Did you hear the one about the "Magnificent Ape"? McCain Rape Joke...

[NYC_SKP]

KO covered it on one of his shows earlier this year. This seems an appropriate time to recall it.

Did you hear the one about the woman who is attacked on the street by a gorilla, beaten senseless, raped repeatedly and left to die?

When she finally regains consciousness and tries to speak, her doctor leans over to hear her sigh contently and to feebly ask, “Where is that marvelous ape?”

On review, Huffpost writes:

The Huffington Post reached out to the original reporter in that story, Norma Coile (who after talking to multiple sources months after it was told wrote about the response to the rape joke in the Tuscon Citizen) to find out if she thought it was true.

"I'm not sure exactly what the wording was of the joke, but something was said. Some joke involving a rape and ape was said. Enough women repeated it to me at the time and the McCain campaign had a non-denial denial," said Coile, now with the Arizona Daily Star. "It came after his 'Seizure World' joke, in which he referred to the Leisure World as Seizure World... I just think it reinforced this idea that John McCain is humor-challenged. Whatever his qualities, he seems to have a tin ear for how these jokes will go over."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/15/sources-recall-mccains-jo_n_112955.html

and:

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/15/mccain-finds-rape-hilarious/

and, this is a PDF of the original print story:

http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/tucsongorilla.pdf

Can we FUCK JOHN MCCAIN using his own fucked up jokes, please?

:patriot:

[JuniperLea]

1. I forgot all about that!

It must have been shaken from my memory when I had the convulsion caused when he called his wife a c***!

[NYC_SKP]

5. If only we this had one on video... nt

EDITED, typo in subject line because I'm livid.

[BlooInBloo]

2. Yup. The same McCain staffer who titled her book "Lipstick on a Pig"....

This stuff really writes itself, folks.

[NYC_SKP]

7. Oh, that's an interesting feature that slipped my attention.

I was just too in a state of disbelief to catch the details.

Unfuckingbelievable..... sick man runs for president... sigh.

[WinkyDink]

3. But it isn't even funny in a crude way. It's crude and STUPID.

[Blondiegrrl]

14. I don't get it.

:shrug:

[NYC_SKP]

21. Really?

My take is that "this woman" just loved the physical act of rape soooo much, that she actually wondered who that wonderful rapist was.

As if she might want to "see" him again.

It's about as mean and bad and sexist as any joke could possibly be. Ever.

It actually promotes rape by suggesting that even if you're an ape, you don't need a woman's permission, she'll just love it.

One could argue that it's racist at the same time.

Isn't that special?

[Blondiegrrl]

29. Er ... okay. Thanks.

I thought maybe's that's what it was but I was thinking maybe I'd overlooked some sort of subtle punchline.

Obviously I gave McGrumpy far too much credit.

:puke:

[NYC_SKP]

33. Pretty pathetic, isn't it?

You'd like to think that no human anywhere would think that's funny.

I have a cousin who would, don't have contact with him anymore but he and his brother used to abuse birds they caught out on the farm.

[Gabi Hayes]

4. how many stories are there about pugs that are SO vile they can't even be

repeated on TV?

that's how they get away with the worst of their behavior

[Pisces]

6. The MSM should be showing this and his other sexist gaffes to show the comparison of what

a sexist candidate looks like.

[NYC_SKP]

11. I like to see him asked at a news conference, "Senator, are you familiar with..

...any jokes involving a woman and an ape?".

It might just flip him out and set him off.

We need to see him get set off.

I think Keys are appropriate.

[ContinentalOp]

8. Woah.

:puke:

I have a taste for some pretty tasteless humor but that is beyond dark humor and into the realm of the psychopath.

[NYC_SKP]

9. Sociopath and psychopath. a true woman-hater. should kill his candidacy.

It wasn't caught on tape, that we know of, but there may be individuals who were present who might be willing to come forward.

Also, if he told a crude (crude is too kind a term) joke like that once, you know he told it a thousand times.

[SIMPLYB1980]

10. K&R!

[Gabi Hayes]

12. did you hear the sidesplitter about the Navy pilot who was shot down

in Vietnam, and, after repeated assfuckings turned traitor, then, many years later, became a Manchurian candidate for president?

hi LARE eeous

[SIMPLYB1980]

13. LMAO!!!

[Gabi Hayes]

15. I have to say, out of the thousands and thousands of posts I've made here,

I might be most proud of that one

[Gabi Hayes]

17. I like this one, too.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7020519

[NYC_SKP]

30. me too! nt

[SIMPLYB1980]

18. That post deserves it's very own post emo! Well done!

[Gabi Hayes]

22. feel free to start one...nobody clicks on mine

I gotta go

[NYC_SKP]

16. Shit! How does it end??? No, no don't tell me...

I LOVE the suspense...

[Gabi Hayes]

19. I hope it ends in a very expensive nursing home......

in about three months

[NYC_SKP]

23. That would be a gift...

...to him in terms of Karma.

:thumbsup:

[Gabi Hayes]

26. actually the gift would be for Cindy to dump him, and leave him at the worst VA

hospital in the country

and there's a lot of competition

[NYC_SKP]

28. He deserves that, and indeed, she doesn't deserve him.

Whatever she's done, it can't be that bad, can it?

[ContinentalOp]

20. I remember that story.

When he returned to Vietnam to reunite with his captors he asked them, "Where is that marvelous gook?"

[NYC_SKP]

24. Oooh, SNAP

Except for the unfortunate racial slur...

Still, appropriate payback, or at least a start.

[ContinentalOp]

25. I hope you realize that I would never use that word and was, in fact, partially quoting McCain.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/hongop.shtml

[NYC_SKP]

27. Yes, I was confident that the "" indicated John's words, not yours...

:thumbsup:

[ContinentalOp]

31. I felt bad about even typing it.

As I said, I have a taste for tasteless humor but for some reason I can't stomach getting down to McCain's level. Words like that and c**t are tough for me to say or type. I never thought I'd see the day that a presidential candidate's "humor" would be too edgy for me. :P

[NYC_SKP]

34. Maybe being a POW just really fucked up his brain... But...

from what we hear about his earlier life, he was a class A dickhead assclown, probably got his sick sense of humor and hatred of women at an early age.

[Blue_Tires]

32. even Jackie Martling thinks that is in poor taste...