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Conservative Media Note Rick Perry The Latest In Media Corndog Photo Cornucopia

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The Center of the Political Universe this past week, Iowa, produced great quantities of news (of debatable value), and while the biggest culinary star to emerge from the festivities was the Iowa State Fair’s deep-fried butter on a stick, conservative sites are noting that it’s the corndog who is getting the most face time in news photos with Republican candidates. Is this fascination with phallic foodstuffs merely immature, or does it reveal something deeper, and perhaps even hateful?

The UK Telegraph drew fire (particularly from Mediaite’s Frances Martel) for its publication of a porn-tastic photo of Rep. Michele Bachmann that was undeniable in its ugly sexism. Bachmann’s husband, Marcus, was also photographed taking a first bite of Bachmann’s corndog, and Mitt Romney was snapped toting a half-eaten dog. It was the photo of Gov. Rick Perry tearing into one of the crunchy, meaty treats, though, that was the last straw for some conservative bloggers.

Ace of Spades overstates things a bit when he calls the corndog mini-parade “an issue of liberal bias,” at least as far as the mainstream media is concerned. The Bachmann photo was published by a foreign newspaper, and the Romney snapshot was put out by his own campaign.

However, Hot Air blogger Howard Portnoy is closer to the mark with his assessment of the liberal blogosphere’s use of these photos:

In yet another bald attempt to capture a GOP candidate in an unflattering light, the liberal blogosphere has obtained a photo of Governor Rick Perry chowing down on a corn dog. At least the photo seems to put to rest earlier charges that a similar snapshot of Michele Bachmann was sexist.

Portnoy is correct that these photos are being used by some liberals to capture GOP candidates in an unflattering light, but the Perry photo doesn’t mitigate the sexism of the Bachmann photo in the slightest, it aggravates it.

We all get it, the corndog looks like a phallus, and transferring it from Bachmann’s mouth to Perry’s simply morphs the subtext from sexism to gay-baiting. Anyone who respects the right of individuals to determine their own identities, rather than have it dictated to them, ought to find this sort of thing abhorrent. If we really do believe that people have the right to do whatever they want with their mouths, then what’s so funny about these photos?

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  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Cue: Homophobic, anti-gay rhetoric from Obama supporters directed at Republican candidates.

    In 3…2…1…

  • Greg

    I am tired by the immaturity on both sides. Focus on policy or substantive politics. Please.

  • Greg

    I am tired by the immaturity on both sides. Focus on policy or substantive politics. Please.

  • Anonymous

    There’s something about the way Marcus Bachmann handles a corndog that makes me feel uncomfortable.

  • Anonymous

    That didn’t take long….

  • Nature Freak

    It is not anti-gay rhetoric.

    It is anti-hypocrisy rhetoric.

    Big difference.

  • Tedderman

    Cannibalism, a corndog eating a corndog.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t know what’s funnier Marcus Bachmann pretending not to like biting the corndog or Marcus asking for Perry’s number after he saw the photo.

  • Anonymous

    He is trying so hard not to enjoy it.

  • Anonymous

    If I’m running for office in Iowa and someone offers me a 12″ corndog, I’m asking for a knife, a fork, and a paper plate.

  • Anonymous

    You mean the progressive medias latest attempt at ridicule? Nothing can save Oblunder.

  • Anonymous

    It’s tactics like these that will backfire on the Liberal media and ultimately on the Left as a whole.  People who are fair minded will tire of these antics (if they aren’t already) and punish those resposible as well as those associated with those responsible.

  • Anonymous

    Marcus is the most passionate. He  nibbles it at first, but then chews the heck out of it.

    I’m surprised to see Perry in the mix. Who would’ve thought he too was into the hot dongs/corns?!

  • Anonymous

    What do you mean by “punish”?

  • Redleaf

    I disagree.

    Because I have nothing of substance to say and have no thoughts other
    than what I hear on the news outlets that confirm my political views, I
    enjoy hotdog-related stories. They allow me to be sarcastic and,
    therefore, superior to those who disagree with me. I disagree.

  • Anonymous

    What rhetoric?  These are photos.

  • Anonymous

    Following today’s news media is like being trapped in the 8th grade.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Like. Clockwork.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    See: Snowspot, m_mayhem, etc.

  • Anonymous

    There should be one overriding standard to how the GOP field should be treated this election cycle. Ask yourself this….

    “Would the media have done “this” to Obama?”

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    No, it’s anti-gay rhetoric that you would rightly call others bigots for engaging in.

    I know it’s hard for you to live up to the standards you hold others to, but at least try.

  • Nature Freak

    “Anyone who respects the right of individuals to determine their own identities, rather than have it dictated to them,”

    Conservatives do the same thing all the time regarding individuals who happen to be People of Color, working poor, on government assistance, New Englanders, Gay, Liberal, belong to Unions, Atheists, Muslims, Feminists, undocumented students brought in as children and so on. They are reduced to being nothing but “the other”. They are used as generalized scapegoats. They are reduced to generalized objects of hate

    Most of the Republican field for POTUS shows no respect to half the country. They dictate reductionist anger and bile towards millions of individuals across this land. Why should the Republican candidates for POTUS  expect to receive respect back?

    Let the cornucopia of corn dog photos continue. Yes, these candidates suck.

  • Anonymous

    You’re expecting far too much from Nature Freak.

  • Anonymous

    And this is why no one treats you seriously on this site.

  • Anonymous

    You bring a knife, we bring a gun.

  • Anonymous

    Now Mediaite has become the Rick Perry site with 6 of the top 13 stories about him. And one about Katy Perry. Maybe the just need to change the name of the site to Perryite. lol

  • Anonymous

    Your post is beyond odd. I hope you were expecting a non-response because it was just THAT silly of a post.

  • Anonymous

    Odd, my ass.  Every word he wrote was the truth.  And as to your mission of not responding, you failed.

  • Wink

    That doesn’t look like an NWO, Illuminati or Zionest one that he is known to gobble.

