side is "better" for us politically, and inserting an American military presence would RUIN the anti-Ahmedinejad protestors – suddenly they'd be siding with "The Great Satan," so kiss goodbye any potential support from their Muslim neighbors.
Frankly, the President's recent words on the matter reminding the media and public that both candidates in question had largely-similar anti-American platforms is some of the more sober analysis I've heard on the matter.
It's a perfect foil for Obama's swagger (or as CNN calls it, "swagga") Nice…trying to be hip or cool or whatever, instead of the leader of the most powerful nation in the world (that is, until he gets done with it). He acts as if he owns the White House. It's nothing more than subsidized housing, hopefully for only 4 years.
I have to admit it, this too bugged me for some reason and I think it's just lack of respect for the Office of the President of the USA. Obama just doesn't get it – who gives the Queen of England ( over 800 years old, give or take ) an iPod, flies out for dinner with a whole entourage the night before GM goes bankrupt, and now has a 40'ish man-child in Tony Hawk skateboard at the White House ? Wow, I'm his age yet I was appalled at this ? POTUS, start acting like it ! It's not a game, a joke, or a "thing" – it's real.
I wonder what the rest of the world's leaders think of this ? Seems a little like a frat house to me.
Come-on Greg, tell me how you feel – love it man.
Haven´t you heard the good news? Obama can kill a fly with his bare hands.
He skateboards…but he's also a multimillionaire entrepreneur who's helped turn a fringe sport into a massive, branded empire. You may scorn it, but skateboarding actually requires a lot of skill, practice, and determination to succeed at as Hawk has, traits I'd think conservatives would admire. Oh, and it was a White House Father's day event, and he had permission. (Bobby Flay grilled!)
And, I'm sorry, but my world isn't going to come to a screeching halt because of what's happening in Iran.
If incisive commentary were a sniper, Greg would squeeze one off from a hidden location.
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you don't write well
You don't use capital letters to begin a sentence or periods to end a sentence. Gutfeld is a humorist not Shakespeare.
Greg, I was thinking the same outrage as you when I saw the photo. This administration is SO disrespecting OUR HOUSE and I'm so sick of it. I'm just waiting for the MTV "Cribs" White House edition. When will Americans wake up and realizing our most powerful position in the world is being trivialized in an American-Idol sort of way? I am so ashamed of what's going on in the White House and I am NOT a racist. But the Obamas do not have the requisite class required to occupy the house of the American people. I'm just totally ashamed. Hopefully this will be all over soon, and we can look back at this as a scary lesson on where to NEVER send this country again.
I don't like it either.
It's typical of what our "party president", Barry "Let's take a vacation" Obama values and encourages.
Keep these A-holes out of the W-House.
Uprisings and stuff… that's not cool. Now skateboarding the great White halls… that's way cool. The younger demographic will eat that up.
Seriously? It's Father's Day weekend and Tony Hawk is a world renowned athlete. Lighten the Hell up. If one of our guys was in the White House we'd be happy to be celebrating fathers. You all make me embarrassed to be a Republican. Good for Tony Hawk and good for Obama for celebrating dad's of all stripes.
Brought to you by the President who has his own Pepsi-style logo. The only guy who will bring us "cool" diplomacy.
Right now we have a rare chance to undermine an anti-American, anti-Israeli, terrorist-funding theocracy that is inches away from having a nuclear weapon… But we won't do it, because meddling in another country's affairs is the old, imperialistic America, and the new America is "cool". Drink Pepsi.
Why was my second comment just deleted guys?
White House staff was informed that Hawk would be skating, though there was probably a collective eyeroll when they were told.
Instead of the White House, they should call it the Clown House.
Nero played the Fiddle while Rome burned. This Empty -Suit allows this Fool to skate-board in the White House while the Iranian People are putting their lives on the line. 2010 can't get here soon enough.
There's a time and a place for all things. I think Tony Hawk is awesome as I'm a kid from the 80s and 90s but the White House is no place to stage X games auditions. Really consider in context as Iranians are being shot in the streets of Tehran, the most powerful man in the world is inviting a skateboarder to the White House, the people's house. Meanwhile the president couldn't drum up the courage to suggest that the Iranian government's solution to their people's demonstrations, ie. murder, was objectionable.
