Barack Obama Launches Devastating Attack on Barking Carnival
Earlier today, the President of the United States launched a devastating broadside against Barking Carnival. His words cut to the quick and we're all still a bit shaken. Although our President did not name names, it's clear enough that we were the target.
I must break you
DEVASTATING REBUKE FOLLOWS:
"We're not going to be able to solve our problems if we get distracted by sideshows and carnival barkers," the president said.
I've read that statement a dozen times and every time I feel like I've had a small stroke. Like a dog paddle of a stroke. There is a predator drone disguised as a pigeon circling my neighborhood.
Perhaps he means some other carnival barkers, you remark, blithely.
Really? Read on:
He declared, "We do not have time for this kind of silliness."
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Most carnival barkers are not silly. They are straightforward touts. We are silly. Very, very silly. Message received, Mr President.
Now my San Francisco neighbors hate me as if I'd screamed out "faggots!" in a Farmer's Market, Sailor Ripley lost his car pooling privileges and found an Eracism sticker on his SUV, and Vasherized called me weeping. Literally bawling. He actually hasn't been affected. It's just Wednesday.
It gets weirder...
I get a hand-delivered letter twenty minutes ago. It had a gilded T on the envelope and was sealed with a fragrant waxy vellum. The impressions of a signet ring - a D laid over a T - were still fresh in the carnauba. It smelled of pine cones and inheritance. A note scrawled with a fine ink quill read:
Listen, you're very classy and I'm the classiest ally you could possibly have in helping to call out this administration for its lack of class and you're going to be very big and everyone regards you as a hero and I should know because I've had great success in everything I've done and everyone knows this and even my enemies admit that I am very classy and very successful in all things and King of New York.
~ The Donald ~
Why is Donald Sutherland writing me?!?!
Here at Barking Carnival, I have always taken great pains in avoiding talking politics. Although I love discussing ideas, I hate talking politics, because politics are to ideas what sledgehammers are to window cleaning. It engenders petty resentments and tribalism amongst our magnificent readers and I'm forced to read your ridiculous ideas about how the world works.
I've been racking my brain about how I may have possibly caused offense, and I can think of only these incidents:
Incident #1
I remarked to a friend, on what I erroneously believed to be an untapped phone line, that only in effete Washington DC could midget ballerina Rahm Emanuel be considered a tough guy. It's the same math that allowed Norman Mailer to be considered a badass in the literary set. I could have beaten up Gore Vidal as an 8th grader. Thank you. I simply offered that I would liver punch Emanuel if he ever tried to make me vote against proclaiming October 13th Klingon Appreciation Day. By the way, Rip Torn hit Norman Mailer with a hammer. Not Mailer! I must kill Kingsley! No, baby. You trust me, baby.
The 1970s - what were you people doing?
Incident #2
Once, after Chykie Brown surrendered a 61 yard touchdown, I blurted out: "Obama Indonesian Muslim Trotskyite Nanny State!" I was immediately consumed by guilt. I do not understand why I did this. It just happened. It was there in my subconscious and it came out. In my defense, I've also screamed out: "George Bush Fuckpants Uranium Cake Excessive Borrowing!" when Blake Gideon took a bad angle.
Incident #3
I mentioned, off-hand, in a grocery store checkout line, that Michelle Obama had nice, toned arms. In no way was I hitting on or disrespecting The First Lady.
Would though
Incident #4
Like everyone, I like to put all of the presidents in brackets, seed them like the NCAA Tournament, and imagine them bare knuckle boxing under Marquis De Queensbury rules in which the referee can punish a foul by flogging the offender with a switch, fights last five hours, and hip throws are legal.
I offer you whatfor, sir! A firm biffle to your nozzle!
I had a George Washington - Teddy Roosevelt final. Taft really took a lot out of Andrew Jackson and TR rolled over him in the quarterfinals. Washington got a hell of a fight from Lincoln, but power punching triumphed over Lincoln's sharp jab.
I had Obama going out in the 2nd round to Warren G Harding after trouncing James Monroe in 1st round. I stand behind that. A week ago, I couldn't find my bracket on the fridge, where it had been since March, 2009. Had it been spirited to our Commander-in-Chief by spec ops? Is this why I'm being punished? Does he think he's Elite 8 material?