  • Nature Freak

    Katy Perry would make a far better POTUS than Rick.
    So would most of the Perry’s in your local phone book.
    Perryite? Is that the cow manure I use in my garden?

  • Anonymous

    I said a non-response, which is what I gave. Hence, you fail. :)

  • Anonymous

    Was that an attempt at a joke? If so, it bombed.

  • Epzw

    Family values.

  • Really?

    Liberal mindset at work right here

  • Anonymous

    eating a corndog is rhetoric? dude are you a downy kid?

  • Nature Freak

    It was a very serious post. These candidates have not eared our respect. The last sentence was silly but with a point. I refuse to be too serious, although in many ways this really is not a laughing matter.

    I can drop the humor, but I will not.

  • Anonymous

    Listen to you.  Mr Macho Man.  Quit embarrassing your home state with this Chuck Norris talk.  Go find a deer to shoot.

  • HowardNY

    Bachmann invites such derision when he runs a (government supported) business scheme that pretends you can “pray the gay away.”

  • joe mama

    You understand Tommy trying to defend these photos and your proving the other sides point that this is nothing more then childish junk from liberals in the media. Are people really this blind and dumb?

  • Anonymous

    Rick’s experience is paying off.  Michele Bachmann will have to keep Marcus three states away at all time.

  • Anonymous

    Just telling the truth — these people SUCK!

  • joe mama

    He’s eating a corn dog you loser. My god hate really destroys brain cells.

  • Anonymous

    Just trying to make lite as a distraction before I go in for a brain MRI in a couple of hours.  Losing my eyesight (severe double vision) and they suspect a brain tumor.  Sorry if my humor is not up th your standards. :)

  • Anonymous

    “Would Obama deep throat a ‘corndog’ like Perry?”

    Only in your dreams, tb.

  • Anonymous

    Everyone who lives in Texas, that’s who.

  • Greg

    Wish you the best.

  • Anonymous

    Actually, no.  The non-response you gave was a response.  But we can move on now if you like.  No big whup.

  • Nature Freak

    That’s terrible!
    I am really sorry to hear this.
    Downer.
    Best of wishes from Nature Freak!
    Things are not always as bad as they seem.

  • Anonymous

    I’ll be routing for you, Kit.  Wish you the best with this.

  • Anonymous

    Thanks. :)

  • Anonymous

    “If we really do believe that people have the right to do whatever they want with their mouths, then what’s so funny about these photos?”

    What’s funny is that self-righteous assholes and closet cases are mimicking sexual acts they find (or claim to find) abhorent. If we saw you eating a taco, Tommy, we wouldn’t laugh unless you were bigoted against straight people. Or you spilled food on yourself.

    You need to remove the corndog stick from your ass, and get a sense of humor.

  • Anonymous

    Ya, it’s pretty scary.  Hoping they rule that out.  Will know Friday morning and will report back.  Thanks for the support. :)

  • Anonymous

    Why did you hate Trig Palin, jdubbellu?

  • TruDat

    Calm down kitten.

  • Anonymous

    Can you show where jdubbelu said that he hated down-syndrome kids? Do share this quote.

  • Anonymous

    Can you show where jdubbelu said that he hated down-syndrome kids? Do share this quote.

  • Anonymous

    That Portnoy likes to complain a lot. Someone should write a book about it.

  • Anonymous

    That Portnoy likes to complain a lot. Someone should write a book about it.

  • Anonymous

    1. I’m a female.

    2. I’ve never shot a gun, but I do support the right to bear arms.

    3. I merely quoted Obama.

    4. Chuck Norris is awesome. And I have no idea why you would think my statement was Norrisesque because there was no comparison or mention of Chuck Norris.

  • Anonymous

    I gave a non-response response. Duh.

    Hence, I was right. Keep up.

  • Anonymous

    You already stated that you will vote for Obama. Therefore any point that you bring up is moot. Simple as that.

    And there is nothing funny in what you post so I don’t know why the phrase “laughing matter” was brought up. Carry on with the silliness.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000152902441 Jeremy Volkens

    You mean like this?
    http://foodbeast.com/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/obama-hot-dog.jpg

    or like this?
    http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FI27NKZaDMg/TgEpP7Z6eiI/AAAAAAAAFfs/MDVFrLajbjc/s1600/Obama+Hot+Dog.jpg

    Everybody eats hot dogs (or bananas or popsicles) the same way.  Its just childish to use the photo to paint someone negatively.

    What I really find odd about this whole phenomenon is that the left who are always the first to point out that homosexuality is normal and something not to be ashamed of are always the ones using homosexuality as an insult…

  • Anonymous

    Yes, I can. And so can you.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    Perry has the best swallow..

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    Perry has the best swallow..

  • Anonymous

    I wish you all the best with the operation. :)

  • Anonymous

    AHHHHHHHHH THEY’RE EATING A CORN DOG!!!!!!!

    OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!!!!! THEM SCOUNDRELS!!!!!!! HOW DARE THEY EAT!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    “macho man” is an unemployed chick in her 20s who loves $arah Palin.

    there isn’t a macho bone in her body, just hysterical whiny ones.

  • Anonymous

    You probably have already drawn your own conclusions so you tell me, what do I mean?   But anyway, why do you care what I mean?  Are you just trolling for some back and forth?

  • Anonymous

    Then quote him verbatim.

  • Anonymous

    Awww there’s my little stalker.

    As I’ve always said, I’ve lived a very fortunate life – professionally and personally. :) I had quite a busy Summer. Now I’m on a break and have enjoyed all of the biking, paddle-boating, boat rides, blood marys and reading that I’ve been able to do. I’m sorry that you’re such a bitter person.

    Carry on. :)

  • Anonymous

    Did you hear about the brain MRI they did on Michele Bachmann?  They found nothing.

    Good luck.

  • Anonymous

    Read The Onion article entitled “Why Do All These Homosexuals Keep Sucking My Cock?”

    You may learn something.

  • Anonymous

    Seems you’re the one complaining. Why don’t you write a book about your complaints?

