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Post by Chesapeake on Apr 30, 2011 22:11:18 GMT -5
Donald was not amused.
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Post by Supertramp78 on Apr 30, 2011 22:42:19 GMT -5
Obama got a huge laugh just by starting with, "My FELLOW Americans." Seth Meyers did great. www.politico.com/click/stories/1104/seth_meyers_skewers_d_c_.htmlSample jokes.... “CSPAN is of course the official network for wide shots of empty chairs. … CSPAN is one unpaid electric bill away from being a radio station.” “Sen. Jon Kyl told me 90 percent of what [the White House Correspondents Association] does is abortions.” “Katie [Couric] was known best for asking those tough questions, like ‘Name a newspaper.’” “Donald Trump has said he’s running for president as a Republican — which is surprising because I thought he was running as a joke. “ “Donald Trump owns the Miss USA pageant, which is great for Republicans because it will streamline their search for a vice president.” To President Obama: “I’ll tell you who could beat you: 2008 Barack Obama. You would have loved him.” To President Obama: “If your hair gets any whiter, the tea party is going to endorse it.” About the MSNBC after party: "It's where President Obama makes the Kool Aid and they drink it." |
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Post by Doug on Apr 30, 2011 23:07:33 GMT -5
That one's pretty racist. Funny but racist.
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Post by Fingerplucked on May 1, 2011 5:12:20 GMT -5
I forgot about this. I wanted to watch it.
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Post by Lonnie on May 1, 2011 9:39:58 GMT -5
Just watched the clip... hilarious...
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Post by dradtke on May 1, 2011 11:09:13 GMT -5
Trump didn't look happy.
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Post by RickW on May 1, 2011 11:42:01 GMT -5
Does Trump ever look happy?
The one about the Miss USA Pageant is classic.
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Post by Lonnie on May 1, 2011 12:53:35 GMT -5
In a related video, Obama hisself gets off a few good ones on the Donald.
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Post by millring on May 1, 2011 13:00:26 GMT -5
I have to wonder why Trump would show up at such an event.
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Post by Supertramp78 on May 1, 2011 13:20:58 GMT -5
I have to wonder why Trump would show up at such an event. Because he's a media whore? Actually I was kind of curious too. He must have known he was going to get blasted. |
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Post by millring on May 1, 2011 13:25:21 GMT -5
I have to wonder why Trump would show up at such an event. Because he's a media whore? Actually I was kind of curious too. He must have known he was going to get blasted. I can only guess that he thought that by "blasted" it would be like what the Democrats in the room received. |
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Post by sekhmet on May 1, 2011 15:04:47 GMT -5
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Post by Chesapeake on May 1, 2011 15:31:40 GMT -5
I thought it was interesting that neither Obama nor the hired comedian went after el Donald's recent F-bomb outbreak. Maybe it was impossible to find anything funny about that stunning breach of good taste.
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Post by RickW on May 1, 2011 16:24:55 GMT -5
John, regardless of whether or not the press is anti-GOP vs. pro-Dem, Trump invites ridicule. He is wandering around doing little but attacking Obama on the silliest things. Instead of talking about what the country needs and what he would do if he was president he panders to the tinfoil hat crowd. He is making himself a joke.
Perhaps he does have good ideas, and as actually elaborated on them. But if he is going to insist on wasting time and breath discussing where Obama was born, that's all that's going to get reported.
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Post by millring on May 1, 2011 16:56:10 GMT -5
John, regardless of whether or not the press is anti-GOP vs. pro-Dem, Trump invites ridicule. No doubt about it. I'm just wondering why he would have shown up. I wish I could remember the show -- maybe it was an SNL skit, but it's too vague in my memory to remember anything but the gist of the skit. Anyway, the skit is of a "roast". The fellow being roasted is expecting the usual teasing, light-hearted slams are funny because they laugh with the target. Instead, he is absolutely savaged. That's what happened last night. Part of me doesn't mind because it's Trump. The other part of me is fascinated as I would be by a traffic accident -- can't look away from the carnage. I really can't think of another event that quite matches what publicly happened to Trump last night. |
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Post by millring on May 1, 2011 16:59:32 GMT -5
Y'know, there's even part of me that admires Seth Meyers for not even making an attempt to soften any of it just because Trump was there. It was socially awkward, but maybe public people should think twice about the public attacks they make on equally public figures who are, nevertheless, not there to defend themselves. Maybe other savagers such as Trump has been for the past month will think to themselves about the probability of finding themselves in Trump's shoes last night.
Nevertheless, Meyers did have the comfort of knowing that he was in a room full of like-minded folk.
I seem to remember that totally unfunny shock jock....can't think of his name....setting the bar pretty low for any future comedian's act at that dinner.
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Post by Chesapeake on May 1, 2011 17:11:48 GMT -5
I'm sure this has been hashed over here already, but surely Trump was being dumb like a fox with the birther issue. Where else could he have gotten the explosion of name recognition and instant traction among a significant part of the Republican base? He probably figured he had nothing to lose. And sure enough, he got everybody's attention, including Obama's, and, having gained the spotlight, now seems ready to move onto bigger things. But I suspect he's hit his high-water mark. His idea of being tough on China and OPEC, it turns out, is to hurl profanities at them. Maybe that's the way it's done in the smoke-filled rooms of Manhattan, but it doesn't sound like a productive approach at an international bargaining table. And let's not even get into taking over the oil fields of Mideast countries we've conquered so we can have cheap gas and maybe make a little money whatever's left over. I know that's what a lot of liberals in the past have naively and against all evidence claimed was our real purpose in the region, but here's a guy who says he would actually do it. He's talking about ushering in a new age of colonialism.
But now, he'll first have to deal with a lot of people, including me, who were flabbergasted to hear him use one of the ugliest profanities in the English language in a prepared speech. I guess that's a clip they'll never show in 7th-grade civics classes. One thing is certain: He will be continually asked about it until he comes up with a satisfying explanation. He has a choice to make: He can either offer an abject apology for a radical lapse in judgment - not what you want to hear from a guy who wants to be president - or he can try to defend what he said ("pottymouth in the defense of wealth is no vice?"), which will only dig himself deeper into a hole.
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Post by Chesapeake on May 1, 2011 17:17:15 GMT -5
John, regardless of whether or not the press is anti-GOP vs. pro-Dem, Trump invites ridicule. No doubt about it. I'm just wondering why he would have shown up. I wish I could remember the show -- maybe it was an SNL skit, but it's too vague in my memory to remember anything but the gist of the skit. Anyway, the skit is of a "roast". The fellow being roasted is expecting the usual teasing, light-hearted slams are funny because they laugh with the target. Instead, he is absolutely savaged. That's what happened last night. Part of me doesn't mind because it's Trump. The other part of me is fascinated as I would be by a traffic accident -- can't look away from the carnage. I really can't think of another event that quite matches what publicly happened to Trump last night. I agree. I give Obama's Trump jokes a pass, partly because they were funny, and because Obama gave himself quite a bit of razzing. But the hired comedian's stuff was mean-spirited. |
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Post by omaha on May 1, 2011 17:32:29 GMT -5
There was a time when it seemed that that dinner was tacitly "ignored" by the media. It was understood to be an "inside baseball" event, where the normal rules didn't apply.
Now that that has broken down, now that its turned into actual politics rather than an evening where the rules are turned off, its time to go back to ignoring it.
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Post by RickW on May 1, 2011 19:15:33 GMT -5
Perhaps the Donald is too used to saying and doing what he wants, and can't learn to control himself.
I think the selection of the GOP candidate is going to be more interesting than the election itself. One wonders if we'll get one of the nutters, or we'll end up with some fresh, new, charismatic face, or the default -- some old white guy past his prime who's dull as dishwater and was only chosen as the compromise.
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