Conan O’Brien Ribs President Obama Over Traffic: “Skype works”

[Playinghardball]

President Obama was in Century City on Wednesday night to accept a serious award from the USC Shoah Foundation — but his warmup act, comedian Conan O’Brien, still wasn’t over what Angelenos were calling Wednesday’s #Obamajam on major routes around town. “As a resident of Los Angeles, I’m furious about what you do to traffic when you visit this city,” O’Brien said to laughter at the 20th anniversary gala of USC’s Shoah Foundation. “What the hell? I know you left Washington six hours ago, but I left Burbank seven hours ago.”

“Now I mean this with the greatest respect, Sir, but do you have to physically come here? We love you. This town loves you. You’ve got our vote. You’re good. Audience, what do you say to – next time we give President Obama a Los Angeles award, we mail it to him? And then we fly down the 405,” the comedian said. As the president laughed, O’Brien added that “Skype works” and that if he insisted on continuing to come to Los Angeles, he owed everyone a ride home on his helicopter.

More here: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/la-pn-conan-obrien-la-traffic-obama-20140507,0,1052059.story

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[sharp_stick]

1. There's nothing worse than a Presidential visit

for traffic. Fortunately most people outside of L.A. have figured out ahead of time that the guy is coming and manage to work around it.

I hate L.A. traffic, and the fact that if you're in L.A. you pretty much will drive from your garage to the end of the driveway to pick up the paper. That's not BS either I've seen it happen.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

2. I'll grin and bear it for someone I like. But when it's someone I don't like....

.....for example, when Sarah Palin was the GOP veep nominee and I got stuck on an expressway off-ramp for nearly an hour, you just want to curse up a storm.

[sharp_stick]

3. I know how you feel

I was in New Haven when shrubbo came to speechify for some idiotic cause. His motorcade went by and I instinctively flipped it off from front to back.

As soon as he passed I felt stupid for doing it and thought I must have looked like a douchbag then I looked around and there were at least 8 or 10 other people next to me doing the exact same thing...made me feel a lot better and kind of like a trend setter.

on edit: to be stuck in traffic for someone as vapid and useless as Sarah Palin would be infuriating to say the least.