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Here is a joke for you.

The rich white guy says, hey there are two negros who want to date my daughter.
Then he says, I am going to kill them with my ———————. I am serious, you think I’m joking?

Are you offended now? The thousands of people killed by President Obama with his drones are all Muslims, all poor brown people.
It is impossible to tell this drone joke without the tragedy of their deaths. They provide the context. If there was no drone epidemic, no public outcry over Obama and his drone fetish, the joke would not exist. Without the dead Arabs, there is no drone joke.
Your moral equivocations and rationalization do not hide your racism or your lack of respect for human lives.

Here is a joke for you.

The rich white guy says, hey there are two negros who want to date my daughter.
Then he says, I am going to kill them with my ———————. I am serious, you think I’m joking?

Are you offended now? The thousands of people killed by President Obama with his drones are all Muslims, all poor brown people.
It is impossible to tell this drone joke without the tragedy of their deaths. They provide the context. If there was no drone epidemic, no public outcry over Obama and his drone fetish, the joke would not exist. Without the dead Arabs, there is no drone joke.
Your moral equivocations and rationalization do not hide your racism or your lack of respect for human lives.

I love Keith but sometimes he needs to chill out…

no. Obama is a braggart war criminal just like several of his antecedents. Why disparage any faint glimmers of responsible journalism just because it doesn't support the home team?

the mask slips a bit from the obama deception

Neon lights
Nobel Prize
When a mirror speaks
The reflection lies

Just another demonstration of Obama's arrogant disrespect for the law.

He really believes he has the right to assassinate anybody at any time, just like the arrogant fuck who previously lived in our White House.

I think it's time to take these guys down a few notches.

“Well, Keith, I would submit that you are not like me, the father of two daughters,” answered Alter. “If someone comes for your preteen daughters, predator drones are actually a mild response.”

Huh?
According to the joke, it was Obama's daughters that showed an interest in them? So if the Hanson Brothers (men?) reciprocated their interest, Obama would kill them?
OK his daughters are too young now…but what if they were older? It wouldn't actually even be a joke then — it would Bubba Dad running his daughters' lives with threat and intimidation, no?
What if the 'joke' insert was Justin Beiber — who's 15? Kill a kid for puppy love?
But then again Obama's drones did kill a whole bunch of teenage boys in Pakistan school, so maybe he wasn't joking?

If any of that didn't cause Obama and his writer to re-think the joke…then racist teabagger types who go for the OTHER obvious interpretation with the 'joke' (that Obama and his writers SHOULD have foreseen) can't really be blamed.
The joke does seem to get worst, the more you think about it…

the obamabots nod their heads in approval. they love wholesale slaughter when it's “their” guy doing it.

now all we need is a rapping biden, clinton, or chuck todd, or something, and then the circle will be complete.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln5RD9BhcCo

give me a fucking break keith…

any father would say the same.

i see no difference between the joke and the standard: “have her home by ten or i'll tear your head off and shit down your neck”.

Dude… you remember Hanson?

Ok, so this is what passes for news now. No wonder the country is in the shape it's in.

I agree with Mr. Olbermann most of the time, including on this. Well said. I was disappointed in that joke, as well. Poor taste for a man with innocent blood on his hands and radio transmitters.

All you liberal, whining morons out there, how do you get around this one? Anyone want to take a bet that it will be at least another week before your “Great One” will even do a 15 minute fly over Tennessee. Your President is way in over his head it would seem and even a bigger hyocrite. Lets respond dennycrane and all you other left wing loones! What a joke you and your President are! Morons!

http://patriotupdate.com/stories/read/3538/Obam…

When death and loss become cavalier jokes, and we no longer care about the earth or life. We truly are a lost people. He would rather joke about illegal wars than do what he promised, to end this insanity. May the future have mercy on us. God knows we have none now.

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PREDATOR DRONE TECHNICAL SPECS DETAIL WAR CRIME SOURCE-OF-HUMOR FEATURE
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TaterSalad, you have mashed potatoes for brains…any one who has young teen-age daughters, especially the Fathers…appreciates the joke..(maybe you on the right would sell or “use” your daughters …?) why don't you “go whine” in your right-wing blogs..nobody here cares fort your right-wing opinions or your right-wing agenda

The irony is that predator drones have in fact killed the innocent teenage sons and daughters of innocent parents. I guess because they are far away in a foreign land they don't count for more than a punch line. I hope those parents did not receive a translation of the joke.

Did you write this on your palm?

Sociopaths and malignant narcissists like Bush and Obama aren't bothered in the least by making jokes about the innocents that they murder.

It's a funny joke, unless you're the lone survivor of an Afghan family slaughtered in a high explosive blast out of the blue, then it’s the stuff to make you sick at heart if it’s possible to become more so.

Attempting to force these types of equivalencies – is Obama's joke equivalent to Bush's WMD joke? Is it as appalling? Does it prove Obama is as dimwittedly offensive as Bush? This is the crap people who cannot critically evaluate a thing resort to. It's media junk-thought; the media-driven short circuit between an event and the pronouncement upon it, without the important part, the reason why, stated clearly.

Let us not confuse ‘the kind of guy I’d like to have a beer with’ standard with the truth of the responsibility of high office.

Obama's joke is offensive. He is the president of the nation soon to have a quarter of a million soldiers and mercenaries occupying Afghanistan, whose population is rightly up at arms at a decade of civilian deaths [ How many thousands? Does the U.S. even count them? ] all in the cause of ending al Qaida, now numbering in the low hundreds and less of a threat to The United States than auto accidents.

The President, also known as the Commander in Chief, is not allowed that brand of humor. Not by himself, if he maintains the moral awareness commensurate with the awful truth of the situation. And it is awful, sickening; and many say criminal. Not by us, with the killing being done in our name.

I spoke to a nineteen year-old Marine not two weeks ago who told me he was yelled at for not shooting at cars – that’s cars with civilians in them. The rule is, if they don’t pull off the road completely and come to a complete stop, shoot.

That’s the dilemma we’ve forced upon thousands of our troops in Afghanistan every minute of every day. Drones are a drop in the bucket. What’s happening over there is serious – more serious than cancer – and the President should be expected to live it in the same manner every Afghan family lives it dreading the truck in the rearview mirror, and in the same manner every one of our soldiers live it with a finger on a trigger as a person or car approaches.

Hmmm, I believe you would think different if it was Bush. I think you are a little hypocritical.

“MSNBC's Keith Olbermann said Monday Obama's joke went too far.” – well at least he said 'predator' in reference to unmanned drones, quite a step for the propagandist. I've got an idea Keith, how about some fucking news you fuck.

Hey Keith, he finally mentions the Predator, the first time Keith has mentioned a predator and he's not talking about 'to catch a predator', one of MSNBC's popular “everyone's a suspect and probably deserves jail” series of television entertainment. Wow Keith, you're so fucking progressive, lol.

“MSNBC's Keith Olbermann said Monday Obama's joke went too far.” – well at least he said 'predator' in reference to unmanned drones, quite a step for the propagandist. I've got an idea Keith, how about some fucking news you fuck.

