WH Economics adviser Austan Goolsbee takes home the top prize...

[Wetzelbill]

OMG, just watch the video at the link. It's hilarious. He's joking but he really hits a few daggers on some people, like Ben Nelson and Sarah Palin. Well worth watching. -WB

Goolsbee Takes The Prize

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.

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

[Wetzelbill]

1. kick

I'll get you some love, Austan.