Posted on 11/27/2010 4:54:00 PM PST by Sub-Driver
NPR: Obama's Fat Lip Could Improve Image With Jong Il, Ahmadinejad and Putin
By Noel Sheppard | November 27, 2010 | 17:14 Noel Sheppard's picture
It appears that at NPR, even a fat lip for the President is to be heralded as a crowning achievement furthering his prestige and street cred when dealing with despots like Kim Jong Il and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
According to Scott Simon, a president with a "gnarly, vivid scar" might even be able to intimidate China's rulers into halting their currency manipulation (audio follows with partial transcript and commentary):
SCOTT SIMON, NPR: Just three weeks after getting a shellacking in the midterm elections, yesterday President Obama got a fat lip. The president played basketball yesterday with some friends in the gym of the Fort McNair Army Base, and reportedly took an elbow in the mouth from an opposing player who went up for a shot.
It took twelve stitches to close The First Fat Lip, if you please. I'm not sure that Joe Frazier needed twelve stitches after the Thrilla in Manila, though the White House stressed that a smaller filament was used, which increases the number of stitches, but leaves a smaller scar. I wonder if having a larger scar wouldn't actually fortify President Obama's profile, as he contends with Kim Jong Il, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or Vladimir Putin. Imagine a president with a gnarly, vivid scar telling the rulers of China, "Nice country ya' got here. I'd hate to see something happen to it if you didn't stop foolin' around with the value of your currency. Know what I mean?"
As recent presidential injuries go, President Obama's is almost valiant. His immediate predecessor, President George W. Bush, famously choked on a pretzel. President Bill Clinton tore a tendon stumbling on the steps of Greg Norman's house after a round of golf. But an elbow in the chops is a battle ribbon in basketball.
This was obviously a tongue-in-cheek commentary, but one gets the feeling Simon quite believes it.
I'm surprised he didn't compare The First Fat Lip to Ronald Reagan being shot in 1981.
Maybe that's next.
(H/T Weasel Zippers)
Somebody should smack him in the head repeatedly with a 2X4 with a nail through it. That would show those foreign leaders who’s boss.
Girly boy Obama gets hit in the mug by a Latino and this is supposed to impress our enemies?
Will moochelle make dunham eat salads because of his fat lip?
Pray very hard that this clown does not take a bullet.
When Lil Kim laughs online does he type ROR?
Idiot.
So if a bunch of guys just kick the s#it out of him, it will make the Axis of Weasels cower? Putin wrestles wild animals for crying out loud!
Obama gets a fat lip playing basketball.
G H W Bush had a torpedo bomber shot out from under him.
Obama doesn’t look like much when compared to a real man.
This is one of the geniuses us paleo-Americans are supposed to defer to?
Unless, of course, he orders the deaths of 1mil of THEIR citizens.
You mean like McCain?
Dude! Give him time!
The Vain One has not been in front of a camera since getting that cut lip.
I’d have been more impressed if Obama had been on the giving end instead of the receiving end.
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