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Watch As Republicans Cut Off Obama Impersonator's Microphone After He Makes Fun Of Michele Bachmann
A republican-organized roast at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside headed by comedian Reggie Brown, meant to poke fun at democrats broadly and the president in particular, turned horribly wrong, after the comic flipped the tables and after joking at Obama's expense for a good 15 minutes, decided to take some well-deserved stabs at republican candidates. After telling the crowd that as president Obama, who had a black father and white mother, he celebrated half of Black History Month, and naturally joking at Weiner's expense, he went on a less than welcome rampage, saying if former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney were to become
president, he would have his "first lady, second lady, third lady". Brown also said former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty missed
the conference because he was having his foot removed from his mouth, adding that the operation would be covered under President Obama and Mr
Romney's respective healthcare reforms, along with spinal transplants. Yet when Brown launched into a gag about Tea Party stalwart Michele Bachmann, his microphone was cut off, the music swelled and the comedian was ushered from the stage.
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Good thing he didn't make any Hitler jokes.
Freedom of speech, US style.
You are allowed to speak your mind as long as it goes the right way.
Too bad this guy, who was born in the US, still has not understood what freedom of speech means in the US.
Some guys will never learn though.
No you misunderstand the issue. This guys problem is that he wasn't in a free speech "zone"...
You're right. It wasn't free. He was getting paid.
Roast
It means that when you are paid in the US to deliver a roast and that your employee is not happy with what a roast, that it is your fault.
"If you can't take the heat..." maybe you shouldn't ask for a roast.
http://gawker.com/5813635/race+joking-obama-impersonator-gop-loves-me
But still, that crowd couldn't handle a single Republican joke (I feel embarrassed for all Americans when I see them clap for W, etc.), so the OP is still on point.
edit: also relevant: this quote and news item came out many hours after the OP
You don't understand what freedom of speech means in the US. It doesn't mean you get to say whatever the fuck you want, whenever, to whoever, and suffer no consequences. This guy was hired to do a job, his employers obviously didn't like what he was saying, so they removed him from the stage they had paid for. Simple.
Freedom of speech means government forces "can't" silence you or jail you for voicing ideas that government officials don't agree with. I have "can't" in quotes because obviously we don't have freedom of speech in this country. There are many examples of egregious violations of the freedom of speech; this ain't one of them.
Disclaimer: this is a fucking stupid story. What does it have to do with anything, really? Every time I read the name 'Obama' or 'Bachmann' I get a little bit dumber. I expect to be drooling by the end of election season, and I really don't need ZH to contribute to my stupidization.
"...I really don't need ZH to contribute to my stupidization."
I could tell, but thanks for clearing the air anyway. IMO it would be appropriate if in the future you preface every comment you make on ZH with that statement; it'll save us all some time.
So nothing relevant to add then? Imagine my surprise.
Heh, your response just endowed my comment with complete relevance, thanks.
(Note: you forgot your preamble)
Oh I see, it's the "I'm rubber your glue" argument then. Way to...win?
Heh, in the spirit of this thread I'll humour you:
Your argument is, "You have the right to free speech... as long as you're not dumb enough to actually try it." a fair enough claim to make, considering the state of the US today.
But if they paid for a 'roast'; they got what they paid for, so the comedian fulfilled his obligation. If all they had wished for was a 'ten minute Obama hate', they should have related that to the comedian. But in light of the audience/guests that could hardly be considered a roast.
Ah, but you don't have to make things up for me to say, you can simply copy and paste:
When you pay for the product, you can determine if "you got what you paid for." You didn't, so you don't. This comedian, if he feels his contract was violated, can sue his employers. There are no other legal issues in play. Calling this a violation of the right to free speech is not only laughably wrong, but lessens the charge itself.
Yawn.
Actually, if you had paid attention, and weren't so obsessed with your agenda of vehemently defending the principle of 'employer's prerogative', you'd have seen long ago that all I've argued is that the organizers got what they paid for: a roast. If that was indeed in the contract, the comedian has a pretty solid case if he wasn't paid (and if he really wanted to go through all the bother and expense).
"If you can't take the heat..." maybe you shouldn't ask for a roast.
What this article, and inadvertently your posts, are a prime examples of is how Americans (for the most part) just love to dish it out, but are unfortunately too thin-skinned to take it.
Still omitting your preface I see; I guess we'll just have to assume it's there...
