Weekend Caption Contest™ Winners

January 30, 2012 | Filed under Weekend Caption Contest | Posted by

This weekend’s edition of the Weekend Caption Contest™ was another rousing success. This week you were all literally playing for second place, as fustian24 was on fire. The assignment this weekend was to caption the following picture:

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer points during an intense conversation with President Barack Obama after he arrived at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, in Mesa, Ariz. Asked moments later what the conversation was about, Brewer, a Republican, said: "He was a little disturbed about my book." Brewer recently published a book, "Scorpions for Breakfast," something of a memoir of her years growing up and defends her signing of Arizona's controversial law cracking down on illegal immigrants, which Obama opposes. Obama was objecting to Brewer's description of a meeting he and Brewer had at the White House, where she described Obama as lecturing her. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

Here are the winning entries:

1) (fustian24) – “Frankly Barack, we were all stunned to find out you read something that wasn’t on a teleprompter.”

2) (herddog505) – “Don’t try to kiss me now AFTER you’ve f*cked me!”

3) (fustian24) – “Yeah, well then you can get your little Marxist, metrosexual, cry-baby butt out of my state.”

4) (John) – “Gov. Brewer – Wrong, Wrong, Wrong . . . Wrong damned finger”

5) (Joe_Miller) – “David Lee Roth begs the President to help get him out of Van Halen.”

6) (fustian24) – “Yeah, well I’m “small and furious”!”

The Readers Choice Award goes to:

(Brucepall) – “…. and one more thing, if your AG sets foot in my state, I’ll have him extradited to Mexico!”

That’s all for this weekend! A new edition of the contest will debut Friday morning.

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  • Brucepall

    Hat tip to Fustian – most irreverent.

    Semper Fidelis-

  • Brucepall

    Hat tip to Fustian – most irreverent.

    Semper Fidelis-

    • fustian24

      I generally go for sophomoric and juvenile.

      Thanks for the kind words, though…

  • deltamary

    It seems today -everyone uses that F word and it is disgusting- You can get your point over without crude words –Since the Governor is old enough to be his mother, simply say – You had better straighten up and fly right or I’ll jerk a knot in you. That sure got attention back in the 40s and 50s.

    • herddog505

      And would, of course, have been racist.

      • http://www.outsidethebeltway.com rodney dill

        I can’t find any references either through common usage or through meaning that would construe that as being racist.

        • herddog505

          I can’t find any references through common usage or meaning that waving one’s finger angrily at somebody is racist, either, but the left seems to think that it is.

          I should have put a /sarc tag at the end of my post.

        • http://www.rustedsky.net JLawson

          Oh, but you’re wrong.  The current accepted standard is that anything uttered by a conservative is by default racist, if it has words of more than one letter, or includes vowels and/or consonants.

          Just ask Bruce about Dog Whistles.  That guy can hear a racist thought 50 miles away in a hurricane. 

          He’s impressive.

          • deltamary

            And who might ask–who isa  Bruce . See my reply -to Herddog. Guess Bruce will be next

          • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/EU5DQWQTTHTPO4A4ZYSL3AAV2U Adjoran

            Trust me, you’re better off not knowing.

            Some things you can never UN-know.

          • http://www.rustedsky.net JLawson

            Bruce Henry is a frequent poster here.  He’s sensitive to things like racist terms, finding them in pretty much everything.

            Personally, I think it’s a really sad case of projection – he’s actually pretty racist himself but can’t bring himself to admit it, so he has to accuse everyone else of it.  He’s particularly fond of ‘dog whistles’, phrases that to you or I are perfectly innocuous, but to him are particularly freighted with racist connotations.

            The fact that WE don’t recognize them as racist means little – he sees them as racist, therefore anyone who uses them is a racist, and that’s all that matters.  (Which says quite a bit about his thought processes, come to think about it…)

            I was making a bit of fun of him above – but, really, the man seems obsessed with finding racism wherever he can.

          • Brucehenry

            Dude, you know I never play these caption contest thingies. If I hadn’t seen your cowardly backstabbing snark in the “recent comment” sidebar thingie I would never have known you were talking shit about me, you pussy.

            You got a problem with my comments? Fine. tell me about ‘em. Don’t whisper with your little friends behind my back. Did I mention you’re a pussy?

          • jim_m

            Yeah, I’d have to say the projection sounds more like Stephen than it does Bruce.

          • http://www.rustedsky.net JLawson

            And a racist one at that, right?

            (Checks genitalia, finds things as they were since birth, shrugs.)

            I’ve told you before (to your face, so to speak) that I think you’re seeing racist crap that isn’t there.

            You brush it off.  Fine – it’s your privilege to do so.  Free internet and all that, right?

            So now I’m making fun of you because I think you’re a racist, and it seems to really piss you off.  Isn’t that strange – you have no problems at all being sarcastic and unpleasant to others here, being generally as disagreeable as possible, and yet you’re so thin-skinned you can’t stand someone thinking you’re a walking example of a ‘politically correct’ joke – someone who sees something objectionable everywhere he looks, and insists it all must be stopped because it’s offensive!

            Do I think you’re a racist?  Yeah, I think I do.  And I also think you’re aware of it.  Good on you for that, by the way.  The only way you get over that is through conscious effort and self-control – or never being taught it in the first place.  I think someone taught you carefully, and their karma will catch up to them eventually.

            But you – you’re so determined to show you’re NOT a racist that you’ll go 180 degrees in the other direction on it and accuse everyone else of it.

            At that point, you turn into a joke, and not a particularly funny one.

            But the real kicker is – I wouldn’t even have thought of you as possibly being a racist if you hadn’t repeatedly brought the subject up in posts that had no discussion of race in them at all.

