Joke leaves 'em gasping - Obama quip stuns banquet crowd

rockymountainnews.com ^ | Thursday, January 17, 2008 | By John C. Ensslin

[Grig]

A Greeley businessman apologized Wednesday after a joke about Illinois Sen. Barack Obama fell flat during the National Western Stock Show's annual Citizen of the West banquet.

William R. Farr was pretending to read telegrams congratulating this year's award recipient, University of Colorado President Hank Brown, when he pulled out a piece of paper and said, "I have a telegram from the White House."...

[Grig]

Go figure.

[Izzy Dunne]

"I have a telegram from the White House."
Then he added, "They're going to have to change the name of that building if Obama's elected."

[MoMagic]

I thought it was funny.

[Balding_Eagle]

I don’t know if I should laugh or cry.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

Not to be insensitive, but don’t you think the same joke is going around the african-american community?

[TornadoAlley3]

Oh boy.

[Grig]

The reaction is funnier.

[bert]

Is that a reference to his flapping ears?

[MoMagic]

It is ... the wussification of our thin skinned politically correct society has tempered humor to the point of being useless.

For the record, I still think the Richard Pryor written script for “Blazing Saddles” to be one of the funniest ever.

“He said the sheriff is near!”

[Enterprise]

LOL - “The Person of Color House”

[JohnnyZ]

That's .... actually funny. Go figure. I would have no problem making that joke around friends of any race.

There are lots of other people, though, who are so far gone into political correctness they're minds have ceased normal function.

[elfman2]

The guy’s a freakin idiot, a dinosaur that needs retirement.

[tessalu]

To me, it was not a good joke, and not even funny. I would have let it pass, as if some idiot had made it up.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Thanks for the rest of the story as the web site
is down by over viewing!

[martin_fierro]

Dying is easy.

Comedy is hard.

[G.Mason]

Yawn

Oooooooops ... I'm sorry ... I mean "Off with his head!"

Whew! I lost my P/C control there, for a moment.

[iopscusa]

This is a harmless joke, these PC minions need to get a clue! So what is the name change to the WH? The Black & Tan WH?

[AD from SpringBay]

Everything is blown out of proportion these days. That said - Obama may have just lost. And if he does win, I’ll guarantee more will be made of his skin color than we are currently hearing.

[rhombus]

For the record, I still think the Richard Pryor written script for “Blazing Saddles” to be one of the funniest ever. “He said the sheriff is near!”

Excellent slapstick comedy. There's no way you could ever produce a movie like that now. I don't even know if you can purchase the original format now? Whenever I see it on television is so chopped up and wussified that it's almost unwatchable... almost. ;-)

[CholeraJoe]

The Halfrican House?