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Another Fine Mess: Comics Whack Obama
New York Times ^

Posted on 10/11/2009 2:31:55 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

October 11, 2009 Another Fine Mess: Comics Whack Obama By MARK LEIBOVICH

WASHINGTON — Is President Obama in trouble with his late-night comedy base?

It’s likely he hasn’t noticed or doesn’t care. He is, after all, in the midst of his oft-invoked “full plate” of supposedly “defining moments” in his presidency — a “defining” decision on Afghanistan, “defining” legislative battle on health care, among other “defining” things.

But there is perhaps another more subtle set of "defining” episodes playing out for Mr. Obama in the televised comedy salons that had previously, by and large, been relatively gentle spaces for him. The bits about him are getting harsher. They are no longer just gentle gibes about Bo the dog, big ears, bad bowling and beer summits.

A conspicuous (if not “defining”) episode occurred Oct. 3 on Saturday Night Live in a skit set in the Oval Office. The president (played by Fred Armisen) was defending his record against critics who had accused him of turning the United States “into something that resembles the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany.” Not so, protested the faux-Bama.

“When you look at my record, it’s very clear what I’ve done so far,” he said. “And that is nothing.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: bho; bho44; comedy; nobelprize; snl
the New York Times of all things.........
1 posted on 10/11/2009 2:31:55 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

I have been praying for a miracle and the Nobel Prize just may be it. This award will piss off everyone on both sides. Zero has done absolutely nothing and it will only get worse.


2 posted on 10/11/2009 2:33:40 PM PDT by DownInFlames
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To: Sub-Driver

The leftists are getting mad because Obama isn’t acting fast enough to get out of Iraq and Afghanistan, pass gay marriage laws, require gays in the military, subsidize the press, and close down Fox News.

Not to mention sending Bush and Cheney to jail.


3 posted on 10/11/2009 2:34:58 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Sub-Driver
Nine months into office and it's been a big news story for a week now -- a comic *gasp* made a joke about Obama!!!!!
4 posted on 10/11/2009 2:37:47 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Play the Race Card -- lose the game.)
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To: Sub-Driver

What’s disturbingly sad is that the Times thinks it’s “news” when comedians make jokes about Obama. It’s been done to 43 others in the past with nary a mention but do it to their messiah and it’s Earth shattering news.

Really, what is their mindset?


5 posted on 10/11/2009 2:38:55 PM PDT by Round 9
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To: Sub-Driver

FINALLY, the Fuhrer has taken his rightfull place... FODDER for SNL, Leno, etc


6 posted on 10/11/2009 2:40:57 PM PDT by gwilhelm56 (I will DIE with Israel BY MY SIDE, rather than LIVE with the CHAINS of ISLAM on my Back!)
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To: Sub-Driver

I tol’ ya ... I tol’ ya ... it’ll be his own minions who turn on him first. There is no honor in liberal-land


7 posted on 10/11/2009 2:41:13 PM PDT by Mr_Moonlight
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To: Cicero
The leftists are getting mad because Obama isn’t acting fast enough to get out of Iraq and Afghanistan, pass gay marriage laws, require gays in the military, subsidize the press, and close down Fox News. Not to mention sending Bush and Cheney to jail.

You're right. The left is pushing for him to go faster...

8 posted on 10/11/2009 2:41:33 PM PDT by GOPJ (Nominated:Chamberlain, Hitler, Stalin. Winners: Arafat,Carter, Gore, Obama.(Nobel Prizes of Shame))
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To: Sub-Driver
Hear about the Nobel Prize for Medicine?

They gave it to a guy who said he would cure cancer by making friends with it ...
9 posted on 10/11/2009 2:42:37 PM PDT by hemogoblin (Obama - The Potentate of Parasites)
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To: Cicero

“Not to mention sending Bush and Cheney to jail”

Exactly, and when they need to go to the well, all they have to do is announce another investigation into interrogation techniques and the left gets all giddy and pipes down for a few weeks.


10 posted on 10/11/2009 2:43:12 PM PDT by lt.america (wearing my Brooks Brothers shirt proudly)
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To: GOPJ

“…The left is pushing for him to go faster…”

That is right, while in the straight-aways they don’t have to maneuver and know in the next round of turns they will be run off the road forever.


11 posted on 10/11/2009 2:50:00 PM PDT by ntmxx (I am not so sure about this misdirection!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Some of you might remember..that even before he was elected, I had him sussed out as a ‘Hesitator’...as in:

“He who hesitates is lost...Swift and resolute action leads to success; self-doubt is a prelude to disaster.”


