Warning: This Post is Not Funny
by Tom Shillue
A lot has been written lately about how comedy writers are having a hard time finding humor in President Obama. “He’s just too competent,” they say.
The answer is obvious. They, on the left, are having trouble making fun of the left.
But what about us? We have a bigger problem. How are we supposed to make fun of the left?
When I get together for coffee with my fellow pragmatic, reality based, sort-of-right-wing comedy writers (many of whom still speak in hushed tones here in Manhattan, as they are still in the closet), I find I have nothing to poke fun at as I scan the morning papers. I used to relish tearing apart an op-ed from the Times or a column from Slate in front of my buddies, but lately I am left wanting. There is nothing funny anymore. One cannot parody a parody.
Here, let’s try. Take a look at this Sally Quinn article in The Washington Post, in which she “defends” Michelle Obama, after saying that “She has come under attack for exposing her arms.” (Has she? Did Sally Quinn just make that up? Could you find me someone who has done that?)
She goes on:
“Michelle Obama’s arms, we determined, were transformational. Her arms are representative of a new kind of woman: young, strong, vigorous, intelligent, accomplished, sexual, powerful, embracing and, most of all, loving.
“They are toned and muscular, burnished and beautiful. That has to be threatening to some. For some men, often, a strong woman makes them feel diminished.”
This is not The Onion. This is real. This is a real live person who makes their living writing for a newspaper. How could you lampoon this? Where would you go from here?
Oh, I guess here:
“She also has a husband who is facing more crises than any president we have had in more than half a century. He needs her support, and she is giving him that in an intelligent and thoughtful way. It’s those arms again: By going around to various agencies and talking about what the administration wants to do, she is, in her own way, embracing America.”
Do you hear a sound? Yes, it’s me bashing my head against the table in Starbucks as I read that. How in holy hell am I supposed to objectively joke about people who are in such a fog of sycophancy?
The woman hasn’t left the smallest finger-hold for a satirist to grab hold of–it’s complete in its idiocy. Am I being lazy? Read the whole article. Is there even one sentence you could add to it to make it more ridiculous?
Other than be completely embarrassed for this woman, I don’t know what else I can do. Nothing is funny anymore. I give up.
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Goodness. Sally Quinn said her (Michelle's) arms were 'intelligent'. This is your MSM at work; she is, of course, Ben Bradlee's wife and THE social doyenne of D.C.. Claptrap and poppycock, we say… if her arms are intelligent, than her brain must be- long and skinny? The silliness hasn't even begun, yet…
Real hope? http://www.finallyequal.com/
A movie being made of the story that set the trajectory for my life's political/philosophical path….
http://www.finallyequal.com/
The only path to making anything funny of this is to take it to it's inevitable conclusion and then the comedy and tragedy will become ONE.
Well not only that but one might be brandished a racist if coming up with satire with this administration… Oh well… we still have ~3.5 years left, I am sure SOMETHING funny will come about… maybe Obama won't tell the difference between a window and a door… and it just goes to show how superficial people have become… I really don't care about Michelle Obama's arms… I have my own to worry about.. :/ and I doubt that Obama is facing more crisis than any other President in the last 50 years… but I guess you can say that if you don't pay attention to recent history..
Note to self: don't read the drivel written by Sally Quinn.
Are you sure about nobody making jokes about the Obamas? Those lines from Sally Quinn certainly made me laugh.
You know, there is a flip side to this feculent mentality. When it comes about it will make the Poseidon look stable.
It's all in the delivery right? So, they have made your job easier. They have written all the jokes for you, all you have to do is deliver them.
My fiance is a strong, intelligent, sexy woman who doesn't have to show off her arms every day to prove how strong and independent she is. But she also didn't go through life angry while playing "the victim" to get ahead either. She understands you can't have it both ways, something that Michelle Obama and her admirers seem to forget.
Tom,
I see it as things just got a whole lot easier. All you have to do is quote people to get laughs. For example, "Hey, did you hear about *PUT DUMB THING LIB SAID HERE*? No I am NOT kidding. He really said that." Enjoy the coffee. And remember: Starbucks is evil.
I'm still curious about who attacked Michelle Obama for "exposing her arms." If anyone can find such an attack that isn't a parody, could you post a link?
This post is useless without pictures!……
(I'm kidding, G)
LOL!
If I post pictures without her express, written consent, I'm likely to wake up with an icepick in my ear. I love you guys, but not enough to risk an icepicking.
