Political Humor - 696 Words

At a Communist Party Congress it is announced that Communism has triumphed all over the world. Even the United States has elected a Communist as President. The delegates dance in the aisles, cheering like mad, except for an old man, who sits in the corner with a glum expression on his face. â€Å"Comrade,† asks a delegate. â€Å"Why are you not happy?† â€Å"Because,† says the old man, â€Å"I wonder where we are going to buy our wheat next year.† This joke deals with the reality behind the five-year plans and glorious statistics always announced by the East European governments. Without America, and other Capitalist nations, the joke tells us, Eastern European Communists countries would starve. Earl Butzs Ethnic Joke In 1974, Earl Butz,†¦show more content†¦We begin bombing in five minutes. He was just joking and probably never thought his words would be recorded, but discovered that the rest of the world didnt consider this joke humorous at all. The Polish News Agency PAP commented that Reagan had called the Polish leadership a bunch of no good lousy bums a couple of years earlier, while testing his microphone. The agency said that while Reagan didnt say these words formally, he knew they would be spread by news agencies. The Standard, a London paper called the joke a serious embarrassment and Le Monde suggested psychologists would have to decide whether the statement was an expression of a repressed desire or the exorcism of a dreaded phantom. Members of the British Labor Party described Reagans remarks as sick humor. The point, then, is that it is dangerous for politicians to joke around and very dangerous when that politician is president of the United States. George Bush Makes a Joke that Causes Trouble Politicians face danger when they try to be funny. Consider a problem that George Bush had when he was campaigning for the 1988 Presidential nomination. 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