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By Booman Tribune

y Steven D
Sat May 17th, 2008 at 12:17:24 PM EST

I've always considered myself a failure as a
human being, because despite my desire to understand others, regardless
of their station in life or their culture, I've never been able to
appreciate the types of jokes that Republicans and conservatives find
so highly amusing. You know the ones I mean. Jokes with a small dose of
violence and murderous intimidation at their core, like this, for
example:

Maybe it's some character flaw in me, some genetic defect, but I just
doesn't get the giggles when conservative friends and acquaintances
respond with a little light eliminationist comedic repartee regarding
liberals, Latinos, African Americans, environmentalists, feminists and,
in general, anyone who doesn't hold views which are exactly like their
own. Case in point: Governor Mike Huckabee's recent stand up routine at
the National Rifle Association convention, where he apparently brought the house down with this crack about Senator, and presumptive Democratic nominee, Barack obama:

 

ABC News' Kevin Chupka Reports: Former GOP hopeful and
Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee is back in the news this week, making a
splash when he took a hit at Senator Barack Obama during the annual
National Rifle Association meeting.
Huckabee made an off-color joke during his speech in Louisville,
Kentucky, when a loud bang was heard off-stage.

"That was Barack Obama," Huckabee quipped, "He Just tripped off a chair. He was getting ready to speak. Somebody aimed a gun at him and he…he dove for the floor."

Now, I know Huckabee has since apologized for his remarks,
but one wonders why he bothered. Clearly he believes remarks regarding
the potential assassination of a prominent African American politician
is simply one of the most hilarious comments he could have made to
members of the NRA, and many of his fellow conservatives obviously
agree, or they wouldn't keep telling us that similar "jokes" by Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly
are legitimate sources of humor, which we politically correct and
pompous liberals simply don't get because we take ourselves way too
seriously.

Me, I tend to think this kind of thing in an America filled with millions of angry gun owners who sincerely believe Democrats and liberals are out to pry their shotguns, pistols and hunting rifles
from their "cold dead hands" is beyond the pale. Certainly, I don't
think liberals making jokes about assassinating President Bush or
Senator McCain would or should be considered in any way acceptable, nor
do I suspect that most conservatives would disagree with me. Yet,
somehow jokes about killing Democratic politicians and other liberal
figures is fair game for conservative comics. I think both are equally
reprehensible and repulsive. And most definitely not funny.

But then I laugh at stuff like Monty Python routines so what do I know.

 

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What, I thought that is what they want to do....

"Me, I tend to think this kind of thing in an America filled with millions of angry gun owners who sincerely believe Democrats and liberals are out to pry their shotguns, pistols and hunting rifles from their "cold dead hands" is beyond the pale"

Why would conservatives think such a thing? Because the Liberals have demonstrated a behaviour, exaclty like that, in NYC, Wash DC, and many more local areas of Liberals hot beds.

But, I agree I don't think that jokes about assasinations, be it Obama or Hillary are funny. That is sick. Same for comments like that about McCain or Bush. Once you cross that threshold, you are no longer talking politics, you are talking about mentally ill individuals.

By 19thholeMay 17, 2008 - 1:50pm

Conservatives took away guns

from legitimate gun owners in New Orleans after the hurricane. But since those are black people they dont count, right?

By hufflarry2000May 17, 2008 - 2:01pm

Funny, but I have seen calls for the

assassination of the sitting President, and those working for him, as well as other republicans,posted on this site. Hypocrisy?

By naacprepMay 17, 2008 - 2:29pm

by hatey May 17, 2008 - 2:29pm

Funny, but I have seen calls for the
assassination of the sitting President, and those working for him, as well as other republicans,posted on this site.

Really? By whom? I have seen a great many posts calling for impeachments and prison time, but I don't recall anyone calling for the assassination of Bush or any one of his cronies.