Reading Sally Quinn is not something I do. Dittos to that witch Kathleen Parker and Peggy the Noonan. As a woman, they give the word female a bad name! I have other issues to think about other than Michelle My Belle's arms. Like how the heck are we going to pay for our twins going off to college this fall.
All in all, the arms deal could be rolled into the arms deal. Arms as in arming our military and our defenses against say…. North Korea and Iran. Maybe Michelle's arms could be armed like Wonder Woman or something in case we are attacked. Now those kinds of arms are comforting arms!
Another thing is Michelle's arms being talked about to such levels usually which would have the nags or NOW gang out in full fanged modes. How dare someone speak about a physical attribute of a woman, and not discuss her mind and her contributions to the fall of man, or at the very least scaring the hell of men! I mean where is the justice here in speaking of her arms in such a demeaning manner? If Michelle flexes her arms and Obama falls prostrate or cowers in fear; then I will believe there is much power in the arms of My Belle Michelle.
For me, one more along the lines of "I am Sarah Palin", this claptrap is beyond stupid! Sarah had a great pair of gams, was beautiful, and quite accomplished for a mother, wife and political official. I do not recall her gams being spoken of with such loving terms. Ten to one she could kung-fu Michelle off the planet both with the gams and the intelligence factor!
Does anyone recall Maggie Thatcher being spoken of with such grand and glowing terms? Me either. And you know I think Mrs. Thatcher would pin Michelle to the mat in one second!
And I do not know about the rest of you, but in all honesty, I am not real thrilled to hear he depends on Michelle or her arms so much for approval. I am the John Wayne type gal that likes men to wear the cotton and not the silk. This is especially true when it comes to world leaders like my POTUS. If Sally and her gang want Michelle's arms to rule the universe; I suggest they need to run for political office. Otherwise, they can can the drool bucket behavior! EW!
“Michelle Obama’s arms, we determined, were transformational. Her arms are representative of a new kind of woman: young, strong, vigorous, intelligent, accomplished, sexual, powerful, embracing and, most of all, loving.
“They are toned and muscular, burnished and beautiful. That has to be threatening to some. For some men, often, a strong woman makes them feel diminished.”
uhhhhhmmmm……….. What?
When the sublime becomes ridiculous, where does this leave the intelligent?
FTR, trolls and wack-o-libs, I find strong women intoxicating. Thing is, affirmative-actioned does NOT count.
-cue John Houseman- You have to earrrrn it.
I'm just glad Sykes opened the door for anything and everything under the sun to be made fun of. I'm waiting for someone to bring out those Ted Kennedy jokes they've been holding back, like:
-Hey Teddy, What if I'm pregnant?
–Don't worry Mary-Joe, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
I agree… M. Obama might as well be pictured asking her big, strong, manly man to open a jar if she is going to play the victim..
Chicken
All this talk about her arms and nothing about her big ole @$$.
I hope she isn't giving the messiah advice in writing. If the memos are as bad as her college thesis, we are all in deeper trouble than we could ever have imagined.
careful now, her guns might go off.
sadly, the best i've got….
It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Personally, I dont mind Michelle Obama's arms. I didn't vote for them, but I have nothing against them. I just wish they'd kibosh all the glowing adulation of her arms in the media.
I love strong women, unless they are stars of Roller Derby, Women's Wrestling Federation, or married to the Obamassiah. "Those Arms, Those Eyes." Sounds like a title for a Broadway musical.
Look at the bright side. They aren't pictures of the G-Beast666's arms.
And the newspapers wonder why they're losing readership. Who wouldn't want to read an article on Michelle Obama's arms? Not.
Ouch! Now that's funny. I don't care who you are.
Wasn't there a Mary-Joe on the Ted Kennedy swim team?
(Thanks Wanda.)
Man, who cares about all that? I'd just like to … um … do her. That's funny, isn't it? How about if Letterman said it about Laura Bush?
Reading what was written about Michelle's arms is – literally – like sitting in a graduate literature course (at least it was a decade ago, I guess they're at least that bad now). My alma mater is still using "Diversity" as its theme…soooooo 90's. haha
Ugh don't even mention her man.
She was on the news again, and on Red Eye again, and I'm still sick and tired of her.
Dear God, please…pretty please don't let there be any photos of MO's "pretties" and have the likes of this self-loathing "essayist" write about how vigorous, strong and chiefly the "pretties" are. I don't think my computer could take another splash of coffee!
