Anyone who was watching President Obama's address to Congress on Tuesday night probably also caught the Republican response by the young (for politics... he's my age) up-and-coming governor of Louisiana, Bobby Jindal. What you may have noticed when he spoke, though, is that Gov. Jindal used a cadence that was a bit... unusual. It felt more like he was telling his kids a bedtime story than giving a concise response to Obama's stimulus package or his desire to cure cancer (no joke... listen to the address).According to the New York Daily News, there a Facebook campaign is already underway to get people to agree that the governor sounds like Kenneth the Page on 30 Rock, who is played by Jack McBrayer. Jimmy Fallon went one step further; he got McBrayer himself to respond to this movement, in a surprisingly funny moment from one of his internet test shows (video is after the jump). But there's someone else the governor sounds like, as far as I'm concerned....
Here's the Fallon video. Like I said, I was kind of surprised how good (and brief!) it was, considering it's for a test show.
I'm more in agreement with The Daily Show, however; they think Jindal sounded more like everyone's favorite neighbor, Mr. Rogers. Watch the clip below and see if you don't agree. It's also got the bonus of Jon Stewart almost vomiting as he eats a Jimmy Dean Blueberry Pancake and Sausage on a Stick covered in Lite Baconnaise. Believe me, the set up for that is just too long for me to explain.
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2-26-2009 @ 2:32PM
Jimmy said...
I had never heard him speak before Tuesday night, but I had read and heard lots of good things about him, so I was disappointed with what I saw.
His performance kind of reminded me of Mark Warner, who bombed at the Democratic National Convention last year.
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2-26-2009 @ 3:07PM
Gazzoo said...
I don't know about the voice, but that pic of him sure looks like Alfred E. Neuman.
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2-26-2009 @ 3:28PM
whit said...
We may count on the Repubicans to attempt anything--actually, everything--to become, in the least, relevant.
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2-26-2009 @ 3:35PM
0megapart!cle said...
He is supposedly the last great hope for the Republican party. If he is, I almost feel sorry for the buggers.
Almost. They have done far too much harm to this country for them to deserve anything less than utter contempt and disgust, upon further reflection.
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2-26-2009 @ 3:48PM
Bill Ferrante said...
Did you all see Kenneth the intern making a cameo on Conan the other night? That was some funny stuff!
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2-27-2009 @ 9:50AM
Sebas said...
How about Obama's wife Michelle looks ugly.
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2-27-2009 @ 1:53PM
Gordy said...
Michelle Obama looks like Deborah Cox' frumpy older sister.
2-26-2009 @ 6:50PM
bruce said...
I thought he sounded like Kenneth the page trying to do an impression of Mr. Rogers trying to speak to an audience full of irrational, uninformed, mindless idiots.
When he said he doesn't like "national healthcare" because he thinks patients and their doctors should make healthcare decisions, not the government, how stupid does he think we are? Right now, insurance companies make healthcare decisions. All else equal, I'd rather have the government made those decisions than a company interested in nothing but preventing losses (i.e. paid claims). But under no proposal for national healthcare has anyone suggested the government should or would decide who gets what treatment. But the idea that right now patients and their doctors - not insurance companies - decide on their healthcare treatments is ludicrous. How dumb does he think we are? Granted, a lot of people voted Republican, so I suppose the answer is "very dumb" ... but I find it horribly insulting.
And yes, I find huge government spending insulting and annoying, too - especially bailing out huge companies that are "too big to fail" because they made bad business decisions. But nobody is proposing doing nothing, and Republicans like "Bobby" Jindal suddenly, after 8 years of presiding over wasteful spending and the largest increase of the budget since Reagan... suddenly they're in support of fiscal responsibility (and of course their perennial whine for 'tax cuts'). If they really loved america, they wouldn't complain about paying taxes. The best part of their year should be to send half their income to Washington to support the greatest country in the history of the world... But they just wear their US Flag pins on their lapens and bitch and whine. Assholes.
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2-26-2009 @ 9:22PM
miller980 said...
You think the Republicans overspent? With the left wanting a trillion here and trillion there, pretty soon we're talking about real money. Listening to Obama squawk that he doesn't want to pass on huge debt to our children and then suggest spending trillions of dollars we don't have is the height of hypocrisy.
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2-26-2009 @ 9:52PM
Joel Keller said...
That's it for the political arguments, folks. It's why I didn't go into any of Jindal's statements, just the manner in which he said them.
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2-26-2009 @ 11:00PM
Franklin said...
You're welcome. :)
2-27-2009 @ 1:51AM
YouFaceTheTick said...
Sounds nothing like him. McBrayer though is a funny guy. Jindal is a tool.
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2-27-2009 @ 5:12AM
Franklin said...
Regardless of how you feel about our current President, Obama certainly has raised the standard for all politicians (in terms of their presence and speaking eloquence to the public), just as Reagan did and, to a similar extent, Clinton.
This was supposed to be Jindal's coming out to lead the GOP, and he simply flopped, and I doubt he'll regain any traction. It's over for him. Maybe the expectations for him were too high.
But we have to remember Obama originally came from virtually nowhere when he first publicly spoke on a national forum (in what was basically a rebuttal against the then-in-power Republicans) -- yet people immediately saw (and heard) the potential in him when he did. There was none of that sense from Jindal in his rebuttal speech.
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2-27-2009 @ 11:23AM
Ceerubin said...
this is what liberals do. they try to destroy the right by making them look or sound dumb or making them into a pop culture joke. They did it to Quayle, they did it to bush, they did it to palin, and now they will do it to Eric Cantor and Bobby Jindal. It's how they try to make the left look bad.
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2-27-2009 @ 12:08PM
Joel Keller said...
I'd think Jindal did this to himself, by choosing a speech cadence that sounded more like he should be in a purple dinosaur costume than making the Republican response. As I said, I'm not even going into the content of the speech, just the way he went about saying it. And that was completely his choice.
2-27-2009 @ 1:57PM
Gordy said...
So...according to you guys delivery > content. The guy [Jindal] made more sense than Obama--whose delivery of utter BS seems to get rave reviews.
No wonder we're getting screwed more every day by 'the eloquent one.'
go figure
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