NEW YORK – In an editorial on Monday the New York Times gushed over photographs of President Obama riding his bicycle, at one point exclaiming the President was “an example of rugged masculinity gone wild!” The newspaper derided critics of the president, even suggesting that John Boehner and Karl Rove try competing with him in a “macho sport such as rugby or ultimate fighting” rather than “ridicule him from afar like sissies.” The ladies on daytime television’s “The View” tapped into the photo hysteria, with Joy Behar telling the audience, “If Obama rode his bike into my neighborhood I’d make him have sex with me in the street!” After Whoopie Goldberg high-fived Behar, Barbara Walters stood up and began grinding her hips, much to the delight of the screaming audience. After MSNBC’s Chris Matthews showed Obama’s bicycle photographs on his show “Hardball,” he trembled when he spoke to his guests. “I admit,” he snickered, “when I saw these pictures I felt a scorching-hot sensation shooting up my inner thigh and into my groin. And believe you me, my wife took advantage of that situation…if you know what I mean.” The enthusiasm over the bicycle photographs stretches from media outlets coast [...]
↧
