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Obama Impersonator Tells Racial Jokes At GOP Conference, But Yanked For Mocking Republicans

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On Reliable Sources, Howard Kurtz asked his panel whether it was a big deal that a President Obama impersonator, Reggie Brown, spoke at the Republican Leadership Conference where he received laughs for his racially-sensitive jokes about the President, but was yanked off stage once he turned his attention to the Republican presidential nominees.

One of Brown’s Republican targets:

“It’s unfortunate that Tim Pawlenty couldn’t be here. But cut him some slack. He’s having his foot surgically removed from his mouth. Oh no don’t worry, lucky for him it’s covered under ObamneyCare. That along with spinal transplants.”

Kurtz’s panel agreed that the comedian was a “a bad hire” and represents a certain “tone-deafness” in the Republican party of thinking an Obama impersonator at their event would be a good idea. It seems an even worse idea was pulling the comedian off early, since such a news-making action now amplifies the boneheaded decision to have this impersonator in the first place.

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  • labman57

    Yep, it was all good when the guy was poking fun at Obama and Weiner — the audience ate it up. But when he began to mock the Republican candidates, that was simply going too far.

    “Kill the mike and get that unpatriotic SOB off the stage!”

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    What’s a racial joke? Racism died the night Obama was elected, if the GOP didn’t fill you in, Matt.

  • namseer

    Wow. The Republicans are only going to have THEMSELVES to blame when President Obama gets a record 99% of the African-American vote and record 85% of the Hispanic vote next year. PLUS, he’ll pick up an extra 10% of the Caucasian vote simply out of sympathy and outrage about the sleazy stunts like this impersonator that the Republicans have pulled over the past four years! Laugh it up now, right-wingers. You are all going to be crying like little bit–es in November ’12. AND you will only have YOURSELVES to blame.

  • BR

    Stop it you hypocritical liberal fools. Liberals talk “poop” about republicans all of the time! And liberals have also made it so NOTHING is off limits so don’t cry when it comes back at you.

  • purveyor

    I thought the guy was funny. The jokes I heard about Republicans were on the money. Self deprecation is, normally, NOT a sign weakness, but of confidence and strength. The jokes I heard were relatively tame satire. Unless there were more, unsavory or vulgar jokes?

    We’ll see, won’t we?

  • A.R.

    republicans…no sense of humor

  • http://www.storminsmorningjava.blogspot.com/ stormin1961

    if a black man can say and rap the “N” word and it’s not considered racist, then how can a black man tell a joke about another black man and be considered racist? c’mon libs, explain your double-standard here.

  • http://www.storminsmorningjava.blogspot.com/ stormin1961

    was Wanda Sykes pulled when she wished Rush Limbaugh would die while Obama sat right beside her with a big smile on his face?

  • A.R.

    stormin1961 said:
    was Wanda Sykes pulled when she wished Rush Limbaugh would die while Obama sat right beside her with a big smile on his face?

    I dont think you get the point of this story…republicans pulled a comedian off cus he was making fun of them even though at first he made fun of obama..

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    stormin1961 said:
    was Wanda Sykes pulled when she wished Rush Limbaugh would die while Obama sat right beside her with a big smile on his face?

    My dad makes more money than your dad!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • cjd ohio 1

    as jon stewart says we are not bias, we are lazy

  • http://www.realtvcritics.com RealTVCritics.com

    It’s amazing how the ‘out of office’ party trying so hard to get back in power in the big chair has so limited judgment and does really stupid things. Really stupid. We have an Orange County Cali Republican official e-mailing around pictures of this President in chimp garb, really what is wrong with these people. They are handing the Democrats a full plate of creative for commercials when the election season gets in full swing. And I totally agree with Namseer that all the Republicans are doing is increasing the percentages of minorities that will be militantly motivated to come out to vote. Then throw in the cool, independent, moderate a and moderate Republican white vote that is just simply tired of this tone and there it will be a landslide in 2012. The Republican Party then should not wonder, once again, why they lost or why they can’t bring in a diverse group of members.

    And these are SUPPOSED to be smart people! Damn they are so, so dumb.

  • Dem4Ever

    “Impersonator wasn’t doing his job and got fired”  Did somebody say slow news day? 

  • GuessWhoSuka

    hahahahaha….weeeeeee!!!!

    You can always count on the GOP to give you a good hard laugh yea?…jeez…..