Hey Keith, he finally mentions the Predator, the first time Keith has mentioned a predator and he's not talking about 'to catch a predator', one of MSNBC's popular “everyone's a suspect and probably deserves jail” series of television entertainment. Wow Keith, you're so fucking progressive, lol.

“Lexxxxt's bxxxxe honxxxxest, felxxxxlow progrxxxxessives, wexxxx'xxxd bxxxe axxll oxvxer Buxxxxsh ixxxf he mxxxade the saxxxxxme 'prexxxxdator droxxxxne' joxxxxke Obxaxmxa toxxxlxd lxaxst nxxxight.” – Lexxxxs xxxe exxxxxtra honest fuck face, if you were a progressives yoxu'd xe all ovxxer Obama about the war and not about this trivial crap reminiscent of an elementary playground.

“MSNBC's Keith Olbermann said Monday Obama's joke went too far.” – well at least he said 'predator' in reference to unmanned drones, quite a step for the propagandist. I've got an idea Keith, how about some fucking news you fuck.

Spoken like a true Sheeple. Did you say the same thing when Keith Olbermaniac was critical of Bush or Palin?

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The right and left both suck… “vote independent!!” we hold the swing power!!

Hey Keith, he finally mentions the Predator, the first time Keith has mentioned a predator and he's not talking about 'to catch a predator', one of MSNBC's popular “everyone's a suspect and probably deserves jail” series of television entertainment. Wow Keith, you're so fucking progressive, lol.

“Let's be honest, felxxxxlow progrxxxxessives, wexxxx'xxxd bxxxe axxll oxvxer Buxxxxsh ixxxf he mxxxade the saxxxxxme 'prexxxxdator droxxxxne' joxxxxke Obxaxmxa toxxxlxd lxaxst nxxxight.” – Lexxxxs xxxe exxxxxtra honest fuck face, if you were a progressives yoxu'd xe all ovxxer Obama about the war and not about this trivial crap reminiscent of an elementary playground.

“MSNBC's Keith Olbermann said Monday Obama's joke went too far.” – well at least he said 'predator' in reference to unmanned drones, quite a step for the propagandist. I've got an idea Keith, how about some fucking news you fuck.

Hey Keith, he finally mentions the Predator, the first time Keith has mentioned a predator and he's not talking about 'to catch a predator', one of MSNBC's popular “everyone's a suspect and probably deserves jail” series of television entertainment. Wow Keith, you're so fucking progressive, lol.

“Let's be honest, fellow progressives, we'd be all over Bush if he made the same 'predator drone' joxxxxke Obxaxmxa toxxxlxd lxaxst nxxxight.” – Lexxxxs xxxe exxxxxtra honest fuck face, if you were a progressives yoxu'd xe all ovxxer Obama about the war and not about this trivial crap reminiscent of an elementary playground.

“MSNBC's Keith Olbermann said Monday Obama's joke went too far.” – well at least he said 'predator' in reference to unmanned drones, quite a step for the propagandist. I've got an idea Keith, how about some fucking news you fuck.

So can I presume that you would welcome “sharia law”? In other words, the idiocy of “honor killing”? Violence begets violence. Are you a promise keeper? Did you “marry” your daughter to preserve her virginity? I'm glad you're not my Dad.

Oh, that's right, the word 'n i g h t' is cencored by raw. Glad I could be of help with this retarded commenting system.

I keep forgetting that nixxxght is cencored, oh well, that's what you get for being retarded.

The Goldman Sachs joke went too far! We want our f@cking money back, Obama!

As a matter of fact, ack! nevermind! To your brilliant political strategy…U R WRONG if you think that voting “independent” will hold sway with anything troll. The kleptocracy is just about gelled (note not solidified) and the likes of Charlie Crist are not going to get you anything except more of the same.

Honestly I don't become outraged by every single thing… Keith had the same response about Wanda Sykes saying when she said she wanted Rush's Kidneys to fail… Keith needs to lighten up… being offended about anything becomes tiresome…. and I love the Guy and will probably never abandon his show but it doesn't mean I have walk lock stock in step with everything he says or every emotion he feels…

buhbuhbuh Clinton! Geez…now we're on the buhbuhbush!? Our right to free speech allows us to be critical when we see fit, it is not set in stone. It is not the red team vs. the blue team. Vote independent? Try learning to have no boundries of party and see what you come up with.

Hey taterface, You are a double-dog moron! NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH!!

What is to be expected from someone who LIED about “CHANGE” to get elected?
What is to be expected from the new War Criminal in Chief?

Well said!

UNITE! ORGANISE! REVOLT!

It's usually bad taste to joke about something that you've threatened to do for real. Here, the Obama Administration has boldly announced that American citizens CAN be targeted for assassination anywhere on the planet, with presidential approval.

Obama's predator drone joke would be funny as absurdist or hyperbolid humor, if he didn't actually announce he would do this in real life. Since his people argued for this power, the thought isn't absurdist or hyperbolic. It's potentially real . . . deadly real.

Not funny, dude.

Amen.

And lets not forget that those FAKE REBELS at the Daily Show WROTE THESE JOKES!!!

The Daily Show went from sticking its thumb int he eye of the powerful, to being its court jester.

Thats the biggest joke of all!!!

best comment.

I'm a father of a teen daughter. I feel zero need to make threats against her friends or suitors. I continue to educate her as best as I can, and we chat about her relationships often.

I guess I don't fit the stereotype of the “macho American” dad, but if my girl is happier and more socially skilled as a result, I can deal with the minor loss of face.

Well said.

The deaths of real live teen age girls from drone attacks in the Obama surge are what make this joke disgusting. The Obama spin doctors and apologists really seem to be scrambling with this one. They keep trying to say the relevant aspect of the joke is about fathers trying to over protect their daughters. That is only part of the picture.
Without the drone killings, and the well known Obama penchant for using drones, this joke would not make any sense. The deaths of hundreds of innocent people, killed by drones in the Obama surge, are part of the context.

For otherwise intelligent Obama supporters to pretend not to grasp this is the height of hypocrisy.

Me thinketh these comment be a bit over the edge.

The reason we'd be all over W Bush for such a comment is because the whole nbation knows his daughters are drunken sluts. That would be a terrible waste of predator drones.

CPTL–I thought your comments were well taken so I forwarded them to Pres. Obama at the WH. Yes, I know he never sees his email, but I think people should deluge the WH with comments on his inappropriate words/actions at any time. The times we are living in allow no place for flippant, ill-timed and hurtful comments. Thanks.

If the liberal left does not accept by now, that Obama is Bush III, they never will.

I don't mind Obama's joke. I have one question: can we use predator drones on the Jonas Brothers even if they don't try to date Obama's daughters?

Just asking!

