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Obama Eats Dogs meme

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Obama Eats Dogs is an Internet meme which plays on a passage from Barack Obama (WP)'s autobiography Dreams From My Father (WP) in which Obama recounted eating dog meat as a child in Indonesia (WP). It was created in April 2012 by Wikipedia:Jim Treacher, a blogger at Wikipedia:The Daily Caller. The meme gained traction on Twitter (WP) and later achieved attention in the national media.

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Origin[edit]

The meme originated as a conservative response to jabs at Wikipedia:Mitt Romney from the Obama campaign regarding a story that, in 1983, Romney had transported his dog on the roof rack of the family automobile.[1][2] On April 17, 2012, Wikipedia:Jim Treacher of Wikipedia:The Daily Caller posted an article titled "Obama Bites Dog", in which he quoted the following passage from Chapter 2 of Barack Obama's autobiography, Dreams From My Father:[3]

“With Lolo, I learned how to eat small green chill peppers raw with dinner (plenty of rice), and, away from the dinner table, I was introduced to dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy). Like many Indonesians, Lolo followed a brand of Islam that could make room for the remnants of more ancient animist and Hindu faiths. He explained that a man took on the powers of whatever he ate: One day soon, he promised, he would bring home a piece of tiger meat for us to share.”

According to Wikipedia:John Podhoretz, the disclosure that Obama had eaten dog meat resulted in "literally tens of thousands of punchlines, quips, teases and simple vulgarities" based on the admission.[4]

Political responses[edit]

Romney spokesperson Eric Fehrstrom retweeted a photo of Obama with his family dog Bo, which has originally been sent by Obama campaign manager Wikipedia:David Axelrod, with the caption "In hindsight, a chilling photo".[2] 2008 Republican presidential nominee Wikipedia:John McCain tweeted a photo of his son's bulldog with the caption "I'm sorry Mr. President, he's not on the menu!"[5]

Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt responded on Twitter, characterizing the statements as an attack on a child. Obama supporters made the point that Obama eating dog meat provided by his stepfather when he was a boy could not be compared to something Romney had done as an adult, while Republicans made the points that Obama related the incident as an adult, and discussions of dogs during troubled economic times is "silly". [2]

White House spokesman Wikipedia:Jay Carney was asked about the matter on April 19, 2012, during a press conference. He replied, "I think we're talking to a reference in his book to a period when he was 6 or 7 years old. Making a big deal out of it sounds like somebody who's trying to get out of the doghouse."[6]

Media reaction[edit]

Wikipedia:The Daily Beast named "Obama Eats Dog" their "Meme of the Week".[7]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Rachel Weiner (18 April 2012). "David Axelrod and Eric Fehrnstrom, Twitter frenemies". Wikipedia:The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/david-axelrod-and-eric-fehrnstrom-twitter-frenemies/2012/04/18/gIQAJcRyQT_blog.html. Retrieved 22 April 2012. </li>
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Wikipedia:Jake Tapper (17 April 2012). "Romney Campaign Notes that Obama as a Boy Ate Dog Meat*". Wikipedia:ABC News. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/04/obama-as-a-boy-ate-dog-meat/. Retrieved 22 April 2012. </li>
  3. ↑ Wikipedia:Jim Treacher (17 April 2012). "Obama bites dog". Wikipedia:The Daily Caller. http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/17/obama-bites-dog/. Retrieved 22 April 2012. </li>
  4. ↑ Wikipedia:John Podhoretz (19 April 2012). "A really ruff race". Wikipedia:New York Post. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/really_ruff_race_NVzVnof94hCmF0ptJpXorI#ixzz1splMzWMV. Retrieved 22 April 2012. </li>
  5. ↑ Natalie Jennings (19 April 2012). "Obama, Romney dog fight: Carney and McCain enter the fray". Wikipedia:The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/post/obama-romney-dog-fight-carney-and-mccain-enter-the-fray/2012/04/19/gIQAebkyTT_blog.html. Retrieved 22 April 2012. </li>
  6. ↑ Olivier Knox (19 April 2012). "Dogfight over Obama’s dog-meat-eating childhood joined by White House". Wikipedia:Yahoo News. http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/dogfight-over-obama-dog-meat-eating-childhood-joined-191512800.html. Retrieved 22 April 2012. </li>
  7. ↑ "Meme of the Week: Obama Eats Dog". Wikipedia:The Daily Beast. 21 April 2012. http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2012/04/21/meme-of-the-week-obama-eats-dog-photos.html. Retrieved 22 April 2012. </li> </ol>

See also[edit]

External links[edit]

Obama the Eater of Dogs at Wikipedia:Know Your Meme</br> In context: Obama's comments on eating dog in Indonesia at Wikipedia:Politifact

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