Going To Hell For This One, I’m Sure

I defended Obama’s “Special Olympics” comment, but what I will NOT defend is the sanctimonious bulls@#$ response by Special Olympics Chairman Timothy Shriver, which says in part:

Finally, we invite the President to take the lead and consider hiring a Special Olympics athlete to work in the White House. In so doing, he could help end misperceptions about the talents and abilities of people with intellectual disabilities, and demonstrate their dignity and value to the world.

Ya know, if retards REALLY want to demonstrate their dignity and value, they can start by showing that they can take a joke at their expense, just like normal people.

And Shriver – Dude… chill.

Retarded people aren’t smart enough to know that the President was making fun of them. If any of them saw the show (which I doubt, because they tend to have early bedtimes), they probably heard Obama say “Special Olympics”, then got really excited, threw both arms in the air, and shouted “YAY! SPECIAL OLYMPICS!” with that endearing Elmer-Fudd-like speech impediment of theirs.

No harm, no foul. Obama’s got nothing to apologize for.

A Long Four Years

So not only was Obama’s gift to Gordon Brown thoughtless, it’s also useless because the DVDs he gave him are the wrong encoding and won’t play on a UK DVD player. And he went on Jay Leno’s show last night and made fun of the disabled. We’re we supposed to have a smart president now surrounded by smart people? Man, we’re not even done with the first one hundred days yet; what’s the chance of him lasting until 2012 without accidentally launching nuclear missiles or setting the White House on fire? And if God forbid something happens to Obama like him getting his tongue stuck in the DVD drive of his computer and is unable to do his job, it’s Biden who would be taking over. He’s go to a foreign summit and come back with everyone declaring war on us. After him, the next in line is Pelosi.

Hunker down people; it’s only going to get worse before it gets better. Find your favorite canned food and stock up on it. Do the same for ammo. I don’t know how bad Obama is going to screw up, but hopefully there will still be some sort of breathable atmosphere in four years. If so, we can eventually pull through this.

Let’s Pretend That We Think It Was a Shot At Trig Palin and Act Like We’re Super-Offended

Having watched the video of Obama’s “Special Olympics” comment

I’ll say this:

He was making fun of himself, and since his ineptitude at bowling is legendary, I’d say he was perfectly justified in making the remark. It was a choice bit of hyperbole.

Was it funny? Not especially, but not every joke’s a winner. Some are there just to keep the mood jovial & light-hearted. I think this did that.

The IMPORTANT question is: did the audience think it was funny?

No – because no one heard him say it.

The audience was too busy laughing at Leno saying “No, that’s very good. Yes. That’s very good, Mr. President.” and making an exaggerated ‘I’m trying not to laugh out loud’ gesture of covering his mouth with his hand.

In my semi-professional opinion as a self-described humorist, I’m giving Obama a pass on this one.

The question is, will his perpetually-offended grievence-constituency base do the same?

Shockingly, 21% of HuffPo’s Kool-Aid-drinking, Obamessiah-worshiping readership say “no”.

While I’ll always consider these people idiots, at least on this one occasion, I won’t be calling them hypocrites.

Quote of the Day

From XKCD, on the MSM’s faux outrage over $165 million in bonuses coming out of a 175 BILLION dollar bailout:

The difference between a million and a billion is the difference between a sip of wine and 30 seconds with your daughter and a bottle of gin and a night with her.

Special

The president made a funny.

Only, some didn’t find it so funny.

ABC News reported Obama’s attempt at humor:

Towards the end of his approximately 40-minute appearance, the president talked about how he’s gotten better at bowling and has been practicing in the White House bowling alley.

He bowled a 129, the president said.

“That’s very good, Mr. President,” Leno said sarcastically.

It’s “like the Special Olympics or something,” the president said.

The audience laughed. Because The One can do no wrong.

However, if a conservative … say, Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity … had made such a comment, there’d be calls for his firing. And a calls for advertisers to boycott his radio show. And calls for … well, you get the idea.

But, no, it wasn’t an evil conservative. It was The Messiah that said that.

The lack of outcry makes me suspect that Special Olympics humor is now okay. You can’t use monkey in a joke, but you can compare someone’s actions to the Special Olympics. Got it? Good.

Still, I wouldn’t compare the president’s bowling to the Special Olympics.

Obama’s performance as president? There’s a possibility.