Americans are already too removed from the sickening reality of drone killings. Some dipshit in Nevada pushes a button and human beings are blown to bits in pakistan. Read jane Mayer's research on this program… it is sickening. At least a third of the people killed in 2009 drone attacks are civilians. A young Pakistani man in July confessed that he had been given money to drop the drone sensors on targets, and because of the money, he did not care whre he dropped the sensors. So many innocents died.
I don't care if you over-protective parents of daughters think a father's threat is A-OK, expanding a program of summary executions is not. Move out of the backwoods hills where your minds obviously reside, Obama is trying to downplay the horrifying exeution-from-the-air program he has expanded since Bush.
That there are Americans who think this is funny shows that our society has a very disassociated concept of war.
It sickens me every time I think about it.
Joking about killing can be funny, but when you are actrually killing, when the ACLU has condemned your program of killing, when your killing has been condemned by human rights organizations, when civilians are being killed, it is not funny. Seriously, if you think that is funny consider yourself less a protective parent than a sociopath.

I have one word for Obama: Nuremberg.

Hmmm. You're right. =(

“It's a funny joke, unless you're the lone survivor of an Afghan family slaughtered in a high explosive blast out of the blue, then it’s the stuff to make you sick at heart if it’s possible to become more so. Unless you’re the kind of person who cares about that kind of thing happening anywhere, to anyone.”

I totally agree. I'm not a lone survivor of an Afghan family slaughtered in a high explosive blast from out of the blue, and I loled.

Life is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy to those who feel.

President Obama's critics on this issue feel too much and think too little.

I mean, come ON, people. What kind of marginally sane human says something like “It's a funny joke, unless you're the lone survivor of an Afghan family slaughtered in a high explosive blast out of the blue, then it’s the stuff to make you sick at heart if it’s possible to become more so.” and doesn't expect to be laughed at? Knock off the shirt-tearing, heartfelt, sobbing. You're not fooling anyone with your displays of Deep Caring. You just look like a twit.

The most important thing anyone can do in the face of tragedy is to laugh at it. The man who says “That's not something to joke about!” is the man who deserves to have a pie thrown in his face.

Oh, and anytime anyone says “You wouldn't think this was funny if it happened to you!”, I just point them to this: http://www.theonion.com/articles/thats-not-funn…

All jokes are offensive. That is pretty much what makes humor — you can fact check that with Mark Twain. Some jokes aren't funny. If President Obama had threatened the Jonas Bros with nuclear missiles, nobody would have laughed. It wouldn't be funny. Because there is NO targeting on a nuke. But predator drones are *supposed* to be targeted weapons — that is what makes it funny. I've heard hundreds of jokes based on 'war humor', including jokes from George Carlin. That human error has resulted in civilian deaths is sad; it is also war. And we handle sad and horrible by joking. The president's joke was three degrees away from the battlefield — chill.

I had no idea the Jonas bros were still innocent.

I had no idea the Jonas bros were still innocent.

And I have no doubt that unless you google it, you really have no idea what that word is actually attached to. Because it doesn't match the discussion in any way. You'd know that if it wasn't just a word to throw.

And I have no doubt that unless you google it, you really have no idea what that word is actually attached to. Because it doesn't match the discussion in any way. You'd know that if it wasn't just a word to throw.

Olbermann, as usual, needs to get over himself and find a sense of humor.

Wow, the Left is way out of touch. I am not an Obama fan by any means. He (they) are ruining America.
But the predator drone comment was funny. I get humor, just not the Left.

That was funny mother fucker…let it go.

Honestly, there've been jokes for ages about fathers pulling their guns on boys that go after their daughters. Guns kill a good number of people daily (In Afghanistan and elsewhere) yet every time such a joke is made we don't freak out. But someone, be it Obama or anyone else, in the public eye makes a rather commonplace type joke and people gotta get up in arms. Setting aside which parties/politicians I support, this is some nanny-state overreaction. What's next? No jokes about cars because they offend the families of people who died in auto accidents? No jokes about doctors because sick people might get ticked off? I'm all about being PC but this is taking it way too far. Keep it up and there'll be nothing left to be funny about.

Olberman just needs to go….MSNBC is in the tank…he is worthless talking head. Can not stand him and his drabble…..about anything. I refuse to watch MSNBC till him and that candyass woman leaves..useless time wasted on those two breathing

I thought it was very funny. I just wish that he had also warned Viet Nam not to mess around either. Then he could warn them about the coming daily B-52 raids, flying wingtip to wingtip, blotting out the sun and releasing those 1000 pound bombs on the damned Viet Cong and anybody in the vicinity. If they run, they're VC. If they don't run, they're well disciplined VC. Same for Olbermann.
A Viet Nam Vet (Pleiku, 4th Infantry Division, 1967-1969)

Here they are called “predator drones”.
And our leaders think that they are cute and funny.

Over there, they are called “suicide bombers”
And their leaders think that they are heroic acts.

It is similar to the fact that ones own fartts don’t smell that bad.
How is my joke?

Sounds like Racism too. What he wouldnt want some nice white boys, products of Disney to date his daughters? Hmmm! Maybe he wont be so quick to play that race card next time!

I wonder if people would be this upset if the joke was actually funny. Maybe it's because the drones are an amazing asset that I fail to see it as that distasteful. Get over it, no one cares.

Thank god! I was getting antsy: no one had given me something to get all indignant about for a few days. This is an outrage and rest assured I will write plenty of strongly-worded letters.

Wow, lighten up people. If you took this joke seriously you should have your voting privileges revoked.

You guys who are or pretend to be offended by this completely harmless joke are seriously all fucking morons. Jesus Christ. (from a Bush supporter)

Well stated.

You are on point. If we don’t all just ‘go along and laugh’ we are silly, stiff, and uptite. Is this not why this generation thinks old people are ‘funny’ just for looking old? Where have compassion, empathy, and humanity gone? Certainly everyone can use a laugh, but must it be at the expense of a dead person? Tread lightly people; is it not always funny until it is ‘you’ or your family?

Neither joke is joke is particularly offensive. Olbermann should leave these types of issues to Ann Landers or Mrs. Manners and try to provide commentary on political issues or sports issues.

If I had teenage daughters and the Jonas Brothers came anywhere near them, I'd probably send Predator drones to head them off too. I'm not kidding. Seriously. Not kidding. At all. In the least.

The real difference here is that Bush LIED about WMD's to get the nation to approve an invasion of Iraq so Shrubbie could get the guy who threatened his daddy, while in Obama's case, Predator drones are just another high-tech weapon in the U.S. arsenal that, like any weapon, may cause some collateral damage. The amount of damage caused by Shrubbie's LIE to get us into a war is many orders of magnitude more egregious than any collateral damage caused by Predator drones under Obama's watch that were intended to be sent after legitimate targets.

I like Olbermann, but I think he's over-reacting, along with some others.

No story here. Move along.

But it is the great & powerful Messiah!! Olbermann is actually upset about this comment?? Geez, he must of washed the glaze off of his eyes!!

Don't you have any real news to comment on?

I am lefty and the left is showing their vajayjay's complaining about this one. Folks predator drones are on our side, Bush made a grievous mistake.

