(Reuters photo and caption)
A fly lands between Barack Obama’s eyes as he speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington.
You just can not make this stuff up!
“Obama The Fly Swatter Strikes Again,” is the actual headline from this Reuters piece featuring the above photo and caption with a copy line that begins:
There was a buzz at the White House on Thursday when President Barack Obama announced the nomination of two top financial regulatory officials.
Just in case you think Reuters is really The Onion, here is the official White House transcript staring this little winged announcement crasher:
For Immediate Release
January 24, 2013
Remarks by the President at a Personnel Announcement
State Dining Room
2:38 P.M. EST
But it’s not enough to change the law. We also need cops on the beat to enforce the law. And that’s why, today, I am nominating Mary Jo White to lead the Security and Exchange Commission, and Richard Cordray to continue leading the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
This guy is bothering me here — (swatting at a fly.)
So all this “buzz” means it’s time for another Tatler Photo Caption Contest
Certainly our stable of ”caption kings” or any newcomer, can write a better caption than Reuters, or a more clever headline, than “Obama’s uninvited guest: a pesky housefly,” which accompanied this video on the NBC Nightly News web site.
Now, you all know the rules, “be nice and stay classy because the media is watching.”
However, with this contest photo I know you might be slightly more tempted to violate them, so STOP YOURSELF. There will be “no fly-ing“ off the handle during this contest.
Furthermore, the contest winner will NOT receive a new fly swatter because our mature and sophisticated caption contest winners need nothing more than the honor and glory that comes with reading their name in the winner’s post, like this one from our last contest.
So good luck, make me proud and fly (like an eagle) even though Washington is full of turkeys.
I’m not in favor of a no fly zone in Syria, but I would like to have one in the White House.
His policies stink so his forehead probably does too!
Flies are attracted to turds. Next time you pass an outhouse check it out!
You fools, flying off in a tantrum. That is no fly, just Obama way of telling us he is a Hindu.
Nothing of value here.
I’m going to fly back to the toilet seat I just left.
“Behold…the Lord of Flies.”
A fly on …
If you look really, really close, you can read “Made in China” on the fly…
A racist fly visits the White House
“…your thoughts to my thoughts…”
Pardon me for cutting this speech short, but with my schedule,
I gotta fly!
And you thought Watergate was bugged.
It must have flew off of that bush.
You can catch more flies with dung than vinegar.
“… cain’t fool them circle flies ….”
Don’t shoot you idiot, it might be a democrat.
That fly’s in the face of treason.
What does a Politician and a fly have in common? They both eat turds and bother people. And where’s there’s one, there’s more.
The Kool aid is in the punch bowl, little buddy.
“Bless you my son, we have another 4 years in the White House together”
“Did this fly come in with Michaele Salahi?”
The Red Sox fly of revenge has come to atone for Kevin Youkilis.
“Is this the carrier fly that’ll be replacing the Post Office?”
Obama: the exception to the rule that one attracts more flies with honey than vinegar.
A bitter, clinging fly.
“This fly is like what I said about Iran – it’s tiny and doesn’t pose a serious threat.”
“I’m going to name this fly Boehner and then kill it.”
Still flying by the seat of his pants . . .
Fly-by-night flies flock together.
Obama: Failure with flying colors.
LOL.. loved your first one. For years I actually knew both Salahi’s from around the DC scene. They were notorious for not paying their bills WAY before they became infamous as WH party crashers. My favorite moment was when Tereq Salahi was engaged to Michaele. My husband and I were attending a Mt. Vernon wine tasting event when, upon visiting the Oasis winery table, Tereq exclaimed to my husband and me that he was “marrying a super model.” So when all the party crashing news broke we remembered that moment as a “historic” milestone.
If I let him go, he can always say he’s got friends in high places.
Now that the election is over, and you can see exactly how much “flexibility” I am going to exercise as I move “forward”, I suggest you “be afraid, be very afraid”.
(Hehe…yes there is a pop culture reference in there that ties in nicely.)
Now we know what was making Chris Mathews leg tingle.
Why are you staring at me like that waiter, their really was a fly in my soup.
Scientists confirm: flies are attracted to garbage.
He must not know, the White House is in a no fly zone.
