Saturday night at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, by tradition, the president has his chance to roast the assembled reporters and news pundits, as well as colleagues and anything else he chooses to riff on.
Obama is pretty good at this, having a great sense of timing in telling a joke, especially when it's self-deprecating . . . along with a twist. Here's one that made me laugh out loud.
He commented on how great it was that, after 30 years finally an American runner won the Boston Marathon. "It seems only fair . . . since we've had a Kenyan in the White House for the last six years."
Then as the laughter died down, he threw in the other line: "Fox News is going to have a lot harder time convincing you that Hillary Clinton was born in Kenya."
Ralph
PS: And then there was the throw-away line, referring to the trouble John Boehner is having with the Tea Party faction: "Just shows that orange really is the new black."
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