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You are here: Home / Politics / Politicans / Black Jimmy Carter / I’d Like to Introduce President Don’t Give a Fuck

I’d Like to Introduce President Don’t Give a Fuck

by John Cole|  November 2, 201510:27 pm| 120 Comments

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I love this:

President Obama on Monday mocked Republican presidential candidates as thin-skinned for lashing out at CNBC over the network’s handling of last week’s primary debate.

“They say, ‘when I talk to [Russian President Vladimir] Putin, he’s going to straighten out,'” he said at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in New York City. “And then it turns out they can’t handle a bunch of CNBC moderators.”

“If you can’t handle those guys, I don’t think the Chinese and the Russians are going to be too worried about you,” Obama added.

The high-dollar event at the Richard Rodgers Theatre featured a special showing of the Broadway musical “Hamilton.”

Obama, who took his daughters Malia and Sasha to see the critically acclaimed show in July, said he was “annoyed” he did not get to see it again.

“Michelle and I love this show. It also happens to be the only thing Dick Cheney and I agree on,” he joked.

Chilling at the theater, poking fun at the wingnuts. My man.

Four more years, please.

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  1. 1.

    Corner Stone

    November 2, 2015 at 10:30 pm

    Jimmy Carter is an FP’er here now?
    Wow! Amazeballs.

  2. 2.

    Garbo

    November 2, 2015 at 10:31 pm

    Seriously. No-fucks Obama is now my favorite over even singing Obama and I got this Obama.

  3. 3.

    Corner Stone

    November 2, 2015 at 10:32 pm

    Oh, geeze. Sorry about that. It’s a post by Black Jimmy Carter. Who I am guessing is an SNL character or something?

  4. 4.

    Anya

    November 2, 2015 at 10:32 pm

    I saw Gloria Borger, Don Lemon and some wingnut talking head grudgingly compliment POTUS on his campaigning skills.

  5. 5.

    Corner Stone

    November 2, 2015 at 10:32 pm

    No, wait. It’s “in Black Jimmy Carter” but it’s “by John Cole”.
    Hmmmm…

  6. 6.

    Garbo

    November 2, 2015 at 10:33 pm

    @Corner Stone: I thought the tag was Metrosexual, black Abraham Lincoln?

  7. 7.

    bluehill

    November 2, 2015 at 10:33 pm

    I’ll be sad when Obama’s term is over, but one consolation is that he will be even freer to mock repubs. He’s going to be a lot fun on the campaign trail.

  8. 8.

    Anya

    November 2, 2015 at 10:33 pm

    @Corner Stone: lol. I did a double take when I saw that. I was like, “is that a new FPager?”

  9. 9.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    November 2, 2015 at 10:37 pm

    I was watching Idiot Princeling the Younger try to slag Rubio as a rightwing Obama, “we can’t afford to take another chance” or some such, and I wondered if that overgrown spoiled brat has any idea how badly Obama would wipe the floor with him if they were actually general election opponents

  10. 10.

    Suzanne

    November 2, 2015 at 10:39 pm

    After seeing him crack up at Baby Pope this weekend, this makes me love him even more.

    Attention, wingnuts: THIS is the kinda guy I wanna have a beer with.

  11. 11.

    Zinsky

    November 2, 2015 at 10:41 pm

    If Obama had acted in his first term like he has in his second, he would have been one of the five greatest presidents.

  12. 12.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    November 2, 2015 at 10:44 pm

    @Zinsky: Uh huh. Joe Lieberman and Blanche Lincoln and Evan Bayh would have supported Medicare expansion and a bigger stimulus if Obama had told more jokes.

  13. 13.

    Betty Cracker

    November 2, 2015 at 10:45 pm

    So glad PBO is mocking those whiny bastards. They can’t resist overreaching, and now they’re making complete fools of themselves.

  14. 14.

    Belafon

    November 2, 2015 at 10:45 pm

    @Zinsky: You might have enjoyed him more in private, but there are a lot of people in Congress with sensitive egos that he needed help from.

