Back on the stuff
Yup, Barack is back on the prompter.
Alternate title, “I can’t quit you” (but I didn’t see Brokeback Mountain and I always hesitate to use a movie line in the dark).
Alternate picture idea: does this flag make my president look small?
Posted: August 2nd, 2012 under artwork, personal, photoshop, politics.
Comments: 25
Comments
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: August 2, 2012, 10:22 pm
Sorry for the fuzzy image. The base image at the Examiner (at the link) is oddly pixelated, like it was improperly sized down. Couldn’t find the original.
It’s a pity. I love it when he speaks off the cuff.
Comment from crank
Time: August 2, 2012, 10:38 pm
One more puppet post?
Comment from sandman will resist
Time: August 3, 2012, 12:11 am
I was gonna say go with “Putting the Douche back in Douchebag…” Preznit “My Little Pony”, reading his prepared lines…from the heart…of someone else…
TOTUS for Preznit, 2012.
Comment from The Watcher
Time: August 3, 2012, 12:13 am
Guy needs a 12-step program to get off the ‘prompter-jonze.
Comment from The Neon Madman
Time: August 3, 2012, 12:21 am
“Does this flag make my president look small?”
Why yes, yes it does.
Comment from little, little
Time: August 3, 2012, 1:04 am
This guy needs to be put on suicide watch. No amount of money can save him.
Comment from Deborah
Time: August 3, 2012, 2:47 am
Speaking of photos, and fuzzy photos (and photoshop) …
Stoaty—do you know of any software that will detect if a photo has been tinkered with?
Comment from Subotai Bahadur
Time: August 3, 2012, 7:03 am
Comment from little, little
Time: August 3, 2012, 1:04 am
I’ll watch. [and that’s all I’ll do]
Subotai Bahadur
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: August 3, 2012, 10:47 am
I don’t know of any, Deborah, but I bet it’s coming.
You know how we look back at early films — let’s say a Keystone Kops flick — and it just screams at us that the thing has been speeded up? You know, they didn’t notice because what did they know from film? But we spot it right away, because it’s just so obvious for people who grew up watching movies.
I worry that Photoshop is going to be like that. Like, future generations will look back and say, “that Stoaty Weasel person sure did a lot of rinky-dink amateurish shit, didn’t she?”
Comment from Deborah
Time: August 3, 2012, 12:18 pm
More like “that Stoaty Weasel person sure was a pioneer, wasn’t she.” But what you do is photo-caricature, and it’s not meant to deceive. I see a lot of “news” photos that I strongly suspect have been scrubbed and manipulated, and it makes me uneasy. For example, Hillary Clinton’s face looks like a topographic map of West Virginia, but invariably, all but just a few wrinkles are removed. And it’s not Vogue magazine doing it, it’s a “legitimate” news source.
Comment from Some Vegetable
Time: August 3, 2012, 12:45 pm
Deborah – if current trends are an indicator, Stoatie will be in the California State-approved History books touted as a major force for LBGT’s regardless of the facts of the matter. I’m only half (bi ?) serious but I need a segue into the question on which I need everyone’s opinion:
Today is the gay kiss-in at CFA. I know there is a group planning to do appearances here in Dallas – they, of course, made the news. What is the proper response?
Should I stay away to deny them the appearance of support? Should I go and buy a sandwich and ignore them to show they can’t impact sales or will-that- give the appearance of supporting them by buying while they’re smootching?
I have to confess I want to go and take the camera – snap two girls in a sweaty kiss and them tell them it’s going on the internet labeled as:
“Two cows kissing at Chick-Fil-A”
Opinions? Suggestions?
Comment from Wolfus Aurelius
Time: August 3, 2012, 1:17 pm
I dunno about the flag making him look small – but the light makes him look old. Haggard, even.
Comment from AmericanGypsea
Time: August 3, 2012, 2:51 pm
In this picture, it looks like Obama is using his hand to keep his place while reading from Totus.
Comment from AltBBrown
Time: August 3, 2012, 3:50 pm
Some Veg,
I wouldn’t mention the proposed label. Those cows might kick the livin’ bejeezus outta ya.
Comment from mojo
Time: August 3, 2012, 4:26 pm
I can’t quit you, babe
But I’m gonna have to put you down for a while…
Comment from mojo
Time: August 3, 2012, 4:28 pm
Go get a sammich, Some Veg.
Walk by the spit-swappers with an amused look. “Hey, get a room, huh guys?”
Comment from Clifford Skridlow
Time: August 3, 2012, 5:03 pm
The Onion’s take on the teleprompter.
http://www.theonion.com/video/obamas-home-teleprompter-malfunctions-during-famil,14383/
Comment from Janna
Time: August 3, 2012, 6:22 pm
Some veg
Ace O’ Spades suggested Olympic style judging. Hold up cards with the judges scores.
Label someone the East German judge and have them hold up a card opposite of the others… 8.0 8.5 2.0 9.5 etc.
Ridicule the idiots.
Comment from Subotai Bahadur
Time: August 3, 2012, 6:38 pm
Comment from Some Vegetable
Time: August 3, 2012, 12:45 pm
A bit late, but here is my take.
1. Go to Chick-fil-A. Don’t be chased away. When you buy, comment to the clerk that you refuse to be chased away by the Left.
2. If you have one, use a camera to video anything done by the Leftists. This will keep them honest, because you know that the enemy will be as outrageous as possible and later claim to have been choirboys/girls. If there is an interaction between management and those acting outrageous, tape it and be ready to post it online or give it to someone to post online. Make sure you have time/date info. Offer to management or the police if they get involved.
3. I am partial to the idea of using napkins and markers to hold up old style Olympic scores to grade those making out. Do it in good humor. Do not be provoked. They want drama, give them comedy. Make them take the first aggressive step, especially if it is being taped. They WANT you to be legally in the wrong. Make them take that step.
4. If attacked, of course defend yourself. But also press every charge you can conceive of; including Habeas Mabeus and Leering and Sleering with felonious intent to creep and crawl. And if they do attack you, do not forget civil suit. They will sue you if they get the chance. Do unto others before they can do unto you.
YMMV
Subotai Bahadur
Comment from Schlippy
Time: August 3, 2012, 7:03 pm
“Does this flag make my president look small?”
I’m stealing that
Comment from Christopher Taylor
Time: August 3, 2012, 8:14 pm
You know, for the greatest speaker of our times, nay of human existence, whose very words causes women to faint in ecstasy, he sure sucks when he’s not spoon fed his lines.
Comment from Hampton40
Time: August 4, 2012, 8:09 pm
There is a website called Photoshop Killer, found at pskiller.com that will give you photoshop info,Deborah.
Comment from Wolfus Aurelius
Time: August 6, 2012, 2:24 pm
Hey, I went to Chick-Fil-A on Friday afternoon. It wasn’t a stand-alone store, it’s one in the mall near my house. They were doing a decent business at 4-something on a Friday, but no long long lines, and nobody of any persuasion was making out. I wanted to use a line I copped from a commenter on AoS: “Hey, if you guys would stop voting for communists, the economy would pick up and you could afford a room!”
Sadly, the opportunity never arose.
The grilled chicken was good.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: August 6, 2012, 11:05 pm
Sorry about the trip to the spam filter, Hampton40. I guess it didn’t like the .com in your message.
Comment from Oh Hell
Time: August 7, 2012, 12:03 am
“Does this flag make my president look small?” Dunno – he’s not MY president.
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