# Why Jon Kerry Didn't Win - a Slideshow
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-jon-kerry-didnt-win-a-slideshow/295343
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [March 19, 2005, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-jon-kerry-didnt-win-a-slideshow/295343 "2005-03-19T19:36:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@griffen2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffen2)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2005, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-jon-kerry-didnt-win-a-slideshow/295343/41 "2005-03-20T15:35:08Z")
Thanks for the laughs **Sam**. That was just priceless đ
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### Author:  [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2005, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-jon-kerry-didnt-win-a-slideshow/295343/42 "2005-03-20T18:00:57Z")
> [@Sam Stone](#):
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> I watch _The Daily Show_ every night, and laugh myself silly at the Bush jokes.
The Daily Show is well written humour.
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### Author:  [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2005, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-jon-kerry-didnt-win-a-slideshow/295343/43 "2005-03-20T18:20:29Z")
> [@elucidator](#):
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> The _Daily Show_ is the best available, being 90% lame crap and 10% brilliant, which is damn good when it comes to humor. Probably the best Iâve seen in years was the bit they did with Bush debating Bush, delineating the, uh, evolution of his thinking. It was droll, understated and savage. A picture showing Kerry throws like a girl wins the Congeniality Prize, it should be applauded if only for the sincerity of the effort. They _want_ to be funny, and thatâs commendable, truly, but Ann Coulter is as funny as venereal warts.
Okay, you lost me on the Ann Coulter connection.
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2005, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-jon-kerry-didnt-win-a-slideshow/295343/44 "2005-03-20T18:40:35Z")
Read her stuff. Clearly, the woman thinks she is Swiftian.
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### Author:  [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2005, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-jon-kerry-didnt-win-a-slideshow/295343/45 "2005-03-20T20:13:36Z")
Well, I suppose I am humor impaired. I mean, I know that youâve already acknowledged that this is simply the case of finding some odd looking shots among all those taken of Kerry, so I guess I donât get why itâs funny to find odd looking shots.
Some of them I donât even get at all. What is funny about the corn one?
Whatâs funny about the ball throwing ones? Kerryâs form looks pretty good to me.
Whatâs funny about the one of Kerry grabbing the rung of the helicopter versus Bush in front of the crashing private jet? It immediately brought to my mind their respective service records.
Too bad there arenât any pictures of them reflecting their skills as leaders.
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### Author:  [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2005, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-jon-kerry-didnt-win-a-slideshow/295343/46 "2005-03-20T20:32:26Z")
> [@elucidator](#):
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> Read her stuff. Clearly, the woman thinks she is Swiftian.
she wants the term rechristened âSwiftVetianâ
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### Author:  [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2005, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-jon-kerry-didnt-win-a-slideshow/295343/47 "2005-03-20T21:00:17Z")
Iâve been a registered Democrat since 1972. I have never voted for a Republican. And I live in a city where Kerry got 83% of the vote in 2004.
But, that was laugh out loud funny.
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### Author:  [@Tenzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenzin)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2005, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-jon-kerry-didnt-win-a-slideshow/295343/48 "2005-03-21T04:37:38Z")
Odd to say, because Iâm glad to delight in any visual expose of politicians of any stripe; waited out the whole lot on my slow download to view 'em all, and have to say, wholeheartedly unimpressed. All quite dull, none Hilarious. Dull. Kinda jerky.
Hmmmm.
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### Author:  [@Tenzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenzin)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2005, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-jon-kerry-didnt-win-a-slideshow/295343/49 "2005-03-21T04:47:32Z")
Oh, waitâŚI see now that if I concentrate on the Left side of the screen, pics, I see President George Bush kissing his wife and sundry others, and on the Right side, I see the Loser John Kerry all ajangle.
That is Hilarious, kinda,sorta.
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2005, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-jon-kerry-didnt-win-a-slideshow/295343/50 "2005-03-21T05:03:35Z")
[Ah, here we go.](http://www.strangecosmos.com/images/content/101632.jpg)
Heeehee!
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### Author:  [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2005, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-jon-kerry-didnt-win-a-slideshow/295343/51 "2005-03-21T05:20:36Z")
Yes, the hilarious thing here is that Kerryâs excellent throwing form is portrayed as âgirly,â and Bushâs incompetent throw from the shoulder is somehow âmanly.â
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2005, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-jon-kerry-didnt-win-a-slideshow/295343/52 "2005-03-21T05:43:25Z")
Eh. I didnât really see the humor here. Except the one of Kerry hiking the football; that was good. Most of the rest of them, I couldnât even tell why they were supposed to be funny. **Apos** âs link was a heck of a lot funnier, although I prefered the less heavy-handed version that originally appeared on the Drudge Report, back before the election.
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### Author:  [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2005, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-jon-kerry-didnt-win-a-slideshow/295343/53 "2005-03-21T12:39:41Z")
I thought that was pretty funny and I donât even have a vote in that election.
But, by golly, Kerry has a serious dose of âAmerican Hairâ
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2005, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-jon-kerry-didnt-win-a-slideshow/295343/54 "2005-03-21T14:37:14Z")
> [@Miller](#):
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> Eh. I didnât really see the humor here. Except the one of Kerry hiking the football; that was good. Most of the rest of them, I couldnât even tell why they were supposed to be funny.
Dubyaâs a horrible president, in my opinion, but a cowboy hat sure looks good on him. Kerry wouldâve been a fair-to-middling president, in my opinion, but he looks like a dumbass in a cowboy hat.
