Obama Official Whines About ‘Unfair’ Treatment From…Stephen Colbert?

by Jason Killian Meath

Ed DeSeve, an Obama special advisor in the Office of Management and Budget and director for implementation of the Recovery Act, is calling his treatment by comedic late night host Stephen Colbert “perverted” and “unfair.” Since his appointment by President Obama, widespread errors made in DeSeve’s agency have been rampant — fudging jobs reporting, creating phantom congressional districts and trumpeting the stimulus for creating jobs that don’t exist.  Democrat and Republican lawmakers called out DeSeve’s handling of stimulus as a “disaster” and “outrageous.”  And this guy is worried about Stephen Colbert?!

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DeSeve was charged with getting the Recovery.gov website up and running.  During the Colbert Report, the host pointed out some ‘problems’ with the site, and in typical Colbert fashion, mispronounced DeSeve’s name as ‘deceive.’  Softball satire to say the least, but for some reason DeSeve thought it important enough to go to a National Press Club audience and fire back:  ”Just two days ago, I’m told — because I don’t have cable TV and I don’t stay up late — I’m told that I was called out by Stefan Colburt [sic] — I was called out as being a malefactor in oversight and execution of stimulus. Not only did he call me out, but he perverted the pronunciation of my name.”

Late night comics attacked Republicans 7 to 1 over democrats during the 2008 campaign.  Tina Fey skewered Sarah Palin as a ditzy, dangerous sexpot.  And the hate-driven attacks on the Bush White House…  well, enough said.  All this late night roasting leaves conservatives unfazed, but Obama officials are breaking out in hives at the slightest little prod. 

Can’t they take a joke — or perhaps, truth hurts?

DeSeve’s faulty site is supposed to track how much money was spent and how many jobs were created.  Vice President Joe Biden promised the site would “blow you away.”  And that it has — the defective site cost a whopping $18 million to launch.  DeSeve told the press he “didn’t think there were a lot of problems” with the site.  But the site created 440 fake Congressional districts in all 50 states, crediting phony jobs in places that don’t exist.  ABC News called the stimulus reporting “riddled with errors” finding “700 mistakenly credited congressional districts out of more than 130,000 stimulus grants.”  Call it an 18 million dollar website to nowhere….

No wonder Colbert pronounced Ed’s last name “deceive” — that’s not satire, it’s accurate!


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Posted Dec 4th 2009 at 8:46 am in Political Humor | 143 Comments