Meep My Ass
By mistermix April 1st, 2010
I’ve about had it with the constant “meep meep” references at Sully’s blog. Recall the basic RoadRunner plotline—it’s not that sophisticated:
He’s a jack-off. All he wants to do is “run down the road all day”. Perhaps, on rare occasions, he might “leave you in a heap”, but generally he “never bothers anyone”.
Obama can’t be that way. Running down the road might be his idea of having fun, but he can’t get shit done doing it. And he can’t be blowing up the crazy clowns every day. He has to work with those idiots.
If someone made a cartoon glorifying a careful plodder like Obama, it would be so fucking dull that showing it to children would verge on child abuse.
Posted in Black Jimmy Carter, Popular Culture
You know how Sadly No! commenters have that joke about always.trust.the.shorter? Well, I have one of my own: never.read.the.sully.
Utter bliss follows.
April 1st, 2010 at 1:16 pm
I think mayhaps you’re taking the analogy too far.
It’s useful insofar as the Republicans keep laying traps for Obama and he continues to get things accomplished despite them.
April 1st, 2010 at 1:17 pm
Between the Sullivan reference, the “meep” link, and the undefined pronouns in “he’s a jack off…..”, this post is so inside baseball that it gave Peter Gammons a woody.
April 1st, 2010 at 1:17 pm
You’re right about it not being an accurate portrayal of the President.
It is, however, dead-on about the Republicans.
April 1st, 2010 at 1:17 pm
Can we deconstruct the Roadrunner cartoons? I’d like that.
ACME represents the ultimate hollowness of Capitalism, FYI.
April 1st, 2010 at 1:18 pm
MisterMix:
You mean it would be just like Davey and Goliath?
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April 1st, 2010 at 1:18 pm
Ummm. Think you might be missing the point, rather. I don’t think the idea behind the “meep, meep” references is that Obama is supposed to run really fast all day, live in the desert, or wear distinctively colored feathers. It’s a reference to the fact that the GOP and the teatards (a distinctions without a difference?) wind up looking like Wile E. every time they try to take him out. They end up flattened, confused, and crispy around the edges, and are apparently incapable of learning from the experience. Meanwhile, RR sails blithely on toward whatever goal he’s set next.
Overthinking. You’re soaking in it.
April 1st, 2010 at 1:20 pm
@Very Reverend Crimson Fire of Compassion:
That’s exactly what he means. Road runner was always one step ahead of the coyote.
April 1st, 2010 at 1:21 pm
Actually, I always sort of liked Slowpoke Rodriguez better than his cousin.
April 1st, 2010 at 1:23 pm
@Pigs & Spiders:
agreed, RR always gets away no matter what Wiley tries. And then sneaks up behind him quietly and does the MEEP! MEEP! thing. LOL
April 1st, 2010 at 1:23 pm
I like the reference.
See Very Reverend Crimson Fire of Compassion above.
April 1st, 2010 at 1:23 pm
@JGabriel: LOL. Davy and Goliath is a perfect analogy. I was a cartoon addict as a kid and even I couldn’t watch that. Now Gumby on the other hand….
April 1st, 2010 at 1:23 pm
As much as people joke about various folks here being “Obots,” I think the term actually applies to Sully. He really has drunk the Kool-Aid on Obama and can see nothing wrong with him … except for the torture issue, but even there Sully excuses Obama’s tepid responses to what Sully seems to consider one of the preeminent moral issues of the day. A very strange sort of cognitive dissonance this is.
April 1st, 2010 at 1:25 pm
somehow this makes me leap to the cartoon of Daffy Duck getting shot in the face and has his bill facing backwards…also, too
April 1st, 2010 at 1:26 pm
Ahem.
April 1st, 2010 at 1:27 pm
@tratclif:
Too late, Joe lieberman is called Droopy, not because of being able to outsmart opponents but with the jowls and voice…well…he’s droopy.
