Saturday, September 19, 2009

Shock the Monkey

This guy is getting a lot of shit for this punchline to a joke, something about a game where a helpless little white ball gets slapped around:
Eventually, the golfers had to agree to a new rule, never before used in the game. "You have to play the ball where the monkey throws it. And that is the rule in Washington all the time," Blunt said, to the applause and laughter of the crowd.
I guess we're supposed to get upset about calling the President a monkey. But I must remain neutral since, to be fair, I did the same to Dubyanutz back in 2006.
4) Or maybe he can explain the irony that the most vociferous opponent to the theory of evolution, the single most powerful man who refuses to think that we descend from apes, looks like this:

1 comment:

Kiko Jones said...

Then again, we all know that because of the racial connotations it's not the same to call a white man a monkey than it is a black man, right?