Definitely not the one who attacked Carrie Prejean for exposing her, uh, never mind.
I'm hoping Hillary will give Michelle some tips on how to take advantage of this "fawning" by the media. Maybe a photo op of dancing with Obama while wearing a bikini. After all, I remember what great reaction from the public Hillary got when we all got to see those beautifu thighs! Maybe she can wear "low rider" jeans, so we can be thrilled seeing some thong, like the "hip" girls do nowadays.
So, you think Michelle wearing dresses that expose her arms (which is actually typical of ladies' eveningwear) is supposed to be some kind of political statement? That's a pretty STUPID point.
Also, I don't see where you get this thing about her going through life angry and playing the victim, not when she went through Ivy League schools and became a corporate leader. I don't know many "victims" who have.
So I guess your fiance' must have fat-flappy arms and has been handed everything on a silver platter.
But hey man, whatever you find sexy…
There's no question that the First Lady has got some pipes on her but I'm pretty sure I can take her. Or, not.
Tom, leftist-oriented humor often takes awhile to set up. You have to give them time to realize that they've been taken. Then the fun starts.
It took me a long time to figure out why Peggy Noonan appears on The Wall Street Journal. I finally figured it out. [Unintentional] satire.
All this talk about her arms…why no mention of the badonkadonk??? Where's Tracy Morgan when you need him?
Sorry. The Devil made me do it.
Golani, I wouldn't normally do this (I don't like unsolicited ads), but since you mentioned "strong women" . . .
Lawhawk and I are contributing to a blog now. And today I asked the question of whether Obama has a problem with women. Here's the link:
http://shermansmarch.blogspot.com/
It's down the page a bit.
To paraphrase The Guess Who- “these eyes, are arms, these eyes have seen a lot of arms but they've never seen another arm like you…” cue horns… sounds like hit material to us.
Don't give those Obama fanatics in the theater any ideas.
Nope I don't think it's a political point at all, I think it's ridiculous that the media is trying to write about it as if it's some sort of statement about women's power and equality in prose so purple that Prince is thinking about buying the movie rights to it.
Have you read her dissertation that's been made available? If anyone who didn't have a team of victimhood lawyers at her back had put that in at a third rate community college on Grenada they wouldn't have gotten passed, let alone been given a job at an important medical facility. How many times did the woman have to say that she didn't feel proud of her country before you think she wasn't playing some sort of victim card there?
Isn't it funny that her important corporate job, at which she got a 200k a year raise when Barry got elected to the Illinois legislature, was so critical that after she became First Lady they didn't seem to need it anymore so cut the position? Makes you wonder what made it so critical previously, let alone so very critical that it required a massive pay hike. There's your silver platter.
What? A black comedian make fun of a black First Lady? I thought "there's nothing funny about the Obamas".
Once again, I'm thinking reading comprehension classes need to be taught:
from the article, Joe: how comedy writers are having a hard time finding humor (obviously they must not be great comedy writers, considering how many jokes we've seen around here..)
There was a joke about the First Lady and her constant choice to wear sleeveless dresses…. but apparently, even the left find her arms so "philosophically important" (not the phrase I'm looking for, but I can't think of the term I want)… So you're no longer allowed to crack jokes about something that is so "transformational"? I mean those must be some deep-thinkin' arms… I mean that's no longer in "funny", but no you're being MEAN to those arms….
Okay, I'm going to hell for laughing so hard at that one!! I just know it.. my soul is eternally doomed!
Hey you guys are even famous-er now! Huzzah!
Best I can tell, the "attackers" are just article comments from the likes of us? When there's no news to be found from something so stupid, they turn to trolls. And they wonder why so many newspapers are going down the toilet. Maybe the journos should enlist farkers, they say some pretty funny stuff!
Tom, the humor is in the author's idiocy. There was a lot of humor or satire in the Wanda Sykes embarrassment but we conservatives sometimes take ourselves too seriously and fail to see the humor in someone who is so obviously 'over-the-top' and evilly demented. It's hard to poke fun at Mrs. Obama because she seems so sincere, even if she's criticizing america, and we conservatives admire sincerity. Although, her really ugly $500 tennis shoes did take some hits.
Michelle Obama attended the President's NOT-the-State-of-Union Address wearing a sleeveless dress—in the middle of a Washington winter. She was mildly tut-tutted in the Washington press for this breach of conduct. If you want to see what was written about her on that occasion, just cruise through the "Style" sections of the newspapers for a week after the event.