April 1st, 2010 at 1:30 pm
A bit satire challenged on this April Fool’s Day, eh mistermix?
The Road Runner cartoons have never been about the bird, they’re about the futility of Wile E. Coyote’s efforts to catch him. Sully started his entire “meep meep” thing using the one cartoon—Soup or Sonic—where Wile E. actually caught the Road Runner. The cartoon ends with Mr. C holding up two signs reading, “OK, wise guys – you always wanted me to catch him,” and, “Now what do I do?”
meep meep!
As for Davey and Goliath, it was hilarious very early on Sunday morning as a wrap-up to a long, fun-filled, well-fueled Saturday night.
April 1st, 2010 at 1:30 pm
@Libby:
I read Atlas Shrugged last night, and Gumby is my new favorite cartoon character because he’s green: the color of money!
I also have a newfound admiration for Mr. Burns.
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April 1st, 2010 at 1:31 pm
Why Wile E Never just whipped out an AK and spelltered that birdshitferbrains all over Yuma I’ll never know…oh right, kids cartoon.
April 1st, 2010 at 1:32 pm
Excuse me if this has been mentioned
Here’s the link to Politico
It’s gotta be an April Fools joke, right?
April 1st, 2010 at 1:32 pm
Or it might look like this. I especially loved that the hare’s downfall comes from his inability to make it past a girl’s school.
April 1st, 2010 at 1:32 pm
I like the Road Runner. I like Obama. And I never read Sully.
I think that fixes it.
April 1st, 2010 at 1:33 pm
Has this always been an internet tradition? I saw it here for the first time yesterday and I love it.
April 1st, 2010 at 1:33 pm
I think the root of Sully’s Obama obsession is that the president is the kind of politician he always hoped the Republicans would produce—a moderate pragmatist who is socially liberal but conscious of national security and fiscal responsiblity.
The fact that no such candidate will ever crawl out of the Republican party’s cauldron of doom has left Sully with no other option but to hitch his wagon to Obama’s star.
April 1st, 2010 at 1:34 pm
I agree with Very Reverend Crimson Fire of Compassion synopsis of what Sully is saying.
Might bit overthinking a tad bit.
April 1st, 2010 at 1:35 pm
@Citizen Alan: Well, that bugs the brimstone out of me, too.
The only moderating factor is that if President Obama did concentrate on it, we’d have a national freakout, on top of a collapsing economy, the climate change issue, and not passing health care.
I have to give his priorities some credit; people were, and are, dying right now; as much as I’d love to see Bush administration assholes in orange jumpsuits, would I murder more innocents to get that done?
I probably couldn’t do that.
April 1st, 2010 at 1:35 pm
I have no idea what this top post means or what I am supposed to make of it.
I assume that you were drunk when you posted it.
April 1st, 2010 at 1:37 pm
Sully is very worth reading, in general. But this kind of thing from him is indeed, stupid.
April 1st, 2010 at 1:38 pm
@flukebucket: I’d like to point out I was using the phrase “You’re soaking in it” on my radio show in 1993;
I was Madge, the Omniscient Beautician, if this phrase does become an internet meme, I want a slice of the royalties!
April 1st, 2010 at 1:40 pm
There’s was a Doctor Who epsiode about someone playing “The Long Game”
Oh yeah.. a somewhat amorphous alien blob stirs up global discontent and restrains progress by manipulating the flow of information to deliberatly sow discord and panic.
Sounds more like the GOP actually.
April 1st, 2010 at 1:41 pm
Thank god someone wrote this. It’s about time.
Whatever you think about Sullivan – I read him but understand he’s not for everyone – this is a stupid tic of his that he needs to end.
April 1st, 2010 at 1:42 pm
The roadrunner goes “Beep, Beep”
“Meep” is Beaker from the Muppets tag line. A while back it was a high school craze around here, with the usual overreaction from school administratortatertots.
