“Abe Lincoln would not have done it!” Bill O’Reilly on President O’bama appearing on a humor website.
The bigger story than the usual intolerant silly old farts at Fox News being silly old farts is Stephen Colbert’s spot on facial impression of the new snarling THE FIVE star Andrea Tantaros. Hopefully it will live forever in the punditry archives of our brains.
But to the issue at hand which is FUNNY OR DIE video of Zack Galifiankais’ Between Two Ferns with President Obama.
That there was no radio, television or internet available for President Lincoln to be on in the 1860s aside, old Abe was unarguably our funniest President and may have well appeared if such mass media were available so he could crack his jokes and homilies to a larger crowd. Well wait. George W. Bush was quite often unintentionally funny. Well wait. During the Iraq war didn’t George W. make a speech and showed photos of him looking under his desk and in the waste basket and behind a fern for weapons of mass destruction? You remember Section 1, sub section A of the GOP platform? Hypocrisy does not matter, soundbites to.
But you say, Bill O’Reilly really knows Abe Lincoln! After all he had someone write a best selling book for him about how Lincoln was killed.
Be that as it may, the video of Between Two Ferns with President Obama went viral and not only helped sign up some many thousands of people to Obamacare, but most everyone under 68 years old or not working for Fox News thought it was funny and a good idea. And those not working for Fox and not over 68 are a growing demography which will in the not far future put the Republican Party back under the rock it slithered out of on January 21, 1981.