Twitter EXPLODES With AWESOME MEMES After Obama HAMMERS Republican Heckling

[Segami]

It was an ad-libbed line toward the end of the speech. But President Barack Obama’s stiff rebuke to Republican hecklers quickly became the takeaway moment of Tuesday’s State of the Union address. “I have no more campaigns to run,” Obama said, prompting sarcastic applause. In response, Obama shot back, “I know because I won both of them.” It might have been easy to miss, since network pundits — perhaps smarting from Obama’s remarks criticizing cable news outlets earlier in the speech — largely ignored the remark.

According to Mashable, the remark was the “most social moment” of the evening on Facebook. And the online aggregator Bipartisan Report demonstrated how quickly the joke spread online:





Bipartisan Report @Bipartisanism

This quote set social media on fire. #SOTU
11:24 PM - 20 Jan 2015

Journalist Elon James White’s reaction to the joke alone was shared more than 8,000 times by 11:30 p.m EST that evening:

Elon James White @elonjames

"I have no more campaigns to run...I know because i won both of them." #POTUSmixtape #TWIBSOTU #SOTU15 pic.twitter.com/pdhqUrVVv8
10:07 PM - 20 Jan 2015

Pauline Barr @im1badrn

POTUS "I have no more campaigns to run.&quot Applause from 'Haters')"I know, because I won both of them."#nuffsaid #SOTU
11:34 PM - 20 Jan 2015

Jay Janger @jjanger

"I know because I won both of them." #Obama #SOTU #Swagger #Romney #McCain #OuchBabe #Bazinga #TruthHurts

CreateLex ✔ @CreateLex

I have no more campaigns to run, I know because I won both of them…" #POTUS #SOTU

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/twitter-explodes-with-awesome-memes-after-obama-hammers-republican-heckling/

[ND-Dem]

1. The republicans have become so unprofessional and low class

[merrily]

3. You are very kind. I would have used other words. But I sure do agree with the general idea of your

post.

[hifiguy]

43. "Goons" is a word that comes to my mind

when thinking of today's Repukes. Also "flesh-eating ogres" and "cave trolls."

[Voice for Peace]

49. orks!

[merrily]

56. You are also kinder than I.

[Jack Rabbit]

44. +1

What do you expect of KKK wannabes.

[napkinz]

2. K&R

[Cha]

4. THis is great, Segami.. this is how I like to celebrate after a SOTU like this!

"..It might have been easy to miss, since network pundits — perhaps smarting from Obama’s remarks criticizing cable news outlets earlier in the speech — largely ignored the remark."



BAM!



ecstatic http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6114987

[merrily]

9. I bet even low info voters know Obama won two Presidential elections.

Networks can ignore it all they want. Won't do a thing.

[JaneyVee]

20. I CAN'T STOP LOOKING AT THAT GIF!

[Cha]

23. Thanks for bringing me back to it once more before

I hit the hay! Rofl

[deutsey]

24. That GIF is hilarious

I love Biden.

[azmom]

30. Lol

But I'm not a rapper.

[SunSeeker]

40. OMG that gif...Biden's face...everything...PERFECTION!

[Cha]

42. LOL.. I did know that was Biden! Thanks, SunSeeker!

[Fumesucker]

5. That one left a mark

[Hubert Flottz]

6. K&R

Now that is the man, that I voted for in 2008 & 20012!

I love the new "change," from defense to offense! And I "hope" the president does not let up.

I approve of his message!

[joshcryer]

7. The best one is this Bing Pulse video:

https://twitter.com/XLevelOnline/status/557756322733903872

You can see the Republican people seething when he responds that way.

[Cha]

10. OMGosh.. that was priceless! thank you josh.. Boner's face was all scrunched..

https://twitter.com/XLevelOnline/status/557756322733903872

[joshcryer]

13. Wonder why Warren didn't clap.

[whathehell]

17. She did clap -- several times.

[joshcryer]

26. Not in the clip I posted.

Have another link?

[whathehell]

47. I didn't see her at all in the clip you posted..

was she frowning or something?

I don't have a clip, but during the length of the speech the camera

captured her standing and clapping at different points.

[underpants]

11. Great

[malaise]

27. It's the grin on his face after his response that is priceless

Too good

[merrily]

8. Word to Ryan and McCain.

[gademocrat7]

14. K&R

[BlueJazz]

15. Boy, we say this all the time and the Republicans prove it all the time >

'They can dish it out but can they take it ?? NOOOOOO"

[alterfurz]

16. The President has left the building...

[tblue]

21. Is that real?

Never saw it before.

[alterfurz]

32. alas, only photoshopped...

...but quite well done!

