Fake Obama Stuns Crowd at GOP Event
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 20th, 2011 4:38 am by HL
Fake Obama Stuns Crowd at GOP Event
A comedian pretending to be President Obama at the Republican Leadership Conference over the weekend launched into a comedy routine that quickly became offensive, the New York Times reports.
The comedian, Reggie Brown, joked that Obama only celebrated half of Black History Month because he is biracial and suggested Obama would look like Fred Sanford of Sanford and Son when he was older. Once Brown began mocking the GOP presidential candidates as well, he was asked to leave the stage.
Tweeted GOP strategist Doug Heye: “Wonder why many minorities have problems with G.O.P.? Our own fault,”
Huntsman Rounds Up Establishment Support
With Jon Huntsman’s formal entry into the GOP presidential race on Tuesday, Mark Halperin reports former White House counsel C. Boyden Gray will head up the former Utah governor’s policy team.
“This is the first, but by no means the last, of eye-catching endorsements Huntsman will get from the GOP Establishment, including many with ties to Ronald Reagan and Bushes 41 and 43. Gray’s endorsement will be a semiotic dog whistle for a lot of big-time bundlers. It doesn’t mean Huntsman will get the nomination, of course, but combined with the Wall Street and corporate America backing he is already in line to receive, it will give him a leg up on becoming the Romney Alternative. And, at this point, becoming the Romney Alternative is the whole ball of wax.”
Income Gap Widens
The Washington Post notes that today’s managerial class is earning roughly four times as much as those in the 1970s, while pay for the remaining 90% of America’s employees remains the same.
