He also said he had a sore shoulder when he threw a first pitch 20 feet shy of home plate. What a cretin.
Posted on 11/01/2006 1:16:48 PM PST by pissant
Pardon our morbid fascination with this story, but in a way it makes us feel vindicated. We first noted that something wasn't quite right with John Kerry way back in December 2002, but even we didn't realize how not quite right he was until this week. At a news conference yesterday, Kerry offered the latest "explanation" for his statement suggesting that the troops in Iraq are stupid and uneducated:
My statement [Monday]--and the White House knows this full well--was a botched joke about the president and the president's people, not about the troops. The White House's attempt to distort my true statement is a remarkable testament to their abject failure in making America safe.
Well, here is what Kerry actually said:
You know, education--if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq.
"The White House's attempt to distort my true statement" consists in taking what Kerry actually said at face value.
Even if the statement was a "botched joke," what on earth would possess Kerry to think that this excuses what he said? George Allen and Trent Lott didn't get passes for "botched jokes"; indeed, here is what Kerry himself said about Lott, according to Salon:
Sen. John Kerry, a [haughty, French-looking] Massachusetts Democrat [who by the way served in Vietnam] and 2004 presidential contender, became the first member of the Senate to suggest Lott was now unfit to lead the upper chamber. "It saddens me greatly to suggest this, but in the interests of the Senate, his party, and the nation, I believe Trent Lott should step aside as majority leader," Kerry said.
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He also said he had a sore shoulder when he threw a first pitch 20 feet shy of home plate. What a cretin.
Should have tried the "I was drunk" excuse.
Or "I was molested by a Priest as a teen" excuse.
DU is like an ant hill that's been stepped on today. I must say, it's great entertainment!
We've all gotten tongue-tied and said things we didn't mean to say, and sometimes the results were offensive or explicit, like the old "two pickets to Titsburgh" joke. That happens to the best of us. No problem. Invariably, though, when that happens, we immediately get all red-faced and try to correct our error, usually by taking a deep breath, saying "Let me try that again," and saying what we really *meant* to say.
There is only one exception to this rule - when we don't think we said anything wrong.
Watch the video. Kerry didn't think he said anything wrong.
I was for the "botched joke" before I was against it!
"My Truth is that I am a Gay American..."
The joke was only botched because the audience that would find it funny is not "the public" but a limited group of arrogant, classist, elitist, lefties.
If he told that joke to that limited audience the room would be filled with har hars and yesses.
But do they listen? Nooooooooo!
Wow. I scooped the WSJ.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1730036/posts?page=35#35
OMG I'm looking for this video on youtube right now.
-PJ
Kerry's the gaff that keeps on gaffing.
Sopt on. Liberal "humor" often has a theme of condescension attached to it. I've worked around many liberals for many years, and they are precisely what you say: arrogant, classist, elitist, lefties.
Exactly! I laughed out loud to think that Kerry tried to say that Bush is stupid but only made himself out to be the dunce. Who's stupid now, Kerry!
How could it possibly be a joke about Bush?
Bush did stay in school. He graduated from Yale. He went on to earn an MBA from Harvard.
So, Kerry's set up line for a supposed Bush joke makes no sense.
The only hypothesis that conforms to the actual facts is that Kerry thinks the Army relies on drop outs and dunces to fill its ranks. This is factually untrue. Data show current recruits have better academic records than the average American of similar age. Since the facts don't support Kerry's statement, the only explanation left is blind contempt for those who choose to defend their country. This blind contempt has been Kerry's mindset since his days in Vietnam.
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