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Open Thread: The Eye-Roll Seen ‘Round the Twitterverse

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According to the expert professional lip-reader team at Entertainment Tonite, chain-smoker John Boehner asks professed ex-smoker President Obama if he ‘had a chance to catch a smoke’… and then adds ‘hah, sooooomebody wouldn’t let you’.

As the female half of a long-term couple, let me assure you that Couple Etiquette under such conditions not only allows but requires an eyeroll on the part of the spouse. Failing to do so would indicate that one was deliberately ignoring Boehner’s roughly joke-shaped jape, and that would be rude, which our First Lady never is (undeliberately, as Mr. Wilde would say).

Dipping into one’s handbag flask to signal the social embarrassment one’s spouse is incapable of feeling, as some vulgar observers claim Mrs. Boehner responded, is not required but certainly understandable.

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  3. 3.

    PsiFighter37

    Who gives a damn what was said. I love that of everything that happened at the inauguration, the media is giving most of the attention to an eyeroll and to Beyonce lip-synching.

    Fuck the media. A bag of hammers and salted dicks, mixed well with a couple cups of pig feces, would do a better job of covering what’s going on in D.C. Why, you may ask? Because that’s as horrifying as the modern GOP is today.

  4. 4.

    Baud

    John Boehner asks professed ex-smoker President Obama if he ‘had a chance to catch a smoke

    The eyeroll was inappropriate. She should have just said, “He sure smoked your orange ass, John.”

  5. 5.

    Robin G.

    The GOP, from Speaker of the House to City Councilman of Bumfuck Nowhere, is comprised of the most universally classless people on the planet.

  7. 7.

    Mister Harvest

    Sunday talking points: the First Lady was rude to the Speaker of the House, so we have to cut entitlements.

  10. 10.

    Ben Franklin

    That’s a hell of a lip-reader. He seems to be licking his lips Boehner must have been talking through the little head.

  12. 12.

    PsiFighter37

    @amk: Shit, God forbid an 11 year-old got bored attending something that their parents said they had to go to.

    Fuck the trivialities of it all. “Amusing Ourselves to Death” is a great book that highlights not only the decline of news, but the absolute triviality of it all – and in some cases, the sociopathic nature of reporting the news (e.g. how can you cut away to another news story after talking about how people were brutally murdered?).

    Jesus F. Christ

  13. 13.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    I’ve got bizzaro world going on in the house right now, I have just fed the pets dinner. The puppy is eating the cat food and the kittens are eating the puppy food. If someone could explain this to me I would appreciate it. (Other than as the vet said “whatever isn’t yours ALWAYS tastes better).

  16. 16.

    Raven

    @Litlebritdifrnt: There is no other explanation. Some friends brought there new puppy over yesterday and Bohdi got all nuts about toys he never touches. Just the way it is.

  18. 18.

    wasabi gasp

    America’s gonna have a seizure watching you eat that next bite. – John Soothsayer Boehner

  20. 20.

    amk

    @Litlebritdifrnt: the grass is always greener on the other side thingy is not restricted to bipeds alone. Heck, our cat vicky, bless her soul, used to fight with us for table scraps, when a friggin’ expensive catfood lies awaste.

  21. 21.

    jl

    The Michelle Obama eye roll video gets more views than inauguration address

    http://www.examiner.com/article/the-michelle-obama-eye-roll-video-gets-more-views-than-inauguration-address

    Ah, democracy!

    Huff Po says she was eye rolling over Obama-Boehner exchange about how long her hubby’s after dinner talk should be.

    I go with Raven, and more so, maybe she should have just decked Boehner on principle.

    Whatever, her eye-roll is just a cute and beautiful is she is, so it is fine with me.

  22. 22.

    Arclite

    @jl:

    Whatever, her eye-roll is just a cute and beautiful is she is, so it is fine with me.

    She looks all of 21 in that gif file at the top of this post.

  23. 23.

    Birthmarker

    The conversation is always changed whenever there is a chance something positive will be said about a Dem. The inauguration was pretty wonderful to me, so today we talk of lip synching and eye rolls. Anything but O’s speech.

