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Politics

YouTube Interviewer, to the American President, re: Fidel Castro: "The Guy Puts 'Dick' in 'Dictatorship'"

Matt Welch | 1.23.2015 11:02 AM

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Some people get upset or embarrassed by the U.S. president taking interviews from cultural randos like YouTube celebrity bathtub-cereal-eater GloZell. And while I understand that, and occasionally agree, I am grateful that this moment exists:

Link via the great Twitter feed of David "Iowahawk" Burge.

UPDATE: Mediaite argues that "Obama's YouTube Interviews Actually Packed a Punch."

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  1. Sevo   10 years ago

    What more could you add?

    1. Rich   10 years ago

      I know! A green clown nose!

    2. Charles Easterly   10 years ago

      “What more could you add?”

      Eggs and ham?

  2. WTF   10 years ago

    Just when I think he can’t sink any lower, a new embarrassment comes along.

    1. Rich   10 years ago

      The guy puts ‘ass’ in ’embarrassment’.

      1. WTF   10 years ago

        Nice

    2. Raven Nation   10 years ago

      And even when she’s asking the question he has the patronizing expression on his face.

  3. Rich   10 years ago

    “When you do something over and over again for fifty years and it doesn’t work, it’s time to try something new.”

    Well said, Mr. President. End the “War on Drugs”.

    1. WTF   10 years ago

      End the welfare state too, for that matter.

      1. Francisco d'Anconia   10 years ago

        War on terror.

        1. Raven Nation   10 years ago

          Still got 35 years to go on that one.

          How about signing an actual peace treaty with North Korea? And pulling US bases out of Europe?

          1. Spencer   10 years ago

            meh. north korea doesn’t matter. I mean, a peace treaty with them is about as valuable as NOT having a treaty.

            closing bases? YES. but then think of the unemployed masses with no viable private sector skills that will be unleashed upon the workforce in one go.

            1. Francisco d'Anconia   10 years ago

              Sarcasm?

  4. F. Stupidity, Jr.   10 years ago

    Bill Clinton puts the “dick” into “intern”.

    1. Francisco d'Anconia   10 years ago

      ISWYDT

    2. Free Society   10 years ago

      you’re good.

    3. sarcasmic   10 years ago

      Bill would have left with a lipstick ring.

  5. Francisco d'Anconia   10 years ago

    All infantile penis jokes and green lips aside, I agree wholeheartedly with his answer.

    1. Rich   10 years ago

      green lips aside

      Nice band name.

    2. DesigNate   10 years ago

      It’s just too bad that he can’t apply that logic anywhere else.

  6. Anonymous Coward   10 years ago

    I tried to pay attention, but I was distracted by her shiny, mint green lips.

  7. ettajtonn   10 years ago

    my neighbor’s ex-wife makes $62 every hour on the computer . She has been out of work for five months but last month her paycheck was $18411 just working on the computer for a few hours. try this site……..
    ?????? http://www.cashbuzz80.com

  8. Charles Easterly   10 years ago

    I thought it odd that she has a painting of herself on the wall. Well, that and the green lipstick.

    1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

      I’m guessing that Obama also has a painting of himself on the wall. Several, actually.

  9. sarcasmic   10 years ago

    penis + potato + ocean liner = dictatorship

    *rim shot*

    1. Spencer   10 years ago

      Guy gets naked and puts a spud between his legs for halloween- tells his wife it’s his dictator costume.

      She goes to the kitchen and comes back with no clothes and a lemon between her legs. Says if he can be a dictator she’s going as a sourpuss.

      1. Almanian!   10 years ago

        Obama murderdrones them both, says, “I’m going as the President of the US.”

        1. Harold Falcon   10 years ago

          He’d win the costume contest by default!

  10. GILMORE   10 years ago

    “cultural randos”

    Omg like seriously? I just can’t even.

    Also, does that woman have a painting of herself on the wall? and purposely wanted people to see that?

    I would like to meet the person for whom who this sort of spot ‘polled well’. And kill them for the good of remaining mankind.

  11. PapayaSF   10 years ago

    “If you try something for 50 years and it doesn’t work, it’s time to try something new.”

    So Obama is going to end the War on Poverty?

  12. Almanian!   10 years ago

    Her green lipstick would look EXCELLENT on my cock.

    That is all.

    1. PapayaSF   10 years ago

      Ick. For both green lipstick and the woman wearing it.

    2. Paul.   10 years ago

      You know else had sexy time with women wearing green makeup?

      1. Harold Falcon   10 years ago

        Kermit?

  13. Space   10 years ago

    Obama/Dem “War On Poverty” greater failure than under LBJ and Obama/Dems put an end to new thinking like school vouchers to allow poor children to attend good schools.

  14. flashgordon   10 years ago

    If you allow free speech, you never know what is going to happen. Long live the first amendment.

    1. Harold Falcon   10 years ago

      I’m not sure how any of this applies to the First Amendment, but ok.

  15. Harold Falcon   10 years ago

    The most powerful single individual on Planet Earth was voluntarily interviewed by a green-lipstick-wearing bathtub-cereal-eating retard. Thanks, Obama.

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