Look, I don't give a rat's patootie about M.O., but she's a tall woman with broad shoulders and very long arms. I'm sure she gave up on finding clothing with long-enough sleeves years ago, and now she doesn't feel comfortable wearing them, even though she can have them custom-tailored.
And after reading your article there you're right, around my house we noticed the "Hillary" thing during the campaign as well, whereas everyone else was Mr. So-and-So. Except for the debate where he called McCain "John" all suddenly, which I thought was also condescending, especially the tone with which he said it.
"..prose so purple that Prince is thinking about buying the movie rights to it.
Oh, damn! I wish I'd said that.
BTW, Golani, add something else about Michelle's 'important corporate job'. What it DID! Dumped poor black folks in understaffed clinics so that the rich white Chicago Medical Center wouldn't have to take their sorry uninsured asses. And she was damned good at it. After she 'convinced' those poor black folks to buzz of, CMC saved millions in profit. So – come on, Sally – gush about THAT!
Aw, they'd blow it anyway by giving the title role to Whoopee Goldberg.
Great minds right?
He definitely knows how to condescend, and he did it to Hillary and later to McCain — that's for sure. I am wonder if we're going to get more evidence of this? His biggest supporters are women after all. That could hurt him if he got the reputation for being misogynistic.
P.S. Lawhawk and I are waiting for an offer from Vegas. Jumpsuits and tigers man!
Omigod. You're right. She's "armed" and dangerous. Send out an APB!
Oh, damn! You owe me a screen wipe! Ohmigod, that's funny!
I'm thinking a roller disco rock opera in 3 acts…
This could be huge man, huge!
Shoot, my post vanished — they keep vanishing on me today.
Now both of my posts have vanished. Here's what I said. . .
Great minds right?
He definitely knows how to condescend, and he did it to Hillary and later to McCain — that's for sure. I am wonder if we're going to get more evidence of this? His biggest supporters are women after all. That could hurt him if he got the reputation for being misogynistic.
P.S. Lawhawk and I are waiting for an offer from Vegas. Jumpsuits and tigers man!
Good point. Except – before she can advise him on writing, doesn't he first have to write something? Just asking.
Oh please, those arms are nothing to write home about. They're nice and toned, but come on..These people who keep "dribbling" over the Obama's make me ill. Barack has done absolutely nothing that should bring this kind of adoration. He's been president for about 110 days. Lets talk in 3 years or so, then we'll at least have an idea of anything that seems to be working….
She is as sincere as crocodile tears.
I read that article in the Post on Mother's Day and laughed my face off. Didn't someone here on BH say that we could expect a glowing tribute to Michelle on Mother's Day praising her maternal qualities? Right on schedule comes Sally Quinn. The libtards are just so predictable. And I am soooooo tired of the comparisons of Michelle to Jackie Kennedy. Jackie Kennedy was truly beautiful and stylish. Michelle is not, and she's not nearly as attractive as Laura Bush, another very pretty Republican woman. I'm not saying Michelle is a dog, but the way the media and celebs fawn over her is completely ridiculous.
If they'd cast Nathan Lane in the lead, I'd watch it.
Yeah but see if I would have said that I would have been a wascally wascist too. But I'm sure Joe doesn't care about silly things like, you know, the facts and all. He probably can't bake either.
As for the Prince line, feel free to use it, just make sure I get my cut of any pie that we wind up getting. Which I'm sure will be none, but hey I'm always the optimist ya know?
How on earth could Quinn have written that and not fallen dead of shame afterwards? I write myself – and I swear before God, I have never gotten so drunk that I would ever have written such mindless drivel as that. It was beyond humiliating, embarrassing – it was of the deranged drivel that has a nice doctor patting you on the shoulder and saying 'just swallow this and the straps tying you down won't hurt so much'.
Nope, nothing funny about an incompetent boob in the WH who most likely was affirmative actioned into an education beyond his intelligence (no way to know because he won't release his SATs and LSATs) who wears his ethnicity like a coat of armor.
Nope, nothing funny either about a woman who, by her own admission, was affirmative actioned into Princeton but who never found anything to like about the country that, trying to make up for the sins of its fathers, afforded her that opportunity even as it denied same to better qualified students.
And certainly nothing funny about a president who bows to a Saudi prince, gives the queen an I-Pod and the PM of our greatest ally (and the only one doing squat to help us in Afghanistan and Iraq) a bunch of CDs he couldn't use.
