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.
Amazing, so can I. But can he catch one with chopsticks?!
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….
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.
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?
And now that I replied her reply has shown up again. Yup, flaky as what Tony Hawk was eating but nowhere near as sweet.
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?
Yes, but it's OUR house.
If I were a landlord, and I found out that someone who rented a fully furnished house from me was letting friends of his ride their skateboards and BMX bikes indoors — on my property — I'd be steaming mad, praying that none of the furniture, fixtures or carpeting (all of which I paid for) were ruined, and counting up the ways I could take this out of the stupid son of a b____'s security deposit when he finally left.
And if I were paying him to housesit, he'd have to take a pay cut whether he wanted it or not.
But a "moderate" Iranian is still waaay better than what is currently there and the best that can be hoped for with the current circumstances. The inmates may still be running the asylum, but I would rather have a spokesperson who does not loudly advocate the firebombing of the business down the street.
Maybe not today, but somewhere down the road Iran is going to develop that nuke, give it to a terrorist who will then bring it here and blow up a city or something. Or even worse, maybe your favorite skate park. Oh, the humanity!
Skate or DIE!!!!
I can't tell Tony Hawks from Tim Geitner!
Skateboarding is the perfect metaphor for what the Obama administration is doing to our economy! Going downhill fast!
Why are we worrying about those protesters in Iran? Aren't they really just the Tea-baggers of the moslem world?
Does Jerry Springer have a cabinet postition yet?
You don't want the moderates in the party? Are you Rush Limbaugh?
"Ask the people of Eastern Europe how much it mattered that Reagan stood up and gave them moral support."
Eastern Europe, frankly, was on the whole more reliable to NOT turn around and bite us right away after they got whatever it is they want. The political system and social behaviors of the Muslim world are a wholly different animal than Eastern Europe was. Despite what we all learn in Kindergarten, people are NOT all the same, we do NOT all want/need the same things just with different names.
What's happening here is that the Iranians are mad at their government because the election was openly corrupt, thats a good STEP. But all they have to rally behind is Mousavi, who however "moderate" is in the end just another guy who toes the fundamentalist line for the leadership – the main substantive difference between him and Ahmedinejad is that Mousavi doesn't appear to ALSO by a lunatic.
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Beat me to it!
This could change middle eastern dynamics for a loooong time. But……
Yeah, sure, no big deal. Nothing to see here. Move on.org to the custard stand or the burger stand or ……..
Nobody has asked the most important damned question ever. Did Malia get rum raisin, or butter pecan?
This goes back to the Clinton White House…these post Baby Boom Democrats treat the serious as though it were the trivial and treat the trivial as though it were the serious. From Hollywood celebrities jumping up and down on the Lincoln Bedroom bed like ill-behaved children to the bjs in the Oval Office to the vandalism/pilfering on the way out in 2000, the Clintons had no respect for the People's House. They treated it casually, as though it was a frat house.
Obama is doing the same thing, treating what should be regarded with respect with casualness instead.
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If Obama stands up now and speaks ANYTHING well of the Mousavi movement, and then six months from now President Mousavi is still talking about nukes and blaming us/Israel for all his problems, you KNOW we'll never here the end of it from Republicans at election time.
Also, it's worth asking – tough as it may be – what good WE can actually do here. Again, this isn't Europe. Let's say, for the sake of argument, that we definatively want Mousavi to win (maybe) and the protestors to be vindicated (definately) if for no other reason than putting some cracks in the theocracy. If WE openly intervene, that will NEVER happen. The minute we do, the protestors become "puppets of The Americans and Zionists" in the Iranian and Arab media, opinion will turn against them and it will be all the easier to crush them. It's not 1776, and we are not the French. Sad, but true.
I kinda wanted to see a Water Park but, I understand that his holiness the teleprompter of Lake Shore Drive can only accomplish so many things. Bugetary limitations and all……
I breathe more hope and change every day….
Hey, guys, don't pick on poor Tony. He's a distant cousin, and my son's birthday present many years ago was getting Tony to teach him some skateboarding tricks. Of course my son is now a thirty-something, and running his own little business empire in the real world. I guess Tony taught him how to do skateboard tricks, and I taught him how to grow up. Haven't seen the skateboard in about twenty years now. I do worry about his fetish for collecting motorcycles though.
I agree, Greg. I'm annoyed that President Teleprompter and his hate-filled wife are in OUR house, but it will be fun to see them leave (preferaably in handcuffs, but that's unlikely) someday. On that day, I HOPE we have a better president who will CHANGE the mess that our community-organizer-in-chief and his lackeys in the House and Senate have created.
Or all Obama haters so dumb that they rush to support demonstrators( who do not give a damn about the USA) because it put them at odds with the President?
GOP will adopt any position opposite to the President regardless of how dumb it is…and we wonder why the GOP is the minority party?