***
I apologize for any offense to our President. For suggesting he's too skinny to beat up Warren G Harding, for hitting on Michelle, for suggesting his enforcer was a bit of a puss, for yelling out horrible things that I don't even believe. I am deeply sorry for any pain I may have caused and we would like to return this country to the important business of reality television and Youtube kitten videos.
Thank you and God Bless Us, Every One.
/Curtsy/
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If you can’t throw a baseball, you can’t throw a punch.
Leslie Lynch King, Jr. wins the Presidential Battle Royale.
by magnusbleuveigner on Apr 27, 2025 5:35 PM CDT reply actions
Wow.
Football season can’t get here fast enough.
by Yellow Dog on Apr 27, 2025 5:37 PM CDT reply actions
magnus -
Negative.
Gerald Ford tripped and impaled himself on his own spit bucket a la Million Dollar Baby after Polk sucked punched him.
Did make it to the Sweet 16 though.
by Scipio Tex on Apr 27, 2025 5:41 PM CDT reply actions
I also would add offense # 4 “associating aggie with the current administration”, although at first glance aggie and the current administration may seem strange bedfellows, I draw your attention to the frequent aggie bromide “leading from behind” which has also been adopted by those currently in power.
Do not think they have missed your blog’s frequent ridicule of this innovative idea.
Were I you, I would be chastened. You should expect a battalion of French soldiers to move upon you with the swiftness of Sam Adams, and the resoluteness of a Californian at the brink of bankruptcy. Expect also the deployment of some American combat control aircraft and air tankers.
by roach on Apr 27, 2025 5:53 PM CDT reply actions
i think we’ve all known it’s just been a matter of time. sorry if it came as a surprise. i don’t think any of us had the heart to bring it up.
Requiem æternam dona eis, Domine.
by i'm so sorry on Apr 27, 2025 5:57 PM CDT reply actions
Vasherized called me weeping. Literally bawling. He actually hasn’t been affected. It’s just Wednesday.
Just be thankful you don’t live in Austin. I don’t think I can take another Wednesday evening of finding Vash in my front yard, solemnly blaring Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes” at full volume out of a ghetto blaster held above his head.
by BrickHorn on Apr 27, 2025 6:00 PM CDT reply actions
Saw my first “Where’s the tote bag?” billboard today.
by Cloward-Piven in Chief on Apr 27, 2025 6:40 PM CDT reply actions
First finance, now politics. Allsome!
Can we do string theory next?
by jc25 on Apr 27, 2025 6:46 PM CDT reply actions
Great job, btw. Incident #2 is my personal favorite and the likely culprit.
by jc25 on Apr 27, 2025 6:47 PM CDT reply actions
you’re seriously underestimating Lincoln here…
this is especially true if you’re taking them at the time of their Presidency and not in their physical primes.
by The Bobs on Apr 27, 2025 7:16 PM CDT reply actions
To be fair, Harding over Obama is an insulting pick. Dude died from congestive heart failure two years into his first term and the most athletic thing on his resume is “accomplished cornet player”.
by Dagga Roosta on Apr 27, 2025 8:46 PM CDT reply actions
ok I’ll bite.
Scip, Who were the Final Four? Tr/George Washington Lincoln and ?
and how did you deal with the odd number crowd in the 3rd round? 44 >22>11? Assasination?
by ChemEinCO on Apr 27, 2025 8:53 PM CDT reply actions
Good news, Scip. Incidents 1 and 2 speak to a classic case of sports-induced Tourette’s. You’ve got a disability claim coming. And there’s probably evidence of dementia on top of it, what with you having Monroe as such a high seed.
by OldTimeHorn on Apr 27, 2025 11:40 PM CDT reply actions
The surest side bet was the for the shortest match. Towering over his opponent by a full 12 inches, who couldn’t foresee Lyndon B. Johnson raining a flurry of vertical roundhouses onto the crown driving James ‘Mad Manikin’ Madison through the canvas faster than a railroad spike.
by triplehorn on Apr 27, 2025 11:42 PM CDT reply actions
Martin Van Buren will hug a man to death. He’s a dark horse for the elite eight.
by Toadvine on Apr 28, 2025 2:04 AM CDT reply actions
McKinley said he’ll fight anyone anywhere provided it’s not at a state fair.
