President Obama’s Selfie-Stick Video Is Made Of Win, So Of Course Conservatives Are Pissed
On Thursday morning, BuzzFeed released a video that featured President Obama promoting the February 15 Affordable Care Act enrollment deadline in self-deprecating vignettes that featured, among other things, the use of the zeitgeist-tapping selfie stick. It’s that little detail that’s getting the most attention, and making the video a smash viral sensation, but for my money, this is the most epically winning part of the clip, which I will be using frequently from now on:
The full video is more cutesy than anything else, but by harnessing BuzzFeed‘s cultural wind in its sails and throwing in those buzzy cultural touchstones, President Obama has created what might be the most effective PSA in history. That is, after all, what this clip is: a reminder to Americans that they’ve only got a few days left to enroll in health insurance to avoid tax penalties, and it will certainly do that job.
Conservatives, to varying degrees, are losing their shit over the video, alternately not getting the joke and being outraged that Obama would do anything so frivolous while there are problems in the world. William Kristol. for example, retweeted this characteristic sentiment…READ MORE
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By: Tommy Christopher
Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
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arc99 February 12th, 2015 at 15:45
Right wingers have you no sense of integrity? Does the word hypocrite mean anything to you folks other than as a characterization to which you aspire?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdDp_jlgC9M
Bush cracking jokes at the annual dinner of the Radio and Television Correspondents: At a black-tie dinner for journalists, Mr Bush narrated a slide show poking fun at himself and other members of his administration. One pictured Mr Bush looking under a piece of furniture in the Oval Office, at which the president remarked: “Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be here somewhere.” After another one, showing him scouring the corner of a room, Mr Bush said: “No, no weapons over there,” he said. And as a third picture, this time showing him leaning over, appeared on the screen the president was heard to say: “Maybe under here?”
StoneyCurtisll February 12th, 2015 at 17:52
I remember that…
it wasn’t at all funny for those families who kids died in the war…(on both sides)
arc99 February 12th, 2015 at 16:45
Right wingers have you no sense of integrity? Does the word hypocrite mean anything to you folks other than as a characterization to which you aspire?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdDp_jlgC9M
Bush cracking jokes at the annual dinner of the Radio and Television Correspondents: At a black-tie dinner for journalists, Mr Bush narrated a slide show poking fun at himself and other members of his administration. One pictured Mr Bush looking under a piece of furniture in the Oval Office, at which the president remarked: “Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be here somewhere.” After another one, showing him scouring the corner of a room, Mr Bush said: “No, no weapons over there,” he said. And as a third picture, this time showing him leaning over, appeared on the screen the president was heard to say: “Maybe under here?”
StoneyCurtisll February 12th, 2015 at 18:52
I remember that…
it wasn’t at all funny for those families who kids died in the war…(on both sides)
StoneyCurtisll February 12th, 2015 at 17:51
Damn Obama made to cookie too big to dip in the glass of milk~!
Whats next?
StoneyCurtisll February 12th, 2015 at 18:51
Damn Obama made to cookie too big to dip in the glass of milk~!
Whats next?
Mike February 12th, 2015 at 19:46
Obama is a pretty cool president…
Mike February 12th, 2015 at 20:46
Obama is a pretty cool president…
rg9rts February 13th, 2015 at 01:42
Well at least we have a sure fire way to get a stool sample from the wingnuts
fahvel February 13th, 2015 at 03:33
has there ever been anything else?
rg9rts February 13th, 2015 at 02:42
Well at least we have a sure fire way to get a stool sample from the wingnuts
fahvel February 13th, 2015 at 04:33
has there ever been anything else?
Shades February 13th, 2015 at 07:57
How dare he make a funny video. Bush would NEVER have made one about his signature “WMDs”….. oh wait.
allison1050 February 13th, 2015 at 09:01
Bush was funny without having made a video. Remember Mission Accomplished..
craig7120 February 13th, 2015 at 17:26
Agreed, W made me cringe when he would make impromptu statements. I didn’t hate him for it, more like an embarrassing relative speaking to the media.
Shades February 13th, 2015 at 08:57
How dare he make a funny video. Bush would NEVER have made one about his signature “WMDs”….. oh wait.
allison1050 February 13th, 2015 at 10:01
Bush was funny without having made a video. Remember Mission Accomplished..
craig7120 February 13th, 2015 at 18:26
Agreed, W made me cringe when he would make impromptu statements. I didn’t hate him for it, more like an embarrassing relative speaking to the media.
craig7120 February 13th, 2015 at 17:20
I will go on record and say…. I don’t think its proper for our King to make funny videos, that being said, anytime our King can tick off the enemy of the state (gop) I will let it slide.
craig7120 February 13th, 2015 at 18:20
I will go on record and say…. I don’t think its proper for our King to make funny videos, that being said, anytime our King can tick off the enemy of the state (gop) I will let it slide.