The president’s news conference from last night isn’t getting good press.
Notice the big monitor in the back of the room. That caught some reporters off guard.
But it made me wonder.
Suppose someone hit the remote, and Obama continued to read off the screen. Would it have made for a better news conference?
Or, a more honest one?
*click*
Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.
*click*
We rob banks.
*click*
What we got here is … failure to communicate.
*click*
I’m the king of the world!
*click*
I’ve always depended on the kindness of strangers.
*click*
This is my life. It always will be. There’s nothing else.
Just us and the cameras …
…and those wonderful people out there in the dark.
All right, Mr. DeMille. I’m ready for my close-up.
*click*
Etta Place: Do you know what you’re doing?
Butch Cassidy: Theoretically.
That would have been a much better speech than the one he really gave…
Dr. Strangelove: “But ah, with the proper breeding techniques and a ratio of say, ten females to each male, I would guess that they could then work their way back to the present Gross National Product within say, twenty years.”
You are telling me that this is not the official transcript? dang.
OK, this was funny.
You should do something with the last scene from the movie “The Candidate” — the Robt. Redford pic about a guy who’s picked to run for Governor because he’s cute and cool with a photogenic smile and is a great front-man with no ideas of his own. With help from his handlers does a marvellous job of campaigning and wins. But as his victory party is going on and he’s surrounded by an adoring press, he pulls his handler into the next room and asks: “Marvin … What do we do now?” His handler has no answer and that’s where the movie ends.
I can’t think of a better movie analogy for this guy.
Whose hand is that remote in? Karl Rove? Rush Limbaugh? A member of Dick Cheney’s speech assassination squad?
Good thing Barney Frank hadn’t been using the TV to watch gay porn just before Barry’s big TV adventure or this could have been even uglier: “Good evening. It’s so large, so very large, give it to me hard cowboy. That’s right, whip me. Hey look a male goat! Bring that goat over here…”
Josey Wales: “Dyin’ ain’t much of a livin’, boy.”
i wish there were that many good classic films on at any one time. i think movies have been going downhill for more than 50 years now.
#5, Where do you think the Jug Ears got the idea to get into politics in the first place?
I haven’t voted in awhile: 5 stars for this one.
Hehehe, fun with the remote on the TOTUS:
“Come and knock on our door…we’ve been waiting for you”
click
“I enjoy being a girl”
click
“the (president) is a ni…near!”
click
“you take the good you take the bad you take ’em both and there you have the facts of life”
click
“I’m mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore!”
click
“greed is good”
…
Eh, Basil’s are better.
“Look ma! Top of the world!”
“I’d like to talk to you about…common diarrhea.”
“It’s got Wessonality!”
“…a certain versa-tuna-tility!”
“These cards are marked.”
“They’re a mess.”
“A chocolate mess!”
“And I helped!”
“Meineke shatters prices!”
Just make sure the DVDs are in region 1 format, or they won’t play for the world leader.