            If you’re still reading at this point – think of it this way.  If someone is constantly talking about baseball cards, when the subject isn’t about baseball cards, is there the slightest possibility that the person insisting on making the conversation about baseball cards is kind of obsessed with them?

            So what am I supposed to think – that you’re so exquisitely tuned to all sorts of racist nuances that you’re under a great obligation to call it out wherever you see it, or that you’re obsessed with the subject?

            If you see racism everywhere, hear dog whistles constantly when nobody’s blowing them – and other people consistently don’t see it or hear them – it’s not their problem, it’s yours.

          • Brucehenry

            Please link to where I brought up racism in a thread that wasn’t about racism (or the alleged absence of it) or that wasn’t in response to a comment about racism (or the alleged absence of it).

            If I see racism or hear dogwhistles when other people don’t — and the “other people” are Wizbang commenters — maybe it’s my problem and maybe it’s theirs.

            Most of the time when I talk about racism, it’s not to accuse others, it’s simply to point out that “I’m rubber, you’re glue” is not a valid defense against the allegation. Neither is “he who smelt it dealt it” or “Nuh-uh, you are!”

            In any case I don’t care whether or not you think I’m a racist, Lawson. I was just a little miffed you’d spend a paragraph being all catty about me with a newbie in a comment thread you knew I wasn’t participating in. I suppose my characterization of you as a “pussy” is a little harsh, though. Maybe “meanest girl in the ninth grade” is more apt.

            But from now on, if you’re willing, I’ll make a deal with you: I’ll just argue with what you SAY, rather than who you are, or seem to me to be.

          • http://www.rustedsky.net JLawson

            I apologize for offending you, Bruce.
              Occasionally we’ve seen eye to eye, but I think you’re way off on this. 

            “If I see racism or hear dogwhistles when other people don’t — and the “other people” are Wizbang commenters — maybe it’s my problem and maybe it’s theirs.”

            It’s yours, if you’ve got to depend on obscure nuance or supposed dog whistles.  Or you’re using it to score Internet Argument Points which can always be redeemed for valuable prizes later on.

            “Most of the time when I talk about racism, it’s not to accuse others, it’s simply to point out that “I’m rubber, you’re glue” is not a valid defense against the allegation. Neither is “he who smelt it dealt it” or “Nuh-uh, you are!” ”

            The problem is – there’s no valid defense against an accusation of racism.  It cannot be denied for precisely the reasons you stated above.  There is no positive proof someone can give that they AREN’T racist, in some form or another, once the accusation is made.

            Which is why I think it needs to be flung a lot less frequently than it is - and ‘dog whistles’ need to stay in the pet store.

          • Brucehenry

            Replying at bottom.

      • deltamary

        Fine  with me- If that is racist- so be it. I’m 75 years old and I say what I mean and mean what I say- I’m sick and tired of the term politically correct.Those 2 words are not in my vocabulary either. They were replaced by some very explicit new words when I found someone came into my garage- got my rake and a new $16. box of Costco garbage bags yesterday and also stomped the cat to death- Yes- there was a mole in the neighborhood- and told me where they lived – 2 police cars – and I was in the middle of the street –stopping traffic –I had my stun gun ready for anyone in my way. I don’t care if I’m called racist.

        • herddog505

          I beg your pardon; I really ought to have put a /sarc tag at the end of my post.  What you suggest that Brewer had said to Barry in lieu of the more (ahem) salty language that I and other suggested is NOT racist, at least in the eye of any normal person.  Unfortunately, it seems that, to lefties, ANY criticism of Barry is racist, even the sort of language that my grandmother would use.

  • herddog505

    Thank you.

  • Brucepall

    Ah deltamary,  recommend replacing the gun with a cattle prod.  That way you can see the whites of their eyes when you poke em… and ahem… the Cops wont be able to take it away from ya for not having a concealed carry permit  ;-)
      

    • Brucepall

      PS – they sell em at “Tractor Supply.”

  • http://profiles.google.com/rtssdorsai Jeff C

    “Touch me with that hand again and you won’t get it back”
                                                                               – The Book of Eli Brewer …

  • fustian24

    In all humility, I must admit that I’m just the greatest.

    I mean, c’mon!

    And I’d like to compliment Kevin. Not everyone has the elevated taste to recognize my transcendent greatness.

    You know, in all humility…

    • http://www.outsidethebeltway.com rodney dill

      Maybe you should compliment him instead.

      • fustian24

        Hunh?

        (grin)

  • Brucehenry

    Thank you, Lawson.

    And I do see your point about there being no defense against racism charges — kind of like “When did you stop beating your wife?”

    However, I suggest you’ve got me mixed up with someone else when you say I’m “always hearing dog whistles.” Or when you say I bring up the subject when it is not part of the conversation. Gimme a link, or just remind me of a specific time. I don’t think you can. I simply point out that dogwhistles and code words DO exist when some other commenter denies that they do.

    Like on the recent thread about Carter calling out Newt for his rhetoric. Now, I know you think’s Newt’s language was not intended to be a dogwhistle, and MAYBE it wasn’t, but can you honestly say that there is NO reason to suspect that that MIGHT be the case?

    That’s the kind of thing I do here. I don’t, like certain others, go around calling everyone racist. And, as I said, I defy you to catch me talking about racism in a thread where the subject has not come up before I joined the discussion — either it is the subject of the post itself, or some other commenter (maybe YOU!) brought it up first.

    There are many posts here at Wizbang expressly accusing others of crying wolf about racism where, supposedly, no racism is present. Commenters join the thread with the usual noise about liberals being the “real racists” because they allegedly are “obsessed with race.” I never see you scolding the authors of these posts for constantly dwelling on the matter. Why do you scold me for expressing a dissenting opinion or an alternate view?