You mean like the time in March when Rudy Giuliani joked at Trump’s Maralago fundraiser about how Hillary Clinton was too fat to fit through the door? I didn’t see you posting about that zinger.Originally Posted by LA Ute
Now that's clearly some sophisticated above the board comedy there. Thanks Rudy.
Last edited by jrj84105; 05-03-2018 at 06:09 PM.
I didn't know about it. I think it's indecent to do that. Now, if you want to start evaluating what is said in private political fundraising events, then you're getting into a brand new world. The Correspondents dinner was a nationally televised, high-profile event.You mean like the time in March when Rudy Giuliani joked at Trump’s Maralago fundraiser about how Hillary Clinton was too fat to fit through the door? I didn’t see you posting about that zinger.
Now that's clearly some sophisticated above the board comedy there. Thanks Rudy.
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So you’re saying that the appropriateness of a joke is based on the size and composition of the audience? So an eyeshadow joke on national TV is worse than a fat joke at a fundraiser is worse than a n***er joke at the dinner table?
The eyeshadow joke with SHS would be benign if she weren’t ugly. The tan suit jokes criticism about Obama (also on national tv by an elected representative) would be benign if he weren’t black. Gouliani’s conment is bad without condition.
Nope.
What??So an eyeshadow joke on national TV is worse than a fat joke at a fundraiser is worse than a n***er joke at the dinner table?
Stay classy, jrj.The eyeshadow joke with SHS would be benign if she weren’t ugly.
I think so, too.The tan suit jokes criticism about Obama (also on national tv by an elected representative) would be benign if he weren’t black.
I agree. And Michele Wolfe's were worse, across the board. Trump is a boor and an indecent man. Those who sink to his level give him a win, IMHO.Gouliani’s conment is bad without condition.
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
--Yeats
“True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”
--John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell
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