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mac56

(17,574 posts)
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 03:08 PM Mar 2017

Conway: No one can take a joke in Washington

Source: Politico

Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the president, said Washington is “humorless.”

“No one can take a joke either, that is definitely true, humorless Washington,” Conway said Friday when asked about her comment that microwaves can be used for surveillance.

Conway was attending the National Review Institute’s Ideas Summit when she joked that she no longer eats ice cream out of the container because she is worried about it going viral because “somebody’s watching.”

Jim Geraghty, a National Review senior political correspondent, asked “is the microwave watching?” to which Conway said no one in Washington can take a joke.


Read more: https://secure.politico.com/story/2017/03/kellyanne-conway-no-one-can-take-a-joke-dc-236169



"Tough room, tough room, I tell ya..."
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Conway: No one can take a joke in Washington (Original Post) mac56 Mar 2017 OP
We can't take this joke of an administration. n/t Qutzupalotl Mar 2017 #1
Jokes/People ArizonaLib Mar 2017 #23
Yeah, the wiretap accusation was just a joke dalton99a Mar 2017 #2
Joke? Scarsdale Mar 2017 #47
shes the joke... and a bad one at that. samnsara Mar 2017 #3
No wonder she didn't make it as a standup comedian world wide wally Mar 2017 #77
"I tell ya, folks, I just flew in from Moscow... mac56 Mar 2017 #4
She's like Trump: can't take a joke, can't tell one either. DinahMoeHum Mar 2017 #5
She was laughing up a storm the morning after she helped approve trumps failed ground mission. Sunlei Mar 2017 #56
admit it you fucking morons gopiscrap Mar 2017 #6
This! inanna Mar 2017 #62
Sometimes jokes just get old... Bradical79 Mar 2017 #7
"You know, folks, it was so cold today.. mac56 Mar 2017 #8
WE ARE NOT PAYING YOU ALL TO JOKE AROUND, KELLYANNE. Scoopster Mar 2017 #9
What is she paid for? muriel_volestrangler Mar 2017 #26
She actually was once a professional comedian rurallib Mar 2017 #42
Look at #12 in this thread Mendocino Mar 2017 #68
Looks? Scarsdale Mar 2017 #48
She's got "talents" Plucketeer Mar 2017 #51
Really? I thought that was Omarosa's job. Along with his nightly shower ATL Ebony Mar 2017 #63
actually, a lot of politicians can take jokes NewJeffCT Mar 2017 #10
I figured that there had to be SOME REASON ... maddiemom Mar 2017 #72
She did a standup routine once, Mendocino Mar 2017 #11
Gotcha covered n/t Dave Starsky Mar 2017 #15
No. You're just a terrible comedian. Dave Starsky Mar 2017 #12
Yes that's it. Mendocino Mar 2017 #24
Cute, nice play on words. ATL Ebony Mar 2017 #64
Oh my god, that's painful to watch. progressoid Mar 2017 #25
Holy Sheet - she sucks. Marie Marie Mar 2017 #43
Uggh this Conjob is too much. LOL Lib Mar 2017 #13
"I'm not saying electric bills are too high.. mac56 Mar 2017 #14
Dear Kellyayn, Lindsay Mar 2017 #16
I've been thinking about this for a while. * thinks he is funny. maxsolomon Mar 2017 #17
The presidency is definitely not a joke, but... 3catwoman3 Mar 2017 #57
She is the joke. YOHABLO Mar 2017 #18
Ah, the "it was just a joke" defense. Classic. ck4829 Mar 2017 #19
Very true. llmart Mar 2017 #71
Yeah, she sure knows for comedy... RedWedge Mar 2017 #20
Of, FUCK YOU - see, Obama, Barrack Cosmocat Mar 2017 #21
Fick Dich Mendocino Mar 2017 #37
"You know, the rooms in Moscow hotels are so small.. mac56 Mar 2017 #22
Mac, Mac, stop! Yer killin' me!! Stop, it's too much!! - So are you gonna be here all week, Leghorn21 Mar 2017 #28
"In Soviet Russia, stage show watches YOU!" mac56 Mar 2017 #31
news flash kellyanne...the joke is in the Oval Office SummerSnow Mar 2017 #27
exactly gopiscrap Mar 2017 #30
You mean the nothing there joke? Doreen Mar 2017 #73
"And the walls in the Kremlin are so thin... mac56 Mar 2017 #29
BA DUM tssshhh underpants Mar 2017 #33
Washington is humorless? True Dough Mar 2017 #32
Alec Baldwin is a better looking trmp than trmp. LakeArenal Mar 2017 #39
Note to Ms. Conway PJMcK Mar 2017 #34
Kellyanne, you witty comedienne. You're just too clever for the rest of us IronLionZion Mar 2017 #35
So now it was a joke. She's pathetic. C Moon Mar 2017 #36
I prefer the wisdom of JFK discntnt_irny_srcsm Mar 2017 #38
She's the joke. iluvtennis Mar 2017 #40
Oh shut up. Just shut up. spiderpig Mar 2017 #41
Strange -- Goebbels always got big laughs. byronius Mar 2017 #44
when these guys say something you have no idea if it is something delusional they believe rurallib Mar 2017 #45
She'll be here for four years. Don't forget to tip your waitress. nt JustABozoOnThisBus Mar 2017 #46
Propaganda Barbie orangecrush Mar 2017 #49
ooo, I like that! n/t tavernier Mar 2017 #66
Actually, the whole world is laughing at us world wide wally Mar 2017 #78
It is the republicans that have no sense of humor Angry Dragon Mar 2017 #50
I missed the joke. What was it? lunatica Mar 2017 #52
Yeah, nuclear war is fucking funny, KellyAnne Conjob. nt Ilsa Mar 2017 #53
Ms Conway, your're paid to lie for t(R)ump & most people don't find that funny at all. Sunlei Mar 2017 #54
Conway IS a joke in Washington. nt Laffy Kat Mar 2017 #55
Oh, so Kellyanne likes jokes. OK Skeletor, you're so ugly that Still In Wisconsin Mar 2017 #58
Nothing is more funny than war, people starving, and the country imploding. Haha!!! Oneironaut Mar 2017 #59
Is there anyone in the White House The Sand Reckoner Mar 2017 #60
The joke is president and it's not funny. n/t alarimer Mar 2017 #61
Boy, DU can't take a joke either, apparently. Hortensis Mar 2017 #65
Smallest building in DC Mendocino Mar 2017 #67
She's not paid to be a comedian... plus she sucks at it. Zing Zing Zingbah Mar 2017 #69
She's right... She's a joke, and nobody can take her. truthisfreedom Mar 2017 #70
Is this what the Brouhaha is all about? Doc_Technical Mar 2017 #74
This is her's and Spicer's M.O. CakeGrrl Mar 2017 #75
She's getting so defensive Bucky Mar 2017 #76

