The wingnuts are having lots of fun kicking around an LA marketing company’s dumbass idea for an "Obama salute" (you form an O with both hands). I have no idea why these geniuses thought authoritarian gestures would become a big thing with liberals and progressives, but what the hell. The market will speak on this one, I’d bet.
So all the wingnut bloggers, notably the A-listers like Ole Perfesser and Malkin, are all over this major pressing and campaign-changing story like stink on shit. One can only imagine the scene if anyone actually affiliated with the Obama campaign were behind a dumb idea like this.
I’m sure, however, that this is just jealousy. So in the spirit of political sharing, we dirty fucking trekkies of the left have concocted a similar salute for John McCain:
You all should feel free to use it at your leisure.
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zed?
aw heck. i already got all my buddies trained to the terrrrrrrrst bumparoo.
reactions are fascinating. most common is a quick tic of worry in the eyes, quickly erased by a huge, devilish GRIN. Try it!
For the squeemish paranoid types, I simply point out it’s already been done on the view by all present, during Michelle’s visit. That’s a clincher.
So next time you see gray haired old biddies givin’ eachother a terrarist bump, please feel invited to grin and join in.
It’s really quite refreshing.
Caught that on Sadly No earlier.
It’s either the Sign of the Donut from Burton’s “Mars Attacks”! or the circumference of a certain Presidential candidate’s . . . .
I gotcher McCain salute right here.
the “L” would actually work better for Lieberman.
lolz,
Obama/Goatse `08!!!111
I think the salute should be accompanied with the following chant: Suck on this, we take pride in our ignorance.
-G
hey, if dumbya’s signal is 3, how come he only shows one hisownself?
I say let’s steal the winger-oh salute to point out wingers. The Oh, quickly morphing into a tipsy-fwd-pointing prayer tent pointing out the dastardly dumbell.
Good morning Dave and thanks for the post.
Flag pins, tire gagees and now this? Brilliant. Surely McMumbles will get a bump outta this.
Heh heh.
The “Obama Salute” may be a dumb-ass idea, but the McCain “Loser” Salute is perfect and fitting on a startling number of levels.
oh now now. no need to get all testi.
And I saw various Obama/Goatse renditions all night, but had no idea it was a play off this silly “salute”, I thought it was just a reference to the original horror that is goatse.
you know, the term “yankee” was originally a pergurative, but the yanks liked it so much we became yankees by self description;
those excerps are from wiki by the way, I suppose if we have fun with this big o it might be good, even though the purpose is to represent a “zero” it is so completely oposite the obama persona it might be fine to just go with the “O”
lol! This is a fresh new horror i woke to today.
seems strangely apropos.
tw3k at6: hey! did you check out the only comments they got with that? heh.
sometimes ya just caint win fer losin’. *g*
kin some kind person catch a poor hapless soul up with this strange new creation, goatse? d’oh!in advance *cringe*
lol, yeah would give thier e-mail address to usnews?
I thought this was funny tho:
;-> never disturb … when they’re busy defeating themselves. eh?
moi? oye nevah!
Here is the story of goatse:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse.cx
And my favorite goatse related site:
http://www.firstgoatse.com/
You see, this is just the sort of thing that gets us labeled elitists. Presuming that McCain supporters learned half the alphabet before they gave up on book learnin’.
ohgoodgawd. sorry i asked. blergh.
thanx for the heads-up, as it were. brain bleach in aisle 21 pleeze.
so they never have to cope with zed. cool.
must leave this erudite group-thimk.
behave yerselves, little pups.
yer da best!
* hands u the brain bleach *
tw3K and Smgumby . . .
was I awake enough to look for the wiki on “Goatse” ?!?!? – noooooo, instead clicked on what looked like a safe place to start.
thanks you two really.
although come to think of it, if Mr Cbl is still around, he can vouch that I often refer to McBiker as “that prolapsed prostate”
Watch that biker shit.
don’t say biker, Mom’s got the window open !
I always figured that is what Ann Coulter would look like nekkid.
Good morning Cbl
stop it! stop it right now !
how do you identify it as Coulter without the hamsters ?
mornin’ baby
lol
The rightwingers who are going off on the “Obama Salute” must have forgotten Dubya’s “W” salute. Or more likely, IOKIYAR.
Actually you form the “O” with two hands and say..”this my assh*** after 8 years of Bush economic policies..”
There are people who think that this is serious,like from the campaign itself?
(long pause,doopdeedoop….)
BWAHAHAHASNORTMWAHAHAHAHA…
Eyemmmmmmmm baaaaaack!
Golly whiz, folks. David’s new tricks are workin’ like a charm. Looks like sheep-dawg trials in here. Such compliant lil’ critters we can be.
But he fergot to lock the gate.
Nyah nyah.
Is it OK to use the middle finger for the vertical part of the “L”?
only if you provide a description of its meaning and post that on the teleprompter.