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I’ve about had it with the constant “meep meep” references at Sully’s blog. Recall the basic RoadRunner plotline — it’s not that sophisticated:

He’s a jack-off. All he wants to do is “run down the road all day”. Perhaps, on rare occasions, he might “leave you in a heap”, but generally he “never bothers anyone”.

Obama can’t be that way. Running down the road might be his idea of having fun, but he can’t get shit done doing it. And he can’t be blowing up the crazy clowns every day. He has to work with those idiots.

If someone made a cartoon glorifying a careful plodder like Obama, it would be so fucking dull that showing it to children would verge on child abuse.

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  1. 1.

    Emma

    You know how Sadly No! commenters have that joke about always.trust.the.shorter? Well, I have one of my own: never.read.the.sully.

    Utter bliss follows.

  2. 2.

    Pigs & Spiders

    I think mayhaps you’re taking the analogy too far.

    It’s useful insofar as the Republicans keep laying traps for Obama and he continues to get things accomplished despite them.

  3. 3.

    Punchy

    Between the Sullivan reference, the “meep” link, and the undefined pronouns in “he’s a jack off…..”, this post is so inside baseball that it gave Peter Gammons a woody.

  6. 6.

    JGabriel

    MisterMix:

    If someone made a cartoon glorifying a careful plodder like Obama, it would be so fucking dull that showing it to children would verge on child abuse.

    You mean it would be just like Davey and Goliath?

    .

  7. 7.

    Very Reverend Crimson Fire of Compassion

    Ummm. Think you might be missing the point, rather. I don’t think the idea behind the “meep, meep” references is that Obama is supposed to run really fast all day, live in the desert, or wear distinctively colored feathers. It’s a reference to the fact that the GOP and the teatards (a distinctions without a difference?) wind up looking like Wile E. every time they try to take him out. They end up flattened, confused, and crispy around the edges, and are apparently incapable of learning from the experience. Meanwhile, RR sails blithely on toward whatever goal he’s set next.
    Overthinking. You’re soaking in it.

  9. 9.

    jron

    If someone made a cartoon glorifying a careful plodder like Obama, it would be so fucking dull that showing it to children would verge on child abuse.

    Actually, I always sort of liked Slowpoke Rodriguez better than his cousin.

  10. 10.

    GReynoldsCT00

    @Pigs & Spiders:

    agreed, RR always gets away no matter what Wiley tries. And then sneaks up behind him quietly and does the MEEP! MEEP! thing. LOL

  12. 12.

    Libby

    @JGabriel: LOL. Davy and Goliath is a perfect analogy. I was a cartoon addict as a kid and even I couldn’t watch that. Now Gumby on the other hand….

  13. 13.

    Citizen Alan

    As much as people joke about various folks here being “Obots,” I think the term actually applies to Sully. He really has drunk the Kool-Aid on Obama and can see nothing wrong with him … except for the torture issue, but even there Sully excuses Obama’s tepid responses to what Sully seems to consider one of the preeminent moral issues of the day. A very strange sort of cognitive dissonance this is.

  14. 14.

    GReynoldsCT00

    crispy around the edges

    somehow this makes me leap to the cartoon of Daffy Duck getting shot in the face and has his bill facing backwards…also, too

  15. 15.

    tratclif

    If someone made a cartoon glorifying a careful plodder like Obama, it would be so fucking dull that showing it to children would verge on child abuse. </blockquote.

    Ahem.

    Droopy is an animated cartoon character, an anthropomorphic dog (supposedly a Basset Hound) with a droopy face, hence the name Droopy. He was created by Tex Avery, for theatrical cartoon shorts produced by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, in 1943. Essentially the polar opposite of Avery’s other famous MGM character, the loud and wacky Screwy Squirrel, Droopy moved slowly and lethargically, spoke in a jowly monotone, and, though he didn’t look like much, was shrewd enough to outwit his enemies and, when finally roused to anger, capable of beating adversaries twice his size with a comical thrashing.
    </blockquote.

  16. 16.

    Dreggas

    @tratclif:

    Too late, Joe lieberman is called Droopy, not because of being able to outsmart opponents but with the jowls and voice…well…he’s droopy.

  17. 17.

    JustBeingPedantic

    A bit satire challenged on this April Fool’s Day, eh mistermix?

