(Obama Economic Advisor) "Austan Goolsbee takes the prize" FUNNY stuff!

[Clio the Leo]

VIDEO!!! CLICK ME!!!!
http://www.politico.com/singletitlevideo.html?bcpid=1155201977&bctid=42909361001

This is HILLARIOUS! He tears Ben Nelson APART!!!

White House economic adviser Austan Goolsbee took home the top prize in the 16th annual "D.C.'s Funniest Celebrity" contest on Wednesday evening, and he did so in a very unconventional way. Instead of adopting a traditional comedic routine of joke buildup and punchline, Goolsbee peppered an otherwise expected stump speech on the Obama administration's goals with subtle asides that constituted a humorous, sarcastic, self-deprecating and conspiratorial insight into the administration's most accessible punchlines. The targets? Hillary Clinton, Sen. Ben Nelson, Rod Blagojevich, Sarah Palin and Fox News.


As Goolsbee's routine unfolded, he adopted a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde persona; while elaborating on the administration's polished talking points, he'd drop his voice for vocal moments of internal monologue.


Among them:


"When we came to office, it was not that fun of a time to be here in the economy ... but we basically knew what to do (panic) ...." "Let's just start with the fundamentals (throw money at the problem)." "We kinda had to go back and look at the old text books (Karl Marx, Trotsky)..."


On some U.S. banks: "Ingrateful bastards" who "bankrupted your grandma."


On the Obama administration's top priority coming into office: Make sure "all the Clinton people got their jobs back."

(more)
http://www.politico.com/click/stories/0910/austan_goolsbee_takes_the_prize.html

I love this guy. Never failed last spring to perk me up about the economy.

[Jennicut]

1. He was very funny.

On Sen. Ben Nelson: "He is still a Democrat and I do think that if you see somebody as distinguished as Senator Nelson, maybe we can learn something from him (sneak attack) maybe it's a lesson (stab him in the back) and there are many leading figures he reminds me of (Benedict Arnold) ..."

And my personal favorite:

If you think about it, we all want our kids to be educated. ... If you have no skills and no education and you don't know anything, what future do you possible have (Fox News Correspondent)..

[Romulox]

2. The rightwing economics this vampire pushes are ANYTHING but funny.

:puke:

[scheming daemons]

3. Meh.

[Orwellian_Ghost]

15. But it's true

Goolsbee is a well known U. of Chicago economic hooligan. He's not much different than Milton Friedman.

Certainly you knew that before you cast your vote. Maybe you don't care.

[sharp_stick]

4. Meh #2

[scheming daemons]

5. Romulux obviously didn't watch it...

...and has lost his sense of humor during these tough times.

[Inuca]

10. Vampire?

WOW! Sometimes DU leaves me speechless....

[Romulox]

12. Catch your breath with a love letter to Goolsbee from George Will!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/03/AR2007100302003.html

[PBS Poll-435]

11. Meh #3

:barf:

[HamdenRice]

16. Can you "quantificate" his rightwingedness?

Or "quantitizate" the ways in which you disagree with him?

Somehow I don't see you as having any "qualificatoriations" to evaluate economic policy.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[elleng]

6. He's VP's guy, isn't he?

[Jennicut]

7. No, that is Jared Bernstein.

[elleng]

8. Thanks, Jenni.

[Clio the Leo]

9. In the video he talks about....

... being Obama's first economic advisor and that they met while teaching at the University of Chicago. They are also neighbors (in Chicago.)

[LTR]

13. This part was the best

"If you think about it, we all want our kids to be educated. ... If you have no skills and no education and you don't know anything, what future do you possible have (Fox News Correspondent)...

On 2012: "I think might do better looking outside of Washington to governors, there's a lot of governors. There's obviously Sarah Palin (wingnut) from Alaska who's a former governor (quitter) and you cannot rule out that by 2012 (there will be a warrant for her arrest) that she'll be the nominee. ... They might want to take somebody who was against Obama from the start, someone who's just had it out for him for some time (Hillary Clinton)..."

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Oh, and he was competing against... Joe the Plumber!

(NOTE: I posted my own thread on this, but discovered an existing one. The other one will vanish into the ether)

[Clio the Leo]

14. Yep, and to think..........

..... we now have better relations with IRAN than with Fox news!!! At least he'll talk to Iran! lol