Posted on 12/19/2013 7:02:52 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The part of this week's conservative straw-man is being played, appropriately enough, by a stock photo. "Pajama boy," as the young bespectacled man the Obama administration chose for its latest health care PSA has come to be known, has swiftly become a figure of delighted outrage on the right. He has been the subject of no fewer than three articles in the National Review, plus an essay in Politico Magazine by the National Review's Rich Lowry. Lowry lays out the conservative perception of the stock-photo model he terms an "insufferable-man-child":
Pajama Boy is about as threatening as Michael Cera and so nerdy he could guest-host on an unwatched MSNBC show. He is probably reading The Bell Jar and looking forward to a hearty Christmas meal of stuffed tofurkey. If he has anything to say about it, Obamacare enrollments will spike in the next few weeks in Williamsburg and Ann Arbor.
Perhaps the goal of OFA was to create a readily mockable image to draw attention to its message, in which case Pajama Boy was a brilliantly successful troll. The right immediately Photoshopped him into the Mandela funeral selfie and emblazoned his photo with derisive lines like, “Hey girl, I live with my parents,” and, “How did you know I went to Oberlin?”
Lowry goes on to connect what he characterizes as an immature version of masculinity with a liberal's overreliance on a paternalistic government. "Pajama Boy’s mom probably still tucks him in at night, and when she isn’t there for him, Obamacare will be," he writes. Millennials and Democrats just love their mommies too much! But while this is a ritual mockery that's ostensibly about Obamacare, what it really reveals is a long-boiling, deep-seated-fear on the right of the moment when a more beta-appearing-man becomes the mainstream notion of masculinity....
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I thought he was a young Johnny Galecki when I first started seeing pics of him.
I am more frightened of dust bunnies than that twig.
Yea, we’re scared of a panty waist homosexual living in his mom’s basement.
You should see the side-by-side of Rachel Maddow and this snarky pajama boy freak.
Progressives make my skin crawl.
Wasn’t he a regular on Rosanne?
Slap your PP...
A LOT of them are claiming that...
Heeee’s a lumberjack and heee’s ok, he works all night and he sleeps all dayyyyy.....
Hum, the feminine boy in footy pajamas? i mean, really? a 30 year old man trying to act like a 12 year old boy? Is he a child molester? I mean really?
You aren’t gonna believe this...
I’m shaking .
LOL
There are no women waiting line to be seen with this Dwerp
That’s who I thought it was at first. Hubby and I were shocked at the resemblance.
Pinot Grigio burns when spewed out the nose! So glad I married a manly man, and so glad our daughters will grow up with a manly dad!
I’d worry if he was left alone with small dogs. It wouldn’t be a pretty sight.
He’s every young adults role model.
The Obama experts know young people better than they do themselves.,
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