The "joke" was awful.

[Raven]

Ever been at a party or a family gathering and someone says something that they think is funny but is so tasteless that it makes you cringe?

Senator Clinton led with that "joke". It didn't just come out in the course of the conversation with Leno, she led with it. She planned it. She thinks the whole episode about the bogus sniper fire is funny and I guess she wants me to think it's funny too.

I don't.

[NJSecularist]

1. Yup. It was just like the SNL joke she told at the debate in Ohio. Cringeworthy. n/t

[krkaufman]

44. That sounds like some character name, Sen. Cringeworthy. n/t

[Alter Ego]

2. And yet she wants people to forget that she lied about it.

That I don't get.

[ORDem]

37. Well, I think she's just keeping it alive. Liar, liar pantsuits on fire. n/t

:eyes:

[shadowknows69]

3. K+R

[DemVet]

4. Oh, I thought you were talking about Randi Rhodes' "whore" joke.

[tekisui]

7. Rhodes is not a Presidential candidate.

[ekwhite]

45. That was a horrible joke too N/T

[tekisui]

5. It's the lie that is offensive, and that she thinks lying to

American voters is joke worthy. Utter disregard for the truth.

[C_U_L8R]

6. I don't want a President who can

lie to our faces and then go on national television and joke about it.
That sounds even worse than the one we've got now.

[Tesha]

17. "Read my lips: NO NEW TAXES!" "I did not have sex with that woman" "Iraq has WMDs"

Yeah, we need eight more years of that.

Tesha

[BeyondGeography]

8. It only got half a laugh, too

She shouldn't have gone there.

[Raven]

9. I wondered about that...I was so astonished by her remark

that I really didn't listen to the audience response and I really don't want to go back and listen again.

[BeyondGeography]

12. The volume was there, but the feeling wasn't

The response was forced, like the joke.

[MagickMuffin]

10. She should give up on all her jokes

They always fall flat to me.

[dkf]

18. Yeah, she is amazingly unfunny.

And whoever writes her lines needs to be fired.

Now Obama's comment to Tweety about the media...that was funny! The man is a natural.

[AirmensMom]

21. Obama's comment

really was funny! :rofl:

[AirmensMom]

11. I agree.

It makes me embarrassed for her when she says such inappropriate things. I feel like I'm listening to someone else who thinks he's funny ... his name rhymes with tush.

[babylonsister]

13. Whoever is advising her just doesn't get it obviously. Why she

even brought it up shows political tone-deafness. Why remind people all over again? Another bad move by the Clinton camp.

[Stuart G]

14. K & R

more...on this...people are really upset. She upsets people..she is done.

[Stuart G]

15. She upsets people..she is done...(nt)

[formercia]

16. She should visit some VA hospitals

and ask to see the 'Vegetable Patch' where the brain-dead and damaged casualties that are too injured to send home are kept.
She can try and tell them how funny sniper fire is.

[shadowknows69]

19. Right on.

[Cooley Hurd]

20. From a comedic timing perspective, it was painful...

Even a rimshot couldn't save it. From a political perspective, it was ill-advised because it only reminds everyone of her "theft-of-valor," of her disingenuousness and of her honesty in general.

Big mistake.:thumbsdown:

[Yael]

22. She blatently lied and now she wants us to nod in approval.

Sorry, Hills. The only acceptable response from you is admitting that you lied, not making a joke out of it.

Way too Bush-like for my taste.

[Raven]

23. I think it's time to make another contribution to the Obama Campaign

in honor of the "joke".

[crankychatter]

24. I missed it... but I am pretty much done listening to clinton for now

was it ucky?

what was the "joke?"

[AirmensMom]

25. If you can stand it

for about 30 seconds, here it is.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=114288&mesg_id=114288

[crankychatter]

31. hey thanks... I despise Clinton but this is a big ho hum issue

seriously...

let the Clinton supporters get their fingernails dirty and broken dumpster diving for a slimey grunion

her REAL negatives are glaring enough.

we're above that.

[hedgehog]

34. "lots of war zones" ? nt

[Erin Elizabeth]

40. Yikes, I watched it.

Gross. Joking about a lie like that.

[Scurrilous]

26. Kick

:kick:

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

27. This is the joke you make after you've dropped out...

As someone said upthread, all this does is remind people about the incident -- and it doesn't reflect well on her. At next year's Gridiron Dinner, when she's back in the Senate, this kind of self-depricating humor would probably go over well.

[DefenseLawyer]

28. It reminds me of a scene in Four Weddings and a Funeral

Charming Hugh Grant gives a very funny toast at one of the weddings, then at the next wedding his friend, with the best of intentions, tries to give a similar toast but goes horribly awry, saying the most inappropriate and unfunny remarks. Some people just shouldn't try to be funny.

[lisa58]

29. I thought Leno's response was funny and telling...

...by saying this is LA and it "could happen" just reinforced that it "didn't happen" again.

[ShortnFiery]

30. True, even Joe Scarborough could not keep a straight face when contending that

"she WAS funny?!?" Yeah, right Joe. :eyes:

You can't "laugh off" the fact that you and your husband lie with "such ease" it could be considered in many psychiatric circles as "pathologic."

Yes, what will you LIE about if you and Bill should be our Co-Presidents? :scared:

[powergirl]

32. Reminds me of Bush looking under tables for WMD

and joking about it.

[npincus]

33. she's tryng to rehabilitate the incident

in the minds of all.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

35. It reminds me of Bush's "Where are the WMD's" video

Just total tone deafness.

[Hepburn]

36. Let's face it....

...Hillary has less than zero people skills. She's a dork and clueless.

JMHO

[merh]

38. Did you catch this article - check out the last line

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/03/30/2008-03-30_hillary_clintons_lie_hits_real_sniper_vi.html

But even George W. Bush and Bill Clinton never lied about being under fire.

[tabasco]

39. She's a tool. She's like a B-movie actress just reading her lines.

If she had a shred of decency, she would have realized that people die from sniper fire every day in Iraq, a war which she helped enable.

If she had a shred of integrity, she would not have told phony war stories.

If she had a shred of common sense, she would have known it was stupid to remind people of her lies.

[elehhhhna]

41. She reminds me of George F. Bush more and more evey day. She's "Smirkette".

[doyourealize1]

42. I cringed when I saw it

It seemed awkward and forced.

[TahitiNut]

43. She's tone deaf. Worse ... she's shameless.

The last thing we need is another shameless, self-serving liar.

[Quixote1818]

46. It reminds me of Bush's "No WMD's under here" joke.

Tasteless and not funny.