  25. 25.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    I would suggest that an alternate caption to that GIF would be Obama saying to Orange Julius “so who do you get to sleep with tonight John?” I KNOW I KNOW, but I thought it was funny.

  29. 29.

    Mnemosyne

    @Litlebritdifrnt:

    If you put the kitten food up where the puppy can’t get it (table, counter, etc.) it will magically become attractive to the kittens again. Especially if the puppy whines and grovels down below while they happily chomp away.

  30. 30.

    RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist

    Michelle is classy but sassy. I like that. And the new hairstyle is most fetching.

  31. 31.

    Mnemosyne

    I almost feel sorry for Boehner there, because his expression at the end of the video is clearly that of someone who knows his joke fell flat.

    Almost.

  32. 32.

    Anne Laurie

    @quannlace: Sorry, it’s a self-repeating .gif, but it’s the only one I could find that showed Mrs. Boehner giving the long-suffering, lip-tightened “this is why we never get invited to the nice parties” grimace.

  34. 34.

    Suffern ACE

    @amk: in other news, people at work more likely to click on something the know is 5 seconds long than something they know goes on for 20 minutes.

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    Litlebritdifrnt

    I have to admit that the best part of the inauguration was the cameras on the first family when they were on the viewing stand. As they sat down POTUS, Malia and Sasha all got out their phones and started checking messages (only FLOTUS didn’t), then the girls started taking pics with their phones, of Mom with a thumbs up, of Dad and Mom kissing (three times so they could get the shot) Malia photobombing Sasha’s shot of Mom and Dad kissing. It was so damn NORMAL, it was just a regular family at an event, taking shots on their cellphones. It is not like these people have a million photos taken of them every single day but the girls just wanted their own shots, on their own cell phones, to preserve their memories. I just loved that.

  42. 42.

    Randy P

    As the female half of a long-term couple, let me assure you that Couple Etiquette under such conditions not only allows but requires an eyeroll on the part of the spouse.

    As the male half of a long-term couple, I wish to note that there are nuances of this eyeroll. If you like the person who is making the stupid joke, you can do the eyeroll good-humoredly. I note that POTUS is just laughing it off.

    But Michelle is clearly throwing a “what an asshole” vibe, not even bothering with the most microscopic polite pretense at a smile.

  43. 43.

    AxelFoley

    @Litlebritdifrnt:

    I’ve got bizzaro world going on in the house right now, I have just fed the pets dinner. The puppy is eating the cat food and the kittens are eating the puppy food. If someone could explain this to me I would appreciate it. (Other than as the vet said “whatever isn’t yours ALWAYS tastes better).

    The Apocalypse was supposed to be last year, so I dunno.

    Unless the Mayans’ math was off.

    *shrugs*

  44. 44.

    Dave C

    Off topic (sort of) and shallow: Has there ever been a First Lady as straight up gorgeous as Michelle Obama? I haven’t checked the history books, but I’d be surprised if there had been!

  46. 46.

    Randy P

    @Dave C: I use her as kind of a sanity test for people. If you don’t absolutely adore this woman, there is something seriously wrong with you.

    I believe about, oh, 27% of the country dislikes her.

  47. 47.

    Kai-two

    @Litlebritdifrnt:
    That is what has always amazed me – how in the world do those girls (young women?) manage to be so normal given the shit-storm that is directed at their father (and mother) every day of the year?

    That and the fact that POTUS regularly attends the parent-teacher conferences.

  49. 49.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    @amk:

    Yes! They had to poke his elbow to get him to do the kiss shot for the girls. I just thought it was so damn normal, as I said, it was a charming snap shot of a typical family, doing what typical families do. I thought it was brilliant. Did you see the bit when Sasha turned around to talk to one of the other guests and the guest had a baby who was seriously booping her nose? It was so cute I almost died of sugar overload.

  51. 51.

    Arclite

    @Dave C:

    Off topic (sort of) and shallow: Has there ever been a First Lady as straight up gorgeous as Michelle Obama? I haven’t checked the history books, but I’d be surprised if there had been!

    Jackie O was pretty attractive.

    And the flip side, has there ever been a president as attractive as Obama? Slim, muscular, handsome, tall, he’s pretty much got it all.