OK, just making sure you're not still clinging to the demonstrably false belief that his freedom of speech was violated. "Contract violation" and "human right violation" is a pretty important distinction, despite all your blather to the contrary.
Burp, ahhh
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Evidently thin-skinned wingnuts are everywhere.
Touché.
Chump
can't wait till it's known that ZH is also a CIA operative.. what, this is the ONLY thing that isn't?
Nahhh, just many, many of the posters have a decidely Ayn Rand/Libertarian/Paranoiac slant
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I wish WB7 would make an "I {heart} Libertarian/Paranoiacs t-shirt!
I bet that he still got his fat paycheck for the venue, what else would a professional impersonator want? In fact, I bet that the publicity that he has received has also backlogged his public engagements schedule.
It's funny, he made fun of the left for 15 minutes straight, but as soon as he started hitting the right, they took him off stage. Gotta love those spineless partisans of both the left and the right, they can never see the humor in their own idiotic behavior, rather they only see the idiocy in the "other team".
But, there was a great ending to that night that was beyond partisan politics: Ron Paul wiped the floor with every other candidate there. He fucking cleaned house!!!
+1
Chump,
on a few things, I do agree with you.
Free speech means the GOVERNMENT can't stop you from speaking. A private organization, which is paying you, can. Get your facts straight.
Waooo, people love to cling to their myth.
A fine line between the government and a republicans organized event, featuring an impersonator mocking public servants and/or politicians. And, in the end, the US is not about freedom of speech, it is about public vs private means of censorship.
As long as censorship is done on private means, well, it is okay with US citizens.
It's not a fine line. Dude was hired. Dude's employers didn't like the job he was doing. Dude was fired. It doesn't matter if he was making fun of Obama or Bachmann or reading stories to children.
Seriously, bitching about "free speech" here takes something away from all the actual cases of violation of free speech. Learn to discern.
Yeah, no shit. If I hire you to lay bricks and you spend your time yapping about Dancing With the Stars or which quarterback you'd like to see play for whichever team, you're gonna get fired whether you think your "freedom of speech" was violated or not. It's the exact, same principle at work here.
Same principle? Same as same can be understood by US citizens.
So this guy was hired to deliver a roast which includes the possibility of pouring fire on the audience.
Does the guy perform accordingly? Yes.
In your example, the guy is hired to lay up bricks and spend his time yapping. Different. Very different. In one, the guy delivers the product he was paid for. In the other, the guy does not.
But again, it is the US meaning of same. Human beings have a same right to freedom and under that same right, it was therefore normal that the US started as a slaver nations as human beings have indeed a US same right to liberty.
And indeed, I have yet to learn how to discern the US citizens way.
See, that's the thing, you're resorting to analysis of the contract now. Either the comedian had the innate, human right to stand there and speak, or he did not. Either his inherent right to free speech was violated or it was not. The fact that you're acknowledging he was paid to deliver a product means your argument is null and void. When you pay him, you can determine if his product is satisfactory.
And US citizens don't need people from other countries to "discern us." How silly for you to comment on another population's laws when you don't even have a fundamental understanding of them.
johnb,
Don't confuse some with FACTS,they already have their minds made up.
Also they voted for the ridgerunner.
We sure did/are getting that Change, can't find any Hope,except in Arkansas.
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Definitely some fucked up shit.
An,
To quote PJ O'Rourke:
'I have often been called a Nazi, and, although it is unfair, I don't let it bother me. I don't let it bother me for one simple reason. No one has ever had a fantasy about being tied to a bed and sexually ravished by someone dressed as a liberal.'
I want to ravish all of you fucking sheep!
Why are they insulating Michele Bachmann? She has displayed her ignorance much as Palin, and all idiots in politics have.
She is the false flag Ron Paul / Tea Party candidate:
Talking like him, voting like a neocon
Some of her positions:
- Voted for the patriot act extension
- Said Israel had to be supported unconditionally, otherwise "god will curse us"
- Worked as a tax attorney for the IRS
You got that right, swissaustrian!
isn't god already cursing us?
No, God is not cursing "us".
The "curse", I'd suggest, is the selfish and theftful nature that many humans have decided to live by.
This is God blessing us. The real fun is coming. This room had less brothers than an Indianapolis colts home game . Lousiana republicans...nappy hair is not allowed.