By roadgoddessMay 17, 2008 - 3:07pm

I think he's referring

...to the Neo-Christian Reich's calls for the assassination of Hugo Chavez. Nice of him to provide yet another example of the moral turpitude of the g0p and its supporters.

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. ~~~John Kenneth Galbraith

By nonexistent manMay 17, 2008 - 3:26pm

You also lied to get welfare

just like you are lying now, you filthy animal.

By hufflarry2000May 17, 2008 - 3:02pm

You don't get the joke

You don't get the joke because you're a Godless Liberal. You have to believe in God, like Huckabee does, to get the finer nuances of that humor.

-- McCain = Four more years of the same --

By dtaylo75May 17, 2008 - 3:28pm

hatemoron, you always see what isn't present ...

you only see the visuals that dance around within that massively empty space between your ears, and those visuals are identified as delusions.

"Bitch may be the new black but black is the new President, bitch."
Tracy Morgan, SNL

By Pookie2112May 20, 2008 - 9:31am

Gun control is not just an evil plot by liberals...

..it has general support from almost anyone who is concerned that the unsatisfactory comparison between US quality of life compared to and developed country that does control access to guns. It is supported by traditionally non-liberal professional groups such as police and district attorneys, or almost anyone interested in having a civil society, or simply the majority of the populations of the cities and communities that have tied to determine their own community safety and quality of life such as those you mentioned.
The wing-nuts has repeated the phrase so many times they do not stop to think of how off based the assumption is that control support is limited to some small radical conspiracy hell bent on denying the majority from having an irrational gun and violence obsession. Just like the often repeated but utterly false claim that people need guns to protect their family. Every statistic proves that those same people are hundreds or thousands of times more likely to kill a family member than a stranger seeking to harm those same family members. But irrational people armed to the teeth have little regard of logic, facts or the safety of their own family let alone the safety of their community.

That is a major reason quality of life, lack of levels of daily fear or unlikelihood of death or grievous harm to members of their family is so superior in civilized countries such as all of Europe, Japan etc. Their live expectancy, crime rates, quality of life and level of education, along with all other major indicators of a civil society are surely superior to the US, partly due to the massive gun distribution among irrational and obsessive people in the US. People who care about such thing and their families support controls on guns, those concerns are not just held by "liberals" but the majority of liberals do support controls for the same reason they are better educated, think more maturely and deeply about issues of their lives, it is a philosophy that tends to be more attractive to informed, thoughtful people.

By StanjMay 18, 2008 - 12:19am

Blowing President Bush's brains out would

have no effect on him.

By alienuslxMay 17, 2008 - 3:51pm

You would be correct ... he needs a BRAIN first.

"Bitch may be the new black but black is the new President, bitch."
Tracy Morgan, SNL

By Pookie2112May 20, 2008 - 9:32am

I don't get the punch line

Can you put anyone public figure's name in the punch line?

"That was George Bush. He Just tripped off a chair. He was getting ready to speak. Somebody aimed a gun at him and he, …he dove for the floor."

I don't get it. Is it the stutter art that's funny?

By f u bush2May 17, 2008 - 6:15pm

Republican humor

see also, oxymoron.

They laugh at the line some one pointed a gin at him. To them, I suppose, that is funny.

I always thought of Huckleberry as more harmless religious buffoon than whackjob wing nut. I guess he is trying to come off more Cheney-esque.

By gt6May 17, 2008 - 6:45pm

By f u bush2May 17, 2008 - 6:15pm

Seriously, what are you supposed to do when someone points a gun at you? I think diving for the floor would be one reasonable response.

Support the Troops
End the Occupation

By Guy FawkesMay 17, 2008 - 6:55pm

By Guy FawkesMay 17, 2008 - 6:55pm

I get it. So the joke would work better using someone like Bush instead of Obama. Because Obama is smart and would dive for the floor. If someone pointed a gun at bush he would be too stupid to know what to do. And he would be wetting himself besides.