Guess I'm a little too serious, but I thought the whole correspondents boy's club thing was a little flip in light of all the challenges we face. I know the news is just a job for the press, but our lives may be changed in dramatic ways as a result of recent events. I associate cutting up over serious matters as the pastime of well-to-do folks who feel they are immune to events that terrify and worry the rest of us. The only sane moment was Obama's joke that he would do anything to defend his kids from becoming victims of opportunists — as a father of four, including two unmarried daughters 20 and under, I couldn't agree more. The choice of predator drones was unfortunate, but the reference to automatic mechanisms which provide terrible, furious justice is appealing in our present crisis. This may be as close as we liberals get to the God of the old testament. But, all great humor has an element of truth. As Sigmund Freud said: “I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.”

Guess I'm a little too serious, but I thought the whole correspondents boy's club thing was a little flip in light of all the challenges we face. I know the news is just a job for the press, but our lives may be changed in dramatic ways as a result of recent events. I associate cutting up over serious matters as the pastime of well-to-do folks who feel they are immune to events that terrify and worry the rest of us. The only sane moment was Obama's joke that he would do anything to defend his kids from becoming victims of opportunists — as a father of four, including two unmarried daughters 20 and under, I couldn't agree more. The choice of predator drones was unfortunate, but the reference to automatic mechanisms which provide terrible, furious justice is appealing in our present crisis. This may be as close as we liberals get to the God of the old testament. But, all great humor has an element of truth. As Sigmund Freud said: “I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.”

Oh lighten up and worry about things that truly matter.

outstanding !

It was a joke, get over it

Oh Nuts! Why make something out of nothing. That's what the Media does ALL OF THE TIME.
I am simply sick of it. I have stopped listening to any political commentaries

shameful !

It doesn't sound like it was the funniest joke, maybe somewhat poor taste but the man is the President of the United States, not a stand up comic.

shameful !

The postmodern liberal's conundrum: if I am insulted at the insensitivity here, am I showing insensitivity to those who are insensitive. Umm, yes, actually you are. From their perspective, and that's the one that counts to you. So all views are relative except the one you want to be absolute. And thus there's no such thing as insensitive in an absolute sense. Because everything has to be sensitive. You're in a box. Sorry.

Lighten up Francis

the words anal rententive and K. O. seem to have the same meaning its a joke son aas fog horn leggorn would say its a joke.

the words anal rententive and K. O. seem to have the same meaning its a joke son aas fog horn leggorn would say its a joke.

Not funny, McGee. Bush's joke not funny neither. It's never funny when the Commander-In-Chief jokes about killing people. It's especially not funny when innocent civilians are the ones being killed.

Not funny, McGee. Bush's joke not funny neither. It's never funny when the Commander-In-Chief jokes about killing people. It's especially not funny when innocent civilians are the ones being killed.

Oh my god <Lizard> , your post was absolutely hysterical!! I especially liked the “shirt-tearing, heartfelt sobbing”. About spit my Coke onto the keyboard. What is truly alarming are the number of people wracked with angst over Obama's quite funny quip. I'm no Obama supporter by any means but the joke was excellent.

I think this is kind of like that deal where people say “You're supposed to be a parent to your child, not their buddy”. Well, Obama is the president, but he's a personable guy and we like to think of him as “just like us”. Then when he acts like one of the guys, the moral outrage begins. What do you people want?

There is simply too much pain in life (and in the world) to be constantly aware of it. This is human nature. Or would you teeth-gnashers rather we spent each day mourning? Maybe it's just the timing of the drone thing. Are you guys equally worked up over Obama's refusal to support the Armenian Genocide Bill? Millions killed, by the way, or is that too distant to warrant your attention?

Oh my god <Lizard> , your post was absolutely hysterical!! I especially liked the “shirt-tearing, heartfelt sobbing”. About spit my Coke onto the keyboard. What is truly alarming are the number of people wracked with angst over Obama's quite funny quip. I'm no Obama supporter by any means but the joke was excellent.

I think this is kind of like that deal where people say “You're supposed to be a parent to your child, not their buddy”. Well, Obama is the president, but he's a personable guy and we like to think of him as “just like us”. Then when he acts like one of the guys, the moral outrage begins. What do you people want?

There is simply too much pain in life (and in the world) to be constantly aware of it. This is human nature. Or would you teeth-gnashers rather we spent each day mourning? Maybe it's just the timing of the drone thing. Are you guys equally worked up over Obama's refusal to support the Armenian Genocide Bill? Millions killed, by the way, or is that too distant to warrant your attention?

I care less what Olberman says, he is Obama Man and he lacks intelligent knowledge.

I care less what Olberman says, he is Obama Man and he lacks intelligent knowledge.

But you see, that is the whole point here; Emma's joke actually IS funny. What made the original joke not funny and extremely inappropriate is that it was told by the President of the United States, who really does have authority over Predator drones.

Sure, is was amusing. If you wander around so thin-skinned and uptight you can't step out of your shell for a moment, you've got a lot more issues than a quip will ever bring up. As for the 'standards of high office' get a grip. This is AMERICA. Think the Minute Men wouldn't have slapped a knee if George Washington had 'threatened' to send the Contental Army after anyone going after his daughters? Abe Lincoln for dawling about 'we've got cannon for that, boys' if somone had been rumored making a remark about his? I'd be a lot more afraid of any President who didn't have a sense of humor than one who was willing to crack wise now and then. Quit whinng, and find something better to do than muck-raking with a fine-toothed comb.

Interesting that no one here seems to be bothered by the simple fact that the President made a joke about young men having sex wiith his 11 and 8 year-old daughters. And, from the perspective of the young men (2 of them are >18, one is almost 18), suggesting that they'd want to have sex with girls who are legally too young to consent (i.e., statutory rape). As if it might be OK, except they should know that the President could send send a missile-carrying drone after them. Strange.

Interesting that no one here seems to be bothered by the simple fact that the President made a joke about young men having sex wiith his 11 and 8 year-old daughters. And, from the perspective of the young men (2 of them are >18, one is almost 18), suggesting that they'd want to have sex with girls who are legally too young to consent (i.e., statutory rape). As if it might be OK, except they should know that the President could send send a missile-carrying drone after them. Strange.

Interesting that no one here seems to be bothered by the simple fact that the President made a joke about young men having sex wiith his 11 and 8 year-old daughters. And, from the perspective of the young men (2 of them are >18, one is almost 18), suggesting that they'd want to have sex with girls who are legally too young to consent (i.e., statutory rape). As if it might be OK, except they should know that the President could send send a missile-carrying drone after them. Strange.

I can't believe anyone on the left noticed this. But, regardless, this will evaporate before midnight tonight.

Some of you people need to get a sense of humor (libs included). I am a constitutional conservative that believes Obama is the anti-Christ but I thought this was funny. This may have been the first words out of his mouth that didn't offend me and I actually could take his side on.

Focus on the important issues, not the insignificant lame joke that falls flat.

The only surprising thing about this is that Olbermann was able to hear the joke. He usually has his nose so far in Obama's gluteal crease that I would have thought BOPOTUS (Buttocks of President of the United States ) muffled all sound.

I'd hate to hear and read what would appear in or on the media today if old “Give 'em Hell” Harry” said what he did about the music critcque that panned Margaret Truman's piano recital. This pales by comparison.

