You all do see the next freak-out, don’t you? It is just painfully obvious to me.
They won’t like the charity Obama is going to give the Nobel money, and will probably spend a week “investigating” (translation- furiously googling while high on cheeto dust and mountain dew) the charity for terrorist or unAmerican links. God help anyone on the charity’s Board who has a French sounding name.
calipygian
From the previous thread:
My two choices – Acorn or Planned Parenthood. For the lulz.
El Cid
Obama should completely confuse them — donate the prize to the NRA and say it’s in gratitude for their assistance helping him plan upcoming policies to keep Americans even safer from gun violence.
calipygian
CAIR would do, too.
Anne Laurie
I’d love for Obama to donate the whole prize to ACORN. Not gonna happen, but wouldn’t it be fun to watch?
John Cole
@calipygian: I would seriously die from laughter if he donated it to Acorn.
General Winfield Stuck
@calipygian:
Dern ya beat me too it, at least with Acorn, but PP is also a primo choice.
It’s a shame this will happen senor Cole, I was so excited with the FakeArtgate that Malkin was about to let her racist freak flag fly high. maybe later.
Makewi
I think he should give it to Ayers for writing that book for him.
The Grand Panjandrum
Donate it to Remote Area Medical so they can treat people who live in states that opt out of the Public Option. I’m guessing that would be a small or southern Red State. (I’m old enough to remember when Red State meant USSR or Red China … love the irony.)
freelancer
@Makewi:
brings the funny!? what the hell?
Is it opposite day?
smiley
OT and posted without comment.
OK, maybe one comment. Given the revelation that Michelle Obama has (at least one) white forbear, will we ever see a more ethnically diverse first family?
@calipygian:
Don’t forget the ACLU. That would be cool to. Or maybe the SPLC.
Colette
I’d like to see him give it to the Dalai Lama and watch China’s collective heads asplode, too.
linda
acorn….lol.
dadanarchist
Another potentially lulzy project: are there any Balloon-Juice/SadlyNo!/tbogg/etc/snarkosphere readers who live in Macon and want to run against Erick “Son of Erick” Erickson next time he runs for City Council?
GambitRF
Either that or they’ll criticize him for not giving it to his brother or one of his other random relatives that they’re obsessed with.
Ash Can
Sad but true. I hope the beneficiaries brace themselves.
smiley
@smiley: Add an o to the end of that. +3
PanAmerican
Americans for Better Care of the Dying
jl
Split it between ACORN, CAIR and Remote Area Medical.
Won’t make no difference. If Obama gives it to a ACORN, that will be a hoot (too bad it won’t happen). If he gives it to a safe and sane one, it will be just taken as evidence he has something to hide, and reason to double down on wingnut citizen investigations.
Let’s the cheeto dust fly, let the Mountain Dew fizzle!
smiley
@smiley:
Jeebus. I think I should eat something.
Elizabelle
nonsnark response: I truly hope he gives it to a charity or nonprofit that aids traumatic brain injured Iraq and Afghan war veterans. They have sacrificed so much of their lives and future potential.
Like Grand Panj (comment 8) suggestion re Remote Area Medical too. Basket.
TPM has up a comment by PJ Crowley at Dept of State to effect that it’s good our president is drawing accolades rather than shoes.
Swish.
The Grand Panjandrum
How about the Orly Taitz defense fund? The way she’s going she will be needing a real lawyer pretty soon.
General Winfield Stuck
@freelancer:
Lotz!
Demo Woman
IMO, he should set up a scholarship fund in Chicago to encourage inner city students to strive for higher education. If he doesn’t do that then the American Humane Society would be a good choice.
By the way after such an interesting, high strung type of day, it would be a good idea to have lots of pics of Lily and Tunch.
BDeevDad
Médecins Sans Frontières would be a good choice and blow their minds.
JeremyH
Guaranteed that Obama will delegate the task of choosing the recipient(s) to some committee or other. He’ll want it to be as milquetoast and uncontroversial as possible.
HumboldtBlue
I believe I saw a quote that it was going to a military/family organization.
Acorn would be hilarious, hearstopping even. Maybe MeCha, La Raza, Code Pink, Freethinkers, The United Negro College Fund would be a good one, anything with Ayers involved, or how about to his former church and Reverend Wright?
gnomedad
Balloon Juice Server Fund.
jl
He should give to Balloon-Juice to fix the ‘puter problems. That would be the good selfless and noble thing to do, for all humanity’s sake.
And a snack fund for Tunch (though that might be stretching the prize money a bit).
