Via gaz, this just makes me laugh:
“It’s amazing how the aptly named ‘Army of Davids’ is able to use the Internet and social media to run with a theme and dominate the popular imagination,” The Virginian glowed in a post called “This election is about eating dogs.” “We may be seeing the end of an era dominated by ability of Leftist comedians like Jon Stewart, Bill Maher or the cast of SNL to create a false image of a political figure.” Goodbye Stephen Colbert, hello shit-covered turban!
If you’re thinking right about now that this joke just doesn’t bear so many retellings, you’re missing the point. Obama-eats-dogs is not a joke in the traditional sense of something that makes normal people laugh. It’s a political idea shaped like a joke, over which rightbloggers may ostentatiously display mirth, thus signaling to one another (and to whatever passers-by may be taken in by it) their high spirits and confidence of victory.
This was revealed by the reliably humor-averse Michelle Malkin: “Say goodbye to all the Democrat talking points about Mitt Romney’s cruelty to animals,” she announced as she commanded her troops to “Clik here for full Twitchy coverage, laugh, and say goodbye to all the Democrat talking points about Mitt Romney’s cruelty to animals.”
Even more clearly, streiff at RedState explained the thing to readers in “The Meme War We Must Win: if you think Ann Romney and Seamus the Dog aren’t important you don’t belong in electoral politics.”
To put this in Rumsfeldese: Do I think the election should be about dogs on roofs of cars? No. Do I think Obama will win if it’s Jim Treacher versus Stephen Colbert? Yes.
Spaghetti Lee
Michelle Malkin actually named her site Twitchy? Is that like the wingnut equivalent of word-reclamation?
gwangung
A Filipina doing dog eating jokes? Really.
Ah, but what was I thinking…it’s Malkin. God she’s stupid.
Egg Berry
@Spaghetti Lee:
More like truth in advertising.
Jibeaux
Half the comments are Treacher repeating that Obama eats dogs. As comedy, I have to say that it leaves something to be desired. Also it’s just weirder than fuck.
PeakVT
Obama ate dog when he was a kid living in a country where eating dog was considered acceptable at the time.
Romney strapped the dog’s cage to the roof when he was an adult in a country where even before PETA and the like that would have been viewed as odd by a whole lot of people.
Which proves both sides do it. Amirite, or amirite?
Boots Day
Did it ever occur to these people that since Obama himself revealed this 15 years ago to no outcry or concern whatsoever, it may not quite be the bombshell they think it is?
beltane
@PeakVT: Well, they say that conservatives tend to be very squeamish about unfamiliar food while at the same time being attracted to images of violence and cruelty, so the right-wing reaction does make sense in a certain demented way.
Spaghetti Lee
I think they’re in such high spirits because they think they know how this works. They didn’t have to criticize Gore’s policies in 2000, they just had to say “Earth tones!” and “Inveneted the internet!” over and over. Same with Kerry and windusrfing in 2004. Now, Obama hasn’t really given them moments like that, so they’ve had to pretend to care about policy minutiae, but I’m sure this is where the likes of Treacher and Malkin are more comfortable wallowing. They think they can just go “Obongo eats Teh Dog Meatz!!1!” for 6 months and win over the Stupid Middle who is seriously concerned about such things. Call me crazy, but I don’t think it will work this time.
beltane
@Boots Day: But Mommy, he ate icky food. That’s so gross. Why didn’t he just eat mechanically separated chicken meat like RealAmerican children do?
Steve
omg, I linked that 20 comments before the other guy did! hat tip thief!
General Stuck
This is shaping up to be one hell of an election.
Pheromones of Freedom
Hill Dweller
@PeakVT: Strapping a dog to the top of a car was actually illegal in Massachusetts at the time(and now).
Does anyone in their right mind think eating dog and snake would be anything other than traumatic for a 6 year old?
Is there any evidence that Obama continued to eat dog once he left Indonesia and/or became an adult?
As an aside, Stewart just did his ‘both sides!’ routine on this very subject.
El Cid
How am I supposed to know that Obama didn’t eat a terrorist dog that Bill Ayers gave him? This is too important a decision to allow me to assume that he did not.
Redshift
I suppose it could be considered a positive development that they finally admit they aren’t capable of humor, and are just repeating a political talking point and yelling “it’s a joke!”
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Just watch Saint Stewart use a year old tweet from Axelrod to say that the Obama campaign was “politicizing” Seamus, and try to sell the Romneys flogging the Indonesian story as “hilarious”
El Cid
Wingnuts, with their sails unfurled!
Mickey
yawn…wtf is DougJ babbling on about now? I used to find his posts amusing in a point and laugh at him kind of way. Now I just find them mind numbingly dumb!
The right is getting nowhere with their stupid attempt to distract from Mitt’s dog. But that doesn’t stop idiots like DougJ from trying to prop up their idiotic attempts by echoing it.
Just go away DougJ.
PeakVT
Has anyone asked if Romney ate chevaline while he was in France all those years?
ETA: Surely Çôlbért has asked that question, no?
Narcissus
In five years Stewart will have Broder’s job.
Valdivia
Not mentioned in the linked story was McCain and a bunch of other politicos tweeting about this and laughing too. It is so stupid I have no words.
El Cid
It’s just another wingnut meme which they use as group membership solidarity identifiers, like everything else: Bill Clinton’s haircut shut down the airport! Ha ha!
Meanwhile, Fucker Carlson: The NAACP Is “An Absurd Fringe Group” That Is “Bankrupt Literally And Morally”.
Villago Delenda Est
The sad fact is, the wingtards shot their wad with the birther and teleprompter things, and outside of the cretinous confines of the wingnutosphere, those memes went no where.
So, these twits can pat themselves on the back all they want, it’s not playing outside of the 27%.
