August 8, 2008

ANYONE UP FOR A ROUSING GAME OF FLYING BUNGHOLE?

One Nation, Under a New Obama Salute (Paul Bedard, 8/07/08, US News)

George Bush had his three-fingered W salute that supporters flashed when greeting him at presidential campaign events in 2000. And now, if a Los Angeles creative agency gets its way, Sen. Barack Obama will see fans meet him with his own salute like the one above. "Our goal is to see a crowd of 75,000 people at Obama's nomination speech holding their hands above their heads, fingers laced together in support of a new direction for this country, a renewed hope, and acceptance of responsibility for our future," says Rick Husong, owner of The Loyalty Inc. Husong tells me that he got the idea after seeing the famous Obama-Progress poster by artist Shepherd Fairey.


Cult? What cult?

Posted by Orrin Judd at August 8, 2008 1:15 PM

I am Obamholio!

Posted by: Jorge Curioso at August 8, 2008 4:30 PM

Ridiculous. What's with all the Commie preferences in the Obama campaign? McCain's got this wrapped up - if it went poster to poster, I'd have a poster with airplane art girl (in bikini of course), holding a can of his wife's beer, and four leaf clovers on either side of McCain's name - Slogan - "America!"

Posted by: KRS at August 8, 2008 6:05 PM

What's next? Armbands with the The One™'s campaign logo on it?

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at August 8, 2008 6:07 PM

What's next, you ask? A song or a poem, to be sure. Or a moment of silence before each appearance.

Posted by: ratbert at August 8, 2008 8:44 PM

What!? I saw this somewhere and chuckled at what I thought was a photoshopped joke. With the self-love this guy exhibits, they should go with just one hand.

Posted by: David Hill, The Bronx at August 8, 2008 9:31 PM

You know, I try as hard as I can to avoid doing that.

Posted by: David Hill, The Bronx at August 8, 2008 9:41 PM

Chuckled? You are to be commended for your restraint. Personally, I laughed my *** off.

Posted by: Lou Gots at August 9, 2008 2:05 AM

It looks like a big zero to me...

Posted by: Bartman at August 9, 2008 7:08 AM

That was my reaction too: "Wait, this is real? Haw haw haw!"
The Stalinist art style coupled with the gesture last seen being performed by Ginger Lynn is just messing with my head.

Posted by: Bryan at August 9, 2008 7:31 AM

For my generation it bears a striking and unsettling similarity to "goatse". Surely this is a fake?

Posted by: Shelton at August 9, 2008 1:40 PM

From a quick look at google, goatse appears to be a techno version of the "flying bunghole," without the punching.

Posted by: oj at August 9, 2008 7:40 PM

Subliminal mohammedan crescent in there, too. :-)

Posted by: Jorge Curioso at August 9, 2008 10:07 PM
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