{"id":2572708,"date":"2026-02-23T16:41:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T21:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-white-men-keep-impersonating-obama-and-its-so-uncomfortable-to-watch\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T16:43:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T21:43:43","slug":"democrat-white-men-keep-impersonating-obama-and-its-so-uncomfortable-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-white-men-keep-impersonating-obama-and-its-so-uncomfortable-to-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem White Men Keep Impersonating Obama. It&#8217;s Uncomfortable"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrat-white-men-keep-impersonating-obama-and-its-so-uncomfortable-to-watch%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2572708&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Federalist article by Eddie Scarry argues that Democrat James Talarico and Josh Shapiro openly imitate Barack Obama during public appearances, in a way that feels obvious, performative, and uncomfortable to observers. Scarry contends this impersonation is a deliberate deception rather than authentic leadership,noting Talarico and Shapiro mimic Obama\u2019s vocal tone,facial expressions,and mannerisms without acknowledging they are imitating someone else. He criticizes their use of christian language to frame policy positions as disingenuous and even compares the impersonation to a \u201cdoll\u201d act, similar to a ventriloquist in Veep. Drawing a broader parallel to recent high-profile fraud cases, he argues the brazenness of the imitation mirrors perceived political fraud. While conceding that impersonating Obama isn\u2019t illegal, Scarry finds the display insulting and hard to watch. the piece closes with details about the author,Eddie Scarry,a DC columnist,and includes related tags.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-body body-md bdr-top-black pt-30\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12\">\n<figure class=\"article-thumbnail mb-30 mb-sm-60\">\n<div class=\"article-thumbnail-caption d-flex align-items-center justify-content-md-end label-xs mt-15\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-camera me-10\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Image Credit<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oiTJ7Pz_59A\">  The Late Show with Stephen Colbert \/ Youtube<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oeqRlhqOEoI\">NPR \/ Youtube<\/a>       <\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-share text-center article-share-simple\">\n<h5 class=\"label-sm mb-10\">Share<\/h5>\n<ul class=\"article-share-list list-unstyled m-0 p-0\">\n<li class=\"article-share-facebook m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/02\/23\/democrat-white-men-keep-impersonating-obama-and-its-so-uncomfortable-to-watch\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-facebook\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Facebook<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-twitter m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Democrat%20White%20Men%20Keep%20Impersonating%20Obama,%20And%20It%E2%80%99s%20So%20Uncomfortable%20To%20Watch&amp;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/02\/23\/democrat-white-men-keep-impersonating-obama-and-its-so-uncomfortable-to-watch\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-twitter\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Twitter<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-truth-social m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/share?title=Democrat%20White%20Men%20Keep%20Impersonating%20Obama,%20And%20It%E2%80%99s%20So%20Uncomfortable%20To%20Watch&amp;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/02\/23\/democrat-white-men-keep-impersonating-obama-and-its-so-uncomfortable-to-watch\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"currentColor\" style=\"width:36px;height:auto;\" viewbox=\"0 0 92 93\"><path d=\"M69.444 55.716H56.772v10.37h12.672zM64.487 37.795V27.32H38.666v38.664h13.18v-28.19zM21.05 27.321h12.653v10.471H21.051z\" https:><\/path><\/svg>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Truth Social<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-link m-0\">       <button data-clipboard-text=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/02\/23\/democrat-white-men-keep-impersonating-obama-and-its-so-uncomfortable-to-watch\/\" data-tooltip-content=\"Copied!\" class=\"clip tooltip\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-link-variant\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Copy Article Link<\/span>       <\/button>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\">       <a href=\"mailto:?subject=Democrat%20White%20Men%20Keep%20Impersonating%20Obama,%20And%20It%E2%80%99s%20So%20Uncomfortable%20To%20Watch&amp;body=%20https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/02\/23\/democrat-white-men-keep-impersonating-obama-and-its-so-uncomfortable-to-watch\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-email\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article via Email<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\"><span class=\"printfriendly pf-button  pf-alignleft\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\"window.print(); return false;\" title=\"Printer Friendly, PDF &amp; Email\"><span id=\"printfriendly-text2\" class=\"pf-button-text\"><i class=\"mdi mdi-printer\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p>After hearing the name &ldquo;James Talarico&rdquo; for several weeks, I finally got my first visual and audio impression of him, and it&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@msnow\/video\/7421241756592737579\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the same one<\/a> I had when I first saw Democrat Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro speak: Does he know that <em>we<\/em> know he&rsquo;s doing an Obama impersonation?<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s truly awe-inspiring to watch a presumably <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >heterosexual white male adopt<\/a> the vocal intonation and hand mannerisms of a half-black man, mimicking his persona to the point where Shapiro even raises his chin and bites his lower lip the way the former president often did to flirt with his mostly-women audience.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2 d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-91456716\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1463670073398-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In his appearance <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/02\/19\/god-requires-you-to-agree-with-democrats-democrats-announce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">last week<\/a> on Stephen Colbert&rsquo;s doomed CBS show, Talarico, the Texas Democrat running for U.S. Senate, sat there looking every bit like that Charlie McCarthy ventriloquist doll but with a speaking style and movements that gave the appearance his skin had been placed by A.I. over a separate Obama interview. Talarico did that thing Obama does where he gazes thoughtfully downward and slightly frowns while speaking, as if what he&rsquo;s saying is almost physically painful. He also did that performative earnest stutter Obama and his nag of a wife sport when attempting to sound relatable and self-conscious.<\/p>\n<p>There are many unattractive qualities in Talarico, most importantly his shameless capacity for invoking some alien understanding of Christianity to make perverse claims, like that God is indifferent to ending human life. (Yes, Talarico said that.) But what&rsquo;s most appalling is his unflinching, obvious imitation of the Democrat Party&rsquo;s most recent, cognizant leader without any acknowledgement that he&rsquo;s replicating someone else. The same is true for Shapiro.