POLITICAL POLLS AND POLITICAL HUMOR

POLITICAL POLLS AND POLITICAL HUMOR

Jason Linkins has a great post in the Huffington Report "Comic Strip Artfully Dissects The Media's Obsession with Polls" posted January 26th. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/26/comic-strip-artfully-diss_n_437345.html . The comic strip which clearly illustrates what is wrong with almost all of media political "polls" can be found at this link. Thanks to PhDcomics.com for creating it.

Volume  44 Number 2 International Society of Barristers Quarterly has reproduced a talk given by Will Durst, political humorist. Here are just a few of his comments:

  • "We have to remember William Henry Harrison, the ninth president, who gave a three hour inaugural speech in the rain, caught pneumonia and died thirty days later.
  • With Bush, I didn't even have to write material. I just wrote down what he said. For example: More and more of our imports comes from overseas" or "The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for Entrepreneur" or "border relations between Canada and Mexico have never been better"
  • In April, Hillary was on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum  of Art and she said "in this race, I am Rocky Balboa." She didn't seem to remember that Rocky lost to the black guy, Apollo Creed."
  • Joe Biden told the crowd "three little letters.ladies and gentlemen! J-O-B-S Three little letters."
  • Did you see Dick Cheney at Obama's inauguration?  He looked like Dr. Strangelove. He was sitting in a wheelchair and wearing black  gloves.
  • When the stock broker said the crash was worse then divorce, a reporter asked him why? He said: "Well I'm worth half what I was, and I'm still married."

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