    And they yank him when he gets on their case….man these people are hilarious!!!!!

    hahahahahhahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • http://www.storminsmorningjava.blogspot.com/ stormin1961

    A.R. said:
    I dont think you get the point of this story…republicans pulled a comedian off cus he was making fun of them even though at first he made fun of obama..

    if they don’t want to hear jokes made about them then i guess that’s there right. personally i think they were a little thin skinned if that’s the real reason they yanked him off the stage. but the real point of the story was to portray republicans as racist having a good laugh listening to racist jokes about Obama. would those same republicans be called racist if they went to a rap concert and listened to a popular rap artist singing songs with the “N” word a hundred times or more?

  • http://www.storminsmorningjava.blogspot.com/ stormin1961

    Publius219 said:
    My dad makes more money than your dad!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    even if your dad was sitting at home collecting a welfare check every month he’d still be making more money than my dad since my dad has been dead since 1976.

  • GuessWhoSuka

    stormin1961 said:
    if a black man can say and rap the “N” word and it’s not considered racist, then how can a black man tell a joke about another black man and be considered racist? c’mon libs, explain your double-standard here.

    HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!

    Oh you’re serious?…..sorry man….

    hehehehehehe….weeeeeeee!!!!

  • murphy0071

    If Republicans can’t take low level humor leveled at them in a self-deprecation, they must be aliens. They need to put on their tinfoil red, white, and blue starred hats and shuffle off into their oblivious narcissistic attitudes and try another country where the electorate is even less educated and poorer. Might take a while to find the right country or maybe rain forest.

  • Liberal Tormentor – tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972

    So, if he was mocking Conservatives, I’m guessing he was a liberal. So I guess this is really a story about a liberal telling racial jokes.

  • abowen

    My party GOP has become useless and radical. I am serious thinking to jump ship. Getting tired of so many idiots

  • got a grip

    Kurtz: “Seems like there’s a double standard here?” NOW you’re able to recognize one???

  • Fokker News

    So the Republican Leadership Conference ‘s President said the Obama impersonator was “funny the first 10 or 15 minutes,” when the racial jokes were being told. But it appears that when he started mocking Pawlenty or Romney,—neither of whom deserve to be in contention given their past policy positions–that he was no longer welcome to continue speaking.

  • Liberal Tormentor – tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972

    abowen said:
    My party GOP has become useless and radical. I am serious thinking to jump ship. Getting tired of so many idiots

    Yeah, we believe you are a Republican. Good riddance!

  • writer

    I’m a Democrat, but I’m getting tired of all the elitist snobbery, arrogance, hatred, and intolerance.

  • http://www.mediaite.com/tv/glenn-beck-explains-how-the-unions-are-using-teachers-firefighters-and-co ImNotBlue

    Anyone want to say what the “racial jokes” were. I’ve grown quite cynical of those crying “racism” all the time. So what was it specifically that was said that was “racial?”

  • Miroco

    I know the incessant beat of leftie abuse gets annoying but come on, humor is humour, I laughed at Pawlenty of those lines. —oops that wasn’t much humor— Everything is bad judgement these days so I’m going with MY Gov. Rick, They’re never going to like us so quit catering. I am again embarrassed for my party— I mean back when I was a Republican. I suppose the tea party is really not a party yet and I am sure it will embarrass me before long but in my little suburb of Dallas “Plano” six different tea party groups popped up, no leaders, just a few vacant fields. If a leader does emerge I’ll go to the next field.

  • purveyor

    stormin1961 said:

    was Wanda Sykes pulled when she wished Rush Limbaugh would die while Obama sat right beside her with a big smile on his face?

    Good Point! ‘Quid pro quo’.

    Seeing as how you received a number of thumbs down and a couple of poorly reasoned negative comments, You and I can see the: “be reasonable, do it my way” philosophy of the Left. The idea of “Equal Protection” and “Due Process,” all the time, every time, for everyone, no special exeptions completely eludes the Socialist/Liberal mind.

    Again, Nice Post!

    PURVEYOR OF RHETORIC

  • got a grip

    writer said:
    I’m a Democrat, but I’m getting tired of all the elitist snobbery, arrogance, hatred, and intolerance.

    I’m a Republican, and I am too.

  • purveyor

    writer said:
    I’m a Democrat, but I’m getting tired of all the elitist snobbery, arrogance, hatred, and intolerance.

    Ah, am I to understand that you desire to disband the Democratic Party? Ouch!