If you want to look on the bright side of this. She could be the candidate that the american people believes has the qualitfications for serious, structural tax code reform. (Ben and Timmay have been begging for it. Obama put Volcker on it)
She can say "When I worked on the tax code, I was going after cheats, now I realize that the code is to complex to catch the cheats and it needs deep structural reform"
And the two party system could "let" her win in 2012 or 2016 so that democrats could blame her for taking away all the well intended incentives for people, but are often abused by rich people or professional gamers. (Like the dude in wisconson, who won the lottery but still collected food stamps, cause the rules said he could. Or companies like G.E. who would say look, we need to save money on taxes so we can pay engineers to figure out how to prevent the next fukishima)
The Dems could also get her to conceed in the same regard that the US should fix obama care in the same way. Norquist let all the pubs out of the "promise" last week when they dumped the ethanol subsidy. For those that don't know, norquist claims to be a "starve the beast" dude, but what he really wants is status quo on all the loopholes in existance, cause they fit (or did fit) his world view and paybacks for his constituants.
I know these parties will do anything to cling onto power, and only want to share it with themselves. But every once in a while they have to do the right thing for the people to keep thier hedgemony, or even the hedge itself in tact.
If she is not going to campaign on tax reform and accomodation of Obama care. Dr. Paul needs to explain why he wants a gold standard, but then lead the people along during the camapign for actual solution which is sound money poilicy, and then tax code will fix itself.
And sure, 4,8,12 years from now all the loop holes and incentive models will creep back in, but you have to renew the foundation every once in a while....
"Always look on the bright side of life!"
You got it right. She is phony. She is a US ruling oligarchy provocateur.
She is just another neocon. She is Dick Cheney only with boobs.
She's as evil as Dick. She's as big a whore for Israel as Dick. But she be way more stupid than dick.
Look how they hijacked the Tea Party and you can see what the most important imperative is. Talk about the deficit - Fine. Talk about healthcare - Great. Talk about cutting the money transfer of any remaining tax payer wealth to the Zionist entity and it's time to plug the gap with the bonehead Ms. Bachman or the equally ignorant 'Who's Paul Revere?' Palin.
Scary to see all those obese goons cheer the Bachman sell-out. God help America.
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Because they want her? A Mitt/Michele combo has a nice ring to it.
The M & M ticket...(with nuts of course).
LMAO...now that was a good one... And,if you watched any of the debate, you would actually know that she is a twit.
Well Tyler... Francis Sawyer has FINALLY gotten a 'scoop' on things...
I have uncovered what the comedian was planning for MB... (exclusive you tube)...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-Rnl7Orxdk
Can dish it out but not take it...
Glass jaw.
Beat me to it... I HATE that.
What? He calls himself a comedian...and not a single yomomma joke?
I think it was because he overextended his time.
But anyway: RON PAUL WON THE STRAW POLL at this event with over 40 %
That is the real news+1
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+ 2.76
+3.76
one plus one plus two plus one,
not one plus *two* plus one plus one
+ .308
+3.14....
+2012
+1776
I think that qualifies as Dejavu ??
NBC Today show actually interveiwed Ron Paul! Something has to be wrong here.....
+1776
Yeah- Dr. Paul is kicking ass and taking names.
Maybe they'll even put his name somewhere on the ballot this time....
Seriously, even though he's the only one I'd want to vote *for*, I fear for his safety should he win. All the same, if he's willing to risk it, I'll be at the polls.
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Ron Paul wins straw polls all the time. He just never ends up as a party-backed candidate. Kinda interesting implementation of the primary process, but really, we had better candidates back in the days of the political machine.
A teevee miniseries turns out not to be such a good way for people to select a potential president.
What a shocker.
One of the attacks that used to be made against the Iranian version of democracy was that the oligarchy chose the candidates.
Pot, kettle, black.
as impersonations go.........this guy is pretty good...IMO
Thats because the one in the whitehouse is an imporsonator too. The real "Barak Obama" probably died 40 some-odd years ago at the age of 3 months.
They fear looking at themselves in a comical way. Fear like this comes from uncertainty.
You could see it some of their faces: nervous laughter and utter confusion in their eyes.
"Uhhh, wait a sec. Should I be laughing at a guy who's telling me how stupid I am?"
That's the business of politics for you. "You want free-dom of speech pal? Find someone else to pay for it."
No, the real revelation is the realization of how fragile the Ms. Bachman persona formulation is.
And this is what our politicians are doing while the country burns? Line them all up and shoot them.
Is it just me or does Barry look like a ventriloquist dummy in the picture above?