I think Olberman is right that I would have been all over Bush if Bush had said something like this. But, I don't think it is because Obama was wrong for making this joke. It is because I was wrong in my attitude toward Bush. I did not like a lot of what Bush did, so I was overly harsh on superficial things like jokes. I think I have matured since then. What I have realized is that this is more about political opponents making character attacks instead of focusing on the important issues. It is our outdated tribal psychology that makes irrelevant stories like this into 'important' news. I realize that I am in an easy position to say this, since I am defending a president that I mostly support. I was a young radical teen during Bush years, and I bought into a lot of hype. I regret it. I also regret Bush being President, but I can see that I overreacted and got wrapped up in extremist thoughts. Some people are doing the same against Obama. We all need to be a little more mature and stop divise debates over trivialities like this one. Most Americans have a lot in common. Politics and political news focus on differences and controversies. Let's try to keep things in perspective, and we all may benefit.

Keith, it was a bad joke, get over it. Try covering important topics, huh?

Not funny. At all.

If we don't drill someone else will….and maybe they won't be as careful or responsible or concerned as we would……..until we actually make the cut from oil as we all know it,…gmail.com we will always have these upsets.

the difference is what? suicide bombers and acts of terror are concentrated upon civilians and those who don’t believe a certain religious dogma VS predator drones and raids and bombings are concentrated upon a militant terrorist group that perpetrates such suicide bombings and terror upon civilians.. any civilians killed in these efforts are regretful unintended collateral damage. suicide bombing terrorists have no regrets and civilians ARE their intended target.
they are far from equivalent in intention or action and to claim or assert that they are is irrational, denies facts and reality, and cannot be justified.

the difference is what? suicide bombers and acts of terror are concentrated upon civilians and those who don’t believe a certain religious dogma VS predator drones and raids and bombings are concentrated upon a militant terrorist group that perpetrates such suicide bombings and terror upon civilians.. any civilians killed in these efforts are regretful unintended collateral damage. suicide bombing terrorists have no regrets and civilians ARE their intended target.
they are far from equivalent in intention or action and to claim or assert that they are is irrational, denies facts and reality, and cannot be justified.

‘Will Bunch tweeted. “Let’s be honest, fellow progressives, we’d be all over Bush if he made the same ‘predator drone’ joke Obama told last night.”‘. At least Bunch acknowleged the hypocrisy shown in mainstream media between what Obama is allowed to get away with saying vs. the former President. I’m sure the Obama “butt pucker” is still firmly attached though!

‘Will Bunch tweeted. “Let’s be honest, fellow progressives, we’d be all over Bush if he made the same ‘predator drone’ joke Obama told last night.”‘. At least Bunch acknowleged the hypocrisy shown in mainstream media between what Obama is allowed to get away with saying vs. the former President. I’m sure the Obama “butt pucker” is still firmly attached though!

BUT HE IS OUR PRESIDENT.
SUPPOSED TO BE A ROLE MODEL.
NOT A PRESIDENTIAL DRONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Point is that had Bush made the “joke” about some black singers and his daighters – he would have been label a racist! It's the hypocrisy of the left that is so offensive! Meat for the goose is meat for the gander buddies. . .

Point is that had Bush made the “joke” about some black singers and his daighters – he would have been label a racist! It's the hypocrisy of the left that is so offensive! Meat for the goose is meat for the gander buddies. . .

You have the man who is directly responsible for ordering predator drone strikes that have killed hundreds of civilians, joking about it, thats a bit different.

Seems reasonable to me. Not much going on in the news today I suppose.

If i said it, i would be arrested
obama is amrican president so is okay
americans have no insides
Land of VIAGRA

Predator Drones? Now that's funny!

oh, come on olbermann! one has no immediate thoughts of War & Mass Destruction with obama's typical remark of a father with young daughters/ the Common one liner known as *i'll be keepng an eye on u boy's …while i'm cleanin' my gun. …would u have been any less offended had he instead called the drones- *his GUN??? must be a slow week.

People get over it, it was a joke. Every father has a way of dealing with their daughters coming of age. As a retired Marine with three daughters, two of which are married I can tell you, what I have told my two son in law and they are still freaked out. The President which I don't agree with at all, made a joke that every father out there could relate to. IT WAS A JOKE

Oh No! All 7 or 8 followers of OLBERMANN might be offended by OBAMAS comment. Both of these buffoons should pack it in.

I don't agree with Obama on much but wow…seriously? That joke was hilarious! Dark humor is fine with me….I wish he would spend more time on the jokes and less on passing legislation that will bankrupt us. Predator Drones on the Jonas brothers? If you can't laugh at that one then you are F@#*ing retarded! :)

Bush couldn't make any remark without being roundly criticized — although often rightly so. However, had Bush made that remark about the members of a black band looking at his young daughters, there would have been SUCH outrage.

Awfully tame joke to get all uptight about.

Awfully wussy joke to get all uptight about.

That was just stupid…I’m sorry.

That was just stupid…I’m sorry.

That was just stupid…I’m sorry.

That was just stupid…I’m sorry.

Umm..working on the deficit – stopping the war in Iraq (which we have bush to thank for) and working on our international ties that have been broken – thanks to Bush. What more did you want? Want Obama to change your flat tire for you?

Umm..working on the deficit – stopping the war in Iraq (which we have bush to thank for) and working on our international ties that have been broken – thanks to Bush. What more did you want? Want Obama to change your flat tire for you?

Umm..working on the deficit – stopping the war in Iraq (which we have bush to thank for) and working on our international ties that have been broken – thanks to Bush. What more did you want? Want Obama to change your flat tire for you?

Umm..working on the deficit – stopping the war in Iraq (which we have bush to thank for) and working on our international ties that have been broken – thanks to Bush. What more did you want? Want Obama to change your flat tire for you?

You sir are an idiot…

You sir are an idiot…

You sir are an idiot…

You sir are an idiot…

So….what about abortion? It’s the real thing and many don’t care at all! He just made a joke! If his joke is unacceptable then by all means, take South Park off the air! How about The Simpsons, how about The Soprano’s. Get a life people. You’re reading way too much into something that will never happen; however, abortion is chosen by 20 women out of every 1,000 annually in the USA.

So….what about abortion? It’s the real thing and many don’t care at all! He just made a joke! If his joke is unacceptable then by all means, take South Park off the air! How about The Simpsons, how about The Soprano’s. Get a life people. You’re reading way too much into something that will never happen; however, abortion is chosen by 20 women out of every 1,000 annually in the USA.

So….what about abortion? It’s the real thing and many don’t care at all! He just made a joke! If his joke is unacceptable then by all means, take South Park off the air! How about The Simpsons, how about The Soprano’s. Get a life people. You’re reading way too much into something that will never happen; however, abortion is chosen by 20 women out of every 1,000 annually in the USA.

So….what about abortion? It’s the real thing and many don’t care at all! He just made a joke! If his joke is unacceptable then by all means, take South Park off the air! How about The Simpsons, how about The Soprano’s. Get a life people. You’re reading way too much into something that will never happen; however, abortion is chosen by 20 women out of every 1,000 annually in the USA.