ArizonaLib

(1,242 posts)
23. Jokes/People
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 03:26 PM
Mar 2017

No wonder it is so easy for them to ruin people's lives - to them it's all a joke, all a game, just a television episode in the life of our democracy.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
56. She was laughing up a storm the morning after she helped approve trumps failed ground mission.
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 04:58 PM
Mar 2017

The mission that slaughtered, wounded scores of woman, children and some of our military. Laughing like a ghoul.

 

Bradical79

(4,490 posts)
7. Sometimes jokes just get old...
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 03:13 PM
Mar 2017

...and you get tired of hearing the same stupid gag for months on end.

mac56

(17,574 posts)
8. "You know, folks, it was so cold today..
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 03:14 PM
Mar 2017

I saw a Russian ambassador with his hands in his own pockets!"

Scoopster

(423 posts)
9. WE ARE NOT PAYING YOU ALL TO JOKE AROUND, KELLYANNE.
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 03:17 PM
Mar 2017

Also, it's bullshit, because Mulvaney had no problem doing that snide "joke" singling out the NYT for a legitimate error.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,374 posts)
26. What is she paid for?
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 03:27 PM
Mar 2017

Is there any evidence at all that she actually does something in the White House, or does she just wait to get asked to go on TV or give a quote about what she thinks is going on in Trump's goldfish-like mind?

