Well, at least she didn’t put him in the wrong show. From the New York Times:
May We Mock, Barack?
By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: July 16, 2008When I interviewed Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert for Rolling Stone a couple years ago, I wondered what Barack Obama would mean for them.
“It seems like a President Obama would be harder to make fun of than these guys,” I said.
“Are you kidding me?” Stewart scoffed.
Then he and Colbert both said at the same time: “His dad was a goat-herder!”
When I noted that Obama, in his memoir, had revealed that he had done some pot, booze and “maybe a little blow,” the two comedians began riffing about the dapper senator’s familiarity with drug slang.
Colbert: Wow, that’s a very street way of putting it. ‘A little blow.’
Stewart: A little bit of the white rabbit.
Colbert: ‘Yeah, I packed a cocktail straw of cocaine and had a prostitute blow it in my ear, but that is all I did. High-fivin.’ ’
Flash forward to the kerfuffle — and Obama’s icy reaction — over this week’s New Yorker cover parodying fears about the Obamas.
“We’ve already scratched thrift, candor and brevity off the list of virtues in this presidential cycle, so why not eliminate humor, too?” wrote James Rainey in The Los Angeles Times, suggesting “an irony deficiency” in Obama and his fans.
And of course, I’ll use any excuse to be able to feature this video again.
ahh come on.
leave him out of this.
it’s stephen’s and jon’s job to wisecrack about things.
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I think a lot’s changed in our country since that particular interview and folks are extremely more sensitive to Obama jokes than when there were almost a dozen folks in the race for the White House. I think part of the problem is supporters find it difficult to put their passion for his campaign aside for a second, to appreciate a joke or two — and nothing kills a joke like an audience who isn’t laughing. If the audience isn’t there, the joke won’t be either, which is kind of a shame. Given the right playing field, I bet there would’ve been some great punchlines…but, I guess we’ll never know.
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Terry McAuliffe pre-Hawaiian shirt days?
I never realized he was in that clip.
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My, where do I begin? I may be a little biased, but the way Jon and Stephen tease Obama is funny. Depicting him and his wife as terrorists is NOT funny! It’s not a hard distinction, really. I can’t believe some people are taking the cover so lightly. It’s incredibly offensive!
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