February 12th 2009
The Comics Meet Obama
Maybe it was Elkhart that did him in. On his very first road trip to get the heck out of the kitchen ’cause the heat’s getting a bit much, Pres. Obama chose Elkhart, the RV capital of the known universe. Or, as Jon Stewart pointed out, the town that puts all the problems of the automotive industry and the housing industry together.
(I thought it an odd choice, less humorously, because if Obama gets his way with the de facto criminalization of gasoline, he’ll put everyone there out of a job … but I’m not a comedian.)
They’re beginning to poke fun at O. The Top of the Ticket blog in the LAT writes:
Jokes about Obama’s speaking style. Jokes about Obama’s mannerisms. Jokes about his answers. Jokes about his tedious but very thoughtful-looking pauses, despite the TelePrompter feeding him lines. And about the media’s predetermined adoration/critical complex (think Bill “The Guy Just Bores Me” O’Reilly and Chris “Thrill Up My Leg” Matthews”). See the video for yourself down below.
Here’s a great example, from Jon Stewart. The funniest part of the clip is about four minutes in, when Stewart gets on Obama for his ponderously slow speech when he doesn’t have a telepromter to rely on. “I spent the night just shouting words between his pauses,” Stewart says. Like this:
OBAMA: “I said during the campaign …”
STEWART: “THAT I WAS A MUSLIM…”
“… that …”
“I, I, I MEAN CHRISTIAN!”
“…Iran …”
“IS CRAZY!”
“… uh …”
“LIKES PISTACHIOS!”
“… a country that has …”
“GONORRHEA!”
“… extraordinary people.”
As the roarinng laughter dies down, Steward says simply, “the best drinking game ever.”
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