Jackie Mason: Presidential debates are now comedy contests

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Comic legend Jackie Mason satirized the tendency of the news media, opinion makers and the general public to focus more on the delivery and presentation of remarks than on the actual policies presented at presidential debates.

“If these debates were held fifty years ago, Groucho Marx would have been the president,” Mason quipped during a radio interview Sunday.

Responding to last week’s Republican primary debate, Mason stated: “You know in these debates, a good joke goes a lot further than a good idea. You can have the most brilliant ideas in the world but nobody will remember it. You know what they remember? Who told the best one-liner. Who came up with the best joke.”

The Borscht Belt comedian was speaking in an interview to air Sunday night on “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio” on New York’s AM 970 The Answer and Philadelphia’s NewsTalk 990 AM.

Mason said presidential debates have become “basically a comedy contest” in which “policies and opinions mean nothing.”

Mason also offered his opinion on some of the candidates.

The comedian said Ben Carson “happens to be a great man and he came up with a couple of great jokes” at the debate.

Mason also had kind words for Mike Huckabee, declaring the former Arkansas governor is “the most passionately concerned about Israel.”

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Mason, however, was no fan of Sen. Marco Rubio, claiming the politician sounded like a robot.

Stated Mason: “Everything is so perfectly rehearsed and every word is in perfect place. Botta-bum, botta-bum, botta-bum. It sounds like if he left it would still be going on. You don’t even need him to be there talking. Because it talks by itself. Botta-bum, botta-bum, botta-bum.”

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