We come off as a third-world banana republic under this ignorant bozo and there is not a damned thing funny about that.
He condescends to everyone more or less, but it was especially noticible towards Hillary during the campaign. I don't agree with much that Bill Clinton says but I did agree with him that Hillary was being treated differently because she was a woman than any of the other candidates were. Now granted I'm sure Bill would have been fine with her being treated differently if it was in a positive manner, but hey, it is what it is.
As for other examples, you don't even have to go much further than Hillary's role in the administration. James Jones is acting more like the de facto Secretary of State when it comes to policy, while Hillary has been relegated to giving photo ops and pep talks. Now usually I follow Reagan's Rule when it comes to talking about Marines, but Jones has some very loopy ideas, and even if he didn't it's not his job as National Security Adviser to be doing things that are the purview of the Secretary of State.
As for Vegas, will a good time be had by all? Or will I have to come along to ensure the (or else)?
Carolyn: Unfortunately, your comment disappeared into the BH black hole, but I'll just add that it is clear who wears the pens in the Obama family.
My thoughts exactly! Boy, all these liberal sycophants need their eyes checked pronto!
everybody talks about her arms. what about her caboose?!! it is the size of Montana!! what is she doing about that!!??
OMG!
If a comment about her bare arms is "an attack" then what do you call the comments made about conservatives. Yes, that does include the Racist Remarks made by Ms. GRRRRAWFULO.
How's this?
In an statement that was long anticipated, it was announced today that Michelle Obama's arms have been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. The committee stated that the arms' embrace of everyone from Reverend Wright to Bill Ayers have enhanced America's standing among anti-Americans across the globe. A protest was lodged by prominent imams, calling the oft-lauded arms "an incitement to riot," and "a provocation to all Muslims everywhere."
In a leaked video, Osama bin Laden has denounced the lovely limbs. "This is exactly the kind of thing I'm trying to put a stop to," he complained. "Women's arms should remain covered at all times. If not, they should be removed."
"Also, stone the gays. Let's not forget our priorities. Death to America."
The magnificent, bronzed, toned, trim… Where was I? Okay. The arms had no comment, but their husband downplayed the muslim reaction: "They're entitled to their opinion."
You should probably come along to make sure. (Couldn't hurt right?)
Hey, if you hear/see/run across any more evidence on this point, please let me know. I'd love to put together a full "thesis" on this.
If this supposed "new kind of woman" is young, strong, vigorous, intelligent, accomplished, sexual, powerful, embracing and, most of all, loving, what were women before? Old, weak, feeble, unaccomplished, asexual, ineffective, spurning, and, most of all, hating? Is what's-her-name saying that in decades past there were no women who were young, strong, vigorous, intelligent, accomplished, sexual, powerful, embracing and, most of all, loving?
I think somebody should get some famous feminist to call her a misogynist. It would be fun.
Any criticism about Michelle Obama's bare arms had to do with the temperature in the White House – the oh-so-environmentally-conscious Obama's White House using so much fuel that his wife can wear sleeveless outfits in the winter – and nothing to do with some kind of battle of the sexes. Lolz.
Funny! Since Wanda opened up our airwaves for all comedy here goes;
Obama walks into a bar with a parrot on his shoulder
Bartender looks up and ask "where did you get that"?
Parrot replies "Kenya, they're all over the place".
I've never been to Vegas actually, so why not. LOL
I'm sure his upcoming trip to Europe will be a treasure trove of condensation towards a whole host of people. I'm especially curious as to why he wants to go to Germany so badly to give a speech in Dresden when it's a 65th anniversary of the Normandy Landings sort of deal.
Whoopi Goldberg as Michelle Obama? Sweet. How about Rosie O'Donnel as Hillary, Cedric the Entertainer as Barack and Will Smith in a role that will surprise you. . .
LOL!
On the bright side (from their point of view) ammunition has become scarce since her husband became President so the chances of the guns being loaded are slimmer than usual.
You know, I actually took the time to read the thing. REALLY I DID! I also got a migraine in the process. REALLY I DID!
We homeschooled our yutes, and they NEVER were allowed to write in such a manner. Not even when they were in second grade!
Do you guys remember that cartoon of Gorbachev pulling back the snarling face of a bear into a smile? It was from 1987-89, somewhere in there? That's what I think of when I see the transition of Mrs. Obama's semi-permanent b*tchface into a snarl/smile.