Republicans don't get humor.

By f u bush2May 17, 2008 - 6:57pm

By Guy FawkesMay 17, 2008 - 6:55pm

Guy

Did you see the thread on Clinton blaming everyone but herself?

The clinton supporters aren't touching it. They know its over.

By f u bush2May 17, 2008 - 7:00pm

Thats weird

I dont know that and neither do her supporters who are half the primary voters.

By hufflarry2000May 17, 2008 - 7:11pm

Do you know how pathetic you sound??

Do you know people are laughing at you behind your back?

Even Hillary knows it's over.

Be helpful... Help her lose with dignity like everyone else is doing... Like she is doing herself.

Aren't you watching TV??

Don't you see how hillary has already stopped attacking Obama, EVEN COMING TO HIS DEFENSE.

It's time to UNITE. Hillary, to her credit (and my surprise) is getting with the program, getting on board, and getting ready to help Barack Obama KICK REPUBLICAN ASS.

GOBAMA!.. GOHILLARY!

By A GMay 18, 2008 - 2:14pm

Obama will not beat McCain.

Hillary will. No one thinks it is over, especially Hillary. You dont know what you are talking about. She is getting ready to crush Obama in KY you idiot.

By hufflarry2000May 18, 2008 - 2:17pm

Hillary can't even beat Obama...

... How the hell could she beat McCain if she can't even win her own party's nomination??

YOU'RE NUTS!!... STARK, RAVING MAD!!... BAT-SHIT CRAZY!!

COME WEDNESDAY MORNING, OBAMA WILL HAVE WON AN UNDISPUTABLE MAJORITY OF THE ELECTED DELEGATES... AND HE ALREADY HOLDS THE MAJORITY OF THE DECLARED SUPER-DELEGATES!!

Whatever... keep fighting...

http://tinyurl.com/36hfmx

By A GMay 18, 2008 - 3:07pm

Hillary is beating Obama by 29000 votes.

Obama is about to get trounced again in the poor working class state of KY. These people are the base of the Dem party and Obama cannot win them. What fucking planet are you on? Defeatocrat 3?

By hufflarry2000May 18, 2008 - 3:08pm

Whatever!


See You At The Convention!

P.S. You have REPEATEDLY promised that you would support the Democratic candidate, whoever that may be... EXPECT TO BE HELD TO THAT PROMISE.

By A GMay 18, 2008 - 3:58pm

By hufflarry2000May 18, 2008 - 3:08pm

LMAO

Huff thinks he has a point with his 29k number. But he admits there are states that you can't count because they only had caucuses.

How can you put any value on popular vote when you can't get the total?

Image 49 states did caucuses and one state did a primary. And Hillary won the primary state by 29,000. These bozos would be in here telling us she won the popular vote.

It is a meaningless number. You can't count MI and FL and you can't count caucus states. The only true measure is total delegates. And Obama will announce in a week that he has won because he will have more delegates than she can mathematically reach.

By f u bush2May 18, 2008 - 4:00pm

Prediction

On Tuesday evening. Hilllary will have fallen further behind in both delegates and votes.

By gt6May 18, 2008 - 6:27pm

And she'll STILL stay in the race.

"there's no nominee, yet" as she so eloquently puts it. Like that justifies her staying in - regardless that she's behind in EVERYTHING, since there hasn't been a NEWSFLASH, she's in it UNTIL THE END.

She insists on beating the beyond dead horse ... and I thought she was a smart woman.

"Bitch may be the new black but black is the new President, bitch."
Tracy Morgan, SNL

By Pookie2112May 20, 2008 - 9:38am

Kentucky has 60 delagates.

Oregon has 65. Let's wait until the dust settles .

By roadgoddessMay 18, 2008 - 3:40pm

She is getting ready to

She is getting ready to crush Obama in KY you idiot.

Another meaningless win since it is over. She would need almost all the remaining delegates to win the nomination.

