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Obama's health care town hall

Chip Bok | August 21, 2009

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|8.21.09 @ 7:10AM|#

For the first time since I've been on the west coast, I can actually be the first time poster on a Friday Funny. This sucks. FIRST. I win!

|8.21.09 @ 7:34AM|#

Episiarch,

Go to bed!*

Stop getting up so early!*

*Whichever applies

|8.21.09 @ 7:57AM|#

This man is an idiot

|8.21.09 @ 8:26AM|#

Agreed, a total idiot!

RT
www.web-tools.us.tc

Bill Fleck|8.21.09 @ 8:31AM|#

Indeed, a total, complete idiot!

JM
www.ipdaily.onyou.heh

Fascitis|8.21.09 @ 8:38AM|#

black ralph nader again

Xeones|8.21.09 @ 8:39AM|#

I don't get it.

|8.21.09 @ 8:41AM|#

I have one spot of praise.

That's exactly what most SEIU members look like: a hideous miscegenation between Steve Smith and a fat lunch lady. Fat lunch ladies, but only the fattest mind you, will sleep with Steve Smith. Which is fortunate considering he can only be aroused by members of his species, the elusive female Bigfoot, or the odor of purifying Salisbury Steak.

|8.21.09 @ 8:43AM|#

The guy should have been shown to email flag@whitehouse.gov on his iPhone or something. Who the hell is he calling? Fail.

Xeones|8.21.09 @ 8:45AM|#

I mean, i'm (generally) a smart guy with a good sense of humor. But i don't get what the joke is supposed to be.

ed|8.21.09 @ 8:51AM|#

It's not a joke. It's a riddle. No, wait...a pun. Er, dramatic irony? A palindrome?

|8.21.09 @ 8:52AM|#

I thought Friday Funnies were supposed to be funny. So what's the point of this cartoon? Is it the goons labeled "SEIU"? If not, they're distracting from whatever message it is that the cartoonist is attempting to convey (of which I'm still unsure).

|8.21.09 @ 8:54AM|#

A palindrome?

Can we have one fucking day around here when no one mentions Sarah Palin? Please?

ed|8.21.09 @ 8:58AM|#

Ha!

|8.21.09 @ 9:03AM|#

I suggest that instead of talking about Sarah Palin on Fridays, we talk about Michael Palin.

ed|8.21.09 @ 9:04AM|#

It's not dead. It's just sleeping!

Amber Waves|8.21.09 @ 9:08AM|#

Weeks behind the curve. Not funny. F-

|8.21.09 @ 9:18AM|#

Here's a Silly Walks Generator. Michael Palin in his Cardinal Richelieu outfit is an option.

|8.21.09 @ 9:21AM|#

That the friday funnies suck is as certain as the second law of thermodynamics.

|8.21.09 @ 10:03AM|#

I'm trying to find the link between the use of the word "fishy" and cafeteria fish sticks that might be the element of humor here. Not finding it.

Not Funny
Modestly Relevant
Points for coloring inside the lines.
Grade: D+

|8.21.09 @ 10:11AM|#

Maybe the guy on the phone is supposed to be Keith Olberman.

Fist of Etiquette|8.21.09 @ 10:18AM|#

I like it.

There, I said it.

|8.21.09 @ 10:38AM|#

Why do the SEIU guys look like Tor Johnson?

Ellie|8.21.09 @ 10:47AM|#

The guy on the phone should have been complaining that there's a black guy demanding free health care.

Charles|8.21.09 @ 10:48AM|#

Why is Bill Cosby addressing a town hall meeting?

Ah goo goo a woo!

|8.21.09 @ 10:50AM|#

Damn you all. I thought this was his best ever. I really like it. Obama talkin all kinds of shit and somebody droppin a dime just like the administration asked.

just good stuff.

|8.21.09 @ 11:44AM|#

I agree, while its rip-roaringly funny, I think the point is pretty obvious.

C

|8.21.09 @ 11:44AM|#

While is NOT rip-roaringly...

ed|8.21.09 @ 12:01PM|#

Couldn't there have been at least one guy in the back with a Bush '04 t-shirt, holding an AK-47?

Art-P.O.G.|8.21.09 @ 12:05PM|#

Not bad...

an old fart|8.21.09 @ 1:43PM|#

I thought Friday Funnies were supposed to be funny.

New around here, son?

Paul|8.21.09 @ 1:46PM|#

Is there a joke going on in this thread that I missed?

Hugh Akston|8.21.09 @ 2:37PM|#

Paul, no joke ever gets anywhere near the Friday Funnies.

|8.21.09 @ 3:18PM|#

WTF?!?!

I get the joke...it is like a week or two to late to be funny...still the joke is obviouse.

|8.21.09 @ 4:04PM|#

Come on folks it's simple. The WH said to email any lies being told about the Dems' health plans to flag@whitehouse.com (or something like that). In this case, TAO is spouting lies about the plan so the fellow is reporting it. Since it's difficult to show email on a little screen, he's calling instead. The SEIU fellows are there just to point out who has been harrassing whom at these meetings.

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