By Paul Farhi,Washington Post
Obama mocks everyone but himself
Barack Obama,the Insult Comic President,was up to his old shtick Saturday night.
Breaking with presidential punch line tradition for the second consecutive year,Obama dropped zinger after zinger on his opponents and allies alike at the annual White House Correspondents’Association dinner. Obama went all Don Rickles on a broad range of topics and individuals:Vice President Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,presidential advisers David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel,the news media,Jay Leno,and Republicans Michael Steele,Scott Brown,John McCain and Sarah Palin.
Except for a mild joke pegged to his falling approval ratings,Obama mostly spared Obama during his 14-minute stand-up routine. Palin,he said,calls Twitter and Facebook "the socialized media."He dubbed Michael Steele,chairman of the Republican Party,"the Notorious G.O.P."The newly enacted health-care law,the president joked,has "hundreds"of secret provisions,such as one covering people in Massachusetts who’ve suffered "short-term memory loss"about the state’s own efforts to reform health care. "So good news,Mitt!"Obama said of Republican critic and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. "Your condition is covered!"
The president elicited a few shocked "oooohs"from the audience of 2,600 when he told this joke about Charlie Crist,the Florida governor who is defecting from the Republican Party to run for the Senate:"Odds are that the Salahis are here,"he said,referring to the gate-crashing Virginia couple. "There haven’t been people who were more unwelcome at a party since Charlie Crist."
The outer-directed tone of the material,which was credited to Axelrod,White House speechwriter Jon Favreau and ex-Hillary Clinton speechwriter Jon Lovett,was in keeping with Obama’s inaugural voyage as presidential joker last year. Making the rounds of the traditional spring dinners,the president cracked wise on just about everyone but himself.
There is an old saying…It is that one can never polish a horse turd and that is what he is…The real joke is on the dumbed down and those that think of themselves as intelligentsia,guilted whites that voted for this absurd ignorant affirmative turd…Chuckle…It ain't funny…
From the small bits I saw of this event;I didn't hear too many roars of laughter. What a JACK-ASS!
I don't find anything about Obama funny.
I can agree with this:He is a CLOWN!!!
There is an old saying…It is that one can never polish a horse turd and that is what he is…The real joke is on the dumbed down and those that think of themselves as intelligentsia,guilted whites that voted for this absurd ignorant affirmative turd…Chuckle…It ain't funny…
I don't find anything about Obama funny.