# Watching the Alfred E Smith Dinner **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 21, 2016, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-the-alfred-e-smith-dinner/769215 "2016-10-21T01:05:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-the-alfred-e-smith-dinner/769215/21 "2016-10-21T01:28:57Z")
Careful Hillary- you’re out ahead, no need to get into the gutter ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-the-alfred-e-smith-dinner/769215/22 "2016-10-21T01:31:08Z")
Wow, Giuliani is absolutely stone-faced. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-the-alfred-e-smith-dinner/769215/23 "2016-10-21T01:31:56Z")
“It’s nice to see Michael Bloomberg here. It’s a shame he’s not speaking tonight, it’d be nice to hear what a billionaire has to say.” _zing!_ ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-the-alfred-e-smith-dinner/769215/24 "2016-10-21T01:32:52Z")
She’s killing it! ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-the-alfred-e-smith-dinner/769215/25 "2016-10-21T01:37:35Z")
“Let’s remember what’s important to both of us and just rip on Ted Cruz.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-the-alfred-e-smith-dinner/769215/26 "2016-10-21T01:39:43Z")
Interesting serious note to end on–sounds to me like a very good melding of her political views and Catholic beliefs. Edit: whoah, referencing a specific Jesuit belief practice. Lady does her fuckin _research_! ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-the-alfred-e-smith-dinner/769215/27 "2016-10-21T01:40:24Z")
She certainly sounds like she’s already the President-elect to me. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-the-alfred-e-smith-dinner/769215/28 "2016-10-21T01:40:28Z")
The woman in the red dress behind the speaker at podium is definitely…something. Quite fetching, that is. ---
**Author:** ![carlb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carlb/32/5930_2.png) [@carlb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlb)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-the-alfred-e-smith-dinner/769215/29 "2016-10-21T01:40:42Z")
She’s closing well - tying fundamental Christian tenets to her own campaign. ---
**Author:** ![skdo23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@skdo23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skdo23)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-the-alfred-e-smith-dinner/769215/30 "2016-10-21T01:41:45Z")
Last night, Trump’s coffin was nailed shut and buried six feet under, but now it appears that this wasn’t good enough and he wants his corpse to be dug up and burned, with the ashes dumped into the Mariana Trench to be consumed by bottom feeders, with the excess shitted out and devoured by the yet to be discovered microscopic organisms that exist even further down the food chain. In other words, a Democratic senate isn’t good enough for him, and he wants to give us the House as well. Thanks Drumpf! ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-the-alfred-e-smith-dinner/769215/31 "2016-10-21T01:43:41Z")
> [@carlb](#): > > She’s closing well - tying fundamental Christian tenets to her own campaign. That was masterful. And a stark contrast to Donald’s abomination. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-the-alfred-e-smith-dinner/769215/32 "2016-10-21T01:46:45Z")
> [@skdo23](#): > > Last night, Trump’s coffin was nailed shut and buried six feet under, but now it appears that this wasn’t good enough and he wants his corpse to be dug up and burned, with the ashes dumped into the Mariana Trench to be consumed by bottom feeders, with the excess shitted out and devoured by the yet to be discovered microscopic organisms that exist even further down the food chain. In other words, a Democratic senate isn’t good enough for him, and he wants to give us the House as well. Thanks Drumpf! [I think Jay is even more eloquent than you are with this kind of thing](https://youtu.be/r2NHTRgH3G0?t=44s). (NSFW!) ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-the-alfred-e-smith-dinner/769215/33 "2016-10-21T01:47:47Z")
Best joke was by Smith: “Before the dinner started, Trump went to Hillary and asked how are you,” Mr. Smith said, setting up the punch line. “She said, ‘I’m fine — now get out of the ladies’ dressing room.’” I thought they were both nastier than tradional but Trump hit some really low blows. I noticed they both got booed but she got a standing ovation-did he get one? Still, she’s was 10 times better in her “serious” closing than she was attemping to tell jokes. FWIW, they both seemed to laugh at the other’s jokes. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-the-alfred-e-smith-dinner/769215/34 "2016-10-21T01:49:28Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > Best joke was by Smith: > > “Before the dinner started, Trump went to Hillary and asked how are you,” Mr. Smith said, setting up the punch line. “She said, ‘I’m fine — now get out of the ladies’ dressing room.’” > > I thought they were both nastier than tradional but Trump hit some really low blows. I noticed they both got booed but she got a standing ovation-did he get one? Still, she’s was 10 times better in her “serious” closing than she was attemping to tell jokes. > > FWIW, they both seemed to laugh at the other’s jokes. I don’t know how these things usually are. Trump seemed to get booed when he stopped telling jokes and just went on and on about how crooked Hillary is. Trump, I think, got pretty tepid applause. I bet he wishes he’d ended on a religious note the way Clinton did. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-the-alfred-e-smith-dinner/769215/35 "2016-10-21T01:50:57Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > The woman in the red dress behind the speaker at podium is definitely…something. Quite fetching, that is. That would be [Maria Bartiromo](http://www.bartiromo.com/). ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-the-alfred-e-smith-dinner/769215/36 "2016-10-21T01:53:57Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > The woman in the red dress behind the speaker at podium is definitely…something. Quite fetching, that is. Maria Bartoromo ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-the-alfred-e-smith-dinner/769215/37 "2016-10-21T01:54:03Z")
It seems as though the audience took their cues from Hillary. If she seemed angry, or uncomfortable, they didn’t laugh. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-the-alfred-e-smith-dinner/769215/38 "2016-10-21T01:55:00Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > That would be [Maria Bartiromo](http://www.bartiromo.com/). Yeah, her too.😃 ---
**Author:** ![skdo23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@skdo23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skdo23)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-the-alfred-e-smith-dinner/769215/39 "2016-10-21T01:55:22Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > That would be [Maria Bartiromo](http://www.bartiromo.com/). Better known as the “Money Honey,” at least from my mid 2000’s Wall Street days when she was on CNBC. ---
**Author:** ![skdo23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@skdo23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skdo23)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-the-alfred-e-smith-dinner/769215/40 "2016-10-21T02:00:45Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > [I think Jay is even more eloquent than you are with this kind of thing](https://youtu.be/r2NHTRgH3G0?t=44s). (NSFW!) Yeah, now that I think of it I probably was subconsciously channeling that scene.😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-the-alfred-e-smith-dinner/769215.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-the-alfred-e-smith-dinner/769215.md?page=3)