Seth Meyers on MSNBC's White House Dinner After Party: 'Obama Makes the Kool-Aid and Everyone Drinks It'
"Saturday Night Live's" Seth Meyers headlined Saturday's White House Correspondents' Association dinner, and somewhat surprisingly went after media outlets on both sides of the aisle.
Apart from jibes at Fox News, the New York Times, and NPR, Meyers said of MSNBC's event after party, "President Obama makes the Kool-Aid, and everyone there drinks it" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
SETH MEYERS: I of course am contractually obligated to attend the MSNBC party tonight. Everyone knows how the MSNBC party works. President Obama makes the Kool-Aid, and everyone there drinks it. Too close to my home?
There actually are some unscheduled parties happening tonight, and I’ve been asked to give everyone a rundown. Fox News is having a party. Security is tough, so make sure you bring your driver’s license and your long-form driver’s license. But if you’re blonde don’t worry about it. Just bring that dynamite smile.
The New York Times party used to be free, but tonight apparently there’s a cover. So like everyone else, I’ll probably just go to the Huffington Post party. And the Huffington Post’s party is asking people to go to other parties first and just steal food and drinks and bring it from there. Don’t get me wrong, I love Arianna Huffington, especially her voice. She sounds like a woman who would be sitting up in bed with a sheet wrapped around her as James Bond was walking out the door. “Will I see you again, James?”
Andrew Breitbart’s after party’s going to be crazy. I mean, it won’t be good but it’ll be crazy.
Side note, I actually met James O’Keefe last night. At least I think it was James O’Keefe. It may have just been a regular pimp who hated organized labor.
NPR is having a party, but I’m sure it’ll be pretty sedate. How wild can a party get when it’s held in accordance with Sharia law? It’s what I was told.
Funny stuff, and somewhat gutsy given the audience.
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Seth Meyers?
Submitted by Red Jeep on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 9:51am.
Is he supposed to be well known?
Yes, it is very funny, especially the MSNBC and NPR zingers...
Submitted by merly1 on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 10:03am.
Obviously, his Fox bit is off because if he read Newsbusters he would know MSNBC pushed the birther issue FAR more than Fox ;o)
Yea, I noticed that. Fox
Submitted by Thoreau on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 12:13pm.
Yea, I noticed that. Fox stayed away from it more than any other. I can't name a single birther at Fox News. The most right wing turned evangelical on fox news, Glenn Beck, has spent the last two years teasing birthers- quite literally.
Anyhow, I'm a little uncomfortable knowing that Seth isn't the zombie I see on SNL. I don't know if I'm happy or sad for him.
There aren't any.
Submitted by The Vet on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 2:25pm.
Nor are there birthers among the major conservative talking heads in radio or TV. Nor are there birthers amont the major conservative columnists and editors at right leaning magazines and newspapers. Nor are there birthers among the major conservative book authors. Nor is there a birther among the founders, editors, associates, contributors and guest bloggers at NewsBusters itself.
But hoo-boy, we got plenty down here in the weeds of the posters. And they are already pronouncing the birth certificate a fake.
Your hero was born after 1978 when the name changed?
OR.... the 'birth certificate' was another forgery and the forger was not intelligent enough to know the name had changed in 1978?
doesn't seem to matter,..
Submitted by Mark81150 on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 12:22pm.
That every news outlet covered the birthers far more than FOX did, they saw it as a way to paint us all as nutjobs, no matter how reasonable the quesstion, or even if the rank and file right cared that much about it at all....
the narrative is what matters to the left, truth was never on the table for them.
MSNBC may have devoted more time to the issue, but they
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 2:34pm.
were pushing AGAINST it. There were some at Fox who were promoting it.
Jer
Names please.
Submitted by The Vet on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 2:46pm.
Don't forget the key word - promoting.
Vet...
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 2:56pm.
Eric Bolling had notorious birther Pam Geller as a guest AFTER the release of the long form and they were both questioning its authenticity. Hannity had said he believed Obama was born in the US but he repeatedly pushed for the release of the long-form b/c and provided friendly forums for the more hard-core birthers.
