Outrage! How dare a comic make a Kenya joke about President Obama!

Something funny happened in New Orleans this weekend. Or, rather, something decidedly unfunny happened in New Orleans this weekend.
As you may have seen, one of the speakers at this year’s Republican Leadership Conference was an impersonator of President Barack Obama.
It didn’t go well.
Obama-impersonator Reggie Brown launched into a series of racially-tinged “jokes” about the president’s racial background, the president’s parents (for example: “My mother loved a black man and, no, she was not a Kardashian,”), and perhaps most regrettable of all, a photo comparison of the president and first lady to Fred G. Sanford and Aunt Esther from Sanford and Son. [Check out political cartoons about the 2012 GOP field.]
Simultaneous to the audience reacting with nervous laughter, the press seized on the remarks, followed immediately by the Twittersphere of the Left. Reaction, as you can imagine, was not positive.

Video here!

Oh, and by the way, here’s my post from March where black comic Larry Wilmore of The Daily Show made basically the same jokes about President Obama at the Congressional Correspondents’ Dinner. You can see on the video that the MSM crowd and the Democratic legislators in attendance laughing hysterically at Wilmore’s jokes. If anything, Wilmore’s jokes were actually worse than Brown’s.

But back to Brown, his mic was turned off when he started poking fun at the GOP candidates. For example, about Tim Pawlenty:

Mr Brown said former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty missed the conference because he was having his foot removed from his mouth.
He added that the operation would be covered under President Obama and Mr Romney’s respective healthcare reforms, along with spinal transplants.

As Homer Simpson says, “it’s funny because it’s true.”