"This would not have happened with any prior President. Matters of such consequence, matters of such seriousness, would have been dealt with in a far more serious and appropriate way and forum and time of day. And by virtue of appearing on a late night comedy show, the President saw to it that these events...all of it was treated as a joke. All of it was treated as unserious, half-hearted, nothing really to be concerned about. It's a diminishing thing that happened last night."For both the office and the country, unfortunately. Disgraceful...
...but perfect opportunity to further the joke of this President with a HILARIOUS Rush spoof!
Related link: What Should A President Do During A Threat Against U.S.? Boys Golf Weekend And Appear On Leno…..Comments Open, Water’s Fine!
UPDATE I: Rush asks, as only Rush could, if his ridiculing of Obama on Leno is the reason the President's called for an emergency presser on Friday?
"Ladies and gentlemen, if I had an out-of-control ego, like most media people do, if I were self-absorbed and thought the world revolved around me, like many people in the media do, I would think that I am the reason President Obama has decided to call a news conference. If I were self-absorbed, thought that the world revolved around me, thought that everybody hung on my every word, if I thought that I was the center of the universe and had all of this power, I would think that my two days of ridicule and criticism of Obama going on a late-night comedy show to discuss a very serious terrorism issue, was the reason why he’s all of a sudden called a press conference for this afternoon."UPDATE II: Rush had nothing to do with this one over the weekend...but the joke just keeps rolling...
"Obama going on a comedy show to tell us something very serious about foreign policy, and I said this is diminishing the office of the presidency, the way Obama’s handling this, just totally diminishing it. He is reducing the office to the lowest common denominator, and I would suggest to you that whatever the truth of this thing is in Missouri, the clown putting on the Obama mask, is representative of the fact that there is a declining overall respect for the office of the presidency.
When the president of the United States more often than not connects with the American people on late-night comedy shows, what else can happen, other than the diminishing of the office."
