Ted Rall for March 14, 2014
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Transcript:
Obama's polls continue to fall despite his appearances on Jimmy Fallon and Zach Galifianakis' web video show. But at a slower rate. (Barack Obama: My beard is bigger than yours- but it's NSFW. LMFAO!) (Man : Heh. Actually: men.) So the president's hipster charm offensive continues! Off to a poetry slam in Bushwick, Brooklyn. (Barack Obama: My poem is in acrostic form and mentions my wife and drones and also a fish.) Obama strategist Valerie Plouffe: we're targeting the crucial 26-to-29, so translucent, over-educated downwardly mobile voters who decide midterm elections. (Barack Obama: Why do they like me? They're unemployed and swimming in debt.) (Valerie Plouffe: "Like" millennials "like" ironically."
Michael Peterson Premium Member about 10 years ago
Yeah. Imagine a guy who’s 50 trying to rope in support from 20-something hipsters by pretending to be one of them. How pathetic! (Oh, wait, how old are you, Ted?)
TheWildSow about 10 years ago
Been done.
Theodore E. Lind Premium Member about 10 years ago
How about the ratings Congress has racked up? It makes Obama look good by comparison.
smacdon about 10 years ago
Rall has got a finger on the pulse of our selfie referential digital pixel dust culture. I often feel like we will have to hit a saturation point some time. In the “future”