Fly on empty chair – a surrealistic photo by Reuters.
Fly: “At least he didn’t charged me $15,000 for this photo”
Obama: “I can’t control a fly in the WH but I can control the Global Warming”.
Fly: “President swatting, anyone”?
How’s that ban on assault flies working out for ya, Mr President?
Two co-equals get acquainted with each other.
“Wow, my IQ just tripled” (this can be said by either of them)
Obama’s mama — reincarnated.
[The FLY]- knock Knock.
[The Pres,-Whose there.
[The fly – Vincent Price.
This fly makes a good photo-op.
I had to keep this fly out of Michelle’s kitchen so I came here for an interview.
Obama can attract a fly out of the meat truck. He’s Mr Awesome.
Further proof that flies have an uncanny ability to zero in on garbage ideas.
It’s not a fly — it is a health care problem.
Scientists have discovered a new fly species and named it Insecta Musc-Obama DestroyAmericus.
Obama: This fly is pro gun control.
1)This room is bugged, said big brother.
2)Come into my lair said the spider, and not only the media obeyed.
3)”No little Buzzy, not his forehead, I did not say to land on focal matter”
4)Revenge of the drones.
5)Fodder for a new Buzz Ballad. (I can’t wait)
6)Ok, buzzy. Now go find some dead, decaying, useless thing to feed on.
7)”But it’s not enough to change the Constitution. We also need destroy it so that we can see who will inherit this land, and that’s why I’d like to introduce the heir to our land when I am done with it”
8) Post lunch announcement? Must have smelled dog on his breath.
9) The Israelis had this one delivered by trained shark.
10)Vulcan mind meld practical joke. “Bring back Cash for Clunkers”
11)This happens every time I come up with another fiscal idea.
And with all the travel and vacations I thought Michelle was the fly magnet.
Obama: Jeff Goldblum, is that you? D’oh!
Jeff Goldblum, is that you? D’oh!
12)All God’s creatures, great and small. The BS deliverer and the BS detector.
He must have thawed out after the inaugural.
“Hold still Mr. President, I’ll get him!”
[apologies for taking two bites of the apple]
This is a one man act, so buzz off.
Don’t hit her! In my next reincarnation, she’s going to be my grandmother.
Obama’s fly is showing.
The fly is a ventriloquist.
Don’t ever point at me again and say, fly fly!
I tried to zip up my pants.
My fellow American’s, and frequent flyers.
Boehner uses his connections in the NSA robotics lab to have some fun with their new UAV prototype.
Scram, go back and tell [P E T A] I didn’t fall for it.
Like always, this speech will be a smash hit.
Mr. President, would you like flies with that?
As el presidente never believes he has a face palm moment, this fly is in the safest spot in the White House!
The aliens, cleverly disguised, implant the next stage of their plan to destroy America into the president’s cranium.
Like a fly to a pile of….oh wait, we were supposed to stay “classy”???
“Wait! Don’t swat it – we’ll get Axelrod to register it to vote!”
What’s so unusual about a fly on a horse’s arse?
His teacher told him to go to the head of the class.
What’s the difference in the two creatures in the photo? One’s a fly in the ointment and the other is an insect.
This is a first, one member of the Republican party is going head to head with me.
When this picture of me hits the news stands,
They will go [FLYING] off the shelf.
First press conference in over four years that someone other than Ed Henry tried to get inside his head.
We’ve taken so much Chinese money, the State Dining room is now serving flinch flies.
Fly the not-so friendly skies of Divided.
The flyover president.
Headline without photo the next day: President Obama Fights Off Wild Animal Single-Handedly And Resumes Spellbinding Speech Without Missing A Beat”
Apparently neither of them knows the difference between a corpsman and a corpse, man.
OK, Homeland Security you’ve made your point,
Your mini drones can fly to where there headed.
Congratulations Sir, I’m from the[Nobel Fly's] clearing house,
Please don’t let it go to your head!
Fly: (In a Sellers Clouseau’s voice) I have a beump in my headh.
Fly, to his buddy just outside the frame:
“Hey, Herb! Remember when we were in the Congressional Dining Room and someone said, ‘The president’s got $&*# for brains!’ They were right!”