Blackface Turkish T.V. MOCKS President Obama, Why ?

America’s President is suddenly a Joke ?

WOW – WE Got Our Wish, click and read the comments from Two Different Readers who tell us what the guy is saying in the video. One also addresses the Cultural Insensitivity issues of the Blackface Announcer -and Why he did it, REALLY. You MUST click and read the comments… it’s well worth it; then leave your own comment. nobody else has a translation – WE DO Thanks To the kindness of our Readers. we also got a Bly from Huffington Post for the Story and Comments. someone told us earlier when Huffington links to you - you’ve been recognized. WOW, Thanks Ariana – we read you all the time too Girlfriend.

What do we have to say about this,  Well We Wish we could get a translation of this guys speech because it certainly looks like he’s not saying what President Obama is saying; but what exactly he’s saying is a mystery since we dont’ speak Turkish.

If one of our kind readers, would translate this video for us, we would be willing to give you a Bly (a full day on BadGalsRadio) and possibly help you out with some Ducats. this is just too interesting not to understand.

LiveLeak.com – Turkish Flash T.V. MOCKS U.S President Obama.

Obama’s Message to Turkish Students

Posted by michael scherer – Tuesday, April 7, 2009 at 8:30 am

(to read the whole speech, please click the title link)

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Thank you so much. Well, it is a great pleasure to be here. Let me begin by thanking Professor Rahmi Aksungur — did I say that properly — who is director of the university here. And I want to thank all the young people who’ve gathered together. This is a great privilege for me and I’m really looking forward to it.

I’m going to make a few remarks at the beginning and then I want to spend most of the time having an exchange and giving you an opportunity to ask — ask questions of me and I may ask some questions of you.

So as I said yesterday, I came to Turkey on my first trip overseas as President for a reason, and it’s not just to see the beautiful sights here in Istanbul. I came here to reaffirm the importance of Turkey and the importance of the partnership between our two countries. I came here out of my respect to Turkey’s democracy and culture and my belief that Turkey plays a critically important role in the region and in the world. And I came to Turkey because I’m deeply committed to rebuilding a relationship between the United States and the people of the Muslim world — one that’s grounded in mutual interest and mutual respect.

Turkey and the United States have a long history of partnership and cooperation. Exchanges between our two peoples go back over 150 years. We’ve been NATO allies for more than five decades. We have deep ties in trade and education, in science and research. And America is proud to have many men and women of Turkish origin who have made our country a more dynamic and a more successful place. So Turkish-American relations rest on a strong foundation.

(to read the whole speech, please click the title link)


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Barack Obama: Reaction from the world’s media

Reaction to Barack Obama’s election as US president from the world’s media.

A selection of British national newspaper front pages featuring Barack Obama today

A selection of British national newspaper front pages featuring Barack Obama today. Photo: AFP/Getty Images

“Barack Hussein Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States on Tuesday, sweeping away the last racial barrier in American politics with ease as the country chose him as its first black chief executive. The election of Mr. Obama amounted to a national catharsis – a repudiation of a historically unpopular Republican president and his economic and foreign policies, and an embrace of Mr. Obama’s call for a change in the direction and the tone of the country. But it was just as much a strikingly symbolic moment in the evolution of the nation’s fraught racial history, a breakthrough that would have seemed unthinkable just two years ago.” – New York Times

“Obama has done it. Amid global expectation, Americans have accepted the challenge of change proposed by the Democratic candidate for the White House to give a clear victory in elections held this historic Tuesday, November 4, making him the first black president in the history of the country. There was little his Republican rival, John McCain, could do faced with the enthusiasm generated by the message of hope launched by the Democratic candidate during his campaign, one of the brightest in living memory.” – El Pais, Spain

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“Cheering on all continents: hula dances in Germany, frenzied joy in Japan, India and Africa – and in Kenya, the home of Obama’s father, the 6th November was even made a holiday! The world celebrates the new U.S. president Barack Obama, 47.” Bild, Germany

“Barack Obama, 47, is now revealed as the 44th president of the United States, and November 4 2008 as a landmark in the history of the country. Shortly after 5am Paris time, the American media announced the victory of the Democratic candidate challenging John McCain. The Illinois senator became the first black president of the United States. Less than an hour later he was appeared in Grant Park in Chicago, his stronghold, and assured Americans that “change has arrived.” – Le Monde, France

“Making good on his promise to draw his own electoral map, Obama captured Virginia, which last voted for a Democrat in 1964, and he beat McCain in key battleground states, including Colorado, Florida, New Hampshire, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, while holding on to Democratic-leaning states. He won in part on the support of new voters, African-Americans, and Hispanics, and as of early today he had 338 electoral votes, far more than the 270 needed to win the presidency, while McCain had 142.” - Boston Globe

