"the prospect that a man who made his living joking about these things would be a United States Senator must be horrifying"
July 15, 2008 7:05 PM   Subscribe

This post was deleted for the following reason: rape jokes from 1986? really? -- mathowie



 
Oh, it's a McCain thread. Okay, then.
posted by yhbc at 7:08 PM on July 15, 2008


Christ, what an asshole.
posted by notsnot at 7:09 PM on July 15, 2008


The Aristocrats!
posted by Floydd at 7:09 PM on July 15, 2008 [4 favorites]


I for one will not be voting for McCain's friend.
posted by Brocktoon at 7:10 PM on July 15, 2008 [2 favorites]


Brocktoon didn't read the links. A bunch of the jokes were from McCain's own mouth.
posted by Justinian at 7:11 PM on July 15, 2008 [1 favorite]


Ohboy. I venture back onto the Filter for the first time in months (which is like, EONS in internet years) and there are rape jokes awaiting me.

I'm glad to see that this place hasn't changed.
posted by grapefruitmoon at 7:14 PM on July 15, 2008


You know, put that joke in Phyllis Diller's mouth in 1963 and it is hilarious to the Catskill crowd.
posted by Joey Michaels at 7:16 PM on July 15, 2008 [3 favorites]


"Best of the web"?
posted by Class Goat at 7:16 PM on July 15, 2008 [1 favorite]


put that joke in Phyllis Diller's mouth in 1963 and it is hilarious to the Catskill crowd.

Times change.
posted by ornate insect at 7:17 PM on July 15, 2008


Wow, Larry Johnson is totally crazy. For those of you who don't know he was the main driver behind the "Michell Obama 'Whitey Tape'" bullshit that floated up a while ago. Now he's criticizing Obama for taking money from Seth MacFarlane even though Family Guy Contains rape jokes.

Anyway, does anyone else find this election extremely boring It seems like it's just outrage of the week after outrage of the week. No one seems to be talking about anything substantive whatsoever. I mean I know Obama has been talking about Iraq, and so on, but it seems like the media is just fixated on ridiculous Bullshit. Not that I spend a lot of time watching cable news.
posted by delmoi at 7:18 PM on July 15, 2008 [1 favorite]


I take umbrage at these jokes. Umbrage, umbrage, umbrage.

Okay, I just like saying "umbrage".
posted by Bookhouse at 7:20 PM on July 15, 2008 [2 favorites]


more on McCain's alleged 1986 rape joke here. I'm by no means pro-McCain, but this to me is a lot less interesting as far as scandals go than McCain dumping his first wife b/c she was in a car wreck or boning a high-powered lobbyist.
posted by ornate insect at 7:22 PM on July 15, 2008


I hate McCain, but let's get over this. The event in question happened in 1986? Who cares?

Anyway, I now have a new way to control the nation! Make a rape joke, then donate money to a candidate. If he accepts it, clearly he is Pure Evil and the election should automatically be won by the opponent! Brilliant!

A candidate should be responsible for his own actions, and the actions of everyone who supports him. That sounds fair to me!
posted by jrockway at 7:22 PM on July 15, 2008


For framing it like this: what the fuck is wrong with you?
posted by Pronoiac at 7:23 PM on July 15, 2008 [2 favorites]


or [his] boning
posted by ornate insect at 7:24 PM on July 15, 2008


For framing it like this: what the fuck is wrong with you?

Exactly. (perhaps I wasn't clear in my first comment).

Lousy, lousy post. Delete with extreme prejudice.
posted by yhbc at 7:26 PM on July 15, 2008


I don't get it.
posted by mr_roboto at 7:29 PM on July 15, 2008


Ape Rape-Gate!
posted by Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese at 7:30 PM on July 15, 2008


he's criticizing Obama for taking money from Seth MacFarlane even though Family Guy Contains rape jokes

And for donating a grand total of $1000 to his campaign, too.

For a lot of people, rape is one of those topics that is never funny, which is why I never personally tell jokes about offensive subjects like that.

When professional comedians tell jokes about rape (which is what the Al Franken articles are complaining about), I do sometimes find them funny. Case in point, this Mr Show skit makes me laugh. Even when I don't find them funny though, I never blame the comedian for being offensive, just for being unfunny.
posted by burnmp3s at 7:30 PM on July 15, 2008 [2 favorites]


I don't get it.

Rather than being angry at the ape for beating her unconscious and raping her, the victim appears to have enjoyed the ordeal. The "humor," such as it is, is in the counterintuitive punch line: for rather than feeling hatred, anger, dismay, or fear upon waking, she appears, with a whiff of highly unlikely romantic yearning a la King Kong, to to feel affectionate for the ape. Got it?
posted by ornate insect at 7:34 PM on July 15, 2008


At least they weren't rape haiku. That would be some sick shit.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 7:43 PM on July 15, 2008


Oh, NOW I get it.
posted by subaruwrx at 7:43 PM on July 15, 2008


I refuse to vote until a candidate tells a joke that ends with either the punch line "no soap, radio" or "fuck you clown."
posted by drezdn at 7:47 PM on July 15, 2008


Is the statute of limitations on telling unfunny, tasteless jokes really longer than 20 years? sheesh.
posted by jenkinsEar at 7:49 PM on July 15, 2008


I would hate to be held accountable for every joke I told that was in poor taste. I'm just sayin'.
posted by ColdChef at 7:50 PM on July 15, 2008


Justinian: did you really just format your comment in the style of a 6 year old tattle-tale? Ohhhhhh, that cracks me UP!

