I feel frustrated because I haven’t had the chance to post my thoughts on Barack Obama going Mr. Miyagi on a White House fly during a TV interview.
The first thing that occurred to me is, Wow. Great reflexes.
The second thing was, What a tragedy that SNL is done for the season. What the world needs is Will Ferrell as GWB doing an interview and a fly buzzes in and lands on his head, and he knocks himself unconscious.
The third thing was, I can’t wait for PETA and Jeff Goldblum to weigh in on this. I wish I posted it yesterday, because then I’d look psychic, because PETA bìŧçhëd about it this morning and Goldblum showed up on Colbert this evening.
Ah well. Maybe the Ferrell thing will happen somewhere.
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I will say, I tend to swat flies in my house but not if I’m somewhere else. I’d probably just shoo it away at that point.
Also, I’m surprised the fly fell off onto the ground and died. The way Obama twacked it, you’d figure it’d just explode into mush on his hand.
PETA weighed in, and a fly is an insect, not really an animal.
Rachel Maddow had a bit tonight at the end of her show where people are already making this into video clips with added sound effects, rap beats, and other various things.
PETA is dead wrong (not the first time). Flies are animals. Granted, you can’t really pat them, but they absolutely are part of Kingdom Animalia.
And how sweet it would have been had President Obama looked at the camera and said:
“This is a no fly zone.”
Well, Peter, Stephen Colbert commented on this both on Wednesday’s AND Thursday’s show. And the latter had Jeff Goldblum on it. So, if you haven’t seen it yet, set the DVR for the reruns tomorrow.
Yes, I know that, Kim. That’s why I said in my initial posting that Goldblum had been on Colbert.
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Sigh. This is the drawback of responding to things late at night — and to the brain slowly drying out.
You forgot to mention why Goldblum is getting all of this attention in the first place, Peter. Keith Olbermann mentioned on his show that “the fly turned out to be Jeff Goldblum” and he said “Big deal! Mr. Miyagi did it with chop sticks!” Who needs SNL with Olbermann telling lame jokes on a “news show!”
My first reaction was someone needs to take the ‘internal monologe” from the end of Psycho and re-edit the clip.
“Let them see what kind of a person I am. I’m not even going to swat that fly. I hope they are watching… they’ll see. They’ll see and they’ll know, and they’ll say, “Why, she wouldn’t even harm a fly…”
Alan Coil: PETA weighed in, and a fly is an insect, not really an animal.
Luigi Novi: Were you or PETA being facetious, Alan? Insects obviously are animals.
Perhaps PETA wishes to make a movie starring James Garner–
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“Embrace Your Local Tse-Tse Fly.”
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My position is that if it doesn’t breathe oxygen, it ain’t an animal.
Flies breathe oxygen.
http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/reprint/17/4/402.pdf
love the title!! All I can say is that I just moved from an awful house with tons of flies, and boy I could a used my own personal Obama to take care of them. That was flash.
I liked his comment “I got the sucker” When is the last time you heard a President say that?
I think PETA has finally jumped the shark..
Ha!
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PETA jumped the shark a long time ago. This isn’t even halfway to being the craziest thing I’ve heard from them.
Don’t know how high this ranks on the PETA crazy-request meter, but earlier this year they publicly requested the music group Pet Shop Boys (who are still together making music) change their name to Animal Shelter Boys, because ‘pet shop’ has a major negative connotation to it, given how animals get treated there. Or words to that effect.
Chris
I liked his comment “I got the sucker” When is the last time you heard a President say that?
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I’m pretty sure Bush said it every time he showed off Saddam’s gun that he kept as a trophy.
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I do believe this is the first time any U.S. President has killed something on live TV.
What about G W Bush’s murder of the English language?
Meh, the populace (especially those of them who indulge in txt-spk or l33t-sp34k or some other kind of idiotic ‘net pseudo-language) have been murdering English for years. Dubya merely sends it to the ER…
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And if there’s one thing this planet *isn’t* lacking a massive surplus of, it’s flies. Somebody needs to figure out how to run cars off ’em…
Luigi Novi: Were you or PETA being facetious, Alan? Insects obviously are animals.
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I taught a zoology class my first year of teaching and oh how they bìŧçhëd about how we were wasting time with “bugs” and when were we going to study “real animals”.
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(I asked what constituted “real animals” and got a distressing amount of “horsies” “duckies” aardvarks (who let that kid in?) etc etc.)
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(I guess PETA had to do something after their campaign to rename fish “Sea Kittens” went over like a lead balloon. Interestingly, my local Korean restaurant now calls cat “land fish”.)
Ah yes, but can he dodge a shoe?
Its great to see a president with reflexes, the hidden message being, “don’t mess with me or my country or I’ll swat as easily as that fly, after which I’ll have a guy say “nice” “.
Anyone see a remake where the fly says “help me” before being swatted, that would be good.
Ooh! Ooh!
A Dodgeball game!
Bush!
Obama!
Pay Per View!
Pay off the National Debt; bail out some more poorly run businesses that “can’t be allowed to fail”!!!
Flies and roaches spread disease and are generally nasty creatures. They are the only things I kill without remorse. PETA as an organization whørëš for attention at the slightest of premises and it is ridiculous that it gets even a mention in the press anymore.
Ah, yes, PETA — Pet Executioners and Terrorist Abetters.
Considering the thousands of animals PETA has murdered, I don’t think they have any right to be bìŧçhìņg about a dead housefly.
– Frank