New York governor Eliot Spitzer has tendered his resignation due to his involvement in a prostitution ring. David Paterson, the lieutenant governor, will assume office.
When Paterson, who is legally blind, was asked how he felt being the first Black governor of New York, Paterson was quoted as saying, “Wait…I’m Black? Seriously? Are you putting me on?” Paterson professed to be completely surprised by the revelation, and when reporters expressed incredulity that he was unaware of his skin color, Paterson said, “What part of ‘legally blind’ is unclear?”
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Reading the Caulter column, it amazes me that she used this to bash the Clintons. I know, I know – she uses ANYTHING to bash the Clintons. But it seems more egregious than normal (AFAIK; I don’t think I’ve ever read any of her stuff before). I just can’t see how this even remotely involves the Clintons. Must be a reflex – whenever she opens her mouth or her keyboard it comes out. I can see her grocery shopping list:
– Milk
– Eggs
– BILL CLINTION IS EVIL!!!
– Butter
– HILARY IS EVEN WORSE!!!!!!!
– Bread
– Paper towels
– Peanut Butter
– AND DON’T GET ME STARTED ON CHELSA!!!!!!!!!
– Hamburger
“JFK’s back.”
He IS?!
“JFK’s back.”
“He IS?!”
Ðámņ right he is. And let me just add that John Wayne and the King aren’t dead–they’re frozen! And once we find the cure for cancer John Wayne, JFK, Elvis and a case of whiskey are gonna head to the Afghan/Pakistani border, find Osama bid Laden and finish what he started.
Chelsea Clinton will come in later to do mop-up. Tell Ann Coulter not to wait up.
–Captain Naraht
“My name is George Bush, and I went to the White House in the short limo.”
Say with a vacant, I-can’t-believe-it look on your face.
From the Ann Coulter column quoted by Mike Weber earlier in this thread:
“At least he knew her name. It took Monica Lewinsky’s boyfriend six sexual encounters to remember her name (raising his lifetime average to 8.2).”
Wow! That’s either an incredible display of mathematical ignorance on Coulter’s part or she’s making a joke I am completely missing.
When I read that passage in Mike Weber’s post, I clicked the link to read Coulter’s column in context. I wanted to make sure it actually read that way in the original, and that there wasn’t some additional text which made sense of what she’d written. Nope — what Mike quoted is correct.
What leaps out at me immediately on reading that passage is that 6 is less than 8.2. If it took Bill Clinton 6 encounters to learn Monica’s name, and his lifetime average is 8.2 encounters to learn a name, then there is no way this raised his lifetime average. It lowered it.
The obvious defense would be that Coulter made the error deliberately, to make the column funnier. But I can see no comedic purpose to this error. Quite the contrary, the math error distracts from and ruins the joke for anyone who can do simple arithmetic.
Oh, well. I see by the dateline on her column that it came out a week ago. Not much point in my mentioning this error at this late date, then, since by now many of her loyal readers will no doubt have spotted the error and pointed it out to her.
I didn’t even know what the #### she meant by that 8.2 thing until you explained it. Makes no sense mind you, but at least I understand what she was trying to say now.