  • Mahala4

    Its OKAY for the republicans to bring on a Black Comedian to do jokes about Obama, but is YANKED off when he does the jokes on their KIND/republicans!!! What is good for the goose is NOT good for the GANDER. It sounds like DOUBLE STANDARDS on the republicans, and they got their OWN joke that BACKFIRED in their faces, AGAINNNNNN….It was a joke, so what is the big deal. WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND, so if they want to make jokes, they made the JOKE on themselves.

  • mlb

    A white woman marrying a black man- is this still considered to racially ‘sensitive’? For who? Throw in the Kardashians and it takes any serious punch out of it. Humor is subjective, regardless of his jokes he really wasn’t that funny. The GOP made a mistake taking him off stage as he went for the line-up of candidates. Like Obama, this man wasn’t vetted very well.

  • writer

    pruveyor, I found my democrat compatriots were being a bit hypocritical. They’d speak up for the poor, then mock people who live in trailers. They’d say Fox News is dangerous, then say almost no one is watching it. They’d say only whites can be racist, but DOJ crime stats on racial crimes don’t bear that out. Being a Democrat is getting too hard. All these rules of what’s politically correct and what isn’t.

  • BatBoy

    ImNotBlue said:
    Anyone want to say what the “racial jokes” were. I’ve grown quite cynical of those crying “racism” all the time. So what was it specifically that was said that was “racial?”

    You MUST put your FULL FAITH and TRUST in a very Liberal reporter that what was said was “RACIAL!”

    Got it?

  • http://www.mediaite.com/tv/glenn-beck-explains-how-the-unions-are-using-teachers-firefighters-and-co ImNotBlue

    BatBoy said:
    You MUST put your FULL FAITH and TRUST in a very Liberal reporter that what was said was “RACIAL!”

    Got it?

    You’re right. I don’t know what I was thinking!

    ;)

  • BR

    Here is a different take without this exaggerated headline.

    NEW ORLEANS – A comedian impersonating President Obama made racially tinged jokes Saturday at the Republican Leadership Conference before being pulled off the stage by an event organizer.

    The Obama impersonator, Reggie Brown, said that while the First Lady celebrated all of Black History Month, the bi-racial president only celebrated half the month.

    Continue Reading
    Brown also said: “My mother loved a black man, and she was not a Kardashian.”

    Flashing a picture on the screen of Fred Sanford of “Sanford and Son” fame, the comedian said that’s what Obama would look like when he got older.

    Brown didn’t just limit his jokes to Obama, though. He also mocked Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith, ridiculed Newt Gingrich’s faltering campaign and suggested Tim Pawlenty needed a spinal transplant.

    As Brown was preparing to make a Michele Bachmann joke, one of the conference’s officials came out to the lectern and told the comedian to leave the stage.

    It was a remarkable display and came just one day after two high-profile Republicans —- Haley Barbour and Bobby Jindal — urged activists to focus only on going after Obama on policy and not engage in personal attacks.

    More POLITICO 2012 LIVE

    Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/57273.html#ixzz1PkcPem00

  • GuessWhoSuka

    hehehehe…hahahahaha….

    wow…..
    I’ve been reading the comments in here and watched the whole tape of this sheet….
    And I don’t get why the Republicans in here don’t think this is funny…
    I mean that was the point right?It’s funny no?
    Ain’t this suppose to be funny??

    Help me Cons cause I don’t get it….Cause I tell you right now I think that was f…hilarious!!!!!

    No?
    Hehehehehehe……..man ….we’re having fun here no?

    Right?

  • mtjade4

    I’m a Democrat and I thought the impersonater did a great job with Obama. I thought it was funny. But, when it came to the impersonater making fun of the candidates and was told to stop I thought, c’mon Republicans, grow a sense of humor! It’s ok to laugh at yourselves. Lighten up!

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    tell me one friggin joke that was *racist* or that Obama hasn’t made almost identical or very similar himself?

    Born in Kenya jokes – Obama has made them
    Birth Certificate jokes – Obama has made them
    Being half black jokes – Obama has made them (half white self will have trouble voting for black half)
    Sanford and Son jokes – Obama has made them

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9mzJhvC-8E

    He was an Obama impersonator – he was impersonating Obama, and that includes his jokes.

    They probably cut him off because he wasn’t that funny, and it went on for more than 18 minutes. It was a stupid idea because the guy is too close to the real Obama – boring.

    Although, he should get a gig with SNL, he is a much better Obama than Fred.

    More fabricated BS to paint Conservatives as racist.