It has to be said, that if this was a "joke", it had the world's worst delivery:

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/13/trump-advisor-kellyanne-conway-mocked-for-spy-microwaves-claims.html

rurallib

(62,451 posts)
42. She actually was once a professional comedian
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 04:13 PM
Mar 2017

Someone played tapes of her the other day on their show - can't remember who.
She was awful.

 

Plucketeer

(12,882 posts)
51. She's got "talents"
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 04:43 PM
Mar 2017

that a White House microwave might have recorded. You know..... since Melania won't have anything to do with the executive mansion. I mean.... C'mon! Reckon she OFFERS herself or plays hard to grab?

ATL Ebony

(1,097 posts)
63. Really? I thought that was Omarosa's job. Along with his nightly shower
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 07:07 PM
Mar 2017

Maybe they take turns, who knows.

NewJeffCT

(56,829 posts)
10. actually, a lot of politicians can take jokes
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 03:17 PM
Mar 2017

being in the business for years means you probably get slammed quite a bit - they get used to it.

Trump, Nixon and a few others are exceptions. Heck, Stephen Colbert told a story about Antonin Scalia that after Colbert had his stunning performance at the WH Correpondent's Dinner that Scalia came up to him and was laughing and told Colbert he was funny. You'd have thought Scalia might have glowered at him or stormed past him, but no.

Mendocino

(7,511 posts)
11. She did a standup routine once,
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 03:18 PM
Mar 2017

I can't get the Youtube link to transfer...?

But it is painful beyond all belief.

LOL Lib

(1,462 posts)
13. Uggh this Conjob is too much.
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 03:19 PM
Mar 2017

Damn right Washington can't take a joke. You are not in the joke business. Last I checked you were in the serious position of running the country. Nothing about that should be a laughing matter. I hate this woman.

mac56

(17,574 posts)
14. "I'm not saying electric bills are too high..
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 03:19 PM
Mar 2017

but my microwave only spies on me in off peak hours!"


Lindsay

(3,276 posts)
16. Dear Kellyayn,
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 03:20 PM
Mar 2017

If your entire audience is not laughing, the problem is not with them, it's with you.

maxsolomon

(33,400 posts)
17. I've been thinking about this for a while. * thinks he is funny.
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 03:21 PM
Mar 2017

His rally crowds think he's doing stand up.

But here is the thing:

1. Conservative humor is usually cruel.
&
2. THE PRESIDENCY IS NOT A JOKE.

3catwoman3

(24,054 posts)
57. The presidency is definitely not a joke, but...
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 05:18 PM
Mar 2017

...the current pretender to the Oval Office most assuredly IS. A terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad joke.

ck4829

(35,091 posts)
19. Ah, the "it was just a joke" defense. Classic.
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 03:22 PM
Mar 2017

Sociopaths and bullies like to antagonize people and then make an issue of how their target responded to them...

"It was just a joke, lighten up."
"Stop being so emotional about it."
"How dare you stand up to my aggression, you're CLEARLY the psycho nutjob, not me." (What they're really trying to say)

llmart

(15,555 posts)
71. Very true.
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 08:09 PM
Mar 2017

They're "jokes" are cruel and if you call them on it they say, "I was just kidding." Classic responses from sociopaths.

RedWedge

(618 posts)
20. Yeah, she sure knows for comedy...
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 03:24 PM
Mar 2017


"Before we get started, I gotta tell ya, the funniest thing happened to me today. You know when you have one of those days where not one but two things that never ever happens, happens to you? I'm walkin' down the street and I look up and I see Haley's comet. I get back to the office and I'm accurately quoted in a Ralph Hallow article."

Cosmocat

(14,575 posts)
21. Of, FUCK YOU - see, Obama, Barrack
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 03:24 PM
Mar 2017

and your team all up his ass over shit that wasn't, you know SIGNIFICANT.

And, he wasn't balling around about "Deep state" and what not.

mac56

(17,574 posts)
22. "You know, the rooms in Moscow hotels are so small..
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 03:24 PM
Mar 2017

When I put the key in the door, I pushed the hooker off the bed!"