    The Road Runner cartoons have never been about the bird, they’re about the futility of Wile E. Coyote’s efforts to catch him. Sully started his entire “meep meep” thing using the one cartoon — Soup or Sonic — where Wile E. actually caught the Road Runner. The cartoon ends with Mr. C holding up two signs reading, “OK, wise guys – you always wanted me to catch him,” and, “Now what do I do?”

    meep meep!

    As for Davey and Goliath, it was hilarious very early on Sunday morning as a wrap-up to a long, fun-filled, well-fueled Saturday night.

  18. 18.

    JGabriel

    @Libby:

    Now Gumby on the other hand…

    I read Atlas Shrugged last night, and Gumby is my new favorite cartoon character because he’s green: the color of money!

    I also have a newfound admiration for Mr. Burns.

    .

  19. 19.

    Remember November

    Why Wile E Never just whipped out an AK and spelltered that birdshitferbrains all over Yuma I’ll never know…oh right, kids cartoon.

  20. 20.

    demo woman

    Excuse me if this has been mentioned

    The Republican National Committee sent a fundraising mail piece earlier this month with a return number that leads to a phone-sex line offering “live, one-on-one talk with a nasty girl who will do anything you want for just $2.99 per minute.”…………………………
    At the bottom of a piece designed to resemble a census form, a toll-free number is listed next to the national party’s address.

    Here’s the link to Politico

    It’s gotta be an April Fools joke, right?

  21. 21.

    gbear

    If someone made a cartoon glorifying a careful plodder like Obama, it would be so fucking dull that showing it to children would verge on child abuse.

    Or it might look like this. I especially loved that the hare’s downfall comes from his inability to make it past a girl’s school.

  22. 22.

    eemom

    I like the Road Runner. I like Obama. And I never read Sully.

    I think that fixes it.

  23. 23.

    flukebucket

    You’re soaking in it.

    Has this always been an internet tradition? I saw it here for the first time yesterday and I love it.

  24. 24.

    JD in Chicago

    I think the root of Sully’s Obama obsession is that the president is the kind of politician he always hoped the Republicans would produce — a moderate pragmatist who is socially liberal but conscious of national security and fiscal responsiblity.

    The fact that no such candidate will ever crawl out of the Republican party’s cauldron of doom has left Sully with no other option but to hitch his wagon to Obama’s star.

  25. 25.

    Da Bomb

    I agree with Very Reverend Crimson Fire of Compassion synopsis of what Sully is saying.

    Might bit overthinking a tad bit.

  26. 26.

    WereBear

    @Citizen Alan: Well, that bugs the brimstone out of me, too.

    The only moderating factor is that if President Obama did concentrate on it, we’d have a national freakout, on top of a collapsing economy, the climate change issue, and not passing health care.

    I have to give his priorities some credit; people were, and are, dying right now; as much as I’d love to see Bush administration assholes in orange jumpsuits, would I murder more innocents to get that done?

    I probably couldn’t do that.

  27. 27.

    AngusJackBootedThugOfMeat

    I have no idea what this top post means or what I am supposed to make of it.

    I assume that you were drunk when you posted it.

  28. 28.

    Arkon DougJ

    Sully is very worth reading, in general. But this kind of thing from him is indeed, stupid.

  29. 29.

    Redshirt

    @flukebucket: I’d like to point out I was using the phrase “You’re soaking in it” on my radio show in 1993;

    I was Madge, the Omniscient Beautician, if this phrase does become an internet meme, I want a slice of the royalties!

  30. 30.

    SpotWeld

    There’s was a Doctor Who epsiode about someone playing “The Long Game”

    Oh yeah.. a somewhat amorphous alien blob stirs up global discontent and restrains progress by manipulating the flow of information to deliberatly sow discord and panic.

    Sounds more like the GOP actually.

  31. 31.

    John W.

    Thank god someone wrote this. It’s about time.

    Whatever you think about Sullivan – I read him but understand he’s not for everyone – this is a stupid tic of his that he needs to end.

  32. 32.

    Downpuppy

    The roadrunner goes “Beep, Beep”

    “Meep” is Beaker from the Muppets tag line. A while back it was a high school craze around here, with the usual overreaction from school administratortatertots.

  35. 35.

    Tomlinson

    Add me to the list of people who think that the meep meep analogy is basically sound.