A lot of the Kerry pictures are funny for subtle reasons. Like the one where heâs drinking from a cup, and if you look closely, you see that itâs two plastic cups nested inside one another. That just looks sloppyâwhy didnât he take off the second cup?
And the shadow one, where Bushâs shadow looms ominously over a crowd of supporters, while Kerryâs stretches over a vast wasteland devoid of listeners.
I dunno. It was obviously not fair commentary, but it made me giggle a lot.
Daniel
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### Author:  [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2005, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-jon-kerry-didnt-win-a-slideshow/295343/55 "2005-03-21T17:50:29Z")
I kept on waiting for the funny part. Maybe Iâll just head over to Fafblog.
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### Author:  [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2005, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-jon-kerry-didnt-win-a-slideshow/295343/56 "2005-03-21T18:24:26Z")
> [@Left Hand of Dorkness](#):
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> A lot of the Kerry pictures are funny for subtle reasons. Like the one where heâs drinking from a cup, and if you look closely, you see that itâs two plastic cups nested inside one another. That just looks sloppyâwhy didnât he take off the second cup?
Really? Is that why that one is funny? Because the cups are nested? Because either he or the person who got the drink for him accidentally got two? Reminds me of last Friday when we had a pizza lunch for the office, and the woman in front of me accidentally grabbed two paper plates instead of one. I guess I should have laughed and pointed. âYou dumb bitch! You grabbed two plates! BWAHAHAHA! Fucking moron.â
> [@](#):
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> And the shadow one, where Bushâs shadow looms ominously over a crowd of supporters, while Kerryâs stretches over a vast wasteland devoid of listeners.
Which one is that? Thereâs ones with a silhouette of Bush in front of an American flag, versus Kerryâs shadow on the ground. Is that one the funny one?
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Okay, I have to admit that even if you were to point out why these are funny, I may still not find them funny. Itâs great for you if you can. Humor is subjective, and all.
You know what would have been funny? If the Bush bike riding picture was the one where he fell off his bike because of the mud that was on the ranch after two or three weeks without rain. That would have been funny, especially if it was a picture showing how he was supposedly whistling show tunes while simultaneously wearing protective mouth gear. Now that would have been a laugh riot.
And I know funny. Iâll have you know that Readerâs Digest is considering publishing two of my amusing anecdotes.
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### Author:  [@quixotic78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quixotic78)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2005, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-jon-kerry-didnt-win-a-slideshow/295343/57 "2005-03-21T19:34:47Z")
> [@Left Hand of Dorkness](#):
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> A lot of the Kerry pictures are funny for subtle reasons. Like the one where heâs drinking from a cup, and if you look closely, you see that itâs two plastic cups nested inside one another. That just looks sloppyâwhy didnât he take off the second cup?
Maybe the coffee was hot?
I dunno, some of them were funny, but a lot of em I was like, âWait, is this supposed to make Bush look bad, or Kerry?â And some of them were just confusing (someone mentioned the corn one, for example).
Meh, sez I.
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### Author:  [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2005, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-jon-kerry-didnt-win-a-slideshow/295343/58 "2005-03-21T19:50:54Z")
I thought the two-cups picture was supposed to be funny because Kerry looks awkward with his face shoved in the cup, not because the cup is doubled (which is a perfectly sensible way of insulating your drink). I donât think Dubya looks any too presidential in his picture in that pairing, eitherâlooks like a stereotype southern redneck.
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### Author:  [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2005, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-jon-kerry-didnt-win-a-slideshow/295343/59 "2005-03-21T19:53:12Z")
Oops, hit reply before I was ready. Bush also looks a little silly in the shot where heâs nose-mashing with LauraâŚwhat are they doing, trying to woo the Eskimo vote? But the corresponding shot of Kerry holding up a limp-as-a-ragdoll Teresa is fucking hilarious.
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2005, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-jon-kerry-didnt-win-a-slideshow/295343/60 "2005-03-21T20:16:22Z")
> [@Hentor the Barbarian](#):
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> Really? Is that why that one is funny? Because the cups are nested? Because either he or the person who got the drink for him accidentally got two? Reminds me of last Friday when we had a pizza lunch for the office, and the woman in front of me accidentally grabbed two paper plates instead of one. I guess I should have laughed and pointed. âYou dumb bitch! You grabbed two plates! BWAHAHAHA! Fucking moron.â
Yes, thatâs what you should have done, absolutely; perhaps she then would have taught you the difference between Internet mockery and real-life etiquette. An important lesson for all!
> [@](#):
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> Okay, I have to admit that even if you were to point out why these are funny, I may still not find them funny. Itâs great for you if you can. Humor is subjective, and all.
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> You know what would have been funny? If the Bush bike riding picture was the one where he fell off his bike because of the mud that was on the ranch after two or three weeks without rain. That would have been funny, especially if it was a picture showing how he was supposedly whistling show tunes while simultaneously wearing protective mouth gear. Now that would have been a laugh riot.
Humor is indeed subjective, and what you describe might be funny in a different photo essay, one that depicts Kerry as presidential and Bush as a dumbass. I suspect that your photo essay would be less challenging to create, and cause me less mental whiplash, so I probably wouldnât find it as funny; but itâd still make me laugh.
> [@](#):
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> And I know funny. Iâll have you know that Readerâs Digest is considering publishing two of my amusing anecdotes.
Okay, **thatâs** funny.
Daniel
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