Political Humor Thread

Originally Posted by lawfi5h

I bet you $20,000 they find WMD in Iraq before both of us die.

Please.

1) There are TONS of WMD there now...brought in by the US military when we invaded.
2) It's likely that another rogue regime will set up there before we die.

Originally Posted by Titania

Please.

1) There are TONS of WMD there now...brought in by the US military when we invaded.
2) It's likely that another rogue regime will set up there before we die.

Relax. It's friday.

And this is the political humor thread. It was a joke.

Think through the implications of the bet to find the humor.

[fallout]

Originally Posted by Titania

Anyone see John Stewart's bit on WH Press Sec's last night?

"Strategy 1: Blow their minds."





I looked up the transcript on the WH site...the rest of that exchange pretty much sums up why Ari isn't there anymore I think...

Poor Ari... I actually like him a lot.



Anyone want to argue some more about how this Whitehouse doesn't lie? Or does Ari have a different definition of "fact?"

Facts change.

It used to be a fact that the atom was the smallest possible thing, that AIDs will kill you in a few months, that the earth was flat... etc...

Originally Posted by fallout

Facts change.

It used to be a fact that the atom was the smallest possible thing, that AIDs will kill you in a few months, that the earth was flat... etc...

Weak, dude, just...weak.

Originally Posted by lawfi5h

Relax. It's friday.

And this is the political humor thread. It was a joke.

Think through the implications of the bet to find the humor.

I'm chilled.

[fallout]

Originally Posted by Titania

Weak, dude, just...weak.

Why is it weak?

Even if some crazy person imagined something smaller than an atom, until it was proven so, he was simply wrong.

Facts change.

Originally Posted by fallout

Why is it weak?

Because it's comparing science with political grandstanding.

True scientists accept nothing as fact...the best you can do is a Theory, which is also subject to change.

Maybe Fleischer shouldn't have used that word...I mean, if the WH was always open to the possibility that there were no WMD in Iraq, then why would he say it was a "fact?" The US public is supposed to know that a fact is not really a fact when uttered by the WH press Sec? Because atoms aren't the smallest particle?

Weak.

[fallout]

Originally Posted by Titania

Because it's comparing science with political grandstanding.

True scientists accept nothing as fact...the best you can do is a Theory, which is also subject to change.

Maybe Fleischer shouldn't have used that word...I mean, if the WH was always open to the possibility that there were no WMD in Iraq, then why would he say it was a "fact?" The US public is supposed to know that a fact is not really a fact when uttered by the WH press Sec? Because atoms aren't the smallest particle?

Weak.

A fact is based on the evidence at the time. There are no absolute facts anywhere at anytime.

The word fact should be stricken from the vocabulary if your point is valid.

Originally Posted by fallout

A fact is based on the evidence at the time. There are no absolute facts anywhere at anytime.

Nonsense. The skirt I'm wearing today is purple. That's a fact.

Ari Fleischer characterized WMD in Iraq as having the same level of certainty as the color of my skirt.

He was either lying, or mistaken. In no way was his statement true, however.

[Ronald Reagan]

Originally Posted by 2pac Shakur

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/relea...0050725-5.html

The old "not to my recollection" trick. Like Ronnie Raygun ala Iran Contra.
"Not to my recollection" is GOP-speak for "I'm lying right now".

He keeps saying he doesn't remember paying dues. Are there dues? Are they suspended for the facist leaders of the group, which he apparently was one.

Parsing words = lying.