Again– and I say this as someone who has performed and taught comedy for years– if your audience isn’t laughing, it’s not funny. If you have to explain yourself, it’s not funny.
What’s that old saying? If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck. Or a tasteless joke.
Always one to speak — or Tweet — his mind, Sen. John McCain(R-AZ) Monday made a joke comparing Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to a monkey, something one Republican congressman charged was “racist.”
What a knee-slapper, huh? He sure knows how to turn a phrase. And Senator Undiplomatic had the nerve to rip into Chuck Hagel? Then again, war-monger McCain would do just about anything to provoke Iran.
When people responded with disgust, here was his thoughtful, sensitive reply:
The Thompson campaign emails: “The Governor has addressed this with his son, just like any father would do. Jason Thompson said something he should not have, and he apologizes.”
Jason Thompson, the son of Wisconsin Senate candidate Tommy Thompson at a GOP brunch:
“We have the opportunity to send Obama back to Chicago– or Kenya.” (laughter)
As you can see by the very short video, RNC chair Reince Priebus was a participant. You can also hear a woman at the very end retort with this side-splitting little comeback:
“We are taking donations for that Kenya trip.”
What a knee-slapper. Those Republicans sure have wit. And by wit I mean poor taste, racist tendencies, and underdeveloped IQs.
Gee, I guess Ann Coulter was wrong (stating the obvious):
Coulter:
“Where are all these racists?”
Um, Ann? See the video above this one for your answer.
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“There is a world that works. Most of it, but not all of it is in the private sector, and there is a world that fails, most of it, but all of it, is in the public sector. I’ll give you one single example: How many of you have ever gone online to check a package at UPS or FedEx? (most of audience holds up hands)
“I want to drive this home. This is not a theory. It is a practical reality that we have the technology that enables us to track between UPS and FedEx – we track 24 MILLION packages a day, while they are moving, and we allow you to find out where they are for free. That’s the world that works.
“Now here’s the world that fails: the federal government today cannot find 11 MILLION illegal immigrants, even if they are sitting still. [Huge applause - for the first time Newt smiles]. Now I have a simple proposal. We send a package to everyone who is here illegally. When they open it, we pull it up on the computer. We know where they are.
“Let me say for my friends in the news media, that was hyperbole and we don’t need a fact check.” [Huge applause and some boos]
In a lawsuit filed Wednesday, two Guatemalans allege that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were guilty of unreasonable search and seizure, and racial profiling when they arrested Guatemalan nationals picking up a package at a FedEx facility in Florida.
The package contained a passport mailed to one of them by the Guatemalan government in the type of sting Gingrich was jokingly suggesting. [...]
It alleges that when the two 21-year-olds drove to FedEx in January 2010, ICE officials arrested Gonzalez and then went to the car where Vasquez was waiting, held her at gunpoint and separated her from her then 2-year-old son, a U.S. citizen.
Gonzalez was deported; Vasquez, who was reunited with her child a few hours later, is fighting to remain in the United States.
John De Leon, an attorney representing the two Guatemalans:
“There’s nothing amusing about the idea of government using corporate efficiency in order to violate people’s rights. This is a rank operation against a Latino group of people. These passports were lawful passports. There was nothing illegal about them… Corporations should not become police agents of the government.”
Oh, but wait, this isn’t the first time Newt’s relied on the ol’ FedEx “comedy” routine, nosireebob. He thought it was clever 4 years 7 months and 1 week ago. It wasn’t then, and it isn’t now.
Franks voted down Democratic amendments that would have prevented sex offenders, people on the Terrorist Watch List, those with misdemeanor convictions for stalking, and domestic abusers who have restraining orders against them from carrying guns legally outside their home states.
Rep. Franks (R-Putz):
In Arizona sometimes to gain office you have to have shot someone. I’m joking, of course. I hope that the media understands that.
What is up with these insensitive GOP asses and their so-called “just kidding” follow-ups that are supposed to justify appallingly crass remarks that expose their equally appalling judgment? Take Herman Cain, for example…
Imagine the horrified gasps and fainting on the right had President Obama said the same thing.
The way my high school students used to try to wiggle out of obvious insults to their fellow classmates, or even to me, was to insist that they were just kidding.
Herman Cain, you’ve adopted the cop-out of a 14-year-old: “Just kidding! Can’t you take a joke?”
No. No we can’t, not about something this tasteless, insensitive, and idiotic:
Washington (CNN) – GOP presidential contender Herman Cain walked back comments Sunday that he made a day earlier when he called for a deadly electric fence on the United States-Mexico border.
“That’s a joke,” Cain said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “I’ve also said America needs to get a sense of humor. That was a joke, OK.“
Oh, see, it’s America’s fault for not “getting it.” How stupid of us to not see the humor in electrocuting our fellow human beings.
And no, not okay, “pro-life” candidate Cain. Especially when so many of your fellow righties have said similar things with a perfectly straight face. Like you did.
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