The White House Beer Accords – The Day After*

I didn’t write about the White House Beer Accords yesterday because, quite honest, it’s a non-story. The President obviously stuck his foot so far into his mouth he’s tasting his own knee and he needed a semi-graceful way out of the situation. The MSM, always eager to provide a first-class bootlicking, was right where it usually is, curled up at his feet and when CNN and MS-NBC and the rest realized they could help the President, they leaped right to it.

So, it was a ton of sound and fury signifying yet another conveniently Obama-friendly narrative. Nothing got resolved and neither man apologized. Gates still thinks Crowley is a power-hungry bigot and Crowley still thinks Gates is a class and race-baiting twit. It does make me wonder, though. If President Obama can’t broker peace between Gates and Crowley (and remember, Gates is supposed to be the President’s friend) why should we believe him when he said that his soothing words will cause Mad Mahmoud and Kim Jong-Il to lay down their nukes and become our buddies?

On the other hand, it did provide some fun for those of us out here in the blogosphere.

Dan Collins imagined himself a fly on the tomato bush and gave us a taste of what he might have heard.

Gates: Don’t look now, Barack.
Obama: Oh, ferchrissakes.
Crowley: What?
Biden: Hey, guys! What’s shakin’?

Gates: I loved her, and she left me!
Crowley: Dude, she wasn’t right for you.
Obama: I know it hurts. Have another.

Biden: There was this one time when I was . . .
Obama, Gates, Crowley: Shut up, Joe.

Gates: By the time I’m done with you, you’re gonna be my porch monkey, bitch!
Crowley: Whoa!
Obama: Guys! Guys!
Gates: Ha! Just kidding. Mostly.

Biden: I could teach you how to play quarters. Huh?

Duane Lester thinks they should have kept drinking until they got to the “talking like blues men” stage.

Randall Munroe (XKCD, you know?) thinks its a good thing the President wasn’t out of beer.

I’m just wondering what happened after everyone parted ways. Do you think that Gates and Crowley were sent home the same way, or did the President’s friend get to bunk at the White House while Crowley and family were crammed into the coach section of the next flight to Boston? The President isn’t exactly known for his follow-through.

*It helps if you have some dramatic news music playing in the background as you read the post title. This will work nicely. Alternately, you could use your Big News Voice to read the title, then hit this.

UPDATE: Linked in a very nice roundup by Duane Lester.

Tags: Media Bias, President Barack Obama, Racism