  • Sanders Youth

    GuessWhoSuka said:
    hehehehe…hahahahaha….

    wow…..
    I’ve been reading the comments in here and watched the whole tape of this sheet….
    And I don’t get why the Republicans in here don’t think this is funny…
    I mean that was the point right?It’s funny no?
    Ain’t this suppose to be funny??

    Help me Cons cause I don’t get it….Cause I tell you right now I think that was f…hilarious!!!!!

    No?
    Hehehehehehe……..man ….we’re having fun here no?

    Right?

    I think it is because Cons think everything is funny no matter how tasteless, racist, sexist, homophobic if it is about Liberals, but they really get hurt if you start going after one of their own. I actually thought all of it was pretty funny, I wonder why Cons are so damn PC? Lighten up Con Jobs!

  • Sanders Youth

    stormin1961 said:
    if a black man can say and rap the “N” word and it’s not considered racist, then how can a black man tell a joke about another black man and be considered racist? c’mon libs, explain your double-standard here.

    I thought it was funny, everyone needs to lighten up, especially the Cons getting all sad when he told those awesome jokes about Michelle Bachmann!

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    He’s been on Jimmy Kimmel, Regis and Kelly, MTV, NBC Chicago, CNN, Comedy Central, Jay Leno, NPR and more.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk78sWb7SW4&feature=related
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1utQhOQ4RKU&feature=related

    Libs probably just ruined his career, making this an issue. I’ve already seen people calling him Uncle Tom and attacking him for the appearance.

  • Sanders Youth

    sarainitaly said:
    tell me one friggin joke that was *racist* or that Obama hasn’t made almost identical or very similar himself?

    Born in Kenya jokes – Obama has made them
    Birth Certificate jokes – Obama has made them
    Being half black jokes – Obama has made them (half white self will have trouble voting for black half)
    Sanford and Son jokes – Obama has made them

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9mzJhvC-8E

    He was an Obama impersonator – he was impersonating Obama, and that includes his jokes.

    They probably cut him off because he wasn’t that funny, and it went on for more than 18 minutes. It was a stupid idea because the guy is too close to the real Obama – boring.

    Although, he should get a gig with SNL, he is a much better Obama than Fred.

    More fabricated BS to paint Conservatives as racist.

    It was all funny, I just think it is pretty telling that the Con Jobs in the audience were yuking it up when he was telling jokes about Kenya and Sanford and Son, but when he started talking about Newt, Mitt and Bachmann he gets yanked.

    No matter how the Cons try and spin this video it makes you people look like the types that can dish it out but can’t take it, which is kinda wimpy if you ask me. I guess Cons are still defensive on the whole GHWB and TPau are wimp memes.

  • Glackin

    sarainitaly said:
    tell me one friggin joke that was *racist* or that Obama hasn’t made almost identical or very similar himself?

    Born in Kenya jokes – Obama has made them
    Birth Certificate jokes – Obama has made them
    Being half black jokes – Obama has made them (half white self will have trouble voting for black half)
    Sanford and Son jokes – Obama has made them

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9mzJhvC-8E

    He was an Obama impersonator – he was impersonating Obama, and that includes his jokes.

    They probably cut him off because he wasn’t that funny, and it went on for more than 18 minutes. It was a stupid idea because the guy is too close to the real Obama – boring.

    Although, he should get a gig with SNL, he is a much better Obama than Fred.

    More fabricated BS to paint Conservatives as racist.

    He was allowed to tell those jokes, booboo.
    Everybody laughed.
    He got pulled for cracking wise about the seven dwarfs.
    It was a GOP event. They pulled him.
    The left’s only role was target.
    I thought he was funny.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bruce-Kennedy/1439463341 Bruce Kennedy

    writer said:
    pruveyor, I found my democrat compatriots were being a bit hypocritical. They’d speak up for the poor, then mock people who live in trailers. They’d say Fox News is dangerous, then say almost no one is watching it. They’d say only whites can be racist, but DOJ crime stats on racial crimes don’t bear that out. Being a Democrat is getting too hard. All these rules of what’s politically correct and what isn’t.

    Conservatives, thy name is “Hypocrisy”.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    Glackin said:
    He was allowed to tell those jokes, booboo.
    Everybody laughed.
    He got pulled for cracking wise about the seven dwarfs.
    It was a GOP event. They pulled him.
    The left’s only role was target.
    I thought he was funny.

    The Left is trying to make this an attack on Cons about race/racism. His jokes were almost identical to those Obama made himself. Some of it was funny. So, why shouldn’t he be allowed to make those jokes when they were almost identical to the ones we have heard Obama make?

