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Kumar & Obama Go To White House

(Barack Obama and Kal Penn)

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  1. Harold says:

    Come back, Kumar! I gots teh munchies! Wanna go to White Castle!
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    Seriously? Kal Penn in the White house? LOL!

  2. slowboat407 says:

    What happened to him on “House” is an apt comment on the career move.

    • Heather says:

      I miss Kutner already =’(

      • telefil says:

        I cried *so* hard that I couldn’t watch ’24′ immediately after ;_;

        • PortlandMark says:

          Does anyone think that an actor who left to serve with Bush would not have had his character written out in so final a fashion? (Fox, y’know)

          • Susan says:

            Any actor who left a show to work in the Bush administration would never work in Hollywood again.

            And I’m thinking, two stones in the WH.

            • PortlandMark says:

              Oh you are so wrong. There are many, many republicans in Hollywood.

              • *insert “Of course, they’re rich” joke here*

              • froofrou says:

                Name any prominent ones who *were not* in “An American Carol”. And who don’t fall under the Arnold RINO category.

                • The problem with the RINO term is that it is a joke. I’ve seen it applied to any Republican that another Republican is currently disagreeing with, including in your direction.

                  • froofrou says:

                    A RINO to me is any Republican who votes against the party line more than half the time. That’s a personal definition.
                    -
                    Anyway, there are no big name Republicans in Hollywood who will let themselves be known as that. They either don’t make political statements, or they aren’t big names. Fred Thompson doesn’t count, because he’s hardly Hollywood.

                    • Thus the problem with the term RINO, it is a completely subjective term and falls under the True Scotsman argument/fallacy especially since the party line has yet to actually stabilize on what kind of line it wants to be. Buzz words are just words, I am not seeing the action.

                      As for big name Republicans, they stay silent for the same reason you state that you don’t speak up that often here. But that wasn’t what I was debating in the first place.

                      I am just curious how the Republican party can make their brand worthwhile when they can’t define what they are or who they are with, let alone unify the country. I was just commenting on the fact that your original post here proves why the party is fractured.

                      • froofrou says:

                        To answer the last part of that post: The Republican party is NOT worthwhile as it stands. They’ve been too busy trying to be something, anything, over the last 15 years that they’ve ceased to be a viable party. What they have to do, and I don’t think that Michael Steele is the man to articulate this, is set themselves up as a completely different alternative to the Democratic party. The biggest issue most people have is that they want to vote for a Republican because of the so-called conservative values (lower taxes, smaller government, and the like), but when they get said Republican into Washington, he (or she) turns into the New Coke Democrats. It’s extremely difficult to hold by your principles when you’re being seduced by the siren song of job security for the next 150 (just ask Strom Thurmon)
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                        I guess what I’m saying is that people look at Republicans of today and the Democrats, and their first response is “Ok, so what the hell is the difference? They both spend money like drunken sailors, and the last Republican administration screwed the pooch on that one, so I might as well vote for the Democrats. At least they’re a known quantity, and don’t try to portray themselves as something they’re not.”
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                        We need Republicans to go in there, state a platform, and BY GOD STICK WITH IT. This is why the party is fractured, and this is why they aren’t a viable option right now. I hope they figure it out (and I think a few of them are starting to get the lightbulbs popping on above their heads) and FIX IT before they go the way of the Whigs and Torys.

                        • And that is why we love you.

                        • froofrou says:

                          Aw! *blushes*

                        • Had to rattle your chain a bit because you’ve a too silent quantity in this culture and as a moderate, I appreciate your input. Gives me balance.

                        • froofrou says:

                          If you want me to go all Neo-Con or something, you’ll have to find a better place than this to see it, LOL. I try to stomp that portion of my brain into submission most of the time when I’m here.

                        • If you stomp it into submission first, how am I supposed to get exercise beating it into submission? Mean Froufrou, taking all my fun. *kicks pebble*

                        • froofrou says:

                          There there, dear, it’s ok. I’m sure that HHNF, Literal, Anniee, or one of their many socks will be along shortly for you to beat into submission! Here, want a lolly? *hands DWN a grape sucker*

                        • *pouts and saves grape sucker for Lynn since she likes those and I do not*

                          *big sigh* I suppose… *pout and kicks more pebbles*

                        • froofrou says:

                          How about a Dream Girl to beat into submission? Sarah Palin in a leather bustier with 4 inch heels and that cute little updo, saying “Oh yes, DWN, show me who’s the naughty Neo-Con now!”

                        • Tempting but no. Palin lost her appeal a while back when I listened to her for more than five seconds.

