Pioneer Press apologizes for calling President Obama an 'assclown'
Source: MyFoxTwinCities (KMSP-TV)
This morning, the Pioneer Press created some waves by calling President Obama an "assclown."
The off-color remark came in the context of the PiPress's "Loop Ten" feature, which is a slideshow that serves as sports producer Kevin Cusick's "daily countdown of the top newsmakers, groundbreakers and world-class fakers."
Clocking in at a tie for number three in today's installment was "selfies." That entry is accompanied by an image of Obama holding a selfie stick in an apparent effort to take a photo of himself.
That's all well and good, but where Cusick got himself in trouble was with the text below the image.
"A fool-proof way to make yourself look like a self-absorbed assclown," it said.
Read more: http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/story/28119541/pioneer-press-apologizes-for-calling-president-obama-an-assclown
The St. Paul Pioneer Press is one of two remaining Twin Cities daily newspapers (the other being the Minneapolis Star Tribune).
By the way, this local Fox affiliate is NOTHING like the notorious national Fox News.
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Thanks to YBR31 in #12, here is some vital context:
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(298,960 posts)Eric Ferguson · Follow · Top Commenter · University of Wisconsin-River Falls
"The conservatives commenting here are revealing a lot about themselves, and it's ugly. How is it not obvious Obama was making fun of selfies, not indulging in them? Unless some people want very hard to not understand."
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(10,993 posts)Cha
(298,960 posts)BTW, progree.. mahalo for your OP.
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(10,993 posts)Cha
(298,960 posts)Cha
(298,960 posts)progree
(10,993 posts)Sean Hubin - still ZILCH.
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(298,960 posts)progree
(10,993 posts)(This also fits in with the "assclown" theme of this thread)
Cha
(298,960 posts)I don't know why I decided to thank you in Espanol(what little I know).. but, then I decided to go for it with "Bueno".
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Cha
(298,960 posts)KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)we are lucky to get anything more than our foreheads in the shot but when young folk take selfies they look like professional portraits?
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(298,960 posts)and it turned out okay..
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(298,960 posts)Eric Ferguson, too!
SunSeeker
(52,082 posts)Skittles
(153,708 posts)a president checking out a currently popular activity does not seem unreasonable to me.......it's the OBSESSION that makes you a self-absorbed ASSCLOWN
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(63,396 posts)YBR31
(152 posts)The President wasn't really taking a selfie. The scene was a part of a longer video supposedly showing the President doing "normal things but was really an appeal for Obamacare sign ups. Pulling any one scene from it is ridiculous. By the way, the video has aired on multiple media outlets and has gotten millions of hits.[link:
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