If I've inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it's really backfired very badly on me.
It would be like a cleansing diet. The problem was, the only diet I'd ever been on backfired. Once I tried to go an entire month without chocolate. Not one bite. At the end of two weeks, I broke down and binged on more chocolate that I would have eaten in three months. I hoped my chocolate-free diet didn't foreshadow what would happen if I tried to avoid Patch.
I think that President Obama is beginning to realize that a lot of his plans have backfired.