Barack Obama Is Being Punk'd

Okay. Time is up. Barack Obama is being punk'd.

Sarah Palin had notes written on her hand at the same moment that she was making fun of Obama for using a teleprompter. One of the radio "hosts" who makes fun of the teleprompter daily said that Palin's notes on her hand were "endearing." The "host" also blamed Obama for televising his day with the Republican leadership, saying that if he was serious, he would have done it in private. This was after a solid month of daily beatings for not making the health care negotiations public.

The Democratic Party can now be assured forever that nothing, nothing, nothing they will do will stop the insanity. Or Sean Insanity, whatever you want to call it. If they are hoping for good publicity from the majority media, (yes, I'm sorry Fox, but you are now the highest rated news network) forget it. Writing on the hand is okay, teleprompter is not. Opening up health care is okay, opening up the meeting with Republicans is not. It would not surprise me if Ashton Kutcher popped out of the West Wing and told Obama that he has been punk'd.

The swift boat ad that killed John Kerry was not an aberration, it was just the beginning. They took a man who actually served in Vietnam and made him a coward compared to a man who didn't. And people bought it. Now it's everywhere. Right is wrong, wrong is right, crazy is normal, good is bad, hot is cold. I am not sure what the anti-Christ's plan is, but I can't imagine this is not part of it.

 

 

 

Comments

[CynthiaGee]

10:42 AM on 02/15/2010

Albert, I'm glad to see that someone else has finally noticed this.

It seems that the modus operandi of FOX news and the GOP is to accuse the Obama administra­tion of doing the very things of which they themselves are most guilty.

More parallels:

Jeremiah Wright / Palin's witch-hunt­ing pastor Thom Murthee

Bill Ayres / Alaskan terrorist/­secessioni­st Joe Vogler

The Obama-is-a­-Muslim hoax / FOX's chief shareholde­r, AlWaleed Bin Talal

Now, every time the tin-hat/Te­a Party crowd casts a new slur at the Obama Administra­tion, I start digging around in the Conservati­ves' closet to find who on their side is guilty doing the very same thing.

These Cons really ought to learn that people who live in glass houses shouldn't stow bones.

[deschl]

10:16 PM on 02/14/2010

That would mean she would have the capacity to think...

[HIinsider]

10:16 PM on 02/14/2010

Are you all awared that Anthem Blue Cross is outsourcin­g to overseas non-US licensed doctors to make coverage decisions on requested medical services??

[Mark Mack]

09:45 PM on 02/14/2010

Albert Brooks, I don't quite understand the title "Obama is being Punk'd" but I sorta get the vibe you are trying to impute. Although I think:

It is no time to frown and fret. Everything is Loco,i.e., Crazy. You have to be Crazy to run for office right now, you have to be Crazy to spew the kind of nonsense Palin and her troop are believing and you have to be Crazy to deal with them.

The democratic history you point to probably rightly reflects your contemptuo­usness for their lack of distinguis­hing the Crazy and dealing with it.

But I have a feeling that this Administra­tion and those that are supporting it are just as Crazy if not more - than you might think - and that's a good thing.

[pmag88]

08:16 PM on 02/14/2010

There are smart Republican­s out there, but sadly the media’s attempt to legitimize some of the least sensible among them is ultimately doing a lot of harm. Personally­, I feel it’s a bit malicious.

[Irene Rubaum-Keller]

08:02 PM on 02/14/2010

I'd actually like to see them do improv. Let's get Obama and Palin on the stage, give them a topic (like healthcare for example) and let them have at it. Or have them take suggestion­s for topics from the audience (like in Muslim World). Now that would be fun to watch!

[CaseyAKO]

08:33 PM on 02/14/2010

The Republican­s would just call it a trap and refuse to show up.

[77jj]

06:23 PM on 02/14/2010

If only someone in the media would pull the curtain back and show the rest of us who is writing all those words on the teleprompt­er.

[RussSanchez]

06:49 PM on 02/14/2010

Um I don't know. A speechwrit­er maybe? It's good to expose any public figure who would use such a crutch. This practice of President Obama is so outside the norm as to be the number one issue in society today.

[OpposingViewpoint]

05:59 PM on 02/14/2010

No my friend, Main Street is being punked.
Troubled banks are at a 16-year high at a time that banks are failing in droves. Fifty failed in the third quarter of 2009 alone, the worst since 1992. All the while, the FDIC is broke.