  15. 15.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    November 2, 2015 at 10:45 pm

    We’ve started a BJ Hamilfan club, so I guess POTUS is our honorary fan club president.

    He was, after all, in the room where Lin-Manuel Miranda performed the opening number in 2009:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Jz1VRfdbmY

  16. 16.

    danielx

    November 2, 2015 at 10:46 pm

    Attention wingnuts: he’s yanking your wienies, and we can see how much it hurts.

    “I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.”
    – Harry S. Truman

  17. 17.

    Old Dan and Little Anne

    November 2, 2015 at 10:49 pm

    Rachel Maddow played the clip of Obama dissing them. It was brilliant.

  18. 18.

    Debbie

    November 2, 2015 at 10:50 pm

    More like this please, Sir.

  19. 19.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    November 2, 2015 at 10:52 pm

    Jeb Bush has stolen Bob Newhart’s old bit about being Lincoln’s political consultant.

  20. 20.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    November 2, 2015 at 10:55 pm

    @efgoldman:

    Candy is not an ulterior motive?

  21. 21.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 2, 2015 at 10:56 pm

    @efgoldman:

    Of course it helps that the kids might have been the only people he saw all day who didn’t have ulterior motives.

    The little fuckers wanted candy, and you know it.

  22. 22.

    Suzanne

    November 2, 2015 at 10:57 pm

    @efgoldman: I’M CRAZY PROTRACTOR FACE, GIMME SOME CANDYYYYYYYYY.

  23. 23.

    MomSense

    November 2, 2015 at 11:02 pm

    @Mnemosyne (tablet):

    I’m liking our club, except for Cheney. You’ll have to do something about him Madam President.

  24. 24.

    bluehill

    November 2, 2015 at 11:03 pm

    I often wonder how much more popular Obama would be if he were white. I think there was some survey recently that showed more support from republicans on the same policies if they thought Trump had proposed them rather than Obama. When you consider the prejudice, republican intransigence and problems inherited coming into office, he is one of the greatest presidents we’ve had.

  25. 25.

    Quincy

    November 2, 2015 at 11:03 pm

    This one might be even better

  26. 26.

    Redshift

    November 2, 2015 at 11:04 pm

    @Old Dan and Little Anne: Yeah, the video is even better than the transcript.

  27. 27.

    seaboogie

    November 2, 2015 at 11:07 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    That’s how the taglines work on the new site – at least for now…

  28. 28.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    November 2, 2015 at 11:09 pm

    Candy, Candy, Candy
    I can’t let you go.
    All my life, you’re haunting me
    I love you so.

    Little known fact, Iggy wrote that song about fun-size Kit Kats and Sweet-Tarts

  29. 29.

    Anya

    November 2, 2015 at 11:10 pm

    @Suzanne: Was this halloween at the white house always a thing or did the Obamas introduce it? Not that I would’ve wanted to go when I was a kid. I don’t think Clinton was as good with the kids as Obama.

  30. 30.

    Gian

    November 2, 2015 at 11:10 pm

    @bluehill:

    I’m too lazy to find a source on google. But I remember the RWR presidency. His policies all pretty much polled like shit but people loved that son of a bitch

  31. 31.

    Corner Stone

    November 2, 2015 at 11:10 pm

    @seaboogie: New site? Huh?

  32. 32.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 2, 2015 at 11:14 pm

    @Anya:

    I don’t think Clinton was as good with the kids as Obama.

    Why would you say that?

  33. 33.

    bluehill

    November 2, 2015 at 11:14 pm

    @Gian: Yeah RWR was a better actor when he was president.

  34. 34.

    redshirt

    November 2, 2015 at 11:15 pm

    @efgoldman:

    Andrew Luck is turning into Jim Plunkett right before our eyes.

    Huh? Plunkett won superbowls.

  35. 35.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    November 2, 2015 at 11:19 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I don’t think Clinton had the same superpowers:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqhzWlqN3uc

  36. 36.

    Anya

    November 2, 2015 at 11:21 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: I’ve never seen him interact with kids. I am not throwing shade at his skills as a gifted politician. Obama seems to truly enjoy to be around kids.

