No, that reference is so common and well-known now that people hardly blink anymore when it is made.
I’m being series.
If being the humor police is your thing though, we’ll humor you.
Nailed it. Txrangerette, the reference was supportive of Newt, or so I thought. This just shows how careful posters have to be with humor on freerepublic.
Still, the "Germans bombed Pearl Harbor" is a very well known cultural referent.