President Obama's Best Zingers at the Correspondents' Dinner
May 4, 2014 — -- It may not have been President Obama's best performance at a White House Correspondents' Dinner, but he drew his share of laughs Saturday night with jokes about race and Republicans.
He noted that House GOP lawmakers were giving the famously tanned speaker of the House, John Boehner, a harder time than they're giving himself, proving "orange really is the new black," Obama said, in what was probably his best joke of the evening.
At another point, he asked how well would Obamacare would have to work before Republicans would stop wanting to repeal it. For instance, he wondered, "What if it gave Mitch McConnell a pulse?"
Referencing Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, whose standoff with the federal government and subsequent racist remarks drew national media attention, Obama said that when someone begins a sentence with, "'Let me tell you something I know about the negro,' we don't need to hear the rest of it. ... Just a tip for you. Don't start your sentence that way."
At the end of his remarks, former Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius appeared to help the president with a technical glitch, in a weird moment of healthcare.gov parody.
