Viral Video: Clinton’s Diplomacy in the Conan-Newark Mayor Feud
by Kara Swisher
Posted on October 12, 2009 at 7:15 AM PT
It looks like Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will have her hands full with pretty dicey nuclear and terrorism issues in North Korea and Pakistan this week, but she managed to find time last week to try her diplomatic hand at working out the comic state of emergency between late-night television talk show host Conan O’Brien and Newark Mayor Cory Booker.
It started when O’Brien joked on “The Tonight Show”: “The mayor of Newark, New Jersey, wants to set up a citywide program to improve residents’ health. The health-care program would consist of a bus ticket out of Newark.”
As a counter-joke, Booker went to YouTube to make his comedy case several times via video messages, including one barring O’Brien from flying out of Liberty International Airport in Newark.
O’Brien whacked back with some good gibes, until Clinton stepped in this week in a spoof.
Maybe she deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?
