Whatever you may think about this President, he knows how to tell a pretty good joke, especially at his own expense. He delivered again last night — along with showing some pretty funny ‘birther’ videos — at this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner (or “Nerd Prom”, as it’s also known, though mostly only among those uninvited in the blogosphere)…
Perhaps of most note among the jokes Obama told at the expense of his potential 2012 GOP Presidential rivals, was the lack of any reference to the once-famous Sarah Palin (who was also in attendance last night.)
Similarly, in the headline set by Saturday Night Live’s Seth Meyers following the President’s remarks, jokes about Palin were also conspicuous by their absence. On the other hand, jokes at the expense of Donald Trump, who was in the audience as well, were plentiful in both speeches, and particularly pointed during Meyers’ routine. As RAW STORY’s David Ferguson observed, The Donald seemed particularly unamused during Meyers’ slams, though his “grim, frozen scowl throughout just adds to the viewing pleasure.”
The video of Meyers headline remarks follows below…
TRUMP: The Post Script: It seems Trump had not expected the jokes at his expense, as Politico’s Patrick Gavin notes:
“I wouldn’t think [Obama] would address me” during his speech, Trump told ABC News upon arriving at the Washington Hilton.
After the dinner, reporters asked Trump his opinion of the roasting by both Obama and Meyers, as reported by New York Magazine:
By this morning, Trump was working on his rebound, according to Politico:
Trump’s comments came in a quick phone-in to “Fox and Friends,” a day after he sat almost stone-faced while the president and Meyers ripped him repeatedly, to belly laughs from the crowd. People at tables around him gaped at him watching for a reaction, and some of his tablemates wrote on Twitter that it was uncomfortable.
“Well, I really understood what I was getting into — I didn’t know that I’d be virtually the sole focus,” Trump said. “I guess when you’re leading in the polls that sort of thing tends to happen. But I was certainly in a certain way having a good time listening. I don’t think the American people are having a good time with $5 gas. … I was thinking to myself as they were doing this, you know, the American people are really suffering and we’re all” having fun at a gala.
“I thought Seth Meyers — his delivery frankly was not good,” Trump said. “He’s a stutterer.”
takin’ the high road lol, Trump was not ammused hehehe
Bush II was not amused either when S. Colbert removed him from sainthood a few years back.
From “fight for the rights of every man” it went down hill…hope the survivors of Invasion Iraq and Invasion Afghanistan never see this video.
We who make our own reality might also enjoy this flashback . . .
“”We need a common enemy to unite us.” — Condoleeza Rice, March 2000 “
fuuny stuff at blacktie dinners…funny stuff in wisconsin too
http://bloggingblue.com/2011/05/01/wirch-recall-effort-recruits-the-dead-to-sign-recall-petition/
more funny stuff
if suppressing voter registration is funny
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/01/971837/-Voter-Registration-in-Northwest-Milwaukee:-Exactly-*Which*-Rules-Are-We-Breaking
A Dane County, WI judge has approved a request by the state Government Accountability Board (GAB), which oversees elections in the state, to delay some state Senate recall elections and consolidate them into one day on July 12. In the course of making that decision, the judge turned back Democratic objections that some of their recalls should proceed as quickly as possible in June.A Dane County, WI judge has approved a request by the state Government Accountability Board (GAB), which oversees elections in the state, to delay some state Senate recall elections and consolidate them into one day on July 12. In the course of making that decision, the judge turned back Democratic objections that some of their recalls should proceed as quickly as possible in June……………….see laws arent laws if they are inconvenient for republicans..then they are like the pirate code and more of a suggestion
Of course Trump did not expect to be the center of jokes- he’s been to a couple dinners before, and in the past (under Bush and Clinton), the President used this dinner to make fun of himself and laugh at his own foibles, not engage in taking shots at all of his opponents. But I suppose this was the change that they were waiting for.
Humor moves like the desert sands, being used for different purposes at different times.
I see it used more and more in the growing behavior of denial.
“Laugh it off” is an old term, but humor does not always apply properly because it can’t change things that need to be changed.
A Conservative Teacher @ 8 said:
So, um, this is the first time you’ve seen one of these dinners then, eh, Teach?
I really like this bit from FOK NEWS
http://foknewschannel.com/photo-of-the-day-for-may-1-2011/
Katie Stanton got Trump to autograph a copy of Obama’s birth certificate.
The Katie Couric/newspaper joke and the Miss USA pageant/VP joke were both Palin jokes. Not very conspicuously absent.
So sick to see people laughing while people are losing their marbles. When the monetary reset comes you won’t be laughing anymore.