Ash
@GambitRF: Seriously, have any of those asshats given that guy a better cardboard box or something for all their yapping about it?
Ash
LMFAO, how many people would be rushing to google translate trying to figure out what kind of shady surrender-happy organization that is?
Comrade Luke
How about Reverend Wright’s church?
Midnight Marauder
It would be really hilarious if he said the charity he was giving it to was the Republican Party.
Dreggas
I’ve figured it out, with all the people saying that Obama hasn’t done anything to deserve the NPP, Erickson is right, it is must be a result of an affirmative action quota, after all no one who gets anything under affirmative action truly deserves it…
[ /end snark ]
Seriously today has been a funny as hell day. I admit though, when i woke up and turned on my puter, then opened the browser to msn.com i thought i was at the onion’s web site seeing the headline that Obama got the award.
Martin
He should use it to fund a dedicated inner-city gay Planned Parenthood division – specifically focused on reproductive care for poor, inner-city, same-sex couples.
Why not go for the trifecta.
Awesom0
I think Obama, William Ayers and an Adolf Hitler lookalike need to dress up like the “The Three Amigos” and give the money to the people of Tijuana.
It would cause the heads of so many different types of wingnuts to explode, that it’s future use would be prohibited by the Geneva Conventions (at least until another Republican gets elected).
freelancer
@Ash:
Just the ones who don’t get cognates.
demkat620
Acorn would be outstanding.
You’d hear the popping sound for weeks.
mcc
What if he donates it to the Clinton Global Initiative
gnomedad
How come no one has claimed that ACORN stuffed the Nobel Committee’s ballot box?
smiley
@Ash:
Really? That one seems pretty easy to translate. Oh wait, I’m edumicated.
BTW, I’d be all for that donation.
Tsulagi
Yeah, Gibbs should give an inside scoop to one of those brilliant nutter bloggers that Obama has already earmarked the money to ACORN to establish an outreach program for hookers and pimps. Only atheist ones of course.
Dreggas
@Tsulagi:
Nah he should just donate it back to the state of Hawaii and anyone involved in the cover-up of his real birth-place…oh even better he should donate it all to Kenya!!!
Lola
I vote for food banks here in the USA. That is a whole lotta food that could come straight from the prez.
SpotWeld
What’s the name of the organization that has been those hugely attended free health care clinics around the US?
Penfold
Actually, I’ve already investigated the charity that hasn’t been chosen yet, with the help of a crack time led by Fonzi and Glenn Beck. It’s a degenerate organization of socialists with dreams of redistributive glory, seen hauling bags upon bags of “liberated” property from affluent neighborhoods and then providing it to the poor. If you see one near your house, you should kill them, because they’re probably also a child molester.
Rumor has it they go by the name “Salvation Army.” This name was obviously chose in sympathy with the left-wing insurgents in the civil war in El Salvador. Obviously we should begin funneling money to their opponents’ death squads.
Penfold
Moderation hell. Try this again:
Actually, I’ve already investigated the charity that hasn’t been chosen yet, with the help of a crack time led by Fonzi and Glenn Beck. It’s a degenerate organization of so-shul-ists with dreams of redistributive glory, seen hauling bags upon bags of “liberated” property from affluent neighborhoods and then providing it to the poor. If you see one near your house, you should kill them, because they’re probably also a child molester.
Rumor has it they go by the name “Salvation Army.” This name was obviously chose in sympathy with the left-wing insurgents in the civil war in El Salvador. Obviously we should begin funneling money to their opponents’ death squads.
JK
Obama should give the prize money to Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
Martin
Remote Area Medical, as TGP mentioned up above.
ChrisB
@gnomedad:
Been there, done that, about 12 hours ago:
https://balloon-juice.com/?p=27997#comment-1394197
dmsilev
Given the self-evident truth of your statement, he should give the money to the RNC…
-dms
jl
The Village has agreed that this hurts Obama, the damage may be fatal. Limbaush said that it proves that Obama is a world laughingstock. Clearly a certain part of the population is suffering from Inadequate Black Man syndrome.
I say we should admit defeat and turn over the Presidency to Inhoffe.
Penfold
@jl:
Couldn’t we find a way to give it to Ted Stevens? Perhaps we can restore him to Congress through a series of tubes?
(I guess to quote him: “NO!!!!”)
Mike in NC
Clearly the prize money would best be used for railroad electrification and cutting edge brick oven technology.
schrodinger's cat
Obama can donate some of his prize money to the Tunch kibble fund. BTW, what is the great white god of BJ up to this Friday night?
