Posted on 05/02/2010 9:13:35 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama Says F-word At Correspondents' Dinner, Posts It At YouTube By Noel Sheppard Created 05/02/2010 - 11:46
Barack Obama said the F-word at the White House Correspondents' Dinner Saturday evening, and the video of his obscenity was posted at YouTube and WhiteHouse.gov.
As he began his comic remarks, the President said:
I wasn't sure that I should actually come tonight. [Vice President Joe] Biden talked me into it. He leaned over and he said, "Mr. President, this is no ordinary dinner. This is a big (whispering) f--king meal."
At 9:09 AM Sunday, a video of the President's routine was published [1] at the White House website after being posted [2] at YouTube some time Saturday evening.
As you can hear in the video, a bleep has been added, but the whispered F-word is still audible (video follows with commentary, joke in first 60 seconds):
As readers, viewers, and those in attendance were aware, this was a joke mocking Biden's F-bomb at the signing of the recently enacted healthcare reform bill when he whispered in the President's ear [2], "This is a big f--king deal."
However, was it appropriate of the President to use that word in public, at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, on live television?
And if the White House was going to post this at YouTube and its website, shouldn't someone have done a better job of making sure the bleep actually covered the obscenity?
This seems especially important as it appeared the networks that aired the dinner properly bleeped his F-word. I was watching C-SPAN and thought the bleep covered it up. I've been informed that CNN and MSNBC also bleeped appropriately, although Fox News's censors may have been a tad early.
This suggests these networks were alerted to the joke, and were on the ready to bleep when necessary.
But did the President have to say "f--king" for the joke to work?
Wouldn't "f-ing," "freaking," or "frigging" have been more appropriate for the most powerful man in the world in a public setting with cameras rolling?
We had white trash in the whitehouse in the 90s, now we have black trash in the whitehouse. What a shame our country’s language keeps getting coarser and coarser.
Slick Willy never used this word in his public appearances.
I have to say that the White Trash from Arkansas is classier than the Mulatto Trash from Kenya.
Being metro sexual allows for him to use the F bomb and run his middle finger across his cheek. Give the man child a break he’s just being who he always was and that’s unfit to hold office.
Don't know what was posted in #2 and #13...but I suspect that what I would like to post would make those look insignificant!
Rather than get yanked (rightly so) by the Moderator, I'll tear out my thumbnail instead...
You’re right.
I'm ready to take the power from the F word - it's only liberals who used it as a weapon anyhow ... let's go for it.
no class punk.
He’s a street pimp and a punk.
His hoes love him.
Patrick Leahy...aka "Leaky" aka "Senator Depends" for his proclivity at disclosing classified information
My mistake. You’re correct.
have to say that the White Trash from Arkansas is classier
The old saying about time heals all wounds, must be right, how elese would we now be having an actual positive thought about what previously was the low mark for POTUS. Evebtime I see or hear scumbag slick I do have flashbacks!!!!
He is just revealing his true self and his uncouth real nature.
Not a pretty picture.
I wish 38 minutes was the maximum amount of time this worm’s hole could stay open.
(someone will get it)
Nope, he is just a community rabble-rouser and a commie activist.
Well to be fair Laura Bush did make a Joke about George manually ejaculating a horse at this function. This is also the place where what I consider the last president’s lowest moment occured. So you remember when he joked and showed a slide show of him looking under oval office cushions for Iraqi WMD’s? To do that while our soldiers were dying in Iraq, soldiers that went to war to protect our nation from that very threat was to me a much more classless thing.
Just like Reagan’s “the bombing begins in 2 minutes” joke?
Rick Perry’s “MOFO” moment?
True, those things were not funny. BUT they were not scripted for an audience!
HolyO’s comment was just tacky and disgusting. Yeah, I know presidents curse, I’m not that much of a prude. But ON PURPOSE for A “JOKE”?? Where is the dignity?? Like another poster wrote, there’s plenty of euphemisms for that word. In fact, he could have said ‘fracking’ or ‘frelling’ and sci-fi fans like me might have even laughed at the reference.
I ain’t laughin’.
...still not laughing at the classless jerk.
Is he in NYC today to kiss Admedinejad’s ass?
Teh won is so presidential! *gush*
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