2010 will definitely give us the 60 vote majority..I can't wait for the Democrats to ram legislation through the Congress.
I have no idea whether or not you are a "leftist young person", we "rightist middle-aged persons" do not roll like you think. We do not call names unless they are factual, or deserved. But as to Mr. Hawk "expressing himself", I would have loved his "expression" to have been outside on the White House grounds on Physical Education day. Sort of like the time Arnold went to the White House. To have this done on these days while people are dying in the streets of Tehran, and elsewhere, is not a cool expression.
It goes beyond proving Obama is still campaigning. It is one of those "Present" votes many of those who opposed Obama tried to get noticed by the Leftist Media.
Might I remind you, and all those here, there is a ship laden with enough plutonium for 6 missiles. It is being run by some North Korean idiots who are more than willing to kill anyone. If fact, they have a announced they would like to hit Alaska or Hawaii. So outside of Iran, this so called adult and President is having a skateboarder skating down the halls of OUR White House while Americans might be facing missiles launched at them on July 4th!
Heavens someone has been skateboarding in the White House….The sky is falling !! Help!!
Call out the Army!!!
Damn Sunday School dropouts probably have more money than brains.
* Trillion dollar deficits that we are going to inflate our way out of as we turn into a third world economy
* Falling over ourselves to usher in medical rationing for all
* Government owning private enterprises instead of allowing to fail and be reborn leaner and stronger
* Our most ardent enemy in the middle east has the phone ringing off the hook at 3:00 a.m.
* Corruption and theft of public funds at an all time high with the abuse of TARP
* A complicit media establishment asleep at the wheel as our futures are stolen
* Tony Hawk skatin' and tweetin' from the Whitehouse
Time to buy stock in pitchforks and torches…
OUR House>?? The one build by slaves? Our house you twit!!!
You will die before the GOP ever returns to majority status ever in this country.
Buy stock? Buy the actual items, they will be useful in the barter economy to come, after many return to subsistence agriculture to survive.
On the bright side, the pet overpopulation problem will quickly be taken care of. Perhaps even NYC will become rat free, except for the farmed ones.
I said this in a response to another post, but it bears repeating. This is not just appropriate for Greg to be outraged, it is very justified because right now the Kang Nam is running around with possibly enough nuclear materials on it for 6 missiles. North Korea has announced they want to strike the United States. And we have a skateboarder in the halls of OUR White House. This is an outrage!
I would also like to remind everyone how President Bush was excoriated time and time again by the media because they believed he did not appreciate the gravity of a situation. Who could forget right after 9/11, while we were still putting out fires, the nuts from the Left in the media were attacking Bush, and said he ran and was hiding. Or the whole bit about him reading the book!
Greg is spot on, and expresses a sentiment many Americans feel about the skateboarding, and the ice cream trip yesterday. It is a sentiment that says, we would by far be better of if a deceased President was in office rather than one who keeps voting "Present". Hell, Reagan's skeleton probably still strikes fear in Russia! We know it does here when it comes to RINOS!
Not only skateboarding, but roller-skating and bicycling up and down the halls, walking up and down the stairs on stilts and carrying ponies to the upstairs bedrooms in the elevator! (Wait…that was TR's kids back during his administration.)
Hours now since I read that, and my brain is still going back to wondering about Nancy vs Hillary. You are a cruel person. Words have consequences!
Remember, Hillary needs her rehab time after her elbow surgery. It will be at least a month until they can schedule it.
hahahahahahaaaa!!! Scared aren't yah?? Do you pray to Reagan at nights??
I bet you do after all you don to have a brain of your own. Everything you know is force fed to you by Hannity and FatBaugh.
hahahahah Charley….they are worried sick about skateboarding while embracing waterboarding!!!!!!!!
I suggest you stop leaving your vehicle running in the garage while you listen to the radio. Allegedly it does feel euphoric before you pass out, but still…
I want a President who would at least slap the Iranian regime with an open hand. A solid backhand would be preferable.
Mousavi is the 'Father' of the Iranian Nuclear policy and you nut jobs on the right want the US President to openly support him in his quest to be the spokesman for the Grand Ayatollah?
Are you people so blind in your hatred of Obama that you cannot reason with sense anymore? Oh for the days of smart Republicans sigh!!!
my reaction upon seeing the photo: we have lost our way.
Well, it doesn't surprise me in the least that this was ok'd by Barry Soetoro's thugs in the White House. Barry was elected by dead people and 20 something's because they think he's cool and their new American Idol. We have a whole generation out there that couldn't name the 3 branches of government let alone name their elected senators or congressmen from their home state. It's all about being "cool" and being "street" according to the young skulls full of mush. Most of the young people today don't look beyond the next 12 hours of their miserable lives or the next "party" or "hook up" let alone the next few years that are going to bring about more government and more debt in this country that is completely unsustainable. But, that's ok. We've got a "cool" prez who's "hip" and a former junkie in the White House…
So you want Obama to openly support the 'Father' Of Iran's Nuclear policy in his bid to be spokesman for the grand Ayatollah? Are you that stupid or ignorant or both?
