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Obama and Luther on Government Surveillance
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The premise
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In one of his weekly addresses, President Obama sets out to reassure Americans that the government's electronic surveillance programmes are aimed only at terrorists and not at reading everyone's email. His anger translator Luther delivers the unfiltered version: the government has no interest in anyone's embarrassing online habits, and he helpfully lists the kind of search terms that are definitely not on the watch list, prompting a puzzled Obama to ask about one of them. As the president defends the policies, Luther turns each of his talking points into a dirty joke until Obama stops to scold him for undermining the office, and Luther ends by warning what the country would look like if drones targeted perverts. After signing off, Obama quietly asks what one of Luther's terms means, and the explanation leaves him disgusted.
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Not prevent you from watching videos of ass destruction!
Luther, why are you trying to undermine the president with your juvenile sexual innuendo?
If we was drone-strikin' perverts, our country would look like Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome right about now.
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Script
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- 00:03
Barack Obama
Hello, my fellow Americans. With me, as always, is my anger translator, Luther.
- 00:08
Luther
Hi.
- 00:09
Barack Obama
Now, the first year of my second term has been a challenge.
- 00:12
Luther
Cluster?
- 00:15
Barack Obama
Tonight, I'd like to address the concerns of the American people over what they perceive as the U.S. government spying on their digital and electronic activities.
- 00:24
Luther
Man, you're all some deluded, self-important motherf***ers if you think we're interested in your deviant porn-watching asses.
- 00:30
Barack Obama
I can assure you, the American people, we are not reading every individual e-mail. Rather, we're searching for key words that would indicate a threat.
- 00:39
Luther
And don't worry, everybody. Those key words are not girl on girl, anal, squirting, plopping.
- 00:46
Barack Obama
Mm. Plopping.
- 00:48
Luther
What the is plopping, you dirty mother ?
- 00:51
Barack Obama
These key words are being used, amongst other things, to prevent terrorists from using weapons of mass destruction.
- 00:58
Luther
Not prevent you from watching videos of ass destruction.
- 01:02
Barack Obama
Now, these policies have already foiled numerous terrorist plots.
- 01:06
Luther
These are not the kind of plots that y'all are used to, like when a guy comes in the door with his penis in a pizza box and a lady sucks on it.
- 01:12
Barack Obama
And I assure you that the country's gotten safer since the end of the Bush era.
- 01:18
Luther
And I ain't talking about the president. Boop.
- 01:20
Barack Obama
These policies have allowed us to probe and penetrate into the deep...
- 01:23
Luther
I know you all been probing.
- 01:25
Barack Obama
No, Luther, just what I'm trying to say is that there have been numerous terrorist cells
- 01:29
Luther
And you gotta think, if you...
- 01:31
Barack Obama
Luther... Okay, Luther, why are you trying to undermine the president with your juvenile sexual innuendo? The average American has nothing to fear from these policies.
- 01:40
Luther
Now, if we was drone-striking perverts, our country would look like Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome right about now. I'm talking about a post-apocalyptic nightmare!
- 01:50
Barack Obama
Thank you, and good night.
- 01:51
Luther
Go to sleep, y'all.
- 01:54
Barack Obama
Plopping?
- 01:55
Luther
Oh, yes, sir. When you...
- 01:58
Barack Obama
Oh, y'all are some sick mother .
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