Jimmy Fallon Helps Obama Slow Jam Democrat Talking Points and Republican Attacks on NBC's Late Night
In the much anticipated appearance of Barack Obama on NBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, the President got to slow jam his Democrat talking points while bashing Republicans.
Not surprisingly, Fallon and his band were more than happy to comply with their guest's efforts to push his agenda while trashing those on the other side of the aisle (video follows with transcript and commentary):
JIMMY FALLON, HOST: You might have seen this in the news, but President Obama has asked Congress to stop the interest rates on Stafford student loans from going up this summer.
[Cheers and applause]
FALLON: Yeah. I was going to make a joke about this news, but I don't think it needs a joke. You know what I'm talking about Tariq?
TARIQ TROTTER, SINGER ROOTS BAND: Yeah, Jimmy, I think you're saying you want to slow jam this news?
FALLON: That’s right. I want to slow jam the news, and I'm not the only one.
How nice. So the folks at NBC decided to immediately advocate a position on this student loan issue and assist the President in advancing his agenda in an election year on national television:
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: I'm President Barack Obama, and I too want to slow jam the news.
FALLON: Hit me presidential style.
OBAMA: On July 1st of this year, the interest rates on Stafford student loans, the same loans that many of you used to help pay for college, are set to double. That means some hardworking students will be paying about $1,000 extra just to get their education. So I've called on Congress to prevent this from happening. What we’ve said is simple: now is not the time to make school more expensive for our young people.
[Cheers and applause]
So far so good. Now watch Fallon take this much further:
FALLON: Oh, yeah! You should listen to the President, or as I like to call him, the Preezy of the United Steezy. Things are heating up inside Congress's chambers, behind all those closed doors. So the President made a few discrete calls across the aisle. He said, “Hey, let's get together on this one. Without an affordable Stafford loan, where can a student turn? The Pell grant is a beautiful thing, but with college getting more expensive, is it enough to satisfy your collegiate needs?” Ah Pell no.
TROTTER: Ah Pell no. If Congress doesn’t act it’s the students who pay, the Right and Left should join on this like Kim and Kanye.
[Applause]
OBAMA: Now, there's some in Congress who disagree. They say keeping the interest rate low isn't the way to help our students. They say we should be doing everything we can to pay down the national debt - well, so long as it doesn't include taxing billionaires. But their position is that students just have to make this rate increase work. Frankly, I don't buy it.
As you can see, this was no longer just a funny sketch on a late night program. This was the President pushing his agenda during an election year, and the folks at NBC only too happy to help.
Of course, the was certainly not the first time Fallon and his band pushed a liberal agenda while trashing Republicans. Last November, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann was greeted with the song "Lyin A-- B---h." But I digress:
FALLON: Mmmm, mmmm, mmmm. The Barack Ness monster ain't buying it. We all know our legislative bodies in the House tossing and turning late into the night, but still Republicans disagree, and can even filibuster, but if they do, the President says they're going to feel it, buster.
TROTTER: The GOP is steady saying, “No, no, no,” They should find something new to do like Tim Tebow.
[Applause]
Nice. So Fallon and his crew not only were all in with the President, they also took a cheap shot at Tebow.
For his part, Obama approved this script meaning that he too was fine with trashing the Jets quarterback for no other reason than his religious faith - on national television:
OBAMA: The reason it’s so important to keep down costs is so we keep college affordable.
FALLON: And the President knows his stuff, y'all. That's why they call him POTUS, which means person on top -- what is it?
OBAMA: Jimmy, POTUS stands for President of the United States.
TROTTER: He's the POTUS with the Mostest.
OBAMA: Let’s keep the rates down on college loans.
FALLON: Stop. The loan you save may be your own.
TROTTER: Yeah, let's get it together and make our lives better, cause a college degree is more [unintelligible.] If college costs rise we’ll have financial blues.
FALLON: And that is how we slow jam the news.
OBAMA: Oh, yeah.
[Applause]
Actually, that's how a late night comedy program completely throws its support behind an incumbent president and his policies in an election year.
This was despite Fallon saying at the end of his interview with Obama about a half hour later, "We don't take sides politically on this show."
Really What was that how slow jam to Democrat talking points thing earlier in the program? I guess he somehow missed that.
More importantly, as it's only April, can you imagine what the Obama-loving media will do in the coming months?
He really doesn't need to raise any money - he's going to get all the free promotion like this he needs without spending a dime.
Must be nice.
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Comments
I just LOVE Tim Graham's
Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 04/25/2012 - 8:58am.
I just LOVE Tim Graham's tweet on this subject:
Of course Obama can "slow jam the news." He's been slow-jamming the economy for more than three years.
Although it comes as little surprise....
Submitted by Dutch on Wed, 04/25/2012 - 9:03am.
It still makes me so ill, I can hardly put it into words. This is clearly a donation of airtime, but NOTHING will be done about it, and any complaints will instead be attacked and degraded. America is dead. Thanks, BHO voters, for destroying the greatest country in the world.
team 6 to NBC
Submitted by frank_andrini on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 4:22am.
What's it going to take? Where is the FCC here? I know...they're off direction finding some 63 year old hippie with an unlicensed 12 watt transmitting Lady Gaga.
