OBAMA ON COMEDY CENTRAL: ‘WHEN FOUR AMERICANS GET KILLED, IT’S NOT OPTIMAL’
Just about the biggest headline ever on Drudge. Not only does he describe the deaths of four diplomats as “not optimal” he does it on Comedy Central. This is beyond the classless society into a world of cretins.
He could still win but the tide is moving in the opposite direction. He cannot be gone and out of the way soon enough.
So much for his role as Empathiser-in-Chief.
Viva
19 Oct 12 at 11:55 am
A large part of the reason Obama keeps making blunders like this is due to the fact that over the years he’s dodge hard interviews and gone on programs that will give him a pass like the Daily Show.
How many times has he addressed Fox or even a very sympathetic (kinda) journalist like Candy Crowley on CNN?
Is it a surprise he blunders even during one of John Steward’s soft-ball rah-rah sessions?
Token
19 Oct 12 at 11:56 am
Hirohito 1945:
Rabz
19 Oct 12 at 11:56 am
“When 230,000 japanese are incinerated by two bombs, it’s not optimal.”
No, but it was efficacious …..and excellent therapy.
Alfonso
19 Oct 12 at 12:06 pm
Everyone will be happy to know that if the US President says a statement as moronic and heartless as this on 10 November it will be front page news in the NYT, WaPo and all other news agency will run with it for a month.
Token
19 Oct 12 at 12:11 pm
…but going on the experience of that presidents wife on The View, the US President won’t say moronic statements like that.
Token
19 Oct 12 at 12:13 pm
Thats breathtaking in its unawareness…
Is Obama a Karl Rove deep operative??
thefrollickingmole
19 Oct 12 at 12:23 pm
Wow. What a stupid thing to say.
Jarrah
19 Oct 12 at 12:28 pm
That was directed at Obama, in case it wasn’t obvious, not mole boy.
Jarrah
19 Oct 12 at 12:33 pm
Makes Biden seem smart.
Nanuestalker
19 Oct 12 at 12:37 pm
Nice find Token, at least Ann Romney isn’t proud to be American for the first time in her life.
Nanuestalker
19 Oct 12 at 12:43 pm
Yes Token, Whoopsie laid an egg, and then mashed it into her own face (leftards, note that was metaphor).
Ann Romney showed a lot of poise and grace and then explained things using small words (for Whoopsie’s benefit)
They really are getting desperate. I was wondering when the Mormon card would be played, and Whoopsie chose to play it in ignorance.
Keith
19 Oct 12 at 1:05 pm
Is this a spoof?
He really said that… on Comedy Central?
C.L.
19 Oct 12 at 1:08 pm
the president by his words seemed distant and cold hearted from day 1 after the distressing deaths of the ambassador and staff, like he’s been in shock.
candy
19 Oct 12 at 1:14 pm
Jarrah, from the transcript:
Stuart says the not optimal line first… How does Obama respond
Obama responded: ‘Here’s what I’ll say. If four Americans get killed, it’s not optimal.’
Polly want a cracker? You dont think he could have done better than parrot that back at the comedian?
thefrollickingmole
19 Oct 12 at 1:31 pm
Steve
Obama on comedy central not funny
Romney
Romney Addresses 67th Annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/10/18/romney_addresses_67th_annual_alfred_e_smith_memorial_foundation_dinner.ht
very funny AND truthful ( and Obama sat through it)
blind freddy
19 Oct 12 at 1:31 pm
Obama responded:
Supplice
19 Oct 12 at 1:53 pm
Gab
19 Oct 12 at 2:05 pm
JB5
19 Oct 12 at 2:12 pm
What an incredibly cynical statement. I suppose you think the horrible death of a quarter of a million human beings is funny. You can only be described as a monster.
Gareth Hamilton
19 Oct 12 at 2:22 pm
He said it on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart where more people get their news from than a lot of shows on CNN or Fox. The quote is probably terrible, it’s too late to look up the full conversation, but to anyone who has a slight bit of knowledge of the American zeitgeist the “comedy” channel part doesn’t really have anything to do with it.
WadeJ
19 Oct 12 at 2:27 pm
Whereas if you had your way, the horrible death of a quarter of a million human beings would merely be the outcome of a pleasant day at the office, eh, Gareth Gareth?
Rabz
19 Oct 12 at 2:40 pm
You’re a monster, mole boy. The Hamster said so. Hahahahahaha!!!
Tom
19 Oct 12 at 2:42 pm
Efficacious, well of course.
