Update: RLC President Now Says Obama Impersonator Pulled for ‘Racially Insensitive Jokes’
- Posted on June 20, 2011 at 4:30pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Earlier today we brought you video of Obama impersonator Reggie Brown saying that he wasn’t “yanked” from the stage because of his jokes at this weekend’s Republican Leadership Conference. Instead, he said, he was escorted off the stage before finishing his routine because he simply ran over his time. That’s despite widespread rumors that Brown was booted off the stage for telling racially-tinged Obama jokes and jokes jabbing Republicans.
Now, it seems, Brown was pulled because of his routine.
Charlie Davis, who ran the event in New Orleans, told Politico in a statement that he had Brown pulled because of his “racially insensitive” material:
The RLC is designed to showcase the top Republican leaders and ideas in the country – to talk about limited government, fiscal responsibility and rebuilding the American economy.
Had I been in the room I would have pulled him sooner. We have zero tolerance for racially insensitive jokes. As soon as I realized what was going on I rushed backstage and had him pulled.
Earlier today I noted that conservatives and liberals could both be upset if Brown was telling the truth that he didn’t get yanked (it should be noted that Brown could still be telling the truth — to the best of his knowledge, maybe he was in fact told he got yanked for time and not substance): conservatives may have thought he shouldn’t have attacked Republicans at a GOP event, while liberals could have been bummed that the event organizers didn’t come across as hypocrites. With the latest revelation, it seems both sides of the aisle could still come away unhappy.
For example, some conservatives could now say that Brown didn’t get yanked for the right reasons — that Brown‘s Obama jokes weren’t insensitive, and he should have got pulled for attacking the GOP and not Obama. Liberals, on the other hand, might not like that conservatives, who they regularly try to lump together as racists, don’t appear to be that way at all.
The question remains then, who came out a winner? Did anyone?
(H/T: Mediaite)
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Comments (65)
frankee47
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 8:24pmfunny,funny,funny.
Report Post »jessieH
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 8:07pmOk, someone is lying. Either the GOP pulled him for his comments or they didn’t. I am sorry that both parties are trying to ruin his career. He’s a funny guy! Republican or Democrat, I see no difference. They both lie through their teeth.
Report Post »miles from nowhere
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 7:37pmHow about pulling Obama for trying to impersonate a president?
Report Post »Jim in Houston
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 9:43pmMuch better idea!
Report Post »godhead
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 10:24pmduh huk duh huk duh huk . . .dat a good one . . . duh huk . . . yup it is
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 7:30pmRLC shows itself to be enslaved to the Politically Correct Paranoid Delusions that are paralyzing our society. RLC needs to grow a sense of humor.
Report Post »Gnostyk
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 11:57pmAgreed.
Report Post »GodsPuppet
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 7:05pmThe movie “Dave” comes to mind….
Report Post »Tony Cat
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 7:04pmHis routine was frickin hilarious!! He had plenty of jokes aimed at the Left and Right.
Stop making a big deal of why he was pulled. He admits he ran 3 minutes over. Yes, some might complain about the racial material, and yes he appeared to be going on a GOP tirade.
They let jokes go on both sides, and pulled him. The material was great, I wish there was more.
He wasn’t the only speaker pulled, other people ran long too. He said that himself.
Report Post »Gene_Poole
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 6:33pmThe RNC needs to forget comedy routines by stand-ins that just create fodder for leftists that are professional victims. If we want a good laugh or cry about Obama all we have to do is see the results of his policies. How could anyone be so wrong on so many issues? Yet he continues to fool leftists into supporting him.
Report Post »Redistributor
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 5:52pmWTF are you kiddin me. That was A material not and not offesive at all.
Report Post »NathanM
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 5:41pmBased on the routine, I would believe the “ran over time” story. It ended up looking bad because of where he was in his routine, but would make sense. I don’t really trust Charlie Davis on this one, it looks like a convenient cover to try and win political points against the “racists” smear. That makes me wonder if he wasn’t really pulled for the RNC jokes. Why didn’t Davis just leave it alone?
