A charming little clip from back when he had hair. Enjoy. And if you’re at work, ahmmm, you might consider a headset.
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Krista
I like how he freaks out and curses because he doesn’t understand the very common show-ending phrase “And now, to play us out…” As though that’s their fault.
I have no patience for spoiled, prima-donna infants like that.
JoshA
Bizarre stuff. I have a temper myself, and I’m not sure I ever lost it as badly as he does here (2003 ALCS would be when I came closest).
What’s interesting is that he appears to be infuriated by the fact that people expect him to know a phrase (“play us out”) that he doesn’t know. No wonder he got so pissed off at the Mackris lawsuit, since part of it detailed his ignorance of falafels vs. loofahs.
The man hates to be shown to be ignorant, and therefore hates anything he doesn’t already know.
Z
And thus he hates all those ‘elitists’ who actually know what they are talking about.
rawshark
Thanks for bringing that up.
scarshapedstar
He always gets pissy when his vibrator stops running…
Doug H. (Fausto no more)
OT, but I can’t pass this up and I’m not sure anyone else has mentioned it.
zuzu, last seen leaving LG&M with a case of the vapors, takes on Wil Wheaton’s psycho girlfriend post over at Shakesville.
FARK gets wind of this. Hilarity (and much trolling) ensues.
4tehlulz
Asshole.
jrg
He really wigs out in this clip. But seriously, this clip is amusing. I’ll have to queue this one up before I rip into someone, so I can be reminded of how ridiculous it can look when you loose your cool.
Ninerdave
Reminds me of Chris Berman’s epic flip out.
I mean Jesus.
Perry Como
I wonder what his reaction would have been if the teleprompter said, “And now, to loofa us out…?”
Julie
This clip has been passed around my work all day today. He’s everywhere! And crazypants!
r€nato
How can you be in television and not know what, “play us out” means? I guarantee you that even his fucking interns knew what that meant for god’s sake.
AlphaFactor
And now…
we can download O’Reilly’s little pre-hair-loss tandrum — PERMANENTLY.
http://wikisend.com/download/586414/oreilly_fuckit_gawker.flv
Ah, Bill O’Reilly… Even on Inside Edition I knew you were bad news.
Ripley
Peabody’s !
I won two MF-in PEABODY’s!!!
jake
And yet he keeps flapping his pie hole…
Add Throwing Tantrums to the list of things that make his loofa stiff.
DonkeyKong
I’m suprised he did’nt demand some mutha’efin ice tea!
DonkeyKong
I’m suprised he did’nt demand some mutha’efin ice tea!
cleek
from the comments over at Shakesville:
what sexist things has Obama himself said ?
i’d ask over there, but at 950+ comments, i doubt i’d get an answer.
The Other Steve
I haven’t watched the video yet, but.
Doesn’t “play us out” generally refer to shows when they have a musical guest on, and they basically play a song at the end of the show?
The local sunday morning TV news shows do this all the time with local bands.
cleek
yes.
SamFromUtah
what sexist things has Obama himself said ?
“Periodically”, I’m guessing.
Jen
Huh. I thought it was a falafel.
Neal
I just put this in the blogroll open thread but that’s old (pun not intended) now so here:
http://www.thingsyoungerthanmccain.com
Jake
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/5/12/1592/76497
Oh the stupid. How it burns.
Keith
Nope, it’s accurate, although the allegation has him referring to it as an “egg” IIRC (I can’t check SmokingGun at the moment)
cleek
hmm. is there anything else? something a little less utterly fucking ridiculous, maybe ?
Z
My EYES! My EYES! Why did I look? Oh why did I look!
Conservatively Liberal
Fixed.
Are we sure that is his real hair? It looks like a tribble trying to consume his head. If you lift it up, you can read the vacuum gauge embedded in the top of his head.
It’s pegged at 30 inches of manifold vacuum. Hmmm, I always thought he was more of a blower than a sucker.
Zuzu
Disclaimer: NOT ME !!
SamFromUtah
something a little less utterly fucking ridiculous, maybe ?
I don’t know of any, but my knowledge of Obama’s utterances isn’t encyclopedic. That was the one that generated the biggest flap I can remember, and I agree it’s absurd.
Zuzu
Here’s what I glean from a quick Google:
Okay, I see where it’s unlikely he would have accused Chris Dodd of launching attacks when he “periodically felt down,” or referred to Joe Biden’s “claws.”
But yeah, it’s getting pretty silly.
On the other hand, I can’t think of anything more preposterous than Althouse’s shameless tch-tch’ing over Jerralyn Merrit’s innocent comment about an Indiana city getting a black eye.