  • Anonymous

    Thing of you and wishing for the best outcome.

  • Anonymous

    Thanks. :)

  • Anonymous

    I just sent Mediaite this link: KISS frontman Gene Simmons: Rick Perry will be our next president

    http://hotair.com/archives/2011/08/17/kiss-frontman-gene-simmons-rick-perry-will-be-our-next-president/

  • Anonymous

    No operation at this point just injected dye and looking at my brain.  Hoping for a more benign result and they don’t find a tumor.  Thanks. :)

  • Anonymous

    LOL  Well I’m hoping for half that results.  They find brain cells but no tumor. :)

  • Anonymous

    Thanks :)

  • Anonymous

    On #1:  I’ve got no problem with that, on #2:  I’ve got no problem with that, either; on #3:  You didn’t make it clear that you were quoting someone; and on #4:  I was characterizing that kind of rhetoric as something Chuck Norris’s character, Texas Ranger Walker, might say to a bad guy in some episode.  Although, the real Chuck Norris is probably not much different, based on what I’ve read.
    I apologize for my rudeness.

  • Anonymous
  • Epzw

    I hope everything turns out ok.All the best

  • Anonymous

    sorry to hear that ellen.  Will be thinking of you.

  • Greg

    Any word on Cee Cee Deville?

  • GoNavy

    They busted Trumps balls for eating pizza like that, why do you think the lemmings would let it pass?

  • Anonymous

    With nature it’s either feast or famine.  I swear he has a double because his posts appear to be from 2 different people. Perhaps he’s just having an out of body experience at times due to outside influences.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000152902441 Jeremy Volkens

    I might learn something from an article in The Onion?  Now THAT’s funny!

  • Anonymous

    Good luck! Maybe a break away from the computer is all you need.

  • http://games-survival.com Justplaythegame

    The Marcus giggle is “Priceless”

    I didn’t have to read or look who the author of this article was.. waves to Tommy…

  • Anonymous

    Much better joke. :) But that could be because I don’t like Bachmann too. :)

  • Anonymous

    What do you mean by punish?

  • Anonymous

    So why wasn’t a more unflattering pic of Romney used as opposed to the other three Tommy?   A subtle attempt to tilt perception in Romney’s direction? 

  • Hugo Daun

    OH NO!

    Not more cornography!!!

    “Conservative” pillows are still damp from their tears over the Bachmann photos!

    Someone’s gonna write a note or something if MediaITE keeps it up with this stuff!

  • Anonymous

    Now you and I both know that your post regarding conservatives is nonsense.  It is very dangerous to generalize about any group of people.  

    Which 1/2 of the country do most of the republican field not respect?  Which ones do respect them?  How do you know this?  

    It’s a silly statement freaky and indicates that today you’re thinking in a rather shallow manner- asthma attack?

  • Cecelia

    The least Republican candidates could do is to save the media some time by posing en mass mid-bite with a corndog. 

    Add some “fancy” attire for male candidates or for any female candidate’s spouses and you have all the photos for media/liberal narratives until at least Sept. 2012.

    It’s certainly the only reasonable thing for these clods to do.

  • Anonymous

    Don’t care what Cee Cee has to say. I did see Bret Michaels in concert a few weeks ago and he was awesome! :) He had one of the best concerts that I’ve been to – even thanked the troops. Very cool guy.

  • Cecelia

    “If we really do believe that people have the right to do whatever they
    want with their mouths, then what’s so funny about these photos? ”

    Oh, the usual.

    You know… the fact that they can be used to mock, deride, and suggest hypocrisy for any candidates who have the unmitigated  temerity to not think or vote precisely  as you do.

  • Anonymous

    Since you mentioned KISS on a phallic corn dog thread, this Kiss song just has to be posted:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM-l2h6U9jg

  • CrazyLikeAFoxViewer

    I never read Drudge, but out of curiosity, does anyone know whether he’s posted any of these corndog photos on his homepage, the same way he felt compelled to post the picture of Obama in a turban? 

    Just asking…

  • Cecelia

    Yeah… if you’re not for gay marriage, it’s hypocritical to eat tubular food products fried in batter.

  • Anonymous

    Good lord.  Picture of a person eating a dick shaped piece of food is as old as the camera itself.  It was funny then, it’s funny now, and it will be funny in the future.  Liberal or conservative.  Straight or Gay.  Banana or corn dog.  Now excuse me while I chow down on a fish taco!

  • Anonymous

    I disagree- SEVENTH grade, before their voices change.

  • Anonymous

    I disagree- SEVENTH grade, before their voices change.

  • Anonymous

    I disagree- SEVENTH grade, before their voices change.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, the RRE should be weighing in soon about Governor Perry.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, the RRE should be weighing in soon about Governor Perry.

  • Anonymous

    Well, at the least, if you hate Conservatives and straight people the way these leftists do, The Onion article might reinforce your biases.

  • Anonymous

    Time to reload.

  • Anonymous

    Time to reload.

  • Anonymous

    Time to reload.

  • Cecelia

    My husband had the same thing, Kitty, some years ago, and it turned out to be Bell’s Palsy, NOT a brain tumor.

    You’re in my prayers and the odds are with YOU.

  • Tedderman

    John Kerry was eviscerated for asking for Swiss cheese on his cheese steak.

  • Tedderman

    Just stop it, there’s way too much corn dog on corn dog violence going on already. 

  • Anonymous

    In case you haven’t yet noticed this pattern yet, our betters, the compassionate, pro-gay Liberals, think calling people they disagree with “homos” is decent and civil behavior. Whether it was Rachel Maddow and Anderson Copper giggling like school girls with their “Teabagger” slurs, to this current episode of the “mainstream” media posting phallic corn dog photos of all the Republican candidates and the reaction these photos are receiving from leftist blogs and commenters.

  • Tedderman

    Note: She’s admitted to drinking “bloody Marys,”hence you’re likely arguing with a drunk, something you know you can’t win.