April 1st, 2010 at 1:43 pm
@flukebucket:
it’s been around quite a while.
you’re soaking in it
April 1st, 2010 at 1:45 pm
There’s a lot of soaking being done here.
April 1st, 2010 at 1:46 pm
Add me to the list of people who think that the meep meep analogy is basically sound.
I think it underestimates the sheer luck of Obama. I mean, seriously, his opponents are like the gang that could not shoot straight. Some of that is meep-meep, but a lot is sheer stupidity on their part.
Mark Sanford starts to get some traction as an anti-reform guy…then goes hiking in the appalachians. The GOP gets some moral superiority going on HCR and “ignoring the wishes of the people”...then we find they’ve been expensing debauched nights at a lesbian bondage strip club. Then we find it wasn’t them, but some consultant. Then we find the consultant was doing them a favor and they’ve ruined his life. HCR passes and the GOP starts saying how it is armageddon and then the insurers immediately start trying to weasel out of taking care of sick kids, so everyone thinks “got to regulate those bastards!” Etc, etc.
April 1st, 2010 at 1:46 pm
@Downpuppy:
The Little Nash Rambler, also, too.
April 1st, 2010 at 1:48 pm
“Let’s put up a lame I hate Sully post! That’ll get some comments.”
Throw-away.
April 1st, 2010 at 1:50 pm
Chalk me up as a big believer in Obama the chess player. The drilling compromise is just that….like it or not (I do not) there has to be some give and take. I feel Obama is showing the public “look, I am a reasonable guy” and waiting to see what the GOP does with it.
So far we have Palin sounding like the moron she is tweeting about how he’s drill baby drilling blah blah blah while still trashing him. Fine, she can do that BUT there has to be a situation where most Americans start to see GOP whining as just that.
Either come to the fucking table wingnuts, or STFU for good.
April 1st, 2010 at 1:51 pm
I’ve about had it with the constant “meep meep” references at Sully’s blog.
Remove “”meep meep”” and replace “at” with “to.”
April 1st, 2010 at 1:51 pm
@Remember November: Never mind that. WIth the Coyote’s budget, why didn’t he just order take-out?
-dms
April 1st, 2010 at 1:52 pm
GBear;
Thanks for the new version. The one they took down, with a giraffe & Clay Aiken, was the Little Pup’s all time favorite video.
April 1st, 2010 at 1:53 pm
@Very Reverend Crimson Fire of Compassion:
Good observation! The polls are killing due to the economy BUT this drilling thing does sell the idea that it’s a job creation/economic stimulus.
If he can keep selling this stuff, get the bank reform through (or dare the GOP to vote it down in the open) all while the economy improves, 2010 and 2012 may not be the bloodbath the right seems to think it will be. I doubt the GOP would gain enough seats to take over either branch of congress, but they can cause more problems gaining even a few seats in the Senate.
April 1st, 2010 at 1:56 pm
Eeeh, I disagree, I just listened to a clip on You Tube for a reality check. Sounds like “meep” to me.
April 1st, 2010 at 1:57 pm
@Downpuppy:
This is what actually bothers me about Sully using this analogy all the time (well, besides his increasingly reliant use of the phrase). I thought it was pretty well known and settled that the Roadrunner’s phrase is “beep, beep”, not “meep, meep.” Leave it to a Brit to fuck up that American classic.
@Very Reverend Crimson Fire of Compassion:
Yeppers.
April 1st, 2010 at 1:58 pm
@jron:
Slowpoke Rodriguez…He pack a gun.
April 1st, 2010 at 1:59 pm
@Tomlinson:
I always knew he was Irish.
And don’t forget about how Jack Ryan tripped up during Obama’s early Senate run.
The Republicans just never learn.
Also, too.
April 1st, 2010 at 1:59 pm
@GReynoldsCT00:
Well you know who disagrees with you?
The people who created the fucking thingWikipedia:I think we’re done here.
