The killing joke
We haven't seen fallout like this since Chernobyl blew up and farmers in Wales had to slaughter their lambs. I'm sure Trumplandia is telling itself that Tony Hinchcliffe is a Democrat mole. It would be delightful if the history books noted that the 2024 election hinged on an Andrew "Dice" Clay wannabe who probably thought he was going to host SNL and get his own sitcom.
Incredibly, Hinchcliffe was apparently talked out of the line that would have brought down the house, calling Kamala Harris a word that refers to female genitalia. The stuff about Black people carving watermelons instead of pumpkins, no problem. The extended riff on Puerto Ricans, dynamite. Say this for Tony, he has no idea what he did wrong but criticizing him is "wild."
Comparing a man who doesn't think you're funny to a menstruating woman (yech, am I right?) -- comedy gold.
According to NBC News Hinchcliffe tried out his routine in a New York comedy club the previous night and nobody laughed. This is what real comedians call a flashing red light, but he didn't see it. People who frequent those places also have "no sense of humor," I guess. And it's not as if he's an unknown quantity. The always hilarious Ann Coulter (I call her Joan Rivers on steroids) says he wrote terrible jokes for her in 2016, while video has surfaced of a 2021 show where he feigned a Chinese accent. All right, who booked Krusty the Klown?
In a hastily organized damage-control event at Motel a Lago, this was the rally star's review: "The love in that room, it was breathtaking. Politicians that have been doing this for a long time said there's never been an event so beautiful, it was like a love fest, an absolute love fest, and it was my honor to be involved." Also, he never heard of Tony Hinchcliffe. MAGA spokesmodel Karoline Leavitt agreed on Fox about the "happiness and joy" -- Woodstock without the rain and brown acid -- but blamed the media for fixating on the racism and hate. She saw the possibility of New York getting "very red" from all the good vibes, until Steve Doocy opened his mouth:
"You know, the world's most famous venue. He always wanted to play it. It was essentially a three- or four- or five- or maybe twelve-hour event for a lot of people." In other words, some of that audience drove from Indiana or Ohio, maybe from Virginia or Maryland. Did I rain on your victory parade? That isn't rain.
The epic rake-stepping (or dick-stepping) by the Trump campaign seems to have unleashed something in the usually subservient corporate media. After basking in the love-light from the Garden Trump went on to repeat his "border czar" accusation about Kamala Harris and CNN actually cut him off for a real-time fact-check. "She was never named borders czar," said Daniel Dale. "She was given a much more limited assignment addressing the so-called root causes of migration in three Central American countries." Dale also disputed the 2020 election lies, the "fable" of countries emptying their prisons into the US, and the accusation that Harris called Trump "Hitler." (Actually, that was J.D. Vance.) "We're not just going to air all of these false claims nonstop without any kind of fact checking," said Jim Acosta. Finally, one week before the election, CNN decides to practice journalism. Charles Foster Kane solo clap, Jim.
It's not just CNN -- the New York Times and Washington Post are using words like "racist" right in their headlines, not the seventeenth graph. I wonder what the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal is making of this: the future "Secretary of Government Efficiency" Elon Musk appears not to know much more about politics than he does about building non-exploding cars. He promises a period of "temporary hardship" for most Americans as the economy is "restructured" without all those safety-net programs. This would somehow result in "long-term prosperity." The Biden-Harris economy, famously characterized by The Economist as "the envy of the world," is apparently too expensive for Musk and his fellow billionaires and needs to be dismantled. But no more income tax! according to the Wharton School's biggest mistake, who still thinks China will pay us tariffs. Say hello to fifty-dollar bacon, Ordinary Americans. And with no "illegals" to pick the vegetables, fifty-dollar lettuce and tomatoes, too.
"If you think American politics has been divisive before, you haven't seen anything," wrote Jeremy Peters of the New York Times, quoting ex-con Steve Bannon. Bannon missed all the fun at the Garden but he's out and holding a "news conference" in New York. Trump slimeball Mike Davis predicts he'll "come out of prison...like a roaring caged lion." Same old, same old. It's hard to imagine what he could add to the poisoned pruno at this point unless he got a prison tat of Trump raping Kamala Harris with a five-iron. Danbury really isn't that kind of joint. Embezzlers and Medicaid crooks, mostly. His pinch-hitter Natalie Winters has compared him to George Washington. See, Tony? That's comedy.
"You know what I do when I think a joke is dumb or not funny? I don't laugh," said damage control expert J.D. Vance. Puerto Rican celebrities Bad Bunny, Ricky Martin and Jennifer Lopez are not laughing, and neither is Roberto O. Gonzales Nieves, Archbishop of San Juan. Here's the "crowd" at Trump's Georgia Tech rally last night. I guess they didn't appreciate his remarks about "nasty" Michelle Obama and the "big mistake" she made in criticizing him during a speech in Atlanta. Was that a threat?
I admit it. I never thought the October Surprise would be a lame comedy routine.
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