Specter's ethnic jokes lay an egg

Wednesday, December 17, 2008
By James O'Toole, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Didja hear the one about the senator who put his foot in his mouth?

Sen. Arlen Specter was apologizing like crazy this week over insensitive, ill-chosen Polish jokes -- as opposed to the other kind -- that he offered to a New York audience last Friday during one of the many events surrounding the Pennsylvania Society weekend in New York City.

According to the New York Post, Mr. Specter was addressing a GOP group in Rockefeller Center's Rainbow Room, when he asked if anyone in the audience was Polish.

"About 10 guests out of hundreds there raised their hands," the Post reported. "Specter deemed the number insignificant and forged ahead with some supposedly funny Polish jokes, including the old one about the man who interrupted him once, saying, 'Hey, careful. I'm Polish!' Specter said he responded, 'That's OK -- I'll tell it more slowly.' Specter also told two other tasteless jokes in the same Polish vein. 'No one walked out, but it was offensive,' said our source."

Blasted all over the blogosphere, the remarks drew predictable outrage from Polish fraternal groups, among others.

"I find it appalling,'' said Tim Kuzma, president of the Polish Falcons of America, based in Green Tree.

Mr. Kuzma was just one of the Polish community leaders the senator, who is up for re-election in 2010, took the time to call yesterday when he could otherwise have been solving the problems of the Middle East or sorting out this pesky economy.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08352/935580-52.stm

Ptooey

That's my single slime-bucket theory ...

mind those.




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I'm only half seriesB-)

listening to a Republican speaker make a tasteless joke, and the attendee was offended ...

I guess that if it was an "illegal immigrant" joke, there would be no offense ...

The bartender serves the priest and the rabbi, and then says to Specter, "Sorry, you'll have to leave. We don't serve assholes."