“I could be a politician like that (snaps fingers), but a politician could never do my job,” Stephen Colbert quipped as President Obama took “The Colbert Report” stage Monday night.
But Obama decided to give it a go anyway and took the hot seat for Colbert’s “The Word” segment. Interestingly, this is the same segment that inspired the contentious and Obama administration-funded “Truthy” study that seeks to suppress political speech.
For the executive order-loving president, the segment was fittingly re-titled, “The Decree,” and Obama began reading Colbert’s lines off the teleprompter.
“I, Stephen Colbert, have never cared for our president,” Obama read. “That guy is so arrogant, I bet he talks about himself in the third person.”
While we tended to agree with that first part, it then turned into a big promotion for Obamacare. The comments were pretty banal, but it was the written commentary that popped up on the side of the screen that sold the segment.
Obama, still reading Colbert’s lines, said that the only way to really kill Obamacare at this point might be to convince young people to stop buying in. The written commentary read, “Send request via LinkedIn.”
The real problem is, Obama went on, “Young people don’t watch real news shows like this one and I just don’t see the president going on one of those. It is beneath his dignity.”
“But above his approval rating,” the commentary snarked back.
Obama has a history of appearing on millennial-focused comedy shows to talk about Obamacare. He even won an Emmy for his segment on Funny or Die’s “Between Two Ferns.”
While Obama wanted the takeaway to be about the need for youth involvement in his healthcare law, we are thinking the real lesson was that he might be in the wrong job.
He seemed to be better at being Colbert than at being the leader of the free world.
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