    He became booooooooring because he went on and on for almost 20 minutes – and his impersonation is too spot on to Obama. You can only take so much before it just becomes flat out boring. I agree it is funny to laugh at yourself, but he droned on and it wasn’t funny.

  • eyemjustsayin

    I am sickened by the childish games our respresentatives play at their little get-togethers. You are mean, viscious and disrespectful of the President of the United States. Does it actually make you feel more worthwhile to denegrate someone else? Apparently it does.

  • purveyor

    writer said:
    I found my democrat compatriots were being a bit hypocritical.

    I understand and I empathize.

    On many of my Posts I refer to “Neutral Principle”. A philosophy that urges us to be consistent with simple human interaction, as well as the application of codified law. That we use our intellect and reason rather than caprice and emotion to operate in society.

    We are human and we are citizens, we make mistakes, but, our standards and requirements should be as high as we can be. However, Presidents, Legislators and Judges should not seek out avenues that allow them to deviate or even abrogate law. I agree with you, being PC changes behavior by creating false dilemmas and twisted reasoning.

    The Bible says: “Do unto others as they would do unto you.” Our Constitution says: “Equal Protection” and “Due Process”. We can satisfy our moral and religious inclinations with our God Given ‘intellect,’ can’t we?

    Anyway, WRITER, you are looking ‘back’ and, yet, ‘toward’ the core of the problem, at the philosophy or lack thereof.

    My Compliments…

  • GuessWhoSuka

    sarainitaly said:
    The Left is trying to make this an attack on Cons about race/racism. His jokes were almost identical to those Obama made himself. Some of it was funny. So, why shouldn’t he be allowed to make those jokes when they were almost identical to the ones we have heard Obama make?

    He became booooooooring because he went on and on for almost 20 minutes – and his impersonation is too spot on to Obama. You can only take so much before it just becomes flat out boring. I agree it is funny to laugh at yourself, but he droned on and it wasn’t funny.

    heeeeeeehhhaaaa!!!!!!!

    Ding!ding!ding!
    Winner!!!!!!!

    So let me get this straight yea?…hehehehe…..
    So Obama making jokes about getting bashed on instead of crying like a little bit.. is the equivalent of telling racist jokes about Obama ?
    So taking bashing with a grain of salt is actually condoning the bashing you received?
    Really?…I didn’t know that…so when he joked about the birth certificate,that meant he appreciated the gesture huh?…I bet he sent Trump a gift basket for hat one huh?
    But let’s move on …cause I so own you so much it’s not even a little funny….

    So….. it was so funny for the first 16 minutes that you hear people laugh on the tape all along…
    But then…..it became sooooooo booooooring, as you say, in the last 2 minutes ,all of a sudden, when the guy started to joke about the Republicans?
    Well….
    How’s that for a coincidence huh?Just happened like that huh?Well then….wooooooww……..
    hehehehehehe.,…….
    I’m gonna stop the pwning there cause it’s too easy…..way too easy.

    Hey I read somewhere that dishonesty is bad for your skin might wanna check that out yea?
    Just trying to help.

  • Glackin

    sarainitaly said:
    The Left is trying to make this an attack on Cons about race/racism. His jokes were almost identical to those Obama made himself. Some of it was funny. So, why shouldn’t he be allowed to make those jokes when they were almost identical to the ones we have heard Obama make?

    He became booooooooring because he went on and on for almost 20 minutes – and his impersonation is too spot on to Obama. You can only take so much before it just becomes flat out boring. I agree it is funny to laugh at yourself, but he droned on and it wasn’t funny.

    “The Left” didn’t do squat!
    The GOP hired him. The GOP laughed at his Obama jokes.
    The GOP gave him the hook when he started on their candidates.
    The story is that the GOP is hypocritical, not racist.
    Only the right is screaming racist.
    The rest of us just see thin-skinned phonies,
    of whatever color.

  • writer

    Yeah, Bruce. It’s the conservatives who do those things I mentioned.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Marc-Wilks/745501965 Marc Wilks

    I guess that it is only the left that can get away with telling racist jokes and bashing their opponents.

  • A.R.

    sarainitaly…village idiot

  • Glackin

    Marc Wilks said:
    I guess that it is only the left that can get away with telling racist jokes and bashing their opponents.

