Obama special olympics gaffe on Leno

tech77 · 20-03-2009 04:20PM #1

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/5020442/Barack-Obama-makes-special-Olympics-gaffe-on-Jay-Lenos-The-Tonight-Show.html

Jaysus.
I like this guy but what was he thinking.
Worthy of Bush any day.

javaboy · 20-03-2009 04:25PM

I marshalled at the Special Olympics bowling here a few years back. They would have wiped the floor with him and his 129.

stovelid · 20-03-2009 04:25PM

All the hysterical obama-love and expectation is like a swollen dam at the minute. A few more of these and we can start ripping him up and feeling superior again.

ScumLord · 20-03-2009 04:28PM

The dream is over, burn the white house!

20-03-2009 04:38PM

L M F A O

tech77 · 20-03-2009 04:43PM

WTF happened to the other posts?

javaboy · 20-03-2009 04:45PM

tech77 wrote: »

WTF happened to the other posts?

Obliterated.

Homer · 20-03-2009 04:47PM

javaboy wrote: »

Obliterated.

Apologies JB forgot where I was for a minute!

Memo to self and all that!

egan007 · 20-03-2009 04:51PM

That's not a gaf - it's a JOKE!

Fox will be calling him a racist for this.....

Biggins · 20-03-2009 04:52PM

Meh! Molehill made into a mountain.
Next...

Smart Bug · 20-03-2009 05:06PM

I'd say Leno was bowled over by that comment.

Thank you, I'm here all weekend, try the veal.

dsmythy · 20-03-2009 05:09PM

Biggins wrote: »

Meh! Molehill made into a mountain.
Next...

And if Bush had said it...

Biggins · 20-03-2009 05:11PM

dsmythy wrote: »

And if Bush had said it...

Well seeing as he could actually quality for the Special Olympics if he wanted to, I'd think nothing of it to be honest. :P

ScumLord · 20-03-2009 05:13PM

dsmythy wrote: »

And if Bush had said it...

He was better at them, the way he'd drag it out so everyone got a chance to fully appreciate what he was saying. Then just as you thought it was over he'd go on to try and cover it up or explain it but he couldn't. I miss Bushy boy.

thelordofcheese · 20-03-2009 05:14PM

apology already issued.

All we'll get is about 24hours of Fox news et al. trying to sling mud over this, while conveniently forgetting that they don't hold any truck with "political correctness".

If we're lucky there'll be something decent on from either Colbert or Stewart over this.

Captain-America · 20-03-2009 05:18PM

egan007 wrote: »

That's not a gaf - it's a JOKE!

Fox will be calling him a racist for this.....

Because people who partake in the special olympics are a race of people?

Ass · 20-03-2009 05:20PM

Ironic that they're talking about Obama making jokes about the special Olympics. I thought the Special Olympics was a joke?

pwd · 20-03-2009 05:20PM

He should have a bowling match with a special olympics athlete. That would be entertaining.

Ass · 20-03-2009 05:21PM

pwd wrote: »

He should have a bowling match with a special olympics athlete. That would be entertaining.

Yeah, Obama would wipe the foor with them! It would be hilarious.

walshb · 20-03-2009 05:21PM

I'm fairly open minded, but that was a bit tasteless and a slip of the tongue doesn't excuse it

Wagon · 20-03-2009 05:24PM

Ah i dunno, the chap just seems to have a dark sense of humour. I still like him more than that monkey he took over from.

Captain-America · 20-03-2009 05:34PM

walshb wrote: »

I'm fairly open minded, but that was a bit tasteless and a slip of the tongue doesn't excuse it

I wouldn't say so, every makes jokes like this so long as they have some sense of humour. I'd say he just got a little to comfortable with himself and didn't realise where he was.

robby^5 · 20-03-2009 05:36PM

Uh the PC crowd over react yet again, big fuss over nothing.

Naos · 20-03-2009 05:36PM

Shocker: He used a phrase I'm sure many have used before, myself included.

Disease Ridden · 20-03-2009 05:39PM

robby^5 wrote: »

Uh the PC crowd over react yet again, big fuss over nothing.

Exactly. Can people say anything discriminatory these days without getting fukking eaten? Whatever happened to free speech and all that?

RonMexico · 20-03-2009 05:41PM

Relax he meant to say retarded.

:pac:

markok84 · 20-03-2009 05:42PM

Did anyone catch Jay Lenos comment..... I mean just coz Obama is black doesn't mean he'll only want a basketball court in the white house, I'm suprised he didn't ask him if he enjoys eating watermelon and rotisserie chicken.:pac:

petethebrick · 20-03-2009 05:47PM

Reminds me of the time Tiger Woods got in a bit of bother for saying he was a 'spaz' or spasticated for making some bad golf shot or other

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4902432.stm

thelordofcheese · 20-03-2009 05:50PM

markok84 wrote: »

Did anyone catch Jay Lenos comment..... I mean just coz Obama is black doesn't mean he'll only want a basketball court in the white house, I'm suprised he didn't ask him if he enjoys eating watermelon and rotisserie chicken.:pac:

Obama is a keen basketball player....

stovelid · 20-03-2009 05:57PM

markok84 wrote: »

Did anyone catch Jay Lenos comment..... I mean just coz Obama is black doesn't mean he'll only want a basketball court in the white house, I'm suprised he didn't ask him if he enjoys eating watermelon and rotisserie chicken.:pac:

The court is going in after they install his glock cabinet.

AnonoBoy · 20-03-2009 06:01PM

Seriously? That was it? :rolleyes:

I thought he was going to impersonate a Special Olympics Athlete or something.

Obama special olympics gaffe on Leno

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