Now, How Would I Explain This in Turkey?
Claire Berlinski, Ed. ·
Jul 27, 2011 at 4:29pm
From the White House Twitter feed, and you've got to click on the link:
wiggsd This WH correspondence briefing isn't nearly as entertaining as yesterday's. #TCOT #WHchat
whitehouse @wiggsd Sorry to hear that. Fiscal policy is important, but can be dry sometimes. Here's something more fun:tinyurl.com/y8ufsnp #WHChat
Now before you say, "That's not funny," come on--it really is.
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Dec '10
Re: Now, How Would I Explain This in Turkey?
It's funny, until you realize that there is someone in the White House being paid by the taxpayers to do it.
Apparently they have the time to attend to this kind of pressing matter but not to put the President's alleged plan for his "balanced approach" into writing.
To use Obama's own metaphor, this kind of thing is the dessert the people in the White House should not be partaking of until they've finished their peas.
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I know, I know. I thought all of that. It's a million kinds of inappropriate and undignified and a mockery of the gravity of this, etc. etc. And still, I was laughing.
Dec '10
Re: Now, How Would I Explain This in Turkey?
Well, sure, it makes us laugh. It's just that we get to double our enjoyment by seasoning our laughter with righteous indignation.
May '10
Re: Now, How Would I Explain This in Turkey?
We've got an administration mired in 60's ideology. They were late into Libya, now meaning Qaddafi will remain in power. They were late to the debt negotiations, which means the President is now irrelevant to the process.
And now they're rickrolling? Come on, that trend ended like two years ago. Even I know that. It's like hearing my dad say "not!"
Demonstrates one important thing: Obama is not cool. He pretends to cool. People like Chris Matthews think he's cool, because such people are not cool. That's why his poll numbers with young voters are crumbling.
Re: Now, How Would I Explain This in Turkey?
Kennedy Smith:
And now they're rickrolling? Come on, that trend ended like two years ago. Even I know that. It's like hearing my dad say "not!"
I'm suddenly feeling really dated and expatriated. I only figured out what "rickrolling" meant about six weeks ago.
Jun '11
Re: Now, How Would I Explain This in Turkey?
It can't be all serious at the White House all day long, but it is typical of government to be so far behind the trend. I think the Twitter account replaced their usenet account like 9 months ago.
May '10
Re: Now, How Would I Explain This in Turkey?
What's next? Hula-Hoops?
May '10
Re: Now, How Would I Explain This in Turkey?
Hula hoops and dungarees, Mesquito.
Aw, Claire, you get a pass. Wasn't too long ago you couldn't even access youtube, I seem to recall.
May '11
Re: Now, How Would I Explain This in Turkey?
The link is not available in Japan, but if it was a RickRoll, well that is SO 2008..... :)
Re: Now, How Would I Explain This in Turkey?
I rickrolled Pat Sajak in a thread here on Ricochet months ago and was quite proud of myself. It's one of my "brush with celebrity" stories.
Please don't tell me it was outdated and uncool. That will kill my self esteem.
Feb '11
Re: Now, How Would I Explain This in Turkey?
We haven’t really addressed the question of how to explain this in Turkey. I can only speculate about an appropriate interpretation based on Claire’s previous posts. But, given that, it seems that this should not be understood as a joke on the part of the White House; it should be understood as part of a strategy.
Aug '10
Re: Now, How Would I Explain This in Turkey?
With this news , the need for a really good PR firm becomes obvious. Turkey has to be the only country that could carry such an odious message to America.
How do you phrase that one from OPEC ?
This is getting doubly Carteresque....
May '10
Re: Now, How Would I Explain This in Turkey?
I don't think you can explain it to somebody who doesn't have an understanding of the American aesthetic deep enough to appreciate camp and parody.
Oct '10
Re: Now, How Would I Explain This in Turkey?
It's funny but the context is the gut-wrenching, paradigm-shifting realization that this is the organization in charge of confronting Iran. Arguably the greatest rickroll.
Aug '10
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I don't get it. What are you all talking about? All I got was some fairly uninteresting music video.
May '10
Re: Now, How Would I Explain This in Turkey?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_roll
Mar '11
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I can't believe I just got Rick Rolled by my own government, and I paid for the experience.
Long train of abuses, indeed.
Mar '11
Re: Now, How Would I Explain This in Turkey?
Mark Wilson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_roll
Thanks - I had to look it up, that's how outa touch I am. What would we do without Wikipedia?
OK - that's not funny - as Glenn Reynolds would say, "The country is in the very best of hands" - and we are paying em to bankrupt us.
Kinda reminds me of the government regulators who were watching porn, rather than preventing the sub-prime fiasco.
Mar '11
Re: Now, How Would I Explain This in Turkey?
Oops.
Edited on Jul 28, 2011 at 3:13amMay '11
Re: Now, How Would I Explain This in Turkey?
OK. It wasn't funny. Then I read the comments. It still wasn't funny. Then I followed Mark's Wikipedia link and learned about "rickrolling". Now I understand.
Now I can laugh...retroactively.
Reminds me of a joke my mother used to tell.
What did the chick say when she saw her mother had laid an orange?
Oh look! Momma laid an orange!
It remains true. If you have to explain it...
(Oh, look at the orange marmalade.)