Mousavi is the architect of the current nuclear policy that Iran has embarked on..I bet Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity never told you that.
Oh you didn't know he was the former Prime Minister and that this election was supposed to be his grand return to the Iranian leadership?
But what if Moussavi had won? Would you be on here urging for the President to openly support him and Iran? Would you huh?? Would you??
You betcha!!
I hope you live in Hawaii, so that when your messiah fails to stop the North Koreans, you'll be vaporized.
There are budgetary limitations?
Do you by any chance mean "ARE all Obama haters…"?
Um, given that the democrats are "running" everything right now, maybe you should be more concerned with their intelligence (or lack thereof…)
I think we should take seriously what's going on in Iran, and the last Republican President ignored the fact that a THUG taker of American hostages was openly defying US by travelling into and out of our country when any leader with a lick of sense would have had him arrested! I don't care who the Iranians have as their Supreme Leader while we turn over our rights to our own Supreme Leader. As far as Tony Hawk goes, you vote in a clown, you shouldn't be surprised when he brings along his circus.
And then, what will you do?
Obama is devaluing the economy and the country. Devaluing the White House comes as no surprise. Who else but a marxist commie would do such a disrespectful thing to one of the great symbols of this country?
This administration is so trailer trash tacky it's unbelieveable.
The only thing Barack Obama can stand up to is a fly… especially when he's on TV swatting it.
I'd take President Camacho over this clown any day.
And there are signs all the time that the Republican party hasn't learned any of that yet. If we keep acting as Democrats Lite, we can expect four more years of this clown. As horrendous as his first five *months* have been, that's a scary thought.
Actually, Rush has mentioned all of that.
Rum raisin? Are you trying to get her used to alcohol? For shame!
Here it says she got a waffle cone of vanilla custard, also he got a cup of vanilla custard with hot fudge and toasted almonds. Which is amazing since the the Telegraph reported right before the election that he cannot stand ice cream. Go figure.
"..my world isn't going to come to a screeching halt because of what's happening in Iran."
Exactly. Just like America's world didn't come to a halt either after Kristal Nacht.
Well, I was very into long distance in-line speed skating until my early forties, so I don't think that is actually the problem, but if somebody had suggested I lace up my skates to run the hallways of the White House, I would have been mortified. There are just some things one doesn't do. It's called decorum, and it's in short supply these days.
I think your just stupid. Go skateboarding loser!!
As I said during the duping of America we called an election, "Ronny Reagan for President, Better Dead than Red."
I think Mousavi is merely the "gateway drug" to bigger and better things. This will mean the end of the Islamic Republic structure. And that's what we want.
Ultimately, we are seeing in action the whole reason behind "why they hate us". We are constantly put into no win scenarios and are to blame even when we do nothing. So the "problem" our administration faces is the problem our nation has always faced. If Mousavi wins with our help, he is a ""puppet" of the US. After all, just like the Sandinistas and that fat clown in Venezuela we are supporting a friendly revolutionary over the legitimately elected leader (Ahmadinejad). If we support the regime, we anger them and create more terrorists by turning our backs on them like we did in Afghanistan and Iraq after the first Gulf War.
We should without hesitation and apology support freedom, secular governments, capitalism and democracy. Period. That would avoid a whole lot of "trouble" and simplify our foreign policy.
I wonder if you are an American and/or English is a language you are fluent in due to obvious errors. "Or" and "are" are close phonetically but not the same. Etc.
As opposed to what they are currently doing? Since it has obviously escaped your notice, the major opposition right now to legislation the President wants is his own party. Even the Democrats are balking, they read poll numbers and they are already getting worried about 2010.
I too am appalled at the White House being punked. But how unkind of you, Greg, to forget the people of Hawaii who are under threat of a weapons missile launch from North Korea on Independence Day, July 4th. Simply because President Barack Hussein Obama has thrown the state under the bus his typically white grandparents raised him in after being rejected by both of his parents, doesn't mean we fellow Americans will do the same. However, I do look forward to the $134 billion counterfeit US Bonds Candid Camera action.
Really, is English that hard a language for you to be proficient in?
Well said, I agree completely Leigh. We should always stand up for freedom, secular governments, capitalism and democracy.
I agree on Mousavi as well. He may not be perfect, but he may end up being the stepping stone needed to set the people of Iran free. Once people realize that they control the government, not the other way around, it's very difficult to jam that genie back into the bottle.
Sounds like somebody need a diaper change.
As did every reporter on Fox News, National Review, The Weekly Standard and American Spectator. The lefties are so used to their lockstep reporting that they just assume we do the same thing.
Obama wants to expand on that: Drink Pepsi, snort coke.