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 5:39pmthe entire routiine was funny. if a black American man cannot joke about obama, then who can. too bad the RNC chooses to go down the obamapath to PC BS.
Report Post »LIBSALWAYSLIE
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 5:37pmMONICNE= moron, each and every post
Report Post »Jim in Houston
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 9:41pmA Huff & Puff troll paid to create discord.
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 2:13pmI make about $24K a month after taxes working suckers on this site alone.
Report Post »eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 5:24pmThe routine was pretty dumb – and a pretty dumb idea. If I were attending a Republican or conservative event (or any event, for that matter), I certainly would not want to look at or listen to someone who looks and sounds like obama – - – obama is America’s greatest enemy and the damage he continues to inflict on America is no joke. How about something entertaining? :(
Report Post »swampbuck
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 5:14pmyou hire a political satirist and that is what you get… get a sense of humor GOP.. is it any wonder more and more people identify as libertarians now..
Report Post »geonj
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 5:04pmcharlie davis is an idiot. it is small wonder the republican party is having trouble feilding a set of candidates for president with any guts. to damned politically correct. get over it you fool. nothing rebbie brown said shouldn’t have been said in the context of his comedy set. charlie davis should go work for the far left. he obviously doesn’t practice republican values.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 6:06amSome one should yank Charlie Davis, NOW. What a useless idiot. He only said this to avoid criticism of Republicans being “racially insensitive”, which only shows what a coward he is.
Report Post »curtmavi38
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 5:03pmI watched him and I thought he was funny, he jabbed both parties,which is why he was hired. Why don ‘t you laugh and chalk it up to comedy. Both parties and Obama can take it. Quit being so thinned skined.meh
Report Post »pekelady
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 4:59pmLook at the bright side, you could need to press “2” for English.
Report Post »ThoreauHD
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 4:56pmHe was insulting the GOP candidate’s when they pulled him. What part of that was racist?
Report Post »ENCINOM
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 4:53pmI wish they would shut me up
Report Post »Jim in Houston
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 9:38pmWe all do snookums.
Report Post »BigConserv
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 4:53pmIf it were the DNC poking fun and ridiculing previouos Repulicans everyone would just laugh it off Crazy how Lib comedians can say what they want and say outragous statements and no one cares, I think it should go both ways??
Report Post »nomercy63
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 4:52pmLOL, When you start censoring speech you really dig yourself in a hole don’t you!!!!! What exactly is racially insensitive, listen to rap music or watch HBO I guess they are sensitive or CNN, MSNBC so on and so on! I am offended every time I have to press one for English, This story is a joke itself!
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 4:58pmOr listen to Bill Maher. Or watch the Trump roast a few months back.
Report Post »This is now becoming stupid.
The guy is a comedian and humor should not be censored too quickly…if ever.
PC is pure BS.
neverending
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 12:38amI agree with you totally!
Report Post »Clive
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 4:42pmwell… no one came out a winner… i don’t think the stuff he said was that offensive… or that funny. in fact, i’m mostly let down by how unfunny it was… the whole thing was pretty flat. if you are going to be racist, you could at least be funny.
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 4:47pmI thought it was hilarious
Enough gloom and doom
Obummer golfs on MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND<—–NOT Funny
Any bets ON what excuse Obummer uses for NEXT weekend's golfing trip?
Report Post »Maybe fly to Scotland and play 18 holes???
ENOUGH
NO BO in 2012
MONICNE
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 4:51pmIf you are going to pay for 20 minutes, you could let him stand up there more than 7…
Report Post »NathanM
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 5:37pm17 minutes, not 7 – he got shorted by 3 min and wasn’t the only one to speak at the event that got cut short, at least according to Brown.
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 2:11pmThe real-time C-SPAN recording has him onstage 6 minutes 51 seconds.
Report Post »ozzie
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 4:42pmGOP doesn’t even have the stones to tolerate some jokes from a “comedian”, and they intend to win against Obama how?
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 4:50pmThat’s about the size of it, yes.