  37. 37.

    Suzanne

    November 2, 2015 at 11:24 pm

    @Anya: I don’t know.

    I must have been drunk or stoned the first time I saw this, because oh my God, did I laugh.

  38. 38.

    benw

    November 2, 2015 at 11:26 pm

    @bluehill: I’ll be sad, too. But at least we’ll have President Sanders to carry on!

    Also, not to be a big old wet blanket, but traditionally the sitting President doesn’t campaign for his successor. Obama might give a speech at the convention, but probably won’t go on the stump. :(

  39. 39.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    November 2, 2015 at 11:28 pm

    @Corner Stone: You make me laff. Does the redesign give you a headache reading it?

  40. 40.

    Anya

    November 2, 2015 at 11:30 pm

    @benw: I dissagree. think he’ll campaign hard for HRC.

  41. 41.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    November 2, 2015 at 11:31 pm

    @benw: I wonder how much non-traditional media he can/will do. More podcasts, talk shows… he could reach a lot of Dems targets and call it a farewell tour and stay under the Halperin/Fournier radar

  42. 42.

    redshirt

    November 2, 2015 at 11:35 pm

    BO will continue to change the world for the better once he leaves office.

    I wish we didn’t have term limits, in his case. In other cases, I’m very glad, so I guess you have to take the good with the bad.

  43. 43.

    seaboogie

    November 2, 2015 at 11:40 pm

    @Corner Stone: Did you hit the “I don’t like new things” button?

  44. 44.

    Corner Stone

    November 2, 2015 at 11:43 pm

    BOOM! Stands!

  45. 45.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    November 2, 2015 at 11:43 pm

    Since we saw “Son of Frankenstein” last week, we’re now watching “Young Frankenstein” with the Mel Brooks commentary since so much of the plot is based on that specific movie.

  46. 46.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 2, 2015 at 11:43 pm

    @Mnemosyne (tablet): @Anya: There isn’t same amount of video from Clinton’s tenure as there is from Obama’s, but it seems to me like you are projecting. My memories of news coverage about the Easter egg stuff and all that were that Clinton went over very well with kids. I am just wondering why the Clinton comment was needed. I bet both Obama and Clinton were far more popular with kids than HW was.

  47. 47.

    Redshift

    November 2, 2015 at 11:45 pm

    @benw: I think he’ll campaign for other Democrats. I think we’ll have plenty of opportunities to see him trolling Republicans.

  48. 48.

    Corner Stone

    November 2, 2015 at 11:45 pm

    @seaboogie: Don’t like threaded comments and I don’t want to go back to a site that will cease to exist, in some format.

  49. 49.

    Amir Khalid

    November 2, 2015 at 11:46 pm

    @redshirt:
    Term limits wouldn’t have prevented the damage W did in his eight years.

  50. 50.

    bluehill

    November 2, 2015 at 11:46 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: I think he’ll see what the nominee wants from him, but I’d imagine he’ll have no problem making fun of the republican candidate in the forums you’re speaking of. Colbert would be a great one.

  51. 51.

    Corner Stone

    November 2, 2015 at 11:46 pm

    Man, Luck is making this thing a gat damm game, late.

  52. 52.

    Redshift

    November 2, 2015 at 11:47 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Because no one is.

  53. 53.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    November 2, 2015 at 11:48 pm

    @Corner Stone: Don’t like threaded comments and I don’t want to go back to a site that will cease to exist

    I’d heard it’s gotten bad over at the Great Orange Satan. Kos doesn’t even post there anymore. It’s too D-Kos-y

  54. 54.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 2, 2015 at 11:48 pm

    @Amir Khalid: Lack of term limits would have allowed Clinton to run for a third term, which I think he could have won.

  55. 55.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym

    November 2, 2015 at 11:49 pm

    @redshirt:

    I wish we didn’t have term limits, in his case. In other cases, I’m very glad, so I guess you have to take the good with the bad.

