John Hodgman Asks Obama, "Are You a Nerd?" 147
Hugh Pickens writes "Watch a video of comedian John Hodgman speak after Barack Obama at the recent Radio and Television Correspondents Association dinner in DC and discuss the central question of our age: "how we can heal the great and shameful division that has plagued our nation for so long — the age old conflict between jocks and nerds" and ask Obama: Are you now, or have you ever been, a nerd?"
Re:Of course not (Score:5, Funny)
They go over this in the clip. He's not Jesus Christ, he's the Quizatz Haderach.
Re:Of course not (Score:4, Funny)
Jesus had prodigious beard, an unkempt mane of hair, walked around in sandals in all weather, and saw himself as a man with divine powers who was put on the earth to show people "the way".
Jesus was clearly, clearly, a nerd.
Re:Of course not (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Of course not (Score:5, Funny)
And you, in turn, are confusing stoners & homeless guys as Richard Stallman
(My apologies to RMS ... when the humor is just there, right in front of you ... what can you do?)
Re:Of course not (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Let's first agree on one thing (Score:5, Funny)
Wow, what a nerd!
According to most 80's movies (Score:3, Funny)
Re:First geek President? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:First geek President? (Score:3, Funny)
Well we have the actual video. What John actually says is "the First Nerd President of the Modern Era", but I guess you're too much of a jock to fact-check rather than jump to conclusions.
Re:You know what would be really interesting? (Score:3, Funny)
"If you don't want to work, become a reporter. That awful power, the public opinion of the nation, was created by a horde of self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditch digging and shoemaking and fetched up journalism on their way to the poorhouse."
Mark Twain 1881