No. See above.
And holy shit, I hope these two posts clear it the fuck up.
President and Mrs. Clinton are in the Presidential motorcade zipping through rural Illinois when the limo has to stop for gas. While it’s filling up, the attendant knocks on the window. “Hillary! Hillary! Remember me?” the guy says before the Secret Service ushers him away.
The President asks, “Do you know that guy?” and Hillary responds, “Sure. I dated him for a while, right before I met you.”
The President puffs his chest a little and says, “You sure made the right choice. If you had stuck with him, you’d be married to a gas station attendant.”
She responds, "No, you made the right choice. If I had stuck with him, he’d be President.
OK. Hillary tells unfunny gas station joke. Hillary stars in unfunny gas station joke. Can we go back to our lives now?
That was a much better joke, manhattan.
Anybody wanna’ talk about monkeys?
'Cause if not, I think we’re done.
[Homer] It’s unfunny because it’s true! [/Homer]
If she tells an unfunny joke involving Arkansas Razorbacks, she’s mine, I tell you!
Actually, the gas pumps appeared in at least one other episode, and Apu was disinclined to help with the self-serve.
Evelyn: Attendant, I’d like some gas.
Apu: Yes, I’m sorry, I do not speak English, okay.
Evelyn: But you were just talking to…
Apu: Yes, yes. Hot dog, hot dog. Yes sir, no sir. Maybe, okay.
Is anybody going to bring up Apu’s Ganisha idol?
If somebody more clever than me were to make a Ganisha idol joke, then that would be funny.
I can’t, because I’m a Republican.
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*Originally posted by 'possum stalker *
** she’s a lesbian vampire who drank Vince Foster’s blood, BJ308
I have photographic evidence!
Btw, my take- I couldn’t figure out for a while- what the joke supposedly was & why was it supposedly so damn offensive. Finally I got it but it’s a total wash-out.
It’s a dumb joke but it’s not maliciously racist. Any of my fellow Conservatives who harp on her for it are whiny bitches. The main problem is a PC-Media that plays Gotcha!
Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t see how this joke corresponds to “Jefferson, that Virginia farmer” or “Einstein, the patent clerk” at all. Jefferson was a farmer in Virginia and Albert Einstein did work in a patent office. Mahatma Gandhi never visited St. Louis let alone run a gas station there. So where’s the connection?
The joke was lame, the delivery was lamer, the fact that neither Hillary nor her handlers thought to themselves that maybe – just maybe – dumb jokes about Ghandi that make absolutely no sense let alone being unfunny were a bad idea is the lamest part of them all.
I hear you, man! When I first heard this, I thought: “Hmmm. Is it supposed to be funny because Indians own a lot of gas stations? Nah, that can’t be it, because that isn’t even funny.” But apparently that’s it. She’s definitely guilty of not knowing any jokes that are actually funny. I’ll give her a ring. I can update her ethnic joke file with some good ones.
DtC:
You have the ability to read the mind of every Republican in office, determining their true intent w/o any facts agreeing with your conculsions. Somehow, Hillary must have some sort of shielding to your mental powers that you can’t detect her desire at some point to run for the presidency.
How you can say that with a straight face is beyond me. Actually, my mental powers tell me you don’t have a straight face at all.
One day as President Clinton was getting off the helicopter in front of the White House, he had a baby pig under each arm.
The Marine guard snapped to attention, salutes, and said: ‘‘Nice pigs, sir.’’
The President replied, ‘‘These are not pigs, these are authentic Arkansas Razorback Hogs. I got one for Hillary, and I got one for Chelsea.’’
The Marine again snapped to attention, saluted, and replied, ‘‘Nice trade, sir’’’
That definately rings a bell but the simple parking lot is what I remember first-off.
If they are anything like that last one she’s better off consulting Bazooka Joe.
The original joke was told about Sargon of Akkad.
I’m buying cheddarsnax’s take on this. Given the cocoon that high-level pols live in, I reckon Hil sees a quick-e mart maybe once a year. The fact that many of them are owned by south asians is something she has only heard about, not a common-knowledge stereotype.
Are you sure? I thought it was older than that.
Hey, manhattan asked for razorback jokes. Blame him!
You may be right, my proto-Semitic is a bit rusty. Then again, who’s isn’t?
Akmash n’ksheh qumra’al. Mo-fah shiznitz!
I think it was a stupid joke, not meant to be racist and I think Hillary Clinton is pure evil, worse than her philandering, perjuring husband ever was.
That said, if a conservative had said this, they would have to resign from whatever position they were in. But since a liberal said it, it’s okay.
And I think that is a terrible argument.
You agree that the stupid joke indicates no racism on her part. That’s OK.
If you thought it DID indicate racism, hell, that’s OK too. Each position can be argued on it’s merits.
But the whole “Yeah, but if our guy had said it, there’d be hell to pay” schtick is, IMO, hollow and pointless. You can only prove it if ‘your guy’ HAD said it. Said ‘it’, not something in kinda a similar vein or made kinda a smiliar point in a different way…
It can never be anything but apples and oranges.