Mick Jagger Jokes About Obama and NSA Controversy

Mick Jagger allegedly poked fun at President Barack Obama and the National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance controversy during a Rolling Stones gig in Washington DC on Monday. Fans at the concert tweeted about the jibe that Jagger made. "I don't think President Obama is here, but I'm sure he's listening in." - Mick Jagger," posted one person in attendance, who also put up a photograph from the venue.

According to Huffington Post, Jagger's joke drew boos from the crowd, but whether this was because of the nature of the comment or at the mention of the President could not be deciphered.

Senator Rand Paul, a Republican, posted the same comment on Twitter the following day, and got 1,050 retweets.

69-year-old Jagger, who has admitted to a Conservative leaning, didn't revisit what he said on his own Twitter handle, but chose to praise Obama later on another issue. "Was a great show in Washington DC last night ending our US tour. BTW I applaud President Obama's new climate change plans, very refreshing," he tweeted.

The NSA controversy that the Obama government has landed itself in began earlier this month, when Edward Snowden, who had previously worked with a government contractor, acted as a whistleblower about the Big Brother-like activities of the NSA. Snowden, who is now on the run, informed the media that the security agency has collected and stored millions of phone records from accounts in the US on the sly. Information about the internet activities of overseas residents was also being collected from US Internet companies. The NSA and politicians in Washington, including President Obama, defended the surveillance program as being necessary to counteract terrorism.

With public horror and outrage on one side, Jagger's alleged joke is one of many about the controversy on late night talk shows and social networks. "We live in what's called an open society, which of course means they open our emails, open our phone records, and open our medical records," quipped Jay Leno in a compilation on Rare. "This week a man was arrested for jumping over the White House fence and trying to spray paint a political message. If that guy really wanted to get a message to the president, he could have just written it in an email to literally anyone," advised Jimmy Fallon. "If the government has been monitoring my phone conversations, by God, they should be paying half of my phone-sex bill," declared David Letterman on his show.