    I can’t think of a single instance prior to now, except possibly Clinton, where the 22nd Amendment would have made a difference:

    It didn’t apply to Truman, since he was already president when it passed.

    I don’t get the sense that Eisenhower would have run for a third term, anyway; if nothing else, he would have followed the extralegal tradition of only two terms.

    Kennedy was dead.

    Johnson withdrew from a race he could have run in.

    Nixon resigned.

    Ford lost.

    Carter lost.

    By 1988, I think Reagan was far enough gone that they would have had trouble making him a credible candidate. That also would have led to Nancy arguing vociferously against it since it might have exposed his Alzheimer’s.

    Bush I lost.

    Clinton, maybe, though the public may have wanted to see the end of him and supported tradition despite liking him.

    Bush II was deeply unpopular and wouldn’t have won in 2008.

    That leaves us with Obama, and I’m not sure he would really want to run again.

  56. 56.

    Amir Khalid

    November 2, 2015 at 11:49 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:
    Good point.

  57. 57.

    Corner Stone

    November 2, 2015 at 11:52 pm

    NOPE. Damn. This game somehow got good.

  58. 58.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    November 2, 2015 at 11:54 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Meh. I just wanted to post that video again because it always cracks me up. I don’t really care either way.

  59. 59.

    benw

    November 2, 2015 at 11:55 pm

    @Anya: I think you misspelled Bern. :)

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: it will be interesting to see how Obama supports the Democrat in the general. He’s super smart and I bet he understands the importance of another D prez. My opinion is that he can’t “stay under the Halperin/Fournier radar” because the second he does ANYTHING they’ll be screaming about how horrible and partisan and “refusing to meet in the middle” he is. I doubt a farewell tour will throw them off the scent.

  60. 60.

    redshirt

    November 2, 2015 at 11:55 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Clinton and Obama, and that’s it.

  61. 61.

    Corner Stone

    November 2, 2015 at 11:55 pm

    Man I need to go to F’ng bed. Sheesh.

  62. 62.

    MattF

    November 2, 2015 at 11:57 pm

    @Anya: I remember, back in the days when people were touting Steve Forbes (remember him?)– I argued that a good basic test of leadership is whether a candidate could lead a group of second graders across the street. Stevie failed that test, Obama wins it.

  63. 63.

    Amir Khalid

    November 2, 2015 at 11:58 pm

    @benw:

    it will be interesting to see how Obama supports the Democrat in the general.

    He’ll be campaigning for her, of course.

  64. 64.

    amk

    November 3, 2015 at 12:00 am

    @Quincy: Ouch, paul fucking ryan cupping nis nutz.

  65. 65.

    Corner Stone

    November 3, 2015 at 12:00 am

    Damn. A run play?

  66. 66.

    Corner Stone

    November 3, 2015 at 12:02 am

    Nizzailed it!

  67. 67.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    November 3, 2015 at 12:06 am

    @benw: tongues may cluck and fingers wag, but they’ll be distracted by the horserace, and they really can’t fault him for doing “non-political” media and making it political. I find Zach Galifinakis irritating as all get out, but people said that Obama reached some people with that Ferns thing. I’m out of touch with what middle aged fat white guys like, but I imagine Obama will figure out how to reach the people he wants to reach. He wants to preserve his legacy, and the best way to do that is to get [Dem nominee] elected.

  68. 68.

    Corner Stone

    November 3, 2015 at 12:06 am

    Holy shit! Ginn just straight dropped that fucking ball.

  69. 69.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    November 3, 2015 at 12:08 am

    @Quincy: Oh man that’s beautiful. Obama trolling Boehner et al with Chris Rock.

  70. 70.

    trollhattan

    November 3, 2015 at 12:13 am

    @redshirt:
    I assumed it meant Randy Vataha had come out of retirement to play for the Colts.

  71. 71.

    benw

    November 3, 2015 at 12:15 am

    @Amir Khalid: Him, goddamit, Bernie is a him! :)

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: for reasons best left unexplored, I’m TOTALLY in touch with what middle aged fat white guys like.

  72. 72.