That's because the teleprompter said "[look like ventriloquist dummy - now]"...
He has that look down pat... thus the realism factor...
Priceless!
Still my favorite Bachmann clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzsVFr0mFeg
Thanks, that clip is really funny.
George Carlin got pulled over once, Wised off to the cop and the police officer asked him, What are you a comedian? George replied.. Actually, yes!!
GC was a proper comedian. RIP Georgey.
God Bless George! (yes I know so dont even bother telling me what he would think about that) LULZ!!
"Is it hot outside or is just Al Gore"
LOL
The best the Repubs can offer is Bachmann and she needs the cover of a dead mic on some two bit comedian?
fucktards.
Revealing it is.
None of it was funny.
One track minds.
The Dems would have done the same thing to a Bush impersonator.
As soon as the truth is turned in their direction; their ability to withstand it withers.
We have two parties dominated by idealogues that hold fast at conventions but turn to pudding when it matters.
I'll never, ever, forget the bailout vote and watching Republicans become spineless jellyfish.
That was the moment I was done with supporting ANY Republicans, or with any party, or any politician.
Politics is the distraction.
The atmosphere at this convention shows you the polarity that leads to delusion of the followers and their gullibility in believing that politicians will accomplish anything.
This is true of both sides, and it will lead to a collapse of the system entirely.
I can't wait.
Yup.
I've been waiting for years, and I'm starting to get antsy.
Idealogues? Only if the ideals are money and power.
nice. very concrete abstractions.
"Is it hot outside or am I the only black guy in the building"
Epic !
The Eddie Murphy / Arsenio Hall / Chris Rock of his time.
Check out Dave Chappelle.
I am, Rick fucking James!
Well If there was any doubt about her being another big party GOP'er there isn't any more. I've always said she was a Neo-Con as well.
off topic, did anybody just see CNBC talk about PNC Financial buying "Royal Bank of Scotland" instead of RBC and never correct themselves?
They even talked about how RBS was down 3.5% on the news, had their chart and ticker up there and everything.
Funny and not suprising. However, RBC is only selling their Southeast US Branches, not the whole company.
yeh, i know, just US retail banking
Miles - Well, we knew you married some old Nazi
Isobel - He was Austrian!
Miles - So was Hitler
Isobel - Hitler had no sense of humor
You know this guy got me fooled for 2 min I though he was the real Prez. :)
However than I noticed he wasn't using a teleprompter ! Bastard!
If you're new to this site, please understand when the Neo-(Con)federates say "neocon"...they mean Jew. And don't get caught up in the Ron Paul worship...even they know he's a career pol who doesn't stand a snowball's chance. That is all.
Why I don't like either party........they are one in the same............clowns to the left and jokers to the right...
reggie brown/reggie middleton 2012
I'm plenty OK it. Why pay for it when the leftist owned MSM does it 24/7 for free?
A room full of truly pathetic people.
that took ballz. i hope he got paid.
No 1st Amendment, just the 2nd !
Just can't take a joke I guess. Last time I voted it was for Ron Paul. Next time may be some other kind of "vote".
republican = democrat.
yawn.......
It was a Republican event. He who pays the piper calls the tune.
Agreed, but to see the tune they call is interesting. No crossing the Bachman Rubicon.
Agreed, but to see the tune they call is interesting. No crossing the Bachman Rubicon.
I'll say it once (last year before the elections) and I'll say it again now:
"Current politics is best represented by a two headed dragon. Politicians pay lip service to opposing ideologies but both the Republican and Democratic parties are part of the same big government dragon body. The body is moving in one direction; bigger and more powerful government. More control over the electorate. Having the two parties serves a greater purpose though....it divides the populace (sheeple?) into two camps that are always at each others' throat. I think this tactic is called divide and conquer. Until we wake up and get away from the 'Repubs this....' or 'Dems that....' blame game then we will be slowly boiled...just like the frog in the frying pan...all while the dragon stands by watching and laughing."
And .....the sheep continue bleeting.
He does a good impersonation.
He's just as boring.
Classic - can't have people laughing at michelle 'mad cow' Bachman now can we?
Michele voted for executive branch perpetual war powers:
infowars . com/obamas-promise-to-veto-worldwide-war-bill-rings-hollow
She voted against an amendment striking perpetual war powers from the defense spending bill:
govtrack . us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2011-361
Michele is a war whore.
Even if you are too lacking in humanity to care about war, you must realize that wars cause fiscal chaos to Uncle Sam's balance sheet.
