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28 April 2013updated 13 Dec 2013 10:56am

Obama at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner: “I’m not the strapping young Muslim socialist I used to be”

The President zings it all over the place.

By Caroline Crampton

President Obama really let himself go at this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner. For starters, he came on stage to DJ Khaled’s “All I Do Is Win”, saying “Rush Limbaugh warned you about this, second term baby!” He also referenced his greying hair, saying: “I’m not the strapping young Muslim socialist I used to be.”

He also suggested he was willing to try “one of Michelle’s tricks” to get a poll bounce, which turned out to be getting a fringe:

The various news networks didn’t escape – he went for CNN in particular, saying “I admire their commitment to cover all sides of a story, just in case one of them turns out to be accurate.”

You can watch his speech in full here:

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