President Obama's Epic Ad Lib During State of the Union

A defiant and proud President Obama gave probably the best one-liner response EVER to GOP hecklers on the night of the State of the Union speech. Call it "shade," a "pwn," a "sick burn," or a "slam-dunk," it was fabulous!

Via Washington Post

"I have no more campaigns to run,” Obama said, to which the Republicans in the audience applauded sarcastically. He came back in the very next beat: “I know, because I won both of them."

Drop the mic!

I have no more campaigns to runs.... I know, I won both of them. #SOTU: pic.twitter.com/ejtq1RuDOO"

— Davon Magwood (@davonmagwood) January 21, 2015

#IWonBothOfThem is basically Obama saying… pic.twitter.com/IOaoUoYC8f

— WesleyZ3 (@50th_President) January 21, 2015

Oh damn Obama just dropped the mic without dropping the mic! #iwonbothofthem #SOTU

— Thea Neal (@nealthea) January 21, 2015

OBAMA SHADED WHOEVER THAT WAS THAT CLAPPED!!!! #iWonBothOfThem #SQQUUUAAADD!!

— Gerald Scott (@gscottco) January 21, 2015

After the President said #IWonBothOfThem the Patriots/Colts weren't the only one's with deflated balls. #DeflateGate

— Paul Lander (@paul_lander) January 23, 2015

President Barack Obama is winning the day. #SOTU #IWonBothOfThem #ObamaBoise (h/t @BoiseDailyPhoto) pic.twitter.com/bAHuMAVGpF

— Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) January 21, 2015

*DEAD* VP Biden is the greatest of all time. #SOTU #IWonBothOfThem 🙌 RT @dorseyshaw: Biden make 'em say uhh https://t.co/GSxRxrhX97

— Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) January 21, 2015

Joni Ernst and the #BreadBagShoes Meme ~ Updated!

Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa gave the main GOP response to the President's 2015 State of the Union Address last night. She's the gal who campaigned on the fact that she has castrated hogs on her family farm because apparently that kind of distasteful macho boast appeals to Tea Party wingnuts. Last night I'm sure Ernst hoped to shine on national television, yet she managed to sound as crazy as her cosmic doppelganger, Michele Bachmann. It all comes down to the phrase "Bread Bag Shoes," which is now a hashtag and a meme.

Via Yahoo News

“You see, growing up, I had only one good pair of shoes. So on rainy school days, my mom would slip plastic bread bags over them to keep them dry,” Ernst said. “But I was never embarrassed. Because the school bus would be filled with rows and rows of young Iowans with bread bags slipped over their feet.”

Does anyone really believe this story? I certainly don't. And Ernst manages to sound as if she's just so happy to have busloads of poor children surrounding her in Iowa. But I bet that won't bother her when she votes against financial help for those same children, because that's what Tea Party members do. She is just like Senator Paul Ryan, who touted giving children an empty lunch bag instead of a free lunch. Symbolism and Irony are wasted on these people.

Ungrateful Joni Ernst Used The GI Bill, Student Loans And Farm Subsidies To "Pull Herself Up By Her Own Bootstraps" pic.twitter.com/mhWIKgh7AW

— Lnonblonde (@Lnonblonde) January 21, 2015

Newest shoe trend. Must haves! #JoniErnst #breadbagshoes #breadbags #SOTU pic.twitter.com/s9fjzxpq6l

— bennydiego (@bennydiego) January 21, 2015

UPDATES:

Someone wrote a song that now has 10,000 hits!

Thanks everyone! "Bread Bags On The Soles Of Her Shoes" will make 10,000 hits today. https://t.co/chhnptw8K9

— Rocky Mountain Mike (@RockyMntnMike) January 25, 2015

Andy Borowitz put a comedy spin in the New Yorker:

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) shared more folksy stories of her childhood on Wednesday, telling reporters that she used to wear a bucket on her head for no apparent reason.
“I’d be walking outside our house and see a bucket lying there, and I’d say to myself, ‘That’s a perfectly good bucket, I think I’ll put it on my head,’ ” she said. “It wasn’t because I needed a hat or anything. I must have had, oh gosh, a half-dozen hats or so. I just wanted to wear a bucket.”
Ernst said that during her youth, she was known for poking a hole in a large piece of corrugated cardboard and wearing it as a poncho.
“I can’t for the life of me tell you why I did that,” she said. “I just liked the look of it, I guess. Nobody paid much attention to it. People sure don’t notice your cardboard poncho when you’re wearing a bucket on your head.”