  • Cecelia

    So that picture of Pres Obama or Rep. Barney Frank corndog hilarity  is just moments away, right?

  • Anonymous

    You mean like calling millions of Americans “teabaggers”?

    Leftists would never stoop so low as to call people they disagree with “homos”!

  • Texan

    Ladies and gents, I give you progpu$$y, mrsmayhem, wetspot, fakeking, nachothehaterll,freakofnature,”greg”etc, etc.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    If you read Drudge you’d know all he posts are links. If Mediate’s front page displayed one of these photos and the story held newsworthiness Drudge would have posted the headline with photo. Sadly not many media matter type spin off sites offer newsworthy material. You just have to find those sites yourself. I assume you have found them all.

  • Anonymous

    Mediaite shouldn’t run stories like this.  And shouldn’t censor comments by those who point out what such articles do to the reputation of the site and journalist who publish them.   Such comments are far more dignified than the article itself. 

  • Anonymous

    Mediaite shouldn’t run stories like this.  And shouldn’t censor comments by those who point out what such articles do to the reputation of the site and journalist who publish them.   Such comments are far more dignified than the article itself. 

  • Texan

    Done! ;)

  • Texan

    speaking from experience? you shouldn’t do that on the internet…

  • Tedderman

    That’s the least logical argument I’ve ever heard.  If you’ve voted for a certain candidate, you are forever barred from commentary, right?  This is so typical of the thinking of those of your ilk, people with opposing points of view cannot interject any humor in an otherwise serious post.  We’re not bound by your standards or rules, if we choose to be silly or serious, we will. As long as candidates are photographed cramming shit on a stick in their mouths, we’re going to laugh at them as is our right. 

  • Anonymous

    Wow I’d take Bell’s Palsy any day.  Thabnks for the response.  And thanks to everyone else who responded with support. :)

  • Texan

    stop playing the victim, ellen

  • Texan

    of which you have not

  • Anonymous

    Dick jokes trump politics.

  • Anonymous

    Sometimes I wonder just how old Tommy really is? This is second grade humor…giggle giggle giggle. : (

  • Tedderman

    Really sorry to hear this Kitty, I hope they find the cause.  As Arnold Schwarznegger said in Kindergarden Cop…..”It’s not a tumor(with accent)”  at least we hope not.  Get well soon!

  • Texan

    weel, the progs hate him for sure…thanking the troops is a no, no.

  • Yukon Jack

    Liberals, Democrats and any and all sorts of educated and sophisticated elite types hold the corn dog at both ends and eat it like corn on the cob. If they ever lower themselves eating corn dog at all.  

  • Cecelia

    Well, since male homosexuals are the only people in the world who have engaged in fellatio, that makes so much sense…

  • Anonymous

    Tedderman – I don’t appreciate the libel. Time to rescind your false statement.

  • Anonymous

    Reminds Tommy of the old Olbermann days.

  • Anonymous

    Reminds Tommy of the old Olbermann days.

  • Anonymous

    Nature Freak already stated that he would vote for Obama in 2012. I don’t care who he voted for in 2008. The fact that he already conceded to who he would vote for in 2012 makes any point he says moot.

    Now, please stop with the libel, as stated above. Nor do you need to call me ilk. Be mature. If you’re silly enough to laugh at someone eating a corn dog, that says more about your maturity level than a toddler’s.

  • Cecelia

    It gave Mediaite a chance to show the Perry picture.

  • Texan

    LOL! Tommy has his best people on it right now. :)

  • Anonymous

    Huh,none of Barack noshing with a long meat stick stuck in his mouth. I’m certain these photos exist. They’re just hidden away in his private ‘ naughty boy ‘ photo collection is all.

  • Hugo Daun

    All good things to you…look forward to you returning more badass than ever!

  • Cecelia

    So I take it you’re not holding your breath on the Obama or Barney Frank corndog jokes?

  • Tedderman

    I had a brain scan last year, the doctor didn’t find anything.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Wayne-Dehart/1255955043 Wayne Dehart

    I think the real question is whether Bachmann swallowed…

    a la Clinton, she put it to her mouth, but did she inhale?

  • Hugo Daun

    ..and yet you both cry as if it was your first day at kindergarten.

    Maybe a nap and some graham crackers will dry your tears.

  • Tedderman

    Hey Freak, This is for WCinWI above.

    In your reply to avoidswork you stated that you have enjoyed “bloody marys” among other things this summer, ergo, no jury in America would convict me of “libel.”  I am however guilty of making bad jokes from time to time. But as long as I amuse myself, that’s all that matters.  Well, that and getting the goats of certain cons. on this site.

  • Anonymous

    re Tedderman:

    She can’t even have a sense of humor, can she?  Libel.  ((rolls eyes))

    Love to see the Complaint filed where she argues a big meanie on “Mediaite” used her own words to make fun of her.  And the obvious response would be “who the frak is Tedderman and why is your username a toilet?”

    Such an example of CVS, right there. 

    Why doesn’t she just have another Bloody Mary and make herself all better?

    (but please stay away from water, bikes and all other dangerous objects.  don’t need anyone hurt)

    Heck, maybe i420 can stop by with some edibles to really help calm her down, give her the giggles and a sense of humor. 

  • Anonymous

    I’ve seen Obama sucking down a dog.  It was pretty funny.  Hillary Clinton too.  Also funny.  I imagine a Barney Frank corn dog picture would be pretty f-ing amazing.  

    As for who posts them for political gain, I don’t really care.  I don’t visit ideological sites- liberal, conservative, or anything else for that matter.  I have better things to do in life than stew over someone having the same opinion as me or not.

    I just know this:  Dick jokes are funny.

  • http://games-survival.com Justplaythegame

    He might be keeping that one for his private stock?

  • Tedderman

    Exactly right, it dosn’t matter who, phallus equals funny.

  • Tedderman

    His people, his people, just what are you saying, his people?

  • Reid

    Um, they called themselves teabaggers at the start, once people who knew what that meant started making fun of them, they switched and started bitching about being called it.

