Obama's Weekly Video Addresses Becoming Increasingly Avant-Garde (The Onion)

[MinneapolisMatt]

HAHAHA!

http://www.theonion.com/articles/obamas-weekly-video-addresses-becoming-increasingl,17649/

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Videos like the one that aired Tuesday morning, which begins with Obama outlining his new plan to provide healthier school lunches to the nation's children, but soon devolves into frantic editing, unsettling imagery, and dissonant audio effects, have left many wondering about the president's ultimate message.

"I found the whole thing a bit confusing," said New York resident Abe Klein, who added that he has watched Obama's videos transform over time from informative to aesthetically challenging to just plain bizarre. "I don't know if I was supposed to come away thinking that childhood obesity is our nation's next major health crisis, or if Obama wanted us to take the jarring black-and-white footage of a rooster getting its head chopped off literally."

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Obama, who sources said has been more introspective and isolated in recent months, made his first foray into the avant-garde last March, when he posted a video titled "Red, White, and Doom" to the White House website. In it, the president, seated in the Oval Office with a skull-and-crossbones banner where the American flag would normally be, stares unblinkingly into the camera as the phrase "in God we trust" loops for four minutes and 33 seconds.

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"My work speaks for itself," Obama said as he applied blackface makeup to prepare for the shooting of a new video called Ask/Tell/Die. "I can't tell the people of our great nation what to think or how to react. That's up to the viewer. All I'm looking for is an honest reaction— something that shocks the bourgeoisie out of its mind-numbing, plastic complacency for once and causes them to sit up and scream from the depths of their rotting bowels, 'Ahhhhh! Who are we and what is the nature of our existence?! We are like cockroaches marching into a bowl of spoiled milk to drown! We are all drowning!'"


:rofl: You've GOT to click on the link to see one of his "Addresses" :rofl:

[Radical Activist]

1. That would be so freaking awesome.

Honestly, I think that's what some people are looking for. Many of his best, progressive statements are ignored. He needs some video editing to make them stand out.

[GeorgeGist]

5. Thanks for the laugh ...

his unedited actions really do speak too eloquently.

[Politicub]

2. Love this article! n/t

[boppers]

3. Ah, the Onion.

What was with the scared duck?

[Connie_Corleone]

4. That video was hilarious!

:rofl: