Posted on 01/29/2013 9:42:16 AM PST by chessplayer
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams joined Jimmy Fallon Monday in another "Slow Jam the News" segment on NBC's Late Night.
This time the subject was the fight over the debt ceiling with the target of course being Republicans who were repeatedly hit with sexually-charged attacks (video follows with transcript and commentary):
BRIAN WILLIAMS: Hello, I'm Brian Williams of NBC Nightly News and host of NBC's Rock Center, and I too, would like to slow jam this news.
JIMMY FALLON, HOST: Hit me three times!
WILLIAMS: Less than a month after signing a fiscal cliff deal and narrowly averting a financial crisis, the Obama administration once again finds itself locking horns with Republicans over the issue of raising the debt ceiling- the amount of money the nation is legally allowed to borrow.
FALLON: Oh, yeah. [Laughter] When it comes to raising the debt ceiling, the President's having a hard time getting it up. [Laughter] Seems the GOP ain't rubbing him the right way, especially with the country $16.4 trillion in debt.
That's one. There were more:
TARIQ, ROOTS SINGER: So we're still in debt, but it's alright. The United States clearly couldn't get any broker. Got to liquidate its assets just like Al Roker. [Laughter and applause]
WILLIAMS: While most Republicans oppose raising the debt ceiling, several have voiced dissension within GOP ranks, and Democrats are now hoping this will pressure their House leader, John Boehner, and soften his hardline stance.
FALLON: Mmm mmm mmm. Take it from my man Brilly Willy, ain't nothing worse than a soft Boehner. [Laughter, cheers, and applause] Ain't nothing worse, especially when it starts leaning a little to the left. [Laughter]
That's two.
FALLON: And it's going to take more than a magic pill like the trillion dollar coin to stimulate growth in the private sector.
TARIQ: All up in that sector our economy could really use a shot in the arm. It sounds like a job for Lance Armstrong. [Laughter, cheers and applause]
WILLIAMS: Now, for his part, President Obama has repeatedly said he will not negotiate with Republicans over this issue. He's made it clear he's willing to bypass Congress and increase the debt ceiling by executive order if necessary.
FALLON: You ain't lying, Honey Bri Bri. The president's got the bill in his hands. All it needs now is his John Hancock.
TARIQ: Whipping out his Hancock. [Laughter]
FALLON: Obama's got Republicans in a compromising position. And now, he's ready to push his package through Congress. Ah push it.
TARIQ: Push it good.
FALLON: Ah push it.
WILLIAMS: Push it real good! [Laughter, cheers and applause]
That's three.
WILLIAMS: Obama’s unwillingness to back down on this issue has left the GOP handcuffed, helped in no small way by the President's strong backing from prominent Democrats, including Senate Majority Leader [sic] Dick Durbin.
FALLON: Hey, hold on. Hold up. You gonna roll up in here talking about handcuffs and dicks? [Laughter]
WILLIAMS: How was third grade, Jimmy?
TARIQ: 50 shades of Brian Williams.
WILLIAMS: Members of Congress have a big job to do.
FALLON: It's time to come together and raise the roof!
TARIQ: Said the debt clock is rising, there ain't no denying, the deadline for action is on the horizon. And partisan bickering is spreading like the flu.
FALLON: And that is how we slow jam the news.
WILLIAMS: Oh, yeah.
Did I mention that Williams is the host of the NBC Nightly News?
Is this any way for the anchor of one of the nation's leading broadcast evening news programs to behave on national television?
The first rule of comedy is: Know your audience.
Oddly, it is also the first rule of modern journalism.....
Incredible. Where is Edward R. Murrow when you need him?
I’m pretty sure E. R. Murrow set the standard for today’s news readers.
I’ve noticed that there is little that is truly funny on TV any more. It’s all sex jokes, sexual innuendo, toilet jokes or dumb wise cracks. I always heard that comedians say that if all you have is toilet jokes, you got nuthin’.
Hollywood is truly out of ideas.
Fallon found the perfect name for the "advocate journalist".
These people have zero self respect or dignity.
glad my TV is never tuned to these shows.
I’ve noticed that there is little that is truly funny on TV any more. It’s all sex jokes, sexual innuendo, toilet jokes or dumb wise cracks. I always heard that comedians say that if all you have is toilet jokes, you got nuthin’.
I will never understand progressives fascination with urine and feces.
For the first, and most likely the last time, Mr. Fallon and Joe 6-pack find a small patch of common ground.
Homoeroticism is rampant with Leftism-—that attention to fecal material and erections-—is so hilarious to liberals and dominates their mind—like sodomy “rights”. They reduce every thing to the sex act because they have no morality—no God.
That is why you see liberals defecating on police cars, throwing condoms on altars in Catholic Churches-—having homosexual sex in filthy bathrooms and in holes in the wall....masturbating in sinks in the oval office......homosexuals like Cooper, titillated by using the word “teabaggers” because of his filthy, immature mind.
Their minds are in the sewer at all times. They are puerile and infantile-—as all Marxist ideology reduces man to that stunted, child-state where there is no responsibility for actions-—so they never mature and grow up.
Their humor is so devoid of intellectual genius and respect for human beings.
Murrow was a liberal railing that Communists had not infiltrated Hollywood when indeed they had
same ilk as today the parents and grandparents of red diaper babies
kids today praise Murrow from the same ignorance they do Martin King or John Kennedy
making 2.2 gigawatts per hour, spinning in his grave
I hope Cronkite can stick his head out of hell long enough to see results of the manure he started spreading years ago.
“first rule of modern journalism”
-—I’m sure they think of it as “edutainment”.
“I Love Lucy” will ALWAYS rule the roost. Those involved with it were genuinely funny. They never resorted to the gutter for laughs. They were the real deal. Bob Hope fits into that group. Add those that were in “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World”. They were all truly funny. That flick couldn’t be made with what passes for comedians today. There are none out there that could match the original cast. It’s pathetic to see how far things have sunk.
I guess I have been schooled on Murrow, so I stand corrected. Nevertheless, I can’t see him indulging in this kind of buffoonery. However, our own “president” did the very same thing, didn’t he. Says a lot about him. It really does.
What a world....
“I will never understand progressives fascination with urine and feces.”
Take a trip to SanfranSissyco, you will get a better understanding of them.
Hollyweird has zero creativity left in it.
To Hollyweird, if it does NOT contain sex or sexual innuendo, it’s not creative.
When you reside in the bottom of a sewer, you loose the ability to realize it stinks.
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