So she's the bait-and-switch choice for ding-bats. Yes she talks about fiscal restraint, but only to keep the funds flowing into war related activities, ie. the Zino-Entity.
Maybe he thought we had a one-party system.
Loved it from London
Classic little mind-fuck for the lilliputians.
America is so fucked - walking zombies can be dangerous though.
I like the way he slowly turned the tables.
The brainless ones in the crowd looked so confused, looking to the others for confirmation and reassurance.
Perhaps they should have used more ancient primate techniques to calm their confused grey matter - it seemed for the first time two independent thoughts was flowing through their little heads and the poor dears looked confused and disoriented.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZIvmuYW7UA
the "minds" in that room had been dead for 20 years.
If you took away their cue cards and flashing applause signs they would
look exactly like cows chewing cud.
the only thing worse was them using cajun toons in between the moronic speakers.
just stick to pat boone and como and leave the good stuff alone.
lord what a bunch of loser clowns in that room.
the currency wasn't the only thing debased in that room.
my oh my oh my.
Muss say the guy has some balls...
major tool, meet bigger tools
Michele Bachmann is a joke.
+1
Kudos to them for drawing the line at picking on the obviously mentally-handicapped. ;)
..eh. Another thing about this generation, the comedy is almost as bad as the music. The entertainment industry is like anything in this corrupt system, the best product does not get on the shelf because only the big companies and the unions can afford the fee. The crowd is begging to laugh, so, looks like it still worked for the guy.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/20/booted-obama-impersonator-defends-performance-at-gop-gathering/#more-164455
He said that he ran out of time so they booted him. Seemed to be pleanty of jokes at GOP expense before the boot. Somehow I doubt they would stop him because of Backmann jokes (who gives a crap).
Naw, they were OK with the digs at Romney and Gingrich, but they couldn't stand for someone making jokes about Bachmann.
Ever watch a "liberal" on Hannity or O'Reilly? They get shouted down. Or what about Limbaugh? He hits the kill switch.
An opposing view just kills the whole purpose of propaganda.
Really? Why that's shocking given the very respectful and long-winded treatment conservatives get on liberal shows.
Yeah, true, but stupidly they cut him off a\instead of letting him run his course, and now we have......well we have postings like the ones in here just gleeful about it. They don't call them the stoooopid party for nothing.
That was a Republican leadership conference. Did you see all the old fat broads and the bald headed fat bastards sitting with them in the crowd? If that's the leadership of the Republican party they are in worse shape than even I think. They need to change the name from tea baggers to pie eaters. What a bunch of over weight old farts. They couldn't lead a bunch of goats. If they weren't so destructive it would be funny. They must have switched the sign for the RLC with the AARP Weight Watchers sign. This is too easy, what a bunch of Mo-Rons. There is no wonder the Republicans are having trouble finding a candiate, no one wants to suck up to a bunch of old fat people, you couldn't keep your breakfast down cause they all smell like cheese.
Hey! Watch it buddy!
(I didnt give you the junk though)
Michael Bachmann is fantastic and with Marco Rubio will destroy the Democrats Romney is a RINO supported by Al Gore ! Secret societies ! Believes in latter day revelations of Joseph Smith debunking the Bible ! Mormon leaders believe we were planted here from another planet and Mormons believe Jesus is Lucifer's brother ! Remember his fathers promise of a temporary Michigan state tax when he was governor ?
Bachmann and Rubio? Thanks...... It's gonna take a long time for me to clean the coffee off my keyboard.
Michael Bachmann is fantastic and with Marco Rubio will destroy the Democrats Romney is a RINO supported by Al Gore ! Secret societies ! Believes in latter day revelations of Joseph Smith debunking the Bible ! Mormon leaders believe we were planted here from another planet and Mormons believe Jesus is Lucifer's brother ! Remember his fathers promise of a temporary Michigan state tax when he was governor ?
Psst: it was only funny the first time.
So, who is the Bilderberger choice in the GOP? Obama is obviously the choice on the dem side - will it be Rick Perry?
It's obvious that both 2 party people are puppets since at least 1988, probably longer, so that way they don't lose either way.
Maybe he had two contracts to speak. One with the Republicans. A second, smaller, contract with the Democrats. Ever think about that? After all, the Republican tax cuts have been in place now for over a decade. Where are the jobs? Politically, Republicans have shot themselves in the foot.