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

    Im sorry, but you dont go to Pat’s and order swiss. Kerry got what he deserved.

    There, the Massachusetts Democrat went to Pat’s Steaks and ordered a cheesesteak — with Swiss cheese. If that weren’t bad enough, the candidate asked photographers not to take his picture while he ate the sandwich; shutters clicked anyway, and Kerry was caught nibbling daintily at his sandwich — another serious faux pas.

    “It will doom his candidacy in Philadelphia,” predicted Craig LaBan, food critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer, which broke the Sandwich Scandal. After all, Philly cheesesteaks come with Cheez Whiz, or occasionally American or provolone. But Swiss cheese? “In Philadelphia, that’s an alternative lifestyle,” LaBan explained.

  • Anonymous

    And you guys wonder why our President needs a million dollar armored bus…

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

    Dont get RRE started on Perry. Just be glad to know that RRE lives in Texas and his vote has meant nothing for quite some time.

  • Hugo Daun

    Ya know what MediaITE really should do?

    They should really just ignore readers who just sign in to cry, complain, and otherwise try to change the way MediaITE chooses to do business…

    Oh LOOK!

    That’s exactly what MediaITE is doing!

    Poor felix…maybe you should try writing a note or something.

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

    Its worth mentioning that for all of Tommy Christopher’s musings on finding this sort of thing “abhorrent,” it hasn’t stopped him from publishing the photos, thereby perpetuating the wrongdoing.

    If you really found it objectionable you wouldn’t have run with the story in the first place.

    I liken this to participating in a drive-by shooting, then coming back and saying how you witnessed the whole thing and are shocked by it.

  • reid

    Sorry, Tommy you’ve got this one all wrong- doesn’t matter who the pictures of or what side of the political /(/sexual/age/whatever) fence you’re on, dirty pictures and jokes are always funny (in a childish ”we should be more mature then this, but ha that was pretty funny” kinda way).
    Almost every comedy film, tv show, etc, employs some sort of toilet humor/innuendo joke, sometimes it’s clever and funny, sometimes it’s dumb and funny- these pictures could be of obama/clinton/whoever, they’d still get snarky remarks from the ‘liberal blogosphere’.

    Also, the funniest thing IMHO is that it seems in every picture you could tell everyone of these politicians hated the taste of the thing- they all look like a kid who’s forcing themselves to eat horrible veggies to avoid getting a beating from their pa. Truth is all these guys are millionaires and wouldn’t be caught dead eating this in real life. (And before any one jumps in, no, not wanting to eat a dirty corn(?!?)dog doesn’t make anybody elitist, it just means you’re normal and like eating tasty hotdogs.)

  • http://profiles.google.com/timburns116 Tim Burns

    Still, the elitist part is dead on.  America’s newest reality show has Tommy C complaining about how Snooki Bachman gets her photo taken?  For 18 months we have to listen to this crap, instead of real news…

    Which rich a$$hole will challenge the current rich a$$hole to see who can sell legislation and regulation the fastest to their campaign contributors.  Wake me when we get publicly financed campaigns, where idiots like Chuck Todd and Tommy C are the gatekeepers of democracy any longer

  • http://profiles.google.com/timburns116 Tim Burns

    Which bachmann?

  • http://profiles.google.com/timburns116 Tim Burns

    So, Perry’s campaign is part of the liberal media?  Or, did you just skip reading the article you are commenting on?  Meanwhile, the Telegraph is now an American liberal outlet. 

    this sort of missing the forest for the trees becauser you’re just too lazy to read the article is so persuasive of the teabaggers.  learn to read

  • Hugo Daun

    Keep on trying, dumplin’…one day you may get a laugh.

  • Anonymous

    says a reliably Republican voter?

  • Anonymous

    Nope, just funny

  • Anonymous

    Well, that would be terrible!  Not taken seriously on an internet comment forum!  Poor mayhem. 

  • Anonymous

    ah, hypocrisy.  Cool to make fun of Dems eating and complaining about their cheese and mustard choices, but DAMN when a photo shows Michelle inadvertently looking like Jenna Jameson, then that just “unfair”!

    Stupid, fake media controversies and the conservative victimhood mentality all in one place!  Two of these things I hate most….it’s just wonderful

  • Cecelia

    So where are the pictures?

  • Cecelia

    Oh, good .. so please post the links to the photos of the president and Hillary “sucking down a dog”.

    We’d all like to share in the hilarity.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: This is how me and my family handle those times of fear. God will always take care of his own those who let
    the light in from the Holy Ghost! Believe in Gods mercy and all will be okay!
    We will pray for you and will do our best for you to hear, for those  results being best results for you in your
    time of need! Amen! Besides your side needs you now on the blog.

  • Anonymous

    You quoted the President quoting a famous movie like it’s a sin.

    “If you’re not with us, you’re against us.”  See, both sides can do it.

    Jeesh, it’s like this is where the trolls who listen obsessively to Mark Levin spend their afternoons prior to coming out to feed on all the right wing bs he serves every evening.

  • Cecelia

    You don’t inhale corndogs you chew them.

    Mediaite displays pictures of Republicans doing that.

    Juveniles laugh, claim it’s all merely comedy, and then try to suggest that they wouldn’t be crying racism, homophobia, and sexism to the skies if Pres. Obama or Sec. Clinton was photographed in this manner.

    (That’s strictly conjecture on my part, since no one has as yet dared to display a similar photo of either person)

  • Slickrick

    Nice pic trick rick…dont forget the corn nuts as well. Thats it… Dont stop!

  • Anonymous

    Okay, this was funny when Michele was deep-throating the dog, but Perry doing it is just gross. He doesn’t look happy blowing this pig boner AT ALL! 

    >:-|

  • MANBEARPIG RESIST WE MUCH!

    Obama Uses Bus Tour To Lock Up The Gay Vote… hahahahaha

  • Cecelia

    Well…evidently liberals have an aversion to cornmeal, or the media thinks that such pictures of Democrats chowing down on meat tubes is more pejorative than a euphemism equating the color of clouds with ominous weather…

    Why else would the knee-slapping discomfort of millionaires and meat products be so one-sided?