  53. 53.

    Phoenician in a time of Romans

    @amk:

    @Mnemosyne: I feel sorry for missus boner. And all missus repubs.

    They’re the party of “personal responsibility”. They made their own beds; they can lie in them (while their husbands are off pursuing ‘wide stances’ in mens room toilets somewhere…)

  56. 56.

    SoINeedAName48

    Being hearing impaired myself, here’s what Boehner was REALLY saying:

    “Say, Barack – are you going to finish that wine of yours? If not …”

  57. 57.

    Dave C

    @Arclite:

    Yeah, I can recognize that the prez is a good lookin’ guy and all, but there is just some “je ne sais quoi” quality to the 1st lady that sort of makes my heart melt every time I see her. I can’t really understand it, but whatever “it” is, she has it.

  62. 62.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Mnemosyne: Hobnobbing with journalists and politicians, not so much.

    I suspect he can suffer fools as well as most people, but not fools who think their shit smells like strawberries and their recycled CW is keen insight (yes, I am thinking of Tom Brokaw)

  63. 63.

    slag

    We’ve all soooo been there. We feel your pain, Michelle! I’d be perfectly ok if she just took her fork and stabbed him with it. More than ok. I’d live vicariously.

  65. 65.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @amk:

    I feel sorry for missus boner. And all missus repubs.

    You are a far, far better person than I could ever dream of being.

  67. 67.

    Roger Moore

    @Jay S:

    Am I the only one who kept seeing the melon helmet cat when she looked straight in to the camera?

    That’s no melon, it’s a citrus peel. I’m not sure what variety, but it’s a citrus of some kind.

  69. 69.

    Silva

    @SiubhanDuinne: Oh, you men are all alike. Seven or eight quick ones and then you’re out with the boys to boast and brag. YOU BETTER KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT. Oh… I think I love him.

  70. 70.

    dance around in your bones

    I watched the whole inaugural ceremony, and from the first moment I saw Boner trailing forlornly behind POTUS he looked irritated, bored and desperate for a triple scotch. Like he could barely restrain himself from eye-rolling.

    If I was Michelle I would have a hard time restraining myself from spitting on the dude.

  72. 72.

    dance around in your bones

    @Silva: Maybe they both spit-laugh. I mean, if those folks weren’t so poisonous to our country, they would be laughable.

    I could hardly concentrate on the ceremony when I saw Goober Gohmert in the background.

    I simply do not understand how people that stupid get elected to public office. Perhaps I am naive.

  76. 76.

    Roger Moore

    @dance around in your bones:

    I simply do not understand how people that stupid get elected to public office.

    Their constituents believe their congresscritter should truly represent them, and that means picking somebody just as moronic and pig ignorant as they are.

  79. 79.

    AA+ Bonds

    The second inaugural always gets sandbagged by the press. In what country have y’all been living?

  84. 84.

    aimai

    @Randy P:

    I agree with this. I loved it but it was pretty damned hostile. Of course she was eye rolling for the entire female half of the country so she was about 150 million seconds short of the full roll he deserved.

    I also seem to be the only one who thinks Mrs. Boehner was stuffing the extra bread rolls into her purse. Probably carries a zip lock bag to do so.

  85. 85.

    aimai

    By the way in the longer clip of that gif its pretty clear that Boehner probably tried to make that joke a couple of times and tapped the first lady on the arm to get her attention when she ignored the first try. I think that’s really the reason for the eye roll–she had politely tried to pretend she didn’t hear it and then he badgered her to get a response.

  86. 86.

    Gopher2b

    Live the eye roll but I do think Obama’s nervous laugh and immediate turn-away deserves some attention. It’s like every family gathering for me. I leave with whiplash.

  88. 88.

    billiecat

    let me assure you that Couple Etiquette under such conditions not only allows but requires an eyeroll on the part of the spouse. Failing to do so would indicate that one was deliberately ignoring Boehner’s roughly joke-shaped jape, and that would be rude, which our First Lady never is (undeliberately, as Mr. Wilde would say).

    I said when I saw it it was just a reaction to a dumb joke, in almost these exact words. It’s a non-story spun out of a non-event.

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