Justinian: I did read the links.
posted by Brocktoon at 7:51 PM on July 15, 2008


Yeah, like anyone would want to 'R' her!
posted by Saxon Kane at 7:52 PM on July 15, 2008 [1 favorite]


I didn't change my mind about Franken for his stupid rape joke, I'm not going to change my mind about McCain for his.

Still don't like him and won't vote for him.
posted by Astro Zombie at 7:53 PM on July 15, 2008


Or, frigid women only really enjoy sex when a "real man" -- and a real man acts like an ape, beating her and leaving her for dead -- rapes her.

(Not to mention that it hints at Mandingo fears among white men that hugely endowed sex-crazed Negroes who will rape white women, and the white women victims who will enjoy it.)

Which is why, to me, McCain's joke says a lot more than Franken's. Yeah, Franken joked about a fussy old man secretly enjoying rape, but McCain joke implicitly endorses sexist stereotypes ("asking for it", frigid women, rape is id OK if the rapist is well hung) and hints at racist stereotypes.
posted by orthogonality at 7:54 PM on July 15, 2008


Then you should have presented it that way, ortho.
posted by yhbc at 7:56 PM on July 15, 2008


Dude. This is not a great post, really. I'm just sayin'.
posted by kittens for breakfast at 8:00 PM on July 15, 2008 [2 favorites]


rape is id OK if the rapist is well hung

But gorillas have teeny weeny penes.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 8:02 PM on July 15, 2008


I'd say this will wendell, but it looks like it already has....
posted by hellojed at 8:05 PM on July 15, 2008


McCain can't escape ape rape tape even with the aid of a very large cape. Mouths gape but not from crepes! For shame!
posted by Second Account For Making Jokey Comments at 8:07 PM on July 15, 2008




Did you hear about the guy who got raped and beaten on the street by a big gorilla and then woke up and dated a rich girl, and then divorced his wife who waited for years with his children after he refused released from a POW prison?

Did you hear about the guy who got raped and beaten on the street by a big gorilla and then woke up and told key Republicans at an expensive white trash fund raiser that Chelsea Clinton and Janet Reno were ugly?

Did you hear about the guy who got raped and beaten on the street by a big gorilla and then woke up and told America the big fat lie that he was going to be made admiral right before he quit the Navy instead?
posted by Brian B. at 8:10 PM on July 15, 2008


That's nothing. The other day Barack Obama told me a pretty funny joke when we were drunk at my local bar. It was about a priest, a rabbi, a nun on her period, and...well, let's just say Barack is a real pottymouth.

No, wait, sorry, that wasn't Barack Obama, it was my grandma.
posted by zardoz at 8:14 PM on July 15, 2008


In 1990 a dumbass Republican named Clayton Williams made an off-the-cuff rape joke that caused enough of a scandal that it probably cost him a gubernatorial election in fucking Texas, and yet it would surprise me if this story cost McCain 10 votes. Odd, that.

But, no, seriously, rape is fucking hilarious.
posted by shadow vector at 8:20 PM on July 15, 2008


I heard McCain told this one....

Q.... What's the difference between rape and seduction?

A.... Salesmanship
posted by mattoxic at 8:20 PM on July 15, 2008


~ Rape Jokes ~

Q: Why did the rapist cross the road?
A: To get to the other side.

A rapist walks into a bar, and the bar tender says, "hey, you know there's a drink named after you?" The rapist replies, "there's a drink named Tom Collins?"

Knock, knock.
Who's there?
Rape.
Rape who?
Don't rape anyone. Rape is always wrong.
posted by Mr. President Dr. Steve Elvis America at 8:20 PM on July 15, 2008


Okay, so, I guess I will continue in my plan to not vote for McCain?
posted by Solon and Thanks at 8:20 PM on July 15, 2008



That's nothing. The other day Barack Obama told me a pretty funny joke when we were drunk at my local bar. It was about a priest, a rabbi, a nun on her period, and...well, let's just say Barack is a real pottymouth.

No, wait, sorry, that wasn't Barack Obama, it was my grandma.
posted by zardoz


Your grandma is a (sorta) African American middle aged dude that's on all those Che-esque T-shirts I see? Christmas must be wild at your house.
posted by Keith Talent at 8:20 PM on July 15, 2008


Yeah, like anyone would want to 'R' her!

This wouldn't have happened if she had a rape horn! (Probably Michael took away her mace, too.)
posted by Mael Oui at 8:21 PM on July 15, 2008


The Aristocrats!
posted by Citizen Premier at 8:21 PM on July 15, 2008


to to feel affectionate for the ape.

So let me get this straight. It's okay to constantly refer to the art of making love as "monkey sex", but the moment an ape is introduced, it's rape and a bad joke?

I think the real tragedy here is that this site is anti-Ape. I'm disgusted with all of you.
posted by SeizeTheDay at 8:25 PM on July 15, 2008


Oh, come on; there's three of you spread out across this great nation of ours. You can't all be in the bathroom at the same time.
posted by yhbc at 8:27 PM on July 15, 2008


Haha, John McCain -- 'Bomb, bomb, Iran.'
posted by ericb at 8:31 PM on July 15, 2008


But was it a statutory ape?
posted by tiger yang at 8:36 PM on July 15, 2008


Did you know there are some websites that post political horserace minutia, updated constantly?

Did you know that MetaFilter isn't one of them?!
posted by shakespeherian at 8:37 PM on July 15, 2008


Another McCain classic (as mentioned in some of the FP's links):
"In 1998, he told a joke to Republican party-faithful: 'Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.'"
Classy! So, I guess it's okay to make jokes about your adopted Bangladeshi daughter, Senator FuckWad?
posted by ericb at 8:38 PM on July 15, 2008


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