Jer
Eric Bolling is on Fox Business News.
Submitted by The Vet on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 3:07pm.
I wish you would occasionally give some quotes. As I asked in the other forum, what is going on with the Governor of Hawaii, that he pushed the "Hawaii ain't got the birth certificate" bull right into the forefront of the news. Asking for the long form ain't hard core. I watch Hannity. I don't recall seeing the hard core birthers.
Vet, you asked for names, not quotes...
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 3:37pm.
And I always provide quotes--to the extent I can---when asked. Sometimes they are not available. Now this video of Bolling and Geller is from Media Matters, but I think you'll agree Bolling's skepticism is beyond dispute.
Jer
Yes. Above and beyond. I did say.
Submitted by The Vet on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 3:45pm.
I don't watch Eric Bolling. He is a smart business guy but he drives me nuts with all the non-business stuff he brings on. Point - Uncle Jer. Still promoting though? He was talking about it with guest 2 days after it came out. Hardly promoting birtherism.
I surely hope you don't have Hannity in the days after the birth certificate coming out as promoting as well. I mean if talking to people about the fakery of the certificate is considered fakery, then you and me discussing it here with others can be considered promoting.
Just as Rush Limbaugh was not promoting it before when he was talking about a UK article that discussed the Governor of Hawaii's claiming he can't find it. That can't be considered promoting it either.
I am gonna give you 3/4 of a point. Changed my mind.
Submitted by The Vet on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 3:53pm.
Eric Bolling used to play professional baseball. He is not a small guy. 6'1". He had the circus freak show Frankenstein lookin' Jesse Ventura looking like he wanted to break Bolling in half questioning him on some weird conspiracy or other.
Vet...
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 4:05pm.
Here is a statement by Lachlan Markey which appeared in one of his recent blogs. Do you agree with him, and, more particularly, the context of his usage of the term "promote"?
Unfortunately, simply by giving a megaphone to Donald Trump - the personality who undergirded much of the birther coverage of late - news networks implicitly gave voice to the conspiracy theory. Simply ignoring the theory is generally the best way to combat it, and Fox led the field in that regard (on cable news, anyway). MSNBC, meanwhile, not only led the charge to promote the certificate hunt, it also promoted Donald Trump, host of sister network NBC's "The Apprentice" - a fact that recently earned the cable channel the ire of its own on-air talent.
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/lachlan-markay/2011/04/28/study-msnbc-and-c...
Jer
It's a trap. Stay away from the bait. Don't... Don't... DON'T...
Submitted by The Vet on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 4:20pm.
Mr. Markey said Fox led the field in ignoring the theory. Not promoting it. I am confused. But I reluctantly give you the definition of promoting as presented there. What is the trap? Now I am scared. Ok, you can have the 1/4 point on the Bolling back. Here. There you have a point. Now, what was that? I heard something creak. Was that a.. Who is out there please. Excuse me, I have to go lock the windows.
PS: who came first? Abercrombie saying he can't find the birth certificate or Trump?
Watching the Eric Bolling.
Submitted by The Vet on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 5:07pm.
As I have understood it. The birth certificate was run through photoshopping software. So yes it was photoshopped. First clue. It is a .pdf format. To the uninitiated, the photoshopping might make it look questionable. But again, we go back to the certified to be a true copy. That is the important part. There is also something about layers and lahhhhhhhh..... My eyes glaze over. But dumb questions about that stuff are allowed. Again, it is not the birth certificate. That is in a book in a vault in Hawaii. This is a scan run through some photoshop software to create a copy that is CERTIFIED TO BE A TRUE COPY.
So everyone including me and my glazed eyes are allowed a little stupidity in photoshop creating. The second clue it is a copy. The green paper that is under the document itself, not just along the borders. Did you know it is an altered copy Uncle Jer? This is not simply putting the old book full of birth certificates on a copy machine with green paper. It was created in Adobe Photoshop. So stupid questions from non-Adobe non-photoshop users are acceptable for a small amount of time. Again, the important part of that document. CERTIFIED TO BE A TRUE COPY.