Please don't make me… drink … PEPSI.
It's true: When I think of honoring fathers, I think of turning the office of our president into a skate park.
About those protocol people:
"President Obama’s choice as chief of protocol for the State Department, a position that carries the status of an ambassadorship, did not file tax returns for 2005 and 2006, errors she corrected last November.
The nominee, Capricia Penavic Marshall, has placed blame for the problem on the Postal Service and on miscommunication between her husband and their accountant.
Ms. Marshall, who was the social secretary in the Clinton White House…"
source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/us/19marshall.h...
It was a perfect storm of celebrity worship, media malfensance, republicans forgeting they are conservatives and the bottom of our ticket being more suitable for the top position than the person we were talked into nominating (to please the moderates).
you can't possibly expect anything from the WH but being a showplace for the country's hip and cool. Where else can a knucklhead like that child get even more famous? They have no respect..they never will. As liberal SHeryl Crow said herself, "we got rock stars in the White House, all our pop stars look like porn, all my heroes hit the highway 'cause they don't hang out here no more"……… it wont change until the child is out doing speeches telling us how racist and hateful America was to him…
and it wont be long before the shamwow people are mopping the floors of the Rotunda for an infomerical.
"cool" is right, Brisco! All other world leaders are 'cool' to THE ONE'S attempts at diplomacy.
I was thinking more of the Big Brother House.
Ann Coulter is on fire on Geraldo's show right now talking about this. He better watch it or she's going to b-slap him.
I think man-child every time I see a skateboarder over the age of 16….
More power to people over 40 who can navigate such vehicles. Before you make fun of someone for their sport, try it. An agile 40+ is not the problem.
She already had a perfectly good iPod too. However his "special" gift was loaded with some of his speeches. Maybe he should have just gone with the autographed picture of himself for her desk, same message either way.
What's the next abuse of the people's house? Seeing which one of Obama's friends can smoke a doobie in Lincoln's bedroom if Obama himself hasn't already done it.? Naked Midnight bowling with Oprah and friends ..yikes….
Amazing, so can I. But can he catch one with chopsticks?!
Well it does make the ACORN kiddies feel more comfortable. Think of the children!
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System acting up again? Was there a message or did it just not show up? Is it on your ID page?
The Left has to find the money for their spending somewhere. We do not have it and the world is starting to balk at buying our debt.
It would be interesting to have a commercial shot in the Congressional chambers, we can have the two sides debate the merits of diet Pepsi vs regular. In the Senate Lieberman can say he likes both, Specter can change sides. Then over at the House Pelosi can chug a can of regular and we can see what that does to her eyes when the sugar rush hits. Fun all around.
Geraldo has a show?
Oh the horrors those Secret Service personnel must have to witness…
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IDIOCRACY…..rent it, embrace it, learn from it. America has a model with this administration and IDIOCRACY is it.
President Obama has made it clear, both through words and deeds, that he has little respect for American traditions and values, which is why "God damn America" coming from the mouth of his preacher wasn't particularly troubling to him — until it became a campaign issue. Tearing down America as we know it clears the way for the liberal reformation Obama and his liberal colleagues believe our country needs. Skating down the hallways of the White House sends the message that it's just a building, nothing more, nothing special. Remember Clinton and the Lincoln bedroom scandal? And this coming week the White House becomes broadcast central for ABC; perhaps Oprah will get her turn soon.
Totally agree. Such disrespect!
We keep forgetting the Clinton WH was the Sixties, tie-dyed, protesting crowd finally "in charge", and the Obama bunch are their legacy. Since few have ever had a real job ( and that includes the Commander in Chief) being in the WH is a lark. So why shouldn't they skateboard down the hall, slide down the banister or have a food fight in the cafeteria? So there's a budding revolution in Iran – revolution, schmevolution. NK going to shoot off another missile, this one at Hawaii?No problem. Kim probably can't hit the island anyway. Taliban blowing up stuff in Afghanistan? Don't worry, be happy.
