Leary: Obama 'Greatest President in History!,' Sotomayor 'Fantastic!'

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Displaying a caricature of a celebrity enraptured by President Barack Obama, although apparently quite serious in the underlining attitude he conveyed in an over the top manner, on Friday's Larry King Live actor Denis Leary (IMDb page) proclaimed: “I think that President Obama is the greatest President in the history of all of our Presidents and that he can do no wrong in my book.”

Asked about Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, Leary, co-producer and star of FX's Rescue Me, exclaimed: “Fantastic!” Guest host Joy Behar prompted him to affirm: “You love her?” He repeated his earlier mantra: “Everything you ask me about President Obama I'm just going to say it's the greatest thing ever. I love the guy!”

Leary, who made the appearance ostensibly to plug his book, 'Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid', as a Father's Day gift, also related how he likes to “torture” pro-Bush friends and colleagues by gloating over Obama. “I do have to say that I enjoy upsetting people -- friends of mine who might be in the Republican world” by telling them: “President Obama is the greatest thing that ever happened.”

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From the not so live (the interview was pre-taped) Friday, May 29 Larry King Live on CNN:

DENIS LEARY: I do have to say that that I think that President Obama is the greatest President in the history of all of our Presidents and that he can do no wrong in my book. So how's that for prejudice on the Democratic side?

JOY BEHAR: It's hard to make jokes about Barack right now.

LEARY: I don't think it is. Because I just -- I did a tour -- a comedy tour with the Rescue Me guys, Lenny Clarke and Adam Ferrara. We went around the country pushing the rebirth of the show because we were off the air for a year-and-a-half. And, truthfully, I mean I make fun of his smoking. I make fun of, you know, several things about him. Niki DiPaolo, who is on Rescue Me and also was on the tour made fun of his wife's arms. I mean there -- you know, it doesn't matter who's in the White House you can find something to make fun of.

But I do have to say that I enjoy upsetting people -- friends of mine who might be in the Republican world by -- like Lanny Clark, who's on Rescue Me who-

BEHAR: He's a right-winger?

LEARY: Well, he's a, yes. He's a supporter -- he was a supporter of the previous eight years. So I would love to wake up in the morning and go to work on Rescue Me and just go, President Obama is the greatest thing that ever happened, just to-

BEHAR: Just to torture him?

LEARY: Yes.

BEHAR: To torture him?

LEARY: Yes.

BEHAR: But wasn't it fun for the comedians to take on Bush all those years? So it's hard to let go of those jokes.

LEARY: It was manna from heaven.

BEHAR: Manna.

LEARY: It really was.

....

BEHAR: What do you think of Obama's pick of Sotomayor?

LEARY: Fantastic!

BEHAR: You love her?

LEARY: Everything you ask me about President Obama I'm just going to say it's the greatest thing ever. I love the guy!

—Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center


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"Displaying a caricature of

"Displaying a caricature of a celebrity enraptured by President Barack Obama..."

He was portraying a caricature of himself?  It's kinda sad, though, that even a supposed caricature, by definition an exaxgeration, failed to reach the "Worship lightworker Obama!" level one can witness in reality.  Does that even count as a caricature?

More of my thoughts

"With your mind as high as Mt. Fuji you can see all things clearly. And you can see all the forces that shape events; not just the things near to you." - Miyamoto Musashi

never heard of him

I don't know the person, another hollywoodland no talent entertainer of the great unwashed who acts as if stupidity were a virtue. He is the perfect democrat. A follower with no intelligence.

This isn't news,   when we kiss South Korea goodbye... now that will be news.

Get to know Leary by listening to his song

Well, if you want to get to know him, just listen to the song he wrote and sang. The refrain goes, "I'm an A**hole" Pretty apt self-portrait if you ask me...

What's this guy smoking?

Is there still some of that Kool-Aid around?

I'm disappointed

I really liked Leary's comedy....Jesus are ALL these Hollyweird types poisoned by this man Obama ???? It is getting to the point where I can't watch anything on TV. Maybe that is not such a bad thing!!