                          If I am going to go with a nice mental picture of a chic in the naughty librarian glasses, I will go for the fingerprint analysis chic from CSI: Vegas.

                          And for the record, I wanted to debate with you because you wouldn’t go into another world of existence and make up arguments. I actually like debates with people who aren’t complete loons. I feel like I actually either learn something or make progress then. *hugs*

                        • froofrou says:

                          Aw! I’m not a complete loon!!! Yay! ;-)
                          -
                          I say bring on your debate! I’m at work, I’m bored, I have the time and the arguments to kill!! *locks and loads*

                        • Very well, let’s talk about church and state and why it does or does not kill the whole Neocon premise.

                        • froofrou says:

                          See, that’s playing dirty *kicks rocks and considers taking ball*

                        • Awwww, come on. I had a great comment too…

                        • froofrou says:

                          Alright, fine.
                          -
                          *ahem*
                          -
                          Being religious in politics is not mutually exclusive because there is nothing wrong with having a set moral compass that shows you how to be a good person. There is also nothing wrong with legislating said moral compass into law because humans, at their core, tend to be greedy little despots and tend to be mean to their fellow man. Look at the Stanford Experiment, or the Milgram Experiment. People are mean. So showing them a higher power that will teach them a better way to live is just as valid as legislating that kids should have condoms in schools to make sure that they aren’t stupid when they have sex.
                          -
                          There, happy?

                        • Ergo, you would be happy if a Wiccan came into office and legislated their values as they are just following their moral compass and thus just as valid as what you just said.

                          However, there is the issue of what that begins and ends. Ergo our current issue with homosexuality and marriage. Ethically and neutrally, there is no inherent problem with letting two grown men get marry as long as they both consent. However, we have the moral argument coming into it and stating that it is wrong because a book cowritten by a whole committee of contradicting authors says it is wrong, even then only parts of the book say it is wrong.

                          Neocons want to follow their moral compass and make that law, that is your party line even if it isn’t your own as that is their stance, with or without you. Your own admission would make you a RINO in that case since last I recall, you weren’t opposed to gay marriage.

                          As for teaching people about a higher power, that is the job of ministers not politicians. Policitians need to be neutral politically so they can do the greatest amount of good for their districts without the extra temptation to push a religious agenda onto people.

                          So no, I can’t see teaching a higher power in school as constructive as nobody would be able to agree which version to go with. People are mean, people with a religous backing that says they are right can be even meaner. Religion doesn’t stop anything and only gives people justification if they are mean. It isn’t wrong to have faith but I do feel it is wrong to legislate it.

                        • *where that begins and ends.

                          Damn typos and I see a few more too. @_@

                          Apologies.

                        • froofrou says:

                          Just to answer a part of that post with my own stuff, lol….
                          -
                          The homosexual marriage thing is kind of a touchy subject, because you’re taking away the democratic process that every American is promised. If you’re going to put something like gay marriage on a ballot, then go back when you don’t like the result of said election on that ballot, you’re basically telling the more than 50% who voted AGAINST it that they don’t matter, their values don’t matter, and screw them, they can go home.
                          -
                          If you’re going to do something unconstitutional like take away voter’s rights, don’t do it under the guise that the vote itself was unconstitutional. You haev to make that decision before the ballot ever comes to pass.

                        • froofrou says:

                          And, TBF, it doesn’t make me a RINO, because under my definition, gay marriage hardly encompasses more than half of the voting stances of the Right.

                        • Fair and I rescind my RINO comment.

                          As for the marriage issue, I do find it in horridly poor taste to put it to a vote in the first place. For those wishing to whine, we wouldn’t put legalizing child rape to a vote nor should we put to a vote which adults can marry which other adults. It is ridiculous. Somethings should be blanketed rights. I could marry Lynn, divorce Lynn, marry some other chic, divorce her, so on and so forth and nobody would put it to a vote or even legal action as long as I was divorced before I was married again. They wouldn’t like it probably but it wouldn’t require legislation.

                          The vote was a farce to begin and wasn’t a right of anybody to vote for or against, it simply should have been. The vote isn’t there for the majority to bully a minority. We don’t vote to see if we can kill all the gays because we just want to or we don’t vote to make them wear a letter G on their shirts. Certain things are rights and not up for democratic process. That is what being free is about.

                          We caught up with that idea when we gave proper and full rights to Negroes and now we are waiting for it to happen again for the gays. Unless you are saying that it would be right to vote again to see if we can strip rights from blacks now… And yes, it is the same difference, skin or sexuality doesn’t matter. It is the right of an adult to marry another adult.