Give me a break!! If this was anyone else besides the president of the united states no one would give a damn what he said. I have no children myself, however, I can quite understand what the father of two girls would feel and he didn’t say he would kill them, he only said he would send them after them. Either way WHO CARES!!!!! it was a joke! get off your high horses and do some work people. Btw I laughed when president G.W. Bush made the joke about WMD’s because it was true at least he could laugh at his HUGH mistake, he never apologized for screwing the nation into this damn war but at least he made us smile. I’m sure just about every MAN in the USA who has daughters prob had a chuckle at the joke the president made. If you didn’t laugh, you might want to pull the stick from your butt so you can enjoy life.

Give me a break!! If this was anyone else besides the president of the united states no one would give a damn what he said. I have no children myself, however, I can quite understand what the father of two girls would feel and he didn’t say he would kill them, he only said he would send them after them. Either way WHO CARES!!!!! it was a joke! get off your high horses and do some work people. Btw I laughed when president G.W. Bush made the joke about WMD’s because it was true at least he could laugh at his HUGH mistake, he never apologized for screwing the nation into this damn war but at least he made us smile. I’m sure just about every MAN in the USA who has daughters prob had a chuckle at the joke the president made. If you didn’t laugh, you might want to pull the stick from your butt so you can enjoy life.

Give me a break!! If this was anyone else besides the president of the united states no one would give a damn what he said. I have no children myself, however, I can quite understand what the father of two girls would feel and he didn’t say he would kill them, he only said he would send them after them. Either way WHO CARES!!!!! it was a joke! get off your high horses and do some work people. Btw I laughed when president G.W. Bush made the joke about WMD’s because it was true at least he could laugh at his HUGH mistake, he never apologized for screwing the nation into this damn war but at least he made us smile. I’m sure just about every MAN in the USA who has daughters prob had a chuckle at the joke the president made. If you didn’t laugh, you might want to pull the stick from your butt so you can enjoy life.

Give me a break!! If this was anyone else besides the president of the united states no one would give a damn what he said. I have no children myself, however, I can quite understand what the father of two girls would feel and he didn’t say he would kill them, he only said he would send them after them. Either way WHO CARES!!!!! it was a joke! get off your high horses and do some work people. Btw I laughed when president G.W. Bush made the joke about WMD’s because it was true at least he could laugh at his HUGH mistake, he never apologized for screwing the nation into this damn war but at least he made us smile. I’m sure just about every MAN in the USA who has daughters prob had a chuckle at the joke the president made. If you didn’t laugh, you might want to pull the stick from your butt so you can enjoy life.

huh???

huh???

huh???

huh???

You’ve got to be kidding. Who said anything about sex? Some people will take any opportunity to insult the President. When he doesn’t give them many, they invent things.

You’ve got to be kidding. Who said anything about sex? Some people will take any opportunity to insult the President. When he doesn’t give them many, they invent things.

You’ve got to be kidding. Who said anything about sex? Some people will take any opportunity to insult the President. When he doesn’t give them many, they invent things.

You’ve got to be kidding. Who said anything about sex? Some people will take any opportunity to insult the President. When he doesn’t give them many, they invent things.

All the right wingers complaining about “racism” and African-Americans “playing the race card” — Well guess what? That’s racism in itself.

All the right wingers complaining about “racism” and African-Americans “playing the race card” — Well guess what? That’s racism in itself.

All the right wingers complaining about “racism” and African-Americans “playing the race card” — Well guess what? That’s racism in itself.

All the right wingers complaining about “racism” and African-Americans “playing the race card” — Well guess what? That’s racism in itself.

“insignificant lame joke”? WTF are you talking about? This weapon kills 9 civilians for every 1 terrorist, but the government’s own admission, so how would you feel if I joked about killing your daughter, wife, brother, father, mother…

This is exactly what causes terrorism to begin with!

Oh, but I forgot. Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize so it is OK for him. Ignorance has no limits, does it?

“insignificant lame joke”? WTF are you talking about? This weapon kills 9 civilians for every 1 terrorist, but the government’s own admission, so how would you feel if I joked about killing your daughter, wife, brother, father, mother…

This is exactly what causes terrorism to begin with!

Oh, but I forgot. Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize so it is OK for him. Ignorance has no limits, does it?

“insignificant lame joke”? WTF are you talking about? This weapon kills 9 civilians for every 1 terrorist, but the government’s own admission, so how would you feel if I joked about killing your daughter, wife, brother, father, mother…

This is exactly what causes terrorism to begin with!

Oh, but I forgot. Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize so it is OK for him. Ignorance has no limits, does it?

“insignificant lame joke”? WTF are you talking about? This weapon kills 9 civilians for every 1 terrorist, but the government’s own admission, so how would you feel if I joked about killing your daughter, wife, brother, father, mother…

This is exactly what causes terrorism to begin with!

Oh, but I forgot. Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize so it is OK for him. Ignorance has no limits, does it?

Yo dude, nobody said anything about sex. You’re implying way too much to what he said – it’s obviously a joke about a relationship, or “Dating” – whatever that encompasses at that age. Certainly in your head you think it implies everything. Don’t put your words in other people’s mouths…

Yo dude, nobody said anything about sex. You’re implying way too much to what he said – it’s obviously a joke about a relationship, or “Dating” – whatever that encompasses at that age. Certainly in your head you think it implies everything. Don’t put your words in other people’s mouths…

Yo dude, nobody said anything about sex. You’re implying way too much to what he said – it’s obviously a joke about a relationship, or “Dating” – whatever that encompasses at that age. Certainly in your head you think it implies everything. Don’t put your words in other people’s mouths…

Yo dude, nobody said anything about sex. You’re implying way too much to what he said – it’s obviously a joke about a relationship, or “Dating” – whatever that encompasses at that age. Certainly in your head you think it implies everything. Don’t put your words in other people’s mouths…

Direct and to the point. Those that cannot see they this is totally offensive need to do a tour in Afghanistan.

Wonder how you’d feel if one hit your house Emma. Would it still be funny?

Adam Serwer's comment at the end of this article was ingenius. Both taking blame for the writing of the speech off the president an on to some unnamed (unnamable?) speech writer (how often HAS the president had others write his speeches?) and yet cleverly points out the real horror and callousness of the joke and of predator drones and of war in general and of course the republicans that support war and callousness. Maybe Bush and Obama have the same speech writer. I do think the story is significant in that it may help some to realize that Obama isnt a saint. He's a man. With ambitions. Strong ambitions. And like most men in history with strong ambitions he can be callous at times. Cruel even. Need to kill a late term baby. Ambition to the rescue. Need to bale out the thiefs of the world pretending to be tough on thier crimes? Ambition saves the day. Need to protect “minorities” from hate crime and ignore the fact of higher rates of crime against “whites” by “minorities” with some rather horrific examples in the last couple of years( decades really, Zebra murders anyone?/ Nation of Islam?) YAAAAAAY AMBITION !!!
Does any adult reading this really think that in THIS world… the way it is, ANY of our politicians are in it purely to serve, absent personal ambition. Wake up Obamites! Life is a balance of interests. Attatchments really, but so what, I'm attatched! I like to live. I want to live in the best society I can manage to live in. To be the best person I can manage to be. As a whole, this countries not it. Just isnt. But I can see living amonst some here peaceably. I just dont want to be hassled by the nonesense from the rest. I want to be somewhat sovereign from less compatable people. People with what I would call less developed morality. You could ice it over and say, “attitudes toward women and children”, but isnt that another way of saying “thug state”. “rule by dominance and lust”. I'll try to be objective if you all will. I can only survive. A less centrist government provided that. We were allowed to enforce our borders and have our own laws barring protection for the individual. States could legalize a plant if deemed safe, rather than giving drug cartels working capital for other illicit activities. Cartels that control nations and have the ambitions of nations.
But I digress. Clever comments speak volumes, but are insificient to cloud the facts and their are many to be considered. Is your news providing them?