Just like me – you can seldom tell my grin from my grimace. I know I can't.
We were told on the Sykes thread Conservatives and Republicans have no sense of humor. So asking any of those two categories for any humor might result in a goose egg. At least that is what we were told by the humor filled Lefties.
Actually, "Mrs. Obama's semi-permanent b*tchface" reminds me more of Aunt Esther from "Sanford & Son".
I'll bet you a free beer in Vegas that he wants to be in Dresden to slam us for the bombing of Dresden.
It was a dark and stormy night when Sally Quinn sat down, moist-lipped and fecund at her typewriter. She paused, letting the oneness with the Messiah's handler ooze into her consciousness. Then, aroused in a way which her husband or her vibrator never could have accomplished, Sally began to furiously type with her toned and muscular, burnished and beautiful hands!
Okay, where's my job offer from the Post?
Snort! Now you owe me TWO screen wipes!
Don't you know? Dresden is where the flower of German culture was wiped out by those terrible Yankee imperialists simply for cruelty's sake. Who cares if it was WW2 and we had to knock out the Nazi infrastructure? I'm sure Obama will say something about 'the brutality of war,' 'unnecessary cultural destruction,' and so on. Ultimately, nothing is so important to commemorate in WW2 as the acts of brutality by our blood-crazed troops, not even their sacrifice at Normandy.
I see the left has abandoned its position on arms control, but I am glad her arms are speaking so eloquently, nothing else is.
That's a sucker bet. If he didn't do that I'd be remarkably surprised, my curiosity was tongue in cheek.
The actual bet should be will he go with the German wartime figure of 125k killed which Goebbels liked to quote, or the actually researched figure of around 65K? My money (beer) is on him using the German figures, because they more effectively portray "the tragic nature of these wartime actions" that occurred no matter what the specific numbers were. Or something along those lines.
The sexiest thing I love about a woman is her strength. Strength in a physical sense and of character too. On that last count, Michelle falls short.
Next time don't wear $540 sneakers to a hunger event.
In case you're wondering, my perfect woman- Mariska Hargitay. She's the tops.
I'm afraid her MOUTH might go off.
Like it did on the campaign.
Thanks. I’ve never seen her in a small-group setting and don’t know her personally but her public persona, the video and still images, portray her as sincere and charming, even more so than her husband. In person she may be a harridan, as I’ve read Clinton and Pelosi tend to be, but the press Obama gets crafts a charming, sophisticated, urbane liberal.
My fellow Robert. This is the new american royality. Everything the do, everything they are must be reported. It's a mix of the UK royals and Pravda.
Here's the line: "We are here in Dresden today, where our generals, in good faith, but wrong nonetheless, killed more than 100,000 German civilians in a needless bombing of a historic city. . . a city that we knew had no military value."
(I left out the "uh"s and "um"s to make it readable.)
By the way, my grandmother was in Dresden at the time.
Hey, that's what I said! Jinks.
He did say that Mrs. Bush was a drunk. And said unkind things about the elder Mrs. Bush too.
My response to Sally Quinn was similar to this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKjxFJfcrcA&fe...
I did. I do daily. That, and her eyebrows. And her vastly ignored case of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
Other than that….I got nothing.
I understand. But she has been trained, touted and supported publicly by the same people who sold America on Obama's intelligence, academic success and calm deliberation. Their handlers are better than these two ever will be. Clinton and Pelosi are amateurs at public appearance compared to the Obama act.
It's obvious. MO is on steroids.
Jeez, this is so yesterday news to the boys in the hood.
All that’s lacking is a big club!
Give me a break! You need new material! So here it goes… Give Michelle a basketball to hold and she would look more natural. Michelle is charming yet disarming! When Michelle reaches for the potatoes, there truly are arms across America! With arms like those Michelle can really reach out and touch her critics! Those are some big shoulders that support very little responsibility! Those kids in the White House sure like to show some skin! Barry topless, Bo nutless and Michelle sleeveless. Are Michelle's bare arms a fahion statement or a way to get a really nice sunburn? Drum roll please……
There is a smidgen of truth in this article,:
“She also has a husband who is facing more crises than any president we have had in more than half a century.
The writer, obviously drunk on the look of Michelle's arms, just forgot to add, " … due in part to her husbands continued efforts of running this country, HIS OWN way."