Jack...

I used to like his comedy too, but it's been a while since I've seen any of his stuff and I don't watch his TV show. It's always kind of sad to see someone you once liked make arses of themselves so publicly, isn't it?

Blind leading the blind

Wow, first quarter of 2009, worst economic news EVER, most government spending EVER, most government intervention in private business EVER, possible first time EVER a third front in the war on terror and the sycophants still can't see the forest for the trees.

D

Keep the ILLEGALS out, join NumbersUSA to send free faxes to your reps.

Look at the ratings

The latest round of cable ratings are posted on Drudge and CNN is dead last, "Larry King" not even making the list.  Larry needs to get every one of his ex-wives to watch his show so he can at least make the chart.

Sarcasm

I've seen Leary's schtick in the past. He's a sarcastic character. The deadpan look, full face into the camera is a dead givaway. Behar is to stupid to know when she's been had. Watch the movie "Demolition Man", there is a sarcastic rant in it that will make it obvious what he was doing. It's his version of flashing the bird in a senior class picture. Juvenile but still funny. Actually, we need more sarcasm and ridicule of "the one" to reduce his stature to that of a ridiculous moron.

interesting

Your post and mine (below) came in at the same time.  My first inclination was to wonder whether he was being sarcastic, but then I watched the clip and thought maybe not.  And then, of course, I was trying to point out the irony of taking a comedian seriously on matters of politics.

 

"Let's wrap him up, alright?" -- Keith Olbermann

I'm still not sure if he

I'm still not sure if he was being sincere. Well, sincere or not, he portrayed the perfect parody of a Hollywood Liberal Obamaniac.

The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.

I take it from his tone

I take it from his tone that he, the comedian, wasn't being comical or sarcastic.

 

"Let's wrap him up, alright?" -- Keith Olbermann

Leery Leary takes chance with career!

“I think that President Obama is the greatest President in the history of all of our Presidents and that he can do no wrong in my book.”

Wow.  What a gutsy guy. Leary's really going out on a limb here with this type of edgy provocative talk.

He may never work in Hollywood again with radical non-PC comments like that.
 

“I'm with you on a free press. It's the newspapers I can't stand.” Tom Stoppard, Night and Day, 1978

isn't it almost comical

How the left treats this as an opportunity to "torture" (O'leary's word) their republican counterparts?  They treat this whole presidency thing as a homecoming king and queen vote getting contest.

Life has truly been a dream for the hollywood left.  They live in a world of luxury and privilege all the while being rather unremarkable in any facet of life.

But as is the case with any hollywood lefty - he is a coward and if the s*** really hit the fan, he would be the first pansy lining up to either lick the boots of those who bombed us OR plead for a real leader in the white house who could handle the job.  A conservative Republican.

Leary

jessieH       See, I told you......YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID.

Wait till Obama bankrupts HIM...

Gee - a hollywood celebutard says he 'loves' Obama - what a surprise.  Just wait till Obama's policies bankrupt Hollywood like he's bankrupted the housing and auto industry, and bankrupted the entire country with his multi-trillion dollar defecits.

Once this pampered media leech is in the poorhouse with everyone else, he may be singing a different tune...

Just another bobblehead

Many of us find his public displays of complete ignorance rather funny.  He is another one of the "bobbleheads" who blindly adore Obama without bothering to do a reality check.

I knew there was a reason I

I knew there was a reason I didn't watch that dumb show he's in.

DEMOCRAT PARTY = MARXIST (says Russian)

 DEMOCRAT PARTY NAMED MARXIST (by Russian)

American capitalism gone with a whimper
27.04.2009 Source: Pravda.Ru

It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American
decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the
back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant
people.

True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past
century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds
was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we
Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our
souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of
the Marxists.

Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American
populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of
their elites and betters.

First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and
substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the
classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the
drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their
“right” to choke down a McDonalds burger or a Burger King burger than
for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us
about our rights and about our “democracy”. Pride blind the foolish.

Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their
churches, all tens of thousands of different “branches and
denominations” were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses
and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more
then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the “winning”
side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may
complain, but when explained that they would be on the “winning” side,
their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly
power. Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in
America.

The final collapse has come with the election of Barack
Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive.
His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in
America’s short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more
then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at
best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.

These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First
came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine
tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts,
loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our
Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary street thugs, in
comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear
volumes. Should we congratulate them?

CRAWFISH NOTE: This post is for ALL those who say
year after year that democrats have the right idea…this is from
Russia…they know Marxism…there is no argument, no smearing of them, no
denial, no spin, no bias, no name-calling, no Republican blame…the experts have now fingered the Democrat Party (Obama-Reid-Pelosi) as Marxists
…not liberals, not progressives, not any other silly term…but MARXISTS.
They should be called what they are daily and dealt with accordingly.

Doug Schexnayder, Ph.D. (theconservativecrawfish)

American decent into Marxism

I also read this on Drudge.  It should be given more attention.  As for Leary, hit him and the rest of Hollywood where it hurts, their wallets.  

"First, the population

"First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics."

This is undeniably true.  I would only add the population is also dumbed down by the pop-media, including a journalistic establishment based upon pop culture and senationalism, rather than somber, objective reporting.

 

"Let's wrap him up, alright?" -- Keith Olbermann

jeez

really?  this drivel is interesting to you?  talk about grasping at straws.  but since this is your evidence of 'marxism' taking over our government maybe you should actually read what is being said by this genius.  'the final collape' he says, not the 'entire collapse' just the final collape.  the rest of our descent into marxism is supposedly a century in the making, particularly the last 20 years.  mmmhmmm, yeah, i can see that (last 20 years:  12 years of republican presidency vs 8 years of democratic).  he then goes on to say that our very culture is making us ignorant, our religion is abusing us, etc.  seriously, this has to be the most retarded excuse at making a point i have seen in a long time.  and i read the blogs here at newsbusters regularly.  as ive said before, keep grasping at straws and distracting yourselves while the adults run the country.

dr.devil dog

So, in your opinion, the adults are running the country, but into what? Certainly you have some concerns for the increasing debt, the impact of increasing the money supply, the future impact of increased taxation and inflation on the economy and capital formation.  Aren't these realistic concerns for "adults" who are running the country? Please advise, without the offhanded dismissal of these legitimate concerns.  Then we can discuss other "adult" policies.

adults

". . . as ive said before, keep grasping at straws and distracting yourselves while the adults run the country."

Adults?  Really?? Where?!?  I thought Cheney had left office already.

The only things adult about the surreal administration we have today are their chronological age and the smug attitude shared by most 18-year-olds -- that now they're entitled to do whatever they want.

I'm sure Leary will still

I'm sure Leary will still think President Caligula can do no wrong when he's spending his entire paycheck on a pack of smokes.

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." -Winston Churchill

This from a guy stole all

This from a guy stole all his 'original' stand up material ?

What an idiot.

 

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=6E4896776799C8ED&search_query=Hicks+vs.+Leary

Putting the psycho in

Putting the psycho in sycophant.

Damn

 

 I thought the idiot that played POTUS on the west wing was the best Pres. Evah!!!! 

Now...

If only RESCUE ME were the greatest show ever...

are you sure this isn't from The Onion?

 
Leary's book must be an autobiography, and aptly named!

 I hope PRAVDA will do a review.

http://english.pravd...

 

 

In Real Life Troll.

Do not feed the troll.

Just once, I would love to

Just once, I would love to see one of these lib actors walking down the beach where I live.I would introduce my fist to their face.Yes I really would.

You would punch someone

You would punch someone because you didn't like what they said?

I would.  Some people

I would.  Some people seriously deserve it.