    Amir Khalid

    November 3, 2015 at 12:16 am

    @benw:
    But he isn’t a Democrat.

  73. 73.

    Suzanne

    November 3, 2015 at 12:16 am

    Is anyone else that uses an iPad and/or an iPhone finding scrolling more difficult on the new site? I need to touch this page harder and swipe/scroll more slowly and deliberately.

    DO. NOT. LIKE.

  74. 74.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 3, 2015 at 12:17 am

    @benw:

    Him, goddamit, Bernie is a him! :)

    Yes. And?

  75. 75.

    Steeplejack

    November 3, 2015 at 12:17 am

    Man, this GEICO ad with Peter Pan really sucks. I wish someone would give that little fucker a John Cole neck-punch.

  76. 76.

    Corner Stone

    November 3, 2015 at 12:17 am

    Luuukkkeee!!!

  77. 77.

    Corner Stone

    November 3, 2015 at 12:18 am

    @Suzanne: Stop your whining and watch the instructional video.

  78. 78.

    Corner Stone

    November 3, 2015 at 12:19 am

    @Steeplejack: Steeplejack, is that you? Why, you don’t look a day over 70. Amirite?

  79. 79.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 3, 2015 at 12:19 am

    @Corner Stone: FTW!

  80. 80.

    Corner Stone

    November 3, 2015 at 12:20 am

    Here we go, Gano, here we go!

  81. 81.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    November 3, 2015 at 12:22 am

    @Suzanne:

    For some reason, I have that problem on the iPhone but not the iPad. I switched to the mobile version on the iPhone and that worked better.

  82. 82.

    magurakurin

    November 3, 2015 at 12:22 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Actually, I think the peak is over for the worst infighting. Oh, it’s still massive, but over the past couple of weeks a bit of sanity is starting to enter into some comment threads. Everyday a hard core Sanders supporter flames out with a “Clinton is evil and she will destroy the Republic” diary, but more and more people are responding with more “meh” than anything else. There will be fireworks a plenty until Super Tuesday I am sure, but the latest polls from Iowa are starting to throw cold water on the Bern. The rational Sanders people are getting their minds around his impossible task and the others are more Clinton-haters than they are Sanders supporters.

    But today they are throwing Tom Harkin under the bus and all of the Boomer and Gen-X generations. So, you know, a normal day.

  83. 83.

    benw

    November 3, 2015 at 12:23 am

    @Amir Khalid: He’s not!? OMG this is bad. Have you told the Democratic party so they can get him out of their debates!?

  84. 84.

    Steeplejack

    November 3, 2015 at 12:25 am

    @Corner Stone:

    Grr! Why do they think that would make anybody want to buy anything?!

    On the other hand, the kraken in the golf pond is pretty funny. “That may not be enough club.”

    ETA: Do not like the way the new site is overriding Ctrl-Click and doing some weird fancy thing instead of just “open in new tab.” And, yes, I know I can right-click, but I’ve got ingrained habits.

  85. 85.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    November 3, 2015 at 12:25 am

    @benw: Yeah, I should be, is what I meant. I’ve no idea what the yoot’s are into.

    @magurakurin: what did Harkin do? Endorse the unHoly HIldebeast?

  86. 86.

    magurakurin

    November 3, 2015 at 12:29 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: No, he made a comment that both Sanders and Clinton are establishment candidates. He said nice things about both of them, but the doom and gloom crew over at KOS took issue with Harkin’s comments. They are calling him a shill and a surrogate sent out to take a shot at Sanders. It is pretty convoluted since they have spent the last three months claiming all of Sander’s proposal enjoy widespread mainstream support, but now they are citing those same now “radical proposals” as proof that a 27 year lifetime member of Congress isn’t part of the establishment. Lots of parsing over the actual meaning of “establishment” as well.

    I know, I need a life.

  87. 87.

    Suzanne

    November 3, 2015 at 12:30 am

    @Corner Stone: Nothing in the video addresses the weird scrolling.

    I swear, this site is the only one that has all these problems.

  88. 88.