Here is a video showing the various layers.
OK. Finished. No. Eric Bolling was asking stupid questions without realizing it is indeed a photoshop created document, not just a picture created in pdf format.
Now. I am taking 3/4 of a point away from you. I am only giving you a quarter point. I will give you another quarter point if you can honestly tell me you were aware it was created in Photoshop and is not just a straight copy you would get from a copy machine.
Say Uncle Jer.
Submitted by The Vet on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 7:47pm.
you are missing a shot at a quarter point. Did you know the certificate was created on Photoshop and will have all the photoshop elements in it? And if not, are you aware this is a new birther whine?
I am waiting for Dr. Corsi's
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 7:56pm.
book to come out to tell me what I can believe. He has promised some blockbuster revelations..
Jer
Here is Trump on Fox & Friends...
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 3:50pm.
delivering a speech right out of the birther playbook while Doocy leads the amen corner. It's possible that after Trump got off the phone the F & F hosts pronounced him full of crap, but I doubt it.
Jer
Before I look.
Submitted by The Vet on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 3:58pm.
We are in agreement, asking for the hospital record birth certificate is not that far in birther territory. I gave birthers that much leniency before. We are talking the truly loony segment now. The Long Form Requesting Birthers did have some legitimacy. President Obama did finally agree to post the Long Form Certificate. So, anything about not being born here, or the jus soli jus sanguinis The It's faked birthers. Or his daddy was Malcolm X. That whole range of birtherism. This is what we are talking about.
Vet...re merely asking for long form certificate..
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 4:12pm.
Agreed, but I think it should be accompanied by unequivocal criticism of those loonier aspects of birtherism.
Jer
Watching the F&F video.
Submitted by The Vet on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 5:14pm.
Lots of the Donald talking. Objective questions are asked. The Donald, little loony. No. I don't see it. The Donald was the loon there. The other 3 were simply asking him questions. Where is the promoting. I will keep it open. Give me a minute:second mark to look for. You got zero points on this one Uncle Jer. Having Donald Trump on to talk about his looniness is hardly promoting, he IS in the news.
Vet...more comment on the F & F and Trump vid.
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 5:23pm.
So the fact that the F & F hosts do not challenge one single statement of the Donald, and Doocy says yes, uh huh, yes...throughout Trump's itemization of charges is not to be construed as "promoting" in any sense? If so, you directly contradict what Markey describes as promoting.
Jer
I don't see the yes's, and uh-huhs and grunts the same you do.
Submitted by The Vet on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 6:18pm.
Every interview with everyone from any journalist has grunts, and yeses, and uh-huhs and OK's. It simply means they have not snoozed off while you were talking. Come on. You have seen enough interviews in your day. Someone talking to 3 people on the couch and they are not saying anything is called a speech. Uh-oh I feel some Veet sarcasm coming. You just now getting a TV? All journalist make noises, all people in a conversation where someone is going on for way too long, you get uh-huhs now matter whether you agree or not. To simply sit there and say nothing while a guy goes on and on in a 2 person conversation gets a little weird. You nod your head. You say ok. You say yes. You desperately look for an out if you realize the guy is a little loony.
Sorry. Yeses and uh-huhs when the guy is flapping his yap are not promoting. Still no point.
I'm awarding myself a half point here...
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 6:21pm.
Most journalists wouldn't allow someone to engage in a non-stop monologue like the one Trump was delivering without at least a couple of interjected challenges. Bret Baier and Bill O'Reilly didn't let Obama get away with it.
I heard no grunts. I heard plenty of yes's and uh-huhs.
Jer
I did see the interview you posted.
Submitted by The Vet on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 6:48pm.
