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With President Obama’s public statement of supporting same sex marriage (he is the first standing President to do so) causing a media fire storm and perhaps, defining this already divisive election campaign season, it just gives me pure, geeky pleasure that perhaps the Washington I loved in shows like The West Wing is happening in real life. Check out the clip above where President Bartlett (played by Martin Sheen, who I wish was my grandpa) throws the smackdown.
(Via Kal Penn)
What is it with China and their obsession with President Obama and fried chicken? Many of you probably already saw images of this sign that’s popped up in Beijing:
Of course, this has sparked outrage from those saying this is an offensive perpetuation of stereotypes. And this isn’t the first time China has shown us how much our President enjoys his fried chicken. I previously blogged about this KFC commercial out of Hong Kong:
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As we segue into May (rhyme!), we writers discuss piss on walls; the Chinese sex drive; and elderly people smoking the reefer.
I can guarantee you that that sentence has never been written before.
NO VISUALS, JUST FOLLOW YOUR NOSE!:
“Everytime I walk down the streets of downtown SF, I walk around 2-3 piles of freshly-minted human fecal matter. And if not poop, definitely piss. If it’s wet and it’s trailing from a vertical surface, it’s probably piss.”
I’ve walked down enough LA streets in my life to know that a vertical trail is always 50/50 piss or poop.
OSAMA GETS OBAMA? AND WHAT DOES HITLER HAVE TO DO WITH IT?:
“[...] I’m sure Donald Trump and his ilk are already preparing to question the official version of the story. After all, there’s no “proof” that the man is dead and besides, the President’s speech preempted tonight’s episode of the Donald’s Celebrity Apprentice so it’s got to be some sort of conspiracy, right?”
Obama is just really mindful of sweeps season.
As I write this it’s only been a little over an hour since President Obama announced to the world that “most wanted” terrorist Osama Bin Laden had been killed but I’m sure Donald Trump and his ilk are already preparing to question the official version of the story. After all, there’s no “proof” that the man is dead and besides, the President’s speech preempted tonight’s episode of the Donald’s Celebrity Apprentice so it’s got to be some sort of conspiracy, right? And love that Fox News continues to make “mistakes” like this:
Others will point out that the timing of the announcement is odd considering it comes exactly 66 years to the day that the news of Hitler’s death was made public. Or that this comes when Obama’s popularity is at its lowest so this must be a calculated effort by his camp to turn that around. Now, I don’t think such a move guarantees a spike in Obama’s poll numbers. There will probably be an initial surge, but what happens if there’s a “retaliation” attack against America or Americans? Or if the war in the Middle East continues to drag on and people are left wondering why? Or oil prices continue to rise instead of fall? Or hate crimes against “brown” people increase dramatically? For that matter, what would’ve happened if this attempt to capture/kill Bin Laden had ended badly leaving Americans and civilians dead and the bad guy still on the loose? Hardly a slam-dunk move on Obama’s part. As for the Hitler connection, well, I’ll leave it to Mr. Trump to speak to that. That seems right up his alley.
What I Learned on YOMYOMF This Week is a capsule of the week’s blogs with sarcastic commentary from Yours Truly (that’s me!). If you’ve been busy and missed out on a couple of our daily gems, this is a perfect way to catch up.
But seriously – what was more important than reading YOMYOMF?
As we approach the close of April, YOMYOMF examines the Japanese tendency to cute-ify everything; the Filipino crucifixion craze; and genital slang.
Didn’t see that one coming, did you?
“Japan has a tradition of using “cute” mascot characters to educate the public about things that are far from cute. [...] Now, here are a few examples from recent years of tsunami-related examples of this tradition.”
I don’t know about you, but nothing makes me afraid of something more than when it’s anthropomorphized.
KIDS ON PLANES AND I HATE THEIR PARENTS:
“A mother is HOLY in most cultures, she’s a saint, a woman of virtue, untouchable and needed in this world: she bred and somehow, we –the pitiful childless- have to be kind to her because she IS sacrificing her life to make the life of someone else’s possible. I don’t WANT to give up my seat (I pee a lot and therefore I get up a lot, that’s why I always book an aisle seat), but I’d be an ASSHOLE if I didn’t.”
Wait… what’s wrong with being an asshole?
Oh, right – that’s why no one loves me.
This next bit of “Really? Here? Now? In the 21st century?” reminds me of a great line from the good, albeit overrated, film, Casablanca:
Inspector Renault (just before taking his cut of the gambling proceeds): I’m shocked! shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!
So it is with racism and Orange County.
Obama's real dad?
