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Topic: Obama Urged to Resign
Over Beyoncé Scandal |
Obama Urged to Resign
Over Beyoncé Scandal
New Yorker Magazine, by Andy Borowitz
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Posted By:NorthernDog, 1/23/2013 6:56:46 PM
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| WASHINGTON – A rising chorus of congressional Republicans are calling on President Obama to acknowledge that the pop singer Beyoncé lip-synched during his inaugural festivities on Monday and resign from office, effective immediately. “By lip-synching the national anthem, Beyoncé has cast a dark cloud over the President’s second term,” said Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky). “The only way President Obama can remove that cloud is by resigning from office at once.” While many in the media have blamed Beyoncé for the lip-synching controversy, Mr. Paul said, “We must remember that this happened on President Obama’s watch.”
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Comments:
Fake singing for a fake president.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Italiano, 1/23/2013 7:04:24 PM (No. 9135202)
Satire with a Democrat president. With a Republican, it wouldn´t be. We saw worse and more ludicrous accusations thrown at W.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
rabbit, 1/23/2013 7:09:33 PM (No. 9135208)
The satire works because the GOP is been busy making every little thing into a ´scandal´. Rather than saving their ammunition for the things that are worth fighting for.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Teleologicus, 1/23/2013 7:12:33 PM (No. 9135211)
The whole problem with Obama and the Leftists, including the partisan news media, is determining what is true and what is false. Madame Secretary has simplified this for us by her testimony before the Senate today: what difference, at this point, does it make whether anything the administration says is true or false?
Truth means nothing to Leftists. Ideology is everything. If truth and ideology clash, so much the worse for truth. Ideology is truth.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Italiano, 1/23/2013 7:15:40 PM (No. 9135216)
Satire like this, as with The Force, is particularly effective (i.e., "works") with the weak-minded.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
horacer, 1/23/2013 7:27:12 PM (No. 9135228)
#2 is correct. If Obama came out said the sun was bright there´d be hysterics from some on the right.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
JediJerry, 1/23/2013 7:45:03 PM (No. 9135250)
Indeed O.P.... goes with the fake columns and fake vegetable garden, and the fake golf scores. The Art of Deception, hope and change style.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
jl80863, 1/23/2013 7:54:16 PM (No. 9135259)
Don´t forget the royal bees so obama can make his brew.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
anonymous, 1/23/2013 8:05:20 PM (No. 9135272)
Beyonce is in a long line of singers who hide their lack of talent behind AutoTune and pre-recorded tracks. As such, she is a perfect metaphor for Barack Obama and his wife.
Keep in mind that Beyonce has a track record of claiming to be Christian while wearing revealing clothing, of accepting money from the Gaddafi family as a fee for a private performance, and of being a spokeswoman for Pepsi, the type of soft drink to which Michelle Obama has been vehemently opposed.
In essence, liberals are not what they appear to be, they will change their shape as required, and they will say whatever suits them in the moment.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Hotrod, 1/23/2013 8:13:33 PM (No. 9135280)
Beyoncé is just as phony as Obama. Who do they think they are fooling?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Mike PHX, 1/23/2013 8:16:07 PM (No. 9135283)
Borowitz is a lip-synching "satirist". I´ve seen funnier obituaries than any of his stuff.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Scribelus, 1/23/2013 8:17:54 PM (No. 9135284)
I´m wondering, now, why The Bolshevik himself didn´t croon (rap?) the Anthem. He could have replaced Francis Scott Key´s lyrics (so ancient) with his own poetic genius. That thing that he reads his speeches from wouldn´t have obtruded. His fans, the flying monkeys and the black Orcs, would have swooned on command. Maybe next time.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
fembot, 1/23/2013 8:23:52 PM (No. 9135295)
O has dragged this country through every kind of economic, moral, and constitutional mud, and these jokers get their knickers in a twist over a lip-synched song!? Well, it certainly epitomizes the detesticulation he and his media lapdogs have wrought on what was once a party with integrity. Geez Louise, is this the best we can expect from the representatives we elected to defend America from this man´s policies??
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Attila DiMedici, 1/23/2013 8:38:57 PM (No. 9135319)
#2 and #5 somehow seem to think this is original with Republicans and I have yet to see Republicans put as much "scandal" into as minor of things as the Dems did when W was President.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Antiquegolf, 1/23/2013 9:00:57 PM (No. 9135348)
Good 13. As for post 2, the GOP fought like mad over fast and furious. Was it "worth fighting for?" Was the smuggling by obama and holder of thousands of weapons into the hands of the most violent criminals in this hemisphere, who used the guns to murder at least one border agent and hundreds of mexicans "worth fighting for?" Was the coverup by obama, holder and the media, and eventual outrageous claim of executive privilege of F & F documents "worth fighting for?". Please tell me what is "worth fighting for?" I´m always enlightened by experts on everything.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
surgedr, 1/23/2013 9:03:54 PM (No. 9135351)
Am I supposed to care about any of this?! I´ve dropped out of the 24 hour news cycle and have no idea why this is supposed to be satire. It´s only satire if you are ridiculing people who care about these things, and since I don´t care about any of this than the satire is meaningless to me.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Anner40, 1/23/2013 10:03:54 PM (No. 9135443)
We are well on the road to being ghetto-ised...
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
a man over thirty, 1/23/2013 10:14:38 PM (No. 9135461)
I know The Onion. I read The Onion.
And you, New Yorker Magazine, are no Onion.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
LanieLou, 1/24/2013 1:50:03 AM (No. 9135716)
Beyonce´s husband writes lyrics about killing whitey & beating women. Lovely.
This cute article is part of the drip, drip, drip of creating hatred for anything conservative or GOP. They are doing a Sarah Palin on us... demonizing, mocking & condemnation of the entire concept of conservative thinking.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
MickTurn, 1/24/2013 10:47:37 AM (No. 9136325)
WOW, a "Dark Cloud"...isn´t that racist?
Hey Lib Press, you missed this one, big time!
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