    I think it underestimates the sheer luck of Obama. I mean, seriously, his opponents are like the gang that could not shoot straight. Some of that is meep-meep, but a lot is sheer stupidity on their part.

    Mark Sanford starts to get some traction as an anti-reform guy…then goes hiking in the appalachians. The GOP gets some moral superiority going on HCR and “ignoring the wishes of the people”…then we find they’ve been expensing debauched nights at a lesbian bondage strip club. Then we find it wasn’t them, but some consultant. Then we find the consultant was *doing them a favor* and they’ve ruined his life. HCR passes and the GOP starts saying how it is armageddon and then the insurers immediately start trying to weasel out of taking care of sick kids, so everyone thinks “got to regulate those bastards!” Etc, etc.

  38. 38.

    The Populist

    Chalk me up as a big believer in Obama the chess player. The drilling compromise is just that….like it or not (I do not) there has to be some give and take. I feel Obama is showing the public “look, I am a reasonable guy” and waiting to see what the GOP does with it.

    So far we have Palin sounding like the moron she is tweeting about how he’s drill baby drilling blah blah blah while still trashing him. Fine, she can do that BUT there has to be a situation where most Americans start to see GOP whining as just that.

    Either come to the fucking table wingnuts, or STFU for good.

  39. 39.

    norbizness

    I’ve about had it with the constant “meep meep” references at Sully’s blog.

    Remove “”meep meep”” and replace “at” with “to.”

  41. 41.

    Downpuppy

    GBear;

    Thanks for the new version. The one they took down, with a giraffe & Clay Aiken, was the Little Pup’s all time favorite video.

  42. 42.

    The Populist

    @Very Reverend Crimson Fire of Compassion:

    Good observation! The polls are killing due to the economy BUT this drilling thing does sell the idea that it’s a job creation/economic stimulus.

    If he can keep selling this stuff, get the bank reform through (or dare the GOP to vote it down in the open) all while the economy improves, 2010 and 2012 may not be the bloodbath the right seems to think it will be. I doubt the GOP would gain enough seats to take over either branch of congress, but they can cause more problems gaining even a few seats in the Senate.

  43. 43.

    GReynoldsCT00

    The roadrunner goes “Beep, Beep”

    Eeeh, I disagree, I just listened to a clip on You Tube for a reality check. Sounds like “meep” to me.

  44. 44.

    Midnight Marauder

    @Downpuppy:

    The roadrunner goes “Beep, Beep”

    This is what actually bothers me about Sully using this analogy all the time (well, besides his increasingly reliant use of the phrase). I thought it was pretty well known and settled that the Roadrunner’s phrase is “beep, beep”, not “meep, meep.” Leave it to a Brit to fuck up that American classic.

    @Very Reverend Crimson Fire of Compassion:

    It’s a reference to the fact that the GOP and the teatards (a distinctions without a difference?) wind up looking like Wile E. every time they try to take him out. They end up flattened, confused, and crispy around the edges, and are apparently incapable of learning from the experience.

    Yeppers.

  46. 46.

    Brachiator

    @Tomlinson:

    I think it underestimates the sheer luck of Obama.

    I always knew he was Irish.

    Mark Sanford starts to get some traction as an anti-reform guy…then goes hiking in the appalachians. The GOP gets some moral superiority going on HCR and “ignoring the wishes of the people”…then we find they’ve been expensing debauched nights at a lesbian bondage strip club.

    And don’t forget about how Jack Ryan tripped up during Obama’s early Senate run.

    Ryan hoped to succeed retiring Republican Peter Fitzgerald in the United States Senate. On March 16, 2004, he won the Republican primary, thus pairing him against Democrat Barack Obama. However, after his divorce records containing damaging allegations were unsealed and made public, he withdrew his candidacy on June 25, 2004, and officially filed the documentation to withdraw on July 29, 2004.

    The Republicans just never learn.

    Also, too.

  47. 47.

    Midnight Marauder

    @GReynoldsCT00:

    Eeeh, I disagree, I just listened to a clip on You Tube for a reality check. Sounds like “meep” to me.

