Friday, March 26, 2004

Bush Hunts for WMD in Oval Office

At the annual dinner of Radio and Television News Correspondents Association on Wednesday, Bush joked about his inability to find weapons of mass destruction to the accompaniment of a slide show of him poking around the furniture in the White House. For example, "Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere ... nope, no weapons over there ... maybe under here?" as he looked under a sofa.

Click here for the video from CNN

Who, I mean who on this green earth could possibly have thought this would be a good idea? Whoever came up with this one should have their ass in a sling, along with the people who approved of it.

The RNC chairman, Ed Gillespie, justifies it by saying, "The fact is that this is the custom in these things. Presidents have made jokes about very serious matters at these dinners." His butt needs to be in a sling, too.

Quick lesson in humor: the humor in some jokes is entirely dependent on who delivers them. Some people cannot make jokes that are very funny when other people make them. Tina Fey can point out on Saturday Night Live Weekend Update that Bush can't find Osama bin Laden, WMD, and his ass with both hands and a flashlight. The leader of the free world can't. Correction: he can and did. He shouldn't.

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