Adam Serwer's comment at the end of this article was ingenius. Both taking blame for the writing of the speech off the president an on to some unnamed (unnamable?) speech writer (how often HAS the president had others write his speeches?) and yet cleverly points out the real horror and callousness of the joke and of predator drones and of war in general and of course the republicans that support war and callousness. Maybe Bush and Obama have the same speech writer. I do think the story is significant in that it may help some to realize that Obama isnt a saint. He's a man. With ambitions. Strong ambitions. And like most men in history with strong ambitions he can be callous at times. Cruel even. Need to kill a late term baby. Ambition to the rescue. Need to bale out the thiefs of the world pretending to be tough on thier crimes? Ambition saves the day. Need to protect “minorities” from hate crime and ignore the fact of higher rates of crime against “whites” by “minorities” with some rather horrific examples in the last couple of years( decades really, Zebra murders anyone?/ Nation of Islam?) YAAAAAAY AMBITION !!!
Does any adult reading this really think that in THIS world… the way it is, ANY of our politicians are in it purely to serve, absent personal ambition. Wake up Obamites! Life is a balance of interests. Attatchments really, but so what, I'm attatched! I like to live. I want to live in the best society I can manage to live in. To be the best person I can manage to be. As a whole, this countries not it. Just isnt. But I can see living amonst some here peaceably. I just dont want to be hassled by the nonesense from the rest. I want to be somewhat sovereign from less compatable people. People with what I would call less developed morality. You could ice it over and say, “attitudes toward women and children”, but isnt that another way of saying “thug state”. “rule by dominance and lust”. I'll try to be objective if you all will. I can only survive. A less centrist government provided that. We were allowed to enforce our borders and have our own laws barring protection for the individual. States could legalize a plant if deemed safe, rather than giving drug cartels working capital for other illicit activities. Cartels that control nations and have the ambitions of nations.
But I digress. Clever comments speak volumes, but are insificient to cloud the facts and their are many to be considered. Is your news providing them?

These comments are utter bullshit.

It’s also funny when someone tries to do a crazy skateboard trick and wipes out bad, unless you’re the mother of some kid who killed himself doing that. But guess what, it’s still funny. No need to “personalize” everything by coming up with an example of who a statement/condition would offend. If it’s not your type of humor, that’s too bad.

Plus, I’d much rather have drones out there than paying to house and deploy troops. Much, much better. And those terrorists get a little of their own medicine, which is always nice.

It was funny. Laugh.

There is a big difference here… Obama smiled when he told the joke. Bush is serious!

Everyone needs to lighten up. I don't particularly like Obama (I don't like any of them–I didn't like Bush either, or Clinton), but this is a function traditionally known for edgy “I can't believe he said that” jokes on all sides of the equation.

What's next for Olbermann and the rest of the grandmas in this thread? Complaining that the language used in a Friar's Roast is too salty?

You guys are aware there's a global economic crisis continuing to unfold, etc., etc., etc., aren't you?

Get a life. . . nobody can take a joke anymore!

It's a freakin joke, c'mon! He's supposed to be the “cool” president, he's gonna joke around sometimes. If you're going to criticize him for something, don't let it be some joke he made.

Well Obama will be gone in a couple of years and no more drone joke….

I'm not, by means an Obama fan. That aside,.people need to pull the stick out their collective butts and get over a lame joke. Seriously,..who cares?

Obama, as always, just reads what is written for him. Olberman is a humorless, talentless bufffoon who should just shoot himself for the good of the nation. The joke was stupid and told at a traditionally off-color, humor-filled gathering. Olberman and those others on the radical fringe of the far-left should just relax a little.

Get over yourself Olbermann! Don't you have anything better to do than sit around and nit pick jokes?

In my opinion the real travesty here is that each year we put the leader of the free world into the position of being a stand up comic. Of course this will occasionally be a disaster, as alluded. I think it's okay for the president to appear at such events but to actively participate is an ill-conceived idea. One must ask, what is the up side?

the president worries too much about being funny. wear a tie and get back to work.

the president worries too much about being funny. wear a tie and get back to work.

I love Barack but i too don't think any woman in Pakistan who has had to hold their dead baby in their arms who was innocently killed by those frickin horrifying barbaric “drones” would have laughed. In fact I'm sure it brought tears to many eyes. I was very very disturbed by that joke and I thought it beneath this man as well as the office at the least. And downright DISGUSTING and showed a callouseness i never would associate with him or his administration at worst. He should apologize asap.

I love Barack but i too don't think any woman in Pakistan who has had to hold their dead baby in their arms who was innocently killed by those frickin horrifying barbaric “drones” would have laughed. In fact I'm sure it brought tears to many eyes. I was very very disturbed by that joke and I thought it beneath this man as well as the office at the least. And downright DISGUSTING and showed a callouseness i never would associate with him or his administration at worst. He should apologize asap.

Contributor David Edwards suggests that Keith Olberman is a newsman….that's hysterical!!

I think it is a great thing that our president has a sense of humor – - people should lighten up.

Boo Hoo, sniff sniff, WAAAAAAAH! Good Lord, get a grip! Can't even crack a joke anymore. Take you PC crap and shove it! And I didn't vote for Obama.

That joke still would have been just as amusing – and not newsworthy – if W told it. Who cares.

im a liberal and olbermann is a total blow hard. go back to espn

drones -hmm -best way I can thin of to get rid of the Jonas brothers

This seems like an example of taking this dialog out of context due to a lack of genuine humor. Someone who lacks the ability to see or acknowledge humor in others speech may perceive a threat or negative connotation to the President's words. We can all agree this was simply a humorous statement and obviously not a serious political statement, so what's the big deal?? Kind of pointless, no?

Following the Times Square car bomb incident, a drone joke is way out of line.

Why are so many people taking this so seriously?! It was a joke.. Shall we define joke?

something that is amusing or ridiculous, esp. because of being ludicrously inadequate or a sham; a thing, situation, or person laughed at rather than taken seriously; farce: Their pretense of generosity is a joke. ….nuff said.

Obi is pissed that the Prez identified his network as a lapdog. He called out Fox as being the opposite. I recall Obi ranting last year when another commentator calling him out personally as a lapdog. He countered that he is a hard-hitting journalist. Yeah, right. Both sides have their lapdogs. Being a lapdog isn't bad… they get treats from their masters. Face facts Obi you fool!