RedKitten
@schrodinger’s cat:
Indeed. Tunch update, plzandthanks! I think this Friday night needs some photos of the cute.
Demo Woman
After listening to Ruth Marcus and David Brooks on Newshour, I demand pictures to calm me down.
Ruth is hoping that David will join her after the show for a meeting of the ….. If I could, I would hand her a tissue to wipe the drool off her face.
hypusine
The prize money should be just about enough to send every Republican in DC one of these.
Tsulagi
@dmsilev:
Even if he did that, spittle would fly from their outrage. Tears of Beckian proportion would flow. True nutters would just know that with Steele’s covert help (they’re both black after all), Obama was funding RINO candidates in a scheme to abort movement conservatism. Never underestimate their ability to search for victimhood.
Demo Woman
@RedKitten: lol.. If that is not the truth.
dmsilev
@Tsulagi: Yes, that’s exactly the idea. Get them to form a circular firing squad, and then hand out hand grenades all around.
-dms
wingnuts to iraq
That’s him personally helping with the US Trade Deficit. Chalk $1.4 mil up to Obama himself.
jl
@Mike in NC: That money would drill a lot of oil wells, and buy a couple of bunker busters for Iran. No one can argue with that kind of charity. Rimbush and Bleck might be pleased.
freelancer
@hypusine:
[gut-laughing][inhale][/gutlaughing][exhale/wheeze/cough/die]
Dr. Loveless
He should give it to the state of Hawaii, with a little note saying, “Thanks for your help with the birth certificate. ;-)”
Dr. Loveless
Or better still, to George W. Bush, with a note: “I couldn’t have won this without you.”
anonevent
Donate it to the Find th GOP’s Dicks Fund, since they’re obviously so small the GOOPERs feel the have to yell at the president all the time.
Comrade Luke
@Dr. Loveless:
Or the country of Kenya :)
Tattoosydney
Can haz open thread pls?
Demo Woman
@Tattoosydney: John has obviously skipped town and left the pets to fend on their own.
kindness
Just imagine watching their heads explode if Obama gave the money to John Ayers or his favorite charity or something.
Cain
@RedKitten:
I believe you are in possession of a bundle of cuteness aren’t you not? You’d suffer from cuteness overload if Tunch and Lilly showed up! :-)
cain
Cain
Obama should use it to bail somebody out.
:-)
cain
jl
If we have pictures of Tunch The Cat and Lily The Dog, Obama will see them and realize he should give them some of the prize money as an incentive for all pets everywhere to be completely wonderful in every way.
Well, OK, that would be for Lily The Dog. I guess, for Tunch The Cat… well, let me think… I guess…. we need more lovably cranky but dignified and stately, and very ‘ample’, cats. Or something.
Corner Stone
@JeremyH:
QFT
Corner Stone
@gnomedad:
I don’t think even $1.4 could help this weeble-wobble operation.
jl
@Corner Stone: I agree, sadly. The paltry prize money will not solve the Balloon-Juice computer problems, nor does it seem nearly enough to keep Tunch snacked up as needed to keep him from being cranky.
Jeffro
I hope he gives it out to 2 or 3 dozen different, diametrically opposed charities, just for funsies (with some neutral – or whatever passes for neutral- ones thrown in for extra-funsies)
ACORN, NRA, Planned Parenthood, The Center for the Study of Ayn Rand’s BS, and so on.
Just to show everyone (everyone not a cable TV pundit, that is) that cable TV pundits really will jump at anything.
hypusine
When I think of all the peace
lovingENFORCING moosecular fern policy thinktankers who were passed over by these commie nobull ferners (who don’t even speak American), it makes me cry Beckian tears. I’m crying them now.Does reality come with a safe word?
@freelancer
Please do not die. Think of the smiling ponies who love you!
Darkrose
@smiley:
OK, maybe one comment. Given the revelation that Michelle Obama has (at least one) white forbear
Smiley, I’m not trying to slam on you, but were you really surprised by this? I’m getting the impression that some people were, and it’s kind of boggling to me. Is this something that most white Americans don’t realize?
Darkrose
@smiley:
Smiley, I’m not trying to slam on you, but were you really surprised by this? I’m getting the impression that some people were, and it’s kind of boggling to me. Is this something that most white Americans don’t realize?
