The juicy parts are at 21:50 if you're not a Kimmel fan, or you can click here
I do have one real question for you, Mr. President. What’s with the marijuana crackdown?
You know, pot smokers vote, too. Sometimes a week after the election, but they vote.
Mr. President, I hope you don’t think I’m out of line here, but marijuana is something that real people care about. The fact that you believe Speaker Boehner when he tells you he still has control of his party leads me to believe that you must be smoking some crazy great weed yourself.
Ha, burn.
At least someone is saying it to him, and Jimmy does a fair job of emulating Stewart's yeah I'm a funny guy but I just asked you a very serious question shtick. I suppose it's not a shtick really if it's effective, and I think it works here, mostly. It IS the White House Correspondent's Dinner, after all, so the fact that these words are out in the open, heard by the whole crowd, no less, is very good for the whole discussion.
I guess you're a funny man, Jimmy, a gadfly, and you did your part and said the unspeakable. Could've done without the petty jabs at potheads, but I suppose they're to be expected.
Kudos
8:10 PM PT: Is it not strange that not a word was spoken of this in the coverage of Kimmel's performance from the major media outlets? I didn't see anything, and a couple people in the comments below mentioned not seeing anything either.
I think it's quite strange since something like this would probably be a lightning rod for ratings. If anybody has seen any other coverage of this I'd appreciate a link, thanks.