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Conservatives Mock Obamacare's Pajama Boy Because They're Scared of Him
The New Republic ^
| December 19, 2013
| Noreen Malone
Posted on 12/19/2013 7:02:52 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The part of this week's conservative straw-man is being played, appropriately enough, by a stock photo. "Pajama boy," as the young bespectacled man the Obama administration chose for its latest health care PSA has come to be known, has swiftly become a figure of delighted outrage on the right. He has been the subject of no fewer than three articles in the National Review, plus an essay in Politico Magazine by the National Review's Rich Lowry. Lowry lays out the conservative perception of the stock-photo model he terms an "insufferable-man-child":
Pajama Boy is about as threatening as Michael Cera and so nerdy he could guest-host on an unwatched MSNBC show. He is probably reading The Bell Jar and looking forward to a hearty Christmas meal of stuffed tofurkey. If he has anything to say about it, Obamacare enrollments will spike in the next few weeks in Williamsburg and Ann Arbor.
Perhaps the goal of OFA was to create a readily mockable image to draw attention to its message, in which case Pajama Boy was a brilliantly successful troll. The right immediately Photoshopped him into the Mandela funeral selfie and emblazoned his photo with derisive lines like, Hey girl, I live with my parents, and, How did you know I went to Oberlin?
Lowry goes on to connect what he characterizes as an immature version of masculinity with a liberal's overreliance on a paternalistic government. "Pajama Boys mom probably still tucks him in at night, and when she isnt there for him, Obamacare will be," he writes. Millennials and Democrats just love their mommies too much! But while this is a ritual mockery that's ostensibly about Obamacare, what it really reveals is a long-boiling, deep-seated-fear on the right of the moment when a more beta-appearing-man becomes the mainstream notion of masculinity....
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: metrosexuals; msm; obamacare; pajamaboy
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Yeah, scared that he's the face of the future.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Bwahaahahahaha!!!!
I am happy I wasn’t drinking coffee when I read that. Man, it would have been spew city!
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posted on
12/19/2013 7:04:02 PM PST
by
Ronin
(Dumb, dependent and Democrat is no way to go through life - Rep. L. Gohmert, Tex)
To: Ronin
I know, I gagged on my sinus drainage.
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posted on
12/19/2013 7:05:17 PM PST
by
dforest
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Conservatives Mock Obamacare's Pajama Boy Because They're Scared of Him ...of getting hit with his purse?
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posted on
12/19/2013 7:05:25 PM PST
by
SwankyC
(Democrats and Republicans agree, govt coercion is OK if it fits your idea of whats OK)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I’m not scared of anyone who lives in their moms basement.
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posted on
12/19/2013 7:06:14 PM PST
by
Newbomb Turk
("All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I agree, he's another Rambo
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posted on
12/19/2013 7:07:05 PM PST
by
sickoflibs
(Obama : 'If you like your Doctor you can keep him, PERIOD! Don't believe the GOPs warnings')
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Pajamaboy makes metrosexuals look downright macho.
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posted on
12/19/2013 7:07:14 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I am now shaking beer out of my keyboard! Thank You Very Much. :) Bonus: Scared the crap out of the cat.
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posted on
12/19/2013 7:07:47 PM PST
by
defconw
(Cibco's my spouse)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I am the only one who thinks he looks like Leonard form the Big Bang Theory!?!
I have yet to see a reference to that.
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posted on
12/19/2013 7:09:15 PM PST
by
KC_Lion
(Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
SOMEONE has them in derision.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
beta-appearing-man becomes the mainstream notion of masculinity....Women will prove that to be a lie. They are wired by nature to be attracted to strong, competent providers.
/johnny
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
12/19/2013 7:11:02 PM PST
by
Viennacon
(Right vs. Left...... is Right vs. Wrong!)
To: sickoflibs
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posted on
12/19/2013 7:11:19 PM PST
by
Ray76
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I think he looks creepy... would worry if he were in a house with small children...
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posted on
12/19/2013 7:11:32 PM PST
by
Innovative
("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
To: SwankyC
Any HIV free Homo should be careful of him.
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posted on
12/19/2013 7:11:53 PM PST
by
Venturer
(Half Staff the Flag of the US for Terrorists.)
To: dforest
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posted on
12/19/2013 7:12:11 PM PST
by
laplata
(Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
To: Ray76
:)
I found that pic earlier and saw it was perfect for this thread.
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posted on
12/19/2013 7:12:24 PM PST
by
sickoflibs
(Obama : 'If you like your Doctor you can keep him, PERIOD! Don't believe the GOPs warnings')
That’s it, marginalize the objection by labeling it a phobia...
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posted on
12/19/2013 7:12:31 PM PST
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: sickoflibs
Those are bubbles coming out of his butt.
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posted on
12/19/2013 7:13:03 PM PST
by
laplata
(Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
To: KC_Lion
Leonard is a lumberjack in comparison.
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posted on
12/19/2013 7:13:09 PM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(A courageous man finds a way, an ordinary man finds an excuse.)
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