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BY LOGAN TITTLE
President Barack Obama took to humor during his speech Wednesday at a fundraiser in Los
Angeles—but spectators were a little unclear about the nature of his joke. See for yourself.
“I want to thank my wonderful friend who accepts a little bit of teasing about Michelle
beating her in a pushups…but I think she claims Michelle didn’t go all the way down.”
(CNN)
So was that a thinly veiled dirty joke? Or a presidential writer’s gaffe? Some say
Mr. Obama was talking about First Lady Michelle’s appearance on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,”
when the two took to a friendly contest to see who could do the most push-ups.
But others think it implies something along the topic of—oral sex. A reporter for The
Dallas Morning News sparked the debate when he wrote...
“....that Obama let the last line “hang, naughtily, provoking laughter from the crowd.”
A writer for Indecision Forever says, if the president was indeed being naughty, his sense
of humor was completely inappropriate.
“I don’t know about you, but I am not comfortable with this...Harmless as a double
entendre like this might be, it sets us on a slippery slope...”
And a writer for Lonely Conservative says …
"After hearing about this I kind of feel sorry for Michelle Obama. Imagine being married
to such a buffoon?"
The Gateway Pundit flat out called it an insult.
“President Obama insulted the First Lady of the United States before the entire country
with a completely offensive suggestion that she’s sexually deficient. Nice.”
But was he really taking a crack at the first lady’s undercover lovin’? The Los Angeles
Times notes, the President kept a straight face and seemed somewhat caught off-guard
at the audience’s reaction.
And a writer for Sundries Shack says it’s not likely—at least not on purpose.
“President Obama probably didn’t mean to make an oral sex joke at the expense of
his own wife. It is most likely that he fumble-tongued (no pun intended) his way through the comment
and paused because, well, he knew he had just said something truly stupid.”
And a CNN anchor says, those chastising the president clearly didn’t see Obama’s reaction.
“I gotta be honest with you, if you watch that tape over again...FLASH...some people
could easily say that the president was a bit blindsided by that line and doesn’t
expect it to be a double entendre."
Media Bistro reports the POTUS consensus was that Obama was probably just joking about
her level of fitness, not her oral skills. Want to see the speech for yourself? Instinct
Magazine has a transcript of the speech, which we’ve linked to in our transcript section.