Report Post »spirited
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 5:01pmObama didn’t get pulled off the stage when he said, “My grandmother was a typical white woman”.
>….And that wasn’t funny.
Report Post »angelcat
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 4:42pmWhy does there have to be a winner at all? It was a good move to pull the guy, no matter why he was pulled, though I suspect it was because of his racial insensitivity. No matter why they did it, liberals want to believe the worst because it was a Republican gathering.
Report Post »tbconrad
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 4:41pmWas the comedian not black? if so can’t blacks tell racially tinged jokes without them being racially tinged? I mean they call each other the (n) word. I saw the 5 minute routine and nothing seemed out of order.
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 4:54pmThis was so stupid & unprofessional from the part of Charlie Davis .
Report Post »if Charlie Davis doesn’t know ’till now what political comedians do , he should never in his life run an event like this .
Steve Bridges is President Bush impersonator & he was never pulled off stage for making fun of Bush , even Bush performed with Steve on stage .
Shame on you Charlie Davis .
Rightsofman
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 9:48pmSeems I remember some court decision that determined that minorities by virtue of being minorities cannot be accused of racism. Has anyone out there heard that?
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 4:33pmlol, since when are republicans a race?
Report Post »Carl1 Supports Israel
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 4:38pmBoth sides needs to lighten up cut out the political correctness BS. He’s a comedian…. AND he did his job. He was funny
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 4:40pmThey let 2-3 minutes of race jokes go by – then 2-3 minutes pf President jokes – and then after he started telling a series of GOP Candidate jokes (Newt, Tim, Mitt, and Michelle;) they cut his mike and took him away.
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 4:52pmThe GOP is the stupid party, but we have some folks from the Tea Party who are going to straighten it out.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 5:03pmA black guy telling racially insensitive jokes? Oh, the humanity! Now I have heard it all.
Report Post »/sarcasm off
Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 5:06pm@MONICNE/ENCINOM
Report Post »Boy, you are gonna have a big paycheck this week, for all the blogging you are doing.
How does that work? Are you paid by the blog or the reaction you incite?
I just made you some more money :-)
Susan Harkins
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 5:06pm“Update: RLC President Now Says Obama Impersonator Pulled for ‘Racially Insensitive Jokes’
Oh, I misread the title for a sec…
…I thought the The Impersonator of the Presidency, Mr. Obozo, was pulled for being a racist.
Report Post »Susan Harkins
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 5:30pmGuys, you missed the BIGGEST joke in the entire article…
you are going to bust out laughing when you (re)read it…
ready?…….Ready?……READY???
OK, here we go:
“The RLC is designed to showcase the top Republican leaders and ideas in the country – to talk about limited government, fiscal responsibility and rebuilding the American economy.”
Bwahahahahaha!
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 5:38pmThe chairman has now demonstrated to the world that he is timid, humourless, and lacking in political judgement.
Not what I would have thought to ne suitable traits for the position he holds.
Perhaps he enjoys people laughing at him pityingly from all around the world.
Report Post »avenger
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 5:51pmgive it a rest..at least he did not want to eliminate owe bummer…
Report Post »Bear
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 8:52pmEXREPUBLISHEEP!
Your a dip-ShItT! That being said,,,what the HeLl* is the Republican Party doing putting a Obamasheep impersonator up there with out checking out his brain washed history? Don’t they know these people lie about what they are,,who cares it the ******** had a GW impersonator at their Conventions! Whats next X-repub current Liberal suck a$$ Commie Punk,,are you guys going to do something Gay like throw glitter all over everyone,,,You Stupid,Liberal,Hippie Moron!
Report Post »JRook
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 11:55amInteresting how the conservative republican machine tried to get ahead of this one. It was because he had made some jokes about M. Bachmann. But than again given how easy it is to make fun of her, he should have been pulled.
Report Post »Michael
Posted on June 26, 2011 at 8:32pmCharlie Davis needs replaced! The idea that we are to bow down to the PC Police is crazy and it needs to be stopped now.
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