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Humor-Challenged Open Thread

Posted: August 7, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: 2012 presidential campaign, U.S. Economy, U.S. Politics | Tags: , , , , , , |23 Comments

Yesterday, in a speech in Stamford, CT, President Obama got off a pretty good one-liner about Mitt Romney’s tax plan, calling it “Romney Hood.”

President Barack Obama is labeling opponent Mitt Romney’s tax plan as “Romney Hood,” saying it takes from the middle class and gives to the rich.

Speaking Monday night at a campaign event in Connecticut, Obama said the GOP plan “is like Robin Hood in reverse.”

He also referred to Romney’s policy as “trickle-down fairy dust.” Obama’s comic timing was pretty good too:

Today, Fox News’s Carl Cameron gave Mitt Romney an opportunity for a humorous rejoinder. Sadly, Mitt is severely humor-challenged. Here’s his attempt:

“Obamalogna.”

“We’ve been watching the president say a lot of things about me and about my policies, and they’re just not right,” he told Cameron. “And, if I were to coin a term, it would be ‘Obamaloney.’ He’s serving up a dish which is simply in contradiction of the truth … he’s just simply saying things that are not accurate.”

Oh brother! Even Romney looks embarrassed. I don’t think that one’s going to catch on.

23 Comments on “Humor-Challenged Open Thread”

  1. pdgrey's avatar pdgrey says:
    August 7, 2012 at 2:06 pm

    Sometimes I can’t stand to know anymore real truth. But I don’t trust the police, the media, the politicians, and now the doctors to tell the truth about anything.

    Notice that Bain and Scott are right in the mix. Fl. knew about this ass when he was elected.

    • bostonboomer's avatar bostonboomer says:
      August 7, 2012 at 2:16 pm

      I’m just running out the door, but I will read that tonight. Thanks!

    • Fannie's avatar Fannie says:
      August 7, 2012 at 5:57 pm

      Know all about the Tenet Health Care Corp…………..and Dr. Moon of Redding, Ca. Shasta Regional Hospital………………..two cousins died within days of each other…………..one diabetic (heart disease)……..another lung cancer (his heart blew up like a football)……………Oh, and Dr. Moon smoked like a train coming down a track…………..After that another company brought hospital, and it went bankrupt, then the current owner was accused of fraud with medicare billing way too many patients with malnutrition “Kwashoikor”
      disease, and they just can’t seem to get things right…………….sounds alot like Florida.

      What’s a person to do, seems impossible in the current health care wars.

    • Eric Pleim's avatar Eric Pleim says:
      August 7, 2012 at 11:19 pm

      If you want an interesting take on big medicine, see Dr. Atul Gawande in the new New Yorker. He’s one of my local heroes.

  2. minkoffminx's avatar JJ Lopez Minkoff says:
    August 7, 2012 at 2:27 pm

    Today has been busy, so I can’t post much…but this one link caught my eye: Romney in 1994: ‘I’d abolish PACS… I don’t like them’ – The Maddow Blog

    The man is on tape yet again…

    During my tape travels on Friday, looking for sound bites from Mitt Romney, I listened to a 1994 speech from the campaign trail, when Romney was running against Senator Ted Kennedy. A reporter asked Mr. Romney about his stance on reforming lobbying practices in Washington, and to my surprise, Romney wrapped up his response with:

    “The kinds of demands that are being placed on the economics of running a campaign suggest an increasing power on the part of monied interest and I think it’s wrong. And we’ve got to change it.”

    Fast forward to 2012: Romney has outraised President Obama for the third straight month; raking in more than $25 million than his Democratic opponent in July. That’s not to mention casino mogul, Sheldon Adelson, has shelled out $10 million to the pro-Romney super PAC, Restore Our Future.

    I wonder what Mitt Romney of 1994 would think of the astronomical contributions that the current GOP presumptive presidential nominee is receiving?

  3. RalphB's avatar RalphB says:
    August 7, 2012 at 2:27 pm

    It is a humor thread after all, so I thought I’d add to the porn star endorsement derby. Obama is way ahead of the game.

    8 Porn Stars’ Presidential Endorsements

    After Jenna Jameson endorsed Mitt Romney last week, the Republican nominee might think he’s cornered the porn vote. Richard Abowitz surveyed the community—watch out, Mitt.

    Speaking of endorsements, I found this one pretty impressive. Compare this to the word salads of Princess Dumbass of the North Woods.

