By Mike Lupican, NY Daily News
Here is what David Feherty, a golf guy who poses no threat to the memory of Lenny Bruce, wrote in a Dallas magazine recently:
“If you gave any U.S. soldier a gun with two bullets in it, and he found himself in an elevator with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Osama Bin Laden, there’s a good chance that Nancy Pelosi would get shot twice, and Harry Reid and Bin Laden would be strangled to death.”
Not funny. An old joke, tastelessly retold. Feherty of CBS – who once wrote a book called “Somewhere in Ireland a Village is Missing an Idiot” – is drawing fire because of it. But you have to wonder how a similar joke might have played at the White House Correspondents’ dinner on Saturday night, as long as it was about a Republican.
Because here are a couple of jokes Wanda Sykes wrote and then delivered to that crowd:
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Let ‘em keep talking.
Conservatives have a great many reasons to be optimistic. Obama’s economic plans will have the economy in the tank before the 2010 elections.
Obama is using the same policies of spending and driving up energy costs that Jimmy Carter applied back in the ’70s. These produced double digit inflation, interest rates and unemployment. Obama will do the same.
So let the lefties keep embarassing themselves. We have bigger problems.
(for a list of reasons why Carter and Obama are so similar, you can hit:
http://firstconservative.com/blog/political-humor/political-humor-jimmy-carters-disastrous-legacy )