December 20, 2024

"When the going got rough, I tried to imagine that I was one of those big inflatable toys of the cartoon figures Baby Huey or Casper the Friendly Ghost."

"You could knock them down and they always bounced right back up."

Wrote Bill Clinton, quoted in "In ‘Citizen,’ Bill Clinton gives his side of the story/The former president’s memoir aims to set the record straight, with varying results" (WaPo). 

I was inspired to work on an illustration (with Grok):

53 comments:

rehajm said...

Cannot see. Cannot unsee…

…unless his memoir contains the quote Hell yah I boinked her… it’s mere marketing…

gilbar said...

does he talk Much? about his rapes? or his wife's murders?

BUMBLE BEE said...

His fly is open! That's Slick Willie for ya!

narciso said...

His lips are moving see peter schweitzer

Leland said...

He looks like Otto Pilot, who also got BJs on the job.

Peachy said...

oooo I'm so excited.... another Clinton Book!

*not

MadisonMan said...

LOL. Yeah. Distinctly uninterested is my view on this book. Can the Clintons just go away?

Tom T. said...

Those toys were usually clowns, not cartoon characters. I know this because I spent a lot of time punching the clown when I was a boy.

narciso said...

A jonathan alter review, thats a lump of coal in itself

Mr. T. said...

Depends on the meaning of the word' "his."

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

"...and they always bounced right back up"

Bill is now calling his manhood "they"?

Lazarus said...

Bill should probably stay away from the bobbing up and down imagery for another 20 years.

CJinPA said...

You have to make the doll bottom-heavy. Yours will not bounce back up. Meaning, Clinton would have dropped out in the 1992 primary when Gennifer Flowers made herself known.

Kate said...

No, no. Those toys are weighted at the bottom. That's how they bounce back up. Grok drew a parade balloon.

Whiskeybum said...

Maybe Grok secretly inserted lead in the feet (it’s purdy smart)

CJinPA said...

Exactly. This Clinton would have lost the NH primary and dropped out.

n.n said...

The meeces are in pieces, and now the bill is due.

RideSpaceMountain said...

William's willie is his own, but Hillary owns his balls.

GatorNavy said...

The media is polishing two enormous turds on the same day, Mittens and the rapist. All of the NYT and Post should labeled fiction.

Maynard said...

Is there anyone more tiresome than Bill Clinton?

OK. There'a Hillary. There's the Obamas. There's ...

MadisonMan said...

I like to think that Hillary actually had one of these punching dolls. And slugged it. Repeatedly.

Ann Althouse said...

"No, no. Those toys are weighted at the bottom. That's how they bounce back up. Grok drew a parade balloon."

That was the best I could get Grok to do. I told it over and over about the bounce-back and the weighted bottom and uploaded a photo of the toy twice. Things I said:

"Make an illustration of Bill Clinton as a Weeble Wobble — and "punching clown" toy"

"Make an illustration of Bill Clinton as one of those inflatable toys that are designed to pop back up after they are punched"

"
Show the full height of the Bill Clinton character as a bop bag toy. It should have Clinton's head, then a full suited body but in the shape of the original "bop bag" toy. The bottom of the toy should be rounded, because that was what made the toy pop back up when the child punched it"

"Let me help you refine that. Keep the shape of the original toy. Don't have arms sticking out and don't make it round and fat. It should be upright and relatively tall in relation to height, but have a rounded bottom instead of feet. The body of the toy should wear a suit, but the suit should look painted on. The head should also look like a painted on cartoon, not a realistic face"

"No, it's not a "bobble head." It's a "bop bag" as I showed you above. And it should have the image of the face and body as a painted on caricature, not realistic. Again, the toy looks like this:"

"The shape should be exactly the same as on the clown bop bag I showed you and the head should not look realistic at all. The face should be done with outlines of features, the way a cartoonist draws"

"The fourth one is best, but I don't want him turned into a clown. I want a caricature of Clinton's face that looks like a very simple cartoon and the body should have a very plain suit that looks painted on. No arms"

"It should be realistic in that it looks like a real toy, a really punching bag doll, but it should be cartoonish in what is painted onto the toy. The toy is an inflatable plastic thing, and it's real. It's not a drawing. But the features of Bill Clinton are painted onto the plastic"

The one I ended up using was just the closest I got. I don't know why Grok was being so obtuse

Narr said...

