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Christopher Caldwell Why You Can't Tell Jokes About Obama By Noel Sheppard \| July 20, 2008 - 10:23 As NewsBusters reported, John McCain was Conan O'Brien's guest on Friday's "Late Night," and the comedian asked the presumptive Republican presidential nominee for some joke ideas beyond just his age. According to the Weekly Standard's Christopher Caldwell, comedians are having a far more difficult time finding humorous material about Barack Obama. Writing for the Financial Times Friday, Caldwell tried to explain why (emphasis added): Noel Sheppard's blog 18 comments Read more	<a href="http://harvest.AdGardener.com/noscript.aspx?s=16&c=35649400-87b8-4d3d-8dfd-db229f048237" target="_blank"><img src="http://harvest.AdGardener.com/noscript.aspx?s=16&w=336&h=280&c=35649400-87b8-4d3d-8dfd-db229f048237" width="336" height="280" border="0" /></a> Most Popular Today: Media Can't Understand Why Palin's Still Popular Internet Search MSNBC Anchor Frets: Why Hasn’t Obama’s Election Ended Terrorism? Hitchens and Walsh Battle Over Secretary of State Clinton '60 Minutes' Logan Doesn't Let Facts Get In Way Of Swipes At U.S. Military GMA Celebrates Britney's Crotch-Kicking Return Recent Comments Does anyone else realize 1 min 17 sec ago I agree. We need to get BO 1 min 56 sec ago I think Opie's new movie is going to bomb badly. 2 min 6 sec ago Libs never let facts get in the way 2 min 53 sec ago not a bad idea 3 min 35 sec ago No questions asked 6 min 56 sec ago ...and Erin Burnett (a 7 min 19 sec ago → Great Idea JohnC 9 min 12 sec ago Exactly! 10 min 15 sec ago irresponible not to have 11 min ago Other Sites Blogs Ace of Spades American Thinker Anchoress Online Betsy Newmark Biased BBC Bill Roggio Black Five Bluey Blog Classical Values Conservative Grapevine Deceiver.com Ed Driscoll FreeRepublic Gateway Pundit Hot Air Inhofe EPW Blog Instapundit Jewish World Review Jim Romenesko Junkscience.com La Shawn Barber Little Green Footballs Lucianne.com Media Bloggers Association Media Shift Mickey Kaus Michael Yon Michelle Malkin Next Right NRO Corner Olbermann Watch Outside the Beltway Patterico Power Line Protein Wisdom Radio Equalizer Reason Hit & Run Red State RightBias Right Wing News Sister Toldjah Small Dead Animals Townhall.com TVNewser Villainous Company Organizations Accuracy In Media America Supports You American Conservative Union Capital Research Center Cato Institute Heritage Foundation Minding the Campus Pew Research Center Young America's Foundation Talk Radio Neal Boortz Tammy Bruce Sean Hannity Laura Ingraham Rush Limbaugh Steve Malzberg Michael Reagan Get a Free Camera to Fight Government Pork! User Account RSS Feed About NB Contact Us Archive Jobs Advertise on NB Editors’ Picks Obama and basic Christian doctrine (Right Wing News) New India in the crosshairs (Lowry) The most overlooked news story of 2008 (Norris) WMD taskforce shows risks are increasing (LGF) The return of intimacy (Barras) Signs point to a strong holiday shopping season (NRO) Are you better off now than you were 40 years ago? (Instapundit) Inside al-Qaeda's propaganda machine (Jawa Report) The crankiness of the backbench loser (Crittenden) Is Obama first co-president? (Say Anything) <br /> <a href="http://harvest.AdGardener.com/noscript.aspx?s=16&c=68da4158-09e2-4562-be9f-9fa1da92138d" target="_blank"><img src="http://harvest.AdGardener.com/noscript.aspx?s=16&w=160&h=600&c=68da4158-09e2-4562-be9f-9fa1da92138d" width="160" height="600" border="0" /></a><br /> Poll How Much Do Media Affect Economy's Performance?: A lot, they influence public perception which in turn influences investor confidence Some, they influence things but individuals' private knowledge is more influential Very little Don't know <br /> <a href="http://harvest.AdGardener.com/noscript.aspx?s=16&c=94cd871e-30b8-4a4e-a7a3-eb3d7376a2a0" target="_blank"><img src="http://harvest.AdGardener.com/noscript.aspx?s=16&w=160&h=600&c=94cd871e-30b8-4a4e-a7a3-eb3d7376a2a0" width="160" height="600" border="0" /></a><br /> Masthead Executive Editor Matthew Sheffield Editor at Large Brent Baker Senior Editors Tim Graham Rich Noyes Managing Editor Ken Shepherd Associate Editor Noel Sheppard Contributing Editors Tom Blumer Geoffrey Dickens Mark Finkelstein Dan Gainor David Limbaugh April Mickelson Seton Motley Mithridate Ombud Clay Waters Contributing Writers Matthew Balan Michael M. Bates Lynn Davidson Paul Detrick Kyle Drennen Kristen Fyfe P. J. Gladnick Greyhawk D. S. Hube Sharon Hughes Michelle Humphrey Warner Todd Huston Stuart James Tom Johnson Kristine Lawrence Vivian Lee Justin McCarthy Kathleen McKinley Richard Newcomb Dave Pierre Kerry Picket Jeff Poor Amy Ridenour Dan Riehl Julia A. Seymour Jason Smith John Stephenson Terry Trippany Rusty Weiss Scott Whitlock Brad Wilmouth Editorial Associate Jacob S. Lybbert Publisher Brent Bozell
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