Obama impersonator pulled offstage after making racial, gay jokes at GOP event

[DrScholl]

Obama impersonator pulled offstage after making racial, gay jokes at GOP gathering
By Aaron Blake and Amy Gardner

NEW ORLEANS — A President Obama impersonator was pulled off the stage Saturday at the Republican Leadership Conference, after telling a string of racially themed jokes about the president.

The impersonator, Reggie Brown, took the stage at the annual presidential cattle call to the Bruce Springsteen song “Born in the USA” — an apparent allusion to the birther controversy. He proceeded to tell a series of off-color jokes poking fun at Obama’s biracial heritage and a gay member of Congress.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/44/post/obama-impersonator-makes-racial-gay-jokes-at-gop-gathering/2011/06/18/AGVLAUaH_blog.html

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First, the ad in CA-36, now this. This sort of thing seems like a clear pattern from conservatives.

[tpfkaw]

They had him pulled offstage by security.  How racist of them!

[Landslide Lyndon]

Nobody ever accused Republicans of having a sense of humor.

[Cincinnatus]

If the President was there he probably would have laughed.  This is just a case of Republicans afraid of being labeled racist again. 

[DrScholl]

They had him pulled offstage by security.  How racist of them!

Only after he made cracks about the Republican candidates, not for the racial jokes.

[specific_name]

The biggest problem with this, is that it isn't funny. Apparently the tipping point was Barney Frank or maybe the Mormon plural wives thing.

[Joe Republic]

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/167205-obama-addresses-gop-leadership-conference-

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Yeah, it was really the racist jokes that they disapproved of.

[Tender Branson]

Where can I watch it ? Sounds like fun !

[Tender Branson]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hfIrag8eXI

"I released my long-form birth certificate, Anthony Weiner released his long-form twitter foto."

LULZ.

[Tender Branson]

Why was his joke about Michele Bachmann censored ?

[Tender Branson]

Obama's new campaign slogan:

[stegosaurus]

As embarrassing as it is, he was not pulled off for insensitive jokes - he was pulled off after he started mocking the Republican presidential field. It does no good for our party to be so stuffy that we can't accept a little bit of ribbing from a comedian. I wish more of us had a sense of humor.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Not particularly offensive, just dumb and unfunny.

[Stranger in a strange land]

It's funny how often Republicans accuse Democrats of being easily-offended and lacking a sense of humor when Republicans are the ones who refuse to laugh at themselves.

[Paul Kemp]

That guy is a pretty terrible impersonator.

[King]

As embarrassing as it is, he was not pulled off for insensitive jokes - he was pulled off after he started mocking the Republican presidential field. It does no good for our party to be so stuffy that we can't accept a little bit of ribbing from a comedian. I wish more of us had a sense of humor.

Yep.  They were laughing and applauding along to the "bad jokes" until he started making fun of Republicans.

It's important to remember, however, that the people who attend these conventions are such hacks that Sean Hannity could be raping a baby on stage and they would cheer and call it heroic.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

If the President was there he probably would have laughed.  This is just a case of Republicans afraid of being labeled racist again. 

Uh yeah, why be afraid of being called racist when we could just embrace it fervently with dumb crap like this.

[opebo]

...were too c**ntwhipped...

Good lord man, you can say that?  You're a braver man than I am.  I wonder what would happen if I quoted you in my signature.

But about the impersonator - is he a white-man in Black-Face?

[Mechaman]

...were too c**ntwhipped...

Good lord man, you can say that?  You're a braver man than I am.  I wonder what would happen if I quoted you in my signature.

But about the impersonator - is he a white-man in Black-Face?

I think he was black.

[Mr. Morden]

This is the same Obama impersonator who debated Gary Johnson:

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201106100002

[Badger]

It's funny how often Republicans accuse Democrats of being easily-offended and lacking a sense of humor when Republicans are the ones who refuse to laugh at themselves.

Welcome to planet Earth.

From the Politico article:

"Eventually, RLC President and CEO Charlie Davis made the decision to pull him offstage, and a man came onstage to physically escort Brown off.

“I pulled him off the stage,” Davis acknowledged afterward. “I just thought he had gone too far. He was funny the first 10 or 15 minutes, but it was inappropriate, it was getting ridiculous.”

Watch the video. Sure enough, the racist and homophobic jokes got big applause and laughs, and sure enough it was only when the impersonator only started hitting on GOP candidates that he got booted.

Oh, and that group of "unrepresentatvie extremists" included the RNC Chairman.

Politico did the GOP a real favor, but the rest of us a disservice, with that misleading headline.

[Mechaman]

It's funny how often Republicans accuse Democrats of being easily-offended and lacking a sense of humor when Republicans are the ones who refuse to laugh at themselves.

Why do you guys think I'm libertarian?
Speaking of which:
What is the favorite sex position of libertarians?

Do It Yourself!!! lol.

[Eraserhead]

I think the funniest part of the video of this that I saw was when the impersonator had a picture of George W. Bush put up on the screen and the audience... applauded.

I thought that even Republicans had given up on trying to pretend that he was a good President.

[Badger]

I think the funniest part of the video of this that I saw was when the impersonator had a picture of George W. Bush put up on the screen and the audience... applauded.

I thought that even Republicans had given up on trying to pretend that he was a good President.

I noticed that too.

Apparantly deep in their hearts, when only friendly right wingers are around......

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

Saw him last night on the WWE PPV.  Not the funniest guy in the world, I'm sure.