➚OTOH
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Wed, 04/25/2012 - 9:07am.
I thought it was a public display of buffoonery. College grads are looking at some bleak job prospects and POTUS is trying to look cool.
2007-2008 all over again
Submitted by Tomorama on Wed, 04/25/2012 - 9:09am.
Just like he slow jammed HC down our throat and slow jammed the stimulus up our a&&?
The whores are at it again, We like Obama he is just like us and he really cares about us.........
Obysmal FAILED to even vote for this BOTH times he got the chance to do so.
Now it is priority number one?
The one thing I have noticed with Obama and his voters
Submitted by gmaniac1 on Wed, 04/25/2012 - 9:15am.
and they must be nothing more than Toys-R-Us kids as they definitely do not want to grow up.
The unintelligible part says...
Submitted by Mike Bratton on Wed, 04/25/2012 - 9:21am.
..."'cause a college degree is more than a few letters."
And the point deserves being made again: Free airtime. In an election year. And an endorsement of the "Preezy's" position on what he'd love to make into yet another Balkanizing wedge issue.
Oh, yeah.
--Mike
I thought Boy Baraka took
Submitted by killa37 on Wed, 04/25/2012 - 9:23am.
I thought Boy Baraka took over the student loan business a couple of years ago???? Did I miss something?? What the hell is he talking about?? And he was whining about his own student loans that he and Mooooooooooooochelle had to pay back - didn't he have a lot of his purported college education being paid for by some nefarious and insidious moooooooooooooslem group???
I guess he's got to 'pay them back', in a manner of speaking - and he seems to be doing it with his backing of all the various hard-line mooooooooooooooooslem groups.
This guy is beyond pathetic, and this is just another example of how tacky, sophomoric, and classless he is. And you can be sure that he was really feeling 'cool' in there, with all of these naive and clueless college students.
so sad
Submitted by i was just thinking on Wed, 04/25/2012 - 9:25am.
I couldn't watch the whole thing. Disgusting. Idol worship at its finest. What's so upsetting about this is that so many uneducated voters take what the Liar-in-Chief says at face value, and that a once-credible news network gives his lies the air of credibility by lending its weight.
Four more years of this absolutely scares the crap out of me.
Same here
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Wed, 04/25/2012 - 9:51am.
I just read the transcript and got nauseous. I don't think I could stomach the video.
That was a truly disgusting, embarrassing display of a toady, rumpswab giving a tongue bath to the President.
Hey, Fallon, a real comic wouldn't be scared to make a joke. Guess you don't have that option at NBC.
Fallon and Obama
Submitted by NVRAT on Wed, 04/25/2012 - 9:40am.
Well what did everyone hope for from NBC after all they are nothing but another step child of MSNBC management group. And Fallon is not worth watching either. They both are disgusting performers and not worth watching.
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Submitted by seaniep on Wed, 04/25/2012 - 9:41am.
I still don't understand, and never will understand, the hero worship of this guy? the applause that erupted when he walked through the curtains . . . its no wonder the guy thinks he is so amazing, these fools fall over themselves to suck up to him
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Submitted by seaniep on Wed, 04/25/2012 - 9:44am.
I still don't understand, and never will understand, the hero worship of this guy? the applause that erupted when he walked through the curtains . . . its no wonder the guy thinks he is so amazing, these fools fall over themselves to suck up to him
No one else thought what he
Submitted by shannon76 on Wed, 04/25/2012 - 10:04am.
No one else thought what he did was unpresidential? Who goes on a late-night show and does a skit like that? Weird.
I enjoy Jimmys show
Submitted by Tatfreak79 on Wed, 04/25/2012 - 10:17am.
But I couldn't stomach it. Deleted off my dvr. No real surprise honestly. I expect NBC to prop up Obummer.
This man has done more to
Submitted by lesterwink23 on Wed, 04/25/2012 - 12:21pm.
This man has done more to degrade and cheapen the office of the president than any other leader in our history. What a utter disgrace.
Obama is no disgrace
Submitted by Agnostic on Wed, 04/25/2012 - 12:28pm.
Obama is the greatest Precedent in the History of the US - Just watch the news once in a while.
Agnostic
Submitted by botg on Wed, 04/25/2012 - 12:31pm.
would that Precedent be --- "image over results"
enquiring minds want to vote
“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” -- Chief Justice John Roberts
"image over results"
Submitted by Agnostic on Wed, 04/25/2012 - 1:34pm.
something like that.
In order to be continually 'historical (something that is always so easy to discern in the present) he must be 'Precendential'. Everything he does is just once-in-a-generation important to the media.
Oh slow jam THIS!
Submitted by StarAZ on Wed, 04/25/2012 - 12:56pm.
I am not nearly hip enough to know what that means--but I do see asshats on parade. Maybe the baby should toss some diaper contents in the next commercial. The president should have some shame--but of course, we know he doesn't.
Fallon
Submitted by Agnostic on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 1:24pm.
Yeah, funny how he can support Obama then turn around and take a check for promoting Capital One. Reeks of hypocrisy.
Fallon was fellating the
Submitted by killa37 on Wed, 04/25/2012 - 1:11pm.
Fallon was fellating the fallus....................