                        • *Fair Enough

                          Blasted Typos…

                        • froofrou says:

                          My point is that if you’re going to vote on something, you can’t then nullify the votes of those who voted against it, especially if those votes are the majority. You’re circumventing the democratic process.
                          -
                          I agree that we shouldn’t vote on basic human rights, but the fact is, they DID, and now they are being told that they were wrong, and they don’t matter. How is that any different than legislating a right that the majority doesn’t agree with in the first place?

                        • And my point is that two wrongs don’t make a right. Just because the first wrong happened doesn’t mean we need to be complicit with it as that would just be a second wrong.

                          It is simple, there was a mistake in the process. It get corrected. People don’t have to like it on the whole but that is the difficulty of leadership, doing what is right isn’t about doing what is easy.

                          If a town in America had a successful majority vote that all women had to abide by fundamental Muslim customs and wear Burkas, why should the minority of people who didn’t vote as such have to wear Burkas if it isn’t their religion? It goes against the precepts that founded this country.

                          What you are saying is that if a mistake puts a human right into a vote and gets voted against, we shouldn’t correct the matter because it would hurt feelings. That just sounds weak and foolish. I am simply saying that even if a mistake is made, we should still strive to do what is ethically sound for our citizens. If a process is flawed, we must fix it. If a law is unjust, we must correct it.

                          We shouldn’t hamfu(kfist forward just because a mistake was made in the first place. Democracy isn’t about voting everything under the sun but equal protection under the law.

                          Anyway, now I must depart for home. Thanks for the discussion. :D

                        • Jane St.Clair says:

                          @Froo: You summoned! You see what happens when you summon?! *points to the match.com thread*

                        • Anniee451 says:

                          DWN what about the third option – getting government out of involvement in marriage in the first place? Let people form whatever contracts they want and leave “marriage” as a religious institution and let whatever churches want to marry whoever they wish to, do so? Government can assist in enforcing the contracts which is its real job anyway.

                          It’s complicated, but there’s at least one country in Europe (France maybe?) that has found heterosexual couples more and more using the civil union contracts that were originally intended to help gay people form partnerships as opposed to opting for a traditional “marriage.” Louisiana has an interesting thing called “Covenant Marriage” that is another possibility to come into play.

                      • Anniee451 says:

                        They can’t unify the country. Neither can the left. We’re really going to have to get used to that fact. There is a fundamental, core difference between the left and the right in worldview and purpose and belief about the very role of government itself. Then there’s the minority who aren’t left or right – for example I’m fiscally “conservative” (i.e. free market) and *personally* socially conservative but politically and legally on the side of social liberalism (full individual liberty so long as one does not encroach upon other persons or their property or fail to keep their contractual obligations.) There isn’t really going to be common ground except for the actual common, literal ground we occupy. There are completely different directions people want things to move in, and no matter whichever way it’s moving, roughly half the people are going to oppose it. Well, at least the half OF the half who are actually politically involved.

                        But at this point the parties are almost indistinguishable when it comes to economics and unless the Republican party actually returns to that and stops with all the legislating morality thing, none of it’s going to matter in the long run. We’ll just keep going in the direction we’re going until we’re really totalitarian fiscally, then who knows or cares what direction the morality issue wins out; we’ll all be too hungry to care.

                    • Anniee451 says:

                      Link. Though they will tell you that being open about their conservatism has cost them in terms of their careers. Also, Gary Sinise. My personal favorite.

                      Google for “Hollywood’s Conservative Underground” in The Washington Times too.

                • PortlandMark says:

                  Bruce Willis, Shannon Doherty, Dennis Miller, Dennis Hopper, Ben Stein, Jean-Claude Van Damme, James Woods, Kelsey Grammer, Ron Silver (deceased?), Patricia Heaton, Kurt Russel, James Earl Jones, Drew Cary, Danny Aiello, Tom Beringer…

                  Can I quit yet?

                  • *cracks whip* NO! Now name them in reverse spelling!

                  • froofrou says:

                    Now, give me specific political statements that these actors and actresses have said, and compare their careers to someone like Sean Penn.
                    -
                    And you cheated with Kelsey Grammar and Dennis Hopper, they were in “An American Carol” :-)
                    -
                    My point is that these guys are either out of Hollywood altogether, never made political statements to the fact that they are hardcore Republicans while they were there, or are nowhere near the celebrity status of your usual suspects in the Democratic party. Are you honestly going to compare Drew Carey, who is on “The Price Is Right” now to Sean Penn and Alec Baldwin as far as money made and how far his political statements have carried?

