John McCain makes monkey joke at George Allen event

[Poiuyt]

CBS/AP) Sen. John McCain was in Norfolk on Wednesday for a rally and announcement of a new coalition in support of Sen. George Allen's campaign.

During the event, however, McCain made a joke about a monkey flying an airplane, the Hampton Roads Daily Press reports. This comment came as Allen fights criticism for having called opponent Jim Webb's campaign worker "macaca," which is a genus of monkey.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/17/politics/main1907283.shtml

[shain from kane]

1. So what was the joke? Remember the Secretary of Agriculture Earl

Butz's joke.

From Wikipedia ---

"Butz also allegedly uttered the following comment while on board Air Force One during Ford's 1976 re-election campaign: "I'll tell you what the coloreds want. It's three things: first, a tight pussy; second, loose shoes; and third, a warm place to shit." American newspapers and news magazines wanted to cover this, but they felt that the statement was too obscene and offensive to print. According to the Columbia Journalism Review, the Associated Press sent out the uncensored quotation but only two newspapers printed the statement verbatim: the Madison Capital Times of Madison, Wisconsin and the Toledo Blade of Toledo, Ohio. Some paraphrased, saying for example that Butz had commented on the desire of black Americans to have "good sex, comfortable shoes, and a warm place to go the bathroom." Others stated that he had said something too obscene to print, and invited their readers to contact the editors if they wanted more information. The San Diego Evening Tribune offered to mail a copy of the whole quotation to any who requested; they filled more than 3,000 requests.<1>

Negative publicity from the statement forced Butz to resign from his Cabinet post on October 4, 1976."

[AlCzervik]

4. doesn't say. maybe it was something about Bush flinging poo?

monkeys do that.

[BlooInBloo]

2. Yet another white-washed story...

... Refusing to acknowledge that it's a standard slur in French, and Allen's mother speaks French natively.

[LibDemAlways]

3. Interesting that CBS chose not to summarize the joke.

Could be harmless and unrelated, but wouldn't surprise me if it was more pandering to the base. Would be interested in seeing a video.

[bryant69]

5. In all fairness Monkeys are intrinsically funny

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[rock]

6. Did the monkey land on an aircraft carrier

and give a speech?

[Mabus]

7. If it helps

I do remember when the chimp did this. You forget to mention the codpiece. :evilgrin:

[shain from kane]

11. Do you mean this monkey or another one?

ts.com/search/product?ideaID=7340&prodID=66331&sid=vsm:curious+george+airplane+adventure+playset:P

Saw him on a motorcycle earlier this week.

[MrCoffee]

8. Kids in the Hall made a great joke about a monkey flying a plane

It was a sketch about the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper. Holly was drunk and screaming "LET THE MONKEY FLY THE PLANE!!!"

Funniest KITH sketch ever. I'm laughing just remembering it.

[shain from kane]

10. There's a song by the Grateful Dead about a train(ed) monkey.

Monkey And The Engineer
Grateful Dead
(Reckoning)

Once upon a time there was an engineer.
Drove a locomotive both far and near.
Accompanied by a monkey that would sit on a stool
Watching everything the engineer would do
One day the engineer wanted a bite to eat,
He left the monkey sitting on the driver's seat,
The monkey pulled the throttle, the locomotive jumped the gun
And did 80 miles an hour down the mainline run.

Big locomotive right on time, big locomotive coming down the line.
Big locomotive No. 99, left the engineer with a worried mind.

The engineer called up the dispatcher on the phone,
To tell him all about his locomotive was gone.
Dispatcher got on the wire, switch operator to the right,
Cause the monkey's got the main line sewed up tight.
The switch operator got the message on time,
Said there's a Northbound livin' on the same main line,
Open up the switch I'm gonna let him through the hole,
Cause the monkey's got the locomotive under control.

Big locomotive right on time, big locomotive coming down the line.
Big locomotive No. 99, left the engineer with a worried mind.

