Columnist Blasts Obama For Acting Like 'Hormone-Ravaged Frat Boy' At Mandela Service

[DonViejo]

TOM KLUDT – DECEMBER 12, 2013, 11:03 AM EST

Employing an inordinate number of pastry puns and an inexplicable knowledge of the first family's marital harmony, the New York Post's Andrea Peyser unleashed a torrent of outrage toward President Obama for "using the solemn occasion of Nelson Mandela’s memorial service Tuesday to act like a hormone-ravaged frat boy on a road trip to a strip bar."

The columnist's evidence for such moral depravity? A series of photos showing the President smiling and laughing with Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt at Mandela's service, all while First Lady Michelle Obama appears to be shooting her husband a scornful glare.

You might not be all that familiar if you aren't a Twitter user, presumably because the photos were rightly treated as a goofy meme more than a news story. But Peyser, writing in her column on Thursday, somehow knows it's a sign of trouble in paradise for Obama.

In front of 91 world leaders, the mourning nation of South Africa and Obama’s clearly furious wife, Michelle, the president flirted, giggled, whispered like a recalcitrant child and made a damn fool of himself at first sight of Denmark’s voluptuously curvy and married prime minister, Helle Thorning-Schmidt.

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[Baitball Blogger]

1. It was a four hour ceremony filled with music and festivity.

Not exactly a somber memorial service by American standards.

[Capt. Obvious]

2. No apology!

President Obama has some ’splaining to do. To the woman he married. To his daughters. To the people of South Africa. And to the scandalized folks here at home. He owes the world an apology.

[Berlum]

13. Nope

you obviously are choosing to ignore the context of the image, which was provided by the photographer who took the pictures. The corporate media (R) has also chosen to ignore this. Deliberate ignorance is no virtue, except of course in the RepubliBagger Homeland where it is celebrated as among the highest of Republicon "family values."

http://www.upi.com/blog/2013/12/11/Obama-selfie-photographer-speaks-out-Photos-can-lie/3721386811174/?spt=rln&or=5

[Capt. Obvious]

14. You obviously are choosing to think that I'm Andrea Peyser

[Berlum]

15. Ooops

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'spose so. Guess it just wasn't that obvious. Mea maxima culpa.

[Arkana]

3. Ah, the New York Post--that vaunted bastion of journalism

that lines iguana cages the country over.

[Historic NY]

4. Hey Andrea he didn't walk out like that petulant little cuban boy.

[MrScorpio]

5. ...And they say that our best days of yellow journalism are behind us. nt

[RBInMaine]

6. Why is anyone citing the out-house fly-infested toilet paper that is the NY Post??

[LiberalElite]

10. In midtown NYC recently -

they've been actually (trying) to give the NY Post away for free. That crap-filled "newspaper" isn't worth using at the bottom of a birdcage.

[RBInMaine]

12. I once got some mail from the Heritage Foundation and wrote back telling them I used their mail to

line the bottom of my cat's litter box. I'd do the same with the NY Post.

[Cali_Democrat]

7. It reads like a bad sex fiction novel

[Nonhlanhla]

8. She's racist

One of the pillars of racism in the US has been the meme of dangerous black male sexuality, especially in connection with white women. The fact that Obama is completely scandal-free when it comes to his marriage, and clearly is deeply in love with his own wife, does not mean that the right wing will not make up BS about how he's supposedly some "hormone-ravaged frat boy" (and am I the only one who zoomed in on the word "boy" there?). And of course Michelle must be the stereotypical stern black mammy type.

She also clearly has no idea of the context of the picture. People in the stadium were celebrating the life and legacy of Nelson Mandela. I talked to my mom in South Africa today, and she says people there are so impressed with Obama, and say he spoke with the spirit of Mandela.


These right wingers make me sick.

[Jamaal510]

11. +1

[woo me with science]

9. More faux news.

The media stokes these contrived, irrelevant partisan feuds to keep us divided, while assiduously avoiding the bipartisan corruption of our political system and its ravaging of America.

The corporate mediasphere emotes over a selfie, while ignoring the surveillance state, the looming TPP, the escalating poverty and despair.