Louisiana Republican Sen. John Kennedy has become somewhat of a comedy legend, at least among conservatives. Liberals, not so much, because he regularly shreds them with his easy homespun humor and exposes their hypocrisy with such wicked effectiveness.
Former President Barack Obama and the toxic Stephen Colbert (who’s somehow supposed to be a comedian?) are anything but funny, and so if you put them in a room together, what would you get?
Maximum cringe.
That’s just what happened Tuesday when Barack sat for an interview with the soon-to-be-jettisoned CBS late-night talk show host. As RedState’s Nick Arama reported, Obama, as usual, put on his “I’m a saint and bring peace and unity wherever I go” act, pretending that he is somehow ascendant and above it all. Of course, anyone who pays attention to politics knows that it is and always was a perversion of the truth, and that he remains one of the most divisive figures in the country. He ended his eight-year run as commander in chief by leaving behind a nation far more racially polarized than when he took office.
Colbert, of course, acted like a little lap dog, gushing and fawning over Michelle’s husband. He certainly seemed to have ye olde “thrill up the leg.”
But Kennedy wasn’t about to let them get away with it:
Sen. John Kennedy on the Barack Obama and Stephen Colbert interview,
— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) May 7, 2026
"Maybe they ought to get a motel room or something." pic.twitter.com/AdBX6XuChG
Oh my, this was some good stuff. If Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, or whatever the other jerk's name is were half this funny, you wouldn’t see shows losing millions of dollars and tanking in the ratings. What I especially love about Kennedy is something that GOP LA Mayoral Candidate Spencer Pratt seems to have quickly mastered, as he proved in Wednesday night’s debate against incumbent Karen Bass and a wooden democratic socialist: you can savage your opponents without coming across as venal and nasty.
Kennedy:
I also got a kick out of Mr. Colbert.
He and President Obama are obviously best buds. Maybe they ought to get a motel room or something.
They were just fawning all over each other. I don't have anything against Mr. Colbert. I've always thought that he was, he was, um, shallow as a puddle.
Now, he doesn't believe that. He thinks he's one of the smartest people on the planet. If you don't take my word for it, ask him.
His personal vanity has always been unshakable. But his problem is not his vanity or his intelligence, it's his numbers. He was losing CBS $40 million a year, 'cause nobody was watching, so CBS told him to sit his 50-cent ass down. And they said, well, you're fired.
Now I am a deeply serious, solemn political writer, so I of course didn’t laugh at any of that. If you did, however, I certainly wouldn’t fault you.
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But Kennedy had bigger targets to hit than a failed far-left extremist late-night talk show host; he also took the ex-president to task for piously droning on about the politicization of the Justice Department. And who made an art form out of that? Kennedy asked. The answer: YOU, Mr. Obama:
🚨 BOOM: Sen. John Kennedy MIC DROPS Hussein Obama whining "the president shouldn't tell the Attorney General who to prosecute!"
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 6, 2026
"I wish that President Obama had talked to Attorney General MERRICK GARLAND and President Biden about that point!"
"They prosecuted a former… pic.twitter.com/v5uT4LM5SM
🚨 BOOM: Sen. John Kennedy MIC DROPS Hussein Obama whining "the president shouldn't tell the Attorney General who to prosecute!"
"I wish that President Obama had talked to Attorney General MERRICK GARLAND and President Biden about that point!"
"They prosecuted a former president of the United States, then Donald Trump, now President Trump!"
"And not only was he a former president of the United States, he was a current candidate for president running against Attorney General Garland's own BOSS."
Kennedy is the gift that keeps on giving, not only because he’s funny, but because he has a deeply-seated sense of how to quickly get to the heart of the matter, reveal the true failures of progressive policies, and expose the endless gaslighting by the duplicitous Democrats.
I wish we had more like him.
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