The only Majority your gonna get in 2010 is the Majority of The Wrath of The People. Even the Democrats that aren't Looney Tunes are Wising Up.They put their Country before their Party. I suggest you do the same.
Ouch! : 0
Thought Steele would be a better party chairman, but I am wrong.
We need a new Karl Rove.
Ooooor, they could start to sell their oil and make things really intersting for the world economy.
Don't be fooled, what happens there is what is going to happen here!
Are all Obama supporters so dumb that they refuse to support Iranian demonstrators because it would put them at odds with the President?
Yes.
Here in Louisville, we spent $6 million on a "extreme" park for these skateboarders. And you'll find them all over the city (and metro area) of Louisville. Skating, running into pedestrains, smoking, valdalizing. And they they have the freaking nerve to say "skateboarding isn't a crime".
They worship Hawk, They both need to go to jail.
In Iran, it looks they have the same sort of election corruption that ACORN foisted on us with the election of Barry Soetoro, the Community Communist Organizer, who never held a job that wasn't an affirmative action appointment. At least the Iranian citizens, and they are YOUNG (same ages as the 30 million American babies that were destroyed with Roe v Wade) are sober and coherent enough to recognize they are being SCREWED!
This is getting scary. These morons have my life in their hands. They have the potential to destroy me – which means I am dependent upon their ability to act like adults.
So far, these 'adults' have buzzed New York in Air Force One, gone out of ice cream as people are killed in Iran and now they're skateboarding down the halls of the White House. No adults as far as I can see.
Why? Are you planning to kill us?
Nothing residing in the American White House now, nothing except ignorant trailer trash. We need to screen voters for national elections – NO MORE lower primates allowed to vote.
After eight years of poo flinging the monkeys of the MSM quit soiling the White House and led to needed side shows like this stunt to entertain the hired help. Of course now the monkeys do that other thing that monkeys do, but who wants to see that?
I thought I was the only one who thought this was disrespectful. No parent would let their kids skate board in the house, why would anyone think it's ok to do it in the peoples house. Whatever happened to standards & respect? I want leaders with backbones. Too many just want to be liked. I long for the days of Reagan.
Well, I understand he was Double Dog Dared.
You know that he can't refuse or he'd be seen as a wuss by his peers. I mean the Double Dog Dare, for cryin' out loud! And you know how horrible a charge that is to a 40 year old skateboarding man.
(That loud clicking sound you hear are my eyes rolling around my head like dice in a cup.)
BO is a true disgrace in every way. He is going to do alot of damage in 4 years unless we put a stop to his progressism/socialism/communism of the US of A in 2010. We need to hobble this fool in 2010 and kick him and his hate filled wife and their unfortunate kids to the curb in 2012. The Humane Society will hopefully rescue the poor dog.
Read your (not you're and most definitely not ur) post three times and still can't understand the point you were making.
This is what happens when the "youth vote" gets their man elected President.
I've seen this liberal talking point already several times and my response is the same. It is the duty of our nation to encourage freely elected governments BY the people and FOR the people whereever the people demand it. For myself and most Americans principles mean something.
I am not blind to the lack of a real choice the Iranian people have in Ahimenijad or Mousavi. Everyone with any real interest in the matter knows the imams will still have the real power in Iran. BUT…there are people being arrested, beaten and killed trying to voice their dissent over the obviously rigged elections. Shouldn't those people have the right to express their dissatisfaction with their government? Shouldn't we encourage these people to seek redress for wrongs? Shouldn't we stand up for the principles we espouse? We have lived through eight years of Americans expressing their doubts about our leader and his policies at every turn. Why don't liberals feel that the Iranian people should have the same rights they enjoy? Why don't they feel a connection with those same dissidents?
While people on this site deride Obama, the Democrat party is grabbing the hearts and minds of under 40 voters, and they are likely to hold sway for decades. I have always been Republican, but we are increasingly a party of white 50+ men. If we don't reach younger voters, we'll be crushed by the rapidly changing demographics of the country we all love. 2010 and 2012 seem very bleak to me as a lifelong member of the GOP.
I know you said "what a screaming joke" but I really think it comes out the other end!
The people of Iran can handle their own revolution just fine, if they so choose. You can not give freedom to people…it is something they have to earn, fight for and cherish.
People get killed on the streets of this country everyday. So I suppose the president's family should never have fun time with their girls? Criticize the man's policies all you would like, but bashing him for holding family events or for spending time with his children is petty and spiteful.
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Skateboarding while a government with nuclear aims that is diametrically opposed to us and our allies gets rocked by instability isn't exactly a demonstration of brains from the POTUS.
*MissQuinn*
Yes, TR's KIDS…and last time I checked, the POTUS wasn't supposed to be a child.