It isn't their fault. It's ours. We voted for this loopy bunch and put them in office. Hell, we probably even bought the skateboard.
Ok, ok, okay!! He's in his 40s and can skateboard. That's nice. Goody for him.
BUT — there's alway a but, isn' t there? — not in my house he can't. The White House is supposed to be a symbol, a house for all of us, just like the flag belongs to all of us.
I don't want a cool, Mr. Prez, kind of leader. I want a real leader who knows what's going on in the world, who is strong. Who can receive respect, as well as give respect. And so far, I don't see that. If he doesn't respect me and my house, why should I respect him?
Barry’s favorite toy is a pogo-stick. The Secret Service says little Barry likes to hop up and down that very hall.
Is it true that Tony was able to perfect a new skateboarding move called 'the bailout' while there?
And the liberal masses scream "bread and circuses!"
And our economy with a stroke of a pen.
on FOX News, weekends at 10pm.
He's also on several of the FNC programs as a corrospondent.
I agree, it's the 47 year old man who sleep in the lincon bedroom that's the problem!
Ask the Secret Service agent that had to view Bill and Monica!
Perhaps mud wrestling in the Oval Office?
Bam Bam is an A**clown of the highest order. Tony Hawk is a grown man acting like a bad child.
I always want to clothesline these skate boarders. Maybe I will start with one today.
Good one Gut.
I think the venue is important.
When is Bam going to change the name of the WH. Seems kind of racist to me.
My god, they'd better not break anything.
Brilliant, Steve, brilliant.
Tony Hawk probably believes he did something important, providing another pop-culture connection to the messiah. Obama is our pop-cultured president. We are now at the mercy of pop-culture reason and understanding, with the traditions and hard-earned knowledge of the past 230 years being chucked into the garbage with a flick of Obama's PopTalk. It's important for Obama to 'stay cool', so he can signify with brain-dead consumers of Pop-Pap, consumers who are some of his staunchest Obamaphiles. Being 'cool' also means he never needs to provide adult-oriented explanations…with details, of all the things he's trying to inflict on this country.
But of course there's a Severe shortage of adults in politics who are willing to challenge the messiah. I hope today's College Republicans are working on tomorrow's conservative majority. Current Party leadership appears to be bereft of an Ideological CORE. The impression is that they are rethinking….how to hold Republican positions that are merely milder versions of Democrat positions.
What is harder, fighting Democrats during the Bush years, or trying to retake the massive ground lost to Pelosi/Reid, then Obama? If Republicans make some progress at the Polls in 2010, will Democrats sit by as Republicans do now, fearful of the negative connotations of being seen as going after Democrats…of being "partisan"? Obama and his posse have already positioned themselves as the non-partisan choice, loony as that sounds.
The big question is when will Andrea Mitchell do a special on Obama's hip youth-appeal while Chris Matthews tries to master the inward heelflip skateboard move.
Lighten up, folks. Life's just a video game and when the world blows up, we get a "do-over".
Ok, first post got deleted, so what! Somebody needs to slap the dogsnot out of Tony Hawk and then wipe the Bamsters nose in it. His whole administration is nothing more than a hollywood reality show.
You think that is "comendable"? To be able to skateboard at 40 years old is in the White Houset is to be admired? You really have your priorities lodged inside yo diverticuli of your lower colon that just as well may be attached to your brain stem, and, perhaps is? Maybe if he was in a concrete skate park doing his thing, sure, if that's how you swing. But it is unacceptable to disrespect the "CULTURE" of what the White House stands for, nimrod!
My first post is "being reviewed by the site admins before it appears publicly." WOW! That's never happened before! I didn't write a screed on revolution. I made a harmless comment.
Remember when Clinton and his gang of frat boys used to pull all-nighters, sucking on Dominos pizza and listening to Bubba reminisce about the trauma of growing up as a fat kid?
what luck for rulers that men do not think
a. hitler
OK I get it, now that the "smirk" adults are in power we can skate board in the White House? Somewhere George Washington is shaking his head in disgust. Reagan would have made a speech seen all over the world and it would have started something like this:
My fellow Americans, and to all citizens of the worlds nations,
This day has seen protests in Iran and people rising up against an oppressive evil regime. The idea of freedom is inherent in all human beings and once realized can never be extinguished.