Better yet.  Goad a hothead

Better yet.  Goad a hothead like Alec Baldwin into taking a poke at you first.  Then you can kick his a$$ and turn around and sue him for assault.

balboa ..if that were the

balboa ..if that were the case then I wouldn't have any fist would I.Don't try to put me in some bs trap.There are way way many reasons.I don't know why I even responed to this.I should go seek some help shouldn't I balboa?Maybe some kind of pc tolerance class right balboa?

Not at all Obxray. Balboa is the typical insane A$$ clown he

wants to be recognized as...

He has been posting his inane crap for over three years here...  He loves/needs the attention given to him.

You would punch someone

You would punch someone because you didn't like what they said?

 

I would say you could take that on a case by case basis. Something directed at me, I may be able to live with.

Something directed at my wife or children could get someone some free teeth extractions.

 

 

 "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "

- Ben Kenobi on  Liberals, and the MSM.

" The Cake is a lie."   

that's Lousy---not Leary

Denis Leary is a lousy actor. But that's Hollywood---politics over talent.

Nothing like being

Nothing like being brain-washed and brain-dead.

Leary is proof.

Bet he's on msnbc shows next as they ooh and aah.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

Leary

This guy purports to support firefighters. Not only does his dumb show portray them as drunks, junkies, thieves and worse, but he supports a nominee who ruled against the New Haven fire department litigants. Doesn't make sense.

Leary...not the brightest bulb

Coming from a comedic cadre of fellow libs like Franken, Garafalo, Degeneres, Behar, Letterman, ...(where does one stop?)  He's most likely hoping for a show of his own.  Conservative bashing is the fashion right now and it's time to cash in!

He does have a show of his

He does have a show of his own.

Have fun watching that 'show' Balboa....LOL i'll stick with

real talent.

~ Balboa:  Always the wrong choice...  

Paul Reubens also had a show of his own

___________________________________________ 
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past - George Orwell - 1984

a show of his own

Yeah -- who in their right mind would accept an offer to co-star with him?

cbabe... Conservative

cbabe...

Conservative bashing has always been in fashion as long back as I can remember...one venue or the other.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

Moron

I hope this idiot files for bankruptcy by the end of the year. 
If anyone in Hollywood deserves to feel the full effects of this
recession, it's uneducated, uninformed lemmings like Leary.

And I feel the same way towards all the resident trolls.

So in addition to being a

So in addition to being a hack comedian, hack actor and 9/11 conspiracy theory wacko, Leary has added presidential historian to his resume.  Why, exactly should any of us care about anything this guy has to say?   

New Book

I am going to be writing a new book that will really sell to the Hollywood elite. The title is (How to stay a pinheaded, needlenose, liberal whose relevence is 20 years past by writing a stupid book penned for me by someone else and do low rated cable tv shows and portray our bravest as a bunch of biggots and drunks). The title is pretty long and the cover of the book is huge but the content is precise and to the point. It is only one page long and I will give you all here a preview of what it says. "Vote for Obama". It really gets down to the level that all liberals can understand without spraining a brain cell or two, (if they had any).

I wonder where they find all the lilliputian people to play along side of Leary to make him seem even normal size. I would like him to try and make me mad like he does his friends. The outcome would not be good for him. 

Leary

"I can change the way I look but not the way I act."

HeAdShultz

I don't know, from his expression and tone Leary sounded pretty sarcastic, I haven't read anything he's wrote. I know "Franko" on the show is a 9/11 nut but I would think Leary is smarter than that. 

Knowledge is power

 

 Those that believe in nothing will believe in anything.

To bad, I used to enjoy Leary, never figured him for a complete tool.

close...

Isn't the quote, "those who stand for nothing will fall for anything" ??

Your point is well-taken, anyway.

One more Hollyweird liberal

"Ears" has only been in office for three months, and, already, the Hollyweird types are calling him the greatest President ever?!  Not only has Hollywood been drinking the Kool-Aid, they've been drowning in it!

Leary, apparently, isn't

Leary, apparently, isn't up-to-date on Obama's unconstitutitional excesses.

Unless it is that he doesn't care if Obama's a tyrant, as long as he's a liberal.

A nation cannot be free without a free, unbiased media. We are not free.