AI: dumb as a stump.

Captain BillieBob said...

Another book. Bank account must be getting low. Opportunities for running the grift declining. Time to try and put one over on the rubes again.

Temujin said...

A punchable, bounce-back-up Bill Clinton doll could be the Christmas gift we never realized we needed.

rehajm said...

Yes, The only way I'm ready to be worried about AI being a threat to humanity Elon is if humans do something stupid then blame it on AI...

Jupiter said...

For Democrat politicians, the money is in the advance.

mikee said...

A final cris de coeur from Slick Willie. He may feel his end approaching, and want to make one last attempt to leave behind some legacy other than lewd sexually abusive behavior at every opportunty his entire life, and giving China missile technology. Does he discuss either of those lifetime achievements in any truthful manner, or at all?

Narayanan said...

where on the doll??

Wilbur said...

"You could knock them down and they always bounced right back up."
And if they don't, you tell them they better put some ice on that.

Jersey Fled said...

Strange how these Clinton books usually gross about 1/3 what Bill and Hillary get paid in advances, yet the publishers keep publishing them.

Paul said...

I DID NOT HAVE SEX WITH THAT WOMAN... damn liar... and here he is doing his book shtick... Dollar Bill Clinton can go sit back with 'Hack hack... cough cough' Hillary and maybe she will give him a hand job...

Kate said...

You were thorough!

Grok's inability to process a bop clown is strangely profound. I feel like we'll look back on this in 5 years and go, "Aha! We should've seen this coming."

Readering said...

Anyone nostalgic for last balanced budget? Anyone remember why interns were being given access the Oval Office back then?

AMDG said...

If you are a tRrump Swab please sit out discussions of his personal behavior. Your support of Trump is a clear statement that character is irrelevant.

Kevin said...

The one I ended up using was just the closest I got.

I see you gave up in frustration before you could add Monica as the inflation mechanism.

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

Maybe Grok sees the word “punch” and becomes squeamish, or something.

gspencer said...

"You could knock them down and they always bounced right back up."

Weebles wobble but won't fall down,

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/37/bf/aa/37bfaaf912b8214143ee1b2d1d73120c.jpg

From the Great 1970s,

Narr said...

Close, but no cigar?

Steven Wilson said...

I’ve marveled that no one made a Kamala bobble head.

Rusty said...

You voted for Biden and Obama, dumbass.

Skeptical Voter said...

Slick Willie was always full of hot air.

n.n said...

Caught between Grok and a hard place. It wasn't a black Grok with a critical bias? Diversity and performative intelligence.

Peachy said...

Bill makes me in the mood..... for some DOR Brothers.

Iman said...

Feck him and his el Camino with teh astroturf bed.

Jim at said...

If you are a tRrump Swab...

Would you please grow up?

Readering said...

Um...Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush times 2,
Trump. Vote for any of those guys my follower here?

Rabel said...

Oh, Grok knew what you wanted but it was playing you. Every time you'd throw a prompt at it it would bounce right back at you with a frustratingly wrong answer.

Reminds me of Feder.

Aggie said...

Slick Willie is still just full of hot air - but at least he admits it.

Former Illinois resident said...

Give it a rest Bill, Jeffrey Sachs says you sucked as president.

Danno said...

AI is not what the experts say it is. It really should be called synthetic stupidity.

Narr said...

Automated Idiocy.

catter said...

I've not seen another politician who could match Debbie Wasserman Schultz' ability to stay on message when pressed by uncooperative reporters. She always reminds me of those self-righting toys.