If this were made for TV, there’s no way the execs would let the chance at Adams and Jefferson going at it slip through there fingers. In fact I predict the fight would be so bloody and devastating that both men would die from their wounds on July 4th, 1826.
by magnusbleuveigner on Apr 28, 2025 7:45 AM CDT reply actions
Aaron Burr wins in a walk if VPs are included.
by Toadvine on Apr 28, 2025 7:49 AM CDT reply actions
Chester B. Arthur! Any man with chops makes it deep in the tourney!
by steveholt!!!! on Apr 28, 2025 7:52 AM CDT reply actions
This is an actual video from Lincoln’s first therapy session:
by Toadvine on Apr 28, 2025 8:02 AM CDT reply actions
Washington, the man spent most of his life fighting. And all that time spent away from Martha probably led to some added aggression.
by kemit on Apr 28, 2025 8:34 AM CDT reply actions
If you play the tape backwards, Obama clearly says “All this will go away quietly, but it will cost you a totebag”.
by nordberg on Apr 28, 2025 9:22 AM CDT reply actions
Couple of nice digs in here from Scipio.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/27/carnival-barkers-slam-obama_n_854702.html
by nordberg on Apr 28, 2025 9:44 AM CDT reply actions
we shall not stay at camelot. it is a silly place.
by carnaval on Apr 28, 2025 10:23 AM CDT reply actions
Here’s the Prezy-Tourney dance-card :
Round 1 — Byes for George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abe Lincoln, Teddy R., Andrew Jackson, Freddy R., Truman, Ike, JFK and LBJ
That leaves 34 others for Round-1 CageFight Carnage (or Thrilling ThirtyFour)
Round 2 is Tantalizing TwentyTwo — 17 bloody Cage-Winners and add in Truman, Jackson, Ike, JFK and LBJ (G-Dub, Tee-Jay, AbieBaby, Freddy & Teddy get double byes)
Round 3 is Sweet Sixteen — 11 Round-2 winners plus five double byes
by JihadiHorn on Apr 28, 2025 11:21 AM CDT reply actions
Bring on the drunk. I’m gonna bend him over my knee like the first time i caught him with blow.
Gotta line up JQ Adams and old man Adams too…love to see father strength keep the little bastards in check.
by Daddy Bush on Apr 28, 2025 11:52 AM CDT reply actions
Lincoln was a huge mutant-freak. Evidence: http://www.cracked.com/blog/abraham-lincoln-portrait-crazy-badass/
by Daniel on Apr 28, 2025 11:54 AM CDT reply actions
Just to be clear: you were the only eighth grader in the world who had read the Gore Vidal oeuvre and enjoyed dropping the word “oeuvre” into your playground conversations.
by parlin on Apr 28, 2025 12:01 PM CDT reply actions
Yo where my sinecure at? Whaaaat?
You dead, dawg!
by Charles Guiteau on Apr 28, 2025 12:18 PM CDT reply actions
Behind every good man there is a woman, and that woman was Martha Washington, man, and everyday George would come home, she would have a big fat bowl waiting for him when he come in the door, man. She was a hip, hip, hip lady.
by Slater on Apr 28, 2025 3:36 PM CDT reply actions
Scipio, when are you going to start blogging live from the royal wedding?
by Texoz on Apr 28, 2025 9:39 PM CDT reply actions
“Although I love discussing ideas, I hate talking politics, because politics are to ideas what sledgehammers are to window cleaning.”
Well done sir.
As for Emanuel, he’s not a ballerina, he’s a swimmer. Don’t you fucking know that swimmers are way more manly and brutish than ballerinas? Yes, we shave our legs, but doesn’t that suggest a certain confidence and fuck-all attitude that allows one to rile up the uptight and righteous?
by wethorn on Apr 30, 2025 10:41 PM CDT reply actions
Regarding the First Lady, would too.
As long as you realize that Michelle would be playing the man in your relationship.
by bigdukesix on May 11, 2025 9:48 AM CDT reply actions

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