*MissQuinn*
I'm still here. . .I'm black, WAY under 50 and female. I don't have much, but I've worked hard for it. I'm pointing out to people I know that if he has broken promises to his own (Gitmo/Rendition/Same Sex Marriage/DADT) . . .what was the point? I say they may as well have voted Republican, and they may just do it.
*MissQuinn*
You're so right because Tony Hawke absolutely couldn't have done a skateboarding demonstration for the President outside on the White House grounds anywhere. I'm sure there were absolutely no surfaces appropriate to skateboarding outside, you know, where it's appropriate to skateboard.
Did your mother yell at you when you skateboarded on her hardwood floors? Did you tell her to lighten up?
It may only be a house to you, but it was important enough that the terrorists on 9/11 had an entire airplane aimed at it, and the passengers of that plane staged a revolt and gave their lives forcing that plane to crash into an empty field instead of that "just a" house. It was important enough that the British made sure to burn the first one during the War of 1812. Dolly Madison just barely escaped ahead of the British soldiers because she saved as much of the history out of it as she could.
It is the home of the leader of our nation. Show some respect, or stay silent in your ignorance.
So, you support the idea that people should be stripped of their votes? I thought that was one of your side's big problems after the 2000 elections despite no evidence. And here the Iranions somehow counted 32 million votes in 5 minutes to declare a winner, and you see nothing fishy? I am well aware that Mousavi is as bad as I'm-a-Dinner-Jacket, but if the people fight for freedom once, they may do so again …
Maybe it's really just the idea of freedom you can't tolerate …
I remember Joe Biden saying something about that crisis. If this is the decision BO was going to make … I'm not sure how letting Tony Hawke skate in the halls of the White House is an appropriate response to the NoKo's aiming a nuke ship at us.
Biden said we wouldn't see the genius of the response at first.
I'm waiting …
No one ever taught the poor thing I'm sure, and you really can't pick it up from the WoW forums.
If the people fight for their rights once, they may do so again. If they don't like I'm-a-Dinner-Jacket and Mousavi is his ideological twin, they may fight to get rid of him as well. It's a slim hope, but once people begin to take power for themselves, there is a chance.
THen tell him to teach his daughters that skateboarding inside the house is not appropriate. No one here would have a problem is Tony Hawke was skateboarding for them OUTSIDE the house.
Don't you think in your tiny lefty heart that skatboarding in the house, any house, let alone the White House, is just a tad bit inappropriate even if you are the President?
Pro wrestling also takes talent, but I wouldn't exactly be proud if I saw two 300 lbs guys in tights in the Oval Office smashing each other over the head with portraits of ex-presidents.
Self Hatred is said to be therapeutic..Have at it!!
the art of communication is understaning.. so long as you get the intent of my message its fine…
Is that your rebuttal to my valid points?
Hahahahahahahahaha…Continue to live in your sordid world of perfection.. I on the other other live to grow from my mistakes that won't cost 4000 lives of American men and women and countless others injured.
Go get a man Carol ..you are lacking on the wilder side of life.
I know you wouldn't considering you are a high school drop out…
Finally a sane response..but you are wrong. I support any movement that wants to change the system in Iran not just the players.
Did you know that Moussavi was the former Prime Minister who was the mastermind behind a Nuclear Iran?
Why would the US want to be seen as legitimizing Moussavi inspite of his past misdeeds? Did you know he was one of the original kidnappers in 1979?
My point is the GOP is opposing Obama because of who he is not because his position is not a smart one.
It is important that the people of Iran know that we will not be supporting them in their fight to see who gets to be the Grand Ayatollah's spokesman. If they were fighting to get rid of the Clerics fine…other than that, why waste time with internal squabbles.
Did you know that the real opposition, the people who actually support Democracy were excluded form the ELECTION??
Did you know that the people who truly want democracy were prevented from entering the election?
Did you know that the 2 candidates are from the same party vying to see who gets to be the Ayatollah's spokesman? how is that sham helping the Iranians?
why didn't the GOP raised hell when these people were excluded? who is speaking for them? Why are we interested in propping up a failed system in Iran? Anything less than the ouster of the entire cabal of clerics is undemocratic. We should not be speaking for Moussavi but rather for the true freedom loving people who are forced to flee the country, imprisoned and denied their place in a rigged election.
"Mr. Hawk is a perfect metaphor for modern American culture – An overage teenager who is absolutely fantastic at doing something completely trivial."
Outstanding point, incredibly well written.
Good job.
I love you Greg Gutfeld and I could not agree more about having Reagan back!
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Snicker!
I long for the days of Tip O"Neil! I long for Zell Miller! I long for the days of a worthy opponent.
Freak, clue to you, what you said is true about Mousavi, BUT Imadinnerjacket is actually worse. And in case you did not notice, President Ice Cream would like to do business with Imadinnerjacket. WITHOUT PRECONDITIONS!
