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Press Secretary Explains President’s “Apparent” Special Olympics Gaffe
A Semi-News/Semi-Satire from AzConservative ^ | 21 March 2009 | John Semmens

Posted on 03/22/2009 11:25:07 AM PDT by John Semmens

In his history-making appearance on the Tonight Show, President Barack Obama stunned the nation with his offhand crack “I bowl like one of those retards in the Special Olympics.”

During last Fall’s presidential race, Obama inspired titters by scoring a 37 in a bowling match in Pennsylvania. He says, though, that he’s been practicing in the White House alley and has recently scored as high as 129 in a single game.

Press Secretary Robert Gibbs asked that Americans “show some class by not mocking the President’s lack of skills or his choice of words in describing them. The President has had to overcome some serious handicaps and adversities to rise as high as he has in the world. No Special Olympian has achieved as much as he has.”

Gibbs said that the challenge to a “bowl-off” that Obama has received from the cognitively impaired Kolan McConiughey “vindicates the President’s humility about his bowling abilities. That a Special Olympian like Mr. McConiughey would offer to bowl with the President validates the President’s perception of where he stands vis à vis the competition.”

McConiughey, is said to have an IQ of around 50 and a bowling average of 212 a game.

(Excerpt) Read more at azconservative.org ...


TOPICS: Humor; Politics; Sports; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: bowling; class; iq; satire; wasteoftime

1 posted on 03/22/2009 11:25:07 AM PDT by John Semmens
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To: John Semmens
No Special Olympian has achieved as much as he has.

Might be a failure as a bowler, but name one Special Olympian that commands an army as big as his.

2 posted on 03/22/2009 11:28:36 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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“He says, though, that he’s been practicing in the White House alley and has recently scored as high as 129 in a single game.”

between the parties, travel, youtube videos and now bowling I’m wondering if he ever actually works.


3 posted on 03/22/2009 11:28:56 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: John Semmens

“President Barack Obama stunned the nation with his offhand crack “I bowl like one of those retards in the Special Olympics.” “

What if: “President George Bush stunned the nation with his offhand crack “I bowl like one of those retards in the Special Olympics.” ?

The howling would never end. It’s incredible what this Kenyan-born, illegal alien is getting away with.


4 posted on 03/22/2009 11:29:21 AM PDT by laweeks
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To: John Semmens

Not Ok to mock the POS Precedent but Ok to mock the Special Olympic kids.....

Friggin Presstitute loser!


5 posted on 03/22/2009 11:30:39 AM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: John Semmens

You got me again!


6 posted on 03/22/2009 11:33:45 AM PDT by GoLightly
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To: John Semmens

“Press Secretary Robert Gibbs asked that Americans “show some class by not mocking the President’s lack of skills or his choice of words . . .”

Yes, we’ll show the same level of sensitivity that the press, television liberals, etc., displayed for Bush.


7 posted on 03/22/2009 11:34:09 AM PDT by Bertha Fanation
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To: John Semmens; All

I thought Obama doesn’t have the first idea about people with disbilities if he equates them with poor performance.

Conversely - once a disabled person has spent enough time doing rote learning and repetitive work (which would bore a normal IQ into quitting), many do perfect performance without fail on the job and at many sports activities.

Some sports such as bowling are ideally suited to the disabled with good physical abilities ie: those with Down Syndrome.

Intellectually ignorant is a label I would affix on Obama - for wasting what ‘talents’ he claims to have.


8 posted on 03/22/2009 11:34:54 AM PDT by imintrouble
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To: John Semmens

Obama’s comment ON TV is breath-takingly crass and low-life (’retards’???), but even it is nothing to Gibbs’ APOLOGIES for the Head Commie. We are supposed to excuse him because he came from nothing? Punahou School being pretty low on WHAT totem pole? This imposter is definitely an Affirmative Action jokamo.


9 posted on 03/22/2009 11:34:58 AM PDT by bboop (obama, little o, not a Real God)
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To: driftdiver
>>>between the parties, travel, youtube videos and now bowling I’m wondering if he ever actually works.<<<

You left out working on NCAA tournament brackets.

10 posted on 03/22/2009 11:35:48 AM PDT by HardStarboard ("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule - Mencken knew Obama)
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To: Squantos

Check the source...its satire


11 posted on 03/22/2009 11:36:00 AM PDT by boxerblues (Party like its 1773)
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To: boxerblues

Understand....still pisses me off........:o)

Thanks for the info !

stay safe !


12 posted on 03/22/2009 11:38:24 AM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: John Semmens

Why do you have to “explain” it, Oprah-ma? We know EXACTLY what you meant.

Seems to me that Oprah-ma is giving lefties ammo to defend him.


13 posted on 03/22/2009 11:38:27 AM PDT by prismsinc (A.K.A. "The Terminator"!)
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To: Squantos

And then he has his Press Secretary make excuses for him and ask US not to MOCK him? We will mock him long and hard for every idiotic thing he does. He is the Great Imposter, the man behind the curtain, and an empty suit all rolled into one. He can leave with his tail tucked between his legs, ANY TIME.