  • Anonymous

    If you’re going to write me, at least make it a good quip.

  • Anonymous

    Obama should know that reference. It’s used all of the time in sports analogies.

    Genius.

  • Cecelia

    Exactly.

  • Anonymous

    Ted – The implication was that I enjoyed a Bloody Mary today. Hence, the issuance of libel. Perhaps you don’t know how libel works. It’s generally when you make a written statement about someone that is false. Plus, no judge would give a jury this case. Genius. :)

    It’s not my problem that you have maturity issues. As is evidenced by your desire to put animals together with conservatives. The proper use of the phrase would be “to get someone’s goat” but apparently you can’t even get that joke right.

    P.S. You did have a nice joke below in response to progressive kitty, but I don’t think you meant it as a joke. Granted, it was still probably your best.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/4NHDRVFWUTVYFWF7OLUBHSHX3Y mikey970

    it takes a lot of experience to put something that thick and long in you mouth without biting

  • Cecelia

    Well, perhaps for the simple reason that religious tenets against sex outside of Biblical parameters didn’t mean you should be treated disrespectfully at one time.

    But then perhaps you’d like to go on record as finding photos of Muslims eating skewers of goat meat as being their disrespectful just desserts too.

    We’re waiting….

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dave-Be/1751243136 Dave Be

    Obama was paraphrasing a Sean Connery line from The Untouchables.  Chuck Norris had nothing to do with it.

  • Anonymous

    Ah, the corn dog man weighs in with his opinion.  But it doesn’t weigh much.

  • Hugo Daun

    More like cockwork, I dare say…

    AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

  • Hugo Daun

    More like cockwork, I dare say…

    AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

  • Anonymous

    If you don’t find dick jokes funny, I can’t help you.  If you can’t use Google, I really can’t help you.

  • Cecelia

    Nature freak, how is it that your comments and my responses to them keep being deleted?

  • Hugo Daun

    More like a bratwurst and about six-seven ounces…I’m flattered at your interest.

  • chx

    *yawn*

  • dono

    Clearly they photoshoped the photo – that is Exxon/Mobil wang they are eating not a corndog.  And believe me they do it 24/7

  • Cecelia

      “Anyone who respects the right of individuals to determine their own identities, rather than have it dictated to them,”Conservatives
    do the same thing all the time regarding individuals who happen to be
    People of Color, working poor, on government assistance, New Englanders,
    Gay, Liberal, belong to Unions, Atheists, Muslims, Feminists,
    undocumented students brought in as children and so on. They are reduced
    to being nothing but “the other”. They are used as generalized
    scapegoats. They are reduced to generalized objects of hateMost
    of the Republican field for POTUS shows no respect to half the country.
    They dictate reductionist anger and bile towards millions of individuals
    across this land. Why should the Republican candidates for POTUS 
    expect to receive respect back? They have not earned my respect!Let the cornucopia of corn dog photographs continue. Yes, these candidates suck. Maize and meat!
    ———————————————–

    why has this comment by Nature Freak disappeared from this board?

  • Cecelia

    Again, Nature Freak, Muslims also have dictates against homosexuality…would find “disrespectful” pictures of them eating corndogs just as funny and deserving?

  • Anonymous

    B_M_G has thought quite a lot about Obama sucking a meat stick. If only he could get one of his hands on those photos.

  • timburns116

    Please tell me this doesn’t mean you are not gonna take me seriously on an internet comment forum!  If that happened….well, gee golly, I think my whole sense of self worth would be ruined.

  • Anonymous

    You’re absolutely right. Michele Bachmann isn’t a male homosexual. If she was, the hypocrisy would be mind-blowing.

  • Cecelia

    Great!  So you’ll vote on him then!

  • Cecelia

    Does that really make the slightest bit of sense?

  • Anonymous

    They found brain cells?  Well, you’re obviously not a Tea Partier then.  But we knew that about you anyway, Kit.  Keep that sense of humor.

  • Anonymous

    They found brain cells?  Well, you’re obviously not a Tea Partier then.  But we knew that about you anyway, Kit.  Keep that sense of humor.

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

    inadvertently? You are either a naive fool or a blatant liar to say these photos are “inadvertent”

    So which is it?

    I personally think that you equating John Kerry mangling his cheesesteak order (a cultural snafu that he brought upon himself) with pictures of Republicans eating corndogs mid bite (taken with the intent to make them look bad) means that you fall into the stupid category. However, it could be both.

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

    What funniest is that liberals are the first to use gay references to “smear” their opponents.

    The people here who liked this comment from mayhem endorse the notion that calling someone gay is an insult.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/EJBVT6EMBP5ICYIGTRSCL7HWGE derek

    Just think.  Barney Frank does that for real!

  • timburns116

    blinded by one word?  Read it again, d-bag, It is the action of Bachmann that is inadvertent (unless you think she posed for it to get the repressed Christian base excited?)

  • Cecelia

    Well, let me defend Tommy in the way he would appreciate.

    WHY would you suggest that in making his statement that Tommy is doing wrong with his mouth?….I don’t have any accompanying of photos of Tommy biting on a corndog but that’s only because no one would be so disrespectful to a liberal atheist (or Muslim) as to show them deep throating chicken lips on a stick, but one shouldn’t be so disrespectful to liberal atheists and Muslims, anyway…even if you’re not…

    So there…  ( imagine an accompanying unfair…bad… bad… Tommy and a frozen nutty banana photo….please won’t you….)

    sigh…

  • timburns116

    It’s ALWAYS about false equivalence for you victims, isn’t it?

  • timburns116

    I posted it above.  Simple google search, maroon

    Here’s Hillary
    http://thepeoplescube.com/images/Hillary_HotDog_150.jpg

  • Anonymous

    Perry will not accept any substitute.

  • doug daluga

    Sorry, the Repubs have cornered the market on homophobia. We just thinks the pictures are funny as hell.

