Most Powerful Man in America Meets with Obama - Borowitz observes the Daily Show

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Gives President Rare Thirty-minute Audience

NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) –

In an extraordinary edition of The Daily Show guaranteed to dominate the headlines for days, the most powerful man in America met last night with Barack Obama.

While the most powerful man’s decision to set aside thirty minutes for a sitting president carried with it risks for both men, each could lay claim to some measure of victory the morning after, says Professor Davis Logsdon of the University of Minnesota.

“Just to be seen on the same stage as the country’s most powerful man is a win for Barack Obama,” Professor Logsdon says. “It definitely lifts him up a notch.”

Conversely, the most powerful man in America had something to gain by giving the President so much of his time: “By reaching out to Obama, he’s perceived as caring about those less fortunate.”

But for the nation’s most powerful man, “it took some guts” to go toe-to-toe with a polished comedian like Obama, who has gotten big laughs in such venues as the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

“What you don’t want to wind up doing is being Obama’s straight man for half an hour,” Professor Logsdon says. “Fortunately, that didn’t happen.”

While the consensus seems to be that the most powerful man in America handled his half-hour with Mr. Obama with his usual aplomb, critics are already saying that he shouldn’t have wasted his time with such trivial distractions.

“He has an important rally coming up this Saturday,” Mr. Logsdon says. “With the future of the country resting solely on his shoulders, does he really want to be seen laughing it up for half an hour with a politician?”

[BrklynLiberal]

1. The meeting did no harm to either of them...and may have benefitted at least one of them