The alternative being a predicted 1,000,000,000 allied casualties invading a non surrendered Japan fighting onward and upward. One of which my have been my grandfather who was enroute to take part in the invasion of Japan.
Nice bomb that. Thank you linesmen, thank you ball boys.
Alfonso
19 Oct 12 at 2:52 pm
This might be deserving of a post of its own, follow the link for the full article, but its a list od Obamas failed “green” investments.
The complete list of faltering or bankrupt green-energy companies:1.Evergreen Solar ($24 million)*
2.SpectraWatt ($500,000)*
3.Solyndra ($535 million)*
4.Beacon Power ($69 million)*
5.AES’s subsidiary Eastern Energy ($17.1 million)
6.Nevada Geothermal ($98.5 million)
7.SunPower ($1.5 billion)
8.First Solar ($1.46 billion)
9.Babcock and Brown ($178 million)
10.EnerDel’s subsidiary Ener1 ($118.5 million)*
11.Amonix ($5.9 million)
12.National Renewable Energy Lab ($200 million)
13.Fisker Automotive ($528 million)
14.Abound Solar ($374 million)*
15.A123 Systems ($279 million)*
16.Willard and Kelsey Solar Group ($6 million)
17.Johnson Controls ($299 million)
18.Schneider Electric ($86 million)
19.Brightsource ($1.6 billion)
20.ECOtality ($126.2 million)
21.Raser Technologies ($33 million)*
22.Energy Conversion Devices ($13.3 million)*
23.Mountain Plaza, Inc. ($2 million)*
24.Olsen’s Crop Service and Olsen’s Mills Acquisition Company ($10 million)*
25.Range Fuels ($80 million)*
26.Thompson River Power ($6.4 million)*
27.Stirling Energy Systems ($7 million)*
28.LSP Energy ($2.1 billion)*
29.UniSolar ($100 million)*
30.Azure Dynamics ($120 million)*
31.GreenVolts ($500,000)
32.Vestas ($50 million)
33.LG Chem’s subsidiary Compact Power ($150 million)
34.Nordic Windpower ($16 million)*
35.Navistar ($10 million)
36.Satcon ($3 million)*
*Denotes companies that have filed for bankruptcy.
thefrollickingmole
19 Oct 12 at 3:35 pm
To be fair he used Stewarts own words back.
But to be blunt that was even moronic than saying it yourself without the verbal prompt. At least you have a chance to parse whether the language is appropriate in answer.
And this is the guy that is “the smartest President ever” and “the greatest orator ever”. Every time he opens his mouth freelance style shit leaks out.
But, the one thing that still gets me, and yes this is howling at the moon, imagine if Bush had said something similar.
The US msm would be eating the carcass, our ABC would explode ……. the list goes on. Pisses me off the proportionality of responses.
Mark
19 Oct 12 at 4:21 pm
On faltering green-energy companies.
The problem is not government picking winners and losers. By definition, putting fiat funding into an activity that is not supported by a market is picking losers.
Having started out with their sugar hit of government handout (via quotas, grants, direct investment, tax breaks, whatever) these businesses are obliged at some point to confront the direct, or indirect effects of competition from energy sent out at a small fraction of the price of green electrons. At which point they join the list of those that can’t.
Any business not on the list is waiting to join.
Dr Faustus
19 Oct 12 at 4:32 pm
From now on can Kero Boy, Hamster, Hammygar, Gareth etc. etc. be known simply as Lemmiwinks?
I’ll repeat
LEMMIWINKS
harrys on the boat
19 Oct 12 at 4:37 pm
Just as bad is that Obama waffled when questioned about Rice banging on about the video in the days after the event.
An objective reporter would have nailed him but Stewart is not that guy.
jupes
19 Oct 12 at 5:59 pm
For the
Luvvies
Samuel J
19 Oct 12 at 6:31 pm
Being sodomized and murdered by crazed Islamists is indeed ‘not optimal’, but he could have had the decency to say something like “not optimal is an understatement, it’s deeply distressing and I’ll always wonder what I might have done better.” Something, ANYTHING to indicate that he felt just the slightest shred of responsibility or remorse.
Right now it’s “this is harshing my buzz, man – how am I going to get re-elected with all this shit going on?”
perturbed
19 Oct 12 at 7:35 pm
OUCH: ‘My son is not very optimal – he is very dead’: Mother of diplomat killed in Benghazi attack slams Obama’s comment on raid.
(via Insty)
sdog
20 Oct 12 at 5:27 am
He was going for dry understatement. It didn’t work.
dd
20 Oct 12 at 9:13 am