    Well you know who disagrees with you? The people who created the fucking thing Wikipedia:

    Chuck Jones, the creator of the Road Runner, has stated that this sound, the only way the Road Runner can harm the Coyote, was inspired by hearing a Doppler-like effect as background artist Paul Julian carrying set backgrounds beep-beeped when he could not see where he was going. Although commonly quoted as “meep meep”, Warner Brothers, the current owner of all trademarks relating to the duo, lists “beep, beep” as the Road Runner’s sound.
    __[…]
    In comic books, the Road Runner’s actual name was “Beep Beep”.

    I think we’re done here.

  48. 48.

    eemom

    Absolutely it is Meep and not Beep.

    ETA: Don’t care what Wiki or WB thinks. Meep meep is what the Road Runner SAYS.

  49. 49.

    EEH

    @demo woman: Well, my husband did get that “census” thing in the mail yesterday and what a piece of work it is. How I wish it were an April Fool.

    Oh yeah, I almost forgot. At the very end, it makes the pitch for money and if you don’t feel like donating as generously as they’d like you to, you have the option of donating $15 to cover the cost of processing the “census” form.

  50. 50.

    LM

    Obama is not “a careful plodder”–compare accomplishments to time in office. But it’s no use trying to rebut something if nothing’s cited in support. And half of what I’ve read this morning has turned out to be tedious April fooling, so I don’t even know if this is snark.

    I hope this isn’t a change in tone. The other day, Greenwald scathingly misread a bland dKos lay-out of his PAC’s expenses, calling it a “smear” by “Obots.” Some blogs responded to his flaming as if the charge were true, much the same way MSM reacts to screams from the right about the “liberal” media.

  51. 51.

    freelancer

    @The Populist:

    Agreed.
    One of his readers says it pretty well.

    Of course the GOP isn’t going to roll out press releases praising Obama’s new energy plan. When gas prices shoot up this summer (like they always do), an easy GOP refrain would have been “Drill Baby, Drill! Obama hates consumers and loves high gas prices, that’s why he isn’t drilling!” But the President just took away “Drill Baby, Drill,” enacting something that most Americans probably feel is a common sense way to lower gas prices, and showed independents that he’s willing to stand up to his own party and sensibly govern from the middle.

    That said, he is beating this imagery to death already.

  53. 53.

    Midnight Marauder

    @eemom:

    Absolutely it is Meep and not Beep.
    __
    ETA: Don’t care what Wiki or WB thinks. Meep meep is what the Road Runner SAYS.

    Why do you hate flightless birds with speech impediments?

  57. 57.

    rootless-e

    @JGabriel:

    He bestrode the planet
    A haughty green tinged hue
    John Galt
    Howard Roark
    and Gumby
    The first rate
    the proud
    the few

  58. 58.

    IndieTarheel

    I’ll leave it to you as to whether this is OT or not:
    __
    President Obama is going to be in my neck of the woods tomorrow. As you might imagine, hilarity is poised to ensue:
    __

    They plan to gather on South Tryon Street at Carowinds Boulevard. Craig Nannini, a tea party organizer, urged protesters to remain peaceful.
    __
    “Remember, even if youvehemently disagree with President Obama, respect theoffice,” he wrote. “Bring respectful signs (hand carry the signs, no sticks), and if counter-protesters come, be respectful and civil to your fellow Americans, even if they are not. We need the story to be about the message, not anything else, so everyone be on your best behavior.”
    __
    Since Congress passed the health care law this month, there have been reported threats on both sides. Michael Kelly, president of the tea party group We The People NC, said the protests will be civil.
    __
    “We expect the opposition to protest and try to incite violence,” he said, “and we intend to remain peaceful about it.”

    So NOW you “intend” to remain peaceful?
    __
    YOU.HAVE.GOT.TO.BE.KIDDING.ME.

  59. 59.

    Midnight Marauder

    @GReynoldsCT00:

    FFS, we’re here saying how cool the Road Runner is, nobody’s hating!

    Whoa, easy there. This is all in jest. There is no serious disagreement happening here (even though I disagree with you).

    And for the record, I don’t care what Wikipedia says, I’m sticking with Wikipedia.

  60. 60.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    Congrats mistermix on successfully trolling the commentariat, on April Fools Day no less. I didn’t think it could be done, but you pulled it off. That ought to earn you a promotion to Boromander, or at least a box of Scooby Snacks.

