October 22, 2008
Perhaps It Sounded Wittier In The Original Phrench?
Thanks to brave truth tellers like the NY Times, ordinary Americans are by now well aware that John "Foregainst" Kerry (D North VietNam), the highly nuanced Junior Senator from Massachusetts who graduated from Yale University, is just oodles smarter than that arrogant, pretzel-snorting upstart who inexplicably breezed past him in 2004 and usurped his rightful place in the Oval Office. But sometimes, a lofty IQ comes with its own perils...
...one of which is that your sophisticated brand of bonhomie may not be accessible to the common people without the aid of an "interpreter":
Last time it was a “botched joke.” This time it was borrowed.Gaffe-prone Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) is explaining himself again after joking that GOP presidential contender John McCain wears “Depends.”
The 2004 Democratic presidential candidate, addressing a business summit in Cambridge yesterday, was talking about the media’s “silly questions” to presidential candidates when he cracked his “joke,” his spokeswoman said.
“Barack got asked the famous boxers or briefs question,” Kerry said, PolitickerMA reported. He said Obama successfully parried the question.
“Then they asked McCain and McCain said, ‘Depends,’ ” Kerry said, referring to the brand of adult diapers. Kerry spokeswoman Brigid O’Rourke defended the Bay State senator, saying he was recycling an old joke: “The point he was making was that the press asks silly questions and jumps on ridiculous things - as evidenced by this very story.” Kerry was forced to apologize in 2006 when he “botched” a joke that poor students end up “stuck in Iraq.”
We here at the VC Editorial Staff understand the Good Senator's dilemma. Why, we ourselves run into the same sad difficulty all the time!
L'humeur potty is a rarefied and extremely attenuated form of the comedic art not always immediately conducive to the production of loud guffaws and boisterous merriment in low fellows of dubious academic achievement or cranial capacity, such as the company in which we - sadly - all too often find ourselves these days.
This is just more confirmation that we need to return to the days when only the true elite dared to participate in government. You know - our intellectual and moral betters. We need to keep the hoi polloi - the riff raff - out.
Yessir. Back to the basics - back to the days of Baberaham Lincoln - real, old-time conservatism, when we knew what we stood for.
And if there is anything we don't understand, our betters can explain things to us ordinary folk. Or something to that effect.
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