April 1st, 2010 at 2:01 pm
Absolutely it is Meep and not Beep.
ETA: Don’t care what Wiki or WB thinks. Meep meep is what the Road Runner SAYS.
April 1st, 2010 at 2:02 pm
@demo woman: Well, my husband did get that “census” thing in the mail yesterday and what a piece of work it is. How I wish it were an April Fool.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot. At the very end, it makes the pitch for money and if you don’t feel like donating as generously as they’d like you to, you have the option of donating $15 to cover the cost of processing the “census” form.
April 1st, 2010 at 2:03 pm
Obama is not “a careful plodder”—compare accomplishments to time in office. But it’s no use trying to rebut something if nothing’s cited in support. And half of what I’ve read this morning has turned out to be tedious April fooling, so I don’t even know if this is snark.
I hope this isn’t a change in tone. The other day, Greenwald scathingly misread a bland dKos lay-out of his PAC’s expenses, calling it a “smear” by “Obots.” Some blogs responded to his flaming as if the charge were true, much the same way MSM reacts to screams from the right about the “liberal” media.
April 1st, 2010 at 2:03 pm
@The Populist:
Agreed.
One of his readers says it pretty well.
That said, he is beating this imagery to death already.
April 1st, 2010 at 2:03 pm
@Midnight Marauder:
No need to be so harsh about it, sheesh
April 1st, 2010 at 2:04 pm
@eemom:
Why do you hate flightless birds with speech impediments?
April 1st, 2010 at 2:05 pm
@GReynoldsCT00:
Another retarded bird hater.
I THOUGHT THIS WAS AMERICA, SHEEPLE?!
April 1st, 2010 at 2:07 pm
@Midnight Marauder:
See paragraph four.
Touche
April 1st, 2010 at 2:07 pm
@Midnight Marauder:
FFS, we’re here saying how cool the Road Runner is, nobody’s hating!
April 1st, 2010 at 2:08 pm
@JGabriel:
He bestrode the planet
A haughty green tinged hue
John Galt
Howard Roark
and Gumby
The first rate
the proud
the few
April 1st, 2010 at 2:09 pm
I’ll leave it to you as to whether this is OT or not:
President Obama is going to be in my neck of the woods tomorrow. As you might imagine, hilarity is poised to ensue:
So NOW you “intend” to remain peaceful?
YOU.HAVE.GOT.TO.BE.KIDDING.ME.
April 1st, 2010 at 2:14 pm
@GReynoldsCT00:
Whoa, easy there. This is all in jest. There is no serious disagreement happening here (even though I disagree with you).
And for the record, I don’t care what Wikipedia says, I’m sticking with Wikipedia.
April 1st, 2010 at 2:14 pm
Congrats mistermix on successfully trolling the commentariat, on April Fools Day no less. I didn’t think it could be done, but you pulled it off. That ought to earn you a promotion to Boromander, or at least a box of Scooby Snacks.
I would like to pick a nit with this part, tho:
Whaddayamean, child abuse. I liked having The Little Engine That Could read to me when I was little. And look how I turned out.
Oh, wait…
April 1st, 2010 at 2:15 pm
@JGabriel: Ha! Personally I liked his sidekick Pokey the best. Trying to remember if they were the ones that were always blurping inside of story books for their adventures.
April 1st, 2010 at 2:21 pm
@dmsilev:
-dms
It’s not the bagging of the game, it’s the thrill of the chase…
April 1st, 2010 at 2:25 pm
I always liked the Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius version who tangled with Bugs Bunny more. The sheer arrogance and sureness of his superiority make him an even better representation of the whacko-GOP IMO.
The real question, however, is if John Cole would start banning people who used meep-meep or beep-beep as posts. Lord knows the FIRST! meme is still going strong…
April 1st, 2010 at 2:28 pm
Meep can be awesome.
But that ain’t ole Beep Beep in the vid.
