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How The Right is Trying to Neutralize Obama's Hipness (Let The Barfing Begin!)
Daily Beast ^ | April 29, 2012 | Howard Kurz

Posted on 05/01/2012 4:31:19 AM PDT by lbryce

Edited on 05/01/2012 5:22:35 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Unabridged Title:Content Section Pouncing on Presidential Coolness: How The Right is Trying to Neutralize Obama's Hipness

The right has come up with a new line of attack against Barack Obama: He’s too cool.

You read that right.

Suddenly, it was an act of unpresidential affrontery for Obama to go on Jimmy Fallon’s show. Never mind that presidents and presidential candidates have been doing the late-night thing for two decades, back to Bubba’s sax-playing moment with Arsenio. Never mind that Mitt Romney recited a silly Top Ten list on Letterman and pretended to be reading Kim Kardashian’s tweets. Never mind that George W. Bush went on Oprah. Obama was a bad boy.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: obama; uncool
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Is this guy Kurz serious? He's upset that the Republicans want to neutralize Obama's "hipness"? Hey, Kurz. I've got a message for you;GROW UP!

What the hell is "hipness" anyway? I'm sure, those who are out of a job,those who've become financially destitute, desperate, whose lives, this country having been turned inside out, upside down, those hunkering down to await the disaster, catastrophe coming our way as a result of this man's policies, I'm sure "hipness", "being hip" is the only thing that's going to save the day.

1 posted on 05/01/2012 4:31:22 AM PDT by lbryce
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On second thought, hipness does count for something. On the day of his disastrous 57-state loss in the presidential election, shouting out, “Hip, Hip, Hooray!” will mean a whole hell of a lot to me.


2 posted on 05/01/2012 4:37:16 AM PDT by lbryce (OMG. What have we done to deserve the likes of the miscreant Zero?)
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and you can't swing a cat without finding President Obama on a comedy show,” said Fox contributor Dana Perino, Bush’s last White House press secretary.

I have always heard the expression as "You can't swing a dead cat but I suppose he didn't want to offend any cat lovers.

The expression, "Catch a tiger by the toe", has also been politically corrected from the racist version I heard as a kid.

3 posted on 05/01/2012 4:43:54 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (Romney vs. Obama? One of them has to lose, rejoice in that fact, whichever it is.)
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“The expression, “Catch a tiger by the toe”, has also been politically corrected from the racist version I heard as a kid. “
Not where I live.
Obozo is a limp wristed, infeminite, communist homosexual.
Now, how “hip” is he?


4 posted on 05/01/2012 4:56:20 AM PDT by Fireone (Liberalism is a disease. (did I mention FUBO?))
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RE :”So is hipness now a political liability?

It is when you are a failure like Obama is.

5 posted on 05/01/2012 5:07:19 AM PDT by sickoflibs (Romney is a liberal. Just watch him closely try to screw us.)
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Wasn’t Jesse Jackson the first one to suggest “neutralizing” him?


6 posted on 05/01/2012 5:12:37 AM PDT by bigbob
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“Now, how “hip” is he?”
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I don’t know, I’m still trying to find “infeminite” in the dictionary.


7 posted on 05/01/2012 5:14:12 AM PDT by RipSawyer
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ROTFLMAO! All the 'hipness' in that family went to Her Hipness (and most of that hid out back)...That beanpole didn't get any!
8 posted on 05/01/2012 5:14:50 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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It is when you are a failure like Obama is.

Obama isn't a "failure". He's doing a pretty damn good job destroying the country.

9 posted on 05/01/2012 5:20:18 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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Neutralizing him, do you mean like in the way he unknowingly spoke into an open microphone during an interview break on Fox News saying he wanted to cut Obama's nuts off?
10 posted on 05/01/2012 5:21:50 AM PDT by lbryce (OMG. What have we done to deserve the likes of the miscreant Zero?)
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Hipness??? If Obama din’t have Big Media in his hip pocket, he would go NO WHERE! Tell the truth about him and he loses everything. Metrosexual embarrassment.


11 posted on 05/01/2012 5:22:01 AM PDT by originalbuckeye
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ie, “Fundamental Transformation”


12 posted on 05/01/2012 5:22:06 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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*didn’t*


13 posted on 05/01/2012 5:22:26 AM PDT by originalbuckeye
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Obama is 'like' soo ku-ell...

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14 posted on 05/01/2012 5:26:11 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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Never mind that presidents and presidential candidates have been doing the late-night thing for two decades . . .

So, some sort of "historical precedent" gives it gravitas? It was lame when Clinton did it; it's lame now. The President should behave . . . wait for it . . . presidential.

If we continue on our current glide cycle, President Camacho is really not too far in the future.

15 posted on 05/01/2012 5:27:27 AM PDT by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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I guess I am just culturally illiterate because I resent the “Ghettoization” of the White House.


16 posted on 05/01/2012 5:29:33 AM PDT by csmusaret (Obama's new slogan: "Fo Mo Mo Fo.")
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To: ETL

Yeah, he’s cool all right. About as cool as a (gay) cucumber.


17 posted on 05/01/2012 5:31:48 AM PDT by lbryce (OMG. What have we done to deserve the likes of the miscreant Zero?)
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Howard Kurtz hasn’t know what’s hip since 1988.
Jimmy Fallon hasn’t been hip, ever.

Over the last two decades, it’s hard to believe the depths of failure that Newsweek has dove into on their own free will.


18 posted on 05/01/2012 5:33:12 AM PDT by JerseyHighlander
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.Comedy shows are a natural venue for a joke of a “president”


19 posted on 05/01/2012 5:35:43 AM PDT by Caipirabob (I say we take off and Newt the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure...)
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Wow.

Just, wow.

20 posted on 05/01/2012 5:37:48 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Admin Moderator refuses to let me hit it. -- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2875871/posts)
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