"Good evening, my… FELLOW… Americans."

27 Responses to "Good evening, my… FELLOW… Americans."

1. Extreme Liberal | April 30, 2011 at 8:48 pm | Reply

   It was a beautiful thing, wasn’t it.

   • Emily L. Hauser | April 30, 2011 at 9:16 pm | Reply

     OMG THAT OPENING!!1!

     Dollars to donuts they hired Colbert’s people to produce that shit. So much awesome!

     And I have to say: I all but swooned over his moment with Michelle. POTUS: “We made a terrific team at the Easter Egg Roll this week.” Michelle: “Yes we did” (with that spouse smile). POTUS: “I’d give bags of candy to the kids – she’d snatch them right back out of their little hands….heh heh….Snatched ‘em!” So adorbs!

2. Beauzeaux | April 30, 2011 at 9:58 pm | Reply

   He is the coolest ever.

3. Jane | April 30, 2011 at 10:01 pm | Reply

   loved it! every single part of it! and the Trump White House? hahaha hookers n all! (or were those his wives??)

4. Mary | April 30, 2011 at 10:20 pm | Reply

   I immediately thought of Colbert too. And the teleprompter bit. And the “President’s Speech” bit. Great.

5. Mary | April 30, 2011 at 10:23 pm | Reply

   Those birth certificate jokes were so great, I wonder if he didn’t release the certificate with the dinner in mind;)

   • Emily L. Hauser | April 30, 2011 at 10:33 pm | Reply

     I’ve convinced myself that’s exactly what he did!

     Consider:

     1) Wednesday: Release birth certificate.

     2) Wednesday thru Friday: Let the Donald act like an ass + allow America to begin to understand the enormity of what happened here, be horrified and cry, and begin the cleansing process of raking fucking Donald Trump over the coals

     3) Saturday: Eviscerate Donald Trump (+ know going in that Trump would not be able to take it)

     And thus: 1 + 2 + 3 = WINNING THE FUTURE.

     • Mary Lynne | May 1, 2011 at 5:54 am | Reply

       So really, it was a good thing that the Washington Post invited Trump – it would still have been great, but not perfect without him there. Makes one suspect their motives…

     • janicket | May 1, 2011 at 2:41 pm | Reply

       Totally agree with you on the timing and intent. In fact, I’ve already posted the paragraphs below at a couple/three other sites, but whatthehell, here goes again:

       I can’t help wondering whether the Trumping of the Donald at the White House Correspondents Dinner might well have been a carefully calculated shot across the bows of all the GOP wannabes. Consider the timing in all this: First, the release of the long form, with a pointed dissing of “carnival barkers” and other such unserious distractors from the real issues; then this masterful demolition of the person who’d taken credit for triggering that release. The videos embedded in the President’s speech, clearly not slapped together at the last minute, were equally as deft at decimating favored lines of attack on Obama. It in fact looks very much like a carefully plotted out, superbly put together, and ferociously effective takedown of the chosen target.

       If I were a prospective 2012 opponent of Obama with a shred of self-preservation instinct (or at least such a person’s campaign manager with a realistic grasp on the political landscape), I would have to be worrying this morning about just what sort of Trumping the Obama campaign will be unleashing upon me/my candidate? And how eagerly will the same press that now laps up my schtick turn gleefully to rend my corpse when I in turn have been eviscerated?

     • Allan | May 1, 2011 at 10:04 pm | Reply

       To which we can also add:

       #4. Announce that US forces killed bin Laden while the press was bleating about Donald Trump and birth certificates.

       • Emily L. Hauser | May 2, 2011 at 11:48 am | Reply

         How ’bout it?!

6. Allan | April 30, 2011 at 11:10 pm | Reply

   The Matt Damon line killed.

   I had a hunch that Obama, with a smile on his face, would skewer Trump so deftly that Trump would be nailed to his chair by the force of the blade.

   I was not disappointed.

   • janicket | May 1, 2011 at 2:44 pm | Reply

     Ha! Exactly! It was a deft and civilly vicious thing of beauty.