    I would like to pick a nit with this part, tho:

    If someone made a cartoon glorifying a careful plodder like Obama, it would be so fucking dull that showing it to children would verge on child abuse.

    Whaddayamean, child abuse. I liked having The Little Engine That Could read to me when I was little. And look how I turned out.

    Oh, wait…

  61. 61.

    Libby

    @JGabriel: Ha! Personally I liked his sidekick Pokey the best. Trying to remember if they were the ones that were always blurping inside of story books for their adventures.

  62. 62.

    Libby

    @dmsilev:

    @Remember November: Never mind that. WIth the Coyote’s budget, why didn’t he just order take-out?

    -dms

    It’s not the bagging of the game, it’s the thrill of the chase…

  63. 63.

    Rommie

    I always liked the Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius version who tangled with Bugs Bunny more. The sheer arrogance and sureness of his superiority make him an even better representation of the whacko-GOP IMO.

    The real question, however, is if John Cole would start banning people who used meep-meep or beep-beep as posts. Lord knows the FIRST! meme is still going strong…

  65. 65.

    Redshirt

    Let’s just move this whole metaphor over to the Tom and Jerry show.

    Tom = Repugs, Jerry = Obama, Leg Lady we never see = Hillary.

  68. 68.

    Comrade Mary

    @Midnight Marauder: Oh, fie on Wiki! I’ll take the story told by Chuck Jones’ honorary niece.

    Chuck was my grandfather’s best friend, and for many years was essentially my sister’s and my honorary uncle. The best Thanksgiving I ever spent was with Chuck AND Mel at the dinner table; it was a little like getting to live inside a Looney Toons cartoon for an afternoon, except about a million times better.
    __
    Anyway, based on this, I can confirm that the words written in Chuck’s own hand are indeed Beep Beep. Having had the Road Runner himself pass me the gravy, however, I can confirm that he pronounced it Meep Meep.

  70. 70.

    Hob

    @EEH: Huh? Seemed like a pretty straightforward census form to me – simpler than what I remember of the last two.

  71. 71.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    @Noonan:

    One thing Sully knows well from being on the right – if you want to win in the court of public opinion, you pick a simple appealing metaphor that people can easily understand without thinking about it too much, and then you beat that sucker to death, just hammer it into the ground over and over and over again. Repetition really does win in the long run. It is annoying as all hell if you see through the propaganda, especially when coming from the other side, but it is hard to argue that this technique doesn’t deliver results. And this is something the Dems are notoriously bad at. Sully is doing for Obama what the Reps did for Reagan back in his day – pick a simple, appealing public image that people will remember (in Reagan’s case it was the aww, shucks grandfatherly image) and hammer it home at every chance.

  72. 72.

    EEH

    @Hob: This isn’t the official census form (and you’re right, it was simpler than the last one.)

    My husband is a registered Republican and this was a fund-raiser mailing that they called a “census” with all sorts of questions on his views such as does he trust Democrats to protect America against terrorists? Is he happy that Democrats control everything? And so on.

    The back page is really what it’s all about as it’s all about how much money he’s willing to send the RNC.

  73. 73.

    AxelFoley

    @dmsilev: Dammit, I loved the Road Runner cartoons

    @Remember November: Never mind that. WIth the Coyote’s budget, why didn’t he just order take-out?

    Y’know, that’s a damn good question.

  75. 75.

    Dug

    @The Populist: Agreed. Anyone want to say that I’ve drunk the kool-aid? Fine. You can say I’ve gargled it for all I care. I am fucking stoked that this man is president. I was a believer before the primaries, and he’s lived up to my expectations while multiple naysayers said he was bound to lose to Hillary/McCain/The GOP/(fill in the blank).

  76. 76.

    Ed Drone

    @SpotWeld:

    a somewhat amorphous alien blob stirs up global discontent and restrains progress by manipulating the flow of information to deliberatly sow discord and panic.

    Not Dr. Who, but “Down in the Black Gang,” I think it was called. Interesting story — the universe runs on tears, and there are people who must see to it there are enough.

    Ed

  77. 77.

    Ed Drone

    @JGabriel:

    Gumby is my new favorite cartoon character because he’s green: the color of money!

    Wasn’t that what General Bullmoose said about Joe Btfsplk? The General liked the little bad-luck klutz because ‘he was the color of money.’

    Ed

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