Off The Record
Kerry’s smart, savvy new sense humor: He keeps it to himself. Boston Herald w/ vid:
Sen. John F. Kerry defended his controversial joke suggesting the GOP’s John McCain wears “Depends” adult diapers, saying today it’s the type of ribald humor you hear at the South Boston St. Patrick’s Day roast or on late-night TV.
Kerry, appearing before the Boston Herald editorial board, bristled at the suggestion his jab was not senatorial.
He even started to repeat another joke lobbed at McCain on “Leno or Letterman,” but he stopped and asked that a video camera be turned off.
The camera was not shut off, so Kerry told the Herald today people can go “look it up” for themselves.
Kerry said the “Depends” line has long been political fodder. When first posed the question, the Bay State’s junior senator said: “Ah, actually, Bob Dole used to joke about it himself.
“It was used at St. Patrick’s Day. Did you guys complain then?” he said. “It was lamenting the kinds of questions that get asked in presidential races and why the media is fixated by certain things like boxers or briefs.
“Barack Obama was asked, and I said … ‘It depends.’ That’s the joke,” he told the Herald today. “As a double-entendre, actually, it is pretty funny. It’s a decent joke. … It’s not half as bad as the stuff you hear on Leno or Letterman every night.
“The other night I heard someone asking why John McCain was so (pause). This is not on the record, because I don’t want to make another joke. You can make the decision. Go look at the jokes they use,” he added.
Again with the “borrowed” excuse. That’s even lamer than “botched.” But Kerry’s strategic decision to stop telling jokes … his own and other peoples … is probably the most useful thing he has done for Massachusetts and the nation since …
Cutline contest on the photo. I’m going with:
“There was a rabbi, a Catholic priest and firebrand Afro-American liberationist minister. They go into a drinking establishment … ”
or
” … you end up stuck in Massachusetts. Stuck in Massachusetts! Ha ha ha! Harumph, I’m sorry, yes, it’s a joke. You see … “
Topics: pols
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 1:15 pm on Friday, October 24, 2008
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October 24th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
… and the bartender asks, “Why the long face?”
October 24th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
… “The Aristocrats!”
October 24th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
He even started to repeat another joke lobbed at McCain on “Leno or Letterman,” but he stopped and asked that a video camera be turned off.
So he was for the joke before he was against the joke.