7. bmull | April 30, 2011 at 11:27 pm | Reply

   I liked Seth Meyers’ joke about “The Blacks.” Obama laughed hard at that one too.

8. asiangrrlMN | April 30, 2011 at 11:30 pm | Reply

   Thanks for posting this, ee. He’s the best. As I said, he handled it with class, dignity, and now I can add, lots of humor. The way he coolly eviscerated everyone from the media to Trump was beautiful. And, typical gracious Obama, he showed the media their better selves in the last minutes of his speech to inspire them to do better. Brilliant.

9. Rev. Random | April 30, 2011 at 11:31 pm | Reply

   Aaaaand in showing a truly more sophisticated understanding of the power of the web…allowed us all to let these little snippets go viral instead of Twatting about it!

   Yes, yes, I am again proud to be a biracial East-African-American.

   (Actually, I always was. I just now have the footage and soundbites to go with my pride.)

10. Donna | May 1, 2011 at 2:42 am | Reply

    There’s no closed captioning on that vid — ARGH! Anyone know where I can find a transcript?

    • asiangrrlMN | May 1, 2011 at 10:48 am | Reply

      Donna, here you go! Enjoy.

      • Emily L. Hauser | May 1, 2011 at 4:41 pm | Reply

        We are a full-service blog, we are.

      • Donna | May 2, 2011 at 1:25 am | Reply

        MOLTO massive grazie!!!

11. That Guy With The Ponytail | May 1, 2011 at 7:00 am | Reply

    Reminding me once again why this guy is a far better President than America deserves.

12. SarahT | May 1, 2011 at 11:15 am | Reply

    “Of course, the deficit is a serious issue. That’s why Paul Ryan couldn’t be here tonight. His budget has no room for laughter.”
    Just awesome. Ditto Seth Meyers : “Sen. Jon Kyl told me 90 percent of what [the White House Correspondents Association] does is abortions.”

13. chelle | May 1, 2011 at 11:28 am | Reply

    This was probably my favorite speech of his. The birth video bit killed me.

    I’m a bit mad they didn’t have a camera in the Donald’s face. I wanted to see his face as Obama made fun of him.

    • Mary Lynne | May 1, 2011 at 2:24 pm | Reply

      The video I saw online cut away to him quite often. He managed to have a sort of fixed smile on his face during Pres. Obama’s remarks, but he scowled all the way through the Seth Meyers bit. It was great.

      • Emily L. Hauser | May 1, 2011 at 4:42 pm | Reply

        That scowl was really quite something! He looked genuinely frozen in a moment of utter fury. If I were Seth Meyers, I believe I would have asked for an escort to my car that night.

14. HG Hay | May 1, 2011 at 9:10 pm | Reply

    Trump and Paul Ryan are going to need their own private Healing Summit. So many hurt fee-fees. Mean old Obama!

15. meatballs | May 2, 2011 at 7:26 am | Reply

    Heh heh, when the crass and ignorant beg to be mocked – you have to just indulge them.

    I hate to say I told you so – BUT I TOLD YOU SO!

    The only way to diffuse such rediculous recourse is to point a finger and laugh.

    “THE PRESIDENT WAS BORN IN KENYA! HE ONLY GOT INTO IVY LEAGUE COLLEGES BECAUSE HE IS BLACK!”

    I mean really? Who can take that seriously? If you get too bent out of shape about stupidity like that – then your emotional reaction gives the inflammatory stuff credence. If you laugh at it – then you expertly call it out for the nonsense that it is.

    Remember, the GOP really has no platform other than trickle down economics and austerity. Did you see who Trump was sitting near? I saw my governor Rick “The Felon” Scott. That’s who they are – the party of greedy liars and racist jackasses. There were some real party heavyweights taking the birther issue very seriously – why? Because they have no real substantative issues to run on. They have nothing to offer. All they have is “Don’t vote for the scary black man.”

    What are they going to run on, otherwise, in 2012? Dismantling of medicare? They are the party of liars.

    This, obviously, was a GREAT week for the President – especially now with the Bin Laden news. Now that he has called out the emporer for having no clothes, he can press the attack on the issues – drop the real hammer.

    ITS ON!