Booty Call
September 19th, 2012 - 7:11 pm
This is not a Photoshop. It was disseminated today by the team that composes tweets for the President of the United States:
“Obama has time to sit down for a photo with a guy dressed a a pirate but no time for the Prime Minister of Israel. Lovely,” Tammy Bruce writes.
Twitchy adds, “Oh, yes, he did, matey. Perhaps President Obama didn’t want Jim Messina to steal all the humiliating and creepy picture thunder?”
Update: Curiously, it’s the man on the right who lets fly his own version of the Jolly Roger.
“Say, can you help me move some weapons across the Mexican border?”
Boys and girls, can you say: “One of the men in this photo has little or no experience running a navy!”?
Meanwhile, the Middle East explodes in riots, every day we add a Nimitz-class nuclear aircraft carrier pricetag to the national debt, unemployment is stuck over 8 percent, we have the lowest male participation in the workforce since WWII, Freedom of Speech just got shoved into a cop car in the dead of night, China and Japan are this close to throwning down on each other, Iran’s slapping the final coat of paint on their first nukes, and gas is over $4 a barrel in a country that’s practically drowning in fossil fuels if only we were permitted by Big Green to drill and refine it.
Some say Nero was evil and others say he just was incompetant and disengaged, but even fiddlin’ Nero didn’t “talk like a pirate” and build pyramids of golden champagne bottels as Rome burnt.
One of these men pillages the nation, mercilessly attacks opponents, keeps the best loot form himself and his officers, and believes he is above the law. The other one is a pirate.