    THE LEFT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE STORY!
    The GOP hired him. The GOP fired him.
    THAT IS THE STORY!
    It’s the right that’s luvin’ that Kool-Aid!
    You’re seeing stories that aren’t there!

  • Sanders Youth

    A.R. said:
    sarainitaly…village idiot

    Yeah I noticed that.

  • cjd ohio 1

    Sanders Youth said:
    Yeah I noticed that.

    tommy christopher dropped your bomb on brietbart you were talking about lol

  • Sanders Youth

    cjd ohio 1 said:
    tommy christopher dropped your bomb on brietbart you were talking about lol

    Its cool with me.

  • cjd ohio 1

    Sanders Youth said:
    Its cool with me.

    it was a dud

  • catfishjuggling show

    What is wrong with the GOP? Don’t they know that an Obama impersonator should only be used for solemn, important events? Like fake debates with minor Republican candidates on John Stossel’s show!

  • bealzebubba

    LOL at hiring a guy to poke fun at the opposition and getting a partisan roast as a bonus. money well spent.

    Marc Wilks said:
    I guess that it is only the left that can get away with telling racist jokes and bashing their opponents.

    oh wilksy….I’m a left of center guy and even i thought the impression was dead on and the jokes were funny. enough of the generalizations.

  • Sanders Youth

    cjd ohio 1 said:
    it was a dud

    You think a day of investigation by an overworked major is going to find anything of consequence? Guess you have never worked in this business.

  • writer

    Any political impersonator has to make hay while the sun shines.

  • purveyor

    Ok,

    I know this is crass, but, when I said it at the Coffee Shop this morning we all had a nice laugh. I can’t recall the context but:

    “theres a little weiner in every Democrat” I guess you had to be there…LOL

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    A.R. said:
    sarainitaly…village idiot

    Sanders Youth said:
    Yeah I noticed that.

    well there’s the typical, and oh so expected reply…

  • gargoyle

    More fabricated BS to paint Conservatives as racist.

    Nope. Nothing fabricated at all.

    To paint them as hypocrites.
    To paint them as humourless.
    To paint them as “can dish it out, but can’t take it”

    Perfectly fine to laugh at jokes about the other guy, but tell jokes about me? Preposterous!

    If they can’t stand self-deprecating humour, I guess none of the GOP will appear on a Comedy Central Roast any time soon (I’m surprised that Trump agreed to one. Too bad it was one of the worst Roasts I’ve ever seen).

  • gargoyle

    Also, this wouldn’t be the first time the GOP made the mistake of hiring a comedian they didn’t like.

    They also hired Stephen Colbert to host the Correspondents’ Dinner one year and received a whole lot of subtle and not-so-subtle jabs for the effort. (do they not watch his show?)

    To their credit, they didn’t yank him offstage mid-set, but still, they won’t be hiring him back.

  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    Sanders Youth said:
    A.R. said:
    sarainitaly…village idiot
    Yeah I noticed that.

    Hear! Hear!

  • http://justplaythegame.us JustPlayTheGame

    oh hell, I thought that was Obama and the GOP was showing him the door.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    no, the purpose of the left wing media was to throw yet another race card at Conservatives.

    Howard Kurtz starts off calling them “risque, racially sensitive jokes” – like oh how racist of the GOP – they laugh at the racist jokes! I said that Reggie’s bit was almost identical to that of Obama’s actual Correspondence Dinner speech and other jokes he has told already.

    They didn’t hire some racist white guy in black face, to tell racist jokes about Obama. Reggie has been all over the tv, including networks, doing his schtick. He impersonates obama, and that includes his jokes.

    People in the audience laughed at his jokes when the jokes were funny, whether they were about Obama, or GOP candidates. And they didn’t laugh when they weren’t funny – like making fun of Barbara Bush.

    “this is why minorities have issues with the GOP” – more race card BS. That assumes that the GOP hired a racist guy, wrote racist jokes for him, (and that the jokes were even racist – which they weren’t). They were rip offs of Obama’s Correspondence dinner jokes.

    I think Reggie would be quite upset to see how people are attacking him online too, for his skit he put together. He has performed his Obama skits all over the place. They hired him, did they know what he was going to say? Obviously not.

    They yanked him because he was never ending, and he was losing the audience. Wow, more Boehner skin color and Rosy O’Donnell is fat jokes.