The unemployme­nt rate rose to near or at post WW2 highs while many economists and the government tell us it might be 2014 before we see any appreciabl­e reduction in the unemployme­nt rates.

Bankruptcy filings in federal courts jumped by more than one-third in 2009 over last 2008. New numbers show about 1.4 million bankruptcy cases were filed for the 2009 fiscal year. That's up 34.5 percent compared with the more than 1 million cases filed last fiscal 2008.

Home prices are not even close to bottoming out and foreclosur­es continue to set record highs. Meanwhile the FED is warning that low interest rates could fuel another financial bubble and the commercail real estate bubble is beginning to pop like a balloon in the hot sun.

The U.S. has a $1.6 TRILLION debt payment due in March, all the while the country is DOG D-I-C-K BROKE.

One MILLION + homeless kids on the streets of America.

All of this, plus much much more and Main Street is supposed to give a chit about Sarah "F"alin reading from her hand and Obama using a teleprompt­er. Uneffin believeabl­e, let's move on.

[marinade]

06:17 PM on 02/14/2010

Lighten up. Reality is coming home to roost. Comedy is going to be our best friend.

[Koreboomer]

05:32 PM on 02/14/2010

Perceptive column from a very funny man.
Fox and its mouth-brea­ther constituen­cy.
.
Fox, of course, is number 1 because it is THE
overtly-ri­ght wing source for slanted and censored "news."
The danger is making it bigger than it really is.

But yes, it's depressing that so many buy into the BS
because it aligns with their prejudices­.

[marinade]

06:18 PM on 02/14/2010

Kids watch Looney Tunes. Old people watch Fox.

[Untitled]

04:59 PM on 02/14/2010

The GOP is effing with him.

[Bpwegy]

04:50 PM on 02/14/2010

Mr. Brooks. Unlike you, the American people don't see that reading an entire speech off of teleprompt­er is the same as having five words written on either a palm or a note card as equivalent­. I can't believe you took time out of your day to pen such a shallow piece.

[marinade]

05:33 PM on 02/14/2010

Mr. Bpwegy, you are right. The American people don't see them as the same thing. They see writing stupid cliches on the palm of her hand as bad and stupid, not endearing. They see reading a speech off a teleprompt­er as good and necessary for someone who wants to be accurate and factual.

You can't believe Mr. Brooks would "pen such a shallow piece" and yet you swallow all the shallow garbage that the likes of Palin, Beck, Hannity, O'Reilly and Limbaugh feed you on a daily basis.

[Obamaismyguy]

05:36 PM on 02/14/2010

Did you not notice the obvious... she was constantly lowering her head and eyes to read off a written script on the podium during her initial speech. Where is that different from reading from a teleprompt­er?

[Ucan2]

04:34 PM on 02/14/2010

Yea kinda like that Compassion­ate Conservati­ve thingy.

I still wondering how they bought that one.

[Winston120]

03:04 PM on 02/14/2010

Obama punked America, the biggest punk job in US History.

2008 Candidate Obama would love to run against POTUS Obama in 2012. He would tear him a new one, break him in half. You can raise my taxes to make that happen.

[Mort Twain]

02:51 PM on 02/14/2010

Let's go Zen in 2010. I can't think of any other options left short of violence and if we do that we perpetuate the very flaws of mankind that continue to expand our downward spiral.

This week, however, questioned Obama's commitment to the path of light. He called top bankers "astute businessme­n." Rather than the path of light I now feel Obama is following the path of least resistance­. After all, who can stand in the face of these people? Bankers, generals, lords of the universe, Goldman Sucks (I mean Sachs), Aetna, Liz Cheney. We're going to need a bigger exorcist.

Ohmmmbama? Our chakras have fallen and they can't get up. Clinton fixed his blockage by getting a stent. However, getting a stent assumes we have a heart and this wouldn't work for Cheney or Bank of America.

They have yet to write a mantra powerful enough to move us off a devalued dollar and when that mantra is written, Sarah Palin will have it crossed off on her hand.

[Godweiser]

02:37 PM on 02/14/2010

Everyone's afraid to call the Republican­s ignorant, but they are and avoiding that facet of the issue because we don't want to hurt their feelings is just giving this illusion that they're credible.

Gloves off. Start calling it for what it is. Stop being polite, because politeness is for people who return the courtesy, not people who view manners as a weakness.