#JoniErnst Says She Used To Wear Bucket on Head for No Apparent Reason #BreadBagShoes http://t.co/HueOerzp3p via @newyorker

— Bernice for OBAMA (@Altibalba) January 21, 2015

Ex-MSNBC pundit Keith Olbermann put his own spin on the meme by quoting Monty Python from the skit The Four Yorkshiremen ~ via The Gateway Pundit

Of course, we had it tough. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning...

— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) January 21, 2015

We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours...

— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) January 21, 2015

And when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt. #SOTUresponse

— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) January 21, 2015

Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, work 20 hours...

— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) January 21, 2015

...come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle -- if we were lucky! #SOTUresponse

— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) January 21, 2015

I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work 29 hours a day

— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) January 21, 2015

...And pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us... #SOTUresponse

— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) January 21, 2015

and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah. And you try and tell the young people of today that they won't believe you #SOTUresponse

— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) January 21, 2015

Thank you for listening and keep your feet wrapped. #SOTUresponse

— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) January 21, 2015

Just in case anybody missed the #SOTUresponse tweets, they were of course from Monty Python's sketch "The Yorkshiremen" #WeHadItTough

— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) January 21, 2015

Also, she apparently stole the idea from The Simpsons, which is hilarious. Thanks, Fox!

Joni Ernst totally stole the #breadbagshoes anecdote from Moe on The Simpsons. #SOTU

— TC (@tchopstl) January 21, 2015

FYI: The images of Moe wearing #BreadBagShoes came from Season 11 episode 9 of the #Simpsons: https://t.co/wB7NpyWccy pic.twitter.com/izFzRi1RO4

— Beatrice E. Peterson (@MissBeaE) January 21, 2015

I'm not even kidding…i thought this was a saturday night live skit…this lady was so plastic and fake when she... http://t.co/Q2BLdgRRR7

— yoyotechit (@yoyotechit) January 21, 2015

Twitter provides some humorous fodder with #breadbagshoes memes. Can you say unintended consequences? #SOTU pic.twitter.com/pzehEnorov

— C.A.M. (@GIVENT0FLY) January 21, 2015

Joni Ernst sure puts the loaf in loafers

— Paul Lander (@paul_lander) January 21, 2015

Does #breadbagshoes mean that Ernst is toast? Find out at 11!!

— Charles Gaba (@charles_gaba) January 21, 2015

"Well you can do anything, but don't step on my #breadbagshoes!" #inners

— Steve Harris (@goodsababu) January 21, 2015

Joni Ernst as a kid. pic.twitter.com/oguBORE0ti

— Matt Murphy (@MattMurph24) January 21, 2015

Joni Ernst history: Bread bags on feet Castrating pigs Embarrassing self on national television

— Dee (@Msdmurph) January 21, 2015

Hey guys, check out my new Nikes! @JeffersonObama @Arianna8927 @Thx4SharingJerk pic.twitter.com/4TrT15M67k

— Steve Dowdy (@Steverocks35) January 21, 2015

EXCLUSIVE pic of Joni Ernst's shoe closet. pic.twitter.com/2DDuiEgRc0

— Rex Huppke (@RexHuppke) January 21, 2015

Stay Thirsty My Friend ~ Rubio Water Bottle Gate

Rubio, who had mopped his brow a few times previously during the speech, was in the midst of maligning what he called "false choices" Mr. Obama laid out between big government and big business. But he interrupted his thought to grab a small water bottle apparently at his side, ducking down and nearly out of of the camera frame, before taking a sip and continuing with his remarks.
~ CBS News

"You know, when you talk a lot it happens. Unfortunately, when you're giving a speech you have a podium and the water's there. When you're standing up in front of a camera you don't have that option. It had been a long day at work, I had already taped an 18-minute speech in Spanish, so I'm just glad the water was nearby. I don't know what I would have done without it.
~ Marco Rubio on CBS This Morning





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Uh-Oh.
~ Wolf Blitzer of CNN when Rubio drank the water

Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, being given the honor tonight of giving his party's response to the President's State of the Union Address. Honestly, Mr. Rubio's speech will be remembered in part by the odd punctuation of the big reach for the water glass in the middle of it. That's just an odd staging in what was otherwise set up visually as a nice speech. I will say, in tone, proclaiming himself frustrated, kind of an edgy speech, hard-edged, laced throughout with criticism of the President, much more a speech about the President than a speech about the country.
~ Rachel Maddow on MSNBC

I thought it was tinkertoys. I thought it was primitive. Something you'd hear on a high school debating team. . . . There was no originality to it. It was basic. Again, it was tinkertoys, a kids presentation of a philosophy reduced to maybe the ninth-grade level. I'm sorry that's what it was.
~ Chris Matthews on MSNBC

Did not like the water bottle. Just suck it up. Just go with it and work through it because ... he was giving a strong speech, but it was an establishment speech, which was a little bothersome to me.
~ Ex-RNC Chairman Michael Steele on MSNBC

