[leaked to me from a friend inside the ceremony who managed to record this bit on his Blackberry]
President Obama: …
Black Newspaper publishers trade group members: …
President Obama: “So.”
Black Newspaper publishers trade group members: “So…”
President Obama: …
Black Newspaper publishers trade group members: …
President Obama: “Whasssssssssssssssssup….?”
Black Newspaper publishers trade group members: “Whassssssssssssup!”
President Obama: “WHASSSSSSSSSSSSSUP…?”
Black Newspaper publishers trade group members: “WHASSSSSSSSSSSSSUP!”
President Obama: “WHASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSUP...?”
Black Newspaper publishers trade group members: “WHASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSUP!
President Obama: …
Black Newspaper publishers trade group members: …
President Obama: “So.”
Black Newspaper publishers trade group members: “Yeah.”
Black Newspaper publishers trade group members: …
Black Newspaper publishers trade group members: …
Black Newspaper publishers trade group members: …
Black Newspaper publishers trade group members: “…So you want this plaque, or –?”
President Obama: ” — Sure, thanks. Now. Who wants them some eats?”
Comment by Joe on 3/21 @ 11:47 am #
Just don’t be serv’in any filthy swine!
Comment by cranky-d on 3/21 @ 12:08 pm #
Dealing with the press these days is so tiresome for the Obamas. I mean, sometimes they ask real questions and stuff. They did not sign up for that.
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Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 3/21 @ 12:18 pm #
Y’all saw this truly embarrassing presser that was posted over at AoSHQ, right?
One of the reporters goes off the chain a little bit, and Gibbs is visibly shitting his pants.
Amateur hour.
Comment by Taggart on 3/21 @ 1:39 pm #
So who’d the honkey J-skoolers pick as their Main Man?
Comment by clarice on 3/21 @ 1:50 pm #
You are incorrigible. Smooches.
Comment by Jeffersonian on 3/21 @ 2:59 pm #
This administration needs some adult supervision.
Comment by Steve B on 3/21 @ 3:16 pm #
Hey! That’s not funny.
Comment by Preston Taylor Holmes on 3/21 @ 3:21 pm #
Did you run this by Pajamas before you posted it? I don’t find it moderate enough for my tastes. Please try again with a little less hate.
Comment by Dan Collins on 3/21 @ 3:23 pm #
Bwahahaha, Preston. See you on the other side. Arrivederci, baby.
Comment by nk on 3/21 @ 6:52 pm #
I’m with you, Jeff. You sure won me over.
Comment by Don Cornelius on 3/21 @ 7:40 pm #
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUL TRAAIN!
Comment by Jeff G. on 3/21 @ 8:13 pm #
Does no one remember the Bud commercials?
Comment by Jeff G. on 3/21 @ 8:20 pm #
No need to be a smartass, nk. I know how you feel about me and I’m okay with it, incredible as that must seem to you.
The question I have about this award function is why was the press (well, the white press) kept out? If Axelrod didn’t want Obama photographed as surrounded by a bunch of other black men and women, why not invite other reporters to the ceremony?
What needs to be hidden? What’s at play here?
This post riffs on the idea that nothing insidious is happening, but rather that some sort of forced bond is being celebrated, even though the award recipient and those offering the award might not have all that much in common. So Obama reaches for a moment of shared experience — and overused (at the time) ad campaign.
That’s about it. I call this explanation, “What is Truth”?
Comment by Mr. Pink on 3/21 @ 8:30 pm #
Jeff do you remember the muslims excluded from pictures with him during the election?
Comment by Molon Labe on 3/21 @ 8:32 pm #
OMFG. South Park on Obama.
Comment by Edward M. Kennedy on 3/21 @ 9:58 pm #
Does no one remember the Bud commercials?
… ?
Gin Gimlet.
*urp*
Comment by Darleen on 3/21 @ 10:00 pm #
JeffG
Bud commercial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJmqCKtJnxM
Comment by Andrew on 3/21 @ 11:09 pm #
Ever read any of these black community newspapers? Racist, moonbat, commie central…a whole buncha them, anyway.
I’ll bet the Pres was kinda embarrased, but couldn’t just blow them off.
Comment by Ella on 3/22 @ 9:44 am #
So, like, are there signs now at the pressers, “Whites Only – Coloreds Only”? How else do journalists know which press events they are allowed attend?
Comment by B Moe on 3/22 @ 9:58 am #
What the fuck is it with folks like nk and Patterico that they more they don’t understand something the louder they must proclaim their ignorance?
Comment by donald on 3/22 @ 10:12 am #
The guys on the corners on Tara Blvd and MLK Jr. Drive will never sell me a copy of The Final Call. I pull up, I ask, we all get a good laugh. Then our eyes narrow with suspicion.
Comment by donald on 3/22 @ 10:22 am #
Cause I think they’re all yankees if you want to know the truth.
Comment by Wm T Sherman on 3/22 @ 10:54 am #
NNPA – Member Papers:
http://www.nnpa.org/News/article/article.asp?sID=14
Includes NOI paper “Final Call.”