[JLAGRAYFOX]

A non-event with little to no impact. Why? No one was watching!!! And...no one cares about the elitist left-wing morons & buffoons. These poor idiots are living in the real world, from Obama on down!!!

[RWGinger]

“A non-event with little to no impact. Why? No one was watching!!! “

Perhaps this had little impact but every day on every single network news and or talker show this kind of disparegement against any Repub or anyone 0dumbo and the media think are a threat to 0dumbo are reported and discussed over and over and over.
Network news has a combined audience of over 25 million.

That kind of negative message on the GOP, white people, the Tea party etc will affect people’s viewpoints.

This event will be spoken of with glee on every talk show today and tomorrow

[OldDeckHand]

"A non-event with little to no impact. Why? No one was watching!!! "

I don't think you understand how American media works. Sure, the event was watched live by an insignificant number of people. But, as those "highlights" (or more appropriately, low-lights) are played over, and over again for the next several days, the damage will be done. Trump, as a serious presidential candidate, is over. That's the power of the media machine.

I bet less than 4M people watched Tina Fey say (in character as Sarah Palin) - "I can see Russia from my house". And yet, a shocking number of people today think Palin actually said it. Again, that is the power of the media.

I'm not sure how Republicans fight back, or even if they can fight back. But Meyers has capably demonstrated the marginalizing power of the media in a pop-culture obsessed electorate and country.

[abclily]

I couldn’t even bring myself to watch reruns of the event this morning. I hope Trump thumps Barry good. Is Trump the only man we have left in this country?

[carcraft]

I don't know, I read a report on this an there were over 1,000 comments, none that I read were positive-most of the comments were along the lines of Obama joking while we can't pay for gas, it isn't funny. And Obama’s statement that he didn't have time for this kinda silliness then flew off to do the Oprah show and a money raiser. I was really surprised because in the past it was about 50-50 balance between + Obama and -Obama. I think Obama is in really big do do unless he can get gas prices down etc. Since he can't even get comedy down I really don't think it will happen!