Joan Rivers ‘Feels Sorry’ For Obama But Blasts His ‘Stupid Mistakes’ On MSNBC

Who would have thought that the harshest critic of the Obama administration on MSNBC lately would be Joan Rivers? The entertainment icon was on The Last Word tonight to talk about her recent reemergence during the Super Bowl but took a detour to evaluate the President, and Rivers is not happy– though at least, apparently, sees the President himself as an object of pity.

“I’m terribly sorry for him,” Rivers told Lawrence O’Donnell tonight when asked to evaluate President Obama’s tenure so far. Noting that she believed he was being “badly advised,” Rivers argued, partially, that many of his mistakes were in the optics department, and that while she voted for him, she is unhappy with the current state of affairs. “When you tell everyone ‘there’s an oil spill, it’s ok now go to those beaches,’ you and your family don’t take off to Nantucket,” she argued. “I think when the country is in a recession, don’t send your wife and 40 friends off to Europe.”

O’Donnell attempted to balance her out, noting that the administration had some successes and asking what Obama would have to do to win her back. “Get rid of death taxes,” she replied without skipping a beat. “I vote for myself– death taxes and Israel.”

The segment from tonight’s Last Word via MSNBC below:

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