Villago Delenda Est
@El Cid:
Rmoney and Rih at Tenagra!
Jibeaux
@Villago Delenda Est: Fast and Furious forgotten so soon? Oh well. I gather there’s some sort of “vacation” meme being put together. I’m sure it will be wildly successful.
Martin
Dear Senator McCain. Those chicken nuggets they fed you in the Hanoi Hilton. Yeah, not chicken. Sorry.
El Cid
@Villago Delenda Est: Marco Rubio, his eyes flashing.
Hill Dweller
@Jibeaux: One of the wingers’ SuperPAC is spending a couple of million attacking Obama for the GSA scandal.
Culture of Truth
I just TDS and TCR cover the same story. Stewart did a straight false equivalency, pox on both houses thing, while Colbert noted the idiots are comparing what a grown man with children did to what a six year old was told to eat.
Also, see Colbert’s takedown of Steve Doocy. He takes no prisoners.
Culture of Truth
Ah, Hill Dweller already reported on it
Redshift
@Hill Dweller: Ah, more economic stimulus!
Seriously, this is the type of scandal that’s difficult to get to stick unless there’s a pretty direct link to the White House. They can scream it’s Obama’s fault, but they can’t effectively call any administration figures to testify, because then the truth would come out — it started under Bush, and it was uncovered by Obama’s inspector general. It’s the sort of thing that tends to make Darrell Issa look like an idiot (again) to anyone who’s not a hard-core wingnut.
Culture of Truth
@El Cid: Romney, when the approvals fell
Hill Dweller
@Narcissus:
Conversely, Colbert just destroyed Steve Doocey, the NY Post and Washington Post in the first segment. In the second segment, he destroyed the buffoons pretending Romney’s actions as an adult and Obama’s as a child are in some way equivalent. In the interview, he destroyed a creationist buffoon from Texas. And Colbert did it all while being funny.
Culture of Truth
He had that creationist buffoon laughing with him. Then he snapped the jaws shut.
He reminds me of that line about about LBJ. “He just sliced you with a razor so sharp you didn’t even feel it.”
Villago Delenda Est
@Culture of Truth:
Rmoney, when his etch-a-sketch broke.
Roger Moore
@Redshift:
Starting under Bush hasn’t stopped them from trying to paint the financial crisis, TARP, and the bad economy as 100% Obama’s fault. Why should the GSA scandal be any different? Besides, they’ve completely blanked out that there was a Bush; I’m pretty sure that all the bad things that happened between 20 January 2001 and 20 January 2009 are either Clinton’s or Obama’s fault.
k9ml
This made me nostalgic. When I was a youngster my mom would send me to the poultry man. We would get a duck for dinner as a treat sometimes. I would bring a clean mayonnaise jar for the blood so my mom could make blood soup. I guess that could be a deal breaker if I ran for elective office.
gaz
@Steve: sorry? I didn’t mean it! =)
I blame DougJ – and thank him for the h/t, even if misdirected =)
heheh.
Treacher is such an utter moron. There’s no way this doesn’t backfire. Comically.
gaz
Speaking of Treacher, go to that thread and troll the shit out of him. I suggest “Jim Treacher Fucks Dogs”. It’s not only righteous trolling, it’s a moral imperative!
And he’s doing the same thing himself. make him eat it. And give edroso some traffic =)
gaz
@Roger Moore: Not only that, but Obama killed jeeeeesus!
Joey Maloney
@Villago Delenda Est:
Wait, I’m supposed to be sad about this? I can’t point and laugh?
Basilisc
Six and a half more months of this.
Six and a half months.
Six and a half months.
Six and a half months.
Joseph Nobles
@gaz: I’d prefer “Jim Treacher Fucks Chickens”, but I understand wanting to keep to the dog theme.
Ben Cisco
@El Cid: @Villago Delenda Est @Culture of Truth: I sense a meme growing here. I wholeheartedly approve.
Patricia Kayden
Actually, I have no problem with the scrutiny of a 39-year old man for strapping a dog to the roof of his car on multiple occasions. None at all. I absolutely love when David Letterman jokes about it. It says something about the Bot that he thinks it’s perfectly okay to ride around for 12 hours in the cold with a dog on his roof. Thank goodness Seamus escaped.
bjacques
Sweet Stand-Up Jesus, I went there. It was as painful as the bit in “Good Morning, Vietnam!” when the Lieutenant, after kicking Adrian Cronauer off the air, does his own “interview with a Frenchman.” At least he honestly thought he was being funny. These guys…I blame Dennis Miller for making clever-sounding hate rants look easy.
But I did like “shit-covered turban.” I’m stealing that one.
lacp
Real Merkins don’t eat dog. Real Merkins eat lean finely textured beef.
ned
@Mickey: Better trolls please! This one bores me.
Svensker
WTF. That is all.
g
Treach was trolling Roy’s place at the Village Voice yesterday. He’s like a second-grader who’s just discovered poop jokes. If this is the epitome of Republican humor, it’s awesome.
You have to give it to Treach, though – he deserves to crow a little. This is probably the greatest achievement of his life.
g
@Boots Day:
Ahah!! Finally, the vetting begins!
Paul in KY
Pres. Obama was a child when he ate a tasty dog. Mitt was a responsible adult.
Jess
Love the song reference, Doug! Now I’m going to be humming Iggy all day. (Wait–that sounded kinda dirty…)
Cris (without an H)
One meme gets traction, and the traditional comedic structure is supposed to collapse? These guys continue to impress me with their delusional sense of self-importance.
Jim Treacher
@Jibeaux: Obama eats dogs?
Jim Treacher
@gaz: Then you have nothing to worry about, honey.
Jim Treacher
@gaz: It’s good to have goals.