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Related: About this forumHow Attacks On Obama's Race And Religion Turned Into Jokes
http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/how-attacks-on-obamas-race-and-religion-turneSalaam! Nothing stays below the surface for long any more.
Ben Smith
Posted Apr 29, 2012 4:23pm EDT
I was born, of course, in Hawaii, President Barack Obama began last night from the stage of the annual piece of dinner theater that is the White House Correspondents Dinner.
Then he winked, bringing down the house.
In his routine, Obama as he has before poked fun at rumors he was born in Kenya. He laughed gamely when comedian Jimmy Kimmel flicked at another rumor, that hes a crypto-Muslim, with his greeting: Salaam. He joked that his second terms secret agenda would involve hip-hop: In my first term, I sang Al Green; in my second term, I'm going with Young Jeezy. He joked about eating dog as a boy in Indonesia, an alien detail conservatives have delighted in raising in recent weeks.
Last nights comedy routine didnt just tap newsy mini-scandals one at the General Services Administration, the other at the Secret Service for which such events are designed. Obama and comic Jimmy Kimmel harped on the three most visceral and, once, potent lines of personal attack on Obama, the contradictory stew of questions raised about his religion, his race, and his American identity that have shadowed him since 2007, mostly debunked but never quite put to rest. Their presence at the White House Correspondents Dinner, a good-natured and generally toothless ritual whose players are adept at appearing to cross lines while remaining fundamentally inoffensive, shows how thoroughly they have been neutralized, and how confident are Obama and his handlers that they pose little threat.
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How Attacks On Obama's Race And Religion Turned Into Jokes (Original Post)
cbayer
Apr 2012
OP
Stupid hates funny. Stupid doesn't get funny, & doesn't think it's funny. (nt)
DirkGently
Apr 2012
#3
Warpy
(110,913 posts)1. That's the way to do it, all right
Admit even the most insanely ridiculous things and laugh in their faces about them.
Deny them and they cling even more closely to the conspiracy of silence around "duh troof."
cbayer
(146,218 posts)2. I thought he was great and agree that he has really defanged
those who try to use his race and religion against him.
DirkGently
(12,151 posts)3. Stupid hates funny. Stupid doesn't get funny, & doesn't think it's funny. (nt)
chervilant
(8,267 posts)6. Clearly,
they are untouched by our Dear FSM's Noodly Appendages.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)4. This just goes to show that
the way to get the truth out to people about the GOP is not so much via the media, but instead by comedic talent. Comedy is their enemy.
SunSeeker
(51,378 posts)5. Comedy is the greatest weapon.
And man, does our President have some comedy chops! Can't wait for the debates!