Can I ask a question?
What does that mean? I see all these "umm umm" or "mmm mmm" repeated posts on FR all the time now. It sounds like listening to someone chew food.
Is it some obscure SNL skit, or YouTube video? I have to admit, it is kind of annoying.
It's a reference to or a takeoff on the schoolchildren's Obama Tribute song they were taught and performed in school - the video of which caused an outrage since a) it showed American kids acting in ways previously unimaginable and very much like kids in Cuba, North Korea, the USSR, etc. and b) it arrived around the time Obama's every-school speech was to be aired while Dems and lefties claimed that opposition to the speech came only from right-wing nutjobs, that the speech was harmless and that it wasn't intended to indoctrinate kids or glorify Obama.
The mmmm-mmmmm-mmmmm references are posted as a sarcastic reference to the song's refrain and to the simple-minded symbiosis between Obama and his supporters.
That said I think the reference fails on several levels. #1 it simply isn't funny on its own merit since it's just a single consonant repeated. #2 it lacks context #3 it's repeated far too often to have any punch left
I'm in agreement with you. We can do better.