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You are here: Home / Past Elections / Election 2012 / A Retroactive Apology

A Retroactive Apology

by John Cole|  July 21, 20124:48 pm| 35 Comments

This post is in: Election 2012, Humorous

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This is just excellent:

Can we make fake Cutter chair of the DNC? In all seriousness, thanks to Second City for making the campaign amusing for a minute.

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  1. 1.

    JGabriel

    July 21, 2012 at 4:53 pm

    “I’m ready to do Ninja Shit to you,” is, admittedly, a pretty awesome line.

  2. 2.

    West of the Cascades

    July 21, 2012 at 4:53 pm

    So much for obsessively coming to this blog for fresh content. Which other front pager will post this clip next?

  3. 3.

    jwb

    July 21, 2012 at 4:54 pm

    Not reading your blog again, eh John? Still, it’s an awesome video so don’t at all mind the repeat.

  4. 4.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    July 21, 2012 at 4:55 pm

    Enjoy that minute because I have a feeling that “amusing” is not going to be a word associated with this election after it is over.

    Still, that’s f’ing hilarious.

  5. 5.

    Anne Laurie

    July 21, 2012 at 4:56 pm

    Glad we have a similar sense of humor, John…

  6. 6.

    dance around in your bones

    July 21, 2012 at 5:01 pm

    Haha, John checks in every few days or so.

    But I still love the ‘ass chews gum’ line :)

  7. 7.

    General Stuck

    July 21, 2012 at 5:03 pm

    I are smitten, now there is some motherfucking starbursts.

  8. 8.

    mainmati

    July 21, 2012 at 5:03 pm

    Oh that was both retroactively and prospectively hilarious.

  9. 9.

    Spirula

    July 21, 2012 at 5:07 pm

    Well, Mormons can retroactively baptize (dead) people into their church. So retroactively retiring isn’t all that inconsitent. Come to think of it, Mitt could claim he was never inconsistent by claiming consistancy…retroactively.

    Damn, this could create a wormhole through a paradox through a contradiction through a fallacy so you always end up telling the “truth”.

    Anyhoo, great vid.

  10. 10.

    salvage

    July 21, 2012 at 5:10 pm

    And this is interesting.

  11. 11.

    Fluke bucket

    July 21, 2012 at 5:16 pm

    LOL! Hat tip AL :-)

  12. 12.

    Warren Terra

    July 21, 2012 at 5:16 pm

    Well, the first 15% or so of the clip was funny and promising.

    Is this “Second City Network” a Lorne Michaels production like SCTV? Because this would explain why every sketch can only be funny or clever for the first 15% or so, in the same way he’s spent decades crafting SNL as a vehicle for the destruction of the very notion of comedy …

  13. 13.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    July 21, 2012 at 5:20 pm

    Has anyone been following the #morefakemitt thing on twitter? It would appear that he is now buying followers. One of his latest is named “Simmer Breathtaking”. I LOLd.

  14. 14.

    lamh35

    July 21, 2012 at 5:25 pm

    Wait, Bill Clinton has a Black son…lol!!! Just kiddin’! This is a very nice story about Bill Clinton and a lil Uganda boy he met about 14 years ago who was named after him.\

    http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Bill+Clinton+meets+his+Ugandan++son+/-/688334/1460230/-/item/0/-/7mv0atz/-/index.html

  15. 15.

    lamh35

    July 21, 2012 at 5:26 pm

    This is so sad. I remember watching on the news as the dad of the guy who’s son was celebrating his 27th b-day at the Colorado theatre. The dad was carrying around a picture of his son and asking anyone who’d listen and the news camera people to please help him find his son. It was heartbreaking. He later found out later in the day that his son was on of the victims.

    And the 6 year old who was killed who’s mom is still in intensive care and does not yet know that her daughter is dead…just heartwrenching.