  • Anonymous

    Poor analogy. Causality has to be demonstrated in order for it to stick. He didn’t make the photo or participate in its creation whatsoever, just offered it up for critique. He’s more like the detectives who visit the crime scene after the fact and gather evidence.

  • doug daluga

    Sure we would, if we were friends with said “homo”.

  • doug daluga

    Only if they are being hypocritical, and even then we don;t use being gay as smear, we enjoy shining a light on crass hypocrisy…and then laughing.

  • doug daluga

    Wrong, Trump was called out for eating thin crust pizza with a knife and fork. Who the hell does that?

  • doug daluga

    #3 is not an Obama quote, it is from The Untouchables.

  • http://twitter.com/pdxprogressiveX michael stone

    Lighten up, the photos are funny.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7HVL2ISWKMKOHNAMLPFDIQFRHY Exloonylib

    Well those pics don’t do it for me, but I’ll admit, every time Bernake smiles I get a hard.

  • Anonymous

    Texan 6 hours ago in reply to progressive_kitty
    stop playing the victim, ellen

    Quit playing the victim of me.

  • Nature Freak

    The Bachmann’s seem to be more “complicated” than this. Far more.

  • Manda25301

    It looks like Perry has had some practice! It even looks like the Pakistani schlong he’s been working for campaign dollars! Ha Ha Ha.

  • timburns116

    Is MIchele gay for deep-throating her corn dog? 

    I admit that I can occasionally be surprised by the depths conservatives will go to be offended, especially when the whining allows them to call their opponents homophobic or racist, but I can’t figure out how Bachmann falls into this category….

  • timburns116

    Now Tommy C is in league with Romney? 

  • Anonymous

    Rick Perry’s cowboy boots and confrontational interview style makes him look tough,

    But the way he deep throats a corn dog just screams ” Helloooooo San-Francisco ” !!

  • Anonymous

    No one, as in you. I’m crushed beyond belief (sarcasim intended). Isn’t about time you threatened to ban somebody? You’ve got to keep that sterling rep you’ve garnered here intact. 

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

    This post isnt getting more people to see the photo, making it worse?

    Ok then pal. You might want to stay put in the shallow end where you can swim.

  • Anonymous

    The fact that Christopher’s filing this story with it’s attendant photos is his very deceptive way of getting his jollies over the pics while claiming to actually care. 

    Shakespeare had it right in Hamlet with the line “The {columnist} doth protest too much, methinks.”

  • http://www.facebook.com/drewdels Drew Caplan

     They don’t believe that people have the right to do whatever they want with their mouths, that’s  what’s so funny about these photos

  • wayday

    We little boys giggle at Weiner jokes, too.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1396651822 Jay Michael Devereaux

    The really annoying thing to me about this is that the media can spend so much time on smears and gotchas but does so little to investigate any real news stories. Sensation, scandal, gotcha, speculation but damn little real news or actual investigative journalism.

    The entire industry is one great big National Enquirer. Only the foolish and the ignorant believe anything the press tells them anymore. Lies and spin worse than the politicians and that is saying something. I shouldn’t have to investigate every story myself to find the truth. THATS YOUR JOB and WITHOUT EDITORIALIZING a NEWS story.
    The gene pool of the journalism industry needs some chlorine. The industry as a whole probably has a lower approval rating than congress. I don’t know anyone that thinks well of the press anymore. Where is that poll? Freedom of the press does not mean freedom to me nothing but yellow journalism. Everyone in the industry should be ashamed of themselves. Those that practice this behavior, and those that tolerate it by not making that the story and cleaning up your own houses alike. Shame on you all, plague on your houses.

  • Anonymous

    What do you mean by asking?

  • Anonymous

    True, that NEVER got old

  • BatboysDad

    Don Lemon has more pictures for his mirror thanks to his buddy Tommy!

  • Anonymous

    Since Romney is a middle of the road waffler like John McCain and imminently beatable…. yes.

  • Anonymous

    Let Fox lead the way and practice some “fair and balanced” reporting.
    Otherwise, we can all watch PBS.

    PS- Mediaite’s role is to follow the Media, not report the news.

  • Anonymous

    et tu Rick

    How did Romney avoid the photo?  Damn that guy is smart.

  • Billy Sunday

    Cue:  Hypocritical, anti-liberal rhetoric from Republican supporters directed at Democratic supporters. 
    In 3…2…1….

  • Anonymous

    http://nation.foxnews.com/president-obama/2011/08/17/obama-treats-himself Well, here’s one of Obama going after an ice cream cone – but just the tip!

  • Anonymous

    Got any proof that those who as you say started that actually were Tea Party members or were they liberals showing up at Tea Party events to make fun of them?

    At any rate it wasn’t funny then and it isn’t funny now.

  • Anonymous

    Then you ‘thinks’ wrong. Not funny, not even mildly amusing. What you think is funny is the fact that you made a sex joke out of someone you don’t like eating a corn dog.

  • Anonymous

    And the way you look like an idiot for pointing it out just screams “I am a sophomoric libtard”.

  • Anonymous

    So, you admit being of lower IQ. Nice.

  • Anonymous

    And it reflects on your actual worth on an internet comment forum, Mister Non-sequitur.

  • Anonymous

    So what?

  • Anonymous

    I think the intent of the photographer in both cases was blatant and far from inadvertent. They could have taken a pass on the photos in the first place, since no one really cares what fair foods the candidates are eating. Wouldn’t it have been so funny to show a picture of them eating a funnel cake? No, not really.

  • Anonymous

    They will not vote for any democrats is what I think it means. What did you think it meant?

  • Anonymous

    They will not vote for any democrats is what I think it means. What did you think it meant?

  • Anonymous

    Why, how erudite of you.

  • Anonymous

    Why, how erudite of you as well.

  • Anonymous

    This whole story is crap.