    Kayden Kross: “I’m voting for Obama because he inhales when he smokes, he supports gay marriage, because he follows me on Twitter, because he has managed to push a lot through despite being mostly hogtied by partisan bullshit, because his agendas are good for the majority of people and not just the majority of a voting base—which is also being hogtied—and because when I voted for him the first time I didn’t expect him to wave a magic wand and fix everything overnight. We all know that is impossible, like Republican empathy and Romney’s tax records.”

  4. dakinikat's avatar dakinikat says:
    August 7, 2012 at 2:37 pm

    Mark Kelly: Gabrielle Giffords Satisfied With Jared Lee Loughner Guilty Plea

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/07/gabrielle-giffords-jared-lee-loughner-plea_n_1751313.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

  5. dakinikat's avatar dakinikat says:
    August 7, 2012 at 2:40 pm

    Center on Budget ‏@CenterOnBudget

    Must read via @WonkBlog: If the economy’s still weak, why are states cutting unemployment benefits? http://wapo.st/MhWcW7

  6. RalphB's avatar RalphB says:
    August 7, 2012 at 3:07 pm

    Charles Pierce on Missouri’s primary but the bit about school homework stuck out.

    Missouri: Where the GOP Shows Up or Shuts Up

    presence on today’s ballot of a truly goofy amendment to their state’s constitution that would allow students in Missouri’s public schools to refuse to do any assignment that conflicted with their “religious beliefs.” Why in the hell did I never think of that?

    Take that, Jindal.

    • Fannie's avatar Fannie says:
      August 7, 2012 at 6:49 pm

      So a third grader can tell a teacher they will not complete the given assignment because of their religious beliefs? Unreal.

  7. RalphB's avatar RalphB says:
    August 7, 2012 at 3:16 pm

    Pierce on Jindal in LA. The Stupid Spreads Like The Kudzu!

    Bobby Jindal Explains It All To You

  8. dakinikat's avatar dakinikat says:
    August 7, 2012 at 4:40 pm

    U.S. stocks score 3-day rally on stimulus hopes: NEW YORK — US stocks rallied for a third straight day Tuesday, … http://bit.ly/ONF2xh

  9. minkoffminx's avatar JJ Lopez Minkoff says:
    August 7, 2012 at 5:00 pm

    Colbert was on fire last night.

    http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/417411/august-06-2012/intro—8-6-12

    • pdgrey's avatar pdgrey says:
      August 7, 2012 at 5:56 pm

      I cried so hard watching Pete Seeger singing ” Quite Early Morning”. It would take me a very long, long post to tell why 1969 was such an important year in my mind.

      • Beata's avatar Beata says:
        August 7, 2012 at 6:46 pm

        I couldn’t watch. I had to turn it off. I had just been talking to my mother recently, on one of her more lucid days, about Pete Seeger and other folk singers she and my father had known. All dead now I think except Pete Seeger. He’s the last one left.

        My mother smiled as she was remembering and said, “That was a long time ago.”

  10. ANonOMouse's avatar ANonOMouse says:
    August 7, 2012 at 5:14 pm

    Obamaloney? Is that the best he can do.

    Besides, if it doesn’t involve holding down a gay boy and cutting his hair off, or impersonating an officer for the thrill of scaring people, RMoney isn’t down with it.

  11. dakinikat's avatar dakinikat says:
    August 7, 2012 at 6:34 pm

    Melissa McEwan ‏@Shakestweetz

    RT @amaditalks: SCOTUS has just said Texas can execute a man with the functional capacity of a 7 year old child. G-d help us all.

    emptywheel ‏@emptywheel

    If only the Bishops weren’t so busy defending life. RT @pastordan: That’s the ultra-Catholic Scalia denying a stay of execution, by the way.

  12. pdgrey's avatar pdgrey says:
    August 7, 2012 at 6:51 pm

    Just a thought, have you ever noticed, the token Democratic talkers on Fox, have to stupidest minds and comments? Could it be a reason we kept losing in the 80’s. They were actually in charge then.

    • RalphB's avatar RalphB says:
      August 7, 2012 at 7:44 pm

      I think we lost for so long because every Dem candidate since Carter used the same group of Shrum DC insiders to run their campaigns. Clinton broke that mold with Carville, Begala, Mickey Kantor an LA lawyer, and a friend from college who worked on Madison Ave did his ads. The Gore went right back to the Shrum people.

      Obama was smart enough to follow the Clinton campaign mold from ’92 and is doing it again. Thank Dog.

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