Mocking "Pajama Boy"

[tinselwolverine]

This is pretty funny.

Pajama Boy is about as threatening as Michael Cera and so nerdy he could guest-host on an unwatched MSNBC show. He is probably reading The Bell Jar and looking forward to a hearty Christmas meal of stuffed tofurkey. If he has anything to say about it, Obamacare enrollments will spike in the next few weeks in Williamsburg and Ann Arbor.


Perhaps the goal of OFA was to create a readily mockable image to draw attention to its message, in which case Pajama Boy was a brilliantly successful troll. The right immediately Photoshopped him into the Mandela funeral selfie and emblazoned his photo with derisive lines like, ?Hey girl, I live with my parents,? and, ?How did you know I went to Oberlin??

 

[Michchamp]

It's funny, until it starts taking long, logical leaps to make these broad policy conclusions based on what is obviously a humorous ad.

Like this:

The breakdown of marriage and its drift into the 30s mean there are more Julias and Pajama Boys than ever. The growth of government feeds off this trend, and at the margins, augments it. The vision of the Obama Democrats, distilled to its essence, is of a direct relationship between the state and the individual without the mediating institutions of family, church and community that are an inherent check on government power.
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or this:

Never has the difference between what Chris Matthews memorably dubbed the Mommy party and the Daddy party been so stark. Pajama Boy?s mom probably still tucks him in at night, and when she isn?t there for him, Obamacare will be. A less nurturing reaction is, as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie put it in a counter tweet, ?Get out of your pajamas.? There?s a reason President Obama is underwater by a 2-1 margin among men in the latest Quinnipiac poll.
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Then it stops being funny, and starts making me think the author deserves to be brained over the head by pajama boy's hot chocolate mug.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Well, Lowry is a fairly conservative Republican; those are the kinds of perspectives he's going to have.

He did make a little bit of fun at fellow Republican Lamar Alexander, going back to the jokes about the plaid shirts Alexander used to like to wear when he was running for President.

I'm surprised I couldn't find a video clip of the time Lowery slugged Hillary Clinton during a debate when the two were running against each other for Jr. Senator from New York back in 2000.

EDIT: Check that; Clinton against Rick Lazio.

I thought Lowry had once been in government, or had run for office at some time, but it looks like he's just been an editorial journalist throughout his career.