Joke is no longer on Obama

By: Julie Mason
Politico.com
May 6, 2011 04:36 AM EDT

The killing of Osama bin Laden has proved a trove of comedy gold for late-night television, which had grown moribund lately over Donald Trump and Washington’s federal budget problems.

“President Obama says he won’t release the bin Laden death photos,” Jay Leno said Wednesday. “So I guess we’ll just have to wait for Donald Trump to force him to do that, too.”

Said David Letterman, “We finally killed bin Laden. That didn’t take too long.”

For late-night comedians, however, Obama’s decisive handling of the covert mission is challenging the pervasive caricature they have crafted of him as an indecisive bumbler who is playing into Republicans’ hands with a succession of mistakes.

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