Pioneer Press apologizes for calling President Obama an 'assclown'

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Source: MyFoxTwinCities (KMSP-TV)

This morning, the Pioneer Press created some waves by calling President Obama an "assclown."

The off-color remark came in the context of the PiPress's "Loop Ten" feature, which is a slideshow that serves as sports producer Kevin Cusick's "daily countdown of the top newsmakers, groundbreakers and world-class fakers."

Clocking in at a tie for number three in today's installment was "selfies." That entry is accompanied by an image of Obama holding a selfie stick in an apparent effort to take a photo of himself.

That's all well and good, but where Cusick got himself in trouble was with the text below the image.

"A fool-proof way to make yourself look like a self-absorbed assclown," it said.



Read more: http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/story/28119541/pioneer-press-apologizes-for-calling-president-obama-an-assclown

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The St. Paul Pioneer Press is one of two remaining Twin Cities daily newspapers (the other being the Minneapolis Star Tribune).

By the way, this local Fox affiliate is NOTHING like the notorious national Fox News.

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Thanks to YBR31 in #12, here is some vital context:

The President wasn't really taking a selfie. The scene was a part of a longer video supposedly showing the President doing "normal things but was really an appeal for Obamacare sign ups. Pulling any one scene from it is ridiculous. By the way, the video has aired on multiple media outlets and has gotten millions of hits

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1. Brwawaaaaa Comment under article..

Eric Ferguson · Follow · Top Commenter · University of Wisconsin-River Falls

"The conservatives commenting here are revealing a lot about themselves, and it's ugly. How is it not obvious Obama was making fun of selfies, not indulging in them? Unless some people want very hard to not understand."

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2. I agree, I went and did a "Like" on that comment (Facebook comment system)

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3. Same here and thanked him for his Excellent comment!

BTW, progree.. mahalo for your OP.

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4. Thanks! I went over there and up-thumbed your comment too :-)

[Cha]

5. Very Cool!~ Those "Con" comments were too funny lololol

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17. FYI.. My comment has 14 LIKES as of Today! :)

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18. Update: 15 as of 746p CT! And Eric Ferguson has 20.

Sean Hubin - still ZILCH.

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19. Muchas Gracias for the update, progree! Bueno for Eric Ferguson!

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22. ROFLMAO - Estoy rodando por el suelo riendo mi puto culo fuera

https://translate.google.com/#es/en/Estoy%20rodando%20por%20el%20suelo%20riendo%20mi%20puto%20culo%20fuera

(This also fits in with the "assclown" theme of this thread)

Muchas Gracias for the update, progree! Bueno for Eric Ferguson

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23. Ooooh, Gracias for the translation..

I don't know why I decided to thank you in Espanol(what little I know).. but, then I decided to go for it with "Bueno".

[freshwest]

6. That is perfect!

[Cha]

7. Really, fresh! Nicely, done.. and I do mean "nice".. but gets his point across superbly.

[KittyWampus]

20. speaking of selfies- why is it when I and my friends (over 50) take selfies

we are lucky to get anything more than our foreheads in the shot but when young folk take selfies they look like professional portraits?

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21. I don't know.. I took a selfie back in the early part of the century but it was in the mirror

and it turned out okay..

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8. I got a LIKE from

Eric Ferguson, too!

[SunSeeker]

9. What a bunch of assclowns!

[Skittles]

10. while I agree people obsessed with selfies are assclowns

a president checking out a currently popular activity does not seem unreasonable to me.......it's the OBSESSION that makes you a self-absorbed ASSCLOWN

[Orrex]

11. I thought that this was a pic of him golfing.

[YBR31]

12. This is where context is critical

The President wasn't really taking a selfie. The scene was a part of a longer video supposedly showing the President doing "normal things but was really an appeal for Obamacare sign ups. Pulling any one scene from it is ridiculous. By the way, the video has aired on multiple media outlets and has gotten millions of hits.[link:

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13. ^^^----THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS!

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14. Mahalo for the whole Vid, YBR31!

[msanthrope]

15. Look--It's not like they called him a POSUCS. nt

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16. K