Mar 29, 2007 9:15am
White House Dinner
EmailThese reporters’ balls where the President is feted are always such surreal affairs, with reporters and policymakers and stars mingling in an immense ballroom, the wine and liquor of pre- and post-ball parties adding to the Lewis Carol feel of it all. Strange.
Last night the President, as always, cracked wise while the entertainers — two gentlement from "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" — got Karl Rove to rap. You can see some of this HERE. The verve and gusto with which Rove threw himself into the rapping was truly unexpected and bizarre.
– jt
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Posted by: cordelia525 | March 29, 2007, 10:40 am 10:40 am
Hey, Jake, how was that hot young comic Rich Little?
Posted by: DKNY | March 29, 2007, 11:32 am 11:32 am
Many thanks for the YouTube link showing Karl Rove rapping with the talented improvisational comics Brad Sherwood and Colin Mockrie of the late, lamented American adaptation of “Whose Line Is It, Anyway?”. It won’t soon be forgotten!
To add an even more surreal note to the proceedings, Mr. Mockrie also delightfully plays the role of the “Snack Fairy,” replete with snap-on gossamer skirt over polo shirt and slacks and with magic wand, in the Nabisco cookie and cracker commercials. All of this causes me to wonder how the President’s conservative base is reacting to the scandalous news that Mr. Rove appeared onstage with a fairy at that dinner.
Posted by: chuck | March 29, 2007, 11:55 am 11:55 am
What is shocking about this is that Rove is responsible for leading the president and the Republican Party down a path of destruction abroad and at home. From his giddy hatred of gay people, women, public education, non-Christians, poor people, people of color, voting rights….and the list goes on and on, he still acts as if he is the big man on campus. What’s refreshing is voters can finally see right through his trickery and no longer vote on the bigoted social issues that occupied their minds in 2004. We have bigger problems now, real problems, scary problems and Republicans have no idea how to fix them.
Rove reminds me of American Idol “star” Sanjaya. Sanjaya obviously lives in a world of his own, he is a terrible singer and no one wants him to really win American Idol they are using him to make a joke of the hit program. Rove is the same, he has lost his power and the Washington elite know he screwed things up big time. What he did is not funny or forgivable making him not funny and why you probably thought he was acting bazaar on stage last night. He should sit quietly and try to put out some of the fires he started instead of acting as if he is a normal person that deserves to have a laugh with reporters in Washington.
Posted by: Vanessa | March 29, 2007, 12:04 pm 12:04 pm
Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Bush and the Washington fraternity joke and cavort while soldiers die.
This Administration and the Media Elite, what an unholy alliance, even for an evening. It shows what a game all the ostensibly serious day-to-day issues and dialogue really are to these people.
Posted by: Doug | March 29, 2007, 12:07 pm 12:07 pm
I don’t understand why journalists go to this event, why editors, station managers etc allow their staff to attend. Jokes are made about cheney’s visit to afghanistan(didn’t 17 people die in the attack?), jokes about the attorney firings (take out the political issues, people have to find ways to pay mortgages, pay bills etc) and this dosen’t take into account Bush’s jokes a few years back about the missing WMD’s (how many parents of troops who died looking for those are laughing?).
It looks bad for those outside of Washington to see politicians on both sides of the aisle hamming it up with journalists and making lite of issues that these same journalists claim to so viligantly pursue during the day. It’s not made a big deal of in the press becuase it would be attacking their own.
Posted by: paul kersh | March 29, 2007, 12:15 pm 12:15 pm
you want to know something that’s even more bizarre?
The verve and gusto with which Karl Rove has thrown himself into the task of dismantling the U.S. democratic government.
Posted by: sacko | April 1, 2007, 1:27 am 1:27 am