    “Profile of some Colorado victims:
    http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/21/12858258-victims-who-died-in-colorado-shooting-include-sailor-aspiring-sportscaster?lite

  16. 16.

    Politically Lost

    July 21, 2012 at 5:26 pm

    Now I know he does it just to mess with Anne.

  17. 17.

    castellan

    July 21, 2012 at 5:30 pm

    @Spirula: That’s like saying I could retroactively win the Presidency even though I don’t have enough votes to… Oh, wait. I see what you did there….

  18. 18.

    L. Ron Obama

    July 21, 2012 at 5:33 pm

    @Litlebritdifrnt: Yes, three posts above you.

    This whole fake followers shit is bullshit anyway, it’s probably spambots trying to up their reputation. In two days the same thing will happen to Obama’s account, republicans will go wild with glee, democrats will get pissed, and we’re back where we started. For fuck’s sake.

  19. 19.

    salvage

    July 21, 2012 at 5:46 pm

    @L. Ron Obama:It’s probably spambots trying to up their reputation? Is that a thing they do? Would they risk being exposed? Also they’re clearly not very good so I’m not sure if this is helping their rep any.

    I think it’s more like a team of Romney advisers who don’t understand the medium they are trying to manipulate.

  20. 20.

    Mac from Oregon

    July 21, 2012 at 5:46 pm

    Love it. Every day, all day, every station, bring it.

  21. 21.

    russell

    July 21, 2012 at 5:48 pm

    ass chews gum?!?

    and demetrius garza is so a real person.

  22. 22.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    July 21, 2012 at 5:50 pm

    I have to repeat, how did I miss this? Probably because I had to go to the NAMI Newsroom to find it. I will continue to bang on a bout how offensive it is, and probably write a post about it on the MH blog tomorrow. Way to go VA – have your Lt. Gov insult not only supporters of the President but several million people who live with an undertreated chronic illness. Can we outsource or offshore a state by popular demand?

  23. 23.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    July 21, 2012 at 5:52 pm

    Okay now this is creepy, TMZ has a post up about a possible AdultFriendFinder post by Holmes

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/20/james-holmes-sex-site_n_1691113.html

  24. 24.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    July 21, 2012 at 5:56 pm

    @salvage: I thought the entire Rmoney team understood everything.
    /snark

    This place has some very funny stuff.

  25. 25.

    Citizen_X

    July 21, 2012 at 6:02 pm

    I think Obama should apologize prospectively to Romney for kicking his ass this coming Nobember.

  26. 26.

    Nerull

    July 21, 2012 at 6:06 pm

    @salvage: *I* get flooded with follows from spam bots, and I used twitter a grand total of twice.

  27. 27.

    Mark S.

    July 21, 2012 at 6:18 pm

    John, Anne’s going to think you unfriended her.

  28. 28.

    Professor

    July 21, 2012 at 6:23 pm

    @salvage: Tbogg has a post on this with expansive detail. Go over there for a laugh!

  29. 29.

    taylormattd

    July 21, 2012 at 6:24 pm

    Um, omg. I that is just pure win.

  30. 30.

    Frivolous

    July 21, 2012 at 6:52 pm

    That video was splendid. Breathtaking, even.

  31. 31.

    Brachiator

    July 21, 2012 at 7:14 pm

    Didn’t know this video was a repeat of an earlier post, so I guess I retroactively enjoyed the shit out of it.

  32. 32.

    Spirula

    July 21, 2012 at 7:23 pm

    ass chews gum

    Ah, the old “rectum dentata”. The classics never get old.

  33. 33.

    Villago Delenda Est

    July 21, 2012 at 7:45 pm

    @Citizen_X:

    I agree. Retroactively, of course.

  34. 34.

    double nickel

    July 22, 2012 at 2:32 am

    By early morning there will be several posts by right wingers who think this is the real deal.

  35. 35.

    Kimberly Smiths

    July 23, 2012 at 11:11 am

    No one is perfect you know..

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