    “It’s true that Reggie Brown himself is African American, which usually confers substantial leeway in racially charged comedy. But context matters. Given the GOP’s tense relations with the black community, they’ve got to be very careful when joking about America’s first black president. Poking fun at his policies, his mannerisms, his golf game, and so forth is fine. But his skin color is a danger zone best avoided.”
    http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/obama-impersonator-tells-racist-jokes-at-republican-conference/

    Yet, Liberals or liberal African Americans can do it whenever they want?

    Some of the biggest boos came when the fake Obama said Newt Gingrich’s campaign was barely clinging to life.

    “His consultants are dropping faster than Anthony Weiner’s pants in an AOL chat room,” he said.

    Of GOP frontrunner, fake Obama joked that Mormon Mitt Romney will have “a first lady, second lady, and third lady.”

    Boos ensued.

    He said Tim Pawlenty was out having his “foot surgically removed from his mouth.”

    “John King served him up a ball softer than Barney Frank’s backside,” he said, referring to Pawlenty’s decision not to attack Romney during a CNN debate.

    The audience was silent.

    Fake Obama began to make fun of Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), but then he was suddenly ushered off stage.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    Hear! Hear!

    oh look, sybil changed back from one of his other aliases to become rrk, just so he could once again beg for my attention, while contributing absolutely N O T H I N G to the thread.

  • bealzebubba

    gargoyle said:
    To their credit, they didn’t yank him offstage mid-set, but still, they won’t be hiring him back.

    I’m sure it won’t matter if they do. He’ll send them a nice thank you in appreciation for giving his career the extra boost it needed. Bad publicity is good publicity, as they say.

  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    sarainitaly said:
    oh look, sybil changed back from one of his other aliases to become rrk, just so he could once again beg for my attention, while contributing absolutely N O T H I N G to the thread.

    Yes, it’s all about you.

    BTW: You’re lying. Again.

  • Glackin

    gargoyle said:
    Also, this wouldn’t be the first time the GOP made the mistake of hiring a comedian they didn’t like.

    They also hired Stephen Colbert to host the Correspondents’ Dinner one year and received a whole lot of subtle and not-so-subtle jabs for the effort. (do they not watch his show?)

    To their credit, they didn’t yank him offstage mid-set, but still, they won’t be hiring him back.

    Their problem is MFS Syndrome, complicated with thin skin.
    Sadism is in, self deprecation is out.
    It’s only funny if the other guy gets hurt.

  • writer

    Use your new name on her, King. That’ll show her!

  • mediadoubt

    The Republicans are demonstrating that more than ever they only listen to each other, and they’re growing deaf on the volume in their own echo chamber. That’s the danger: if you only listen to those who agree with you. The choir drowns out all other sounds, and you mislead yourself into believing that what you take as true is what *everybody* takes as true.

    Step out of the echo chamber/room of mirrors and you see Republican meaness, sanctimony, a sense of entitlement, arrogance, illiberality, a flights from fact, and a whole host of other offputting behaviors.

    2012 is going to come as a biiiig surprise.

  • valkyrie101

    What was that Sherrod argument: The NAACP crowd was racist because they clapped during Sherrod’s testimony about overcoming racist feelings.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    Sanders Youth said:
    A.R. said:
    sarainitaly…village idiot
    Yeah I noticed that.
    Hear! Hear!

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    Yes, it’s all about you.

    when your only comment in the thread is about me, then yea….you continue to make it *all about me*.

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  • JmYap

    seems like the joke backfired!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Connie-Bell/100000062550701 Connie Bell

    The jokes weren’t racist – they were ones President Obama would tell on himself. What WAS interesting was how very badly the audience took ANY joke aimed at ANY Republican. No sense of humor whatsoever…..

    Reggie Brown’s act was one of the BEST impersonations I’ve EVER seen (I’m old enough to really remember Rich Little). I agree, SNL should hire him – he’s a waaaay better “Obama” than Fred A. Intelligent, good looking, FUNNY! – Why, I think he may be a Sexy Liberal!!!!!!! Maybe he could fill in some on the Sexy Liberals tour! I’ll have to have a chat with Stephanie this week…..

  • dougx

    Well, I guess we should be grateful the Republicans didn’t hire a white guy with blackface to tell the jokes. Some of these guys are so stupid, it’s off the charts. How can you not know that hiring an Obama impersonator is automatically going to go awry at some point? Leave that to SNL, et al. The Rs need to stay on point and focused.

  • Rio

    They should have had Whoopie, whatever she DOES and Says is A-OK. Wasn’t she a real hit for that Kerry fundraiser? Ahh, memories.

