Posted on 04/29/2015 10:05:14 AM PDT by EveningStar
Depending on your perspective, President Obama's performance at the White House Correspondents Dinner Saturday night was either funny or filled with rage. Or perhaps it was funny about being filled with rage. Either way, there's no doubt that Obama, by incorporating comedian Keegan-Michael Key into his act, went public with the anger — specifically, the black anger — that has become part of the general conversation about Obama's time in office.
Key and partner Jordan Peele do a Comedy Central routine in which Peele, playing Obama, delivers a calm, measured speech while Key, playing Obama's "anger translator," named Luther, acts out what Obama is really thinking, sputtering in rage against criticism and opposition that Obama believes is based in racism. (Both Key and Peele are, like Obama, biracial.)
Key says he got the idea after seeing Republican Rep. Joe Wilson's "You lie!" outburst during Obama's September 2009 speech to Congress. "I'm like, when has anybody had an outburst in this august institution before?" Key told CBS last year. "I have never seen that happen to another president who doesn't have melanin in their skin. So why did it happen to this president?"
"He's caught between a rock and a hard place," Key continued, speaking of Obama. "If I speak back, I'm an uppity black person and if I don't speak back, I'm ineffectual. So we were like, 'Wouldn't it be great if he had a surrogate?'"
Thus Luther the Anger Translator was born. "If anyone has the right to go, 'This is racist, this is so ridiculous' — the president does," Key said in a 2012 Detroit Free Press interview. "Obama, he doesn't dignify those types of things with a response so we gave him a surrogate to do it."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
The anger and hate oozes out of Obama.
Liberals still coming up with plans to have it BOTH WAYS
If he speaks HE’S A TRAITOR............
IF HE DOESN’T SPEAK HE’S A TRAITOR....
basically he’s a traitor....
any questions?...
I would not worry about Obama and his hateful, anti-American rants. Why? I looked at the TV viewer audience numbers for the WHCD last saturday evening and they were dismal to say the least. Try believing under 2-3 million viewers, in a nation of 320,000,000 people. About the only American people that heard the Obama farce rant were the idiots in the dining room and the staff of CNN & MSNBC. Both those networks were destroyed in viewer ratings by, none other, then Fox News Network...that only carried the dinner program only, rather then the “Red Carpet Flop”!!! Not to worry....no one of political or entertainment stature was there!!! All wannabes & butt kissers of little note!!!
After six years I reckon there is a lot of anger directed at Obama that has subsequently been effectively bottled up by Boehner and McConnell despite the fact they their legislative leadership positions have benefited from the election motivated by that anger, hence they are now included within the target field of anger.
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Obama’s “humor” is to mock others, and make them the butt of his jokes. That’s how he uses a high position in life. He’s the classic rich a-hole who is abusive to a waiter.
Other presidents poke fun at themselves.
He’s a disgusting petty little man.
I’ve seen those. I think Key & Peele are hilarious at times.
I thought the “anger translator” was funny too. I’m very disappointed to learn that they were actually playing the cry baby race card. :(
Because he is a liar?
I always thought that the correspondents’ dinner was the chance to make fun OF the President.
At correspondents dinner, Obama just reads words written by someone else
The Presidency is largely Obama reading somebody else’s words.
I suspect being President is a rough job for anyone - regardless of color...
Is it just me, or does Byron York strongly resemble a nerdy Ozzy Osbourne? IMWK! d:^)
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