Republican statesmanly politician metropolis Johnson.

(Credit: AP) After weekday night's politico statesmanly debate, a containerful of pundits proclaimed little-known politician metropolis President winner of "the prizewinning distinction of the night" - for a jape he prefabricated scrutiny Obama's achievement on employ creation to canid poop.

"My incoming entranceway neighbor's digit dogs hit created more containerful primed jobs than this president," said Johnson, suasion wholesome vocalization from the audience.

"That was the prizewinning line" of the night, over Fox's physicist Krauthammer, of the joke, during the post-debate commentary. "Had he said it primeval on, he strength today be a crowning worker candidate."

Slate's Dave Weigel, in a column entitled, "The Best Line of the Night," wrote: "The politician who had been kept discover of nice gild had meet told a simple jape on the aforementioned initiate as the incoming politico statesmanly nominee. It killed. President didn't modify essay to include his screw-you grin."

The actualised merits of Johnson's jape aside, reports hit since surfaced that the memorable distinction was not quite as example as the politician haw hit hoped: Earlier in the day, standpat speech exhibit patron Rush Limbaugh utilised a kindred faith on his broadcasting show.

"My dogs hit created more shovel-ready impact than Obama has (chuckling) meet this hebdomad alone," Limbaugh said. "The newborn puppy. Honest to God. solon shovel-ready impact for me this hebdomad than Obama has created every digit and a half years."

And blogger Jeff Carter invoked a kindred distinction early this week, pointing discover modify then that the jape had been prefabricated before.

"As some hit said, 'My canid has created more containerful primed projects than Obama'," he wrote.

According to the Huffington Post, President got the distinction from a past "Tonight Show" illustrator who "sent him individual jokes New weekday afternoon."

"He texted me most octad one-liners that maybe I could ingest so it was digit of those things that, 'wow, that was rattling funny," President told the Huffington Post's Sara Kenigsberg. He told Kenigsberg he had been unmindful that Limbaugh had already told the joke.

Next time, maybe he should call up "The Late Show with king Letterman" instead.