I can't stop seeing an ice-cream cone smushed on his head.
So, this happened. The Russian "political art group" (aka "state employees") Moscow Student Initiative created this laser light show for President Obama's 53rd birthday.
This happened a few hours after unveiling this poster across the street:
"I don't see, I don't hear, I don't speak the truth to anyone. Nyuck nyuck nyuck."
That last part was fake. (via Gawker)
I'd say that Americans are outraged and are standing up to demand that we leave politics at the water's edge and defend our national pride against Putin's stooges, except obviously, many kinds of people who comment online love this.
Why would he not peel the banana? This makes no sense.
Depending on your political beliefs, apparently, one of two things happened last night:
1.) Pro-government Russian students made an overtly racist and homophobic laser light show that depicted the sitting and twice-elected President of the United States performing oral sex on a banana, before displaying the message "Happy Birthday."
Actually, let's forget version #2 right now. This is objectively what happened. Let's not make some kind of cable news mistake by pretending two versions of reality are equally valid. This isn't even a particularly huge deal, because Russians are...um...assholes. It's government policy. There were posters all over the country promoting the Olympics showing Obama, a banana, and the phrase "don't choke."
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— MUHOMOL (@muhomol) July 26, 2014
They love monkey/banana/dick jokes (and so do a lot of people here in the US)—one of their Olympic caused an international scandal by tweeting out a photoshopped image of Obama eating a banana, and she was subsequently elected to Parliament.
Russians be like...
Just as a reminder, if a "student group" was to portray a pro-gay image of someone blowing something, they'd be beaten and sent to jail. This is cool, though.
Can we also keep in mind that, regardless of your opinion of Obama, the reason Russia is so angry right now is that the US and the EU have imposed sanctions because Russia is trying to annex even more of Eastern Europe, and they (at the very least) created the situation that brought down a passenger jet and killed hundreds of civilians? Or could there be...a stupider explanation?
Oh. So, you just want to gloat and pretend this validates everything you say after five beers and glancing around to make sure no one funny-lookin' is listening? Ok. Then version #2 of reality is for you! It is available in its full form on comments sections all over the Internet, particularly at The Gateway Pundit, which is where this story went viral in the US. It's kind of like the last stages of Ebola, but in comment form.
Does that last guy think that Africa is a city?
Incidentally, there's a Richard Fontaine who is a former McCain advisor and currently president of Center For A New American Security. I'm sure it's not the same guy.
(by Johnny McNulty)