I think Sen. Rubio has got some work to do before he's ready for prime time.
~ Crooks and Liars

1. He's an amateur.
2. Say goodbye to 2016.
3. That wasn't water :-)
~ JohnnyBravo on Crooks and Liars

When you lie, you're dry.
~ Charlie U. on Huffington Post

Marco.... Polo... Marco... Polo.... Marco... Poland Springs
The drink of water thing was funny but when he squeegeed his forehead
I really LOL.
~ PotholesInMyLawn on Huffington Post

It ain't the water per se thats amusing it was the 2 seconds of sheer panic in his eyes.
~ cornerofthemoon on Huffington Post

So, yes, Marco Rubio proved you can manage to swallow just fine, but choke all the same.
~ Jed Lewison on Daily Kos

I think it's called Product Placement in the PR biz
~ doorguy on Daily Kos

Creepy started with the sweating. All those hands to the face to whip away the sweat. What's the matter Marko? Could it be all the lying you're doing that's making you sweat? Then the desperate drink of water and the Leave It To Beaver smile at the end. Like a crook being interrogated under a hot lamp at the police station. Totally unbelievable.
I'd like to play poker with him sometime.
~ Helpless on Daily Kos

Excuse me, the lies are getting stuck in my throat
~ jazzmaniac on Daily Kos

"I don't always drink water, but when I do, I prefer to be awkward. Stay thirsty, my friends." Marco Rubio

— JamesPoyser (@jamespoyser) February 13, 2013

I don't always drink water. But when I do, it's in the middle of the biggest moment of my career. #staythirsty

— David Waldman (@KagroX) February 13, 2013

Marco Rubio reveals himself to be The Most Uninteresting Man in the World.#StayThirsty my friends!

— Ron Masters (@walrustexas) February 13, 2013

Rubio is now the most uninteresting man in the world. #watergate #S

— Tina (@trcfwtt) February 13, 2013

Groans at tv monitors in statuary hall when rubio reached for the water. Of such small moments are epochs made?

— Howard Fineman (@howardfineman) February 13, 2013

Jesus walked on water. Rubio drank it #saviors (ok, done)

— Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) February 13, 2013

Marco Rubio needs a drink of water. Relentless lying gives you cotton mouth.

— HumanityCritic (@HumanityCritic) February 13, 2013

And Rubio needs a glass of water, and tissue for his brow. #SOTU

— Mike Signorile (@MSignorile) February 13, 2013

Marco Rubio: the man you want to have a desperate gulp of water with.

— Paul Begala (@PaulBegala) February 13, 2013

The slo-mo is amazing - Deadspin XY: Let's All Watch Marco Rubio's Panicked Drink Of Water In Extreme Slow Motion deadspin.com/5983866/lets-a…

— James Carter (@JECarter4) February 13, 2013

Like Water for Rubio.

— Jennifer(@jhw2212) February 13, 2013

What is it with these younger Republicans and water? #Rubio #Ryan

— Joy Reid (@TheReidReport) February 13, 2013

People in Rubio's state of Florida were denied a gulp of water though while standing in long lines to vote ow.ly/hFkjX

— Be Mock (@bmockaveli) February 13, 2013

If #Rubio had grabbed a beer, slugged it down, and then gave a fist pump, he'd have earned respect. #staythirsty

— ThatDarnCat (@NotDexVonFrisch) February 13, 2013

You can lead a #Rubio to water, but you can't make him think.#staythirsty

— ThatDarnCat (@NotDexVonFrisch) February 13, 2013

Twiiter going off on Marco Rubio water bottle. Really dousing him

— HowardKurtz (@HowardKurtz) February 13, 2013

The Rubio water thing is the move that launched a 1,000 .gifs.

— The Fix (@TheFix) February 13, 2013

Marco Rubio's speech last night didn't hold water.#SOTU

— Daniel Marino (@grampydan) February 13, 2013

I care that Marco Rubio voted against #vawa. I don't care that he took a sip of water during a speech.

— Jason L (@Sierradrinker) February 13, 2013

I blame climate change for Rubio's unseasonal thirst.

— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) February 13, 2013

Doesn't Rubio know that small Poland Spring water bottles are not environmentally friendly.He should drink straight vodka like Boehner.

— TrueBlue Liberal (@TrueBlueLiberal) February 13, 2013

“How To Quickly Drink Water While Speaking On National Television In A Way That Absolutely No One Will Notice.” Instructor: M. Rubio

— Jason Gore (@sonicdork) February 13, 2013

And with that sip of water, Rubio just gave Saturday Night Live their opening skit! LOL

— Dee (@DeeVirgo914) February 13, 2013