Both candidates would be the spokesman for the Mullahs you moron! What part of the election, and that Cairo speech did you not get. Obama plans on dealing with with either a man worse that Mousavi, or Mousavi. There has also been data coming out of Iran which suggest Mousavi was willing to relax some on the Iranian people, hence him winning the election. The Iranian people apparently thought there is a difference between the two candidates! But we would not want Obama to support authentic elections now would we? You know with ACORN, and the new, new Black Panthers roaming free as birds.
If you have seen some of the vids coming out of Iran, and listened to the experts, studied your history, read foreign policy books, all of these sources are saying the rebellion has jumped the shark, and the people are wanting more than Mousavi. It seems they are willing to die for freedoms. They may not be defined as we define freedoms, but any Iranian government less inclined to nuke Israel, and export terrorism is a good thing.
My vote is that if this goes on for two weeks, then it is for sure more than Mousavi. This is a harsh regime, and it is not a real expectation to believe we will see the American and Iranian flags being carried down the streets of Tehran freely without being shot or stoned.
Voting present, waiting for polling results, going to get ice cream, skateboarding down the halls of the White House, and playing golf will never fly with red blooded Americans who are always down for the struggles to be free, and to have honest elections. Just wait until you our actions come 2010! FREEEEEEDOM!!!!!
Yeah, but wouldn't it be great if the "youth vote" was both youthful and educated in American History? Not to mention the issues! I do not mind the youth being involved. Mine are, but maybe they should have to pass a test on silly things like say the Constitution?
All good parents will tell their kids to take it outside, doesn't belong in the house. Respect must start at home and so far, we don't see any respect for free enterprise or the tax payer from this administration. Further, where is the transparency we were promised? Hope and change? How about smoke and mirrors.
Just wait until you see our actions come 2010!
You will die before the GOP ever returns to majority status ever in this country.
Then why all the desperate postings?
It's almost as if you have a need to make all the icky people who disagree with you believe it so your prediction becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Was it not someone in the Obama administration that said
"The Grownups are in charge"
Hmmmm……………..
AlistZ
It is easy to tell Tony Hawk from Tim Geithner.
Tony Hawk is the one who pays his taxes.
Iran continually funds Hezbollah and Hamas. They supply weapons. They sneak fighters over the borders to Iraq and probably afghanistan as well to fight our troops. They oppress their people with brutality on a regular basis. These protests are just so large and organized that they cannot hide it.
Moussavi has stated that he supports the religious policies of Iran but he does not support the military arm of the country. If the Greens are successful in Iran it will be a blow against the Mullahs and it will allow Moussavi to take power away from them. Their President will not simply be only a puppet. We can give the greens guns. We can use our satellites to take pictures of the brasig firing on civilians, use photography labs to expose the faces of those individuals and make it public. Who knows with facial recognition software we could name them thus making any other brasig think twice about firing on unarmed civilians.
The President is doing what he does best. Nothing!
No that was the Oval Office
The Lincoln Bedroom was the Bed and Breakfast!
Good Ol "I'll buy that for a dollar" Bill
Yes they are insisted on by the Chinese
Awesome reference.
Does not Obama's snide know it all arrogance not remind you of a Caligula or Nero.
Obama thinks he is a Roman Emporer, living God and all.
He will whine about how it is Bush's fault he can't get a job.
If your intent is to demonstrate that people can post stupid things when drunk, even communicate they are intoxicated by their mistakes, you have succeeded very well.
I wouldn't allow anyone to skateboard in my home, and the White house in a way is my home. Reverence my friend it's important look it up. Even if our President doesn't like or respect our country and he doesn't, he should at least give the impression he does. Thanks for the info, I have no respect for anyone who kowtows these people.
I had the same reaction. I also immediately thought of Reagan. Something along the lines of "can anyone imagine this happening when Reagan was in office?"
The country is going to the dogs, and fast. The Lincoln bedroom episodes were bad enough during Clinton, but this takes the cake as pure slap-in-the-nation's face stuff.
Nothing against skateboarding, but not in the White House. Wrong place, sorry. Have the guy over, set up a ramp outside if he wants. But not in the hallowed halls. That's just wrong.
And Frosted Flakes? What's with that? So, we have a president who smokes and Frosted Flakes being touted as the food of champions? Is that what is called 'progressive'?
Too expensive. I like the clotheline approach. After a few beheadings, they would get the message.
I think this episode illustrates the unique irony of the greatness of the United States of America. We have become so affluent that a 40 year old man can make a living skateboarding and is a celebrity because of it. But we risk losing it all by succumbing completely to the childishness this affluence and security has induced.
"We truly have succumbed to the idiocy of the MTV/Mountain Dew/Road Rules backward hat and baggy short culture."
I, too, hate everything on that list…except, of course, the Mountain Dew (diet, please)!