“With his victory, Obama, the Hawaiian-born son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas, is poised to turn the page on Republican policies of the last eight years, as well as some racial barriers that have stood for generations.” - Fox News

“In his first speech as victor, Sen. Obama catalogued the challenges ahead. “The greatest of a lifetime,” he said, “two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century.” He added, “There are many who won’t agree with every decision or policy I make as president, and we know that government can’t solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face.” – Wall Street Journal

“Flanked by American flags, Obama told the roaring crowd, “This is your victory … To those Americans whose support I have yet to earn — I may not have won your vote, but I hear your voices, I need your help, and I will be your president too,” he said.” – CNN

“Senator Obama congratulated Senator John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin for all they had achieved and looked forward to working with them. He said Senator McCain had “endured sacrifices for America that most of us cannot begin to imagine”. He thanked his wife, Michelle – “the love of my life and the nation’s next first lady”, for the journey they had endured and said he loved his two young daughters “more than you imagine, and you have earned the new puppy that is coming with us to the White House”.” - Sydney Morning Herald

“The historic Election Day brought millions of new and sometimes tearful voters, long lines at polling places nationwide, and celebrations on street corners and in front of the White House. It ushered in a new era of Democratic dominance in Congress, even though the party’s quest for the 60 votes needed for a veto-proof majority in the Senate remained in doubt early today. In the House, Democrats made major gains, adding to their already sizable advantage and returning them to a position of power that predates the 1994 Republican revolution. Democrats will use their new legislative muscle to advance an economic and foreign policy agenda that Bush has largely blocked for eight years.” - Washington Post

“In winning the White House, Obama modified the electorate: About 1 in 10 of those casting ballots Tuesday were doing so for the first time. Though that number was about the same as four years ago, most of the newcomers were younger than 30, about a fifth were black, and a fifth were Latino. That was greater than their share of the overall population, and those groups voted overwhelmingly for Obama. He also won large majorities of female, black and Latino voters. Although he lost among white voters, Obama did better than Democratic nominee John F. Kerry in 2004.” – Los Angeles Times

“Congratulations to President Obama, as we must come to think of him … He fought a brilliant campaign, beginning with his total befuddlement of the supposed sharpest operators in the country, the Clintons. Where’s the old politics of personal destruction when we needed it in the snows of Iowa, eh? As for us losers, there’s no point going down the right-wing version of Bush Derangement Syndrome. Any shrill vicious ad hominem invective would be much better directed at each other. The Republicans lost this election … I think we are near a point at which America joins the rest of the west as a center-left society – that’s to say, a society whose assumptions about the role of government and the size of the state are far closer to Continental social democracies than to the Founding Fathers.” - Mark Steyn, blogger at The National Review

“It hasn’t really sunk in yet: Barack Obama will be the next president of the United States. A newsroom may be one of the worst places on earth to appreciate this sort of moment. But what a moment for our country. Crowds are mobbing the White House (in a good way), reportedly.” - Nate Silver, blogger and psephologist at FiveThirtyEight

“This morning, November 5, 2008, President-Elect Barack Obama marked the stunning victory of a seemingly impossible campaign with a short but characteristically inspiring speech. A pep rally for a nation in sore need of one. A nation, as he said, facing multiple perils. Unlike 34 years ago when Nixon left town, the joy of the crowds – who gathered to hear Obama in Grant Park in Chicago, in Times Square, at the White House, and in other public places and private homes – comes both because we can see the end of a reign of terrible leadership and because we will soon have a leader who has vowed, with our help, to lay the groundwork for a new day in America. We were happy with Nixon gone. But our happiness was momentary because we had nobody encouraging us to press forward with a “bottom-up politics” to transform our communities, our nation and our nation’s relationship with other nations. Now we do.” – Meteor Blades, blogger at Daily Kos


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11 Comments

  • alicia says:

    I am happy that MOST of the people embrace Obama and his pragmatic message.

    • RE Ausetkmt says:

      I want to think that they understood the cultural
      signifigance of what they are doing;
      and if that is the case, then clearly enough in my view,
      this is a national disgrace on turkey.

      I also wish I could see an english transcript of what is being said;
      so that I get the joke.

      I wonder about their sense of comedy after this.

  • Breeze says:

    This is not a joke at all, nobody is mocking anybody nor joking. You really have to speak Turkish & actually be a Turk to understand the true meaning of this guy's speech but unfortunately I don't have too much time to translate the whole script, however, the reason why the speaker colored his face is because he based his speech on a Turkish proverb "Isteyenin bir yuzu kara vermeyenin iki yuzu" Which literally means "The one who asks for something has one side of his face dark; the one who refuses to give has both sides.Meaning: Put the shame or burden on the side that can give but refuses to do so. The speaker also used another Turkish proverb "Uzum uzume baka baka kararir". Literal translation: Grapes will darken by looking at each other. Meaning: People mature by learning from their peers. People become bad through bad company.

