Showing posts with label Obama White House Correspondents Dinner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Obama White House Correspondents Dinner. Show all posts

Monday, April 29, 2013

Conan O'Brien's White House Correspondents' Dinner Speech (VIDEO)

 
 
 
 
                                       

Conan O'Brien was the featured performer at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday night, and he had fun at the expense of Democrats, Republicans, CNN, North Korea, Al Roker, and, yes, HuffPost.
Some of Conan's best lines:
On CNN:
"CNN's ratings are so low, now James Earl Jones says, 'You're watching CNN?!'"
On Twitter:
"If any of you are live tweeting this event, please use the hashtag #incapableoflivinginthemoment."
On the NRA:
"How freakin' crazy do you have to be to be the actual president of the NRA."
On Obama:
"Your hair is so white, it could be a member of your cabinet."
And finally, he gave it up for his hometown, Boston:
"If you're going to pick on a city, don't pick one where 9 out of 10 people are related to a cop."
This was the second time O'Brien was the performer at the dinner, 18 years after his first performance in 1995. Check out his full remarks in the video above

Obama's 'Muslim Socialist' Joke Draws Big Laughs (VIDEO)


President Barack Obama slid in a shoutout during his 2013 White House Correspondents' Dinner speech to conspiracists who wonder about both his religion and economic preferences.
"These days, I look in the mirror and I have to admit," Obama said. "I'm not the strapping young Muslim socialist I used to be."
Past polls have seen large chunks of Americans incorrectly identify the Christian Obama as a Muslim. During the heat of the 2012 presidential campaign, a May PPP survey found that 52 percent of 656 likely GOP primary voters classified the president under that religion.
Since his reelection in November 2012, a host of conservative voices have referred to Obama as a socialist. Back in March, GOP strategist Henry Barbour told the hill that "we've got a socialist in office right now." Earlier in December, televangelist Pat Robertson accused Obama of not admitting to his "socialist" ways that is destroying free enterprise in America. Within the same month, Sarah Palin used the same term, warning that America's debt is putting the country on a path to communism.