Officer of Tomorrow
Posted on 12/29/2013 8:00:22 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Conservatives are in a tizzy over a seemingly innocuous Obamacare ad from Organizing for Action featuring a young man in pajamas.
He’s “a metrosexual hipster in a plaid onesie” scowled National Review’s Charles Cooke, a “vaguely androgynous, student-glasses-wearing, Williamsburg hipster.” He’s also “carefully ambi-racial.”
Pajama boy can’t even fight, Cooke’s colleague, Jim Geraghty, surmises. “My money is on the guy from Big Bang Theory once they throw down in a slap fight,” writes Geraghty, a grown man calling someone else a child as he imagines a fight between two fictional characters.
“An insufferable man-child,” writes Rich Lowry at Politico, who “might be glad to pay more for his health insurance to include maternity benefits he doesn’t need as a blow against gender stereotyping.” What kind of man thinks women shouldn’t have to pay more for health insurance because of their ladyparts anyway?
How could the sight of an earnest twenty something in pajamas drive so many dashing specimens of unassailable masculinity to complete panic? The paradox of our gender enforcers that they never sound more terrified than when addressing a person who doesn’t fit their standards. It’s an abject terror that masquerades as courage, relying on the reader not to know the difference. Pajama Boy is both a weak, effeminate symbol to be mocked, and the unstoppable 200-foot tall Kaiju wrecking their shining city on a hill....
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.com ...
Pajama Boy is the equivalent of Obama’s Hitler Youth. However put Pajama Boy in charge of any socialist program and he will be as ruthless as any member of the Hitler Youth turned SS storm trooper.
Officer of Tomorrow
Um, no.
Never been there or done drugs.
I take strong exception to comparing PJBOY to any character on The Big Bang Theory. Each of those characters is smart, hard-working (whether or not they would actually admit to this), and capable of doing or discovering things that might expand our knowledge or capabilities. They seem to be earning a comfortable living. Meanwhile, PJBOY yells up the stairs for Ma to get more cocoa going.
I do get a bit greazed when the engineer, Wolowitz, is disdained and belittled by the theoretical scientists for being “the dummy” on the show.
This is true: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azoWedQH8zQ
Somebody needs to post that picture of a pigeon on a chessboard. The scary part is that he believes his own drivel.
Besides his manicure, I am not sure what else he COULD wreck. Maybe his pantyhose?
Here let me fix it:" Pajama Boy is both a weak, effeminate symbol to be mocked, and the unstoppable 200-foot tall Kaiju wrecking their shining city on a hill."
BTW have you seen his new ad? He looks even more effeminate, seriously, it's sad when a onesie can "butch you up".
Yeah, right. Adam, buddy, let me break some real-world news to you. I got a bull-dyke relative I was trading whisky shots with last week who happens to love her 1911 and would eat you and your little buddy alive with one hand tied behind her back. You aren’t America, Adam, she is, for better or worse and God bless her. This isn’t about “gay”, it’s about smirking, pathetic, supercilious excuses for human beings copping an attitude they haven’t earned and don’t deserve.
Nah, they've never called Wolowitz a "dummy." They just rag on him since he never bothered getting a phd while at MIT. Besides, Lenard, Sheldon, Raj, and even his wife are "doctors." Wolowitz knows a lot of doctors! But as an engineer, maybe he'll build a doo-dad or a gee-gaw that will get him mentioned on someone's Nobel Prize acceptance speech! :-)
Mark
MSNBC telling us what courage is. Be sure to bookmark.
Funny how all these “successful” ads have to be taken down quickly and the stars have to disappear themselves. They’re going to have to start a kind of model protection program and give them new lives and plastic surgery.
I have this image of the Obama person in charge of hiring these people walking into a modeling agency and all the models running for their lives, like in a Godzilla movie.
Freaking out? No.
Pointing and laughing? Yes.
Joseph Schumpeter first articulated the idea that capitalism requires and hence produces a large intellectual class. The members of that class are not necessarily very good at intellectual work; they are merely people who work with or transmit ideas at wholesale or retail...
Robert Bork
“Freaking out?” Oh hell no.. we’re having a fun time deriding it! Bring on the next ad!
Wonder where they're hiding out today.
I bet Erkel could take him down.
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