It's good thing Forearm Sally didn't start talking about Barack. She probably would have gone soft-core pornographic without her even knowing it, LOL! What a ditz. Could anyone be more of a groupie?
I agree. IMO that’s one reason (of many) the Republicans lost in ’08, the Obamas had a superior campaign team. Although BO has undermined the team’s work on numerous occasions, MO has yet to publically stumble and be exposed as her husband has. In ’08 the Republicans went straight to DVD, the Dems to worldwide release.
Can't breath…laughing too hard. Must breath. Her arms have a blog to. This is the extent of the vaunted leftwing intellect…a debate about how Michelle's arms caused her to be attacked…….And we wonder what the hell is wrong with the world. No debate about the debacle that is Obamawan's Health Care plan…they wanna debate Michelles man arms and why they are being attacked.
Oh, look at Michelle as she saunters into the soup kitchen, her petite feet encased by $500 shoes, the only footwear suitable for a bipedal goddess of this magnitude. Watch as this princess makes all the people within the aforementioned kitchen salivate with envy seeing as her astonishing outfit costs more money than the kitchengoers see within a year. Then watch as she returns to paradise within her limo, the radiance of her greatness adding more shimmer to the massive transporter which will usher her from the impoverished.
I just wrote Sally Quinn's next column right there.
Well, in the lib world, attack =not passing out in a religious fervor over something a lib does or says. Perhaps there were no genuine "attacks," per se, but there could very well have been a journalist or commentator that didn't praise Her Majesty's fashion sense highly enough for Madam Quinn's taste. Thus, an attack was perpetrated.
[...] Mother’s Day to all the mothers out there, bare armed or not. Sally Quinn is again jizzing to one particular mom’s bare arms, Michelle Obama. This article by Quinn demostrates everything that is wrong with liberalism and American [...]
Damn it, damn it, damn it — I know they f__ked this up somehow. If it was faithful to the original story and theme, it would never have been an "official selection of the Seattle International Film Festival".
The only thing transformational about Michelle Obama is her penchant for telling people 'What Obama will allow and what he won't allow'. Can you say bullys and thugs. In that light, strong arms are useful for 'strong arming'.
Sally also forgot to mention the painful healing process to Michelle's knuckles from repeated scraping on the ground…the reason the arms are so toned is because they're also used for "walking" too….
I don't mind Michelle's arm's either. I am (confession time) jealous of them. I have buff arms too, but sadly, mine aren't intelligent. My arms are pretty stupid, as a matter of fact. They can't speak a foreign language. They don't write essays. And, basically, they just hang around when I'm not employing them in some heavy lifting. After reading Ms. Quinn's column, geez, I wish my arms were "intelligent."
2 things, a google search reveals a ton of articles discussing whether or not M.O. should be attacked for being sleeveless, but not actual attacks that I can find. Most "attacks" are more along the lines of fashion commentary by the Obama fashion and style industry. They're sort of like this: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/25/mic...
Second, I actually don't think it's classy or appropriate as the leader of the free world for her to be sleeveless at some of the more serious functions, and have said so on other blogs, but none of them political. The people obsessing over it in print seem to be the fashioney style celebrity-watching types, not the politico types.
I wonder if michelle gves good handjobs with those ripply arms?
HOLY $%@#!
I am waiting for a homeless, unemployed bank CEO waiting in a soup line to fling a pair of $9.99 kids tennies from the Goodwill store, at her majesty while she is spooning cornbeef on toast in her $500. "America is a mean place" tennies.
One cannot be expected to sling slop without $500.00 tennies.
Read the original and replace "arms" with "breasts" or "badonkadonk". You'll see just how sexist this article is.
Oh- and don't forget that she got herself disbarred- and falling below Chicago ethical standards takes some work.
I hear Sally's next diatribe will detail Michelle's hoo-hoo and all it's attributes. Can't wait. Yet another historic event!
Good luck with all of that.
Quinn's piece isn't journalism: it's cunnilingus.
But what the hey- wev'e got our very own Evita Peron now.
I thought they were working to ban "gun shows"…
"The woman hasn’t left the smallest finger-hold for a satirist to grab hold of–it’s complete in its idiocy."
You could just reprint the whole article, and we'd consider you to be a comedic genius!