                    • rhorho says:

                      The Chuck Norris.

                      This game is now over.

                    • PortlandMark says:

                      Re: “An American Carol” – sorry, never seen it, never heard of it, and I didn’t know they were involved in it. Didn’t know I’d cheated!

                      As for the comparing prominent Hollywood liberals and conservatives, their talent, and their reach, I’d say that Conservatives in general overestimate how much we (liberals) actually listen to what they say. Besides, I can’t be blamed if the conservatives in show business don’t have the talent to make money at the entertainment game! :)

                      • froofrou says:

                        “An American Carol” is a movie making fun of Michael Moore, and isn’t the type of movie that your typical Liberal can make it through without throwing something at the TV. Kind of like me with any Oliver Stone movie :-)
                        -
                        And acting is subjective, as is political force. So there ;-)

                  • Jane St.Clair says:

                    James Earl Jones?! Noooooo! *is heartbroken*

                    • froofrou says:

                      BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA………

                      • froofrou says:

                        (p.s. proves my point that Republicans in Hollywood aren’t vocal about it) ;-)

                      • Jane St.Clair says:

                        I mean, on one hand, he is Darth Vader, but on the other he’s also the King in Coming to America. Although, come to think of it I haven’t heard much from JEJ lately. What’s he been up to, besides voting Republican I mean?

                        • froofrou says:

                          EXACTLY, lol.
                          -
                          I imagine he’s in his counting house, counting out his money from his days in Hollywood ;-)

                        • froofrou says:

                          Speaking of Vader, here’s a Darth Cheney graphic for you all: [link]

                        • Jane St.Clair says:

                          Oooooo, is it like Scrooge McDuck’s counting house? Does he swim in gold coins? I hope so… (I have to go now, my bookstore job hasn’t forgotton me after all and I have to work after hours tonight).

                        • Uncle Fester says:

                          Depends how hag ridden they are with Christianity.
                          Never trust a politico who invokes a god who tried to destroy the planet…

                • Typhoid says:

                  … the guy from Law and Order (Fred Thompson) RAN FOR THE WHITE HOUSE this past year.

                  I think that’s pretty darn Republican.

                  • Typhoid says:

                    (where did the other words go?)

                    ran for the White House for the GOP.

                  • froofrou says:

                    I said Fred Thompson doesn’t count.

                    • Uncle Fester says:

                      But that’s like playing Mornington Crescent and disallowing St. Pancreas.

                      • froofrou says:

                        That was one of the original stipulations. He seems to travel seamlessly between Hollywood and politics like no one on either side has been able to do. my original point is the disparity in Right wing voices in Hollywood, as they are either too smart to open their mouths until they’re out, or blackballed into having to make movies of their own like Ben Stein.

                        • Uncle Fester says:

                          Generally speaking, the Republican ‘actors’ can’t… Angie Harmon is prety wooden no matter what… and dear old Fred… well you get the idea that ‘one take’ doesn’t happen much, based on his delivery of pre-written speechs live…
                          I began to ponder senile dementia
                          Probably the best actor I know with ‘conservative’ (that is pro-death penalty) values is Kelsey Grammer, and if I knew beyond all reasonable doubt who’d killed and dismembered my sister, I’d want to kill the MoFo too..

                        • froofrou says:

                          Ditto. (on the dismemberment thing)
                          -
                          I enjoyed the clips I heard of Thompson at the RNC last year, but I dind’t get to hear the entire thing. He’s a very passionate speaker, from what I heard. His portrayal of the DA on “Law and Order” was wooden by design, so I’m not sure that counts.
                          -
                          I can’t stand Angie Harmon. She annoys the crap out of me, and makes me sad to be a Texan.

                        • Uncle Fester says:

                          He was wooden in Die Hard 2…
                          and in hustings, being ‘special needs’ isn’t a selling point…

                        • froofrou says:

                          I have to admit never having seen Die Hard 2…..or 1……or 3…..or any of them but the last one. I pretty much hated it…..I can suspend disbelief for a while in an action movie, but I get overly irritated when the hero is shot 95 times and lives through it with no ill effects, and the bad guys get shot once and drop forever.