Darkrose
Shit. Sorry for the double-post.
kommrade reproductive vigor
Please. It doesn’t matter what he says he’s done with the money. The Idiotes Blithering will be checking the kerning on photos of Michelle, Sasha and Malia from now until doomsday. “Look, I’ve never seen her wearing those shoes before! They must have been bought with the prize money! What a disgusting waste of the taxpayers’ money!*”
@Martin: And the fReichtards would instantly insist that it was code for Rahm Emmanuel. PAYMENT FOR BURNING THE REAL VAULT COPY COLB!Eleventy.
*Yeah right. Like the fact that the prize is awarded by a foreign organization will stop them from claiming U.S. tax dollars are involved.
El Cid
Has Tony Rezko always been in charge of the Nobel committee?
freelancer
@hypusine:
i’m alive. Where’s my pony?
kommrade reproductive vigor
@Darkrose: Once I stopped laughing at the article, I could sort of appreciate the NYT’s attempt to cover the issue.
I mean sure it appears an intern was allowed to write a front page article but … Hooray progress?
Fwiffo
He should donate to Médecins Sans Frontières. He might lose the award though; the epidemic of wingnut head explosions would make the Rwandan genocides look like an Easter egg roll.
hypusine
@freelancer
Dunno for sure but I think this guy does.
That Seinfeld clip was hilarious! Thanks.
Annie
I can’t stand the fact that Republicans/conservatives can’t rejoice in an amazing prize given to our President. That we are even talking about how he should decide what to do with the money is sickening. But, this is the climate that Republicans have created. I can’t believe there are those considering how this could be a negative and even harm Obama. WTF….If Bush had received the prize, and Dems had tried to turn this into a negative…well we know how the words “patriotism,” “love of the US,” “treason,” etc. would have dominated the airwaves….Forgive Obama for elevating the status of the US worldwide. What the hell is this no nothing President trying to do? Must be a communist conspiracy…Whether or not Obama should have received the prize, given that his administration is new, is to me irrelevant. I can’t believe that all Americans are not celebrating. The worst condemnations have come from inside the US! What does this say about our country at this time? Even several glasses of nice wine hasn’t done anything to ease my frustration….
Demo Woman
In honor of Steve Gilliard and the fact there is no open thread, f..k the f..king Yankees and the wackos too.
Tattoosydney
@Demo Woman:
I say we declare an OT revolution in this or the other thread.
Music: Knock on wood – Amii Stewart.
Cooking – making glace peaches and nectarines, using dried fruit and this recipe, adding a sprig of rosemary to the syrup. Yum.
Peter J
If Bush hadn’t been elected in 2000, neither Gore nor Obama would have won their peace prizes. Perhaps Carter might have.
Gore would probably not have rallied for the environment. Obama might not have been elected at all, and if he had, he wouldn’t have had to fix Bush’s fuckups…
smiley
@Darkrose: No, I don’t think anyone who knows anything about American history would doubt that the Robinsons’ have white ancestors.
This is cool.
Demo Woman
@Tattoosydney: Last year I purchased a house with about 3/4 acres. Immediately I planted a herb garden outside the kitchen window with rosemary and other herbs. I love rosemary. Several months later I discovered a rosemary plant towards the back of my property. It’s four feet tall. The best steak has a coat of butter and rosemary.
Corner Stone
@Demo Woman: I made the mistake of planting a nice little rosemary bush somewhere where it received full Western sun.
Fried that little bastard in a couple weeks and I’ve been crying about it ever since for the last two years.
Dr. Drang
My first thought when I heard the news was that he should give the money to the Carter Center. More international and peace-oriented than ACORN, but sure to get a similar reaction.
Darkrose
@smiley:
Thing is, some people apparently didn’t realize that.
bob h
George Will will have an extended rant Sunday on Obama’s “narcissim”. I won’t be watching.
bago
Walter Reed Medical Center, Brain Trauma Unit. I believe that would most expedient.
Corner Stone
@bob h: I’ll go out on a limb and say the over/under for his use of the word “ubiquitous” is 3.5
Jamey
All wonderful ideas, but may I add …
UNICEF
United Nations. — check
Negro children — check
Furriners — check
Librul celebrity spokespersons — double-check!
Bill Arnold
I’m hoping he’ll donate to a small variety of mainstream international charities and a peace-advocacy organization or two. (Friends Committee on National Legislation, fcnl.org, could always use money, and there are plenty of others.)
And maybe one of those wingnut-approved charities, e.g. one that provides micro-credit to poor developing/third world people who have ambitions to become entrepreneurs.
He can’t help it that so many on the right have latent splody head syndrome. (What’s the Latin for that?) But it is not his style to deliberately cause heads to explode.