Republicans Switch Off Comic’s Microphone

The Republicans like to hear jokes about Obama. But when comic Reggie Brown changed his focus to the Republicans themselves, he was ushered off the stage.

As long as he was making jokes about President Barack Obama and other Democrats, impersonator Reggie Brown received thunderous applause at the Republican Leadership Conference. When he talked about the possible Republican nominees for next year’s presidential elections, however, his microphone was turned off. Music was played, and Brown, who appeared dressed as Obama, was ushered off the stage.

Jokes at the expense of the erotic escapades of Democratic congressman Anthony Weiner were received best amongst the conservative public. But the atmosphere started to cool when Brown transitioned from Weiner to Obama’s challenger Newt Gingrich and explained: “his consultants are dropping faster than Anthony Weiner’s pants.”

The atmosphere went from cool to icy as Brown made crude jokes about another one of Obama’s challengers, Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty. Brown said he had not been able to make the conference in New Orleans because “he’s having his foot surgically removed from his mouth.” According to him, the cost of the operation was not a problem: “Don’t worry: it’s covered under Obamneycare … along with spinal transplants.”

Pawlenty had been involved in a verbal exchange with another Republican presidential nominee, the governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney. Pawlenty thinks that Romney’s health policy in Massachusetts is a mock-up of Obama’s healthcare reform that the Republicans oppose. Pawlenty was the first to call this “Obamneycare”, a mixture of “Obamacare” and “Romneycare”. However, during a debate with Romney last Monday he did not take the opportunity to use this term. He described this afterwards as a mistake.

When Brown addressed Romney’s Mormon faith and the topic of polygamy, and when he gave his attention to the Tea Party, his microphone was turned off. In response to the rumors that Obama was not even born in the U.S., he said he was born in Hawaii, “or as the Tea Partiers still call it, Kenya.”