Update: RLC President Now Says Obama Impersonator Pulled for 'Racially Insensitive Jokes

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)