Barack Obama jokes about using predator drones to kill the Jonas Brothers
I am not one who generally takes offense to someone who is making a joke, I think that people have become way too sensitive and that, as a whole, people are too easily offended nowadays. When Barack Obama’s joke about his bowling skills being comparable to a special olympian sparked outrage among his detractors, I was not one who took offence to the remark. It is a joke that you would hear in any given factory across the United States on any given day. That doesn’t make it right and, sure, it was out of the norm for a president to make such a remark, and he should have thought it through more before he said it, but I didn’t take him to task over it.
But having said that, and after reading this article about a joke that Barack Obama made at the White House Correspondents Association in which he jokingly told the Jonas Brothers to stay away from his daughters or a predator drone might find them, I just have to wonder if this man is as smart as his supporters think that he is.
Here is the text of his latest joke:
Jonas Brothers are here, they’re out there somewhere. Sasha and Malia are huge fans, but boys, don’t get any ideas. Two words for you: predator drones. You will never see it coming. You think I’m joking?
Again, I am not going to pretend that I am outraged by this, actually it was pretty funny if you ask me, but as in the case with the special olympian joke, I have to wonder what the backlash would be if this had not been a far leftist who had made this comment. As the article I linked to above states, one third of all predator drone casualties are civilians. Were Barack Obama not a liberal would this comment not have stirred more than a little controversy? I think it would have. I am not offended by the joke, but what I am offended by– actually, offended is the wrong word, perturbed is more accurate– is the different standard conservatives are held to over liberals. There is a double standard at play here in the media, if this was a conservative president who made this joke, there would be hell to pay. But Barack Obama is a card carrying liberal so there is no media scrutiny.
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I’m with ya, Steve. Both on the jokes and on the double standard.
As for the President’s being “smart”… well, that term is somewhat equivocal. People often conflate intellect/intelligence with wisdom. I have no doubt that Obama is very bright, intellectually speaking, but the question here is one of wisdom. Intelligent men often make unwise, foolish, contextually inappropriate remarks. The two “joke” incidents demonstrate that his foolishness extends into non-political views & statements, too.
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I thought the joke was funny, but “unpresidential” Good fodder for SNL, not for the POTUS.
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Now that’s 100% true – an actor portraying the President can get away with that joke a thousand times better than the real deal can. Nicely put, and I’m sorry I saw it only after I posted my remarks.
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Unoresidential, that sums it up. On a number of occasions he has stooped to a leve that should be beneath the presidency.
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Oh, I don’t know – it was comedy night, and there are lots of ways a President can make jokes, only half in jest, telling young men to stay away from his teenage daughters. I mean, he IS the President, after all.
I’m reminded of President Bush’s address to a dinner of his core supporters wherein he made a huge joke about his inability to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. I don’t recall any outrage from the right over that, and yes, I’m aware that you specifically said you’re not going to pretend to be outraged by this joke, but how many others do you think are going to be all over this like a cheap suit?
Getting settled in back at home yet, or are you still shaking sand out of your shoes?
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The article that I linked to mentioned Bush’s joke about the WMD also. That article was written by a liberal who wrote about the outrage on the left after that joke compared with their silence on this issue. I was not up in arms after that joke either and neither were many on the right, so it is consistance for me and those others who have posted here to not be outraged at this joke, but the inconsistancy is coming from the left. I am sure that there will be many on the right who will claim they are outraged, I am not one of them.
All settled in now, I went back to work yesterday, although I eased into it by only working 8 hours instead of my usual 9-10 hours.
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You are right about the double standard. I see nothing wrong with the joke, but if it came from the right the MSM would be aroused to say the least. But them Barack in almost a card carrying member of the MSM and can pretty much say what he wants as long as it conforms to the values of the american left and the MSM, after all they are the same!
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The double standard is on full dislay here.
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His timing is off. I would say “keep your day job” but I don’t want him to do that either! I laugh my posterior off when he is whining, saying things like “the republicans won’t let us do it” Now THAT is funny.
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Yeah, we don’t want him to keep his day job. He can be a bit of a whiner at times.
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I agree Steve… I think it was a pretty funny comment. Maybe I’m a little different but I actually like to see a little humor from our presidents and vice presidents. I don’t like the stiff non emotional types. It at least makes him appear to be human.
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I’ve got a teen daughter and I joke about being able to find my house because it’s the one with the angry white dude sitting on the front porch with a shotgun.
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I too heard this joke and felt it was TOTALLY inappropriate. It simply isn’t funny to joke about a weapons program that, under your watch, is killing innocent civilians every week, according to figures we have all seen. These state-sanctioned assassinations, essentially extra-judicial killings, should not be allowed to continue. They represent a terrifying new front in this veiled, unaccountable ‘war on terror’ and I think it’s really sad that more of us aren’t protesting on this issue. To make a joke that addresses this misuse of power would be one thing, but to make one that celebrates it is in such poor taste it belies belief.
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It was not just inappropriate, it was horribly insulting to victims of his state-sponsored assassination program killing innocent U.S. Citizens many of you are unaware of. See this author’s blog to get grasp a better understanding of what it is I speak of. If the public knew how Drones were already used (yes) in US Skies over victim’s homes, yards, cars and bedrooms they would (hopefully) be shocked and stunned and do something for us. There are at least 350,000, some estimate half a million while other’s state at least a million, if not more under a new (unknown name) Monarch – Phoenix Cointelpro (Lethal) program. It would sincerely help our plight of abandoned political activists, and whistleblowers and those who filed complaints against government contractors as well as DC connected lawyers if indy media would at least run a story and call their Congressional leaders with their outrage.
Go to http://lissakr11humanelife.wordpress.com/ and see Microwave Murders https://sites.google.com/site/microwavevideo/, TorturedInAmerica.org, and Thomas Marshall’s videos http://www.metacafe.com/channels/marsboy683/ to at least give us victims a chance, we are not ‘crazy.’ Our lives depend on this, please. I am open to conversation as a victim.
Regards,
Lissa A Widow Abandoned by her Nation
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