    Suzanne

    November 3, 2015 at 12:32 am

    @Corner Stone: And get your panties outta your ass crack and chill.

  89. 89.

    magurakurin

    November 3, 2015 at 12:32 am

    @Suzanne: forget about it. After a couple of weeks you’ll have little memory of what the site was and you’ll be used to what it is now and all will be well with the world. Sort of like how Victory Gin always got a little bit more oilier and crappy all the time, but slow enough that no one really noticed or remember what real gin tasted like.

  90. 90.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 3, 2015 at 12:33 am

    @Suzanne: But now you know what Tommy’s voice sounds like.

  91. 91.

    Seth Owen

    November 3, 2015 at 12:34 am

    Obama on the Supreme Court would be sweet. He’s qualified, analytical, prinipled and might very well enjoy needling the rump righties as the court moves left into social Justice. Especially if he gets to replace Scalia …

  92. 92.

    EdinNJ

    November 3, 2015 at 12:36 am

    @Steeplejack:

    If you watch Wet Hot American Summer on Netflix, there is a whole season of that little fucker acting like that. I guess he’s typecast.

  93. 93.

    Steeplejack

    November 3, 2015 at 12:36 am

    @Suzanne:

    I think Corner Stone was snarking you. And, yes, the “instructional” video is basic to the max. Or, uh, min.

  94. 94.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    November 3, 2015 at 12:37 am

    @Seth Owen: Even better… to serve with him in replacement of Kennedy. But I suspect he and Michelle want to replenish the old coffers and get Sasha and Malia through college as private citizens. But yeah I would love to see him on the USSC.

  95. 95.

    amk

    November 3, 2015 at 12:38 am

    https://twitter.com/InternetHippo/status/661271859254591488

    let’s see if the tweet appears

    eta: nope

  96. 96.

    Steeplejack

    November 3, 2015 at 12:38 am

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Do we know that that’s Tommy’s voice? It doesn’t match what I hear as I read his comments.

  97. 97.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 3, 2015 at 12:38 am

    @Seth Owen: No. Just no. Obama, as an ex-Pres., can do a lot in many ways. Obama as a Supreme Court Justice would be extreme limited in what he could accomplish. Any liberal law professor or lower court judge would be fine on the Court.

  98. 98.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    November 3, 2015 at 12:38 am

    @Suzanne:

    I have a cartoon where the main character comes home from work after suffering from panty angst all day.

    It’s one of those things that men just can’t understand.

  99. 99.

    Steeplejack

    November 3, 2015 at 12:39 am

    @EdinNJ:

    Thanks, that sounds like “miss it if you can” viewing.

  100. 100.

    NotMax

    November 3, 2015 at 12:39 am

    @Steeplejack

    I’ve got ingrained habits

    So did the Catholic church, but they eventually mostly grew out of it.

    :)

  101. 101.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 3, 2015 at 12:41 am

    @Steeplejack: The stumbles over certain wordings indicate Tommy to me. The pointing to the obvious also says Tommy. I may well be wrong.

  102. 102.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    November 3, 2015 at 12:42 am

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    We Californians are still pulling for Goodwin Liu to be the next nominee. He’s currently on the CA Supreme Court, so they can’t say he’s not experienced enough.

  103. 103.

    NotMax

    November 3, 2015 at 12:44 am

    @Steeplejack

    Presumed the voice was that of the partner Tommy has mentioned.

  104. 104.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    November 3, 2015 at 12:50 am

    So that thing where Dan Coats and Joe “You Lie” Wilson were gonna be outed as Klansmen was fake. This is real. There are pictures.

    After her husband was spotted burning a cross and wearing Ku Klux Klan garb on Halloween night, an Oklahoma mayor said the spectacle was simply a “prank gone bad.”
    Cary Kent Sharp, 47, was among a group of men found dressed in white robes and hoods around a bonfire when a Lahoma, Okla. resident called police to report the incident at about 10:20 p.m. Saturday, the Enid News reported.