[napkinz]

29. :)

[whathehell]

18. He rocks..

and when he leaves, he'lll be missed for his wit and style alone. He's the coolest, witttiest

president since JFK.

[malaise]

19. I'm still trying to figure out the heckle

Anyone have it - I adored his repsonse

[JaneyVee]

22. GOP started clapping when Obama said...

"I don't have anymore campaigns to run". So he stopped their applause in its tracks with that line.

[malaise]

25. Yeh I heard the 'jeer' applause but I wondered if there was a comment

Thanks

[joshcryer]

28. More of a sarcastic "HAH" type thing.

No idea who it was, their fake sarcastic laugh was crap, in any event. Just someone being a total shitbag.

[napkinz]

33. I too thought he was responding to a comment that we couldn't hear

nt

[MyOwnPeace]

38. It wasn't loud like.......

"YOU LIE!"

They're all such f**king tools (and that's no lie!)!

[rurallib]

31. One of the costs of the Republican hate of Obama is that we have not been able to enjoy

the Obama wit.
Obama has a marvelous wit and can crack some really funny lines. But with Republicans and 99% of the press ready to come down hard on anything he says he has had to be very careful about what he says.

It is a damn shame. One of my greatest memories is of the JFK wit and how he used it to diffuse situations or to cut an opponent off at the knees. We get inklings that Obama has quite the with also, but has been very constrained. Adding wit to the office makes a world of difference. Republicans took that from us.

[NancyDL]

53. You remember what happened to the Kennedy wit?

They put it right into the ground.

[napkinz]

34. love the graphic ... just one suggestion

fix the spelling ...."I know because I won both of them."

(we don't want to come across looking like Teabaggers)

[MadDAsHell]

35. I sure hope Twitter isn't "EXPLODING" with this when the first thing your eye goes to...

is the huge misspelled word.

You only had to spellcheck what, a dozen words?

You're killing me, @jjanger.

Get a brain, moran.

[kydo]

50. actually I didn't even notice it until you mentioned it

But I reverse letters all the time. Slight learning disability.

[DirkGently]

36. The sounds from the house were priceless.

It was early on and they were fiesty. They started sniggering and giggling to themselves as the sarcastic "applause" rose after he said he had no more campaigns to run. Then Obama's follow-up -- "Because I won both of them" -- without skipping a beat. BAM! Back on their heels, and laughter rose again, now from the other side. The chortlers became the chortlees. It was like a snarky tide crashing on the beach, then swiftly rolling back out as gravity reversed.

And he smiled. Not ugly, just incontrovertible. Just snarky enough. BAM again.

Whatever else anyone thinks, no President has been more of the wrong person to take verbal shots at one-on-one (or entire-Republican-Congress-on-one). Ask, Mitt "Please proceed, Governor" Romney.

BAM.

[Liberal_Dog]

39. K & R

[Number23]

41. Should be the logo for Free Republic and the avatars of a few here as well

[cprise]

45. If all that gets you to the polls is a superstar POTUS candidate

then that's all you'll have left "representing" you in government... a source of entertainment.

[Joey Liberal]

46. That was a beautiful reply to the rude republicans

That's why I voted for him twice!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

48. ...

#Ouchbabe.....Haaahahahaahahahaha! Love it! Almost makes me want to sign up for Twitter.

[alfredo]

51. I watched the trend lines during the speech. One thing I noticed was the independents.

They started out well below both R and D. As the speech went along, the independent trend lines moved up in line with the R and D's.

[cheyanne]

52. He was ready.

After the "you lie" shout-out, he must have known that the repubs were just waiting for a chance to disrepect him. Is that called trolling?

And the repubs are in such a bubble, they don't even realize how their disrespect diminishes their stance, views, whatever shred of respectability they may have.

What we are seeing is the dissolution of the Republican party under the pressures of a furthering of the democratic ideals since the '60's. This dissolution is inevitable, since we can't go back in time, and yet it will be very painful. It will involve fear-mongering, isolationism, bigotry (circling the wagons). Though I hate to bring up analogies to Germany in the 20's, we are seeing the response of a people who have lost their faith in their government, are given a scapegoat, and try to turn the clock back to some imaginary golden age. In Germany the government, in their fear of communism, fell in with the Nazis.

Our problem is that, in our fear of Islam, we will fall in with the conservatives.

[The Wizard]

54. And the Repubes

went into full professional victim mode, clutching pearls, knickers in a wad, feeling the vapors while searching for the fainting couch. I for one have heard enough from these assholes.

[MaggieD]

55. Meh, too late

Don't get me wrong, Obama has done a lot of great things. But this suddenly populist BS is too little, too late. He sure didn't give a fuck when he was giving the banks one break after another while taxpayers and homeowners paid the price.