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American television comedians are afraid to make fun of Barack Obama.

In particular, white TV comedy hosts tread carefully around Obama’s racial background, upbringing, his drug use confessions, his religious beliefs, his intense followers who whisper the word ‘Messiah’…

Maureen Dowd asks if Bar-ama is the UnMockable, and if the American presidential campaign is suffering from a “irony deficiency.”

Many of the late-night comics and their writers — nearly all white — now admit to The New York Times’s Bill Carter that because of race and because there is nothing “buffoonish” about Obama — and because many in their audiences are intoxicated by him and resistant to seeing him skewered — he has not been flayed by the sort of ridicule that diminished Dukakis, Gore and Kerry.

“There’s a weird reverse racism going on,” Jimmy Kimmel said.

So desperate are American comedians to find acceptable jokes to make about Barama, the next US president’s campaign has reacted sympathetically, according to comedian Andy Borowitz, and released a list of utterly unoffensive-to-all jokes they can use instead. Here’s one :

“A traveling salesman knocks on the door of a farmhouse, and much to his surprise, Barack Obama answers the door. The salesman says, ‘I was expecting the farmer’s daughter.’ Barack Obama replies, ‘She’s not here. The farm was foreclosed on because of subprime loans that are making a mockery of the American dream.’ ”

Here’s a word you don’t want associated with you when you’re running for American
president :

“Prissy.”

Writes Dowd :

(Obama is) already in danger of seeming too prissy about food — a perception heightened when The Wall Street Journal reported that the planners for Obama’s convention have hired the first-ever Director of Greening, the environmental activist Andrea Robinson. She in turn hired an Official Carbon Adviser to “measure the greenhouse-gas emissions of every placard, every plane trip, every appetizer prepared and every coffee cup tossed.”

No fun there.

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