There were questions aka challenges. See my post below. Yeses and uh-huhs simpley mean you are understanding what is stated. Be it a left or right type interview. Do you only watch interviews on Fox? Is this what you have been understanding all along? I see interviews of Democrats, Democrat strategists, and all kinds of left leaning people. They talk, the interview says yes, and uh-huh, and ok, while they are talking to indicate they are not muffling the words and the concepts are coming through. Still, yeses and uh-huhs are not promoting. Even by your understanding. Yeses and uh-huhs would be agreeing in your world not promoting.
I will stipulate that Doocy may have been responding to
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 7:08pm.
questions he was addressing to himself under his breath, e.g. Do I really come across as a doofus? ["yes"] Did I remember to grab my daily talking points from Mr. Ailes ["uh-huh"]...
and pick up his pants from the cleaners? ["right-o"]. Should I suck up to a billionaire? ["hell yes!"]
;-)
Jer
Ah. Ah. Ah. Almost.
Submitted by The Vet on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 7:42pm.
I saw the smiley. I don't use smileys. So I rarely see them. I saw it. Just got me a fraction of the way there and oh, smiley, he is jokig.
The interjected challenges.
Submitted by The Vet on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 7:08pm.
1. Does it have anything to do with race?
2. Do you think he was born in this country?
3. What about hte mainstream media accounts of this last week where they are trying to paint you as mayor of crazytown for bringing this up.
4. BUt BUt why would you go down this path, donald, and a lot of people were asking that question last week as well, why would you decide to do this if in fact you decide to run for president.
Again, it is not a journalists job to interject their views into an interview. That is called bias. It was not a monologue. There were challenges. It was not full of YESES and Uh-HUHs. I heard right right right and sure sure sure. Again, utterings that you are indeed listening and understand what is being said loony as is its.
Now I have watched it twice. You were wrong about the yeses and uh-huhs. You did not hear the 4 questions. Are you wrong about the verbal gruntings of interviewers as well? Also, the video is too small on my computer. But I think someone was making some sour faces during the loonier part of the Donald's looniness.
How about...
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 7:22pm.
Do you believe the COLB which has already been released is a forgery?
Why will you not accept it as sufficient proof of a Hawaiian birth? The state of Hawaii regards these documents as the official record of birth.
Do you believe the Hawaiian officials who have uneqivocally stated they have viewed the original birth records confirming the Hawaiian birth are mistaken or not being truthful?
Can you tell us the most significant piece of information which your investigators have uncovered thus far?
Jer
You confuse the various shows.
Submitted by The Vet on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 7:40pm.
This is a morning news show. Part opinion. Part news. Part interview. Versus the night shows of O'Reilly, Hannity, Beck, Greta, and Red Eye that are opinion only. The people in the morning play the part of journalists. Interrview. Even if the guy is a loon. Interview the loon. That is your job.
Also sorry they did not ask the questions you wanted heard. I believe one of your questions was presented to Trump a few days ago. And he talked but did not answer the question. What you are speaking to is --- they are not GOOD journalists. OK. I will let you have that if you want. But still, NOT promoting.
I can go with that.
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 7:57pm.
Jer
I think I can put that a little better.
Submitted by The Vet on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 6:16pm.
The Yeses and Uh-huhs and OKs are simply an acknowledgement that I understand the point you are making, not that I agree with it. It is standard in the interviews I watch. No point. Sorry.
Pretty good. There was a lot
Submitted by LighthouseJ on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 10:14am.
Pretty good.
There was a lot of nervous laughter in that room.
The HuffPo line was the best
Submitted by mom_rox on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 12:46pm.
Since the journos are probably on the side of the writers/bloggers filing the lawsuit against Arianna.
Watch Your Back
Submitted by m1xram on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 7:18pm.
Yup, Seth should probably watch his back from now on in.
The opposite of Left is Freedom.
Never will change
Submitted by desert3030 on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 10:31am.
Attack big oil profits? What if we measured the % of return along with Goggle and GE? Or how much do we save by stopping 3 wars, government funding of illegals, 25% reduction of foreign aid, UN payments, agency like PP, NPR and cut the losses at the Post Office, Fannie and Freddie by 50%?