                        • Uncle Fester says:

                          I’ve not seen the last Die Hard movie… I’ll have to dig it out, since Easter is a time from getting drunk and watching crap films…

                        • AC says:

                          I should have known your Easter wouldn’t consist of singing and rolling painted eggs at dawn… ;)

                        • Uncle Fester says:

                          I didn’t see the morning until 1130…

                        • AC says:

                          Decadent! By that time I’d been to two church services… Next you’ll be telling me that you didn’t do Holy week and 10 church services in eight days…

                        • Uncle Fester says:

                          I’m an atheist. I can’t get up before 11 on a Sunday…
                          Unless I have to for a baptism… Standing Godfather is a PITA..

          • Marshy says:

            Maybe. The Fox News station may have an insanely huge conservative bias, but the TV station is different. Hell, it seems at least half of the comedies currently running on it have made fun of Fox news. Mad TV has done a few very funny parodies. Talkshow with Spike Feresten often features a skit in which a young child dresses up as Bill O’Reilly and screams about things in these little temper tantrums. Family Guy recently aired an episode about Fox News. The Simpsons has constantly made jokes about it.

            I’ve always made jokes about it too. I always thought it was hilarious that Fox news was so conservative, but the TV shows on the TV station can be pretty raunchy for a non-cable TV show sometimes. On Talkshow with Spike Feresten, there was a guy having sex with a car. The man’s naughty bits were blurred out, but you still got the idea.

            As for Kutner… I was a little sad when he died, but I got over it. Wish he hadn’t gone out in such a final way. He could’ve just quit, but whatever. I’ve never seen the Harold and Kumar movies… Are they any good? I know they’re rated R, so how much content is in them? It’s mostly nudity that makes me queasey… That’s what happens when you’re raised in the prude American society.

        • Eric-in-STL says:

          I liked Kutner too, but honestly, he was a fictional character on a TV show.
          I think things have gotten a little out of hand. The pages devoted to his memory is a bit much, IMHO.

  3. The Steve says:

    Fu(k you, donuts are awesome!

    I bet the White House kitchen would be the BOMB place to be at about midnight after smoking a fat bowl of nuggets…Kumar you are a wily genius!

  4. Pat says:

    Are we sure this isn’t a Joaquim Phoenix-esque “art project”?

    • mothergoose says:

      If he grows a beard, starts looking like a homeless Hissidic Jew and has a cronie with a camera following him around on a hip-hop tour…

  5. The Steve says:

    Because it’s impossible for a stoner to be successful? He’s currently attending Stanford University for his graduate studies in international security.

    I just don’t see why a career change from actor to politician is difficult for you to grasp, especially when the person in question has the intellectual capacity to make that switch, unlike Arnold, the Governator.

  6. The Steve says:

    Also, many people would say that peanut butter and mayonnaise go great together. Just Google the “Goober Burger”, as it has been featured on several food network programs.

  7. emily says:

    i’m still traumatized from house on monday. :(

  8. cakeislie says:

    Jeez, a lot of people here mistake Kal Penn for the characters he play in movies… FYI he was always active in politics since high school and he previously worked for Obama already.

    • Eric-in-STL says:

      My favorite so far has been the number of people who actually thought Kal Penn was really dead. Because when characters die on TV, that means they’re really dead IRL. Like Anthony Edwards of ER & Top Gun fame. He’s dead IRL, right?
      No?
      Oh.
      (just kidding, I know he’s not dead)

      • lowly grunt says:

        “Kumar’s” grandfather was a contemporary of Ghandi, according to an interview on NPR today. The political stuff is in his genes, apparently.

  9. LyssaLovett says:

    I would have more respect for someone on House than someone in the White House. Bad choice, dear.

  10. RoyBatty says:

    Should be “Obama & Kumar”

    And Kal Penn went to UCLA, so there’s a big diff between actor and roles.

    • Eh, in all fairness, if I was to alter or make one of this, I would be a jerk and emphasize the vaguely man love position those two are in and say something about stoner love. But that isn’t as clever as I would like so I haven’t made one of this.

  11. Anniee451 says:

    Obama’s a bad influence for this poor guy – he’ll be off the weed and onto the hard stuff in no time. Tsk, tsk. Just say no, Kumar!

  12. ICDK says:

    Shouldn’t it be “Barack and Kumar go to White House”? :D

  13. drh01589 says:

    Damn you, Kutner.

  14. njork says:

    obama killed kutner :(

  15. FlonkertonChamp says:

    i’m glad kal penn is doing something he believes in…. but dammit, i miss kutner.

  16. charro says:

    I didn’t see this one after my absence. This is kind of amusing. And it’s not Obama = teh awesum !!11!!elebenty!!

  17. die oslamalamadingdong says:

    thank god he left house md he was ruining the show


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