Is Obama too pure to be mocked? Can his purity be mocked? Yes, damnit.
The Comedy Central crew and the late night hosts have been a little afraid to go there. His race and the partisanship of their writers might be factors.
Dowd thinks his green earnestness is a prime target for ha-has. She had chatted about making Obama jokes with Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert.
When I noted that Obama, in his memoir, had revealed that he had done some pot, booze and “maybe a little blow,” the two comedians began riffing about the dapper senator’s familiarity with drug slang.
Colbert: Wow, that’s a very street way of putting it. ‘A little blow.’
Stewart: A little bit of the white rabbit.
Colbert: ‘Yeah, I packed a cocktail straw of cocaine and had a prostitute blow it in my ear, but that is all I did. High-fivin.’ ’
Here’s Colbert on the New Yorker cover.
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/video_player/view/default/swf.jhtml
UPDATE: Must read Jon Swift (via Bitch PhD)
Rosa Brooks and Dan Drezner talk about this at Bloggingheads.
Apt. 11d 