Kass on Nobel Barack; MooDoo’s hot mess about Nobel Obama; Sharpton’s war on behalf of the NFL
By LisaB on October 13, 2009 at 10:50 PM in Current Affairs
(Bumped up from early today.)
1) John Kass wrote a fun piece today reminding everyone of those 12 special days at the beginning of BO’s presidency that helped seal the deal on the Nobel.
He’d been in office only 12 days when the Nobel nominations were due. That’s a mere 288 hours for Obama to have been credentialed as President Peace. It’s not every day that a Chicago politician with City Hall guys running the White House goes and wins the Nobel Prize. So when the news broke last week, a bold decree was read across the land: Henceforth, the 12 glorious days shall be known as Barack’s Golden Almost-Fortnight; or Barack’s Amazing Days of Peace, Harmony, and Universal Love!
“Golden Almost-Fortnight.” Heh. Believe it or not, the column gets better from there.
On the First Day, tens of thousands waited hours and packed the National Mall to hear his inaugural speech. They were so cold, tired and hungry. Obama brought forth two McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish sandwiches and five burger buns, broke them and distributed these among the people. All were nourished, with plenty of scraps left over for the starving Republicans. The next day, Obama journeyed to the tomb of the Republican Party, which had shot itself repeatedly in the foot until it died. There in the shadowy rocks, Barack bent over the corpses of commentators Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh and breathed new life into them.
Take a look if you need a chuckle. And remember, Kass has been watching Obama longer than nearly anyone else.
2) What to say about MooDoo’s most recent disgorgement? She imagines a conversation between Bill Clinton and George W. Bush about Obama’s Nobel. Why? I have no idea. Neither man has weighed in in any way about the award.
When he heard the Nobel Peace Prize shocker on Friday, Bill Clinton went into one of his purple rages. He picked up the phone and dialed the one person on earth who would be as steamed as he was.
CLINTON: Hey, man, it’s me. This thing is plumb crazy. Can you believe it?
W: No way, Jose!
CLINTON: First that prig Carter. Then that prig Gore. And now President Paris Hilton. The guy’s in office three days and he gets the peace prize? He should have gotten the Nobel in chemistry, because chemistry’s all he’s got. Talk about a fairy tale. This … is … just … wrong! It’s killing me, man. I feel like my head’s explodin’. First I had the vast right-wing conspiracy, and now I have the vast left-wing conspiracy.
The title – “Gandhi Wuz Robbed.” Why? I have no idea. Seriously. It makes no sense at all. Here’s the sum total of the Ghandi theme.
CLINTON: Maybe you’re right, George. Some winners think the Nobel’s the kiss of death. Any peace prize that goes to Henry Kissinger but not Gandhi ain’t worth a can of Alpo. Heck, if Gandhi had known he was going to lose out to Henry the K, he could have had more time to eat french fries and chase girls.
“Alpo”? Really? “Explodin”? “Chase girls”? What’s MooDoo doing here, scripting Former Prez Gone Wild? What is this mess?
Well, MooDoo conflates the two former presidents – no surprise, since she dislikes both. She imagines a conversation, makes both men talk like idiots and completely ignores that neither has said word one about this award. MooDoo doesn’t address the award herself either.
Why did she write this piece? What’s the point? Why did the NYT actually publish this ridiculous, nonsensical making-sh-t-up conversation? Beats me. But, you know MooDoo. Any chance to bust on any Clinton. She makes the question of Obama’s Nobel all about Clinton’s ego and throws in some stupid-is-as-stupid-does Bush for leavening.
And Ghandi? “Wuz?” Just who is MooDoo slapping with that title? Who talks like that anymore, outside of MooDoo’s Clinton-caricature soaked unconsciousness? Pithy commentary this is not. Politically insightful – no. Funny? Uh, only if you like stereotypes of southerners. In other words, MooDoo’s usual doodoo.
3) Just a short video on Obama’s prize winning lifestyle.
You know, this is funny until you remember BO did win a grammy for “spoken word” performance in reading his book. Seriously.
4) Not much I can say about this, but from the “you-saw-it-coming” column: Al Sharpton is trying to derail Rush Limbaugh’s efforts to buy an NFL franchise as part of a group. Politico has a blurb.
Rev. Al Sharpton pleaded with the National Football League on Monday to deny conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh the opportunity to buy the St. Louis Rams franchise.
In a letter sent to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, Sharpton wrote that he was “disturbed” to hear about Limbaugh’s interest in the Rams and asked for a meeting with Goodell “to discuss the myriad of reasons as to why [Limbaugh] should not be given an opportunity to do so.”
Well. When a fight like this shapes up, there’s nothing to do but go get the popcorn.
by Ronald Scott
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