There is a HUGE difference between the President's KIDS doing things kids do in the White House and an adult invited to the White House that pulls a stunt like this. Some of us citizens expect our President to treat the People's House with respect and to conduct himself in a manner reflective of the office's tradition and the fact that he walks in the footsteps of giants. You think for a nano second that TR would be anything less than a loud and vocal champion of the Iranian people?
Say that to any of the millions of men and women that risked or spilled their blood to defend that house. Go, I DARE you.
Seriously, LightenUp? An over 40 grown man-athlete or not-skateboarding in the White House is ridiculous…even more so with the serious problems we have right now. The fact that you think it's okay for Tony Hawk to "tweet" from the White House and skateboard down the halls is exactly what is WRONG with America today…pathetic.
I'm kind of a mixed bag on this one myself…
Yes it was a Father's day thing for a Dad (or at least I'd like to think the Kids and Mom set this up, and the President is/was a fan of Tony Hawk)…. if it was set up by the President's staff, or PBHO himself… then we've got another arguement/debate over the whole thing
That being said… this was extremely bad timing to try to do something like this just for a photo-op.. (aka, the ice-cream story).
(and yes, I do have a problem with it being done IN the White House)…
Yeah, dig up Reagan so you can skullf@$# him again. So now we have to "do something" with Iran. Have you moved beyond your rightwing fantasies of bombing and incinerating these people?
Reality check – Reagan was the star of "Bedtime for Bonzo" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bedtime_for_Bon... – not exactly the type of experience that makes you "a leader with balls". I think that some of the inane celebrity worship started when we elected him, stop making him out to be a hero he never was….
Wow, you people have nothing to do. Tony Hawk is the most famous athlete in the United States. Yes, more well known than your golf god Tiger Woods and the accused rapist Kobe Bryant and wife cheating A-Rod. Tony has donated millions of dollars to help underprivileged children all over the country and visits Make-A-Wish Foundation children on a regular basis. He's one of the good guys. You should all be happy for GOOD role models and embrace them. So what, he rolled down the hallway on a skateboard where moments before they were rolling large carts. As Tony pointed out, they were playing football on the lawn outside. So it's okay to desecrate the lawn with traditional sports like football, but God forbid Tony hop on his skateboard for a few seconds, with full permission by the way, and snap a photo. You people need to get real lives.
Hawk skateboarding the White House is the perfect Father's Day metaphor for our times.
Obama is the poster kid for boys-without-dads-who-stuck-around. He's a magnet all the other man-boys who need daddy's attention.
Lookit me daddy! Lookit me! Love meeeeeee!!
And by the way, Greg, you need to update your references. Baggy pants and hats turned backwards is about a 1998 reference. Why is the republican party falling further behind in the public's eye every day? Because you are so completely out of touch with what's actually happening in 2009. Real World and Road Rules? Really? Geez, at least get an assistant that can tell you something from the last 5 years…no, make that 10 years. Maybe if you had a candidate that actually knows what an email is you'd have a shot…my 72-year old dad can email. Get up to date if you are going to comment on current events.
Reposting since it was deleted before, guess someone doesn't like being reminded of who's been in the WH before…
Reality check – Reagan was the star of "Bedtime for Bonzo" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bedtime_for_Bon... – not exactly the type of experience that makes you "a leader with balls". I think that some of the inane celebrity worship started when we elected him
In the great scheme of things, a Yea Dads event is peachy keen. And I like Tony Hawk – I watched and watched and watched during that XGames where he finally made that 8million loopty flip thing – it was way cool, even if I can’t remember the name/number! And he has made big bucks doing what he loves – more power to 'im!
The problem is that the POTUS has declined to be substantive about really important things that don't have skateboarders in attendance.
Sure, Mousie is the big bad wolf in voters' clothing – but those people in the street are who he could support. the USA shouldn't have a say in who wins a fair election in Iran (which targets get bombed, yeah), but supporting those who want a nearly, sorta fair election – OH YEAH that's our job to support.
(in a hurry – pleas excuse the shortcuts)
" It's not a game, a joke or a thing – it's real." To the majority of Americans, you are right but Obama doesn't see it that way. A son of a douche bag, follower of Rev. Wight, friend of Bill Ayers, what do you expect. He is unaware of all the good things America has done around the world and he is going to make us pay for the things he thinks we have done. Unfortunately his plans for redistribution of wealth is going to destroy this great country. Once he kills or drives away all the producers he will be stuck with the dead beats.
But we have bigger things to worry about than stupid Tom Hanks skate-boarding. Obama is trying to destroy the economy and God knows what else is in the making. "You ain't seen nothing yet."
Ishmael is catchier………..
I am sorry you are feeling so testy today Jimmy
Hope you are in a better mood tomorrow
Hey Mook moo you scuba too
I saw some kid in Fort Lauderdale about 15 with his hat on backward wearing baggy pants.
You and the rest of the fashion police should hunt him down an get him. Sa matter smorkey you all pissed off cause the minute your guys get in power the country goes to H3!!.
