MicroWave@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoSure looks like Obama’s ‘Cheesecake Factory’ diss got under Trump’s skinwww.huffpost.comexternal-linkmessage-square70linkfedilinkarrow-up1325arrow-down14
arrow-up1321arrow-down1external-linkSure looks like Obama’s ‘Cheesecake Factory’ diss got under Trump’s skinwww.huffpost.comMicroWave@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square70linkfedilink
minus-squareartyom@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up112arrow-down1·1 day agoAs Jon Stewart pointed out, it’s funny that they’re all upset about the Cheesecake Factory part of the joke and not the Saddam Hussein part. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nIS10ia0fs
minus-squareSmoothOperator@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 day agoI feel like he kind of missed the point of the republican counterattack here. They want Obama to come off as elitist and out of touch, so they try to spin it as him looking down on regular people who go to Cheesecake Factory. Which requires some mental gymnastics, but that’s clearly why they ignore the Hussein part.
minus-squareHideakikarate@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up21·1 day agoThat was a great showing by Stewart this week. Shame that the people who need to see it probably never will.
As Jon Stewart pointed out, it’s funny that they’re all upset about the Cheesecake Factory part of the joke and not the Saddam Hussein part.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nIS10ia0fs
I feel like he kind of missed the point of the republican counterattack here.
They want Obama to come off as elitist and out of touch, so they try to spin it as him looking down on regular people who go to Cheesecake Factory.
Which requires some mental gymnastics, but that’s clearly why they ignore the Hussein part.
That was a great showing by Stewart this week. Shame that the people who need to see it probably never will.