El Doh
The usual examples of Obama’s sexism I see quoted are the periodically/down/claws comment, and the brush-it-off gestures reminiscent of the Jay-Z video.
The latter is interpreted as “brushing Hillary/Hillary’s supporters off like they don’t matter”. Personally, I interpreted it as mud having being slung at him and he just brushed that off, but what do I know? I’d never even heard of Jay-Z before I saw it blogged somewhere.
I do think the “claws” comment was a very poor choice of words though.
Oh, the other thing I see often is that all the sexism is Obama’s fault because he’s never denounced or rejected it, and because he hasn’t defended Hillary. Well, that and some of his support comes from jerks using “bitch”, “witch”, etc. and wearing t-shirts with slogans like “bro’s before ho’s”.
Apparently, Hillary doesn’t have a single jerk supporting her. Remember, even BTD is an Obama supporter.
b-psycho
I gotta admit, one thing — the only thing — that Bill O’ does well is use the F word with emphasis. I had my headphones on and it felt like my ears got raped, sheesh…
kwAwk
Just because you don’t want to hear what Hillary is saying doesn’t mean that it is appalling or that it is untrue.
Here’s a little help for you guys. Tomorrow, when you are watching the West Virginia primary vote and you are so inclined to be spewing about how all of the racist hillbillies won’t vote for your boy and he loses by a margin of 65:35 keep the following list in mind. This is a compilation of the exit polls from most of the states that have had primaries so far and it details the black vote for Obama vs Clinton……..
Obama Clinton
Iowa 72 16
South Carolina 78 19
California 78 18
Illinois 93 5
New York 61 37
Florida 73 25
Ohio 87 13
Texas 84 16
Missouri 84 15
Alabama 84 15
Mississipi 92 8
Tennessee 77 22
New Jersey 82 14
Connecticut 74 24
Virginia 90 10
North Carolina 91 7
Georgia 88 11
Pennsylvania 90 10
Maryland 84 15
Louisiana 86 13
Arkansas 74 25
Nevada 83 14
Indiana 89 11
Average 82.3 15.8
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21225999/
A little hint for you guys. The percentage of black people voting for Obama, with the exception of Clintons home state of New York, ties or exceeds the percentage of white people who voted for Clinton in Mississippi and Alabama.
Yet everybody keeps pretending that it is Clinton who is the beneficiary of the racist vote. Why is that?
kwAwk
Sorry, I shouldn’t have used the term boy in that last post. Please substitute man or candidate instead.
Conservatively Liberal
I get your point kwAwk, but those same AA voters have voted for white people in the past. That casts their vote in this cycle in a different light than what you are implying.
How many white people have voted for AA’s as consistently as the AA’s have voted white? Right.
Obama is not the beneficiary of a racist AA vote. While I am sure that some AA’s are voting for Obama because he is ‘one of them’, that does not mean that they are doing so because they hate ‘white’ Hillary. That is an oversimplification that is just not fair IMO.
kwAwk
Well CL what you seem to be saying is that since black people have voted for whites in prior elections it is okay for them to vote in a racist manner when a black person is on the ballot. I don’t buy that.
If the exit polling were reversed and 85% of whites were voting for Clinton we would see a lot of hand wringing about how America is still too racist to vote for a black candidate, especially if Clinton possessed Obama’s lack of real experience.
White people represent 75% of the people in this country and blacks represent 12%. If and when our country achieves the state of perfect racial integration and the end of racism, by the numbers the average black voters would vote for 6 white people for every black person they would vote for. It is unavoidable.
What should convince most anybody of the racist dynamic happening here is that when the Clintons were running against other white people, their support was particulary strong among black people. But when they are put up against a black man, they come right out of the box losing 72:16.
Conservatively Liberal
I would like to know where you get your information that AA’s are racist in their voting for Obama over Hillary. That would be interesting to see how that conclusion was arrived at, and what data was used.
One fact is that far more whites have run for president than AA’s have. But it is perfectly fine for whites to vote for whites and the same goes for the AA’s voting for the same whites. No racist problems there. But what you seem to be saying is that if we put an AA on the ticket, then if the AA’s overwhelmingly favor that AA on the ticket, you believe it is racist of them.
See how silly that sounds? You are saying that whites can overwhelmingly vote for a white and there is nothing racist about it, yet if AA’s vote overwhelmingly for an AA, then they are racist.
Does. Not. Compute.
Abort Retry Fail Ignore
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kwAwk
Actually that isn’t what I’m saying. What I am saying is that there are no policy differences among the two candidates that would explain an 85:15 ratio of black voting for Obama. If you can think of a rational reason for it I’d love to hear it.
