TDS Opening Scene ... Putin kicks Geedub's ass?

[Stinky The Clown]

I was just watching the rerun of tonight's The Daily Show. There was a scene of boyking and Vlad in front of some high mucky muck Russian building. They're in this white car and ol' Vlad's driving. boyking's riding shotgun (as it were). As they go past the camera, boyking is heard to say "We're going around for another lap."

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Now ... this strikes me as a big-assed Russian Smack Down. I mean Big FAT Assed.

The car looks like about a 1978 Ziv. A KommissarKar on the same quality level as the now revered Yugo. I swear ol' Vlad had this big old shit eating smirk on his face.

So ... could it be that he told his guys up there in the Kremlin's executive men's room last week, "Watch me smack that cowboy wannabe mother fucker's ass when he visits. After that crap with his ranch and me taking those riding lessons then learning the jerk doesn't even own horse, let alone ride 'em, and he drove me around in that stupid pick-em-up truck, I'm going to put him in that ol' Ziv Igor the janitor left here in '82 when it broke down and wouldn't jump start anymore and run his sorry ass in front of the cameras for a lap or two. Sorta like one of those Amerikanski NASCAR guys gettin a ride in a clown car. Waddaya think?

[madrchsod]

1. saw that in the chicago suntimes

they had two pictures one of poot and one of the clown driving the car.what a shit box of a car! ya right, i`m sure that`s poot`s car,he prob. has a big black bad ass bmw. clown car for the clown-well said!

[ConsAreLiars]

2. Yup - "Hmm, in the Jag, the Ferrari, no -- sit him in the Crapper."

I think you nailed it. I saw the clips and wondered "why that old clunker?" I mean, Vlad the Poot was certainly not trying to show off his status or fake some kind of populist message to the simpleminded. The selection was not intended to "suit" him; it was intended to contextualize his visitor. The clown car comparison is very apt.