Call me an annoying leftist young person but I really don't care about this. I have no interest in skateboarding whatsoever but I can also see Tony Hawk's point that he was just expressing himself. As long as he didn't damage anything, so what? At worst, it's a silly thing to do that further proves the argument that Obama hasn't stopped campaigning yet.
AMEN!
I didn't think I said anything unsavory. It was up for seconds, then the 'deleted by admin' line then gone. Just odd.
You're right about the two candidates. The election is staged for the benefit of the people. That's why I initially thought the protests wouldn't amount to anything. But as the riots have grown, so have their implications. This could be the revolution that's been predicted for so many years.
Quality control.
Ask the people of Eastern Europe how much it mattered that Reagan stood up and gave them moral support. Obama has failed to offer even that.
And let's not forget the stripper poll in the Lincoln Bedroom.
Thank you. Every seems to be forgetting that a 'moderate' Iranian is still waaay to radical to put faith in.
And that begs the question, which one is Obama going to talk to with an open hand?
Or, France in 1776
Okay, Suzie1 had a reply here, to see if the site filtering was acting up (back to the "old days" strict version) I posted some words until I got the "this comment must be reviewed…" message and then hit the Delete, and now Suzie1's reply is gone!
The system must have reset to "flaky" again.
The perfect storm of political correctness, moral equivalence, failure of public schools, and celebrity worship: Barack Hussein Obama.
It's not a palace, or a sacred temple–it's a HOUSE. This doesn't bother me all that much, it's just silly. And re: Iran, we all know that Mousavi isn't Thomas Paine, right? I really wouldn't trust a 'moderate' Iranian any further than I could throw him. Even if Mousavi were to be declared the winner, he wouldn't be in charge–that's still the scary old supreme leader and council of Ayatollahs, and they're not going anywhere. The Iranian President isn't the top man.
Ka-Pow!
You Liberal Blocks You Stones You Worse Than Senseless Things Knew You Not REAGAN!………I don't think Shakespeare would mind. Somewhere He's Smiling.
And now that I replied her reply has shown up again. Yup, flaky as what Tony Hawk was eating but nowhere near as sweet.
Good point. We know, though, that Obama will never send guns or money.
But still, the least he should be doing is calling out Tehran on their abuses, demanding that they stop oppressing their people and threatening to hold them accountable for their crimes, demanding immediate access for the press and world observers, and blockading the country if they refuse.
He would be doing that if it was a country he didn't like (like England) putting down their people after a fake election. So why is Iran exempt?
I hate to jump on the conspiracy wagon Andrew but, here I go. Perhaps is has something to do with trying to remove his apostate label in the Muslim world?
Nice one Steve, although it probably has as much to do with comprehension, as anything.
Clinton already did that one.
StlDan, I absolutely think it has to do with the fact that they are Muslim. I don't know if he's just trying to tell the Muslim world that we now "respect" Muslim leaders (no matter how repressive) or if there is something more sinister.
But whatever his reasoning, he's blowing a great opportunity to change the face of a nasty part of the world, to reduce terrorism the world over, and to free millions of people. He will be lucky if this ends well (at which point he will mistake his luck for good policy).
When the Commander in Chief goes into his home office wearing a bathrobe and underwear to work, then it is a "house" house. Plus he and his family are "occupants" and should show the level of respect one would expect of a visitor to someone's house, let alone the polite attitude that should be expected of a visitor of a visitor.
As to Iran, if their government is making this much of a fuss over a figurehead it really does not say much about the "true leaders" of the regime. Perhaps they are worried if their "elected mouthpiece" does not say what they want they might have to come out of the shadows to say it for themselves. At that point it will become painfully obvious there is merely a UN Security Council Resolution's difference between them and the former leadership of Iraq, possibly very painful for them.
Yup. This site still has glitches, I'm certain.
But then he will be doing something that Number 43 did, which officially never happens. Just ask his mouthpieces, he has never done anything his predecessor did, so why start now?
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