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Deficit commission co-chair: "Snoopy snoopy poop dog"

http://www.politico.com/politico44/p...3078c660f.html

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Alan Simpson might need to freshen up on his pop culture.

The co-chairman of President Obama�s deficit commission tried to scold the elderly on Monday for complaining about their Social Security funds being targeted, but instead he found himself making a reference to �Snoopy Snoopy Poop Dogg.�

�This is a fakery,� Simpson said on Fox News. �If they care at all about their children or grandchildren, and sometimes I doubt that � I think, you know, grandchildren now don�t write a thank-you for the Christmas presents, they�re walking on their pants with the cap on backwards listening to the enema man and Snoopy Snoopy Poop Dogg, and they don�t like them!�

The former Republican senator of Wyoming, who apologized in the summer for comparing Social Security with �a milk cow with 310 million tits,� also denied that his panel had proposed privatizing Social Security. �It is fakery,� he repeated. �We never suggested that!�

More from Simpson: He said the public should stop using the word �cut� in discussing Social Security, warning that younger generations have more at stake than they might think.

�The sinful nature of the discourse is �cutting� Social Security,� he said. �We�re not cutting Social Security � we�re trying to make the stuff solvent for 75 years! And young people say, �Well, I know there won�t be anything there for me; I�m not worried about it.� Well, I tell ya, when you waddle up to the window at 65 and you put 6.2 percent of all your jack in that thing, you�re gonna want something back!�

What the hell?

Took me a while to realize "enema man" was supposed to be Eminem

I'm pretty sure this sort of thing, which happens all the time -especially with Fox- is totally on purpose. Like, they're worried that there may be some negative connotation with knowing the proper pronunciation of a pop culture icon that virtually everyone else in the country, sometimes world, is familiar with.

Like, if one of these rappers went by the name 'Matt Smith' I'm pretty sure they'd still pronounce it incorrectly.

I don't see how anybody would think otherwise, really. When someone does this I'm pretty sure it's not out of touch, Old-person Fuddy-Duddery.

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I vaguely remember, it probably was on the Daily Show, a bit listing the degrees and education of a Fox pundit and comparing that with how she tended to make a show of having to look up relatively simple words and concepts when tackling statements by ideological opponents.

While I'm normally all for mocking stupid politicians when they say stupid things, I actually mind it least when they make pop culture errors like referring to Eminem as "enema man," as ideally our political leaders wouldn't be wasting their precious time keeping up with pop culture bullshit anyway.

I'd much rather mock the guy for his terrible policies (if he has them), or if he says something ad hominem about an opposing politician that's patently untrue, or if he's breaking the law for personal gain. I don't really know anything about the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, though, so I can't criticize him there. And he was appointed by Obama, although I guess moreso for "fostering a climate of bipartisanship" reasons than anything related to Simpson's actual experience or ability.

The real poop here is certainly his bullshit claims about Social Security.

This is like when I was a kid and my parents would say pokeman rather than pokemon and then later I realized they were doing it on purpose.

I mean poop dogs aside the entire rest of that remark is totally incoherent and followed up with the sort of shameless lying I've come to expect of practically any politician saying anything regarding Social Security.

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Originally Posted by TDK (Post 1113387)

This is like when I was a kid and my parents would say pokeman rather than pokemon and then later I realized they were doing it on purpose.

This is true for everything in your life they flubbed up in public