Tim Blair

Hillary's gaffe was the toast of St. Louis talk radio. Charles Jaco (of Gulf War I CNN fame) tried to make some lame excuse and was about blasted from the airwaves by furious callers.

Hell, it wasn't even a very good joke. Immigrant Indian Hindus never ran gas stations to any great extent, they ran convenience stores. Talk about out of touch with everyday America...Sheesh!

While the bitch is happy to bathe in Gandhis sunshine, is she willing to adopt a tenant of that mans philosophy - the futility of personal ambition.

Too bad she didn't follow it up with a line like "I just flew in, and boy are my arms tired!" How could she have failed to score with that one?

Q: When is the last time Hillary pumped gas?
A: The last time she spoke.

I am taking bets on how long it will be before the liberal media start lecturing us to "lighten up guys! It was just a joke!" Just imagine if Arnold had made that joke . . . . .

It's OK for Hillary to say anything she wants about Ghandi. She, after all, is the liberals' sacred cow.

Bush=Hitler
Gandhi=Apu

It's all in good fun.

I read a longer excerpt, and she just kept going with it for several sentences. She's right about one thing: The attempted joke was LAME. Doesn't strike me as someone with presidential-level intelligence. Ah, dang, now I don't know whether my last sentence was a joke.

All it shows is that she doesn't have the personality for jokes. Here's the audio

Hillary (42kb)

There's not much to work with there. If she could do dialect, which she may be able to do though we don't know it, there are possibilities

Subcontinent Dialect Joke Material (147kb)

Willie: [threatens children] You want to pick on immigrants? Then pick on Willie!
Skinner: Willie, please. The students want to pick on someone their own size.

http://www.snpp.com/episodes/3F20.html

Hillary = Dork

Well, I actually agree with that well-known lefty and Clinton-oid James Taranto: For once, Hillary deserves some slack. It was a lame joke that Clinton's didn't have the wit to let alone. It's not as if she started chanting "Ghandi's mother sucks cock in Hell" then projectile vomited on the first six rows.

Her big mistake was not saying, "Get a life. I'll apologise for being a tin-eared nitiwit if Howard Dean goes first."

Tim, it's a fair point to say if Bush had done the same thing there would have been multi-media hysterics. Pretty good reason for us on the right to not blow Hellary being a dumb bitch out of proportion. Right?

I live in St. Louis, and I have never seen someone of Indian heritage run a gas station or convenience store here.

The joke doesn't make much sense, but even less in relation to St. Louis.

Uhh, what's wrong with running a gas station? Is that somehow unworthy? A position to be mocked? I thought Sen. Clinton loved and fights for all working Americans. Or is this part of that anti-oil thing?

Man, after about 14 years of listening to Rush, I have had it up to HERE with the "image if a conservative had said/done that?!" argument. It may be true, but it is STALE. Just grin and bear it through these gaffes by lefties, and let the voters dish out the punishment. Follow the president's lead and be compassionate conservatives, not whiners. Even if it makes you want to projectile vomit over the first 6 rows.

Quite right Pedro. The whole point is that we on the Right are better than the poor old lefties. We don't give a toss about such gaffes. The hypocisy of the left on these issues is well known. They SAY they care about the poor, the lame, the people of colour, but their actions always belie their words.

Calvin Trillin once opined that, if one were trepidatious about eating in an ethnic restaurant, one should probably not patronize it unless the ethnic group in question had at least a couple of aldermen on the local city council. The corollary seems to be that one can only make fun of ethnicities that don't have ANY aldermen on the local city council.

Pedro, we can't rescue our brethren on the left from their hypocritical righteousness until they recognize what a bunch of two-faced blowhards they are. We don't enjoy pointing out what idiots they are, we do it to help them become better people.

It hurts us more than it hurts them. Honest.

In the first place, she murdered the joke. Secondly, it was rather insensitive - BUT (there's that liberal BUT again!) she gets a pass being the standard bearer of liberals who hate Howard Dean.

Would refering to Ms. Clinton as "trailer trash" be insensitive? And if so, to whom, the people who live in trailer parks?

Well, I actually agree with that well-known lefty and Clinton-oid James Taranto: For once, Hillary deserves some slack. It was a lame joke that Clinton's didn't have the wit to let alone. It's not as if she started chanting "Ghandi's mother sucks cock in Hell" then projectile vomited on the first six rows.

Hillary probably does have the physical capability of doing that, along with rotating her head in a 360-degree circle. But, yea, Taranto's pretty much right, though I'd keep the videotape handy for the future moment when the missus goes after Bush or some other Republican for a verbal gaffe they just made.phy

A Democrat fund-raiser is never a place for jokes of any kind.

Candidates excepted.

"And we found the weapons of mass destruction ..."

How come this guy lies his ass off and gets a free pass because he's such a wacky guy?

Actually, a lot of gas stations are also convenience stores, at least in Florida. And quite a few are run by people of Middle-Eastern or Indian extraction. I like those stores the best because you can get real Indian incense cheap there instead of paying out the ass for it at some trendy smoke shop.

Oh yeah -- you can also get clove cigarettes cheaper at convenience stores too, if you are into that sort of thing.

Gahndi- what a loser; takes over a whole sub-continent and is still incontinent by the look of the nappy he was always wearing.
Helen Keller? When was the last time she slam-dunked?
Jesus Christ? Some carpenter- wound up getting nailed up himself.
Mother Theresa? She only kept lepers for her sideline business in medical supplies; turn on the fans, and instant skeleton.

Hillary's an amateur.

Give her a break -- she later "wowed" the crowd by smashing a watermelon which sprayed the first five rows. I almost died laughing...

Oh wait, that's someone else stuck in the 60's. Never mind.

Bill to Hillary: What does a totally satisfied man say after sex?

Hillary: I have no idea.

John S.: I agree. What's shameful about running a gas station? But it was Hill's critics who were implying that there was some "harmful stereotyping" going on. Running a gas station is a hell of a lot more admirable than being the spokeperson for the Society of Po-Faced Ghandi Quoters.