April 1st, 2010 at 2:44 pm
Let’s just move this whole metaphor over to the Tom and Jerry show.
Tom = Repugs, Jerry = Obama, Leg Lady we never see = Hillary.
April 1st, 2010 at 2:46 pm
@cleek:
@Redshirt:
How well I remember this commercial.
But I had never seen “you’re soaking in it” used in such a fashion.
Just like “that’s what she said” it can be used in so many instances.
April 1st, 2010 at 2:52 pm
While Wile E. Coyote is a damn good representation of the Republicans of late, Obama more resembles Bugs Bunny’s nemesis in this particular cartoon (even the halting speech pattern that is often mistakenly interpreted as being “slow”):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRNuivruJaw
April 1st, 2010 at 2:52 pm
@Midnight Marauder: Oh, fie on Wiki! I’ll take the story told by Chuck Jones’ honorary niece.
April 1st, 2010 at 3:09 pm
Gotta give Sully props on this one. Sure, he might over-use the metaphor a bit. But it works.
April 1st, 2010 at 3:16 pm
@EEH: Huh? Seemed like a pretty straightforward census form to me – simpler than what I remember of the last two.
April 1st, 2010 at 3:34 pm
@Noonan:
One thing Sully knows well from being on the right – if you want to win in the court of public opinion, you pick a simple appealing metaphor that people can easily understand without thinking about it too much, and then you beat that sucker to death, just hammer it into the ground over and over and over again. Repetition really does win in the long run. It is annoying as all hell if you see through the propaganda, especially when coming from the other side, but it is hard to argue that this technique doesn’t deliver results. And this is something the Dems are notoriously bad at. Sully is doing for Obama what the Reps did for Reagan back in his day – pick a simple, appealing public image that people will remember (in Reagan’s case it was the aww, shucks grandfatherly image) and hammer it home at every chance.
April 1st, 2010 at 3:38 pm
@Hob: This isn’t the official census form (and you’re right, it was simpler than the last one.)
My husband is a registered Republican and this was a fund-raiser mailing that they called a “census” with all sorts of questions on his views such as does he trust Democrats to protect America against terrorists? Is he happy that Democrats control everything? And so on.
The back page is really what it’s all about as it’s all about how much money he’s willing to send the RNC.
April 1st, 2010 at 3:48 pm
@dmsilev: Dammit, I loved the Road Runner cartoons
Y’know, that’s a damn good question.
April 1st, 2010 at 4:13 pm
@EEH: Oops, I wasn’t reading carefully, sorry. That sounds ridiculous (and predictable).
April 1st, 2010 at 4:22 pm
@The Populist: Agreed. Anyone want to say that I’ve drunk the kool-aid? Fine. You can say I’ve gargled it for all I care. I am fucking stoked that this man is president. I was a believer before the primaries, and he’s lived up to my expectations while multiple naysayers said he was bound to lose to Hillary/McCain/The GOP/(fill in the blank).
April 1st, 2010 at 4:37 pm
@SpotWeld:
Not Dr. Who, but “Down in the Black Gang,” I think it was called. Interesting story—the universe runs on tears, and there are people who must see to it there are enough.
Ed
April 1st, 2010 at 6:45 pm
@JGabriel:
Wasn’t that what General Bullmoose said about Joe Btfsplk? The General liked the little bad-luck klutz because ‘he was the color of money.’
Ed
April 1st, 2010 at 6:53 pm
When are you guys gonna wise up?
April 1st, 2010 at 6:59 pm
how about boehner and o’connell as the ambiguously gay duo.
April 1st, 2010 at 7:16 pm
@Pigs & Spiders: I agree with you Pigs and Spiders. Mistermix, it’s just a gesture of an analogy, not a dissertation.
April 1st, 2010 at 9:50 pm
I find Sully’s blog a lot more interesting than yours…
April 1st, 2010 at 10:11 pm