A joke is a joke. The comment was not made in the State of the Union address. It was a comedic venue and not to be taken seriously. Good taste or bad, a joke is just a joke. Not everyone agrees on the definition of funny. Lighten up.

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It was a funny joke. And liberals wonder why everyone thinks of them as pussies.

They have been arresting everyone who has been threatening to kill Obama or even joking about it so why shouldn't they arrest Obama for threating to kill the Jonas brothers?

That's funny. I need a predator drone.

Or maybe call in a Predator strike on himself? Or maybe take out Keith and then himself.
Oh well, we won't know about such verbal missteps next year given his inclination ( expressed over the weekend) to constrict and restrict information flow………..

Guys, it's a damn joke. The wing nuts on the left and right need to lighten up. Who gives a damn about some joke the president made at a correspondents dinner. The world has other major issues that are more news worthy. Get over it damn reporters!!!

I consider myself a Progressive Liberal, but I have to say that many liberals seem not to have a very good sense of humor. I thought the Presidents comment was funny. So was Bush's.

Keith Olbermann, amazing. Why would he complain about what was obviously a tongue in cheek joke. I can think of hundreds of other things that are much more important to complain about. If all he is doing is trying to harpoon a president then I would have to say it backfired and maid Olbermann look like he is less than intelligent. Get a better attitude and find a better topic to complain and comment about or don't waste msnbc's money on your salary. Go away and become a cubicle supervisor. They have the same mentality and sense of humor.

A drone joke is not out of line you sissies. Go join the Army, Navy, Marines or Air Force you pointed head fools. Most of you are okay with other people sons and daughters dying and fighting for the country, while you have the privileged of sitting and discussing a drone joke lame or otherwise. I bet most of you had your eyes glazed over when I suggested you go serve you nation. The most wimpy tail people in the world, put down the books. You have a lot of Jihadists that wish they could put a drone missile up your effeminate tails.Come on girls start wearing some pants. Do you think the people that want to kill your stupid tails want to play nice? They would blow your butts off when you are on your IPods , or Blackberries.

Oh goodness gracious! The joke cop Olbermann. How truly in awe of him I am what with is far-mindedness and all. Will this dullard and hypcrite ever give it a rest or will his slide into sel-carcature gloriously continue…..

Nothing funny here at all. What we have here is a president (and his constituency) who have “selective political correctness” options which are not available to anyone else.

As the father of 3 daughters, and due to the death of my father at 44, I also raised 5 younger sisters and I can assure you that I informed all of them and their “boy friends” what would be the fate of the boys if they attempted anything disrespectful. Granted that that was in the 50's so I couldn't use a “predator drone” but they did understand what was said to them.

It was also not broadcast to the general public since I did not have the high profile of the president. When Keith O. says it is “over the edge” of good taste then you had better believe it has gone too far 'cause K.O. goes way over many times.

This man, for all his supposed intellectual capabilities (and I strongly doubt that) should know better than this. He is purported to be a “uniter” and not a “divider.” What is truly surfacing is the Chicago hood mentality.

his weapon kills 9 civilians for every 1 terrorist. there are no civilians. the terrorists hide inside their families and with other terrorists. those civilians are being trained by them to become terrorists.

I remember seeing video of some of the dead civilians covered by sheets. all of a sudden you can see some of the dead bodies moving. Turns out the ragheds were using the leftwing media moonbats to make us look bad.

I do not care if boosh made a thousand stupid jokes, I do not think I would make a public comment about some hollywood rifraf coming after my daughters age 7! and 10! That is just putrid sick. What is that stench, ah PC.

let's see. kronkkite! (sic) rather! oder-man. the descent of the media. you can smell the stench surrounding the sportscaster.

You wish.

Yes, and yours is the proof.

I think you are absolutely right. He simply should have acted like President Bartlett and reminded the the world that the 82nd Airborne works for him.

I am sure Bill Mahar, the crack-head loved it.

After Olbermann's ranting on about Scott Brown, he has zero credibility left — why is anyone still listening to this man? When somebody starts making Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck sound reasonable by comparison, it's time to call in the guys with white coats and straight jackets. Let's stop giving this man more publicity and simply refuse to discuss his insane ramblings.

olberman is such a dumbass…an elected persons purpose is to get relected

Come on people…The President was obviously kidding/joking around. People in general nowadays blow things way out of proportion. It's to the point that it's almost sad. Everyone (The Media) needs to develop a sense of fu**ing humor and stop being so damn negative. I mean really, do you think that the President or whoever for that matter given they had the ability to do something like that would say it publicly? Bush…well that is a different story altogether…he should have used notes on his hands for 98% the time he was President.

LOL! It's like watching “The Office”. You never know what ignorant thing Michael ( Obama ) might say or do.
He could have at least been a man and said he would take care of them himself….but then again when has he accepted any responsibility for anything he has done?
Bush must have made him say it…..

box211 it was not a joke to many people. It is serious politics read some of the comments. There is one person worried about Afghan mothers and the effect of the drones. I love America and when someone want to blow us up in the heart of New York, when we can't get on a plane without taking off our shoes, when we can't see our love ones off in the airport because some backward people want to kill us, I have zero sympathy. I have a son and a nephew in the military, and my love is with country and whatever it takes to stop the Islamist fascist, a drone or a nuke, or a rife bullet, whatever it takes. Don't be silly. When you go to the airport and have to get undressed think about what I have said. We have people that hate us because they are fighting some perceived hurt. They need to concentrate on the backward societies that only give them the Koran, and no other outlet.

OK – fine, no sex. Just dating. 17 to 22 year-old guys dating 11 and 8 year-old girls. Pimp your daughters for the sake of a joke broadcast on national TV. And, of course, boys that age just love chaste dating.

BTW, I know it’s a joke and I actually thought it was a somewhat funny joke and an OK/acceptable joke. But for the hypersensitive, such as Olbermannnnnn, who were upset about predator aspect, if you apply hypersensitivity all-around then the sex/dating aspect is also wrong. That’s my point.

Right back at you, Keith. And thanks for playing.

I have mixed feelings about the joke. It's offensiveness and appropriateness really depends on the background and view point of readers.

1. If someone has been personally affected or emotionally troubled by drones or wars, then the joke could definitely be viewed as offensive.

2. If someone is a father or protective brother, they could probably understand the joke from the view of what they would do to people who tried to date their daughters or sisters.

3. If someone was a logical thinker, they would probably be disgusted by the connotations of such a joke, especially when taking the age differences of the First Daughters and the Jonas Brothers.

4. If someone fits into none of the above categories, they probably wouldn't mind the joke and perhaps think it quite funny.

While I don't believe the President had any bad intentions in cracking such a joke, he should definitely exercise caution in his word choices because he holds a high position. Precisely because he is the President is he held to a higher standard. If something could have been taken offensively, it was probably the wrong sort of thing to say.

But the President is still indeed a human being. If we take his statement in context, we'll understand it to be a joke, no matter how crude or offensive. We may not appreciate the joke, but it is not our position to take a condemning stance towards it or the President.

Disclaimer: I'm a Conservative, and I disagree with many of Obama's policies, but I respect his office and America.

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