The White House Correspondents Dinner is the traditional venue for a president to try out his comedic chops, sometimes to limited results.
Today, however, President Obama is getting decent reviews for his performance. Which is a switch.
The usual Michele Bachmann reference is at 6:04.
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
Bob Collins