Ms. Quinn (I'm going out on a limb here and guessing that she's not a Mrs.) wrote a column that was unintentionally hilarious. I have a few new ideas for her next column:
*The Toes That Care (she could write that Mrs. Obama wears open toed shoes to signify that she accepts everyone openly)
*The Angry Look of Love (she could write that even though Michelle always looks angry, even when she's smiling, it's because she loves Americans, and the whole world. Perhaps she loves too much, but that's just the kind of woman she is.)
There's plenty more body parts. Call me, Ms. Quinn!
Oops. Well, good to know there are people out there who can put it better than I can. Regarding your depiction of his speech, make sure to add a long, embarrassed pause where the teleprompter guy makes a mistake.
That sucking sound! It's still there!! PLEASE MAKE IT STOP!!!
"I'm still curious about who attacked Michelle Obama for 'exposing her arms.'"
I was wondering the same thing.
That's right — I only just found out about Starbucks and its support of the gay political agenda. Sponsoring gay pride events, etc. Not to mention their "The Way I See It" liberal, pro-homosexual, anti-God quotes on their coffee cups. They also match employee contributions to Planned Parenthood, but the real problem here is that Planned Parenthood should NOT be classified as a non-profit organization — they are the Wal-Mart of the abortion business, and have a vested interest in performing as many abortions per year as possible, since they make money off each one.
More info here: http://is.gd/zKQB
You drink at Starbucks? Be careful: I’ve heard they spike the coffee. In 2 years you’ll be a liberal.
the scary thing is that some editor had to approve/sign off on this article. maybe MO got those guns by handing out those stacks of franklins over the years
This is the new arms race.
Hey, did you know that Maxim now has a klingon section?
Personally, I could care less if Michelle wants to show of her arms. If you've got it, flaunt it! I wish I could still wear sleeveless anything. The whole issue is ridiculous and a waste of brain power, and this fawning over the woman is nauseating. As others have alluded, Sally Quinn IS the joke.
bad liberals, bad bad liberals…i know what will fix everything let's let the conservatives run things….oh that's right…they had their chance and blew it….so now it's all about the first lady's arms….wow…dude…go take a xanax or something.
If I could draw something other than flies I would have a strip where Michelle's disembodied arms float around the White House, dispensing wisdom. I mean, didn't Hilary talk to Eleanor Roosevelt? Future generations of occupants of the West Wing can report sightings of the Obama Biceps. The hands wouldn't be able to speak, of course, but they could sign: Cut taxes for people who don't pay taxes!. Then the hands could fly out onto the White House lawn and pretend to work a garden.
After reading the snippets of Sally Quinn's "Ode to Arms', perhaps someone could write a parody of the old, great Bill Withers' song 'Grandma's Hand's', calling it 'Michelle's Arms'.
Tom, thanks for the nice comments. I've always enjoyed your posts, even when we disagree!
P.S. Drop by any time and feel free to rip us apart — we can take it.
MICHELLE OBAMA LOOKS LIKE LEON SPINKS.
could someone tell me what this person is saying? I can't figure it out.
I don't know whats worse, Geithner in the Most Beautiful People Mag or Michelle in Maxims Top 100 (she was 93 I think). This is really getting reeffindiculous. Throw a rock in LA or NY and you'll hit a woman more attractive than her (for the record I don't advocate throwing rocks to hit women).
Of course she shows her arms, it is the only way to stay cool in the overheated White House.
Now I know you guys can and will create some snappy jokes out of that.
Simple, don't give up. Necessity is the mother of invention, and if comedy isn't a necessity at this point in time, I don't know what it was.
Why did the Yankees miss the world series last year? Because they wouldn't let the Pope walk on the grass at Yankee Stadium.
Endeavor to persevere!
"Has she? Did Sally Quinn just make that up? Could you find me someone who has done that?"
Yep:
"I asked David Brooks about her amazing arms, he indicated it was time for her to cover up. “She’s made her point,” he said. “Now she should put away Thunder and Lightning.”
[...] you can’t write a parody of a (self-) parody. When the newspapers are full of stories about Michelle Obama’s “transformational [...]
If you read the statement correctly Sally Quinn calls Michelle Obama intelligent, not her arms.
"Her arms are representative of a new kind of woman"(At this point the subject changes to 'a new kind of woman')": young, strong, vigorous, intelligent, accomplished, sexual, powerful, embracing and, most of all, loving.
I am very sorry your fiance had to go though life angry while playing 'the victim'. Life is hard for some people and I know God is looking after your troubled wife.
Try coming to Britain, we have an incompetent pompus idiotic Scot running the country. Makes for great satire
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