  • mediadoubt

    sarainitaly said:
    oh look, sybil changed back from one of his other aliases to become rrk, just so he could once again beg for my attention, while contributing absolutely N O T H I N G to the thread.

    Beg.for.your.attention? Wow.

    Those delusions of relevance are kind of getting out of hand. Surely there’s something you can take for that.

  • Prom Night Dumpster Baby

    Boy, the Republican party…..

    It’s funny how thin skinned they are. That was just embarrassing for them, cutting the comedian short once he got around to their members.

  • Nationman

    Liberal Tormentor - tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972 said:
    So, if he was mocking Conservatives, I’m guessing he was a liberal. So I guess this is really a story about a liberal telling racial jokes.

    it’s called self deprication moron.

  • X-3

    Matt, my boy, you have allowed your imagination to run totally wild; there were no “racial comments” that I read.

  • RIChris

    The Republicans hiring an Obama impersonator was a lousy idea. The only thing worse is the party that can claim the real Obama.

  • Sanders Youth

    Connie Bell said:
    The jokes weren’t racist – they were ones President Obama would tell on himself. What WAS interesting was how very badly the audience took ANY joke aimed at ANY Republican. No sense of humor whatsoever…..

    Reggie Brown’s act was one of the BEST impersonations I’ve EVER seen (I’m old enough to really remember Rich Little). I agree, SNL should hire him – he’s a waaaay better “Obama” than Fred A. Intelligent, good looking, FUNNY! – Why, I think he may be a Sexy Liberal!!!!!!! Maybe he could fill in some on the Sexy Liberals tour! I’ll have to have a chat with Stephanie this week…..

    He was very good and I laughed at most all the jokes the ones aimed at Obama and the ones aimed at Republicans, maybe I shouldn’t feel so bad for some of these Republicans but I guess part of me can’t help it, they are so defensive and protective of their own side that they can’t even hear an impersonator telling jokes about their side. I think a lot of them are very paranoid which if you look at the history of the right wing in this country going all the way back to the John Birch Society and the anti-Communists, but I am sure it goes back even earlier. It must be very hard to go through life worrying that the rest of the world is conspiring to destroy you, if you aren’t someone who thinks exactly the same way you do.

    Most of the time I wish these people would disappear, but I guess I feel bad for a lot of them, because I think deep inside each of these people is a very scared person who is unsure of themselves and their belief system. Anything that goes against their core beliefs, must be the enemy and must be silenced.

    They are so serious all the time! Lighten up Francis, this guy is a comedian hired to try to make you people laugh at the other side, but when he tried to get you to laugh at yourselves, you threw him out. Too bad he was funny.

  • Prom Night Dumpster Baby

    I don’t know if fear drives them as much as they know that fear guides their constituency. They run their politics like a business. And like I mentioned earlier, they’re just obviously thin skinned and incredibly sensitive.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    mediadoubt said:
    Beg.for.your.attention? Wow.

    Those delusions of relevance are kind of getting out of hand. Surely there’s something you can take for that.

    no, rrk’s delusions, obsession and harassment have been way out of hand for about a year.
    i would be quite happy if rrk ignored me, but he won’t. can’t. refuses.

  • MrTPar_taY

    Speaking of tone deaf when are the Demo’Crupts going to get some tone and start asking O-Mao-Bama about destroying the economy?

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    RACE CARD ALERT!

    Get used to it America! (That is, more than usual.)

    The “PLAY THE RACE CARD” strategy of Democrats – and THEIR MEDIA – will be relentless from now until election.

    Reverse it on the low-lifes:
    Expose THEM as the true haters for smearing every white face that disagrees with them as , all together now on the big LIE, RACISTS!

    Continue to expose them…more & more people are waking up to the RACE-CARD SMEAR that Democrats have been using for the past 50 years!!

  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    sarainitaly said:
    no, rrk’s delusions, obsession and harassment have been way out of hand for about a year.
    i would be quite happy if rrk ignored me, but he won’t. can’t. refuses.

    Are you still talking about yourself? It never ends.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    see.

  • ACORNInsider

    Wow, its amazing NO sense of HUMOR…..why all the name calling and over reaction? Goodness they hired a comedian to see irony and humor…was he told he could only see irony and duplicity on the left and turn a blindeye to the right ?

  • purveyor

    Glackin said:
    Typical Contrash

    Yes GLAKIN, thats me, I hang my head in shame. I warned the readers it was a bad (but harmless) joke. I laughed at the Obama Impersonator’s jokes about Conservatives, so, quid pro quo. LOL

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