(btw, does anyone still say “Behind the Orange Curtain” anymore? I was a kid during the Cold War and actually paid money to see “Red Dawn” in the theaters, but maybe you Millenials out there have come up with something new?).
A recent KFC commercial that aired in Hong Kong featuring an Obama impersonator talking about “change” in the context of KFC’s new fish filet soft roll is causing some controversy with folks who think it’s racist (the black/fried chicken stereotype, though he’s eating fish here), disrespectful to the President (he gets crushed by a giant sandwich) and/or inaccurate because everyone knows that it’s really cat meat that’s used in Asian KFCs (you can see some of the people’s “interesting” reactions here and on the YouTube page).
I don’t know about Obama, but it seems that Asians love them some KFC. In Japan, for example, eating KFC for Christmas has become something of a holiday tradition and Yum Brands, the company that owns KFC, posted higher than expected quarterly earnings this past week with a whopping one-third of its revenue from China alone where it operates 3,700 restaurants, mostly KFCs.
Check out the commercial for yourself after the jump. As for me, I think I’ll head down to KFC for some grub.
Dear Republican Party:
Two weeks ago today, you kicked major Democratic ass during the midterm elections. If the Democrats were Antonio Margarito, you guys were definitely Manny Pacquiao. You gained a majority in the House of Representatives, made significant strides in the Senate and, according to Fox News’ fair and balanced coverage, you won victories “on a scale not seen since the end of the New Deal.” Now, I went to public schools so I have no idea what the New Deal is, but it sounds pretty damn impressive nonetheless. And you accomplished this despite the defeat of some of your high-profile kooks candidates like Christine the Non-Masturbating Witch.
Clearly, many Americans were tired of a black man holding our highest office business as usual and they sent their message loud and clear.
I’m not a Republican though I’m still on record as saying I’ll take one for the team and totally bang Michelle Malkin and Sarah Palin, but as readers of this blog know, I like to keep an open mind about things. So although I may have been personally dissatisfied with the overall election results, I was willing to give you guys a chance.
Now, I know real and significant change doesn’t happen overnight. Sometimes it takes days. Sometimes even a week and some days. So I waited patiently for the change that you promised would come. I waited patiently for business as usual to become business as unusual and for business as unusual to become business as usual, but it’s been two whole weeks and…nothing.
Last Friday night at a GOP fundraising dinner in Iowa, Sarah Palin tried to make a funny. She said her husband Todd joked that if she showed up in Iowa wearing running shoes, Vanity Fair magazine would run a story with a headline like, “Palin In Iowa Decides to Run.” Yeah, I know, it wasn’t that funny, but I’m not here to critique Ms. Palin’s comedy stylings.
What I am here to do is cross my fingers, hold my breath, shut my eyes tight and say a little prayer that there was a big fat kernel of truth behind her little joke. If all goes according to plan, the GOP will put up Sarah Palin and perhaps fellow wingnut lookalike Christine O’Donnell, the surprise Tea Party senate primary winner in Delaware, for the 2012 presidential race.
The President is a pretty hands on guy and he likes to see how the work force is doing with innovation and efficiency; checking the pulse of the economy from the ground floor. So, he’s always on the road at the some factory or assemblyline, talking to some engineer or plant manager about the cool wazoos and widgets that are being produced. NYMag recently did a slideshow called A History of Obama Feigning Interest in Mundane Things. Naysayers have said that the photos were clearly doctored.
So, some dude named Dean Trippe made his own slideshow, but this time, it’s Obama checking out things that you’d expect a 21st Century President should be checking out. Here are my favorites:
Saw this picture over at Racialicious:
It’s a float from a German Carnival parade that depicts President Obama and Chinese leader Hu in bed together. As you can see–Obama is handing his Chinese counterpart a whole wad of cash alluding to the debt the U.S. owes China. What makes this image even more bizarrely racist is not only Hu’s yellow clothing and coolie hat or even the white German folk dressed up as yellow coolies, but that drawing of the John Lennon and Yoko Ono-esque interracial couple on the side of the float. What the fuck is up with that?
Ah, leave it to the Germans, with their long history of racial and cultural sensitivity, to come up with something like this.
Youtube Comments Gone Intolerable
Have you ever had one of your youtube video’s completely trashed with filthy or crazy comments? I don’t know why but my fellow Offender Roger’s blog of his doggie (style) experience made me think of these comments of a video from our Arowana Films camp.
I give you example A:
This Kim Jong Il Eharmony video mysteriously became a “featured video” which emerged as an easily accessible thing to the real world. And while reading all the great responses, it also came with intolerant and edgy comments. I then realized that youtube is dangerously one of the last places where you can totally speak freely and get away with it.
Here’s more comments of this video but please be warned!! Read more...