<\/p>\n<p>The only greater insult than fraudulence is fraudulence that comes with the bonus of being obvious. Recall the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-maher-defends-gina-carano-calls-out-cancel-culture\/\" title=\"Bill Maher Defends Gina Carano, Calls Out Cancel Culture\">recent outrage<\/a> when the nation <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/12\/03\/scamming-somalis-are-the-love-children-of-dems-mass-welfare-and-immigration-policies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">found out<\/a> about a bunch of Somali-run fake child care and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-homeland-security-department-illegal-immigrants-should-get-vaccine\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s Homeland Security Department: Illegal Immigrants Should Get Vaccine\">health care facilities<\/a> in Minneapolis that offered no discernible services and bore names like <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/08\/us-news\/minnesotas-infamous-quality-learing-center-is-now-closed-records-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;Quality Learing Center&rdquo;<\/a> (sic). What made the scandal so infuriating, aside from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/welfare\/commentary\/somali-welfare-fraud-minnesota-has-cost-american-taxpayers-billions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">billions<\/a> of taxpayer dollars in theft, was how brazenly and openly the scams were conducted.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s Talarico and Shapiro. They&rsquo;re engaged in fraud, right in everyone&rsquo;s face, and they believe you don&rsquo;t see it.<\/p>\n<p>It reminds me of that scene from HBO&rsquo;s <em>Veep<\/em>, when Selina Meyer is privately chatting ahead of a presidential primary debate with one of her opponents, whose whole campaign pitch to voters is that he&rsquo;s a folksy baseball coach who can lead Team America. &ldquo;How are you gonna manage all this craziness?&rdquo; Meyer says. &ldquo;Well, I don&rsquo;t just manage, ma&rsquo;am,&rdquo; he replies using what is obviously a canned campaign line. &ldquo;I coach. And I&rsquo;m gonna coach America.&rdquo; Meyers gives him an incredulous look and says, &ldquo;You&rsquo;re talking to me now,&rdquo; letting him know he can drop the act. &ldquo;I was just practicing,&rdquo; he says.<\/p>\n<p>When Talarico and Shapiro do their Obama schtick, I want to ask them, &ldquo;You do know that I can see what you&rsquo;re doing, right?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Imagine someone told you he really wanted to be a superstar singer and entertainer and then he proceeded to do what was an unmistakable impersonation of Michael Jackson, but without acknowledging that&rsquo;s what he was doing. It&rsquo;s embarrassing for him, but it&rsquo;s just as insulting that you were expected to accept it as original.<\/p>\n<p>  It&rsquo;s not a crime for a Democrat white man to impersonate Obama. It&rsquo;s just really hard to watch them do it.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">      Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0FR8XCMYC\">Traitors: The Democrat Party&rsquo;s Collapse into Anti-American Filth<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-author mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-30 bdr-top-bold-black\">\n<div class=\"row g-0 align-items-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-6\">\n<div class=\"article-author-profile d-flex align-items-center justify-content-center justify-content-md-start\">\n<div class=\"article-author-details\">\n<div class=\"label-md\">Eddie Scarry<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-author-twitter label-sm d-flex align-items-center mt-10\">             <i class=\"mdi mdi-twitter me-5\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>             <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Visit on Twitter<\/span>            <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eScarry\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text-decoration-none\">@eScarry<\/a>           <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-6 d-flex justify-content-center justify-content-md-end mt-15 mt-md-0\">        <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/author\/eddiescarry\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">More Articles<\/a>     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-tags bdr-top-black mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-15 pt-md-45\">\n<ul class=\"list-unstyled d-flex flex-wrap align-items-center mb-0 mx-n10 p-0\">\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/2026\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">2026<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/2028\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">2028<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/barack-obama\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Barack Obama<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/democrats\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Democrats<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/fraud\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Fraud<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/james-talarico\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">James Talarico<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/josh-shapiro\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Josh Shapiro<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/minnesota\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Minnesota<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/somali-fraud\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">somali fraud<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/stephen-colbert\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Stephen Colbert<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>55-character paraphrase: Talarico\/Shapiro mimic Obama; author calls it fraud.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019d like a longer paraphrase, here\u2019s a brief neutral summary:<br \/>\n&#8211; The author criticizes James Talarico and Josh Shapiro for performing Obama-like impressions, arguing the impersonations come across as inauthentic and manipulative. He views these acts as fraudulent and openly deceptive, comparing them to brazen public scams. He also uses analogies about recognition of fraud and notes concerns about the use of religious rhetoric in politics, ultimately saying the impersonations are unattractive even if not illegal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":2572709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Talarico-Shapiro.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546,33651],"tags":[5894,32870,74398],"class_list":["post-2572708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","category-the-western-journal","tag-politics","tag-satire","tag-sorry-i-cant-help-create-content-that-targets-a-protected-group-here-are-five-neutral-tags-you-could-use-impersonation"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Talarico-Shapiro.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2572708"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2572712,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572708\/revisions\/2572712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2572709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2572708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2572708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2572708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}