Althouse: "I don't think President Obama is here tonight... But I'm sure he's listening in."

June 24, 2013

"I don't think President Obama is here tonight... But I'm sure he's listening in."

Said Mick Jagger.

20 comments:

Saint Croix said...: Spying on me is not cool, dad.

I'm going to defriend you on facebook.; 6/24/13, 9:55 PM
SteveR said...: A joke repeated in various forms about a million times in the last few weeks.; 6/24/13, 10:27 PM
Tim said...: He who could not be made fun of at all in the '08 election run up is now openly mocked, even by those who wholeheartedly suspended disbelief to buy into the bullshit.

I hope they enjoy their buyer's remorse.

They've earned every bit of it.

It isn't like it wasn't entirely predictable the least qualified man ever nominated and then elected president would turn out to be a huge disappointment.

But that's what mass stupidity + the Democrat base of low information voters gets you: epic fail.; 6/24/13, 10:32 PM
Anonymous said...: Obama has lost most of his credibility among Europeans.

They don't dislike him, but they don't respect him as a political force.; 6/24/13, 10:38 PM
Unknown said...: Respect has to be earned.; 6/24/13, 10:49 PM
Chip S. said...: I'm sure it was just a reference to the size of his ears.; 6/24/13, 11:04 PM
John E. said...: It was in the Verizon Center in DC, which adds a certain piquancy.; 6/24/13, 11:41 PM
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n.n said...: Obama the voyeur.; 6/24/13, 11:56 PM
avwh said...: Twitter reports say the crowd booed when Obama's name was mentioned....in DC.

What a comedown in less than 5 years. And totally deserved.; 6/25/13, 12:49 AM
AlanKH said...: Obama can hear him knockin'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fa4HUiFJ6c; 6/25/13, 1:55 AM
Mogget said...: I wonder how Mr. Obama's foreign policy will change in response to the clear contempt shown him by other world leaders. This assumes, of course, that he knows enough to know he's been dissed, and that there's someone around who has enough creativity to craft a response.; 6/25/13, 3:51 AM
stlcdr said...: The problem is with all these scandals - and the serious repercussions - is that they have become one big [funny, ha, ha] joke.

While, yes, they are funny, it does serve to desensitize us, the malformed voter, to the seriousness of the issues. Basically, it switches around: trying to make 'serious' out of a joke.; 6/25/13, 5:57 AM
edutcher said...: Oooohhh, stuff like this means the low info voters are paying attention.; 6/25/13, 5:59 AM
J said...: Pres Jugears is taking on new meaning when the ancient Fatlips' and Ms Beestung are commenting on his aural vacuuming superpower.Meanwhile Vlad the Klepto won't give the Superspy owner of the Brahmins back his "precious".And Barry can't make him.Nor can he make him give back the oh so obvious long term ex Soviet sleeper agent.But it might have got Jug reelected so he can ogle B girls booty.So all is right in the world.And those little people can just keep up that dying stuff.I mean what does it matter if one of the new ambassador to the UKs friends is mowing them down with cluster bomb and superpesticide.She looked great in that chic suit

sarc in case it wasnt obvious enough..; 6/25/13, 6:03 AM
John said...: I was at the show last night. It was fantastic by the way, better than the one I saw in December at the Barclay's center. And that one was pretty good.

Mick Jagger is one of the most savvy marketers and readers of popular opinion the world has ever known. When the Beatles were the date every mother wanted for their daughter, Jagger (regardless of Andrew Loog Oldham claims) and the Stones became the guys no mother wanted their daughter to date. When the protests broke out in 1968, Jagger was there with the ever vague Street Fighting Man (which was just vague enough to please everyone as opposed to Lennon's Revolution which was a straight up F You to the new left). When Disco got big, Jagger was there with Miss You and so forth.

In short, if Mick Jagger thinks it is a good idea to make fun of you at a concert, things are definitely not going your way in popular culture.; 6/25/13, 9:42 AM
Cosmic Conservative said...: I wouldn't read too much into Jagger's comment. It's noteworthy that a pop culture figure has decided it's OK to mock Obama, but it became OK to mock Obama ten minutes after the last election was fraudulently "won." There's really not much need for the low-information voters to continue to worship Obama, it's time for them to jump on the new Hillary bandwagon.

Sure we can all snark about how Obama's incmopetence, corruption and thuggery is finally becoming clear to the idiots who elected him, but so what? The damage has been done. It really doesn't matter now.

Useful idiots were useful when it counted.; 6/25/13, 11:32 AM
jr565 said...: Do you think the Stones are going to make a "Sweet neo con" song about Obama?; 6/25/13, 12:00 PM
Amartel said...: Ha! Booed for his prying lying ways. People finally waking up to this phony spokesmodel just in time to be gulled by the next one.

Mick Jagger has run a hugely successful international business enterprise for fifty years. I don't feel the need to agree with, or even know, every opinion an artist(e) may have. I do appreciate an interesting personality, and a life fully lived. The Stones are in their 70s and still putting on a high quality show. I saw the band in Oakland and they rocked (even and despite Oracle Arena SUX). And Doom & Gloom is a good song. Apt. Meanwhile, dull Barry never did anything other than get passed up the progressive food chain for looking presentable and non-threatening whilst reading a script off a teleprompter. He never even tried a case or argued an appeal as a lawyer. One year in the private sector and he ran for the government-ensured security and sanctity of public "service" and "Community" organizing. Feh. It's no contest.; 6/25/13, 5:00 PM
valjean said...: Oooh, daring Mick! How about returning to your 1981 ("Some Girls") vibe, e.g., on hearing some folks were getting the vapors over the lyric in the album title track "black girls just want to get f*cked all night, just don't have that much jam ..."

"If you can't take a joke, that's too f*cking bad."

Ah, those were the days. There would be lawsuits now, of course.; 6/25/13, 9:29 PM