  • Sandie

    Actually, they did not. They referred to themselves as TEA Party patriots and TEA Partiers. It was the smut mouthed  liberals in the Hollywood set that started the use of the nasty term “teabagger”

  • Anonymous

    doodadido, you do realize, as Tommy C made clear int he article above, that the Perry pic was released by the Perry campaign?

  • timburns116

    It was a tea party protestor holding up a sign that said “teabag them before they teabag you” that caused the liberal ridicule, Sandie.  I would be surprised you missed it, except, well, I’m not.

    Here ya go http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2009-03-18-tea_bag_dems.jpg

  • timburns116
  • timburns116
  • timburns116

    Since when is “homo” an insult? 

  • Anonymous

    Kind of shoots the credibility in the head with your source being HuffPo.

    Can you provide an un-biased source or are you merely promoting your liberal master’s agenda?

  • Anonymous

    Reposting propaganda does not give it the ring of truth.

  • Anonymous

    Sissy Alert !!

  • timburns116

    The quote, conservative know nothing, is from MacBeth.

    A guide for the future:  if you’re quoting some talking about a MacBeth, there’s a good chance the play IS Macbeth

  • Sandie

    No , the TEA Party folks did not create the nasty name the left recreated in their own vision. The sign did not intend for the vile crap the libby left turned it into. It was the left that changed the whole meaning of it. It was the left that was the dirty talking perverters of the message … anyone who watched Maddow and Olberman and the scree from MSNBC Schuster knows that the message of the TEA Party was intentionally opted by the liars of MSNBC in their perverted minds. It is all over the web … want to see examples of what MSNBC people said just to derail the message? The Left showed their down dirtyness when they took the original message and changed it to their own nasty message, and their own nasty TV personallities like Maddow, Olberman etc showed their perversion abilities and that they would stoop at now lows to denigrate a legitimate sector of the American population just for the LeftWing nonsesne that fills their mouths and vacant brains

  • Sandie

    No , the TEA Party folks did not create the nasty name the left recreated in their own vision. The sign did not intend for the vile crap the libby left turned it into. It was the left that changed the whole meaning of it. It was the left that was the dirty talking perverters of the message … anyone who watched Maddow and Olberman and the scree from MSNBC Schuster knows that the message of the TEA Party was intentionally opted by the liars of MSNBC in their perverted minds. It is all over the web … want to see examples of what MSNBC people said just to derail the message? The Left showed their down dirtyness when they took the original message and changed it to their own nasty message, and their own nasty TV personallities like Maddow, Olberman etc showed their perversion abilities and that they would stoop at now lows to denigrate a legitimate sector of the American population just for the LeftWing nonsesne that fills their mouths and vacant brains

  • Sandie

    No , the TEA Party folks did not create the nasty name the left recreated in their own vision. The sign did not intend for the vile crap the libby left turned it into. It was the left that changed the whole meaning of it. It was the left that was the dirty talking perverters of the message … anyone who watched Maddow and Olberman and the scree from MSNBC Schuster knows that the message of the TEA Party was intentionally opted by the liars of MSNBC in their perverted minds. It is all over the web … want to see examples of what MSNBC people said just to derail the message? The Left showed their down dirtyness when they took the original message and changed it to their own nasty message, and their own nasty TV personallities like Maddow, Olberman etc showed their perversion abilities and that they would stoop at now lows to denigrate a legitimate sector of the American population just for the LeftWing nonsesne that fills their mouths and vacant brains

  • Anonymous

    I know there is video somewhere on youtube that has Obama calling TEA Party members ‘teabaggers’. I’ve seen it. That’s when the term got outted to the masses. Up to that point, it was used within the closed community of homosexuals. Now it is loose within the lsm. Sad that sleazy smears are the norm and not the exception.

  • Sandie

    He can’t, and he can’t refute that it was the libs who took the term “Tea Bag” out of context and substituted their own disgusting and vile term for it ( figures – the left is quite low brow) to try to make nastiness in headlines, but it is all on them. The original term Tea Bag them was all about putting the power out on them, like the Boston Tea Party, but the loser left had to do their typical CHILDISH nonsense and create their own dishonest meaning of what Tea Bag means. It was and still is a measure of desperation against a formidable foe. Why any one listens to them is beyond reason. Desperation .

  • Anonymous

    Jackass Alert!!

  • Sandie

    It doesn’t matter – it was the low brow crude mentality of the left that turned a simple clean statement of normal American usage…. teabag into a rude crude sexually smutty term with an entirely different meaning. Of course you refuse to see it because you are one of them , rude crude and smutty. That is typical of the left – childish potty humor.

  • http://www.thefriendcenter.com/ SoThere

    All I saw was a child holding up a sign that was made by some leftist to show the Tea Party in a bad light.  It’s not the first time those leftist idiots have done that.   As a matter of fact, you can find them at all the rallies there days.

    The kid with the sign means absolutely nothing.  I didn’t see his Tea Party membership card in the picture and besides it’s Huffy Post picture. No credibility there.

    “TMP”

  • Sandie

    It doesn’t matter – it was not the TEA Party that came up with the term – Their term was to “tera bag the WH” meaning to send tons of tea bags to the WH – google if you don’t recal that movement part. It wa hte nasty left in their childish playground humor that developed and misused the term teabagger. No TEA Party folks ever meant that usage – it was the dirty left.

  • http://www.thefriendcenter.com/ SoThere

    I’m sure it was the first thing Maddow, Schultz,Matthews and the MSNBC crowd thought of, after all they all live in that world of debauchery and sewage.

    It’s “THEIR” way of life.

    “TMP”

  • Sandie

    It is and apparently they have no shame.

  • Anonymous

    He’s a Mormon. They don’t do that sort of thing! (just kidding)

  • ChuckMock

    Photos of B. Hussein Obama are practically non-existant… however, photos of Republicans eating corn dogs are in plentiful supply.  Can you say left-wing agenda boys and girls???

  • ChuckMock

    my bad…   i meant to say:  Photos of B. Hussein Obama smoking are practically non-existant… however, photos of Republicans eating corn dogs are in plentiful supply.  Can you say left-wing agenda boys and girls???

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