Seriously?! NY Post Columnist Demands Obama Apologize for ‘Selfie’ Story
We have officially reached peak Selfie-Gate™.
Everyone seems to have an overreaction to the non-troversy surrounding President Obama taking a “selfie” with several world leaders during the Mandela memorial this week. Several MSNBC contributors called the coverage of the photograph “sexist and racist,” with Media Matters echoing similar sentiments. On the other side of the proverbial aisle, conservatives began calling Obama “president selfie” and blasted him for lack of decorum at a solemn event.
New York Post conservative columnist Andrea Peyser went one step further on Thursday morning by demanding that Obama apologize to everyone for his “flirty” behavior and for Selfie-Gate™ in general.
In front of 91 world leaders, the mourning nation of South Africa and Obama’s clearly furious wife, Michelle, the president flirted, giggled, whispered like a recalcitrant child and made a damn fool of himself at first sight of Denmark’s voluptuously curvy and married prime minister, Helle Thorning-Schmidt.
Not to be outdone by the president’s bad behavior, the Danish hellcat hiked up her skirt to expose long Scandinavian legs covered by nothing more substantial than sheer black stockings.
With Michelle glowering, the world judging and mental fidelity floating into the abyss, the president leaned into the air space of the cross-legged Danish cupcake, who is known in Copenhagen as a fan of America’s randy TV show “Sex and the City.’’ It was the memorial equivalent of a bodice-ripper.
Hmmm, okay. Just calm down a tad, eh? Nope. Peyser continued on with what reads like fanfic literature about Obama’s sexual conquests:
Thorning-Schmidt placed her hands dangerously close to Obama’s side. The president’s cackling head moved inches from the Danish tart’s and yards away from his wife’s. Obama then proceeded to absorb body heat from the Dane, which he won’t be feeling at home for a long time.
This wasn’t a key party. This was a service that filled an entire Johannesburg soccer stadium for Mandela, the great leader who freed his people out of racial oppression and died last Thursday at age 95.
He was a man who Obama compared at the memorial to Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King. And here was the president, publicly behaving as if he was plotting his next hook-up.
It was unseemly.
Peyser eventually got to her point: Obama should beg for America’s forgiveness.
[P]eople won’t soon forget the escapades of the people whose salaries they pay.
President Obama has some ’splaining to do. To the woman he married. To his daughters. To the people of South Africa. And to the scandalized folks here at home.
He owes the world an apology.
Dear lord. Make this meme stop.
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