[alfredo]

16. The Signifying Monkey

The Monkey and the Lion
Got to talking one day.
Monkey looked down and said, Lion,
I hear you’s king in every way.
But I know someone
Who do not think that is true—
He told me he could whip
The living daylights out of you.
Lion said, Who?
Monkey said, Lion,
He talked about your mama
And talked about your grandma, too,
And I’m too polite to tell you
What he said about you.
Lion said, Who said what? Who?
Monkey in the tree,
Lion on the ground.
Monkey kept on signifying
But he didn’t come down.
Monkey said, His name is Elephant—
He stone sure not your friend.
Lion said, He don’t need to be
Because today will be his end.
Lion took off through the jungle
Lickity-split,
Meaning to grab Elephant
And tear him bit by bit. Period!
He come across Elephant copping a righteous nod
Under a fine cool shady tree.
Lion said, You big old no-good so-and-so,
It’s either you or me.
Lion let out a solid roar
And bopped Elephant with his paw.
Elephant just took his trunk
And busted old Lion’s jaw.
Lion let out another roar,
Reared up six feet tall.
Elephant just kicked him in the belly
And laughed to see him drop and fall.
Lion rolled over,
Copped Elephant by the throat.
Elephant just shook him loose
And butted him like a goat,
Then he tromped him and he stomped him
Till the Lion yelled, Oh, no!
And it was near-night sunset
When Elephant let Lion go.
The signifying Monkey
Was still setting in his tree
When he looked down and saw the Lion.
Said, Why, Lion, who can that there be?
Lion said, It’s me.
Monkey rapped, Why, Lion,
You look more dead than alive!
Lion said, Monkey, I don’t want
To hear your jive-end jive.
Monkey just kept on signifying,
Lion, you for sure caught hell—
Mister Elephant’s done whipped you
To a fare-thee-well!
Why, Lion, you look like to me
You been to the precinct station
And had the third degree,
Else you look like
You been high on gage
And done got caught
In a monkey cage!
You ain’t no king to me.
Facts, I don’t think that you
Can even as much as roar—
And if you try I’m liable
To come down out of this tree and
Whip your tail some more.
The Monkey started laughing
And jumping up and down.
But he jumped so hard the limb broke
And he landed—bam!—on the ground.
When he went to run, his foot slipped
And he fell flat down.
Grrr-rrr-rr-r! The Lion was on him
With his front feet and his hind.
Monkey hollered, Ow!
I didn’t mean it, Mister Lion!
Lion said, You little flea-bag you!
Why I’ll eat you up alive.
I wouldn’t a-been in this fix a-tall
Wasn’t for your signifying jive.
Please, said Monkey, Mister Lion,
If you’ll just let me go,
I got something to tell you, please,
I think you ought to know.
Lion let the Monkey loose
To see what his tale could be—
And Monkey jumped right back on up
Into his tree.
What I was gonna tell you, said Monkey,
Is you square old so-and-so,
If you fool with me I’ll get
Elephant to whip your head some more.
Monkey, said the Lion,
Beat to his unbooted knees,
You and all your signifying children
Better stay up in them trees.
Which is why today
Monkey does his signifying
A-way-up out of the way.

[Laughing Mirror]

9. The banalisation of evil racism

McCain's cute monkey joke was an attempt to deflect, to try to take some of the heat off his fellow racist Republican Allen for calling a brown-toned Virginia Democrat a monkey.

[Karenina]

17. Just a little signal

to let everyone know it's perfectly acceptable. No harm done.

[shain from kane]

12. Couldn't find the joke on the internets, so I wrote this one.

A plane was flying erractically in the sky, over an airport. All attempts to hail the pilot were unsuccessful. Finally, the plane landed on the runway, the door opened, and Tarzan, Jane, and Cheetah climbed down the ladder, as the airport personnel gathered around.

The supervisor started yelling, "Who was flying that airplane? I thought it was going to crash. "

Tarzan and Jane both became somewhat embarrassed as Tarzan explained that he had Cheetah fly the airplane for about 15 minutes, while he and Jane joined the Mile High Club, and that he had taken over and landed safely.

The supervisor stared blankly at Tarzan, Cheetah, and Jane and finally said, "You're telling me that you can fly a plane, and that Cheetah can fly a plane, too? I can't believe it. Gee Willikers, what's next?

Tarzan smiled and said, " I'm going to teach him how to land on an aircraft carrier."

[AX10]

13. McCain is as much of a right wing extremist (Coulteresque) as...

George Allen is. John McCain just hides it better.

[LostinVA]

14. Because of his daughter, McCain should be ASHAMED of himself

for going to an Allen function. I wonder what his family thinks? Ugh...

[goclark]

15. This is the REAL MCCAIN ~ dirty scum of the earth

I am so angry.

This should be all over the airways, eachword of it!

He didn't say anything aboutit when they shamed his daughter because he felt the same way they did ~