By f u bush2May 18, 2008 - 4:02pm

Clinton's plan is working

Obama picks up delegates in Kan., Md., Nev.

Sen. Barack Obama inched closer to securing the Democratic presidential nomination with delegate pickups in Nevada, Kansas and Maryland.

In Nevada, Obama stole a delegate from rival Hillary Rodham Clinton by drawing more supporters at the state Democratic convention Saturday.

A vote of more than 2,500 convention delegates broke 55-45 percent in Obama's favor, giving Obama 14 of Nevada's 25 pledged delegates to the National Democratic Convention in Denver this summer to Clinton's 11.

The shift is a gain of one pledged delegate for Obama over the split calculated after the state's January caucuses.

Although Clinton won the support of 51 percent of the caucus-goers in January, under the complicated system of awarding delegates Obama was put on track to winning 13 delegates to Clinton's 12.

Nevada Democrats were also scheduled to select an additional unpledged, or "add-on," delegate later in the day.

In an attempt to draw supporters, the Clinton campaign sent the New York senator's most popular surrogate to speak on her behalf, former President Clinton.

Faced with a vocal crowd of Obama backers, Bill Clinton all but abandoned typical campaign rhetoric. He mentioned his wife's candidacy only briefly, and instead focused his comments on a call for party unity against the Republicans in November.

...

Kansas Democrats also held their state convention Saturday, selecting Lt. Gov. Mark Parkinson as an add-on delegate. He endorsed Obama in February.

...

The pickup brings Obama's delegate total to 1,907 to Clinton's 1,718. The number needed to secure the nomination is 2,026.

Obama has been widening his delegate lead over Clinton, thanks largely to the steady movement of superdelegates to his camp as party leaders coalesce around the candidate they anticipate will be the nominee.

By f u bush2May 17, 2008 - 7:47pm

By f u bush2 May 17, 2008 - 7:47pm

It looks like many superdelegates are using their independent judgement to decide who they think will win in November. Way to go Hillary! :-D

By ExpatinEUMay 18, 2008 - 3:35am

Republican/humor......

That in itself is a joke. Seriously. They only find humor in the misfortunes of others, and ill-timed, at that. (still fresh)

By roadgoddessMay 18, 2008 - 10:14am

"Wet Starting" your jet is a way of showing off that McCain...

Thought was funny. It got 134 of his fellow navy personnel killed from the fire that broke out on deck as a result. McCain was the only person immediately transfered off the ship...I mean before the other sailors even got medical care. He was probably laughing all the way to his next assignment. Nice to have Admirals for Pas and Grand-pas. He's so funny, should have seen the jet officer in the plane behind his eat that fire stream...hysterical.

Torture is funny to these guys. What kind of a brain does Huckabee have to even go there? Was he just so desperate for applause that he just had to find someway to try to put Obama down? Most Liberals I know own guns...just not assault rifles.
It isn't a question so much of Huck's comments being tasteless, It's more a matter of what kind of insane mind thinks like this? The NRA has an entourage of McCain, Rove and Huckabee embarrassing them? Who would want to belong to a group that would honor these people especially since they have done nothing to advance the NRA's interests? As long as it appears to attack liberals they like it. It's the lynch mob mentality.

By bjobottsMay 18, 2008 - 11:50am

Trying to nominate Hillary was the dumbest move ever.

1. The Clintons have more negatives than anyone. The right wing spin machine came about because of them.
2. We all saw Kerry try to sluggishly respond to the right wing flip-flop talking point concerning the Iraq war vote. The idiots want a repeat of that. Of course Hillary tried to counter that by coming out all hawkish and saying the vote was a good idea. And Iran better watch it. What a tool she is.
3. She is arrogant. She thought this nomination was all hers from the start. That is why she foolishly spent over a 100 million dollars early in the campaign and put herself 20 million dollars in debt.

By f u bush2May 18, 2008 - 4:06pm

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