  105. 105.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    November 3, 2015 at 12:57 am

    Apropos of nothing — the world’s greatest wedding video (according to Mo Rocca, anyway). If you hate classic Broadway musicals, don’t bother clicking:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgZ4ZTTfKO8

    Lin-Manuel Miranda had already won his first set of Tony Awards, for “In The Heights,” when he got married, so I’m sure his wife expected some kind of Broadway surprise. I just don’t think she expected her own father to kick it off.

  106. 106.

    Steeplejack

    November 3, 2015 at 1:01 am

    @Mnemosyne (tablet):

    I like Mo Rocca’s show My Grandmother’s Ravioli, particularly the one where he watched Korean historical soap operas with an old Italian lady and the one where he wanted to get adopted into the über-WASP family in Connecticut (Massachusetts?).

  107. 107.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    November 3, 2015 at 1:05 am

    @Steeplejack: Korean historical soaps are really good.

    ETA: I watch them since madame is a SeoulGirl.

  108. 108.

    Steeplejack

    November 3, 2015 at 1:11 am

    @BillinGlendaleCA:

    The few bits I’ve seen do look good.

  109. 109.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    November 3, 2015 at 1:13 am

    @Steeplejack: I’ll admit that sometimes I have to ask her for the context. I think a rough knowledge of Korean history is assumed. Being that she was raised there, she got that in primary and secondary school.

  110. 110.

    Steeplejack

    November 3, 2015 at 1:18 am

    @BillinGlendaleCA:

    There’s a Korean channel (with English subtitles) on the MHz mini-network on my cable system, and occasionally I’ll watch something. There was a really trippy series about district attorneys who were also vampires. I never got why that was a thing—would have loved to be a fly on the wall in that pitch meeting—but it did make for some interesting episodes.

    And some of the ephemeral series created around various K-pop stars are really out there.

  111. 111.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    November 3, 2015 at 1:20 am

    @Steeplejack:

    Because I am not a morning person, particularly on Sundays, I had no idea that “CBS Sunday Morning” does arts coverage, not politics. Here’s their package on “Hamilton” with Mo Rocca reporting:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wboCdgzLHg

    As the president said above, “Hamilton” is the only thing he and Dick Cheney can agree on.

  112. 112.

    Steeplejack

    November 3, 2015 at 1:21 am

    I’m off to bed. I’ve got an appointment at 8:00 a.m. with my new doctor at Kaiser, and I want to be at my run-down, (slightly past) middle-aged best.

  113. 113.

    Steeplejack

    November 3, 2015 at 1:24 am

    @Mnemosyne (tablet):

    Mo Rocca is a versatile guy. I remember when he was “just” a standup comic. My Grandmother’s Ravioli is really good; it’s actually sort of an oral history project that happens to focus on food.

  114. 114.

    sm*t cl*de

    November 3, 2015 at 2:16 am

    @bluehill:

    I’ll be sad when Obama’s term is over

    I am informed via Politico that Obama has “set loose a new Willy Horton” and thereby doomed his re-election prospects.

  115. 115.

    Emerald

    November 3, 2015 at 2:37 am

    @Zinsky: I think he might be close to being one of the five greatest presidents anyway. Certainly in the top ten, considering all he’s done against the worst congressional opposition in history. And all of that nonsense abetted by the media, who, I firmly believe, will be excoriated by History

  116. 116.

    Another Holocene Human

    November 3, 2015 at 6:37 am

    @magurakurin: I thought DKos posters were all boomers and above. There are college students on there?

  117. 117.

    NonyNony

    November 3, 2015 at 7:43 am

    @Another Holocene Human:

    I thought DKos posters were all boomers and above.

    I thought DKos was mostly Gen-Xers and older Millenials.

  118. 118.

    Paul in KY

    November 3, 2015 at 8:06 am

    @bluehill: He was a better actor than generally given credit. Played genial old man very well.

  119. 119.

    Bobby Thomson

    November 3, 2015 at 9:03 am

    @Suzanne: nothing in the video addresses anything.

  120. 120.

    Bobby Thomson

    November 3, 2015 at 9:07 am

    @Mnemosyne (tablet): he’s good people.

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