The face of Team Obama told a joke about "race" on a late-night TV show, and wasn’t that newsworthy!

The face of Team Obama has been all over TV all the time for about a week, and wasn’t it newsworthy that the face of Team Obama wasn’t seen on Fox!

Fox didn’t show the face of Team Obama when the face of Team Obama made a prime-time speech about healthcare, and Team Obama was very, very angry at Fox!

"We figured Fox would rather show ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ than broadcast an honest discussion about health insurance reform," White House spokesman Josh Earnest told ABC News.

That’s a reference to the program the Fox network aired at 8 p.m. on Sept. 9, when other major broadcast networks were airing the president’s speech to the joint session of Congress.

But even though the face of Team Obama was all over TV (except Fox) on Sunday, and every moment of that media-blitz was undeniably newsworthy, Team Obama saved the most newsworthy moment for late-night TV, when the face of Team Obasma told a joke about "race."

"I think it’s important to realize that I was actually black before the election," Obama quipped.

Harharharhar!!!

What a quip!

And who really cares if that "quip" was composed by President Barack Obama’s Director of Speechwriting, Jon Favreau, and then vetted by Michelle Obama and David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel and the Director of the President’s Office of Political Affairs, Patrick Gaspard, and White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, and probably even examined and debated even in the tiniest West Wing offices, and not just because any joke that the face of Team Obama tells David Letterman could mysteriously backfire with consequences unforeseen by Team Obama, but also because…

That "quip" wouldn’t be the last word on the show, and David Letterman would inevitably respond with another "quip," and then what?

The face of Team Obama might have to improvise, and when the face of Team Obama improvises, it sounds like this "quip" about a new Presidential helicopter…

"The helicopter I have now seems perfectly adequate to me. Of course, I’ve never had a helicopter before. You know? Maybe, you know maybe I’ve been deprived and I, I didn’t know it.”

That was the voice of the face of Team Obama before Team Obama, when the face of Team Obama was crushed in a Democratic primary by Bobby Rush, and that is not the voice that David Axelrod wants to hear on David Letterman.

But David Letterman likes the face of Team Obama, and just when the face of Team Obama was about to get lost, David Letterman intervened!

Obama: Well, first of all, I think it’s important to realize that I was actually black before the election, so… [audience laughter and applause]

Letterman: Really?

Obama: This is true. This is true. So…

Letterman: And how long have you been a black man? [audience laughter]

Obama: [laughs] And so the American people, I think, gave me this extraordinary honor, and that tells you, I think, a lot about where the country’s at.

"This is true. This is true. So…"

Somewhere David Axelrod was screaming "Get back to the talking points! Oh, please, God, get him back to the talking points!"

But David Letterman likes the face of Team Obama, and he mercifully intervened…

"And how long have you been a black man?"

And then all the face of Team Obama had to do was laugh, and get back to the talking points.