Return to Washington Examiner Homepage
May 21, 2013 | 04:39 PM
politics
Washington D.C. weather
Yeas and Nays

Speakeasy: Conan knows what Mitt Romney and Manny Pacquiao have in common

December 11, 2012 | 5:04 pm | Modified: December 11, 2012 at 5:05 pm
Leave a comment

"Over the weekend Mitt Romney -- did you know this? Mitt Romney met Manny Pacquiao just before Pacquiao lost his boxing match to Juan Manuel Marquez. Afterward Romney told Pacquiao, 'You lost for the same reason I did -- young Hispanics.' "

- Comedian Conan O'Brien's take Monday night on Romney and Pacquiao's weekend meet and greet. O'Brien spent his weekend in Washington, taping TNT's "Christmas in Washington" special, meeting President Obama and dining in Georgetown.

Politics Videos

From WeeklyStandard.com

  • He’s No Nixon

    By: William Kristol

    The thoughtful Carl Cannon has written a piece, " Richard Milhous Obama ," concluding that our current president has more in common with our 37th than President Obama's partisans would like to...

    Read More...

  • IRS's Lerner Had History of Harassment, Inappropriate Religious Inquiries at FEC

    By: Mark Hemingway

    Perhaps no other IRS official is more intimately associated with the tax agency's growing scandal than Lois Lerner, director of the IRS’s Exempt Organizations Division. Since admitting the IRS...

    Read More...

  • Yet Another Obamacare Design Flaw

    By: Jeffrey H. Anderson

    The more the evidence emerges, the more one has to wonder: Could Obamacare have been designed any more poorly? Even those who don’t mind Obamacare’s striking consolidation of power and money...

    Read More...

Most Read

Event Tickets & More