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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue May-04-10 12:28 AM
Original message
Kyl jokes about Obama drowning
Source: The Hill
Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) got a big laugh on Saturday at a National Republican Senatorial Committee retreat, but his joke definitely wouldn't be funny to some people.
According to a source who attended the meetings, Kyl told the assembled crowd a political version of the classic three-people-in-a-boat joke: "So Obama, Pelosi and Reid are in a row boat, and it springs a leak and starts to sink. Who gets saved?"
Answer: "The American people."
But love it or hate it, it wasn't even Kyl's own joke. The senator poached it from late night TV host Jimmy Kimmel, according to a source.
One of the first out of the gate tries to show the hypocrisy that is DU.
qazplm (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue May-04-10 12:39 AM
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3. eh
if the joke were about Bush we'd all be ok with it.
Not particularly funny, but pretty standard joke.
Another one that agrees with a "yeah, but..."
6. if the joke were about Bush we'd all be ok with it.
Edited on Tue May-04-10 12:44 AM by AlbertCat
True.
But it would have a whole different feel to it... it would be more true, with what we know the Bushies did and did not do.
That must have offended some of the people over and because they know it is true and cannot refute it they instead attack the DU stats cred of the posters.
No Elephants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue May-04-10 08:24 AM
Response to Reply #6
22. You and qazplm should be speaking only for yourselves, not for "all" at DU
Especially qazplm, whose profile suggests he might not frequent DU enough to know what "we" "all" would have been okay with.
Racial element?
MadMaddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue May-04-10 01:12 AM
Response to Reply #3
10. Sorry, but * life was not threatened over and over day in and day
out. These jokes hold a racial element to them, they are right on the edge and that's why you hear them from political figures.
And lastly, an example of "doublethink".
Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue May-04-10 01:18 AM
Response to Reply #10
11. I don't recall ANY of that kind of stuff on DU during Bush's "reign"
We all said some pretty strong stuff, but I don't recall anything written here that wished him personal harm.
Unless you count wanting to see him behind bars.
I don't call that wishing him harm, I call it justice served.
And more posts along those lines. DUmmies, at the upper right corner of your website there is a search bar. Type in the word "pretzel" and get back to us...mmmKay?
Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue May-04-10 12:28 AM
Original message
Kyl jokes about Obama drowning
Source: The Hill
Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) got a big laugh on Saturday at a National Republican Senatorial Committee retreat, but his joke definitely wouldn't be funny to some people.
According to a source who attended the meetings, Kyl told the assembled crowd a political version of the classic three-people-in-a-boat joke: "So Obama, Pelosi and Reid are in a row boat, and it springs a leak and starts to sink. Who gets saved?"
Answer: "The American people."
But love it or hate it, it wasn't even Kyl's own joke. The senator poached it from late night TV host Jimmy Kimmel, according to a source.
One of the first out of the gate tries to show the hypocrisy that is DU.
qazplm (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue May-04-10 12:39 AM
Response to Original message
3. eh
if the joke were about Bush we'd all be ok with it.
Not particularly funny, but pretty standard joke.
Another one that agrees with a "yeah, but..."
6. if the joke were about Bush we'd all be ok with it.
Edited on Tue May-04-10 12:44 AM by AlbertCat
True.
But it would have a whole different feel to it... it would be more true, with what we know the Bushies did and did not do.
That must have offended some of the people over and because they know it is true and cannot refute it they instead attack the DU stats cred of the posters.
No Elephants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue May-04-10 08:24 AM
Response to Reply #6
22. You and qazplm should be speaking only for yourselves, not for "all" at DU
Especially qazplm, whose profile suggests he might not frequent DU enough to know what "we" "all" would have been okay with.
Racial element?
MadMaddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue May-04-10 01:12 AM
Response to Reply #3
10. Sorry, but * life was not threatened over and over day in and day
out. These jokes hold a racial element to them, they are right on the edge and that's why you hear them from political figures.
And lastly, an example of "doublethink".
Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue May-04-10 01:18 AM
Response to Reply #10
11. I don't recall ANY of that kind of stuff on DU during Bush's "reign"
We all said some pretty strong stuff, but I don't recall anything written here that wished him personal harm.
Unless you count wanting to see him behind bars.
I don't call that wishing him harm, I call it justice served.
And more posts along those lines. DUmmies, at the upper right corner of your website there is a search bar. Type in the word "pretzel" and get back to us...mmmKay?