It has something to do with the actual merit of your political philosophy. Coo Coo a goo……..
You'll have to forgive me my Troll references are out of date.
Reagon told Gorby "Tear down these walls"
Obama told Ahkmadinajaad "I'm Sorry"
Yep see you cojones comment real clear like. It exudes the tone of veracity in the same way that bricks float.
The White House is no longer a proud symbol of America. It's become inhabitaedt by mythical creatures who have escaped natural selection. Beside a National Anthem and natural bird, we now have a National Anus, a creature that walks around the place with its head up its ass getting high on methane. It has a f-ugly mate with teeth that enter a room two minutes before its mouth. Beware these surgical instruments, lest they chase you in your nightmares.
I actually know him. His big brother was one of my football coaches. They're oneof those great American families that provide the backbone of this country, and get no real credit for it.
Y'all are crazy.
http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/_/f/bush_...
Oddly enough, he has stuck around for his kids while your conservative heroes (Reagan, Guliani, Gingrich, McCain) ditched theirs for some new p@ssy.
Have you moved beyond your rightwing fantasies of bombing and incinerating these people?
Hard to move beyond something you never had in the first place.
Will you ever stop using caricatures?
Antics in the White House by the Potus or his kids are nothing new. Rather than rehash the course of the US history I will just mention that the Lincolns allowed Tad's goat to roam through the edifice and irritate Nicolay and Hay.
We truly have succumbed to the idiocy of the MTV/Mountain Dew/Road Rules backward hat and baggy short culture.
The very culture you attempted to make a few bucks on with your short and epic fail careers atMaxim and Stuff. That dissonance would be crippling, but it does no harm here in wingtardia.
Not only that, but the Gipper sold weapons to the mullahs, and then went on TV and claimed that his heart told him that he didn't, but his brain–what was left of it–told him otherwise. Truly, a man's man, if you're Greg "Does this dress make me look fat?" Gutfeld.
I'm glad one of the former editors of "Stuff" magazine thinks he gets to be the arbitor of what is and is not appropriate adult behavior. That magazine was the epitome of sexist, materialist, immature crap. While you're at it Greg, why don't you take one of our nation' leading sports figures and our president and run their names through the mud then follow it up by a call out of remembrance for a former president who's policies were the planted seeds for some of the major problems we have in our relations in the middle east and latin America. You sir are a total ignorant douche.
I'm 37 and have been skateboarding for 28 years. I'm not a huge T Hawk fan but you gotta hand it to him, he's done a lot. Conservative older people will always look at it as a fad, something kids do, a nowhere lifestyle. I think its kinda awesome. I'm glad they (you) don't understand it. Let 'em keep going in the direction they're going because the world is changing without them. The 2 party system is archaic and when 1 party falls, there will be 2-3 parties right behind that. Iran? please. Why don't you cover it then? Why waste YOUR time? What a joke. How about what all those fathers did that day, report Mr. Gregalogue… Oh, you're just a blogger… sorry.
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Here here. Its Tony Hawk, it would be weird if he didn't have a quick roll on his skateboard.
What if Reagan never threw Ricky Sanders a pass?
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/photographs...
Or maybe if he wasn't able to put or throw a football in the Oval Office?
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/photographs...
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/photographs...
No harm no foul. Tony Hawk, arguably the most famous skateboarder in the world, an American, was invited to the White House where he rolled on his "useless wooden toy". Big deal.
You are all a bunch of wackos. Skateboarding is not a bunch of pot smoking punks who just sit around an scratch their heads all day while dicking around with a "wheelie board". Skateboarding is a BILLION dollar industry and all of you with kids support it everyday when you come into a store, like the one i work at, and pay for your kids DC shoes or Element shirts. Brands that you see at store in every single mall or department store on this side of the ocean. Secondly, it was fathers day! and they were simply throwing an event that involved other sports starts who probably shot hoops in the forbidden basketball court and disrespected years and years of history with their rubber ball. Just because someone doesn't mine at the age of 7 and they decide to pick up a skateboard and one day make millions doing it instead doesn't make the world a backward place it just means you are all too slow to realize that its not 1935 anymore and things change. So if you're still too stubborn and simple minded to support skateboarding and decide to buy Nikes for the kids instead, just know they make skate shoes too and just signed Eric Koston. sucka.
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Wah.
Children should be seen and not heard.
It probably was a stunt fly.
(sorry, but I'm a little late in reading the column)
Excellent post, Mr. Gutfeld.
Not really out of date…you just don't really make any sense. DId you read this through before you posted it?
The solution is to buy more guns. Guns. Guns. Guns. Hunt. Palin and more guns. Thanks.
Oh, no! He's onto me! (Just for giggles, got my B.A. about 14 years ago)
Please read my post again slowly, especially the second paragraph. I think with a little thought, you'll see that I have answered your questions. At least as far as I'm concerned.
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