    The speaker basically had some requests from the President, and he said I colored my face and I'm asking you to take care of these things, hoping it will not be President Obama who would not give, or pay attention to the serious problems we are facing. The second proverb he used in order to make the point that: you will be treated in accordance with the way you treat us.

    In summary, he says:
    Welcome Mr Obama, with the seemingly candid, heartfelt speech that you gave today in Ankara, you have captured the hearts of the people. However, we still have some concerns. America always "wants" something from us, and always "gets" what they want. Now we also have some requests. We have a well known proverb which is enough to explain my present outlook. This proverb is not used to belittle colored people.

    He then goes on to list his requests starting with the PKK problem, then the so-called Armenian genocide as Mr Obama seems to support these false Armenian claims, then he talks about Mr Obama's support on Turkey's EU membership and asks him to follow-up and finally he talks about IMF, & tells Mr Obama to give his support on all these issues. Then ends his speech by mentioning the second proverb and say US will be treated in the same manner they treat Turkey.. So, if you wish us to remain allies please pay attention to the problems mentioned above..

    I didn't make a verbatim translation but hope this helps to give an idea…

    • admin says:

      Gee Breeze,
      your countryman has given us a lil light on the Blackface,which we now understand a bit more closely.

      it also proved our point that you were dismissing facts.
      cultural insensitivity points to RACISM;
      You may want to take a look in that mirror again MY BROTHA.

      • Breeze says:

        You wanted a translation & I spent my time to do it for you, what more did you want? Except for saying the video was not mocking Mr Obama, I have nowhere said what I personally think about theoverall video, therefore, your accusation of racism is out of line. Perhaps YOU should look in the mirror instead, or read carefully before firing out of your pocket! I'm not sure if Neriman is my country(wo)man, but even she agrees the translation is correct. BTW I am a Democrat & have voted for Mr Obama, however, it is yet too early to say whether he's the best thing that ever happened to our country. So far so good, but only time will tell how good…

  • RE_Ausetkmt says:

    Thanks Breeze,
    we even more so wonder now what he really meant about the false armenian genocide claims ?

    this is really getting more interesting as you translate.

    we now have to look into the items you spoke of and do our own
    research and get back to our reeaders on these issues; as we
    locate the info.

    Again, Thanks for the Translation,

  • Neriman Guven says:

    The translation is correct. However, there is no excuse for such a horrific presentation. Unfortunately, Turks are incapable to understand other nations and impose their way of thinking by trying to look cute. This is an embarassing video and is totally out of line. If this guy had any sense, he would have thought the implications of his "holloween" costume. He gives a credence to Censor.

    • admin says:

      Neriman WE really appreciate your honesty.
      Because instantly we noticed that the first person who gave us a translation; seemed to ignore the cultural sensitivity. You however immediately centered right in on it. that shows us that you are also Honest.

      You Have Great Spirit and WE Thank You;

      so let us know what day we can give you the wheel, captain.

  • Neriman Guven says:

    President Obama is the best thing that has happened to our country and to the world. The Turks are so sensitive when it comes to their issues. Their calculated ignorace for Armenian issue is insulting to human intelligence. Instead of arguing about facts, they totally ignore the events. It is terrible to see this kind of response to the President's graceful visit.

    • RE_Ausetkmt says:

      Gee Neriman You are hitting that bs right in the forehead.
      YOU GO HEAD My Man !

      apparently your fellow countryman Breeze isn't buyin it.
      as he seems to think you are making too much of the
      \”Blackface\”

      we however Think You Are Right ON POINT.
      He is Lyin and Knows It.

      Blackface is not acceptable, especially when there is no History
      of Blackface Parody in Your Country. and yes wikipedia tolks us that.

  • Neriman Guven says:

    I am a proud American woman who voted for every Democrat during the last 36 years. I am also proud of my Turkish back ground. However, I am well aware of their insensitivity to racial issues. Voting for Obama does not mean one understands the pain and suffering caused by racial problems. Despite their daily defense of contrary, Turks do not know and understand "racisim". Their concept of democracy and personal freedom is foreign to rest of the civilized nations. Their treatment of Kurds and the denial of Armenian cries are the best example for this ailment. No I am not a Kurd or Armeninan, and I love my Turkish roots. I am just a person who studies these conflicts and understands the feelings of other human beings. These issues are not about being a Democrat or voting for Obama. It is about knowledge of this cancer that destroys our socities.

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