Funny no one thinks to take on the loosers, they go after the winners, why? It is easy and envy sells.
Haven't watched SNL in at least ten years.
Submitted by NeoKong on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 10:31am.
The reason is it ain't funny anymore. Just like that guy.
Sorry Meyers...
Submitted by NVRAT on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 10:59am.
Not everybody drinks Obama`s cool aid. Those of us that have a brain and pays attention knows that Obama is dysfunctional and incompetent. He proves it everyday.
msnbc
Submitted by mom_rox on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 12:47pm.
You realize that Seth was walking about MSNBC workers drinking the Kool-Aid, right? The "too close to my home" referenced the fact that Seth works for NBC.
I thought he was on his knees,,
Submitted by brutony1 on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 11:06am.
Or is he just short? Every episode of failed liberal ex-comedy SNL he does his Weekend Update by going out of his way to praise O'Bozo by calling him cool and hip, while using MSLSD true failures and blaming them on FOX. This guys got to get whacked from SNL next year!
When will liberals WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE! -Me
That was great
Submitted by shawn. on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 11:11am.
I am all for jabs at people as long as it is fair to both sides
Yawn
Submitted by StarAZ on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 11:40am.
I hate to quote O'Reilly, because he was so dopey about the wedding, but this was Pinheads on Parade. Biggie, Tupac, No Things Considered---who writes this pap?
I thought the jokes were funny
Submitted by shawn. on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 2:35pm.
....to each their own
The BEST SNL guy to roast the Politicians at a dinner:
Submitted by djwolf12 on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 11:33am.
Norm McDonald, hands down.
Norm MacDonald
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 1:34pm.
Was the funniest guy they ever had do the fake news. One of the funniest things was he would start each week by saying, "And now for the fake news."
Oh wow, that last part about
Submitted by Thoreau on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 12:09pm.
Oh wow, that last part about NPR and Sharia law was awesome. He might actually have a future in comedy. I wrote him off after being a constant leftist hand puppet on SNL.
If you ever doubted that BO is a bully and a coward such
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 12:30pm.
"EVENTS" should help to reinforce the notion.
Slamming the supreme court
Beating on Ryan
Making "jokes" about trump
Ever here him talk like that when his target can respond.
This is a pathetic piece of excrement we have here folks.
Kool-aid Seriously?
Submitted by buttercup815 on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 12:55pm.
Someone needs to get some new material..That line is about as stale as the "son, you are stuck on stupid" line.
Big oil
Submitted by Samshile on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 12:56pm.
The Govmet makes mo money off the gas than the co-porations
The exerpt here was pretty good.
Submitted by Boil It Down on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 1:27pm.
Seth Meyers could teach Bill Maher a lot about comedy. Perhaps Maher has given up on comedy though.
Seth Meyers - Misogynist
Submitted by Gat New York on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 2:23pm.
No one seemed to pick up on the blatantly sexist remark by Meyers in his rant of GOP candidates.
While maliciously excoriating Donald Trump, Meyers remarked that if Trump were the candidate the fact that he owns the Miss America Pageant would make finding a Vice Presidential candidate much easier - an implied shot at Sarah Palin intelligence.
So where is the media outrage over such a remark.
I really do not share your view about Meyers' humor. He has been the head comedy writer for a dying SNL for years and his lackluster performance last night is evidence of that.
What last night did prove that Donald Trump in only a few weeks has clearly gotten to head of the thin skinned Obama. If it were not true, Obama and Meyers would not have devoted the majority of their time to maliciously going after Trump. What they did to Trump was not funny and Donald was not smiling.
I even liked The Presidents joks
Submitted by shawn. on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 2:44pm.
.........toward Trump. They were delivered very well.
Not funny to me...
Submitted by Radical1979 on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 7:55pm.
but it seemed pretty "fair and balanced", at least the clip on NB.