Kroft to Obama: Are you punch-drunk (Obama jokes about "gallows humor")

Politico ^ | March 22, 2009 | Craig Gordon

[RDTF]

Re: Guantanamo:

Obama “I finally agree with Dick Cheney, not surprisingly”

“After all these years, how many terrorists have actually been brought to justice? It hasn’t made it safer”

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

It’s the entitlement and egoism that comes from being pampered by affirmative action through his whole life. He’s half black and can pronounce “arugula” so they give him a Harvard degree. And with a few secret handshakes he is escorted on red carpets by George Soros and the CFR Illuminati into the halls of power. He’s giggling because he is a sociopath with anti-white resentments and is laughing at the American people as he craps on the country, destroys the economy, and builds a totalitarian Big government society.

[Finny]

Ignominy is my destiny of choice for him.

Amen. Wise.

[guido911]

High unemployment, deficits in the trillions, taxpayer-funded bonuses to AIG execs, bailouts of Wall Street, GM & Chrysler...What a side-splitting, knee slappin, laugh riot!

[TornadoAlley3]

Obama laughed at every question! Not just the economy. When he did not laugh he was smirking.Interviewer was very serious.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Is it me or is he bombing in this interview?

[kenth]

“There’s gotta be a little gallows humor to get you through the day,” Obama says, with a laugh.

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Again, it’s all about him. So what if he belittles the problems of Americans, people who have lost their jobs, homes, etc.? Making jokes about people’s suffering and hardship gets him through the day.

[Mad Dawgg]

"is it on youtube.com yet?"

I think the full show will be on the 60 Minutes website after it airs on the West Coast tonight.

[calex59]

“Are you punch drunk?” Kroft says.

I bet that pi**ed Bozo off but he had to hold it together in order not to look any dumber in more insensitive then he did already.

[A message]

Sigmund Freud in his 1927 essay Humour (Der Humor) puts forth the following theory of the gallows humor: "The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure".

[spacejunkie01]

what’s the consensus from those that watching/are watching it??? Was Kroft generally soft on him or was the punch drunk comment, and any other comment, really a sign the media is turning on him??

[Snappy1MarineMom]

They elected “Homey the Clown” to the White House. “Hey Libs, your President is wearing clown shoes!”

[gargoyle]

...”alittle gallows humor. How about this? Mr. President, HANG YOURSELF INSTEAD OF THE REPUBLIC!!!

[MOgirl]

Hello,

...We're finally on our own...

MOgirl

[A message]

Has the dumb**** actually jumped the shark in less than 100 days.

[Miss Behave]

He must be a *waterhead*: a term he used on Leno to describe a would-be White House dog (which Wikipedia lists as being urban slang for *retard*. It was another big fumble he made on Leno that wasn't picked up by the media.

[proud2beconservativeinNJ]

Kroft seemed serious and it was an appropriate response to how Obama was lightly communicating.

[TornadoAlley3]

Kroft was just serious, Obama was a dope.

[romanesq]

My vote is for narcissism coupled with his third world radical view.
Bottom line: whitey has it coming. And he’s the deliverer of the revenge to the Republic.

Which he will cripple in short order. If he is unopposed.

[McGruff]

I'm sitting here thinking if you put a wig on Steve Kroft you get.

Am I a bad person?