THAT'S AN EON IN THE NEWS BIZ.Too good to check: Obama’s “dog” line actually a quote from … Jimi Hendrix?
Sep 7, 2010 6:18 PM by Allahpundit
Stone free. [...]
[ALLAHPUNDIT:]
I refuse to believe it. If it’s true, then I’m forced to move yesterday’s outburst from the “thin-skinned jackassery” column into the “kind of awesome” column.
Can’t be right. Can’t be.
Has President Obama been listening to a lot of Jimi Hendrix lately? With just under two months to go before Election Day, Obama kicked off the fall campaign season Monday with an aggressive speech targeting Republicans. But it was an off-script moment in the speech that’s attracted the most attention, as Obama accused his GOP critics of talking about him “like a dog.”…
Though Obama didn’t acknowledge it, the line was a verbatim quote from “Stone Free,” the first song Hendrix wrote after moving to England in 1966. “They talk about me like a dog,” the song says. “Talkin about the clothes I wear. But they don’t realize they’re the ones who’s square.”
It’s unclear if Obama consciously or unconsciously cited the lyric. A White House spokesman did not respond to requests for comment. But regardless of its source, Obama’s off-script message syncs with his overall frustration with Republicans, whom he has lambasted repeatedly as the “party of no.”
The One does like to sneak pop-culture references into his political rhetoric from time to time, although given his track record of late, there’s a fair chance he thought he was quoting someone else. I can’t remember him ever mentioning Hendrix before — a quickie Google search reveals virtually nothing unrelated to yesterday’s speech — but it’s easy to see why he’d identify with him. Both are black American icons who rose to superstardom virtually overnight and in so doing took a predominantly white field by storm. (They’re even both left-handed!) The key difference? If Hendrix played guitar the way The One has governed his first 18 months, “Are You Experienced” would have been 40 minutes of nothing but screeching feedback.
AND WE HAD AN MP3 LINK TO HENDRIX SO YOU COULD HEAR IT YOURSELF!
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4 comments:
"Like a Dog" is a very common saying in the south.
It refers to how people would talk about a "stupid" dog or a dog that would not do as his/her owners owners wanted it to do.
This is much ado about nothing.
OBAMA PICKED IT UP IN THE SOUTH.
WHERE OBAMA NEVER LIVED.
AND BARELY CAMPAIGNS.
YEAH, RIGHT.
AND THAT'S WHY HE USED IT IN THE MIDWEST.
YEAH... SURE.
IDIOT.
I am not sure who you are calling idiot, but I would definitly hope that a person of your stature would not use those type of words to describe a person you know nothing about!
But if you were calling Obama a idiot, I completely and totally agree.
I have heard that term for as far back as I can remember. I am 65+ years old and I can remember hearing it as a kid, long before the Muslim hatred exploded.
It is a common expression, maybe nowhere else, but it is here in the south.
tnmike;
i was calling u an idiot.
because there is nothing southern about obama and therefore no reason he'd use a southern expression.
there is something very muslim aboiut it, though, and there's a lot connnecting obama to islam:
his father was muslim
he was schooled in a madrassa in indonesia
his best friends at columbia univ were pakistani
his babysitter in chicago was a muslim
his pastor wright was a muslim.
and obama has held ramadan dinners
but never attended a church since being elected
nor has he attended a national prayer breakfast.
nuff said.
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