Jeb Bush's Disastrous Joke About Washington & Iowa Totally Fell Flat At The Republican Debate

Cate Carrejo
11/11/15

In a totally failed moment of humor at the Fox Business GOP debate on Tuesday night, Jeb Bush's Washington-Iowa joke had nearly every debate viewer shaking their heads. The former Florida governor was attempting to semantically compare Washington, Iowa, and Washington, D.C., but his stuttering delivery caused the audience to laugh at him rather than the joke.

"I was in Washington, Iowa, about three months ago talking about how bad Washington, D.C., is. It was — get the — kind of the — anyway. We had — it — and I talked to a banker there."

The verbal train wreck is nearly as hard to read as it was to watch. Bush disastrously dropped the punchline of his own joke, trailing off into the human version of the "see what I did there" meme (which will undoubtedly hit the Internet in mere moments). Coming right off the #JebCanFixIt catastrophe and the even more recent Baby Hitler debacle, this latest meme could plague Bush in the post-debate media frenzy.

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Jeb was attempting to parallel the small-town concerns of the average American with the financial bureaucracy of the federal government, but his entire point was lost by the ridiculousness of the bombed joke. The funniest part of Bush's sad attempt at humor is how sure he was that the audience would think it was funny. Trailing off or collecting your thoughts is understandable, especially in a stressful situation like a live televised debate, but Bush was clearly waiting for a response from the audience on his joke that never came.

read more: http://www.bustle.com/articles/123014-jeb-bushs-disastrous-joke-about-washington-iowa-totally-fell-flat-at-the-republican-debate


see Jeb's failed joke at 3 minutes and 10 seconds into the video:

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/strait-talk-jeb-bush-35121796