Posted on 04/05/2009 5:37:30 AM PDT by Son House
That's right, Jamie Masada wants government stimulus funds to launch a nationwide comedy tour. And he’s not joking.
“We thought if we could get 1/10,000th of 1 percent of the bailout money, we could get comics on buses, tour the country, do free shows and feed the people who come,” Masada said.
Masada wants to take 200,000 signatures from the Laugh Factory’s online petition to Washington, DC so he can make his case to President Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. So far, he says they have about 10,000 signatures.
“I have already spoken with Paul Rodriguez, Dave Chappelle, Dom Irrera, Paul Mooney, Tom Arnold - they all agreed to donate their time.”
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If ytou work through the details, he’s trying to use Other People’s Money to boost his career and probably make a profit out of this somehow. Sounds like a 21st century capitalist.
In the word of Mark Twain, “A German joke is nothing to laugh at.”
With the bread and circuses mentality of this regime, he’s struck it rich.
With hundreds of millions spent on doorknobs and studying hookers, why not. But only after I get my pony.
Jamie Masada ping
This “stimulus” has been nothing more than to stimulate a fascist state. To crush the middle class and invoke the will of tyranny.
This IS funny.
I know Jamie well. Worked with him every day for years. Believe me, underneath this shtick, he is making FUn of Obama and his policies.
It's a joke, son. I personally know Jamie and he is accomplishing a couple of things here: great PR plus making FUn of Obama's economic policies.
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