Joe Scarborough Mocks Obama and His “Dainty Pitching” (video); Update: Obama’s Uncool “Dad” Jeans
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on July 15, 2009
This video is really going to annoy the crud out of die-hard liberals who are baseball fans. Obama-bot Hell.
Barack Obama pitches like a wimp and George W. Bush pitches like, well, a regular guy.
Obama throws like he’s afraid of the ball, lobbing it high and slow like it’s a kid’s wiffle ball… did he spend too much time picking out his outfit? He doesn’t seem to realize that he’s pitching the first pitch for the MLB All Stars Game, a historical event for a US president. Captured forever… to be mocked forever. Priceless.
July 15 edition, MSNBC’s Morning Joe: Joe Scarborough Mocks Obama Baseball Pitch As “A Bit Dainty”
Yes, this is a delicious cringe-worthy moment that we conservatives will relish for many years… I know kids in T-ball who would do better, 70-year-old women who would do better. I played softball and baseball a few decades back, have gained about 50 pounds, given birth twice, live at the computer, and chubby me would do far better. Pitiful.
You’d think he would have thought to practice a bit before stepping on the mound in front of the TV cameras. Like maybe after going to lunch for burgers with Crazy Joe Biden. (Update: He DID *you’re kidding?* get coached to pitch correctly, see Politico excerpt below).
Strangely enough, the liberal organization Media Matters created this video. Ironic. And then, to add insult to injury, we get to watch Obama “gutter bowl.” Thanks, Media Matters! Laughter is an effective tonic for what ails you. Scarborough didn’t hold back with his teasing (purt near mocking) of Obama.
From Politico:
On Tuesday, Obama was put to another test: throwing out his first pitch as president. He had practiced with Reggie Love. He got advice from Willie Mays. But the pitch was a bit of a lob and while it didn’t hit the ground, it also didn’t clear the plate, like Obama had wanted. It was fine. But not the impressive performance some expected from the athletic president.
Even his hometown paper, the Chicago Tribune, said he was “lacking in style points on his short southpaw lob to home plate.”
Then there were the Dad Jeans – otherwise known as the Levis Obama sported when he threw out the pitch.
“Did Obama’s stylist come steal them from the closet of Frank Stransky?” a writer for Entertainment Weekly, Tanner Stransky, wrote in a blog post, apparently referring to his own father.
“I suppose President Obama is indeed a father, so we should allow him such a strike against humanity,” the blog continued. “And I guess he couldn’t have come out in skin-tight baseball pants (or, rather, why not?) or the suit pants that he normally dons. But my, oh my. I wasn’t ready to see him in such an ill-fitting pair of what look like 501s. I thought he was cooler than that, somehow. This humanizing of the President doesn’t sit so well with me.”
Lovely way to end my day… “daintiness” is wildly underestimated as a stress reliever. A crowd of baseball fans booing The One doesn’t hurt, either.
More Obama-baseball-related stuff:
Hot Air: Video: Baseball-loving president nostalgic for, um, “Cominskey Field” and Video: Even All-Star Game not safe from gratuitous Obama photo ops and CNN wonders: Could Obama be overexposed?
Nice Deb: Compare/Contrast Obama/Bush First Pitches
The West Coast Outpost: My Obama FailBlog submission…
Founding Bloggers: Is It Fair To Say President Obama Throws Like A Girl?
Michelle Malkin: Fashion disasters of the week
Jim Blazsik: Obama makes first pitch at All-Stars – didn’t make the plate!
Support Your Local Gunfighter: Obama Booed At MLB All-Star Game
Politico: Obama losing his cool?
Gateway Pundit: President Defends Mom Jeans… Mum On Dirtball Sissy Pitch and OBAMA BOOED IN ST. LOUIS!… And Throws a Sissy Pitch (Video)
GOP Counter Culture: Sissy pitch in a man’s sport
Pronk Palisades: Obama’s Girly Man Pitch–Arnold Needs To Pump Him Up!
Vigilo Canis Blog: And Pitching For The Blue Team, Barack Ooooooooobama!
The Western Experience: You call that a pitch, Mr. President?
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AND NOW PITCHING FOR THE BLUE TEAM, BARACK OOOOOOOOOBAAAAAAAAMA!!
He walked to the baseball diamond with his trademark graceful stride, cool and confident, wide smile, and brimming with charisma.
He looked impeccable walking to the White House podium;he was poised to pitch each program. His pitches were the change up, fast ball, and curve ball, better known as….bail out, take over, and Stimulus. But journalists only wanted to know which tie was he wearing with that handsome tailored suit. “He’s so Jack Kennedy” and; “Look, he doesn’t even sweat!”
The baseball crowd was mesmerized by his Dontrelle Willis style wind up, hands held high over his head, the big leg kick; they never once doubting his ability to deliver. Besides, he’s so cool.
And after all, isn’t presentation half the battle?
……Then the release. The ball left his strong left hand like ink left his pen signing bills for each give away .
The ball, the bailout,the Stimulus bucks;… they flew.
All had confidence that this god that many had come to worship, would deliver both a 95 mile per hour fast ball and a quick month fast economic recovery, straight over home plate, with his perfect follow through taught in the minor leagues of community organizing.
He delivered neither.
The pitcher and president delivered a pathetic little pitch that men called girlie, which only a skilled catcher could rescue from landing in the dirt. The country, rapidly losing hope, is still waiting to see who will save this country when his programs eventually hit the ground.
The crowd immediately looked wistfully to bull pen, for a new pitcher, a new team…. a new hero.
They were tired of the blue team. They never won the big one. Only broken promises and crushed dreams, they could deliver.
They had expected too much and sacrificed too much for their tickets….but he looked so cool They want their money back. But alas, the bank is closed