Leghorn21

(13,526 posts)
28. Mac, Mac, stop! Yer killin' me!! Stop, it's too much!! - So are you gonna be here all week,
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 03:29 PM
Mar 2017

and should we remember to tip the waitress?!

(good show, 56!)

True Dough

(17,331 posts)
32. Washington is humorless?
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 03:33 PM
Mar 2017

No one can take a joke?

Well, that applies 10-fold to Donald Trump who tweets repeatedly during and after episodes of Saturday Night Live, calling it unfunny and saying the "cast is terrible," and it's "really bad television." Oh, never mind that the ratings have been soaring because it is HILARIOUS!!!

Suck it up, Donny!

PJMcK

(22,052 posts)
34. Note to Ms. Conway
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 03:41 PM
Mar 2017

When you make an inflammatory statement that you intend to express as either humor or irony, there's usually a tag line to clue the listener that you are not meant to be taken literally. It's called effective communication.

In contrast, when you, personally, make a ridiculous observation, such as the surveillance capabilities of a microwave oven, and then let the story percolate for several days, your explanation that it was a joke is not believable. Instead, it illustrates that you are the joke and we have a seriously sad and dangerous national dilemma.

IronLionZion

(45,541 posts)
35. Kellyanne, you witty comedienne. You're just too clever for the rest of us
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 03:43 PM
Mar 2017

we're clearly too slow for you.

byronius

(7,401 posts)
44. Strange -- Goebbels always got big laughs.
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 04:14 PM
Mar 2017

I guess Nazi humor doesn't fly anymore. At least not in front of the victims.

Which is fucking everybody.

rurallib

(62,451 posts)
45. when these guys say something you have no idea if it is something delusional they believe
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 04:15 PM
Mar 2017

something that will come back to be used against us or just crazy talk.
How could we ever pick a joke out of that pile of crap?

Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)
50. It is the republicans that have no sense of humor
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 04:42 PM
Mar 2017

What the White House says is taken seriously or do they want us to think that everything they say is just a BIG FAT JOKE??

Trump being the HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGEST joke

 

Still In Wisconsin

(4,450 posts)
58. Oh, so Kellyanne likes jokes. OK Skeletor, you're so ugly that
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 06:01 PM
Mar 2017

you can't get a date from a calendar.

You're so ugly, you make onions cry.

You're so ugly your parents made you trick-or-treat by phone.

You're so ugly you give Freddy Kruger nightmares.

If ugliness was bricks Trump could build the whole wall with you.

You're so ugly you went to a haunted house and they gave you a job application.

Hahaha. Haha. Ha.

Oneironaut

(5,525 posts)
59. Nothing is more funny than war, people starving, and the country imploding. Haha!!!
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 06:26 PM
Mar 2017

If you want to joke, go to a comedy club. We're being run by clueless idiots!

 

The Sand Reckoner

(194 posts)
60. Is there anyone in the White House
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 06:26 PM
Mar 2017

who has a genuine sense of humor, or even knows what one is? Anyone who is capable of laughing at a joke at their expense, instead of huffing indignation?

Hint: NO

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
65. Boy, DU can't take a joke either, apparently.
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 07:11 PM
Mar 2017

Sure, she's scum, but the JOKE WAS ON HER. Laugh and move on.

Zing Zing Zingbah

(6,496 posts)
69. She's not paid to be a comedian... plus she sucks at it.
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 07:50 PM
Mar 2017

It wasn't a joke. She just said it was a joke after the fact. She was totally serious when she said it.

CakeGrrl

(10,611 posts)
75. This is her's and Spicer's M.O.
Sat Mar 18, 2017, 05:14 AM
Mar 2017

They say outlandish shit that's meant to generate outrage and distraction, and when they get enough blowback, they say it wasn't intended the way people took it.

From the top down...this 'administration' will twist reality every which way in order to avoid taking any responsibility whatsoever for lies and mistakes.

And like an extremely dysfunctional relationship, our sorry MSM keeps wanting to give them chance after chance and is made to look foolish every time.

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