Cory Booker to Settle Beef with Conan

Once upon a time, late night talk show hosts could make offensive jokes about a majority-black urban area with impunity. (Comedians have been dining on bitch-set-me-up Marian Barry for years.) Suggested Reading The Real Tea Behind Tina Knowles, Mathew Divorce Suge Knight Claims Tupac’s Mother Made This Shocking Move in His Final Moments Spoilers: Black…

Once upon a time, late night talk show hosts could make offensive jokes about a majority-black urban area with impunity. (Comedians have been dining on bitch-set-me-up Marian Barry for years.)

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But that was before the Age of Cory Booker. Before a little-known mayor of a mid-sized New Jersey city could get more than 820,000 followers on Twitter. Before he could hit back at a tasteless joke with a video that would garner 177,000 views on YouTube.

Poor Conan Oโ€™Brien was so shook by Booker that he went crying to no less than the nationโ€™s top diplomat, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who ย ย attempted to end the stalemate with a video of her own. She threw in a few digs at the โ€œmildly amusingโ€ Conan for his โ€œlame jokes about her pantsuits.โ€ She told the boys to play nice, then with a vicious deadpan, scolded: โ€œConan, please donโ€™t bother me again.โ€

There was W.E.B. Dubois versus Booker T. Washington. We had Biggie versus Tupac. The biggest beef of 2009 may be come Friday when Booker appears on Oโ€™Brienโ€™s show.

UPDATE: Jackย & Jill Politics on Booker's latest YouTube: "This is how you mayor, son." ย 

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