But beyond West Virginia where we have seen the same logic applied against Clinton, saying she is only winning by such a margin because she is white, we’ve also seen it elsewhere against Clinton.
In California where Clinton beat Obama among hispanics 67:32 we heard the drumbeat about how hispanics wouldn’t vote for a black because of racism.
Yet you can excuse numbers like 90:10 in North Carolina, 89:11 in Indiana, and 87:13 in Ohio all favoring Obama among the black vote and not see racism?
If anything doesn’t compute it is your explanation.
Conservatively Liberal
If, as you say, there are no policy differences between Clinton and Obama, then what makes the AA preference for Obama racist? Why can’t it just be the fact that they are happy to be able to vote for ‘one of their own’ for once, and that he is as great a candidate as Hillary is. Just like some whites are going to think the same about Hillary and Obama, and yet vote for Hillary. What is the difference?
It seems to me that you are conflating their support for Obama into something that it is not. Polling of AA’s show that they even would like an Obama/Clinton ticket. I am quite sure that if he were trailing her at this point, they would like a Clinton/Obama ticket too. Now if they were racist in their choice, you would think that the polls would reflect it. They don’t. Contrast that with hard core Hillary supporters who are adamant about not wanting her as his VP choice, nor he as hers.
While I am sure that there are some racist AA’s who are supporting Obama, I am just as sure that there are more racist whites who are supporting Hillary. Percentage wise don’t mean squat when you are comparing the numbers of whites to AA’s, raw numbers say it all. There are far fewer AA’s than there are whites. Ergo; in total numbers of individuals, there are more white racists than there are black racists. Just like there are more white non-racists than there are non-racist AA’s.
See how that works? ;)
Nice try though. No sale.
El Doh
Firstly, the way Hillary has run her campaign.
Secondly, the way Obama has addressed the subject of race in this country.
Hillary lead the AA demographic by a solid margin in early (January-ish) polling.
kwAwk
Conservatively Liberal Says:
If, as you say, there are no policy differences between Clinton and Obama, then what makes the AA preference for Obama racist? Why can’t it just be the fact that they are happy to be able to vote for ‘one of their own’ for once, and that he is as great a candidate as Hillary is. Just like some whites are going to think the same about Hillary and Obama, and yet vote for Hillary. What is the difference?
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There is no difference. That is the point. Voting for someone of your own race simply because they are of your own race is racist. Doesn’t matter if it is a practice conducted by whites or blacks. And 85:15 casts serious doubts as to whether there are more white racists than black racists, especially among those who vote in Democratic primaries.
kwAwk
Hillary leading in the national polls among blacks in January certainly doesn’t explain her losing the black vote in Iowa and South Carolina by margins of 72:16 amd 78:19. Last I check that was early January and those were a couple of the closer votes.
Anyways, time for bed. Goodnight all.
Conservatively Liberal
Well kwAwk, I guess you and I have to agree to disagree. You call it racism, I call it voting for who you want to. I’ll make you a deal though; Find me some professional analysis that backs up what you are saying and I will look it over. If it is valid data and not SWAG like you are talking about, then I will agree.
What you are saying is that if Hillary and Barack are equal in policy respects, then blacks have to support Hillary or they are racist. How about the reverse? Should whites vote for Barack to prove that they are not racist? If this was the case, Barack would be still be cleaning her clock.
See? Your argument is beyond stupid. Give it up. Please.
Until you provide stats and data to prove your point, this is a waste of time. Over and out.
Conservatively Liberal
As an aside, I note that the same argument posed by kwAwk is posed by other Hillary supporters. E.G.:
Must be the new talking point.
kwAwk
CL – If my arguement is beyond stupid why is it that you’ve already admitted that my argeument is fundamentally correct? To quote you: ” Why can’t it just be the fact that they are happy to be able to vote for ‘one of their own’ for once, and that he is as great a candidate as Hillary is”
If you have two candidates of equal quality, who are being judged on their character and their qualifications, you would expect that the voting ratios would be somewhat split between the candidates. But as is evidenced by the numbers I’ve posted which you can easily look up with the link I’ve provided, professional exit polling done by a professional news organization, you don’t see that split at all.
In fact you will see a close split between the candidates (atleast a lot closer) in pretty much every other demographic group. The outlier is consistantly the black vote for Obama.
This isn’t a talking point as I dare you to find the compilation listing I’ve provided posted anywhere else except where I’ve posted it at ABP. It has become common to talk about this because of the constant harping that is coming from the Obama supporters about how Hillary is somehow racist because she talks about how she has a broader appeal among white voters, which is true, and not racist.