14 posted on 03/22/2009 11:39:14 AM PDT by bboop (obama, little o, not a Real God)
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To: bboop

Honey - this posting IS A JOKE!!! Tag - you’re it...


15 posted on 03/22/2009 11:39:25 AM PDT by matginzac
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To: John Semmens
With all respect to Special Olympians and spastics, Obama’s policies and programs are more spastic than his bowling game....and will bring infinitely more crippling damage to the economy.
17 posted on 03/22/2009 11:39:31 AM PDT by HardStarboard ("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule - Mencken knew Obama)
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To: bboop
"(’retards’???)

No. That's just the author's sense of (humor???).

18 posted on 03/22/2009 11:40:13 AM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde (America: Home of the Free Because of the Brave)
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To: John Semmens

Gibbs is setting the bar for Obama limbo low.


19 posted on 03/22/2009 11:40:14 AM PDT by AU72
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The only way that Obie can redeem himself is to have a Bowl Off with his challenger. Obie spending his time would be something I could respect. Anything else is just Crap like everything else that Ahole does.


20 posted on 03/22/2009 11:41:37 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: John Semmens

Gibbs can spin faster than: _______________________ (fill in the blank)


21 posted on 03/22/2009 11:43:50 AM PDT by SkyDancer ('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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Well, this is just....incred uh shameful...ah..disgust...er...heh heh.


22 posted on 03/22/2009 11:44:16 AM PDT by afnamvet
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To: bboop

“Obama’s comment ON TV is breath-takingly crass and low-life (’retards’???), but even it is nothing to Gibbs’ APOLOGIES for the Head Commie.”

I was called a “retard” on this board yesterday by a FReeper and I responded not well, I am afraid, but got into a juvenile round of name calling. If there is a more despicable thing to do than to use this in any manner, I don’t know what it is...I have two grandsons who have been challenged and the worry, the fear and the heartache it has caused my sons (not to mention the extra-ordinary expenses for care and special treatment) and throughout my family can not be described easily...I wish every “low-life” who uses this phrase to be visited by it...then come and talk to me about whether or not it is painful to hear...

Obama is clearly in the moronic “lowlife” company you describe...


23 posted on 03/22/2009 11:44:44 AM PDT by jessduntno ( www.SenateConservatives.com)
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To: John Semmens

Advice to TOTUS and his spokes-thing Peter Griffin; When you are in a hole over your head - guit digging.


24 posted on 03/22/2009 11:48:57 AM PDT by Natural Law
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To: SkyDancer

...poop going down the toidie...


25 posted on 03/22/2009 11:52:26 AM PDT by matginzac
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To: John Semmens

Did he really say “retard”?


26 posted on 03/22/2009 11:57:12 AM PDT by GoCards
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“I bowl like one of those retards in the Special Olympics.”

I'm usually not much on PC but that was one awful remark he made which reflects the state of his heart. First of all most in special olympics are not "retards" but rather physically handicapped. For him to group phtsically handicapped and mentally retarded people in one category is just assinine. Hard to believe a President made such a stupid remark. I think this one remark will cost him 10 points.

27 posted on 03/22/2009 12:03:19 PM PDT by plain talk
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It just gets more like a Twilight Zone episode with each passing day. “Baghdad Bob” Gibbs is now asking that Americans show some class...not the friggin imbecile president, but US for Gods sake! Incredible. Yet it is somehow expected from this sorry excuse for an administration.


28 posted on 03/22/2009 12:08:05 PM PDT by Oldpuppymax (AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
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To: matginzac

I know that. I suspect I am the one those satirists write for, because I ALWAYS fall for it.

Unfortunately, it is right in character for little o.


29 posted on 03/22/2009 12:25:05 PM PDT by bboop (obama, little o, not a Real God)
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To: Natural Law

As the de-facto head of the GOP, and mother of a down syndrome child, Gov. Sarah Palin needs to tear Barack Obama a new egress (or entrance if we can believe the stuff said by Keyes during the senate campaign) for his derriere..


30 posted on 03/22/2009 12:45:53 PM PDT by Schwaeky (The Republic--Shall be reorganized into the first American EMPIRE, for a safe and secure Society!)
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To: laweeks

Did he really say “retard”?


31 posted on 03/22/2009 12:46:57 PM PDT by freeagle
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To: freeagle

Did he really say “retard”?

A Semi-News/Semi-Satire from AzConservative ^ | 21 March 2009 | John Semmens


32 posted on 03/22/2009 12:49:20 PM PDT by jessduntno ( www.SenateConservatives.com)
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To: bboop

No big deal - as you say, it’s definitely within the realm of possibility - unfortunately for our country! Cheers!


33 posted on 03/23/2009 6:33:30 AM PDT by matginzac
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