Posted on 06/13/2009 2:24:47 PM PDT by rellimpank
Has President Barack Obama inadvertently killed off presidential satire?
Is this American art form, once practiced expertly by late night television comedians, now dead?
All signs point to "yes."
It's not that he did it on purpose. Obama has a fine sense of humor and can take a joke and tell jokes on himself. And he's got a magnetic smile.
But according to one theory, he came home exhausted after a long day in the Oval Office, tired from transcending the politics of our past, and from appointing another couple of dozen czars to run things. So he sat down hard on a pillow on a White House couch, oblivious to the fact that presidential satire was underneath, hiding.
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I think there was one comedian who mocked Obama on national TV. You know, the one who died of that previously undetected heart condition?
I think the comedians are afraid of teasing Obama. The same people who lashed out at Bush are afraid of Obama.
If political humor and satire is their game, they should do it to Obama too. Why wouldn’t they?
Geez, get a room.
Because Obama is the secular messiah they can believe in, and Bush wasn’t.
Remember...these czars are answerable to NO ONE but Obama...no congress, no senate, no electorate...no one. They can only be fired by Obama but they are paid for by American Taxpayers. This is the Change that you wanted???
0bama is a joke. A bad one.
To say anything other than something positive about a non-white person, no matter how obviously true it is, is to subject yourself to being called a racist, and most people for some odd reason are terrified of that.
who was this? Only guy I can think of that fits your description is Danny Gans in Vegas.
This guy doesn’t understand liberals.
Obama is not just any liberal, he is the embodiment of their arrogance, self-love, and self-superiority. He signifies to the mirror of the imaginary “world” in their minds that America is ok, forgiven, and have put the nasty white flyover country in its place.
They are still totally in love with him. Though not the political junkies, they are catching on what he’s about.
He’s the Elmer Gantry of liberal belief.
The president’s a niiii........ Blazing saddles, pretty funny stuff!
In the future there will be 0bama jokes:
Q. How many 0bamas does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: None. Light bulbs were outlawed in 2010 and the entire power grid went down in 2011. Fire was outlawed in 2012. So now we all sit in the dark and tell each other 0bama jokes.
It’s OK. At least he’s not Irish!
--something tells me you don't understand John Kass' sarcastic humor--
“-something tells me you don’t understand John Kass’ sarcastic humor— “
you’re wrong. I understand sarcasm, buts it’s off-target.
He is expressing what Chicago writers do, amusement that the country takes this guy seriously. Probably one of those guys who wrote earlier, hey, country, have you looked into this guy’s background? Maybe attributes Obama’s faults to “Chicago machine politics” without any political ideological explanation.
He’s off target for the country. The lack of criticism does not come from the fact Obama is “cool.”
Any Obama/messiah poster is more on target at the heart of the matter.
“Hopium” - that’s good
You mean MadTV? No. They were all over McCain and his wife with some pretty awful impressions and the Obamas were hip and cool and sexy. Bobby Lee as John McCain? It was awful. Ardin Myrin was equally awful as Cindy.
John Kass is one of the best conservative political columnists in the country. He understands liberals an awful lot better than you apparently do. He knows that satire can be effective once in a while, but he’s done his share of straight-talking skewering of Obama. You might want to read a few dozen of his columns before passing judgment on him.
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