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Even the liberals are laughing at him.
In the wake of President’s Obama’s brutal debate drubbing at the hands of Mitt Romney, the president’s own chums, supporters and even friendly late-night comedians couldn’t help but make him a punch line yesterday.
“The consensus is that Mitt Romney won the presidential debate last night. The only people who thought Obama won were the replacement refs,” Jay Leno joked.
“They’re saying close to 60 million people may have watched the debate. In fact, the only person who didn’t tune in . . . I think was President Obama.”
“What a crowd! You sound like Republicans watching last night’s debate.”
Jimmy Fallon couldn’t resist getting his own digs in.
“That’s right, after months of buildup, last night was the first presidential debate at the University of Denver. Of course, a lot of big names didn’t show up to the event — Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, President Obama . . .” he said on “Late Night” last night.
“Daily Show” host Jon Stewart joined the chorus, tearing into Obama as hard as he usually shreds Republicans.
“I’m sure President Obama now realizes, ‘Oh, preseason’s over, I should probably familiarize myself with my presidency and learn some of the various numbers and things that go along with it,’ ” Stewart said on “Good Morning America.”
He compared Obama’s debating to Muhammad Ali’s boxing.
“It’s the rope-a-dope, but instead of letting your opponent punch himself out, you just get beat up,” Stewart said.
Just a week after appearing on her show, Obama was hammered by “View” host and pal Joy Behar.
“Obama looked like he’d rather be back at the White House watching ‘Homeland,’ ” she tweeted.
And liberal loudmouth Bill Maher carved up Obama and his professorial debate performance.
“That president Obama sure is smart, but i’m not sure if i’m gonna take his class next semester,” he tweeted yesterday.
Heavyweight lefty Michael Moore even weighed in.
“PBO — lemme get this straight. You can send in drones that kill civilians, but you can’t stop Romney or Lehrer from interrupting you?” he tweeted.
The liberal laments were backed up by snap polls showing that voters thought Obama got pounded as hard as the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium Thursday night.
Among uncommitted voters, 46 percent said Romney won versus 22 percent who said Obama did, a CBS News poll found. Thirty-two percent said the debate was a tie.
A CNN poll of voters showed Romney won by 67-25 percent.
The debate was a ratings hit. It averaged 67.2 million viewers total on broadcast and cable from 9 to 10:30 p.m. That’s up 28 percent over the first presidential debate in 2008 between Obama and John McCain.
The most watched moment was Romney’s “Big Bird” remark, when he vowed to cut PBS’s funding, said TiVo Research and Analytics.
“I love Big Bird . . . but I’m not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for it,” he said.
Romney returned to the trail yesterday with Paul Ryan at an outdoor rally in Fishersville, Va.
His decisive win in the debate had the crowd of about 10,000 buzzing.
“He’s energized this party so much with what he did to Obama last night,” raved Joe Bush, 51, a retired firefighter. “You can hear it in the crowd.”
Additional reporting by Michael Shain, Jeane MacIntosh and Bob Fredricks