12 posted on 10/11/2009 2:52:10 PM PDT by DGHoodini (Iran Azadi!)
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To: gwilhelm56

’ da Fuhrer is right...rightfully a Demonic Saint in Paint...

Since he represents the Clown Universe as a Fasco’-Marxist, he should be called Clownhrer, Clowntus, COTUS...


13 posted on 10/11/2009 2:58:26 PM PDT by ntmxx (I am not so sure about this misdirection!)
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To: Sub-Driver

NY Times whitewash deceptions.

The TRUTH is that the Democratic National Committee has issued warnings that any jokes about Obama’s Nobel Prize are from people siding with the terrorists.

The TRUTH is that the State Media CNN is “fact checking” Saturday Night Live’s very, very mild satire of Obama.


14 posted on 10/11/2009 3:01:06 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.)
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To: DGHoodini

Hesitator’n Chief and big prize winner while doing nothing!

I agree, except he keeps tripping over the facts...such as he’s not Emperor Magnus Supreme outside the Clown Universe.


15 posted on 10/11/2009 3:05:00 PM PDT by ntmxx (I am not so sure about this misdirection!)
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To: Sub-Driver

When do Obama and the Czars go to jail?...


16 posted on 10/11/2009 3:08:09 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: ntmxx
-Marxist, he should be called Clownhrer, Clowntus, COTUS...

Or how about transgendered Moose and Slut.


17 posted on 10/11/2009 3:11:55 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Ifanationexpects tobe ignorantandfree,inastateofcivilization,itexpects whatneverwas andnever will be)
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To: Sub-Driver

Why is this even a story? Answer: Obama has been and still is being with kid gloves by the comics and the MSM. Who ever heard of a news network, CNN, fact checking a comedy routine?


18 posted on 10/11/2009 3:13:54 PM PDT by kabar
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To: Sub-Driver

Sinclair said Obambi liked being whacked.


19 posted on 10/11/2009 3:14:25 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: Sub-Driver

20 posted on 10/11/2009 3:15:26 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Public healthcare looks like it will work as well as public housing did.)
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To: Mr_Moonlight

Give me a break. This is still powder puff treatment. Articles like this are meant to even stifle this kind of treatment.


21 posted on 10/11/2009 3:16:24 PM PDT by kabar
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To: Round 9
It’s been done to 43 others in the past with nary a mention

Actually it's worse than"nary a mention." The leftist DBM repeats some ridiculing jokes so many times, like Sarah Palin (actually Tina Fey on SNL) saying she could see Russia from her house, that many uninformed Americans believe Sarah herself said it.

22 posted on 10/11/2009 4:21:04 PM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: rawcatslyentist

Of course, Bambi’s smile is way too broad(stickin it to us who didn’t vote for him)...
and Mabelle’s eyes(cover her lovely face except for them) reveal a mean, lifeless look.
These two are beyond frightening. No need for them to wear masks this Halloween: they can come as themselves and scare the crap out of everyone.


23 posted on 10/11/2009 4:39:07 PM PDT by Mountain Mary (a)
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To: rawcatslyentist

That was insulting to all moose.........


24 posted on 10/11/2009 4:41:09 PM PDT by Sub-Driver (Proud member of the Republican wing of the Republican Party)
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To: Sub-Driver

No comedians have been employed yet. And Helen Thomas sits on Obamas lap when she writes the scripts for SNL. Wake me when its over.


25 posted on 10/11/2009 4:48:30 PM PDT by scramaseaxe2002
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To: Sub-Driver

I am a particular fan of bullwinkle plus it was boris who
was the evil commie.


26 posted on 10/11/2009 5:03:47 PM PDT by gussiefinknottle (woof!woof!woof!)
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To: rawcatslyentist

LOL, should have flipped the Clowntus’ pic over to fit image, just too funny.


27 posted on 10/11/2009 5:21:12 PM PDT by ntmxx (I am not so sure about this misdirection!)
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To: Sub-Driver

This line was funny:

“That’s pretty amazing, winning the Nobel Peace Prize,” Jay Leno said, first out of the box Friday night. “Ironically, his biggest accomplishment as president so far ... winning the Nobel Peace Prize.”


28 posted on 10/11/2009 6:41:55 PM PDT by forYourChildrenVote4Bush
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