“Obama Said Knock You Out! I’m Gonna Knock You Out!”
By E. Christopher Clark | Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Yesterday, somebody at the local Wal-Mart scrawled the words “Don’t Hold Your Breathe” [sic] on a slip of paper and stuck this note under the wiper of my friend Leslie’s car, just next to her Obama bumper sticker. I don’t think that Wal-Mart shopper had yet seen the photo I’ve included above, which is now making its way swiftly across the Internet. He looks like he’s one part Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (doesn’t it look like he’s about to lay the smack down on John McCain’s candy ass?) and one part L.L. Cool J ("Obama says knock you out!"). I would not be messing with this man if I were the vast right-wing global conspiracy. NosireeBob.
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Andy978 says:
Wait… hee hee.. bear with me here, cuz you’re probably the only person I know who’ll get this…
...if the person who left the note is a conservative…
...and the Conservative party in the UK is also known as the Tory party…
...is it fair to ask “Y Kant Tories Read?”
ChrisClark says:
BRILLIANT!!!! I’m chuckling so hard right now.
But I’m sure I can’t be the only person who gets this. Someone else out there has to get it.
I may have to Twitter this to see if anyone gets it.
Bryan says:
My wife actually has a copy of Y Kant Tori read. It’s a pretty awful album.
Also, every time I hear Obama speak I so badly want him to get up on the podium, shades down low, cock an eyebrow and then yell into the mic, “Can you smell what Barack is cookin’?”
ChrisClark says:
See! I knew there was someone else who would get it.
Bryan, you mentioned your wife’s Tori obsession at a NH Media Makers meeting once, didn’t you? Or was that on Twitter? Anyway, I vaguely recall hearing you say something about that before. And I’m so glad that Andy and I aren’t the only ones who got the joke.
I’m so with you on the Barack as the Rock thing. It’d be awesome if, after the election, he and Dwayne Johnson were both guests on SNL (seems like the likeliest place for this to happen), maybe with Johnson as the host doing a sketch about who’s going to play President Obama, and then Obama comes out and starts doing his Rock impression.
Okay, maybe I got a little carried away there…
Bryan says:
Yeah, I can’t remember where I said it, either. She is beyond obsession with Tori Amos. Over the last 13 years, we’ve probably seen her live as many times. She used to play this area several times in a single tour so we’d see her in Boston, Portland and Lowell each time.
I actually used to be a pretty big fan of hers but I think she’s fallen off. Boys For Pele was probably the last album I liked. Everything else is so self-indulgent and her live shows are SO LOOOONG because she jams out every one of her old songs like it’s a P-Funk show.
ChrisClark says:
Even Boys for Pele was a bit uneven. It was definitely too long by a song or two.
I think she was at the peak of her powers with Under the Pink and it’s been all downhill from there. Though the live album she did with a full band is pretty good. The songs definitely aren’t as long when she’s got a full band behind her to reign her in.
Josiah Williams says:
To hear Obama rap the Obama Said Knock You Out song, check out this awesome parody:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHG8s4og08s
ChrisClark says:
That vid ain’t bad, Josiah. Thanks for sharing!
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